I’m in Seattle this week. The mobbers continue to try to “get [me] out.” I’m trying to catch up on weeding and to work. By now, I am fairly good at ignoring the criminal tenant relocators who were welcomed into the neighborhood by the Nasty Neighborhood Watch Lady of the Northeast, soon to emerge from her house to tend whatever device she’s deployed to her car, muttering “Move on!” and incessantly clicking her key fob as she goes. And at this time of year, the weather makes it easier to keep the windows open, which, from what I read, might diminish the audible harassment that comes into my environment via carrier current communication. This is probably because the radio frequency signal from, for example, power line transmission over the electrical wiring inside walls, is able to dissipate. If they’re hitting the windows with beam-focused sound or using a generator that can create a hotspot to pump rogue WiFi into the house through old piping or the sewer laterals that connect me to the mobbing houses on either side, opening the house to the outside air may help with that as well. The gist of it is that the harassment originates from outside and is more likely to stay outside. At the least, my countermeasures on a day like today go further to keep the mobbing below critical mass. Open doors and windows, combined with a cool breeze off Lake Washington, can make a big difference to a mobbing victim.
“Please leave,” said one of the mobbers a few minutes back. I believe the request, or perhaps the speaker-enabled device that amplified the request, came from the north mobbing house. The north mobbing house owner has two speaker-enabled devices that are easily viewed from my house—one of these is a Ubiquiti access point that he used to run a wire from. The north and south mobbing houses both have wireless doorbells, if I recall correctly. One of the aspects of this situation that is disappointing is not just that some of the people who participate in mobbing are technical and may hold jobs at companies like Tesla, Boeing, or Ring technology owner Amazon, but that they may be using or supporting the use of their employers’ intellectual property to harass and harm others. This also means they may not only use the devices and software of their companies but may use knowledge acquired on the job in a criminal manner and against others outside of work.
One of the statements the mobbers most use in the harassment these days is “You’ve killed two girls.” That and “We know what you did,” which is strikingly similar to the “We know what you do” that some anti-choice activists harassed doctors with in San Francisco in the last year or two. It’s possible that they expect women who’ve had abortions (or women they think might have had abortions) to carry some deep-seated guilt, and they expect to use that or any other guilt they can leverage to force women out of their legal homes. This would be in keeping with the kind of threats they made early on that they had somehow secreted a potty cam or shower cam in my bathroom and were going to put the images on the web, or that they had pictures of me picking my nose. It’s also possible that some anti-choice activists are more than willing to help corrupt neighborhood watch captains clear properties for developers if it gives them a chance to punish women who have made life choices different than their own. As for requesting women to “please” vacate their legal rights and contracts, I recall telling them early in the mobbing, that I might consider moving out if they asked nicely. Perhaps the tactic was a customization that started then. Or perhaps it’s just another tactic in the long list of tactics that mobbers run through, again and again, as they continue in the attempt to harangue a mobbing victim out of her home.
“Please leave,” said the mobber.
I think not.
