Gang stalking is a term that evolved from individuals who, in most cases, either knowingly or unknowingly happened to annoy an individual or members of a group/organization, and subsequently noticed a significant increase in disturbances, stalking behaviors, poor treatment, and/or harassment in their lives.
COINTELPRO is a name used to describe a secret Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) program known as the Counterintelligence Program. COINTELPRO was originally used to neutralize individuals and groups determined by national security agency officials to be dissidents/enemies of the state. The following groups and individual previously fell into this category: The Black Panthers, Ku Klux Klan, Martin Luther King Jr. Numerous additional ordinary citizens and group members identified as dissidents by FBI officials were also subjected to this program. In 1971 this program was determined to be cruel, unethical, and illegal by the courts and subsequently ended.
Sadly, post 9/11 fears and legislation, combined with increased extremism following the election of former president Barack Obama, led extremist militia and freemason groups with ties to, or dual roles as police and national security, to resume utilizing the cruel and unethical tactics from this old program. Interestingly, gang stalking accounts of targeted victims, which would undoubtedly require high level government involvement, closely resemble COINTELPRO/The Program.
Unfortunately, post 9/11 lucrative government terrorism prevention contracts and grants have only served to encourage unethical, vengeful, and/or extremist national security agents, law enforcement officers, militia, freemasons, vigilante neighborhood watch, and ordinary citizens to torment and also suggest innocent citizens be placed on secret dissident watchlists. Placement on these watchlists subjects innocent citizens to both domestic terrorism and a more technologically advanced, modern version of COINTELPRO.