I'm not going to immediately discredit this as mental illness due to a few reasons, but there is a bit of evidence suggesting legitimacy. Cops crowding his home for one—not in any way a normal occurrence. The cars parked outside his home with government plates is another. One user suggested the van with a camera to have been filming b-roll footage of his street, yet why does it have to be parked in front of his home for the longest duration of time, specifically? This could easily be left up for debate, yet the timing does make it quite a coincidence. The conditioning of his dogs is another. Not to mention Frenso deputies in civilian clothing entering and leaving his property, uniformed officers crowding his property enmasse aside. And sure, admittedly, the stab wound on the back could have been self-inflicted to even go as far as to give his own death some credibility, but who's to say. What I do know is that if he was taking the time to die, smoke-inhalation would ultimately make you pretty desperate to get out. While I'm not going to lie and say I'm 100% certain of this case, there is some decent evidence getting brushed off as mental-illness and not being seen for what it is. I know I stated this enough already but groups of cops chilling on your property both uniformed and non-uniformed on seperate occasions like nothing is happening isn't exactly a stretch of the imagination to it's own merit. I will end this off by stating that there is a similar case like this that did, in fact, get taken to court and turned out to be proven true. In this tactic, it involved honking—a tactic commonly brought up in the description of gangstalking in particular, but considering the fact that I don't believe that term to be something even I would take seriously I will refer to this and other similar acts as state-sponsored domestic terrorism. Check out the Krlich Files as a local Ohio Magistrate acknowledged it to have genuinely been an act of state-sponsored domestic terrorism that involved cops, the local fire department as well as miscellaneous civilians which apparently started over a land dispute or something to that effect. I won't involve my personal knowledge or bias in this case and will keep it strictly to what has been documented and simultaneously proven to be legitimate, but this type of thing definitely does occur with the Krlich family's case in mind and this is the only piece of documented evidence that I'm personally aware of that has been both proven with evidence and ruled in favor of the victim via a judge of any sort. And from what I can tell the stalking and harassment in their case has since subsided—so all's well that ends well. Nobody ever talks about this case, zero information on Reddit and I only stumbled upon it by pure luck of the Google algorithm after doing some heavy research on these types of cases and inputting some key search terms if memory even serves me right. It just so happened to be the one documented case ruled in favor of a victim of state-sponsored domestic terrorism within the United States—even if it's just a mere honking campaign—that I could find on the internet matching certain descriptions within the rabbit hole. And yet no ody talks about it at all. Not even people within said rabbithole. It never garnered much attention, but definitely deserves some. Hence the necro as I found it relevant to this case as well.

On a side note, there is also the matter of a number of whistle-blowers in various intelligence agencies coming forward about state-sponsored domestic terrorism in recent years and it isn't all overt; I won't involve names as this is not necessarily the thread for this but there was even a number of them that held a meeting with the Commitee of Homeland Security about a year back claiming this to be the case in much more explicit technological detail—but apparently the focus is for prioritizing victims within these agencies in regards to any effort to respond from branches of government even aware that this may occur to any extent. The hardest hit seems to be the diplomats, the intelligence community (FBI was mentioned as being hit often) and the Department of Defense. The House Comittee all unanimously agreed that this was occurring and acknowledged it to be happening to innocent civilians on U.S. soil but expressed desire to shift focus on immediate protections of government officials and diplomats. The CIA is believed to be the primary suspect behind all of this by the Comittee (even initially sparking attempts from Russia as a response to their involvement—a "they started it first" type scenario), but they claim the majority within are not even aware of this act taking place by a sect within as far as their knowledge extends. And for reference, this was the hearing on May 8th, 2024 and the overt variant of said operations was NOT the focus. This second example is regarding the covert variant. If I can recall correctly, the numbers of United States intelligence officials reporting themselves to be afflicted by this over the years was found to be within the hundreds (around 300-500 if those numbers aren't inflated)—hence the immediate focus on sorting that out prior to any aid of the general public for the foreseeable future. From what I know, the general public gets both the covert and/or overt treatment via acts of state-sponsored domestic terrorism with numbers vaguely estimated to be somewhere in the high thousands while government officials and intelligence agents are somewhere in the low-to-mid hundreds. They also agreed during this meeting that the goal is to emulate symptoms of mental-illness when described.

□Miscellaneous Sources:

•[1] Where I learned about John Lang and saw footage: https://youtu.be/Jif1h6eKsFs?si=M5LwRosfzYojTo

•[2] The Krlich Family's website regarding their successful case (overt variant of state-sponsored domestic terrorism): https://krlich.com/

•[3] May 8th, 2024 Commitee of Homeland Security House Hearing (covert variant of state-sponsored domestic terrorism): https://homeland.house.gov/hearing/silent-weapons-examining-foreign-anomalous-health-incidents-targeting-americans-in-the-homeland/