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Yes. 20 reasons why the paper entitled "Complaints of group-stalking ('gang-stalking'): an exploratory study of their nature and impact on complainants" by Dr. Lorraine Sheridan and Dr. David James (published online in 2015) - concluding that all people alleging organized group harassment are delusional - is, at best, shoddy research.P​reface - My name is Richard Griesinger. During the 50 years I lived in Pinellas County, Florida USA, I was never harassed by local law enforcement until just days after I started dating my ex-girlfriend (Jennifer Brunner) - the divorcing, soon to be ex-wife of the then fourth highest member of the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office (Major Kirk Brunner, now retired). His best friend, Dan, had been an FBI agent in the nearby Tampa office according to my ex-girlfriend. She and I dated from 2003 until 2011 despite police harassment. The ex-husband blamed me - "the attorney-boyfriend" - for the divorce throughout our relationship per my ex-girlfriend. She initialed a list itemizing some of the harassment, uploaded into my main website - My Five Years of Systematic Police Harassment in Pinellas County Florida (and Organized Group Harassment) (link). The harassment in 2003 (by Sheriff vehicles parked near my house when my ex-girlfriend started coming over to my house) lasted only a few weeks. There was no harassment during the next five years (until 2008). But the new harassment lasted for years and was much more extensive. - The ex-husband was behind it because it occurred just days after a relationship-related event (discussed in my main website). I had to close my law office in 2012 because of the harassment, the hacking of my office’s and personal computers, phones, iphone, and email accounts, and other dirty tricks. (I was in private practice in Pinellas County for over 20 years). Initially, the harassment was traditional police harassment, if you will, by police cruisers. But because I continued dating my ex-girlfriend despite harassment, the ex-husband and/or his cohorts in the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office tapped into a network of ordinary individuals to harass me. I referred to this harassment as “psychological lynching” in the addendum to my FBI color of law complaint which I filed with the FBI’s Clearwater field office in May 2013. Significantly, I filed it before I researched organized group harassment (gangstalking) online, before the first Snowden documents were published, and before Jeffrey Kantor's lawsuit was discussed by news media online. The type of "psychological lynching" against me which I experienced has been variously referred to as community mobbing, public mobbing, organized mobbing, community stalking, group stalking, vigilante stalking, group adult bullying, organized harassment, organized psychological harassment, organized stalking, cause stalking, street theater, and, most often, as gangstalking. I contend that members of, and/or persons associated with, the U.S. law enforcement/intelligence/private contractor community have illegally harassed me and, no doubt, many other law-abiding Americans.I do not buy into outlandish claims online and elsewhere that gangstalking involves mind reading and other such nonsense. No doubt, truly delusional individuals post online, but Snowden documents revealed that intelligence agencies have tools to flood the internet with false information and have tools to disrupt online polls (like questionnaires) and discussion forums to discredit legitimate topics and individuals. (link to The Intercept article about Edward Snowden revelations). Another example of intentional disinformation - A noted left-leaning Swedish journalist, Martin Frederiksson, who surprisingly wrote anti-WikiLeaks articles, was discovered in 2010 to be on the payroll of Sweden's intelligence agency. Near the bottom of my website at +++, I have discussed three disinformative websites about organized group stalking (gangstalking) and which discussed me - pop~agenda~culture, Research Gang Stalking, and Protected Blog › Log in. The tell-tale signs of a disinformative website regarding organized stalking are some or all of the following - (a) a bizarre website name such as “Your BioAPI and a small experiment in insanity...,” "LunaticOutPost - Conspiracy - Ufo - Fun - Discussion Forum," "http://medawarscornflakes.com," “Kooky Stuff - Gangstalking”, "TalkShoe voice talk shows and discussion groups," "popagandaculture..." (connoting propaganda). No legitimate victim would use such names; (b) lack of a verifiable name and location of the author; (c) lack of specific details about why the author was initially harassed and other facts regarding the author's harassment; (d) goofy graphics; and (e) interspersing the website with outlandlsh references to UFO’s and the like.The psychological (and financial) harassment against me has often involved bizarre activity and has been extensive, therefore, it has plausible deniability. Because very similar harassment still occurs even though I now live in another country (Thailand), I contend that it must be directed and/or financed by members of U.S. agencies. My website is not a commentary about the Thai government or police.Interestingly, before I discussed the Sheridan and James gangstalking study - "Complaints of group-stalking ('gang-stalking'): an exploratory study of their nature and impact on complainants" - in this website, the study was easily accessible online on the publisher's website (Taylor & Francis Online). Now it is not. That is, links to the study now only bring the reader to a short summary (abstract), not to the full study. Now one has to pay $258 just for 30 days access. However I believe that Drs. Sheridan and James "research" study is available on the ResearchGate - Share and discover research website (link) by clicking "Download Full-Text PDF" at its upper right-hand corner (or another possible link). The Sheridan and James study may just be misleading and shoddy research. However, based upon my personal experience, I contend that it was written at the behest of a corrupt person(s) in, or associated with, the U.S. law enforcement/intelligence/private contractor community concerned about the few, but growing number of, legitimate websites and posts online like mine. The Sheridan and James paper reminded me of the tobacco industry's past misuse of "research" to downplay the cancer link. I also contend that the above community is at the heart of organized group harassment (although corporations and other entities have used the same tactics, discussed below. Government agencies and corporations in the United States and other countries have often misused psychologists and psychiatrists to diagnose dissidents, whistleblowers, and other targets as "delusional.” For example, in 2005 an in-house psychologist labeled an NSA intelligence analyst, Russell Tice, “delusional” after he blew the whistle on NSA’s massive illegal surveillance of law-abiding Americans. Another NSA psychologist played the same game against computer specialist, Diane Ring, who was retaliated against due to a personal vendetta. Former NSA contract officer, Thomas Reinbold, said employees called NSA’s “delusional” tactic as “doing a mental." Another example of the “delusional” tactic - the U.S. Department of Labor determined the Pacific Gas and Electric Company used an in-house psychiatrist to diagnose as “delusional” the manager, and whistleblower (Neil J. Aiken), of its Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant (link to New York Times article re labeling whistleblowers as "delusional"). Another example, the East German secret police (Stasi) and the Soviet Union's KGB, under its program called Psikhushkas, used the “delusional” tactic against political dissidents and others. But perhaps the worst example of governmental officials using the “delusional” tactic is the following - In 2009, New York Police Department Police Officer Adrian Schoolcraft accurately revealed to his Internal Affairs department that many cops in his station were engaged in a criminal conspiracy. How did his superiors respond? - He was physically abducted from his residence by N.Y.P.D. members and committed to a psychiatric hospital for six days! His lawsuit recently settled for a total of nearly two million dollars.(1) Dr. Lorraine Sheridan, a forensic psychologist, and Dr. David James, a forensic psychiatrist, have no background, training, or expertise in the U.S. law enforcement/intelligence/private contractor community. They have never substantially investigated, nor have relied upon any substantial investigation, of the above community. Dr. Sheridan works with law enforcement only in the field of traditional stalking, if you will. Drs. Sheridan and James extensively relied upon Dr. Paul Mullen in their study, but he is just a forensic psychiatrist who also has no background, training, or expertise of the above community and never conducted, or relied upon, a substantial investigation of the community.(2) The Sheridan and James study was based solely upon the answers of 128 anonymous and “self-selected” persons to a questionnaire which the co-authors posted online. The questionnaire was placed on an unnamed website which was hosted by an unnamed organization offering advice to group stalking victims. My response - The anonymity of respondents afforded an easy opportunity to post phony disinformation online - a tactic exposed by Snowden documents. In 2014, Snowden documents revealed that the British equivalent of the NSA - the GCHQ - has tools to manipulate results of online polls (e.g., answers to questionnaires), to disrupt online forum discussions, etc. No doubt, in addition to phony respondents to Drs. Sheridan and James' questionnaire, there were also legitimate and truly delusional respondents. (I wonder if the unnamed organization used by Drs. Sheridan and James was FFCHS, a probable disinformation site. For example, its website previously advised victims to detoxify their bodies by ingesting “food grade diatomaceous earth” - in other words, to eat dirt. This advice was removed in May 2014 after it was pictured in a screen shot, taken in January 2014 and discussed in the website Fight "Gang Stalking", discussed below. Three fairly recent mass shooters in the United States - Myron May, Gavin Long, and Aaron Alexis - who reported being victims of group harassment, stated that they were in contact with FFCHS for advice. Yet, I have not read of any substantial investigation conducted by the FBI or other law enforcement agency of FFCHS).(3) Surprisingly, Drs. Sheridan and James failed to discuss the recognized "Martha Mitchell effect" which warns psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals not to diagnose a patient as "delusional” just because his or her claims seem far-fetched, particularly if the patient has no history of being delusional or clinically paranoid. Martha Mitchell was the outspoken, alcoholic wife of President Nixon's Attorney General. Her rants to news reporters about illegal conspiracies within the White House were dismissed by everyone (except for White House reporter Helen Thomas). White House officials tried to downplay her claims as "delusional." But the Watergate hearings proved Mrs. Mitchell’s claims to be true. (link to Wikipedia article about the Martha Mitchell effect).(4) Forensic psychologists and psychiatrists often testify in civil and criminal proceedings as to a person’s competency. Yet, Drs. Sheridan and James, who are forensic professionals, did not reference the case of The People of the State of New York vs. D.J.H. (link), New York Supreme Court, Queens County, decided in 2011 - in which the Court relied upon the “Martha Mitchell effect.” (I found the case online simply by searching “Martha Mitchell effect" and “lawsuit”). The Court released a man who had been confined to a psychiatric hospital. The Court wrote that he was formerly a wealthy Iranian who competently testified in the case that (whether or not true) he incurred great financial loss due to illegal activity of government officials in New York, that New York cops planted two weapons in his home, and that evidence went missing in his civil case (all three claims certainly possible). The Court noted that the man knowingly refused a plea bargain in the criminal case against him just so he could testify in open court. The Court rejected the opinion of the state's medical witness, a psychiatrist, that the man was "delusional” merely because his claims seemed far-fetched and he would become upset and angry when discussing them. Importantly, the Court noted that neither the state's witness, nor any other person or entity, ever conducted a substantial investigation of the man's claims.(5) Drs. Sheridan and James relied upon the textbook definition of a “delusion” to be a firmly-held “false” and “bizarre” belief, despite “incontrovertible or obvious evidence” to the contrary, which very few others believe. Religious beliefs are excluded only because many people share similar beliefs. My response - As stated above, the beliefs of Martha Mitchell and pre-Snowden NSA whistleblowers, for example, were not supported by “incontrovertible or obvious evidence" and were, no doubt, considered “bizarre” at the time, but turned out to be true. Also, as stated below, U.S. diplomats wrote of harassment which was certainly bizarre. (The more bizarre or minor the harassment, the less likely it will be believed without documentation).(6) Drs. Sheridan and James wrote that the beliefs of the 128 respondents to their questionnaire basically fell into one of three categories - (a) “highly improbable” beliefs - such as regarding an elaborate organization carrying out its activities; (b) “impossible” beliefs - such as witchcraft focused through gold objects and the invasion of a person’s dreams at night; or (c) “impossible and bizarre” beliefs - such as a family dog replaced by an exact double with a bad temper and the remote enlargement of bodily organs. My response - The examples stated in (b) and (c), were either posted as intentional disinformation (per the Snowden documents discussed above) and/or posted by truly delusional persons. The categories (b) and (c) seem to be a distinction without a difference. But a belief based upon bizarre events certainly does not make a belief impossible (e.g., those of the U.S. diplomats discussed below). However, I am not suggesting the examples of (b) or (c) above were possible. Regarding (a) above - I contend that there is not one monolithic, world-wide organization harassing law-abiding American citizens. Rather, it is, most likely, a loose network of (hopefully, just rogue) members of the U.S. law enforcement/intelligence/private contractor community. Laws enacted after 9-11 have facilitated the sharing of information, whether or not accurate, among the 17 U.S. intelligence agencies, law enforcement agencies at all levels, and local fusion centers. Additionally, U.S. private contractors (now nearly a half million with top secret clearances) have access to much of this information. Members of a private organization Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit (LEIU), who include active and retired police officers and private investigators, also have access to much of this information. The LEIU exists to "gather, record, and exchange confidential information, not available through regular police channels." Lastly, U.S. corporations are increasingly hiring part-time "surveillance role players" (discussed below). The networking, unaccountibility, funding, and advanced technology of the above entities facilitate opportunity to illegally harass law-abiding Americans.(7) Drs. Sheridan and James failed to mention that U.S. diplomats complained of bizarre harassment, having plausible deniability, similar to complainants of organized harassment. Fairly recently, WikiLeaks revealed top secret U.S. diplomatic cables that Russian agents, presumably, were breaking into the diplomats’ homes just to move a piece of furniture, to turn on a t.v., etc. (link to Washington Post article re the psychological harassment of U.S. diplomats). I wonder if Drs. Sheridan and James consider the U.S. diplomats to be “delusional”? Another example of bizarre harassment appeared in a Sydney Morning Herald article in 2015. Michael Page, the CEO of a well-established local firm in Sydney called Netventures, said he contacted a lawyer after his firm's address and phone number were listed on the internet as those of Australia's domestic intelligence agency ASIO. During the prior two months, Mr. Page received strange and intimidating emails, text messages, and phone calls, his home's front door lock was broken, his home's power often went out, and he said "I came home and there was a bowl of sugar in the middle of the kitchen floor." He had a falling out with a prior employee who said he trained with ASIO. Mr. Page believed that he might be the victim of gangstalking where a person is relentlessly targeted and harassed. (link to Sydney Morning Herald article about possible gangstalking of CEO Michael Page). A very similar and even more recent example of bizarre psychological harassment is the following - On October 13, 2016, ABC 10 News (KGTV, San Diego, California) interviewed Facika Tafara who was the target of psychological harassment. Although it was not mentioned in the segment, she is a board certified physician specializing in internal medicine and the director of the Family Health Centers of San Diego. The ABC 10 News segment did not discuss the motive for harassing Dr. Tafara, but my guess is that she crossed a powerful member of the San Diego community, perhaps a high ranking law enforcement officer (like I did). The following is a summary of the segment - “A San Diego mother said she was being targeted for weeks by people she doesn’t know coming in her house when she’s not there. Facika Tafara thinks she may be the victim of a bizarre practice called gang stalking or community stalking. ‘It’s like an alternate reality, really,' she said. 'It’s spooky, and it’s my understanding that if this is actually what it is, it can go on for years.' The reporter said that community or gang stalking is an eerie practice that takes aim at your psyche to make you almost feel like you’re going crazy. In Tafara’s case, she said she noticed strange things out of place in her house when she would get home from work such as her windows being opened at the same level, dresser drawers opened at the same distance. She said she even found a camera inside the bedroom of her 11-year-old son. Tafara said she contacted police, and detectives visited her home, but they said 'if it happens again call us, but there’s not much we can do because we don’t know who it is, we don't have a face...' That local law enforcement did not conduct a substantial investigation of Dr. Tafara's harassment is no surprise to me. Neither the FBI’s Clearwater Florida field office, the Pinellas County Florida Sheriff’s Office, nor the Clearwater Florida Police Department investigated my factually specific, written complaints of a criminal conspiracy against me by members of local law enforcement and others on behalf of them. Based upon my personal experience, the psychological harassment described by Dr. Tafara is just one tactic used in organized psychological harassment. Other tactics that I have experienced in Pinellas County, Florida and here in Chiang Mai, Thailand are street theater and mobbing. (I define “street theater” as a pre-arranged display in public, usually by more than one person, to psychologically harass. Although the term "mobbing" is often used as a synonym for organized harassment or gangstalking, I define it more narrowly as one tool of organized harassment - subtle, intentional crowding of an individual in public places, such as a store, usually by one or two people at a time to psychologically harass and/or to attempt to provoke a response.). I emailed the U.S. Consulate's Office here in Chiang Mai on March 19, 2015 just for the record. I briefly discussed the psychological harassment of me by Americans, presumably evangelicals (e.g., a guy at a fitness center quietly repeating that a man was hit by a slow moving vehicle). My email also briefly discussed similar harassment which occurred in Pinellas County, Florida, and I cited my main website - My Five Years of Systematic Police Harassment in Pinellas County Florida (and Organized Group Harassment). Significantly, I sent my email well before I had my Summary translated into Thai and gave it to a few Thai people. Again, my website is not a commentary about the Thai government or police. (link to the ABC10 News, San Diego, t.v. segment regarding the possible gangstalking or community stalking of Dr. Facika Tafara).(8) Drs. Sheridan and James failed to research the history of organized group psychological harassment (or, if they did research it, they did not include it in their study). They wrote - “Little is known about the nature of the phenomenon of group- or gang-stalking.” and “Group-stalking is an unresearched area.” My response - Any research would show that group psychological harassment was extensively used by East Germany’s law enforcement/domestic intelligence agency (Stasi) until 1990 under its Zersetzung program (discussed below in paragraph 11); by the Soviet Union; by the United States’ FBI under its Zertsetzung-like Cointelpro program in which targets were illegally harassed, not just surveiled (including John Lennon, Martin Luther King, actress Jean Seberg, among others); by the Church of Scientology against defecting members; by corporations against whistleblowers such as Stephanie Gibaud (In 2015, a French labor tribunal ruled that Ms. Gibaud, the former marketing director of UBS Bank’s Paris subsidiary, was targeted with psychological harassment by UBS when she refused to destroy records showing that UBS concealed more than 12 billion euros via offshore accounts. Referring to her psychological harassment, Ms. Gibaud said - "That’s what I call ‘organised mobbing, gang stalking.’ It’s meant to make you crack. That’s what they expect". (link to Reuters article about the psychological harassment of Stephanie Gibaud).(9) Drs. Sheridan and James excluded discussion of legislation, enacted by several countries which define and prohibit group psychological harassment in the workplace (known as "mobbing" in Canada and European countries). (link to Wikipedia article about workplace mobbing and other types of mobbing).(10) Drs. Sheridan and James failed to discuss, even to criticize, that an increasing number of academic writings have been published about group psychological harassment outside of the workplace (academically referred to as “public mobbing” or “community mobbing”). For example, Professor Brian Martin (professor of social studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia), and Professor Florencia Peña Saint-Martin (professor of anthropology at the National School of Anthropology and History, Mexico) co-authored a paper published in 2014, an excerpt of which follows - “In mobbing, targets are judged ‘guilty’ .... afterwards, evidence to justify this initial judgment is gathered … Perpetrators manipulate and hide information, lie, … and monitor targets in a continual search for ‘new evidence’ that supposedly proves their allegations … There is a long history of other types of mob behavior, not to be confused with … mobs .., notably the Ku Klux Klan … The concept of mobbing today refers to more subtle forms of aggression … such as … continual derogatory comments, …starting rumors...’” (excerpt translated from Norma González Coordinadora Organización, Prometeo Editores, 2014). (I referred to the mobbing against me in Pinellas County, Florida as "psychological lynching" in the complaint I filed with the local FBI office. It continues even though I am residing in a foreign city. Mobbing is not only psychological harassment, but also an attempt to provoke responses which could be used against a person).(11) Surprisingly, Drs. Sheridan and James failed to discuss the well-documented use of diabolical, subtle psychological harassment by East Germany’s law enforcement/domestic intelligence agency (Stasi). Thousands of law-abiding citizens were targeted until 1990 when Germany reunified. The goal of the harassment, known as “Zersetzung” (decomposition), was stated in Stasi Directive 1/76 - “...systematic degradation of reputation, image, and prestige in a database on one part true, verifiable and degrading, and on the other part false, plausible, irrefutable, and always degrading…” It is important to know that Stasi used its extensive surveillance power, not only to surveil citizens, but also to harass them. I contend that members of the U.S. law enforcement/intelligence/private contractor community are doing the same. The goal of Stasi's surveillance was to know - “everything about everybody.” But even more onerous is the NSA’s present goal as stated in a PowerPoint slide revealed by Edward Snowden - “Collect It All; Process It All; Exploit It All; Partner It All; Sniff It All; and Know It All.” Stasi agents, with the help of civilians, such as neighbors, co-workers, employees of local businesses, health care providers, etc. spread lies and half-truths, entered targets’ residences just to move, add, or remove an object, engaged in mobbing, etc. Similarly, I contend that local FBI agents, perhaps by misusing the FBI's Infragard program, illegally convinced community members, including a few of my neighbors, local businesses, local professionals (e.g., Dr. Michelle Zetoony), and others to harass me. Of course, members of the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, and persons acting on their behalf, did so as well, including the financial harassment of my law practice. I can only speculate who hacked my law office's internet usage, as well as my personal internet usage - which continues. An exiled East German, Jurgen Fuchs, wrote an article entitled “You’re Going to Crack,” in a West German magazine, Der Spiegel, about his personal account of being targeted under Zersetzung. Of course, the Stasi labelled him “paranoid,” much like the NSA has done to whistleblowers. But like pre-Snowden whistleblowers, Mr. Fuchs was later vindicated when Stasi documents were released to the public. (link to Zersetzung article in Wikipedia). My main website discusses Zersetzung-like tactics used against me. (Possibly relevant, Snowden documents revealed that, via NSA’s “Stateroom” program, the NSA and CIA jointly operate in countries, such as Thailand including in northwest Thailand where Chiang Mai is located. “These sites are small in size and in number of personnel staffing them. They are covert, and their true mission is not known by the majority of the diplomatic staff at the facility [U.S. embassies and consulates] where they are assigned").(12) Drs. Sheridan and James failed to discuss that U.S. private contractors and intelligence agencies are increasingly advertising for part-time - “surveillance role players.” These players are typically persons with security clearances and recruited from the U.S. military and law enforcement. They are hired to work in everyday places in a community and must sign non-disclosure agreements. The potential to misuse “surveillance role players” to harass targets is obvious. This subject is ripe for investigative reporting.(13) Although Drs. Sheridan and James listed the website - Fight "Gang Stalking" (link) - in its Reference section, they failed to discuss it, even to criticize it. I believe that this website (not the one in Facebook) is one of the few legitimate, well-researched sites online regarding the past and recent history of organized group harassment. Although not relevant to its legitimacy, the website is ranked high in any online search of the subject.(14) Drs. Sheridan and James failed to discuss the concerns of prominent Americans (some listed below) about the lack of accountability, past abuses, and potential for future abuse of the U.S. law enforcement/intelligence/private contractor community, particularly after 9-11 - former CIA operative Valerie Plame; Pulitzer Prize recipient and former Washington Post journalist Diane Priest in her book "Top Secret America"; Senator Frank Church (who, 40 years ago, chaired the Senate Committee which investigated systemic abuses by the FBI, NSA, CIA, and the IRS and accurately predicted the future widespread misuse of secrecy and technology. He warned - "That capability at any time could be turned on the American people..." and added that the community's secrecy and technology "could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back."); Edward Snowden; pre-Snowden NSA whistleblowers; former CIA division chief Melvin Goodman (who said, in 2008, the U.S. intelligence and private contractor community lacks accountability and "is essentially out of control. It's outrageous"); and former FBI counterintelligence agent and whistleblower, Michael German. Mr German, like others, is concerned that local fusion centers, created after 9-11, share information throughout the U.S. law enforcement/intelligence community, whether or not facts and assumptions are correct. He is also concerned about the potential for abuse of the FBI’s Infragard program (which I know of firsthand), and the new low threshold to initiate FBI investigations.(15) Drs. Sheridan and James failed to discuss the following persons’ allegations of organized group harassment (gangstalking) - Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Donna Watts (link to her pending federal lawsuit - Donna Jane Watts vs. City of Palm Gardens, et. al.), very similar allegations by another female Florida law enforcement officer Toni Foudy, Mr. and Mrs. Krlich of Hubbard Ohio (link to ABC’s 20/20 interview of Mr. and Mrs. Krlich) who filed a federal lawsuit (Krlich vs. Taafe; link) in February 2017), Jeffrey Kantor (whose federal lawsuit was dismissed for lack of evidence (similar to claims of pre-Snowden whistleblowers who lacked Snowden's documentation) (link to American Bar Association article about Jeffrey Kantor's federal lawsuit), Stephanie Gibaud (discussed above), Roderick Russell, and me. I discussed the above individuals more extensively in my main website - My Five Years of Systematic Police Harassment in Pinellas County Florida (and Organized Group Harassment).(16) Drs. Sheridan and James implied that persons complaining of group stalking suffer from psychiatric problems, such as staying in their residences and fearing to go out. My response - Drs. Sheridan and James apparently did not read, for example, Trooper Watts' pending federal lawsuit stating that she began living like a hermit due to the constant harassment by numerous Miami cops for months. Trooper Watts received intimidating voice messages of her private phones; police vehicles stalked her on and off duty; her private information was illegally accessed in a police database by a hundred cops; her neighbors reported seeing "strange--looking cars" idling and parked in their cul-de-sac (typical of the psychological harassment against me), etc. All this because Trooper Watts stopped a police cruiser travelling over 120 mph through traffic. She didn't know if the cruiser was stolen because its driver ignored her lights and siren for miles. It turned out that the driver was an off-duty Miami cop late for his second job. He was later fired. A law enforcement officer in Sarasota County, Florida (next to the county where I used to live) posted the following anonymous comment online about Trooper Watts. It was one of many posts personally attacking Trooper Watts in Activity Stream - LEO Affairs Forums (“leo” meaning law enforcement officers. - “ Dear Donna: All of us at the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office feel you will be out of a job in the near future. We do not condone stopping or writing other cops citations in this county and have a strong brother/sister hood in this tri-county area. With that being said, we would like to offer you a second chance at the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office Animal Services Unit cleaning our kennels. You being a piece of $hit will fit right in with cleaning up animal $hit. Please consider this position as your days are most likely numbered from the Florida Highway Patrol for your inappropriate/dangerous and malicious actions. We look forward to handing you a bucket and a mop in the near future. (link to an article about Trooper Donna Watts' experience) (link to Trooper Donna Watts' ongoing federal lawsuit, of note are paragraphs 170-182 and 332-339).(17) Drs. Sheridan and James implied that victims of group stalking are not to be believed because they have “no idea” who their stalkers might be. My response - No response is needed.(18) Drs. Sheridan and James wrote - “...We have not been able to find any record in the literature of cases where victims have been subject to two or more separate stalking campaigns by unrelated individuals in one 12-month period.” My response - Drs. Sheridan and James failed to discuss the federal lawsuits filed on behalf of Trooper Watts and Mr. Kantor, failed to discuss the EEOC lawsuit filed on behalf of by NSA intelligence analyst Karen Stewart, failed to discuss Roderick Russell's website (link) regarding the Zertsetzung-like harassment against him, failed to discuss my main website, and other legitimate sites.(19) Drs. Sheridan and James wrote that there are “limited police … resources” on the subject of organized psychological harassment. My response - The reason is obvious.(20) Drs. Sheridan and James wrote that their study of group stalking was the first to use the scientific method and peer review. My response - This is gobbledygook. What is needed instead is a Congressional investigation of organized psychological (and financial) harassment of the unaccountable U.S. law enforcement/intelligence/private contractor community similar to the Senate “Church Committee” of 40 years ago. There also needs to be substantial investigative reporting on the subject.A year after the Sheridan and James paper was published online, and only three weeks after the Washington Post article about the bizarre psychological harassment of U.S. diplomats, a New York Times article entitled "United States of Paranoia: They See Gangs of Stalkers" by Mike McPhate (link) was published (June 2016). Mr. McPhate relied upon the Sheridan and James paper to conclude that all complainants of organized group harassment must be delusional. Like Drs. Sheridan and James, Mr. McPhate has no background, training, or expertise in the U.S. law enforcement/intelligence/private contractor community. (He was the New York Times web page designer and manager). Also, like Drs. Sheridan and James, he failed to substantially investigate, or rely upon any substantial investigation of the community. (Years earlier, another New York Times reporter, Judith Miller, wrote articles based upon misinformation spoon-fed to her by government officials shortly before the U.S. invaded Iraq). Mr. McPhate's poor research and/or biased journalism was demonstrated by what he wrote, or more correctly, by what he failed to write about Karen Stewart in his article - “Karen Stewart of Tallahassee, Florida, believes large numbers of regular people have been brainwashed by the National Security Agency into thinking that she is a traitor or terrorist. Wherever she goes, she says - to church, to the grocery store, to the doctor’s office - they are there, watching. It baffles her, she said. But worse ,’It makes me angry to see how many people in this country are sociopaths. They are absolute group think drones,’ she said ’I don’t even consider them human anymore.’” But, astonishingly, Mr. McPhate failed to write that Karen Stewart was a longtime intelligence analyst for the National Security Agency (NSA) in the Weapons and Space department. She had worked for the NSA for 28 years until she was fired. Because another employee was credited with, and promoted for, Mrs. Stewart’s award-winning intelligence work, Mrs. Stewart filed an EEOC lawsuit against the NSA in 2010. She alleged that the other employee, who also worked in the Weapons and Space department, was a woman who provided sexual favors to NSA managers. NSA officials threatened to label her “delusional” if she did not drop her lawsuit. But she did not drop her lawsuit, was then diagnosed as "delusional” by the NSA - despite prior positive evaluations - and was fired. Another NSA whistleblower, Thomas Reinbold, said that NSA employees call NSA's delusional tactic as “ doing a mental." Because of my experience, I believe Karen Stewart that she was the target of organized group harassment by NSA security and by civilians acting on its behalf.Shortly after Mr. McPhate's article was published, another article, entitled “The Nightmarish Online World of ‘Gang-Stalking,’”(link) by Roisin Kiberd (link), was published online (July 2016). Ms. Kiberd, like Mr. McPhate, also relied upon the Sheridan and James paper to also conclude that all people reporting group harassment must be delusional. Like Drs. Sheridan and James and Mike McPhate, Ms. Kiberd has no background, training, or expertise in the U.S. law enforcement/intelligence/private contractor community, and did not substantially investigate, or rely upon any substantial investigation, of the community.Other articles have relied upon the Sheridan and James' "research" and, unfortunately, future articles will do so as well.​​​​​+++ More than a year after the Sheridan and James gangstalking "research" was posted online (on July 16, 2015), I published my website criticizing the study (on August 18, 2016). The two following articles appeared online just a few days after I published my website - An article entitled “Academic Research on Organized Gang Stalking is Lacking. So are Sheridan and James, and Dietrich” (posted in the website pop~agenda~culture on September 9, 2016) and an article entitled “Gangstalking Study by Dr. Lorraine Sheridan is Fundamentally Flawed” (posted in the website - Research Gang Stalking on September 14, 2016, which is linked to the above website). I am certain that the two phony articles were published as disinformation by a corrupt person(s) in, or associated with, the U.S. law enforcement/intelligence/private contractor community to counter my website. Consider the following - I sent the following email to the supposed author of the first article on October 3, 2016 -“ Mon, Oct 3, 2016<[email protected]> Name: Richard GriesingerContact Form URL: ContactDear volunteer teacher:I have read your criticism of the Drs. Sheridan and James study re group-stalking. I believe the study is shoddy "research," but I have some questions for you - 1. What is your name? 2. What city do you live in? 3. What [my comment - I meant to ask - Why] are you writing articles about group-stalking? That is, are you a victim of group-stalking? If so, what are the specific reason(s)? Your website contains no details of your personal experience (names, dates, etc.) why not?Thank you,Richard Griesinger ”I received the following email reply on October 5, 2016 - which not only failed to answer my questions, but also attempted to intimidate and threatened me. Understand that the author wrote that “she” was a volunteer teacher, but comes across as a private investigator. But more significantly, although the author is a supposed fellow victim of organized harassment - supposedly empathetic with fellow victims - “she" did “her” best to try to intimidate, threaten, and marginalize me -“ Richard-Also, in my sidebar, I have posted some 'free tools that you can use' to document these gang stalkers. As you might imagine, as an investigative journalist, I have developed habits- and one of those habits is checking IP addresses. Yours is x.xx.xxx.xx [my comment - I changed the numbers to x's], in Thailand, as you noted. I have also noticed someone (you) checking my blogs regularly in the last several days via my wordpress 'stats counter.' This sort of information, while in and of itself is not a case or necessarily immediately useful, is evidentiary material in piece and in parcel. In my sidebar, I offer you free tools that you can use as well to document any harassment you might still be enduring. I do not know what you would like from your personal situation, but I am available to investigate should you need a stateside investigator. As you know, these hidden investigations take the form of harassment, and death threats etc. And much of the is online, and leaves trace evidence. And, it is these little pieces of data that create for you, and others, the basic claim that you have been, in fact, targeted by scumbags.Best regards,popi ”A few hours later, I received another email from “popi” - which also did not answer my questions and was another attempt to intimidate and threaten me --“ Hi Chiang Mai ( Richard?).You can call me popi, like the flower. Well, for all of your questions, I would have to defer to my attorneys, located in my sidebar, where you can also read a bit about me in my bio ( but not too much). I am primarily, a writer, and a journalist. My case began many years ago, when I wrote a story about a purported terrorist in a college newspaper. Yes, I have been gang staked multiple times, in multiple places over time. And, my website DOES contain details, but they are laced within the narrative itself. Unlike yourself, I cannot afford to leave this country in order to write my story [my comment - "popi"'s community knows full well that I moved to Chiang Mai because I could no longer afford to live in Pinellas County due to my loss of income [my comment - "Popi''s community knows full well that I moved to Chiang Mai because I could no longer afford to live in Pinellas County due to my loss of income], and as you well know, people get hurt and even killed over talking about these things [my comment - intimidation and threats]. If I recall correctly- you are the guy who got stalked in Florida? Your narrative is a wonderful, clear, and concise telling of your tale.Very helpful, and insightful, and unlike the nutty blogs out there, is nearly court room worthy. And, this that you endured is called "pedofication," this situation that you described in your online work. A man named John Lang, an ex-marine, and a police corruption activist, from Fresno California was found dead in his burning house, as firefighters sat blocks away [my comment - more intimidation and threats], after he described essentially the same thing you described. They accused you of being a pedophile and so on. This fits a pattern, and part of my goal is to reveal those that do these things to others. I am offering a reward of up to 15k for anyone who can successfully bring a group of these cowardly POS to trial, and conviction. I honestly don't care if the people who are accused by these gang stalkers are indeed guilty of these purported crimes [my comment - I care] - what matters to me is how these hidden harassment campaigns, misuse of inappropriately gained personal data, and slander based in hearsay are affecting my country. I mean- if these things are true about you, and others, as the stalkers claim- then why not get it into a courtroom? [my comment - I tried to hire a law firm to file a police misconduct lawsuit, but soon learned that firms only wanted to handle cases that involve one or two incidents and, therefore, easier to litigate]. The answer to that is that they are avoiding, in plain legal terms- they are avoiding cases where clear legal standing would invoke the very hidden processes that they employ in these domestic terror campaigns waged against American citizens. I am interested in interviewing people who this has happened to, and also, possibly building towards a class action lawsuit, or in the very least, bringing this practice to light in a legitimate narrative structure that 'ordinary' people can understand, and begin to dismantle as a social ill. My case, like yours, involves dirty cops who misused data, and access to my personal life. It also included Jewish organizations [my comment - My harassment has not included Jewish organizations, but has included many evangelicals], community groups and more. And, regardless of their basis, it was illegal and needs to be brought to light. I am sure you have heard that phrase more than once from these religious nutjobs? They are fond of the phrase " what happens in darkness...." and so on. So, yes, my goal is to shine a light on these POS. If you are interested in telling me more, it would be on condition of anonymity- I am a journalist doing deep cover journalism, and my word is my bond. I would sit in jail for a source that provides accurate, factual information, and I would even put that into a confidentiality agreement if necessary. Well, if you would like to coresspond, I will be available.Best regards,popi “1st Update re"popi" --I regularly Google search my name "Richard Griesinger" with the word “harass” or "gangstalking" to see what websites have discussed me. In mid October 2016, my search revealed an article entitled "Former Clearwater Florida City Attorney criticizes Dr. Lorraine ..." posted in the website pop~agenda~culture. Although I previously opened that website (as "popi" mentioned in "her" first email above), I tried to open it after it mentioned me, but I could not. It is now marked “private." (The “popi,” who sent me the two above emails claims “her” real name is “popi gander.” The phrase “pop-agenda-culture” is listed near the top of the website; “popagandi” is the name of the author of the sister website - whatisorganizedstalking.wordpress. com). As a bad pun, the above names bring to mind "propaganda" defined as misleading information designed to promote a cause. The website - pop~agenda~culture - preposterously begins with a quote by a science fiction writer (Kurt Vonnegut), contains outrageous posts (either written as disinformation or posted by delusional individuals), discusses chewing gum on the bottom of a shoe, its sidebar contains an item "this is not a conspiracy theory blog," and, of course, contains no specific and verifiable facts about the author.2nd Update re "popi" --On November 13, 2016, “popi” - the anonymous corrupt person or persons in, or associated with, the U.S. law enforcement/intelligence/private contractor community - published the below article online about me entitled “In re: Richard Griesinger, Esq, and online defamation and libel." The article was published soon after I discussed “her” above two threatening emails to me in this website. The article was published in several of "her" disinformative websites,e.g., Protected Blog › Log in, Research Gang Stalking. and pop~agenda~culture. There are perhaps five reasons why "popi"'s community is concerned about my two websites - (1) My factual statements about the organized financial and psychological harassment against me since 2008 are true, many are detailed, and some are documented; (2) I am a credible person (established attorney forced to close my law office in 2012 due to hacking and harassment); (3) The motive for my harassment - revenge by the ex-husband (a high ranking law enforcement officer whose divorcing/ex-wife I dated from 2003 to 2011 - is obvious and documented; (4) I am verifiable (i.e., my identity and location is clear, unlike “popi”); and (5) The above community’s use of gangstalking and other harassing tactics is slowly losing the cover of plausible deniability due to increasing exposure in legitimate media (e.g., a Sydney Morning Herald article about CEO Michael Page in Australia, an ABC TV segment about Dr. Facika Tafara in California, Miami Herald articles about Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Donna Watts, an ABC TV 20/20 segment about Mr. and Mrs. Krlich in Ohio, etc.), and due to an increasing number of legitimate websites by credible individuals (for example, Roderick Russell in Canada, longtime NSA intelligence analyst Karen Stewart, and me). The following is “popi”’s article about me, portions of which I have bolded and underlined, followed by my comments in brackets -- “In re: Richard Griesinger, Esq, and online defamation and libel. The researcher of organized stalking will note various information/disinformation on the web about organized gang stalking [my comment - I agree, and the websites and articles by “popi”’s community are prime examples of disinformation. Snowden documents revealed that Western intelligence agencies post phony websites and articles online to discredit legitimate individuals and topics]. What should become clear after some amount of time is that this is by design of the hidden cultural practice that it is. This researcher has several blogs, and I do not use my personal identity in any of them [my comment - “popi” wouldn’t even disclose “her” name or city of residence to me by email] because in this ‘phenomena’ what then happens is that blogs are stalked, hacked, and online comes offline, as gang stalkers seek to silence those of us who research, or raise awareness of this topic. In other words, criminal activity under color of law begins when this topic is discussed openly [my comment - subtle intimidation and threats against me]. I wrote about a case that has all the trappings of authenticity - the case of one Richard Griesinger, Esq. [my comment - authentic because all of my factual statements are true, many are specific, and some are documented - a concern to “popi”’s community] - on one of my blogs, and the very next day received a phone call from a state where he formerly resided. That could indicate that he is not who he says he is; it could indicate that his blog is just another psyop; it could indicate many other things. But to me, the researcher, what it revealed- again- is how well connected these people are, as I never give that phone number to anyone-ever. That seems significant. Then, the blog became increasingly interesting to some in the community of gang stalking, and for various reasons, I closed the blog to any but registered and verified users. In short order, Israeli’s, MEPCON, and a few un-named persons requested access. Put another way- my blog got mobbed by people interested in that story and others. I have been mobbed by the fanatical Zionists, LEIU pedophiles, Israeli’s from Squad 8200, and law enforcement as well as pimple faced military trolls​ [my comment - What??], and often, these mobbing’s come offline, into the real world, where these people do other things that endanger life and safety [my comment - again, more intimidation and threats]. What this indicates to the researcher, is an inference that this topic gets certain folks riled up in the least, and drives some into furious counter-narrative. That seems important, because most legitimate research agrees that those who practice in the occult of gang stalking, are in fact from within the LEO and security industry, which at this time, has effectively replaced the Ku Klux Klan, the JDO, and the so-called ‘white identity’ movement that preceded the current Christian Zionists [my comment - Harassment against me in Pinellas County, Florida and here in Chiang Mai has included, among others, American evangelicals (e.g., by Pinellas County Circuit Judge George Greer, former client Cathy Bulger, my ex-girlfriend’s ex-husband, basically a Catholic evangelical, probably a large number of law enforcement officers in Pinellas County, etc.), no doubt, because I viewed some gay porn online. I never would have a gay or bisexual encounter, but that should be nobody’s business] as fanatical bombers and so on, as a domestic terrorists. In fact, the cross cultural membership, criminal, and institutional corruption of theses LEIU, security contractor, Scientologist/Mormon/Christian/Jewish gangs [my comment - My harassment has not involved Jewish gangs, but has involved evangelicals], LEO’s, community policing initiatives nearly vindicate the modern Klan as a mere political action group that practices free speech, and their version of history. According to OSINT easily found online, Richard Griesinger, Esq., was formerly a City Attorney in Pinellas County Florida, in an era when Scientologists were seeking influence in that area. I saved a copy of the original webpage (here is what he- or someone- calls his original webpage), and all communications I have had with him, as often these near legitimate stories are in fact psychological operations designed to intimidate me, the researcher, or the people like him, a purported victim of gang stalking. In other words, I protect both of us, from whoever would corrupt or challenge the narrative. I use WordPress because it auto saves posts with a time stamp, as does Gmail, and so, I can prove beyond any and all reasonable doubt that Richard Griesinger has libeled and defamed this author [my comment - Truth is a complete defense, and anonymous persons, like “popi,” cannot be the subject of defamation], and attempted to discredit the narrative I have documented. I will make this available to any credentialed researcher of organized gang stalking, should you be verifiable as an authentic researcher. I reached out to this Griesinger fellow, because I believe that much of what he wrote is an authentic story, and based upon his recent post, I believe that, like many of these victims, his narrative is mixed with features of a possibly un-diagnosed personality disorder [my comment - First, remember that "popi" is supposedly a fellow victim of organized group harassment, but is doing "her" best to marginalize me! Also, as I discussed in both of my websites - governmental agencies, corporations, and other entities in the United States and other countries have used the “delusional” tactic against whistleblowers, dissidents, and targets (e.g., the NSA against whistleblowers Russell Tice and Thomas Reinbold, the Pacific Gas & Electric Company against a manager and whistleblower Neil J. Aiken, etc. all of whom were later vindicated], but I find his story credible on cursory research ( I am not a mental health professional [my comment - There "she" goes again], this is just my opinion about a person who made their business public online; nor do I seek to make life harder for this fellow, but I will not discuss it further than that.) I attempted a dialogue with this person/entity, and in return, was rewarded with libelous, slanderous comments about my work. A sad fact of those of us who actually seek to bring light to this dark practice are often pitted against each other, perhaps by our own biases or mental illness [my comment - There “she” goes again]; and often by agents and agencies whose exact goal is this form of exploitation. I have a background with social workers and psychologists, and so, I am aware that mental illness can be of the paranoid variety. Griesinger’s current version of “his” story exhibits this trait [my comment - There “she” goes again. And, as I wrote above, "popi" is supposedly a fellow victim of organized group harassment]. These days, and since I closed that blog, this blog gets hits every two days or so from Thailand. I can prove that to any legitimate researcher of organized gang stalking. So, Mr/Miss Griesinger, [email protected], former City Prosecutor, etc, or whoever, whatever agency has co-opted your/his name and identity, I once again, here in plain sight of the whole world, extend you the opportunity to retract your slander/libel, or whatever it is. Then, in lieu of that, I will take other measures [my comment - more subtle intimidation and threats]. Now, to the researcher of organized stalking, note that Thailand is a beneficiary of tens of millions of American dollars per year [my comment - no doubt, “popi” is letting me know that “her” community has financial clout in Thailand] for initiatives that ‘combat sex trafficking and child sexual exploitation.’ [my comment - I will not be smeared as a pedophile, child molester, a potential one, a sex trafficker, or potential one. My ex-girlfriend’s ex-husband - a high ranking local law enforcement officer whose best friend was a retired FBI agent - had me smeared for revenge (detailed in my main website). The smear has always been secret (that is, always behind my back or anonymous) and was denied by law enforcement in Pinellas County. My attempts to hire professionals to disprove it were always interfered with. The FBI denied my written request to investigate. (I notified the U.S. Consulate’s Office here in Chiang Mai in 2015 of the smear and threats against me, my main website, etc. just for record). It is a cross-roads nexus state where sex trafficking takes place as children and women, and Thai lady-boys are shuffled across borders by actual rings of sex traffickers. This is one reason why talking about this topic can be dangerous [my comment - more intimidation and threats], both to the researcher, and to individuals who are targeted by gang stalking. Organized rings of pedophiles, and literal and actual gangs of sex traffickers operate from Thailand to America and beyond, often in the disguise of these social justice movements, and anti-sex trafficking NGO’s, cults and actual gangs, many of which are funded by USAID and other military’ intelligence agency black budgets. Do you see a connection? I do. It is this researchers opinion that organized gang stalking, pornography, prostitution, and sex trafficking are related, and part of my hypotheses is that both sides of the trafficking narrative derive billions per year, one way or the other, and often work together, as was the case of Yugoslavia/Bosnia in the 1993 era. It is no different today, and many who research gang stalking will find this to be the case as well- there is a provable link between those who create a moral panic, and those who police the narratives of moral panic. In fact, they are one and the same, like Laurel and Hardy, Pinky and the Brain-or a cat and a mouse [my comment - What??] : those who claim to be ‘combating’ a moral scourge, are the exact same people and groups deriving profit from all sides of the issue. But in the case of the ‘targeted individual,’they are the scratching post the cats sharpen claws on; a form of bullying so severe and debilitating, that many take their own lives, are forced into false confessions, or worse, with some committing crimes in attempts to get a case into a court room, because the involvement of police and other institutional and community occult factors into often unwinnable dilemmas, and legal basis or legal standing issues. So, Mr. Griesinger, I do not wish to add to your trauma- regardless of whatever you were accused of, the hidden practice of gang stalking needs to be brought into the light- I applaud your attempt to do that. And as you know, I extended my empathy to you, and you returned it by posting alleged private data. Regardless of your choice, once again- I ask that you retract your deliberate lies, and other statements about my writing, and my hypotheses. Any correspondence I have had with you will be revealed in a court room if necessary [my comment - I have nothing to hide except embarrassment, but your community certainly has a lot to hide. Also, I have been consistently denied the opportunity to place the secret smear and harassment against me into public view.]. And, in lieu of that, I will take further active measures [my comment - more intimidation and threats].“ (posted on November 13, 2016). [My final comment - Compare the content of my two websites with that of “popi”’s emails, 'her' article about me, and 'her' disinformative websites. Unlike “popi,” I am verifiable and have provided specific details regarding the motive and nature of the hacking and organized financial and psychological harassment against me].3rd Update re "popi"'s community --I recently (December 6, 2016) noticed text at the top of one of my documents ("CM - Diary") in my Google Docs app on my iphone. I did not write it. (A linguistic expert isn't needed to show this). The text was hacked and placed into my “CM - Diary,” no doubt, as a psychological ploy by a corrupt person(s) in, or associated with, the U.S. law enforcement/intelligence/private contractor community. "CM" stands for Chiang Mai, the Thai city where I live. I do not write lengthy, general text in my CM-Diary, but rather only write short comments about specific events which occur in Chiang Mai, except for an occasional, short general comment. Although much of the content is true and although I wrote somewhat similar text in other Google Docs, some of it is not, and some of it is exaggerated. Interestingly, the hacked text does contains some methods which are used to harass me (in Chiang Mai and previously in Pinellas County, Florida). I have bolded and underlined portions of the text followed by my comments in brackets. -- “The number of people despising me here in Chiang Mai is astounding [my comment - First, consider the diabolical effort in writing and hacking the below text. Second, consider the diabolical and extensive effort to smear me in Chiang Mai as a pedophile. Also, although the fact of the smear is true (initially secretly spread as revenge by my ex-girlfriend’s ex-husband in Pinellas County. There has always been an evangelical undercurrent, if you will, involved in the smear both in Pinellas County and in Chiang Mai), I would not use the words "despising" and "astounding" in this context.] When viewed in one perspective, it’s almost fascinating. Again, I cope well because I naturally consider myself a reader, not a participant of my novel-like harassing experiences. What outfits [my comment - I do not use the word "outfit" or "outfits"] will some harassers be wearing, what newspaper or book will they be reading and want me to peek at [my comment - I do not use the word "peek," although Jeffrey Kantor's lawsuit, which I discussed, refers to "sneak and peek" surveillance]. What vehicles wlil be backing up near me this time. Will giggles [my comment - I do not use the word "giggle" or "giggles," but psychological harassment against me has included, for example, cars backing up as I pass, people coughing as I pass, a customer next to me in a restaurant doing his best to get my attention to an opened newspaper he was holding out which had the word “delusional” prominently displayed on a page, etc.] be used or a menacing look, or maybe get a passing cough. It all is curiously and loosely organized [my comment - The phrase "loosely organized" was parroted from what I wrote in this website (reason 6 above) - that I believe that there is a loose network worldwide of, hopefully just rogue, members of the U.S. law enforcement/intelligence/private contractor community. However, the harassment here in Chiang Mai, as in Pinellas County, Florida, is very organized]. I get it, but it really and truly has no lasting effect on me, except for the dramatic entry of an oddball-looking guy [my comment - I would not use the phrase "dramatic entry of an oddball-looking guy"] etc. It all seems a big waste of time and money (assuming some of the sheep are paid. No doubt, the vangies work free of change. They hate gays, I know, I get it. But the funny thing, folks [my comment - I would not use the word "folks" which I consider is disingenuous, particularly when used by politicians], I’m not gay, I know that’s a tough one for you. And for you vangies and others, I have never fantasized about my Little Brother and any other child, ever. You can believe that or not - it won’t change the truth. I admire the clean lifestyle and many values you vangies hold to, but I feel sorry for you as well, really (not pity), that your minds and emotions are trapped and limited by setting life and religion in black and white concrete. You folks have tried to set who I am in concrete terms as well, but most people defy such classifications. I’m not a religious person - I don’t like organized religions, particularly dogmatic ones like yours, any orthodox, maybe if I were black and the rousing and soulful gospel music and all, but I was a robotic acolyte for three or four years and the form over substance turned me off. Vange churches are even worse. Vanges are too Old Testament, not enough New Testament - lighten up and live longer."4th Update re “popi”’s community --That “popi”’s community - those corrupt individuals in, or associated with, the U.S. law enforcement/intelligence/private contractor community - is concerned about my website was demonstrated by five, no doubt related, websites which recently (in mid December 2016) posted “popi”’s phony criticism of my website - WordPress.com: Create a website or blog, WordPress.com: Create a website or blog, WordPress.com: Create a website or blog, WordPress.com: Create a website or blog, and WordPress.com: Create a website or blog. A minor update - In January 2016, I discovered two more, no doubt related, websites which also posted "popi"'s phony criticism of my website - http://en.wordpress.com and http://li.wordpress.com. A second minor update - In February 2017, I discovered yet another, no doubt, related website which posted "popi"'s phony critcism of my website - http://yi.wordpress.com. As I wrote above, Snowden documents revealed that intelligence agencies flood the internet with disinformation to discredit legitimate individuals and topics.

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At what price?· How much time commitment to the business is expected of each founder?· What salaries (if any) are the founders entitled to? How can that be changed?· How are key decisions and day-to-day decisions of the business to be made? (by majority vote, unanimous vote, or are certain decisions solely in the hands of the CEO?)· Under what circumstances can a founder be removed as an employee of the business? (usually, this would be a Board decision)· What assets or cash does each founder contribute or invest into the business?· How will a sale of the business be decided?· What happens if one founder isn’t living up to expectations under the founder agreement? How will it be resolved?· What is the overall goal and vision for the business?· If one founder wants to leave the business, does the company have the right to buy back his or her shares? At what price?Obtain a Tax IDIn most instances, you will need to get a tax ID from the IRS for your company. This is also known as an “Employer Identification Number” (EIN), and it’s similar to a Social Security number, but for businesses. Banks will ask for your EIN when you open a company bank account. You can get an EIN online through the IRS website.Set Up a Good Accounting and Bookkeeping SystemYou will need to set up a bookkeeping/accounting system to keep track of your finances, income, expenses, capital expenditures, EBITDA, profit and loss, etc. This is important in order to understand your business’s cash flow situation and also for tax-filing purposes.Perform a Comprehensive Reference Check Before You Hire an Employee· Verification of job titles and dates of employment· Verification of educational degrees and dates of attendance at schools· Verification of starting and ending salary· Verification of prior job role and responsibilities· Inquiry as to why the applicant left the prior employer· Conversations with prior supervisors as to the applicant’s strengths and weaknesses· Inquiry as to the applicant’s ability to get along well with other employees and customers· Inquiry as to the applicant’s ability to take on the new role· Inquiry as to punctuality or absenteeism issues· Reference checks with other people not listed by the applicant as a referenceUse a Good Form of Employee Offer Letter or Employment Agreement· The job title and role of the employee· Whether the job is full time or part time· When the job will commence· The salary, benefits, and any potential bonuses· Whether the position is “at will” employment, meaning either party is free to terminate the relationship at any time without penalty (although employers may not terminate employees for legally prohibited reasons, such as for age discrimination or retaliation from sexual harassment allegations, etc.)· Confirmation that the “at will” agreement may not be changed unless signed by an authorized officer of the company· Confirmation that the employee will need to sign a separate Confidentiality and Invention Assignment Agreement (described below)· If the company chooses, a statement that any disputes between the parties will be resolved solely and exclusively by confidential binding arbitration (also discussed below)· Any stock options to be granted to the employee and the terms of any vesting (details usually laid out in a separate Stock Option Agreement)· The supervisor to whom the employee will report· Protective language stating that the offer letter constitutes the entire agreement and understanding of the parties with respect to the employment relationship, and that there are no other agreements or benefits expected.Make Sure All Employees Sign a Confidentiality and Invention Assignment Agreement·The employee may not use or disclose any of the company’s confidential information for their own benefit or use, or for the benefit of others, without authorization.· The employee must promptly disclose to the company any inventions, ideas, discoveries, and work product related to the company’s business that they make during the period of employment.· The company is the owner of such inventions, ideas, discoveries, and work product, which the employee must assign to the company.· The employee’s employment with the company does not and will not breach any agreement or duty that the employee has with anyone else, nor may the employee disclose to the company or use on its behalf any confidential information belonging to others.· Upon termination of employment, the employee must return any and all confidential information and company property.· While employed, the employee will not compete with the company or perform any services for any competitor of the company.· The employee’s confidentiality and invention assignment obligations under the agreement will continue after termination of employment.· The agreement does not by itself represent any guarantee of continued employment.Consider the Steps You Should Take to Protect Your Intellectual Property· Patents· Copyrights· Trademarks· Service Marks· Trade Secrets· Confidentiality Agreements· Confidentiality Agreement for Employees and Consultants· Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyBecome a Strong SalespersonIf the business is to become successful, you must become a great salesperson. You are going to have to learn how to “sell” your business not only to customers but also to prospective investors and even to potential employees.Understand Financial Statements and Budgets· What are the company’s three-year projections?· What are the key assumptions underlying your projections?· How much equity and debt has the company raised, and what is the capitalization structure?· What future equity or debt financing will be necessary?· How much of a stock option pool is being set aside for employees?· When will the company get to profitability?· How much “burn” (losses) will occur until the company gets to profitability?· What are your unit economics?· What are the factors that limit faster growth?· What are the key metrics that the management team focuses on?Market Your Business Like Crazy· Learn the fundamentals of SEO (search engine optimization) so that people searching for your products and services online might find you near the top of search results.· Use social media to promote your business (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc.).· Engage in content marketing by writing guest articles for relevant websites.· Issue press releases for any significant events.· Network continually.Use Consultants and Freelancers to Supplement Your TeamAt the early stages of your startup, you will likely want to have a small employee team to minimize expenses. A good way to fill in for specialized expertise is to use freelancers or consultants.That way, you avoid taking on employee costs and benefits payments. And there are a variety of sites that can help you access freelancers, such as Freelancer.com, Guru.com, and Upwork.com.Have a Great Investor Pitch DeckPitch Deck Do’s· Do include this wording at the bottom left of the pitch deck cover page: “Confidential and Proprietary. Copyright by [Name of Company]. [Year]. All Rights Reserved.”· Do convince the viewer of why the market opportunity is large.· Do include visually interesting graphics and images.· Do send the pitch deck in a PDF format to prospective investors in advance of a meeting. Don’t force the investor to get it from Google Docs, Dropbox, or some other online service, as you are just putting up a barrier to the investor actually reading it.· Do plan to have a demo of your product as part of the in-person presentation.· Do tell a compelling, memorable, and interesting story that shows your passion for the business.· Do show that you have more than just an idea, and that you have gotten early traction on developing the product, getting customers, or signing up partners.· Do have a soundbite for investors to remember you by.· Do use a consistent font size, color, and header title style throughout the slides.Pitch Deck Don’ts· Don’t make the pitch deck more than 15-20 slides long (investors have limited attention spans). If you feel you need to add more information, include it as an appendix.· Don’t have too many wordy slides.· Don’t provide excessive financial details, as that can be provided in a follow-up message.· Don’t try to cover everything in the pitch deck slides. Your in-person presentation will give you an opportunity to add and highlight key information.· Don’t use a lot of jargon or acronyms that the investor may not immediately understand.· Don’t underestimate or belittle the competition (and never say “we don’t have any competition”).· Don’t have your pitch deck look out of date. You don’t want a date on the cover page that is several months old (that is why I avoid putting a date on the cover page at all). And you don’t want information or metrics in the deck about your business that look stale or outdated.· Don’t have a poor layout, bad graphics, or a low-quality “look and feel.” Think about hiring a graphic designer to give your pitch desk a more professional look.Drive Traffic to Your Website· Pay Google, Bing, Yahoo, or other search engines to send you traffic (such as through the Google Adwords program).· Build a great site with lots of high-quality, original content that is search engine optimized.· Have a smart social media plan to drive traffic from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other free social media sites.· Get links to your site from high-quality sites.Make Sure Someone Hasn’t Already Invented Your Great New Idea· Do a Google search on the keywords associated with your invention.· Do a search online of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office at United States Patent and Trademark Office.· If nothing comes up and you want to get a patent for your idea, hire a patent lawyer.Don’t Go Overboard on a Business PlanIt’s useful to come up with a business plan to think through what you want to do for the development of the product or service, marketing, financial projections, and more. And you should then get input from trusted business and finance advisors. But don’t go overboard with a 50-page business plan.Secure Capital to Finance Your Business· Personal funds· Credit cards· Friends and family· Angel investors (see Angel Investing: 20 Things Entrepreneurs Should Know)· Crowdsourcing sites such as Crowdfund Innovations & Support Entrepreneurs and Kickstarter· Bank loans/SBA financings/online lenders· Venture capitalists· Equipment loan financingDetermine Which Permits, Licenses, or Registrations You Will Need for Your Business· Permits need for regulated businesses (aviation, agriculture, alcohol, etc.)· Sales tax license or permit· Home-based business permits· City and county business permits or licenses· Zoning permit· Seller’s permit· Health department permits (such as for a restaurant)· Federal and state tax/employer IDsSet Up Appropriate Books and Records for Your Business· Financial statements (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow)· Employee records· Board and stockholder minutes and consents· Stock and options ledger· Tax filings and records (federal, state & local income, sales and property taxes)· Secretary of State filings (Certificate of Incorporation, annual filings, etc.)· Invoices & contracts· Bank accounts· Creditor recordsProperly Insure Your StartupWhile shopping for insurance, you will want answers to these types of key questions:· What are the deductibles?· Are the coverage limits high enough?· What items or occurrences are excluded from coverage?· Are there any gaps in the coverage?Here is a list of the types of insurance that may be appropriate for your business:· General liability insurance· Product liability insurance· Professional liability insurance· Property insurance· Worker’s compensation insurance· D&O (directors & officers) insurance· Health insurance for employees· Business interruption insurance· Commercial auto insurance· Data breach/cybersecurity insurance· Key man life insuranceDetermine How to Divide Equity Among the Startup’s Co-Founders· The relative value of the contributions of the co-founders· Vesting dependent upon continued participation in the business (you don’t want to give away 25% of the company to someone who leaves after a few months)· The amount of time to be committed to the business· The cash compensation to be paid as an employee· Whether the co-founders will be contributing cash as an investment in the business· Whether one person wants to maintain control over decision-makingUnderstand These Key Points About Seeking Venture Capital Financing· Specific industry sectors (software, digital media, semiconductor, mobile, SaaS, biotech, mobile devices, etc.)· Stage of company (early-stage seed or Series A rounds, or later-stage rounds with companies that have achieved meaningful revenues and traction)· Company location (e.g., San Francisco/Silicon Valley, New York, etc.)Pay Attention to Your Business Contracts· Describe all obligations they are expected to fulfill.· Describe all obligations they expect the other party (or parties) to fulfill.· Limit any liabilities.· Set parameters, such as a time frame, in which the terms of the contract will be met.· Set terms of a sale, lease, or rental.· Establish payment terms.· Clearly establish all of the risks and responsibilities of the parties.The key contracts that a startup should have as its own form of “standard contract” include:· Sales or service agreement· License agreement· Offer letter to employees· Consulting agreement with any independent contractors (you want to make sure that you will own the intellectual property rights for anything they develop for your business)· Confidentiality and Invention Assignment Agreement for employees and independent contractors· Non-disclosure agreementIf You Plan to Lease Office Space for Your Business, Focus on These Key Issues· Length of lease term· Tenant improvements· Rent and rent escalations· Repairs, improvements, and replacements· Assignment and subletting· Try to avoid one-sided lease provisions.· Consider using a tenant brokerThoroughly Research Your Competition· Who are the company’s principal competitors?· What traction have those competitors obtained?· What gives your company the competitive advantage?· Compared to these other companies, how do you compete with respect to price, features, and performance?· What are the barriers to entry in your market?If You Are Seeking Angel Investing Financing, Know These Important Points· The quality, passion, commitment, and experience of the founders· The market opportunity being addressed and the potential for the company to grow to become very big· A clearly thought out business plan and early evidence of early business traction· Interesting intellectual property or technology· A reasonable valuation for the company· The likelihood of the company being able to raise additional financing in the future if progress is madeAngel investors will want to initially see the following from a startup:· A clearly articulated elevator pitch for the business· An executive summary or investor pitch deck· A prototype or working model of the company’s product or service· Early adopters, customers, or partnersThere are a variety of ways to find angel investors, including:· AngelList· Venture capitalists· Investment bankers· Lawyers· Accountants· Other entrepreneurs· Crowdfunding sites like Kickstarterand IndiegogoConsider Adopting a Stock Option Plan to Attract and Motivate Employees· XYZ, Inc., hires employee John Smith.· As part of his employment package, XYZ grants John the option to acquire 80,000 shares of XYZ’s common stock at 25 cents per share (the fair market value of a share of XYZ common stock at the time of grant).· The options are subject to a four-year vesting period with one-year cliff vesting, which means that John has to stay employed with XYZ for one year before he gets the right to exercise 20,000 of the options. The remaining 60,000 options then vest at the rate of 1/36 a month over the next 36 months of his employment.· If John leaves the company or is fired before the end of his first year, he doesn’t get any of the options.· After his options are “vested” (become exercisable), he has the option to buy the stock at 25 cents per share, even if the share value has gone up dramatically.· After four years of continued employment, all 80,000 of his option shares are vested.· XYZ becomes successful and goes public, and its stock trades at $20 per share.· John exercises his options and buys 80,000 shares for $20,000 (80,000 x 25 cents).· John turns around and sells all 80,000 of his shares for $1.6 million (80,000 x the $20 per share publicly traded price), making a huge profit of $1,580,000.Focus on Offering Exceptional Customer ServiceCompanies such as Zappos and Virgin America became hugely successful because they focused on providing excellent customer service and support. You want your early customers to give referrals and sing your praises to their friends and colleagues.Hire an Experienced Startup Attorney· Incorporate· Draw up contracts with any co-founders· Prepare key agreements for the business· Set up a stock option plan for employees· Guide you through potential HR landmines· Prepare protective offer letters to prospective employees· Help you negotiate terms with prospective investors· Limit your potential legal liabilities· Protect your ideas and inventions (through copyrights, patents, and non-disclosure agreements)Get Comfortable With Public SpeakingThe ability to communicate effectively can be critical to landing customers, inspiring employees, and pitching to investors to raise capital. Most people are not very good at public speaking and many are even afraid of it.You must strive to overcome this fear. Consider working with a public speaking or business coach to improve your public speaking skills.There was a ton of information in this article, so if you have any questions, just leave me a comment below, please do upvote, share and support.Thank you

Desegregation and Affirmative Action are theoretically entirely different policies but they are two different nameplates on the same idea that race is a “problem” that must be “fixed” in a racially anti-discriminating way based on the dubious idea of “proportional representation” that the correct number of any group in any school or career is exactly the same as the population, excluding fields like sports or entertainment that are dominated by minorities.Anything that De Blasio implements is going to have to be consistent with the settlement in San Francisco’s Lowell High School where judges ruled that school districts can NOT use race quotas as a final reason for school assignment. Race policy always says they fight discrimination which means treating people the same regardless of race, then imposes proportional quotas which actually treats people different because of race. That’s the scam they always get away with. The 1983 consent decree that claimed to stop assignment of students by race REQUIRED assignment by race if they did not meet a racial quota. I’ll bet old Henry Der is still defending anti-Chinese quotas.What’s the correct percentage of black nuclear physicists or Google programmers? About 10 percent. You don’t need to know anything else except US census figures. What’s the correct percentage of female attack helicopter pilots, firefighters, javascript programmers at Amazon or brain surgeons or FAA air controllers? Without knowing anything about the actual qualifications of any population, any ivy league educated judge knows it’s always 50 percent.Any “Diversity and Inclusion Officer TM” worth their $150,000 salary and $2M CEO who hires her and fires people like the hapless Google memo guy knows the MOST IMPORTANT JOB OF ANY CORPORATION IS TO PROMOTE DIVERSITY AND SMASH WHITE MALE CISGENDER PRIVILEGE. If you thought business school teaches that the mission of Ford, Amazon FAA or Waste Management was making cars, software, or making sure airplanes don’t crash into each other, or even collecting garbage you are mistaken. This is not how a totalitarian system that puts politics first is supposed to work.Historically few high schools have tried to implement affirmative action. The most prominent case in the 90s was San Franciso’s Lowell high school which was under a “desegregation” consent decree order. In theory desegregation is supposed to ELIMINATE racial segregation. In the beginning, segregation was simply closing off schools entirely to black students, which is obviously wrong. However it evolved to the idea that any schools with TOO MANY of one race was TOO FEW of another race. Black students would get a better education if they had FEWER Chinese classmates. Does anybody believe that for a moment?Henry Der got way too little recognition for being one of the only Asians WORKING AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF CHINESE STUDENTS AND PARENTS. His organization Chinese For Affirmative Action should have been called Chinese For Affirmative Action Against Chinese because they got paid off to justify the quota set up so that no group was more than 50 percent. Since the Chinese in many neighborhoods WERE AT 50 PERCENT OF THE POPULATION. Lowell was a competitive examination school, and knowing how well Chinese do at test scores, especially math, you can imagine that they got way more than 50% of the best scores.Guess how they fixed the “problem” of too many Chinese? The “desegregation” order fixed this by setting a quota. Now you might wonder didn’t the Bakke case make quotas illegal? Well the courts thought so … in colleges, and affirmative action, but this was “desegregation”, not a quota. Yeah right. I swear I don’t think a single Asian American besides myself ever complained that this policy was stupid, evil or both.Gary Orfield, Ph.D. — The Civil Rights Project at U CLA is the most famous proponent of desegregation consent decrees, any liberal on Quora will sing his praises. His books all prove that every school system that is “segregated” by any number of measures has poorer outcomes than affluent white suburban school districts. However it does not follow that desegregation therefore must be the obvious fix without any evidence that would or ever did work. Who benefits? People like Henry Der whose salary was paid by the court ordered consent decree. Affirmative action really benefits the people who have made a multi million dollar industry about fixing America’s race problems as opposed to the very small number of admission spots at Harvard and Stanford that is only the 0.000001% (I exaggerate but you get the idea it is way less than 1 digit) of the African American population that could possibly benefit from such preferences, the flip side being the 0.001% of Asians who are complaining about it.Orfield and his friends did not and have never proven that any consent decree or throwing any amount of government money at a forcibly “desegregated” school district results in poor minority children that score the same as suburban whites or Asians. The result is always 1) hundreds of millions or billions are poured into some place like Kansas City and 2) test scores for low income minorities are still worse than Whites or Asians and places like Fergeson Missouri still erupt in riots. Seattle blacks lobbied for keeping their children in their communities during desegregation instead of being scattered into places like Ballard where they still make jokes about bad Nordic drivers while in Silicon Valley the black children of East Palo Alto were scattered to the four corners of Santa Clara county with minimal effect on equalizing academic performance compared to white and Asian children of Hewlett Packard or Apple engineers or Stanford professors.What I found in 1990s Seattle area test scores is that blacks in the “terrible segregated” Seattle schools score THE SAME as blacks in mostly white suburbs, and nobody think that’s remarkable. If Seattle schools were so awful, why did Whites (kids of affluent education government and tech workers) in Seattle score HIGHER than in the (Boeing worker) suburbs”. And if Asians are so damn affluent and smart, why did Asians in Seattle [think Chinatown and refugees and Samoan pacific islanders] score WORSE than Seattle whites or suburban Asians? Asian in Renton score as well as whites in Bellevue, Asians in Bellevue scored as well as whites in the next rung up at Mercer Island, etc. I pointed this out in now defunct Asian Week but of course nobody cared. And SAT breakdowns show that Asians score as well as Whites with much higher incomes, who in turn score higher than Blacks with higher incomes, which might be explained that high income blacks are in fields where you can make money without having the same education patterns as whites.These are not things that you can erase with the wave of the Magic Affirmative Action Wand or Vice President Diversity Inclusion (Call 1–800-FIX-RACE Just $2m consent order decree! Order now and you’ll get money for new buildings too!)Some people might wonder how the highest scoring most over-represented group the Asians got that way, but Asian parents have zero interest in adding more Asians to the curriculum, setting race preference goals, hiring more Asians teachers, and making sure Calculus and Physics text books integrate social justice stories and heroes. Of course, Asians are an anomaly as other groups as their experience obviously cannot be expected to lift themselves up by the bootstraps and studying their brains out at the expense of other non-academic pursuits.There is a special place in heaven for people like Der, his website says this is what he is doing now:Senior Program Officer, Four Freedoms FundHenry Der is the son of immigrant parents, and has been associated with Four Freedoms FundTMsince 2006. For more than 22 years, he was the Executive Director of the San Francisco-based, membership-supported Chinese for Affirmative Action, working to promote the civil rights of Asian American and other racial minority groups in employment, education, voting and access to public services. A former Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya, Henry has also served as Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction at the California Department of Education, with oversight responsibilities for programs that address the needs of adult immigrant, at-risk and special needs students. He was appointed by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to be the State Administrator to bring Emery Unified School District out of fiscal bankruptcy. Active in community and education affairs, Henry has led coalition efforts to promote equal educational opportunities and access for immigrant students at the City College of San Francisco, including the recently-completed construction of the Chinatown/North Beach campus facility serving more than 6,500 adult immigrant students, as well as raising private donations to support education programs at this campus facility. He also currently serves on the University of California President’s Advisory Council on Campus Climate, Culture and Inclusion, as well as the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation Board of Directors.Articles on Lowell case:This left-wing article says Asians should have supported quotas and not right wing racists: On the Wrong Side: Chinese Americans Win Anti-Diversity Settlement and Lose in the End Color Lines May 20, 1999 - By all accounts, San Francisco's Lowell High School is one of the nation's ... The consent decree—the result of a lawsuit filed by the NAACP—allowed no ... for Affirmative Action, argues: “The end of the consent decree may ...February, a small group of Chinese Americans, supported by anti-affirmative action right-wingers, won a settlement in a lawsuit over Lowell’s admissions policies—overturning three decades of integration efforts in San Francisco’s schools. As a result, 50 percent fewer blacks and Latinos will enter Lowell next year—including only a handful of black males in an entering freshman class of over 600. Asian American and other critics call the group’s efforts narrow, selfish, and hypocritical—and bound to inflame racial tensions. “Chinese Americans are being used as a proxy of anti-affirmative action and anti-integration viewpoints, which ultimately increase discrimination against our community,” says Diane Chin of Chinese for Affirmative Action. “This case is a tremendous setback for coalition politics,” says Henry Der, the California State Deputy Superintendent of Education Equity, Access, and Support…. “None of the three plaintiffs ever proved that they were discriminated against. In fact, I don’t believe that they had a case,” says Henry Der.A 1983 federal consent decree, Lowell has also had to ensure integration of its student body. The consent decree—the result of a lawsuit filed by the NAACP—allowed no single ethnic group to constitute more than 45 percent of the student body at neighborhood schools, and 40 percent at magnet schools, and required each San Francisco school to enroll students from at least four of nine defined ethnic/racial groups.“The plan represented our best thinking at the time,” says Albert Cheng, who oversaw integration efforts for the San Francisco Unified School District through the early ‘80s. “We knew that if we did not desegregate Lowell High School, the school would have been dominantly Asian and white.”1992, some Chinese American parents began to argue that the consent decree discriminated against them because it capped Chinese enrollments, thereby forcing them to have higher grades and test scores than whites in order to be admitted to Lowell. Some began to discuss suing the school district. But Asian American civil rights organizations—who could see that Lowell was already over 50 percent ethnic Chinese and 70 percent Asian American—worried that it could be fodder for affirmative action opponents.February, lawyers for the parents and the NAACP unveiled an eleventh-hour settlement which overturned the sixteen-year-old consent decree and ended San Francisco’s use of racial considerations in student assignment. When the settlement was announced, Amy Chang of the Legal Foundation crowed, “The era of racial bean-counting is over.”By 1984, Asian American progressives noticed anti-Asian quotas at many elite universities, including those with strong pro-affirmative action leadership—such as Ira Michael Heyman’s Berkeley, Derek Bok’s Harvard, and Bill Bowen’s Princeton. After white alumni began to complain about increasingly diverse campuses, university leaders seemed to cap Asian admissions at no more than 20 percent of the student body.… At the time of the 1983 consent decree, African American students were the largest ethnic group in the San Francisco school district, and the most racially isolated. Now Chinese Americans are the largest ethnic group, making up a quarter of the district—and over half of Lowell High.San Francisco NAACP v. SAN FRANCISCO UNIF. SCHOOL, 59 F ...San Francisco NAACP v. SAN FRANCISCO UNIF. SCHOOL, 59 F. Supp. 2d 1021 (N.D. Cal. 1999) In 1983, the Court approved a Consent Decree to resolve the NAACP action. ... of Chinese descent of school age who are current residents of San Francisco and ..... behalf of the Coalition to DefendAffirmative Action By Any Means Necessary.In 1978, the San Francisco National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ("NAACP") filed the NAACP action, seeking desegregation of the San Francisco Unified School District ("SFUSD") on behalf of a class of all children of school age who are or may in the future become eligible to attend the public schools of the SFUSD. The suit was brought against the SFUSD, its Board Members, and its Superintendent (collectively the "Local Defendants"), and the California State Board of Education, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the State Department of Education (collectively the "State Defendants").In 1983, the Court approved a Consent Decree to resolve the NAACP action. See San Francisco NAACP v. San Francisco Unified Sch. Dist., 576 F. Supp. 34 (N.D.Cal.1983). Paragraph 13 of the Consent Decree, as amended, sets forth racial and ethnic guidelines for the assignment of *1024 San Francisco schoolchildren to the schools of the SFUSD. Pursuant to paragraph 13, no school may have fewer than four racial/ethnic groups represented in its student body, and no racial/ethnic group may constitute more than forty-five percent of the student enrollment at any regular school, or more than forty percent at any alternative school. Paragraph 12 of the Consent Decree identifies nine racial/ethnic groups for the purpose of defining the racial/ethnic composition of each school: Spanish-surname, Other White, African-American, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, American Indian, and Other Non-White.In 1994, several schoolchildren of Chinese descent filed the Ho action against the State and Local Defendants, alleging that paragraph 13's student assignment plan constitutes race discrimination in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. In January 1995, the Ho plaintiffs filed a first amended complaint adding the NAACP as a defendant.Ninth Circuit affirmed this Court's finding that the assignment of students by race subjects the students to a race-based classification by a state actor. Id. at 862. Such racial classifications are subject to strict scrutiny, and may be used by the government only if necessary to correct the effects of government action of a racist character. Id. at 864 (quoting Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena, 515 U.S. 200, 224, 115 S. Ct. 2097, 132 L. Ed. 2d 158 (1995), and citing Freeman v. Pitts, 503 U.S. 467, 494, 112 S. Ct. 1430, 118 L. Ed. 2d 108 (1992)). The Ninth Circuit found that the burden of justifying the racial classification fell upon the defendants. Id. at 865. It described the issues remaining for trial as follows:As race may permissibly be used by government in the very limited way described, two issues remain for trial: Do vestiges remain of the racism that justified paragraph 13 of the consent decree in 1983? Is paragraph 13 necessary to remove the vestiges if they do remain?Id. at 865.The Ninth Circuit found defendants' evidence to be conclusory. Id. It specifically noted that defendants could not prevail at trial unless they produced more concrete evidence than they submitted in opposition to the Ho plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment. Id. The Ninth Circuit stressed that defendants' evidence must tie the current vestiges of segregation to the discriminating practices and policies that justified the adoption of the Consent Decree in 1983.terms of the settlement are as follows:A. The Consent Decree entered in [the NAACP action] shall be modified to provide (a) that it will terminate no later than December 31, 2002, subject to Court approval; and (b) that any party may move for unitary status prior to that date. The parties anticipate that no later than such time, the state and local governmental defendants will have taken all reasonably practical measures to remedy any vestiges of segregation.B. Pursuant to paragraph 50 of the Consent Decree, the SFUSD and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall develop a new student assignment plan consistent with the criteria contained in this agreement. The SFUSD and the State Superintendent shall submit the proposed modifications to the San Francisco NAACP and the Ho plaintiffs for review and comment.C. The parties acknowledge that SFUSD officials have the duty and authority to determine lawful criteria for admission to all schools in the SFUSD. The parties further acknowledge that in setting those criteria, state and federal law provide that district officials may consider many factors, including the desire to promote residential, geographic, economic, racial and ethnic diversity in all SFUSD schools. However, race or ethnicity may not be the primary or predominant consideration in determining such admission criteria. Further, the SFUSD will not assign or admit any student to a particular school, class or program on the basis of the race or ethnicity of that student, except as related to the language needs of the student or otherwise to assure compliance with controlling federal or state law.D. Paragraph 12 of the Consent Decree shall be modified to provide that the SFUSD may request, but not require, that parents and/or students identify themselves by race or ethnicity at the time of actual enrollment.The preliminary injunction shall provide that the SFUSD will not assign or admit any student to a particular school, class or program on the basis of the race or ethnicity of that student, except as related to the language needs of the student or otherwise to assure compliance with controlling federal or state law. The preliminary injunction shall take effect only upon Court approval.Ho by Ho v. San Francisco Unified School Dist., 965 F. Supp. 1316 ...Ho by Ho v. San Francisco Unified School Dist., 965 F. Supp. 1316 (N.D. Cal. 1997)The Consent Decree entered on April 30, 1983, in San Francisco NAACP v. ... because these *1319 schools were "capped out" for students of Chinese descent. ..... purposes in the same manner it would a voluntary affirmative action program.[PDF]Chinese Americans Challenge San Francisco's Desegregation Planhttps://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1050&context...by CM Liu - ‎1998 - ‎Cited by 14 - ‎Related articlesgiven more tailwind to the political maelstrom against affirmative action. The case has ... vancement of Colored People (N.A.A.C.P.), which claimed that the district had promoted .... treatment under the San Francisco consent decree. Brian Ho ...As Courts Flip-Flopped on School Integration, Diversity Has Remained ...https://sfpublicpress.org/.../as-courts-flip-flopped-on-school-integration-diversity-has-...Feb 5, 2015 - San Francisco schools no longer exhibit the level of racial isolation they ... 1978: TheNAACP files a lawsuit seeking resumption of school ... University of California that affirmative action is acceptable in some ... SFUSD, the district agrees to a consent decree barring the use of race in school assignments.Court challenge advances on S.F. school racial caps - SFGatehttps://www.sfgate.com/.../Court-challenge-advances-on-S-F-school-racial-3129604.p...Sep 29, 1995 - he noted that because the consent decree separates Chinese ... 1995-09-29 04:00:00 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- As the wave against affirmative action ... "I'm very disappointed," said Eva Paterson, an NAACP attorney on the ...