Because my experiences in Albany, California show that the criminal tech-enabled harassment that the mobbers themselves dubbed “mobbing” is, unfortunately, neither restricted to Seattle nor entirely remotely operated from Seattle, the flyer linked from Are you being harassed with radio frequency in Albany, California? is specific to Albany. But the mobbing originated in Seattle as the escalation of a drive to turn over rented homes in a northeast lakeside neighborhood and an expression of the eagerness to use physical punishment to do so. The Seattle mobbing includes an evermore colorful band of neighborhood watch and council players, sundry home owners or house flippers (it is sometimes difficult to tell the difference), bit players from a large Washington real estate company whose real estate agents are apparently willing to at least dabble in harassment to generate those future sales, and professionals in government and law enforcement whose bias or lack of savvy virtually ensures the success of the mobbing scam.
When the euphemistically labeled “creep” next door to the Albany house (allow me to rephrase: “lowlife” would be a better descriptor of the type that makes a project of terrorizing neighbors out of their homes) claimed that the access points he deployed into my family home were legal and demanded me to “Move!”, he said a few more things. He said that he “own[ed his] house.” It was an odd statement. The house he claims to “own” has historically belonged to the family he married into a few years back. And my family has owned the home next door since I was a child. Perhaps his remark alluded to the fact that, in Seattle, I am a tenant.
I don’t even know this guy’s name; any information he has about me is not information I disclosed to him. His awareness of the nature of my leasehold in Seattle, and his indirect reference to it as though it justifies some kind of maltreatment, may indicate that block watch groups in one state are willing to cooperate with those in another state in hate activity, to chastise those uppity renters and undoubtedly to punish the members of other maligned groups in the long list of those targeted for “hate.”
Mobbing is hate activity. My being mobbed as a tenant in Seattle is not something that occurred in a vacuum. Years back, as mentioned in some blog along the way, I ran into a solicitor for the Southern Poverty Law Center in front of the nearby Fred Meyer grocery store who told me there were at least two known hate groups in North Seattle. Recently I’ve wondered whether the Southern Poverty Law Center might be able to discourage neighborhood hate crimes and vigilantism if they would name neighborhood watch groups like the one in my Seattle neighborhood as hate groups–that might encourage cities to rethink their participation in a program the Ku Klux Klan has openly used to install Klan believers in communities.
Elected officials from the City of Seattle need to know and must admit that this type of hate activity and physical harm is occurring within city borders. Those who mob think they have an unstoppable platform. City officials and law enforcement lack the savvy to pursue digital crime. The civil, legal and human rights of tenants in Seattle are not taken seriously and tenants are expected to cede their legal rights when the neighborhood watch and speculators come calling. Anti-tenant neighborhood watch groups in Seattle use bias to criminalize tenancy in their neighborhoods. And when victims of digital crimes report, especially female victims, law enforcement is all too ready to believe white professional men who defame women as “delusional.” These conditions mean that there are or will undoubtedly be other victims of mobbing within the City of Seattle.
The following linked flyer addresses the occurrence of mobbing in Seattle and is appropriate for distribution in Seattle, particularly in areas like the downtown core, First Hill, Capitol Hill, and South Lake Union, inhabited by tenants, activists and those who might care about whether predatory digital crimes and civil and human rights crimes occur in the City of Seattle.
