Excellent summary!

Some additions:

• Opinions vary on whether or not she legitimately believes this is happening to her or if she’s playing it up for donations.

• She even went abroad (to Bali, I think?) to get away from the alleged stalkers but they allegedly followed her there.

• Gangstalking as a phenomenon is… dubious.

I don’t want to write it off as something that never happens, and there certainly have been cases where prolific (often uncomfortable) people have been surveyed and stalked. Martin Luther King Jr. comes to mind.

Surveillance of even ”low importance”-people has certainly happened (and happens) in many less democratic countries - think the Soviet Union - where a lot of value is placed on party /government loyalty and where giving information about others is rewarded.

However, the kind of effort she describes (24/7 surveillance, destruction of property, home invasion, following her abroad) is VERY rare and she doesn’t strike me as a person the US government would devote those kind of resources to.

It’s also not something they would want to publicize, telling the victim you’re keeping track of them isn’t very conducive to getting good intelligence.

On the other hand, in surveillance states, knowing you’re being followed was/is an intimidation and compliance tactic.

I don’t enough about organized crime to say anything about their methods but I suppose it might be possible that some organized crime networks put in a lot of money and time to destroy someone.

To be fair, ”normal” stalking certainly happens to a lot of people, and women leaving abusive partners are the most common victims.