On being mobbed

If “Bogus cops and crypto ATMs” hadn’t hooked me, the opening paragraph of a Berkeleyside article about a teacher losing her life savings to phone scammers would have: For 27 hours straight, a team of four scammers posing as Oakland police kept her on the phone and isolated, manipulating the John Muir elementary teacher into Continue reading

America rolled out the National Neighborhood Watch (NNW) in 1972, and pushed back on inclusion. We allowed a citizen watch and wound up with neighborhood surveillance. We accepted a police-organized program and were encircled by the long arm of the law. We envisioned a world of “pre-crime” prediction and got a world shaped by fear. Continue reading

I do what I can to thwart the mobbers, staying up late for a few minutes of quiet after they give up for the night. Then I might go sleep in a different room. Or I might not. The last few nights, after unplugging the Sonic fiber service and the one lamp I light, I Continue reading

In a press release dated August 1, 2025, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced an “orderly wind-down” of operations. The exclusion of federal funding for CPB from the 2026 bill leaves the corporation no choice but to fold and shut down the national public media system (Press Release | Corporation for Public Broadcasting Addresses… Continue reading

Having few employers and an insufficient revenue stream, the City of Albany, California boasts of its schools. It’s back to school time now and what Albany is teaching, is that when “investors” want a woman’s home, it’s hunky dory to batter her out of it. Continue reading

[Note 11/11/25: Yet another update. A few days ago I initiated the process of moving the onbeingmobbed.com domain back to WordPress.com, to point at the original instance of the On being mobbed blog. The WordPress server I used to create a manual mirror of the site was set up differently and the differences resulted in Continue reading

Given the fact that some former and current Amazon and Boeing employees are involved in trying to illegally evict me from my longtime Seattle home, and given the rise of extremism on the local and national level, perhaps employers should be considering how to avoid hiring those who might use company resources and intellectual property Continue reading

A while back I wrote that I’d soon publish some ideas for anti-stalking apps. With apps that are purposed or repurposed for stalking, we need apps to substantiate and prosecute the ever-increasing stalking crimes police ignore. When police tell victims they must contact the FBI for “cyberstalking” crimes, perpetrators get the message that they can Continue reading

In earlier blogs I’ve mentioned the possibility that mobbers poison rats on their own properties in hopes they’ll end up dying in the walls or venting of the neighbors. A repeating theme in these spring months has been the creaking sound of a metal aerosolizing can being used to squirt out what smells like poison Continue reading

The practiced nature of the mobbing harassment reveals that mobbing is a methodology for the eviction of residents, a methodology to “turn over” housing and make properties available for “rehab” or rebuild. More difficult to establish is the pattern—the incidence—of its occurrence in cities like Albany, California. We can assume that mobbing is common and Continue reading