Re: Defimation of Character & Harassment

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07/14/2011 - Thursday

Hello All ~ I have not posted in a very long time. I was very
ill when I posted in 2003. I had cancer for two years before
this incident, during it and up until 2005.
Even this has never stopped the harassment and lies, not even
when I was going through chemo and almost died more than once.
I consider these harassers cold blooded heartless monsters.

It usually starts with neighbors we do not know, harassing us
with their monster kids. Then parents show up accussing us of
lies. I have so many video tapes, it's confusing. The police
have done very little and usually take the side of the lying
parents. I do believe this is retaliation and the police and
volunteers are behind it because of comments made to me by some
of the officers. Or, they are being paid by a grassroots
organization in the area.
We will no longer answer questions to the police about our video
surveillance system, how we collect evidence, etc. All
information seems to end up in the neighborhood and it is
jeopardizing our safety.
I cannot walk in my own neighborhood without being verbally or
physically attacked.

I refuse to answer the door when an officer shows up at my house
and I am home alone. Since one of the officers we welcomed into
our home told a neighbor around the corner what is in my house,
we no longer allow the police into our home.
One officer told me I was a troublemaker and needed to move out
of the country. This was in 2004. I was actually dying by then
and didn't have the energy to do whatever I was accused of. I
was even in my blue bathrobe when the officer showed up at the
door.
Another officer has told me I am ridiculous for telling people
this.
Still another officer came to the door after I took video to the
police department of harassment while trying to drive out of my
neighborhood. He frightened me, accused me of sitting across the
street from some house and video taping 'twins' playing in the
front yard. I was afraid this officer was going to hurt me. My
husband pulled out the camcorder and showed him video of me
being harassed by kids just trying to drive out of the
neighborhood. One girl tried to open my car door and yank me out
and when that didn't work, she tried to grab my video camera.
Then three boys came up on bicycles, two I recognized, but I did
not know the oldest boy with tattoos who was video taping me in
my car with his cell phone and laughing at me.
I asked who was making the complaint and the officer refused to
give me the person's name. Said he was protecting them!
As he walked off, he made the comment, 'Too bad you don't like
cops.'

I have tried to press charges on the harassers and I am ignored
by the police. Many times they will not even respond to calls by
me or my husband and I have been rudely treated or even talked
to by dispatchers in an unprofessional manner.

The lying neighbors and their kids, many of them, even realtors
who we have video taped hanging around our house at night,
trying to find ways around our video survallence system,
continue to try and have me falsely arressted or committed. They
have even lied to my relatives about me.

I have video from an incident in May where some of these
neighbors were yelling at me, calling me a 5150, telling me to
go back on my meds, etc. Many of them do not live in our
neighbohood. All along their kids were present taking pictures
of me in my own front yard, laughing at me, etc. I have heard
these same verbal attacks before.

The officer that came out would not press any charges and
nothing was done. The harassment continued for hours after that,
even though we had gone inside our house. If I go sit out in the
front yard, the harassment begins and continues until I go
inside.
I have not been able to afford a lawyer and I doubt there is any
who would help us. One lawyer told us we were breaking the law
videotaping the kids harassing us, even with a pocket bike in
front of the house.
Another officer told us he doubted a judge would issue a
restraining order for people yelling at me, and especially
against kids harassing me.

We have lived here for eleven years now and still, I have never
been arrested and I have never been committed for being mentally
ill. The past neighborhood we lived in for fourteen years and
before that four years in another neighborhood and even before
that four years where we ended up giving our new house to my
brother because of a murder next door and harassment from a drug
gang. We could not sell a house that had had a murder next door,
no one wanted to live there.
The harassment follows us no matter where we move, so we are
staying put and the harassment is out in the open for all to see
now. I believe most of the neighbors are part of the harassment.

One officer commented that she was glad she didn't live near us.
She told me it was a grassroots organization living on grant
funds that was paid to do the harassing by people, possibly
criminals, in the community. I know many have criminal records.

My husband and I have live in this area over 50 years and have
always been harassed.
I once volunteered with the local Sheriff's dept. and committed
no crime. I quite due to harassment.

We have been told numerous times to get restraining orders. What
a waste of money! I really doubt the police would even take the
violators into custody.

I was told many times that I should write a book about incidents
in my life. Are there any ghost writers willing to take the
story? Possibly help me put together a video or even a news
story?

God help any of you going through this same targeting.

Cindy in California

Ric ~ Again, thank you for your advise. I was and am actually
afraid to even walk into a police department by myself and
everyone who knows what I am going through, is also afraid.
I did go to the Sheriff's dept. in 2004 and they did not find
many incident calls and supposedly nothing on me, except I had
applied for a concealed weapons permit.
Seems the Sheriffs weren't keeping records. An article appeared
in the local newspaper about the lack of record keeping by the
department.

On 3/10/04, Cindy wrote:
> Ric ~ Thank you. I appreciate your advice & your opinion.
>
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> On 3/04/04, Ric wrote:
>> You may need to look at the CA State statues on how long a
>> police department may hold any records about you without any
>> conviction, nor any arrest. Even though they should not have
>> any information on you without any conviction, or arrest
>> (depending on state) after some time, most police departments
>> are allowed to hold some records about people that are of
>> interest directly or indirectly for a temporary period, but
>> most are prohibited from releasing this information to anyone
>> outside the police department. The interest is supposed to be
>> on possile crimes or possible public safety issues that they
>> are lawfully allowed to enforce and nothing more such as their
>> own grudges, political affliations, religion, and so on. To
>> protect yourself, keep all records of your interactions with
>> the police of who, when, where, what, and how, and keep a
>> complete set outside of your house with a trusted friend or
>> relative. If something does come up where they or a similiar
>> agency is doing something to harass you or they are not
>> obeying the state laws, you have a clear way to file a law
>> suit and desribe your situation to a court.
>>
>> Overall, do not let it get to you, but let them make mistakes,
>> which can make your legal situaiton more actionable in the eys
>> of the law, and keep yourself protected by documentation,
>> recordings, witnesses, and any honest supporters you can find.
>> In dealing with the goverments you have more protection than
>> dealing with some employers. You are your best defense even
>> better than a lawyer since you have intimate knowledge of what
>> has occured, and know how the situation personally effects
>> you, so it is good if you can do some reseach on the internet,
>> in book stores, and at libraries on your specific circumstance
>> and the specific local laws that apply.
>>
>> Rember the golden rule (somewhat elaborated) :
>> Do not speak to any government person without one or more
>> witnesses, or without an attorney; and even then you may
>> decide you do not wish to talk. There is not any law that
>> compels you to speak unless it is ordered by a duly appointed
>> court and/or judge.
>>
>> In your case there is likely federal laws and federaly
>> agencies, or national socities about mental health issues that
>> may help shed light on your protections. You have the right
>> to be different and left alone, whether anyone thinks you are
>> crazy or not. Unless they are a room full of mental health
>> workers their opinion of crazy can mean nothing in court as
>> long as you assert that basic fact. Keep in mind that
>> smetimes lawyers forget to really fight on principles and
>> instead try to smooth things over with the local majority,or
>> cite past court cases, which is alright in some situations.
>> Invidiual rights and individual behavior are sometimes best
>> fought on principles of the law, constitution and ethics.
>>
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>> On 2/29/04, Cindy wrote:
>>> I am a law-abiding homemaker. Just to let you know, I have
>>> seen psychologists due to stress. I have never been
>>> arrested or labeled a 5150 by any mental association, only
>>> by the police, WHY? I get no answers to my questions.
>>>
>>> I suffer from fibromyalgia and post traumatic stress
>>> disorder for all my effort of trying to get to and prove
>>> the truth. It is hard for me to function normally on a
>>> regular basis and I cannot hold down a steady job. I mainly
>>> suffer from stress, and preferre to communication in
>>> writing than in person, as I am then accountable for my
>>> words. I do have a problem when it comes to being accused
>>> of things I did not do. I am tired of being labeled and
>>> lied about.
>>>
>>> I was black balled and lied about for making verbal
>>> complaints against employees of the local drug task force
>>> and the Sheriff's Dept. Now I'm making verbal complaints
>>> about some of the city cops. Nothing is done because the
>>> police records indicate I am a 5150.
>>>
>>> I WANT MY NAME CLEARED OF THIS LIE.
>>>
>>> The most recent incident we suffered from was on Friday
>>> because a neighbor called the police on me for harassment.
>>> I'm not sure what the harassment was and the police won't
>>> tell me.
>>> My husband went to the door of a neighbor because a 17 year
>>> old continues to zoom through our neighborhood in a VW,
>>> revving his motor in front of our house, blowing out
>>> choaking white smoke when we are working in our garage or
>>> front yard. By the way, the police did not want to hear our
>>> side of the story. I remained in the street, video taping
>>> the car, but the police were called on ME only! My husband
>>> and I are again being told to move, by the police who
>>> insinuated that I (not my husband) am making up things and
>>> insinuated that I do not get along with any of my
>>> neighbors! I live near relatives and friends now!
>>>
>>> We lived in our former neighborhood for 14 years, 7 with no
>>> neighbor problems. When I started a neighborhood watch
>>> program because of a stalking involving the neighbors
>>> living on the street behind our house, and also turned in a
>>> drug dealer, our lives were ruined. I had no idea the
>>> criminal and his family were friends and informants of the
>>> police. We turned over tape recordings of illegal
>>> activities to the police, who did nothing but take stolen
>>> property from the guy.
>>> I began being lied about. Eventually I became known as
>>> the 'crazy lady' because I kept documented information and
>>> files on what was going on. This was told to me by one of
>>> the Sheriff's who laughed at me also (tape recorded this
>>> conversation also).
>>> I was lied about by neighbors who all know or are related
>>> to, some to cops, and attorneys in this area.
>>>
>>> About 4 years ago, one of the Lieutenants (tape-recorded
>>> conversation) from the Sheriff's Dept., informed me that I
>>> had been investigated and cleared of any wrong doing. What
>>> wrong doing? When I requested a copy of the report, he then
>>> told me there had been no investigation. I know there was,
>>> as I video taped the officer going from house to house in
>>> my former neighborhood.
>>> I continue to get lied to by the police. The more questions
>>> I ask, the more blame is laid on ME and the more harassment
>>> I receive from neighbors or people from this group.
>>> My questions never get answered.
>>>
>>> My husband and I moved from advice of an attorney. We have
>>> lived here for 3 years now, but have been harassed because
>>> of the lying gossip and labeling. We I have seen favoritism
>>> and discrimination from the police in our area.
>>>
>>> We just want to live in peace, but because I have been
>>> labeled, I am a target by liars, relatives, friends and God
>>> knows who else because of it, like the neighbors we are
>>> dealing with now.
>>>
>>> This is the pattern: First we are harassed, either my
>>> husband and I call the police, or the police are called on
>>> ME: Once in this neighborhood for harassment I wasn't
>>> doing, twice in the other, for throwing rocks at a
>>> neighbors house when I wasn't home, I was at the
>>> chiropractor. And once for calling a neighbor a liar and
>>> video taping it. No one ever calls the police on my
>>> husband. He could get away with murder and I would get the
>>> blame!
>>> Then I am lied about. Then the police twist the truth and
>>> make out I am the problem and the trouble maker. I believe
>>> this is because of the labelling that has followed me from
>>> the previous neighborhood.
>>> This upsets me. I will admit, I have problems dealing with
>>> the blame stress.
>>>
>>> The police only give me the run-around and insinuations
>>> when I try to get answers to my questions, and of course, I
>>> am always blamed by the police as being the problem. I do
>>> not respect them, nor have any fear of them.
>>> My husband and I once volunteered for the Sheriff's Dept.
>>> on the local Search & Rescue Tea and know how they can
>>> twist the truth with all out lies. We quit when I began
>>> recieving police intimidation from some of the cops. They
>>> never bothered my husband but he quit because of me.
>>>
>>> I was afraid to go to the press in the past out of fear my
>>> husband may loose his job, the only means of support we
>>> have, because of me. I am not in fear of loosing my life to
>>> get to the truth.
>>>
>>> I do NOT want advice from anyone in our area. We need to
>>> speak to someone outside this area, a neutral party, that
>>> is not easily influenced by the status of the 'clan' in our
>>> area and where money and social status is not the main
>>> issue. Someone who is truthful and can defend my rights
>>> would be very much appreciated.
>>>
>>> If you could PLEASE, please help us and give us advice on
>>> what to do or who to seek for legal advice, it would be
>>> greatly appreciated.
>>> We believe there is more going on here than meets the eye
>>> and the problems for ME are not just going to go away as
>>> long as I have to live in this town, especially being
>>> labelled a 5150, and as long as the police know where I
>>> live.
>>>
>>> I will do whatever it takes to get to the truth and get my
>>> name cleared of this lie. I have met many people here that
>>> are afraid of the police and others that have been suffered
>>> mistreatment. I have the proof.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>> Cindy in California