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It’s National Stalking Awareness Month: Native Americans stalked more than other ethnicities

Three people become victims of stalking every minute. And according to a U.S. Department of Justice report, “Stalking Victimization in the United States,” one in four people being stalked do not know who their stalkers are.

Stalking among Native Americans is mainly against our leaders–attorneys, activists, artists, tribal leaders, and so on, say the T.K. Wolf agency. The agency, a stalking authority that works with Native Americans is cited in an article that appeared today in Native American Times, “Native Americans stalked more than other ethnic groups.”

That form of stalking is often termed cause stalking, organized stalking or gang stalking, all forms of vigilante stalking similar to tactics once used by the Ku Klux Klan. Some perpetrators have been known to hire groups to stalk their victims.

January is National Stalking Awareness Month. I will be bringing you articles about stalking, new technologies that make stalking even more terrifying, and what some people and agencies are doing to stop this crime.

Terri Hansen

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  1. This happens in the UK, to a greater extent that officialdom will acknowledge.

    There doesn’t appear to be a discernible ethnic bias amongst the victims, unless the anglo-saxon community is the target, but a disproportionate number of the perpetrators are Irish, many of the others are animal rights activists. This may in fact be merely symptomatic of a neo-nazi link, as Irish Republican groups were always pro-nazi, and there’s a strong nazi streak in the extreme AR movement.

    It does seem to be people who speak out, not necessarily on an obviously contentious issue, or who have genuine artistic talent, who get stalked.

    But it happens worldwide, and a lot of the tactics are basically stasi ones. The Klu KLux KLan are credited with inventing the tactics, but actually all they needed to do was translate the stasi training manuals from the German, assuming that the stasi didn’t produce an English language version for them.

    Medawar thinks that the the Stasi really served to keep Nazism alive under the communist dictatorship, by making the survival of the communist regime dependent on a basically-Nazi security service. But Nazism itself was only a continuation of the Lubendorf regime in another guise, and that was basically an updated Bismark agenda! The Stasi, and anything derived from it, such as the “Deutschland Clan” can be seen as the same german nationalist movement that’s been around since the 18th century.

    Medawar is very interested in the links between all these different extremist groups: some of the stalking seems to involve cooperation between members of supposedly opposed political extremist groups, and democracy will not be safe until the hidden agenda is fully exposed and fully understood.

  2. It’s helpful and welcome to see an article like this one. I am looking forward to reading the others.

    The problem of the vast stalking & harassment networks is beyond comprehension for most people. Those who are stalked do not know their stalkers, as you say, and many do not know they are being stalked. Very terrifying behavior. Citizens That Know sees it as a psycho-social pandemic that requires immediate attention. It hasn’t even been recognized (except by MO Rep. Jim Guest), let alone addressed. We need to have laws legislated to protect the many people whose lives are a living nightmare due to this. What is considered crime & who are victims is very limited, while this crime’s MO is to go full tilt throwing every kind of harassment and ruinous scenario at the victims. We also need more programs to curb the proliferation of the mental illness of the people in these groups who must prey upon others. They seem to prey on the people who are most valuable and can bring cohesiveness to life. Something these people can never experience due to disorder. More about that on our site.

    http://citizensthatknow.ning.com/

  3. Medawar is interested in this.
    Particularly if anything similar is happening in other countries. Is it native Americans as an ethnic group, or native Americans as an example of a type of ethnic group that gets stalked on a global basis?