Since the start of the mobbing, alongside the harassers’ threats that there was a bomb in my car or cameras in my bathroom, along with their accusations that I was “old and too bold,” a kiter of checks, that I ate too many vegetables, and on and on, there was the repeating claim that I had killed two girls, and sometimes three.
Years later, in the clandestine harassment into the house, the accusation that I killed two girls is perhaps the most heavily repeated in the verbal abuse. Given the apparent right-wing worldview and religiosity of some of those in the Albany mobbing, I came to conclude that mobbing is a platform not only to forcibly evict, but one that provides haters with a platform they use to freely batter their victims with clandestine statements of hate. This made even more sense to me when I read about arrests in the Bay Area of anti-choice “activists” who made it their purpose to harass doctors who did not share their views.
Those mobbing me also include some with backgrounds in the military, like the Seattle neighbor who made sure I knew he’d spent seven years in the military, as though that alone would intimidate me into abandoning my legal contracts, asserting that the liberal arts schools had “failed” in their mission. This militaristic influence is what probably makes mobbing seem like a safe bet for contractors and real estate investors willing to “acquire” properties by any means, so long as they can be indemnified as they batter women from their homes. As my mobbing shows, these racketeering criminals do their best to give their victims the experience of “shock and awe,” a virtual Wehrmacht of property war doubling down on the isolated female victims who dare to resist and—as the same Seattle neighbor told me I would be when the mobbing got underway—harassing them every day, all day. Property mobbing works for militaristic hate groups and for criminal speculators too.
As someone who grew up in the Bay Area believing in civil rights, it has been a great disappointment to me that those who make it their purpose to harass others, every moment of every day if they can—harassing them out of their civil rights or punishing them for exercising their civil rights, get by in the Bay Area, and no more than a half-block from the Berkeley city limits. If you, like me, abhor the thought of criminals like these finding haven in the Bay Area and disguising what they do with the pretense of working on behalf of all in small towns like Albany as block coordinators or even city officials, another angle that might be used to expose mobbing and prosecute those whose goal is nothing more than to tear down the lives of their victims like Stasi, is to look into the illegal activities of anti-choice groups in the towns where they make their homes. Look also at police tolerance for and even participation in their harassment of others. Some of these “activists” might already have been prosecuted for harassing others for nothing more than living their civil rights. Maybe they’ve just found a hidden way to do it. Surely the certainty of our values and what is right cannot be undone by a small man like Donald Trump.
