What’s a tenant in Seattle to do when anti-renter neighborhood watch groups conspire with haters and real estate speculators to use sabotage to force rented homes to market? If you’re being harassed by the same racketeers I am, you might have found that mobbers counter your reports of criminal conduct with claims that you’re delusional, harassing them, or both.
That’s not what democracy looks like.
Hey, Seattle Health Department! There is a dangerous real estate scam operating in Seattle, one that, at least in my case, avoids the liability of criminally harassing home owners who can take advantage of the legal services that home owner’s insurance provides. Instead, this scam may prefer the non-home owner residents of owner-unoccupied homes, many of which may be older homes with knob-and-tube wiring and galvanized piping. Criminal pursuit of such a scam is a serious community health and safety issue.
Perhaps I’m not the only tenant in Seattle who told the Seattle Police the neighborhood watch was trying to turn over my home, only to be rebuked by officers who refuse to recognize a motive and say: “You don’t own the house.”
When the police refuse to acknowledge motive, victims have no recourse. The victim of mobbing is left to be battered in her home. If she attempts to seek redress through the civil court system by filing for an anti-harassment or protection order, she’s likely to be defamed as delusional and her honest reports of the harassment taken as symptoms of mental illness. This is what happened to me in the self-proclaimed “sanctuary city” of Seattle, Washington in the era of Trump.
But when the policing and political arms of the City of Seattle, or any other, accept the battering of women from their homes and police look the other way, and when the methodology of mobbing uses “generators”—as a Berkeley electrician told me—the city or county health department should act to protect residents from a scam that is harmful and potentially life-threatening. Mobbing leverages technology to tamper with infrastructure, IoT and grid services. The use of wireless services to monitor, jam, and attack the victim indicates the influence of military training and strategy on residential “clearing.” The use of “generators” including air-conditioners and power and charging technologies, to saturate and sabotage neighboring electrical systems and infrastructure with EMFs and radio frequency, to create and exacerbate EMI and RFI, and to access and manipulate low-voltage transformers and high-efficiency bulbs, is dangerous. In older homes that incorporate knob-and-tube wiring, the scam may be arsonous. And if the victim fails to be “cleared” from her legal home, she might well die from what the mobbers draft, pipe, or otherwise transport into her environment.
A scam that relies on “generators” is a health issue that should concern the Seattle Health Department. The scam is also a criminal issue that should concern Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson. This is an opportunity for good government to act, to prosecute an emerging predatory crime, and to prevent further harm.
Mobbing is not civil. No person should be left with nothing more than civil means to defend herself against criminals who conspire to create a tactical, near-military assault on the infrastructure of her home. This type of harassment should be considered sabotage or domestic terrorism. It is hate activity. This type of harassment is predatory and may target single women or those who are older, isolated, or perceived by these crooks as vulnerable to be fooled by a tech-enabled scam.
It’s common sense that if tenants are made to believe that their landlords are participating in harassing them or have hired criminals to do so, or if a rental home cannot be rented because tenants are afraid of the neighbors, landlords’ increasing liability will result in fewer and fewer single-family homes in Seattle being made available to tenants. What has happened to me in northeast Seattle, and likely to other tenants renting single-family homes in Seattle, may also be ignored by housing activists who believe that high-density complexes are the best option.
Ignoring the rights of tenants living in single-family homes works well for the real estate speculators operating in northeast Seattle. Where were the police, and where was the Seattle City Council, and where was the United States Constitution when, even after turning off the main breaker and water in my home in South Cedar Park last night, I was battered all night in my legal home across the street from a sociopathic neighborhood watch captain, by the minders who showed up next-door. The exclusion of tenants from single-family dwellings is inimical to our Fourteenth Amendment liberty rights. Tenancy is not responsible for the lack of inventory coupled with skyrocketing prices—real estate speculation is. First-time buyers will find more equitable offerings, as I’ve said before, in neighborhoods in which tenants are not vilified.
