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  TECHNIQUES OF HARASSEMENT #1.. Plagiarized from a book by Victor Santoro
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Introduction:

     All of us have, at one time or another, wanted to "get" someone.  For
various motives, such as jealousy, revenge, the desire to right some injustice,
we wish to see someone harmed or at least to be made to feel extremely
uncomfortable.  If we act impulsively, in a fit of anger, we may wind up in
jail facing a charge of assault or even murder.  Few situations justify killing
someone.  Fortunately most of us do not lose our tempers easily.  It's a lot
safer that way.
     Often, too, the situation doesn't look the same to us the next morning,
after we've cooled off and had a chance to think calmly and rationally about
it.  We're more inclined to "forgive and forget".
     But what if we can't "forgive and forget"?  What then?
     First, remember that while generally it is a good thing to keep your
temper you are under no moral obligation to swallow anything and everything
that someone tries to shove at you.  You don't have to turn the other cheek
while someone keeps on slapping you.
     In many cases the law will protect you.  There are libel laws, cease and
desist orders, small claims courts, etc.  Sometimes these will work for you.
Sometimes they won't.  When they don't you are on your own.
     Two examples will adequately illustrate the type of situation which forms
the basis for discussion:
     You are new on the job.  Your boss accuses you of theft.  You are
innocent.  You can prove it and you do.  Your boss is not man enough to admit
he was wrong and to apologize to you.  He fires you instead.  There is no union
to stick up for you.  A lawyer would be expensive and you're not sure what he
could do for you.  Besides you are fed up and no longer want the job.
     You've just rented an apartment.  You've paid a month's rent in advance
and a month's security deposit.  When you go to move in you see that the
apartment has been left in such a filthy condition that you can't live there.
The landlord refuses to clean it up and he won't give you your money back, even
though you did not move in.  You go to small claims court and get a summons for
him.  You take some time off without pay from your job but the landlord does
not appear for the hearing.  A new date is set but he still doesn't show and
you've lost more time from your job.  Under pressure from the court he does
appear at the third hearing but you only get your security deposit back, not
the month's rent.  You're also out the pay you lost durng your time in court.
     Both of these cases are real cases that happened to real people.  If
something such as this had happened to you you'd be justifiably angry.  You
would have been badly treated by someone who knew fully what he was doing.  In
both cases the law was not much help.  You'd want some sort of satisfaction.
You would not, if you were wise, do anything extreme and illegal that could get
you into worse trouble but you'd want to cause someone as much trouble as he'd
caused you.  What could you do?
     The answer is harassment.  Not anything so crude as threatening phone
calls or slashing his tires.  Nothing that will cause you as much trouble as
it causes him.  Instead, a carefully planned and systematic program of
harassment which will disrupt his life while exposing you to no risks.
     Most of the techniques outlined here have been used successfully.  A few
have not been tried but are a logical outgrowth of ones that have been.  Most
are not illegal.  The ones that are, like most of the techniques in here,
expose you to no risk at all.
     Harassment is a subject that has recieved little study.  Most people are
inclined to take direct and violent action or to do nothing at all.  Harassment
is the middle road, for situations that are not all that serious and yet leave
you with the feeling that you must do something.
     One recent use of harassment that made the front page is that employed by
some members of the Committee to Re-elect the President during what has come to
be known as the Watergate affair.  These agents of CREEP traveled around the
country stalking Democratic candidates.  They phoned in to cancel their hotel
reservations, ordered pizzas to be delivered to them, made up offensive bumper
stickers to embarrass the Democrats at their rallies, etc.  They were
effective far out of proportion to their number.


+++ Selecting Your Target: Chapter 1.

     Whom do you hit?  This is a very important question.  You can't go around
indiscriminately harassing anyone who rubs you the wrong way.  You'd spend your
entire life settling grudges and this is a pretty negative way to live.  There
are two questions you should ask yourself before starting on any program of
harassment:

   Would most of your friends feel that you had a justifiable complaint?
   Is it worth the effort?

     If the answer to both of these questions is yes, then you probably have
good reason to begin.  If, however, the answer to the first one is no, then
you should think very carefully about the whole thing.  There are two sides to
every story and what might seem like a great injustice to you might seem to be
an unfortunate misunderstanding to a third person.
     Assuming you have decided to hit someone the next question is when.  The
timing can be very important.  As a general rule, it is a good idea to let
enough time go by so that he forgets about you, or forgets that you are mad at
him.  Don't be impatient.  Remember; revenge is the only dish that tastes best
when eaten cold.
     Here are a few examples to help you judge the timing.  If your complaining
is against a landlord, you can probably act within a few weeks or months.  He
probably has other unhappy tenants and he knows it.  If you have been fired
from a job, don't act right away.  It might be wise to wait a year or two.  A
boss always thinks first of disgruntled employees or ex-employees.
     If your target is unaware that you have any conflict with him, you can act
immediately.  One such target would be the company spy who befriends his fellow
workers and then tells the boss whatever derogatory information he has been
able to discover about them.  In that case it is important not to confront him.
Even if what he has told the boss threatens your job don't let him know that
you know.  Keep up a friendly front to him and in fact exploit him to find out
information which you can use in your planning.
     A good general rule to follow is to give your target time enough to
antagonize several other people before you act.  This will increase the number
of suspects when things start happening to him.  If he is as unpleasant a
person as you think he is you can be sure that many other people will share
your feelings about him.


+++ The Basic Strategies: Chapter 2.

     The fundamental idea is to cause as much harassment and discomfort to your
target as possible without being discovered.  You can see, from studying the
techniques, that if your target finds out who is harassing him he can do the
same things to you.  If that happens the best defense for you is to leave town.
There is also the possibility of a civil suit.
     There are several basic strategic principles to follow for best results:

   PREPARE YOUR PLAN AS CAREFULLY AND COMPLETELY AS POSSIBLE BEFORE YOU MAKE
   YOUR MOVE.

     Put it in writing in the form of a chart.  Get a large piece of paper and
lay out your planned moves in chronological order, by date.  By using this
basic framework to coordinate the various parts of your plan you will avoid
your plans conflicting with each other.

   GET ALL THE NECESSARY INFORMATION ON YOUR TARGET BEFORE YOU MAKE YOUR FIRST
   MOVE.

     You will need to know many things about your target as you develop your
plan, such as his home and business addresses, phone numbers, daily schedule,
the make, color, and license number of his car, etc.

   AVOID ALL PERSONAL CONTACT WITH HIM WHILE CARRYING OUT YOUR PLAN.

     Don't come near his home or job.  Don't call him at home.  He might
recognize your face or your voice and start putting two and two together.  If
you must call his home to see if he answers, do it from a public phone.  If you
must approach his address to find out whether he lives in a house or apartment,
do it well before you start your plan moving.

   USE THE MULTIPLIER EFFECT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

     This means, in plain language, let others do the work for you.  That way,
you can set in motion a much greater effect on his life than if you did it all
by yourself.  For example, don't annoy him by constantly phoning him at all
hours.  You'll only tie up your time for those hours.  A classified ad in a
newspaper will cause other people to phone him.  As you will see from the
following chapters, there are many ways in which one phone call from you can
tie up his time for many hours and cause him a degree of harassment entirely
out of proportion to your effort.


+++ The Need for Accurate Information: Chapter 3.

     This deserves a chapter all to itself.  When planning your offensive you
will see that you need certain information about your target in order to carry
out each phase of your plan.  You should get all the information you can on
your target before you make your first move.  Since obtaining some of the
information may expose you to some personal contact, it is essential that you
do this when nothing has yet happened to make him suspicious.
     The basic data you need are: name, home and business addresses, home and
business phones, type of car he drives, and its color and license number.
Often you can find out what you need to know about his car just by driving by
his house.
     Almost as important are the answers to these questions:

   Does he own his own home or live in an apartment?
   Is he self-employed or does he work for someone else?
   What kind of work does he do?
   What is his position in the company?
   What hours does he work?
   Does he spend most of his off-duty time at home?
   Is he married?  Children?
   Does he travel much?  Does he make out of town business trips?  When?  By
     car?  Plane?
   What airline?  When?  How often?  If you know this you can have fun with
     his reservations.
   In what hotels does he stay?  You can send him telegrams there.
   What are his hobbies?  When does he go on vacation?
   Does he own a boat?  Where does he keep it?

     Every bit of information you can get about him opens him up to further
harassment if you have the basic know-how and the imagination to make use of
it.


+++ Let Your Fingers Do the Walking: Chapter 4.

     The yellow pages of your telephone directory will be your basic source of
goods and services by phone.  You can impersonate your target over the phone
and have a surprising variety and quantity of things delivered to his house or
place of business.  The basic technique is to pick up the yellow pages, start
at "A" and work your way through to "Z".
     One caution is necessary, however.  Do not send the police or fire
department to his house.  This is strictly illegal and it could get an innocent
person killed.  Too, most police and fire departments tape their calls and you
don't want your voice on tape.
     Some examples from the phone book are:
     Phone a liquor store late at night, shortly before it closes.  Tell them
you are Mr. ----- and that you're having a party.  A radio turned up loudly in
the room will make this more credible.  Tell the clerk you're running out of
booze and order a couple of cases.  If the clerk shows any reluctance at all or
seems hesitant, offer him a ten dollar tip if he can deliver within fifteen
minutes to a half hour.  If your target goes to bed early this will be doubly
effective in disturbing him.
     Look for a florist who makes telephone orders and charges them to your
telephone bill.  Tell him you are Mr. ----- and order a bouquet (an expensive
one, of course) to be delivered to his wife while he is away at work.  In order
to ensure that the wife will accept it, order it to be inscribed on the card;
"To my loving wife on a very special occasion."  This will overcome awkward
details such as not knowing his wife's name or birthday.  Have it charged to
his phone bill, of course.
     If you know where he parks his car, phone an auto repair service and have
it towed away.
     Phone contractors, swimming pool companies, exterminators, etc. can stop
by and give him estimates.  You can see why it is important to know when he'll
be home.
     This is easier than it seems.  There is no problem to impersonating your
target over the phone when ordering goods and services in his name.  The people
you will call probably do not know your target and in any event, one voice on
the phone sounds pretty much like any other.


+++ Special Telephone Techniques: Chapter 5.

     If you normally work nights and get off late, or if you're on your way
home from a party late at night you can disturb his sleep by dialing his
number from a phone booth and hanging up as soon as he answers.  Do not ever
call him from your home, as it is possible nowadays to trace a call in seconds.
Do not ever say anything when calling him -- you don't want to risk him taping
your voice.  He might have a tape recorder hooked up after a few days of this
treatment.
     When calling for salesmen to come out and give demonstrations or
estimates, try to get them to come at unusual hours.  Tell them that you work
evenings and you would appreciate it if they could come after ten p.m.  You can
do the reverse of this too.  If you know that your target sleeps normally until
eight or nine in the morning you can request that the representative come at
seven.  If he wants to phone before coming that's fine too.
     If you don't know what car your target drives call his home when he is
away and tell his wife or other relative that you represent a consumer research
organization and that you are conducting a survey on car owner satisfaction and
frequency of repairs.  Ask for the car make, year, color, and license plate
number.  Ask appropriate questions about the car's repair history in order to
avoid suspicion.  Do this several weeks before starting your program so that no
suspicion will be attached to your call and there will be no risk attached.
With luck, the incident will be forgotten by the time the action starts.  If
there is any chance of your voice being recognized have a confederate whom you
can trust implicitly make the call.
     One good trick is to look in a swinger's magazine for homosexual
prostitutes.  These are usually advertised as "masseurs".  Some of them make
house calls.  Send a few to his house.  For an interesting variation, give one
or two the address of his next door neighbor.  If the "masseur" is effeminate
in appearance or manner the neighbor will start to have horrible suspicions
about the man next door when a gay boy rings his bell and asks for him.
     Another good one is to have a confederate phone your target from a phone
booth when he is home and ask for his wife.  Your confederate should slur his
speech as if he were drunk and say he is calling from a bar.  A transistor
radio playing loudly in the booth will help the effect.  When the target asks
what the call is about your friend can tell him that he saw his wife's name
written on the toilet wall.  If you have a number of friends you can trust not
to shoot their mouths off you can pull this several times and have your target
really believing that someone has been going around writing his wife's name and
number on toilet walls.  There is no point in makin the rounds of bars and
actually doing so, however, since hardly anyone calls numbers written on toilet
walls.  The multiplier effect would not work in this case.
     If your target has an unlisted number it will significantly alter your
plans.  There are several ways to find out his number.  One is to have a very
good friend who works for the phone company do it for you.  If you have no such
friend you might be able to find it woud from his place of work.  If you work
for the same company it is easier yet.  If you don't you can phone his company
one day when he is absent or out to lunch and say that you are the delivery
supervisor for a piano dealer and that you would like to have his home number
in order to find out when you can deliver the piano.  You can tell the person
to whom you re speaking that a clerk in your office forgot to type it on the
order form and that you'd like to be able to check with the target's wife
regarding the delivery.  There are all sorts of variations possible on this
theme.  To give the situation some urgency, you can tell them that you have a
load of concrete for his swimming pool or driveway and that you must get to
his house before it sets.  One of these stories will usually work, if you are
calling a private company.  If your target works for the government agency,
however, don't even try this.  They have a policy of not disclosing their
employee's addresses or phone numbers and you won't get anything from them
without a court order.
     Another way to get his phone number if you know where he lives is to have
a friend gain access to the house by posing as a salesman, census taker,
repairman, etc. and reading it off the telephone dial.
     Yet another way is for your confederate to pose as a salesman and tell the
target's wife that he would like to demonstrate his product only when she and
her husband are both home and that if she will give him the phone number he'll
call back in the evening to arrange a time.


+++ Additional Telephone Techniques: Chapter 6.

     If you know that your target is being unfaithful to his wife you can have
a confederate inform her by phone.  One particularly effective way can be used
if you know the time and place of the adulterous rendezvous:
     "Hello, Mrs. Smith, your husband told you he was going to be working late
tonight but if you call his office you won't be able to get him.  If you go to
the XYZ Motel, however, you'll be able to see him if he and his roommate are
not too busy."
     You can also phone a famous crime figure, or a militant and denounce and
insult him.  This could prove to be at least embarrassing for the person whom
you impersonate when making the call.  A variation on this theme is discussed
in the chapter on the use of the telegraph.
     One additional resource the yellow pages lists is rental agencies.  It is
too easy to let your mind be channeled into looking only for companies with
things to sell.  Rental agencies will deliver appliances and furniture, as well
as garden equipment and just about anything else you can buy.

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