

How about the more exotic stuff, the psychotronic weapons that Phil reported? I wondered if Brian had been targeted by anything like that. That is, it’s all within the realm of material possibility. So far, however implausible Brian’s story may seem, it certainly is possible. I don’t think there’s a single entity that coordinates federally all this stuff that’s going on.” Many of these people are “ex-cops or former agents. Surveillance culture and gang stalking are so firmly fixed in the American psyche, said Brian, that all sorts of groups have the mandate (and the technology, and the budget) to target anyone who pisses them off. “I personally think that there are different people,” he said, “different groups who use these same tactics,” one of which was hired by his ex-boss. Unable to document hard evidence of his harassment, he assembled a theory to explain what might be happening to him. Most of us just haven’t realized it yet.Īs for Brian, all he really knows is that he feels persecuted and that this persecution defies reasonable expectation. The result of having so many people running around with surveillance tools and law enforcement connections is that America is a de facto surveillance state, where we’re all victims of decentralized, lone wolf Stasi. These days, he works in a production facility, doing “low-level logistics and warehouse work,” while suffering what he described as persistent, high-tech harassment.Īnd to this day, he said, his harassment continues.Īccording to Brian, the American security apparatus (including the intelligence community, all levels of law enforcement, and private spooks like Stratfor and HBGary) is more vast, more out-of-control than even Julian Assange would suspect.

“And so then, it was just like pure hell.”Įventually Brian lost his job, his apartment, and his girlfriend. “I don’t know if they even knew themselves what they were always specifically referencing, but just things that made it clear that I was being watched very closely at my residence.”īrian is convinced that his landlord, an “older, super-conservative white dude who’s got friends who are cops,” was conducting “pretty high-tech surveillance” and coordinating with his tormentors in the office. “People would be told things to say,” he said. For example, Brian might have a conversation with his girlfriend after hours, then hear the same conversation at work the next day. But soon it was evident that he was “being spied on at my home,” he said. It took some time for Brian to even realize that he was being harassed. Soon, he found himself the target of workplace bullying, or “mobbing.”

At first, he said things went pretty well for him - until a minor disagreement with his boss sent everything spiraling out of control.

For a number of years, Brian said, he was a security professional in the California offices of a large multinational corporation.
