Intro Blurb - Welcome to the Twilight Zone

Stalking-By-Proxy: "Stalking by proxy occurs when a stalker enlists the aid of other people in order to pursue a victim" (Source). The original "stalker" (aka "recruiter of stalkers") may not participate in the actual stalking itself. It's sort of like stalkers-for-hire.

In many ways, this kind of organized stalking has numerous similarities to the regular kind of stalking (with only 1 stalker). However, because it is organized, there are also a few differences.

It's really an amalgamation of hate crime tactics, stalking behaviours, and psychological warfare tactics all rolled into one. But like its single-stalker counterpart, "[it] has a nebulous quality in that it involves no more than the targeted repetition of ostensibly ordinary behaviours" (Source). This doesn't in any way mean that the target isn't in danger (we all know that stalking can result in death), it only means that the behaviours, when taken one at a time, can seem innocuous, or even hard to believe.

Describing organized stalking may prove even harder than trying to describe regular stalking because the organized stalking group has many more resources available than a lone stalker. This means that "ostensibly ordinary behaviors" perpetrated by more than one person may be done quite often compared to a single individual. Not to mention how much harder it is to prove when more than one person is involved.

To describe what is happening to a non-victim is like laying pieces of a very complex puzzle on the table. Perhaps the puzzle has 1,000 pieces, or 10,000 pieces. If I show you one piece of that puzzle, it will be meaningless to you (I guarantee it). In fact, you may even question whether or not there actually is a puzzle at all. (That's my oh-so-clever euphemism for, "you'll think i'm not stacking a full deck").

I want you to see the whole picture, but in order to do so, there needs to be a coherent image.

Each entry in this blog is just a single piece in that puzzle. Putting enough pieces down for a picture to emerge will take time.

Although I have several years of examples I could provide in order to create the image for the reader, this blog is meant to record current events, rather than past events. Of course, none of that is cast in stone, so if I remember a particularly compelling event from the past, or I feel moved by the spirit, I will throw it in.