Joe Leineweber
VIDEO: How Unregulated Vigilantes Are “Helping” Police Hunt and Intimidate Me in Real Time Through Biometric Tracking
November 1: Hello Caribbean Islands! Buenas Dias. If you do nothing else on my page, watch this video at the link above to learn how every single movement I make on this trip is actively tracked, monitored, and subsequently becomes a stalking and sabotage campaign coordinated by “friends of law enforcement” in every commercial district, industrial area, transit area I traverse on this trip. Unlike 99%+ of the population, I’m one of those unlucky few they’ve deemed a “threat,” the “bad guy,” the “crazy guy” they assure you all they are solely focused on. This is all a pretense to hunt me, silence me, and destroy me, not protect you, your property, or your loved ones. The American police and federal government have ruined every attempt I’ve made to travel by car or plane or bus over a period of 10 years. As the technology becomes more sophisticated, and “crowdsourcing” of extremely partisan mostly-Right Wing end users of “public safety apps” become more widespread, I find there is nowhere I can really go on Earth to attain any sense of privacy or safety.
If you’re reading this because you’re one of the individuals or entities engaged in this reprehensible conduct and culture, please take a step back from what you’re doing, and ask yourself what principles you actually stand on. It shouldn’t take long to realize I am the “target,” not the “threat,” not the “person of interest” in some narrative concocted by fascist police - while you, and you alone, are all of those things. If you are not one of these people, and you happen upon my site, the world needs as many advocates as possible to remove these surveillance tools from public and private life. The consequences will surely be felt, on a wider scale, by future generations - yes, your children - on a level similar to what I already have experienced and seen far too much of. It’s not merely an abstract argument for “privacy,” it’s undoubtedly a matter of safety, and it makes me sick that “safety” is also the insincere term our governments abuse sell this surveillance ecosystem to us.
Many of the most guilty entities in the real “human trafficking” epidemic, that which puts innocent men like me on permanent real-time extrajudicial “watchlists” one petty threat alert at a time, are third party data brokers and so-called “AI analytics” video companies, many of whom are listed here as well as here. Most of the other entities listed are just the idiots and bigots who rely on them to be their brains. If I gave you a flyer with “Joeleineweber.com” on it, you are one of those idiots. Congratulations. Don’t forget to radio for backup and call me a “crazy asshole.”
Frankly, cell phone location tracking has wreaked significantly more havoc on my life than biometric surveillance abuse, which is why you’ll not see me using a cell phone, and I might be asking you to look something up for me, or pulling out an old fashioned point-and-shoot camera. This makes traveling a lot more difficult logistically, and limits many of the experiences I otherwise would have been exposed to via access to information. But for now, let’s tackle biometrics, which are the primary issue I’m facing on this November trip, especially the moment I scan the passport in at any customs gate. The tracking of both by informal police supporters, police and private security themselves, and other private-public entities significantly degrades the quality of any experience I have, traveling or not, and it is all founded on a 100% fabricated version of me perpetuated by American law enforcement that I’m a dangerous person and/or engaged in illicit activity. Now that I’ve been through this for 10 years, when do they have to face up to tough questions, to scrutiny of their narratives and practices, to real justice, to punishment in equal proportion to what they’ve done to me? If the American public is the jury, then the answer is, sadly - never. This is the society they want, that they regularly vote for, the “law & order” dystopia, the “prediction and prevention” era, a world where endless mistrust, suspicion, and institutional paranoia control the culture, where these methods of extrajudicial punishments are branded as “prediction and prevention of crime,” even as their so-called “threats” present zero evidence of being involved in any conceivable form of crime whatsoever. Try explaining this to the American police’s pathetic, obedient, and eternally loyal digital vigilante class, who are all too eager to paint their targets as threats to everything from public bathrooms to playgrounds to hotel desks to bus stations. It’s utterly ludicrous what my life has become under Predictive Policing.
Enough of this.
Please read more at my headers above if you care about this topic and share the concerns that I unfortunately have to live every single day. Advocate, discuss, change the tide, influence public opinion wherever you live and work - I don’t think it’s too late to roll back the global surveillance paradigm. But it will be in the absence of “victim impact statements” that hit home with those who have the kind of power and influence that I don’t and never will.
If you are one of law enforcement’s pathetic little “flying monkeys,” here are my answers to your questions:
Why did I travel here? None of your business.
Where have I been so far? Not your concern.
Where am I going to be going next? Probably wherever your stalker app predicts I will be.
Do I come here often? Not entirely sure.
Are you traveling alone? (no comment as I reach for my rape whistle)
What brought me here? This stimulating conversation with you.
What am I doing here? What are you doing here?
Do I have “mental health” problems? Quite a few! I battle Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, common among those subjected to abuse which they are powerless to escape over an extended period of time. I believe American police and military would coin my condition “sluggish schizophrenia,” however. Read all about the weaponization of this fake disease against political dissidents at my link! Imagine if they had had the weapons of digital warfare to track people in real-time by their facial features back then! Yikes!
Am I dangerous to myself and others? Do you possess any self-awareness of your own stupidity? Anyone engaged in predictive / preventative “public safety” groundwork at the behest of a corrupt algorithm or agency, while I’m merely walking around doing normal things, without ever questioning his/her directive, is a grave danger to us all.
Check out my own links by the way, which Google routinely removes in favor of the MAGA Rally Propaganda version of my life.
I built this page to help combat surveillance abuses, about which I have aggregated an extensive library, which I encounter when I (a) go out and do normal things in public domestically like driving my own car, carrying my own device, showing my own face, using my own voice, walking my own dog, wearing my own clothes, buying my own beer, swiping my own credit card, passing my own driver’s license to a concierge, etc, in the vicinity of devices, systems, and individuals which use all of these to track me via various “recognition” technologies, to my real-time location.
And to connotate and conflate these basic innocuous and necessary mundane tasks with criminal activity, in the future tense, as presented to workers and volunteers increasingly being “empowered” with “public safety” functions (quotes used around these terms bc they are effectively the same snitches enlisted to spy on “communists” and the Japanese in the early 20th century, Civil Rights / Black activists in the 1960’s / 70’s, who portrayed the LGBTQ community as “kidnapping” threats in the 1980’s, Muslims as potential terrorists in the 2000’s, and presently are trying to deport as many Latinos as possible behind the thin veneer that they are violent criminals —- is there ANY group they have not villified yet???).
These vicious hunts are now being “datafied” thanks to lies, misinformation, and disinformation that are laundered via predictive policing algorithms to amplify discrimination against me, reliant on dirty data and often willfully manipulated by officers / community members with power to “juke,” or manipulate the data against specific individuals, groups, or areas. What this really is is extrajudicial punishment of those whose beliefs are perceived to go against the US police, military, and federal government complex party lines too starkly. The companies trafficking in predictive programs are also very likely influenced or directly strategically infused with the ideological biases of their owners, boards, stakeholders, etc. For example, if Palantir is making the decisions, and is also eavesdropping and peeping at all you do and say, and members of public safety agencies are now just the mechanisms that carry out their products’ instructions, then they’re already mere components in a larger machine whose programming will invariably reflect the influence of Peter Thiel’s biases or worse yet, ideological aims.
I am survivor of these aims but also dying from it - having lived 10 years of this now, and as both technology and Right Wing extremism advance rapidly in lockstep this past decade, I’ve seen the options, and safe spaces (both literal and digital available) shrink to the point where there is arguably no place on Earth I can live anonymously and freely.
A probably better rendition of this narrative as pertains to my personal experience under its weight is, I think, written at my Soundcloud Page, soundcloud.com/joeleineweber in the bio on the right hand side of the page. My own page has just become a rambling, meandering shitfest I realize, but in my defense, I never wanted to do any of this and I don’t understand why I’m still being maliciously stalked by the absolute dregs of society with no recourse, even as the vast majority of what I’m trying to do these days is simply run a few marathons, the furthest thing from potential criminal or terrorist activity as several predictive apps may claim.
Several of them have even committed crimes against me!
The way this harassment is achieved is via real-time location alerts, especially those tied to cellular telephones, vehicle, and anything else actively connected to cell towers. The vast majority of abuses are done by a very narrow demographic of uneducated, Conservative working class individuals who have access, without consent or legal authority, to my real-time location at virtually all times via stalker apps which hide behind the ultra-thin veneer of “predictive policing” or “child monitoring” programs. An overwhelming majority of those abusing me via these enormous and unfair advantages have very close ties to the private security industry, military / national guard, first responder communities, and are generally underemployed incels. The fraudulent narrative typically pushed is that I’m a criminal, “on drugs,” a theft risk, and/or some variation of a domestic terrorist / vandal / arsonist —— oh yeah, and of late, a kidnapping threat —- despite all evidence of my actual lived life supporting the absolute facts that I’m a successful small business person, avid marathoner, charitable donor to the community’s most needy, animal rescuer, and all-around outstanding contributor to the communities they are destroying via fraudulent vigilante posturing and intimidation tactics.
The game is remarkably simple - stalk, harass, intimidate, and immediately place a 911 call the very instant I do so much as press “record” or snap the shutter on my cellular camera, reporting my calm and measured act as all manner of 911-operator-friendly adjectives: bizarre, aggressive, strange, threatening, or just a guy “on drugs” despite all evidence pointing to the fact I’m simply clicked a button. In situations where I am tracked to the locations that support my livelihood, the game tends to switch to that of attempting to target management with unfounded complaints. You can read about this in “my last post” (apparently it was not my last post).
What I’ve learned through these patterns, which are significantly worse after any device of mine has entered a downtown core area of a city where “smart city” tech is overwhelmingly ubiquitous, is that surveillance tech, while selling itself as a means of identifying really bad people and helping really good people keep them at bay …. inherently appeals to and attracts bigots and barbarians who know better and choose instead to abuse. They are those who proclaim they are “law abiding” when in fact they are law skirting are becoming “power drunk” on the illegitimately gained information surveillance tech imparts. They are pinpointing my real-time location via real-time alerts that I emit via my cellular devices, personal logins to any accounts, credit card payments, vehicular movements (even when my literal car doors open and shut), and my literal facial features and “voice print” (read more about it at my articles link). They have absolutely no interest in absolute truth and absolute commitment to manipulation of it. They understand the actual, not purported, purpose of a “threat alert” society - to hunt and eliminate threats to power, not to your stupid house or car. Already thousands of esteemed journalists, dissidents, political candidates, and various others typically associated with a fight for human rights are disappearing, being detained, or being slain via this technology. And behind each of these relatively high profile cases there are countless “little people” like myself coming to grips with the immense and indefatigable power of surveillance tech, and the dark hearts of the people who operate in the name of their own sadistic ends and that of their power structures / authorities.
More troubling, their being tasked with “prevention” and “deterrence” or “ongoing investigations” is in reality cover for imposing an indefinite extrajudicial punishment upon me, via constant monitoring, stalking, surveillance, and strategically placed false reports (based on ill-gotten knowledge of my real time location, location history, and tendencies etc, etc), by mutiple people in multiple industries at multiple locations, in a coordinated strategic attack bearing resemblance to America’s “Scab List” campaigns only with extremely precision due to the sudden unregulated rise of real-time location alerts.
At a nut-bolts level, I’m speaking to the issue of low-ish level dolts running around with literal cell phone apps being empowered with real-time location alerts literally anwhere I go on Earth, in any venue you can imagine, and then scraping my biometric features, real-time location, etc, in the name of “safety” and thinking no further than that as to the implications of this fascist behavior, due to a fraudulently imparted belief I’m “insane and dangerous.” In essence, a massive army of our less-than-brilliant and far-less-than-scrupulous countrymen have been turned against me via the potent mixture of simple technology (cameras, sensors, mics), authority, reckless disinformation, and the desire to keep their jobs / position in society. It’s turned them into imbecilic little monsters and me into a mere commodity, reduced to “threat” status which is something that absolutely no amount of merit or earned status can ever undo. They tend to be very duty-bound and emboldened by these fake responsibilities because it quite possibly be the only power they’ll ever hold over another person in their lives, and my take is that they don’t see or care how these practices, in the aggregate, are being used as tools of oppression in a far, far bigger game that benefits neither me (obviously) nor their offspring (this truth will be revealed long after they get their rocks off running me off their properties).
In other words, while the “government” is certainly to blame to some extent (a great extent in fact - libraries, public transit areas, and hospitals are among the most dangerous venues for me to show my face, a security incident is all but guaranteed), it’s the Everyday Bigots who make this surveillance de-evolution possible and destroy every single moment of my life via relentless real-time stalking. Because they absolutely love it and get off on it. These radicalized individuals are easily able to track me within moments to my real-time location, and they do, without fail, in literally any instance in which I attempt to either venture into a public space or log into any email, social, or financial account identifiable as Joe Leineweber’s. The vast, vast majority of these phenomenal people are members of specific trade unions dealing in utilities, transportation, first responders, healthcare, private security, the broad array of “government” industries and increasingly, those “private sector” industries and people who make their bread off massive government contracts. And, last but not least, in fact the most dangerous of all, are those who are exceedingly “loyal” to America’s Armed Forces in a manner which crosses the lines of militarism and fascism egregiously. This I cannot emphasize enough, the role of DOD and low-ranking military sympathizers with stalking, hunting, and destroying my life at every turn.
Also, this website is created to protect me when I travel abroad to run marathons, as overseas travel is among the most perilous things I can do, I’ve found. No time in my life is worse than the period of days or weeks when I’ve newly arrived in a jurisdiction, or when I’ve returned to my own jurisdiction after visiting a foreign one, so International travel has been particularly taxing on me.
A separate mix of article links and personal narration is available at my Soundcloud page if you read the biography portion.
Again that URL is https://soundcloud.com/joeleineweber
Read the BIOGRAPHY.
Or if you want to really arm yourself with information that matters, that might cause you to rethink your apathy toward the American Surveillance Industrial Complex and how our present-day toxic sociopolitical culture makes it extra dangerous to people like me —- take some time to curl up with all of these books I’ve recommended which I think serve as a good mirror to my own experience, via the intertwined themes of surveillance abuse and personal abuse.
Or you can read this page which I feel poorly articulates my thoughts and experience but is better than nothing given the alternative, which is to let your “public safety-oriented” employees and civilians and government agents and business owners and, generally speaking, upholders of the established order, destroy my life with constant persecutory and Fascist surveillance and the false pretense that I pose a tangible physical threat to the public as opposed to an existential one to said Establishment.
Key takeaway - take the time to peruse my Surveillance Industrial Complex Article Archive, inform yourself about what is currently in the works, what the capabilities are, what the pretenses are for normalizing them, and why they are terrible, so that perhaps a few of you can level up as people, acting according to real evidence and information, not faulty stalker apps and threat alerts fed to you by shady shysters.
Who do these technologies and practices hurt generally speaking? The powerless. The already-marginalized. These are tools for hunting people down for the sake of sabotaging or eliminating them, period.
For example, they are heavily used against immigrants in America. Against the poor. Against the LGBTQ community. Against people of color. Against religious minorities. Against anyone with a criminal record or mental health record. Against anyone with a history of drug treatment. Against anyone who criticizes law enforcement, military, healthcare, etc. Whistleblowers. Truth tellers. Misfits. Outcasts. These tools vastly widen the chasm between the Insiders and the Outsiders, the Socs and the Greasers, by design.
Hopefully there will come a day, soon, when all civilians and governments wake up to what’s really going on - there is no integrity to these systems, anybody can be listed, they are very easily manipulated, and are absolutely abused to hunt down people who are not criminals, but rather pose “ideological” threats to the establishment. Or frankly are just vulnerable and present an opportunity to go hunting. And when that day comes, we can abolish all of these technologies and resume living free of fear-mongering, social control, and addiction to the extremely unhealthy behavioral conditioning that an “alert-based” economy has installed in our societies, the new Big Tobacco if you will.
Until that day comes, I’m going to keep traveling to run marathons! Even if I do get treated like garbage by the local authorities and public safety volunteers. Who knows, maybe I can change some hearts and minds by showing you the difference between the Me that is real and the Me America’s police, transportation, financial, healthcare, hospitality, surveillance, and “ICE” establishment wants you to believe I am. : )
Check out my links so you can learn that there is really a “human” side to me and you need not treat me as if I were a dangerous animal like my country does.
Soundcloud.com
MarathonView.Net
The Number One issue in the world right now IS surveillance technology abuse. It is vastly empowering police, federal governments, military including veterans no longer active, despots, tyrannies, neighborhood groups, business groups, and other similarly “institutionally inbred” organizations and people, many now increasingly radicalized by everything from “the war on woke” to the so-called “child safety regime” to “stopping transnational crime” to even delusional beliefs about rampant local petty crime that are not proportional to reality —- to gobble up tons of power, to exploit, abuse, detain, murder, destroy, etc, any form of opposition and any form of “out group,” despite what sound like sensible rationales (safety, crime prevention, homeland security, countering the proliferation of drugs, human trafficking, terrorism, etc).
These rationales contradict the reality I live sharply. Those falsely virtuous claims are by and large a complete front. It’s basically all b***s*** as I’ve experienced it over an extended period of time. These are in simple terms, sport hunting expeditions for these people. They don’t care about safety, they are getting psychological or ego driven needs met by going on patrols in civilian life, targeting “threats” in a manner which bypasses due process completely, and then showing an irrational and bad faith propensity for reporting, in the most hyperbolic terms, any resistance shown by their targets. In concrete terms, in my lived experience, any attempt I’ve made to simply press “RECORD” and show what’s going on is immediately met with a retaliatory fraudulent report of “an aggressive man” or “causing problems” which become grounds for trespass notices, police reports, and subsequent “mental health referrals” which portray a misleading trail of anecdotal evidence that I’m a maniac. This then feeds the cycle of abuse, as more and more people are fed more disinformation about an aggressive man, a threat to children / women / the elderly / property, and treat me according to what they are misled to believe.
This has destroyed my sense of safety completely, which is the irony of it. I live my life in constant danger and fear and dread. At the present time, I am trying to leave America to see if this pattern of abuse can be rectified. As cell phones and credit cards and my own biometric features are the means by which I am located and tracked, I am largely pessimistic about this. I have all but lost hope, and if it turns out that my attempt to relocate outside of this vicious American “malicious reporting” culture is unsuccessful, which I suspect it will be, I genuinely do not know what I will do next. I am exhausted, devastated, and losing hope. So if you read this, and you are a member of a foreign community or government through which I am traveling, I hope you will do the right thing and allow an environment that is supportive, trusting, and provides an equal playing field for me. Just prior to finalizing my decision to try, perhaps for the last time, to flee America, my dog was killed (in my strong opinion, the circumstances were highly suspicious), and I had had plans to run another 8 marathons this year. I suddenly have dashed those plans, including that which was scheduled to take place 3 days from the time of this writing, and several I was really looking forward to such as Chicago. Even though they are already booked and paid. That’s how hopeless this has become. My only concern, at this time, is getting plugged into a community where absolutely 100% all of its members look out for me, rather than chase after me, and target me for elimination by the most vicious and cruel abuses of power, technology, GPS capabilities, and acts of malice specifically and intentionally done with the sole agenda to manipulate “public safety” algorithms such that I appear to be a far more menacing, and deranged, character in the artificial “on the record” world than I ever have been, or will be, in reality.
My gamble on going abroad is not based on faith in a better technological “alert” environment, but on a better culture and application of it. In America, I have always felt aggressively hunted by this prediction and prevention “safety” movement, whereas when I travel, there are times when I perceive the same treatment - but based on whatever’s already been fed into these algorithms by the Americans, the ones who have hunted me with malicious intent for years. So I would hope that abroad, the flow of inputs will stop, there just won’t be as many people lying about some incident or portraying me, my face, my plates, as suspicious for any reason, because that (at least it seems) is an American pastime, one that is becoming more and more aggressive and abused on the political Right as it seems terms like “violent antigovernment extremist” or “delusional maniac” or “radical terrorist” or even the mundane (more damage has been done to my life via malicious false reports about “suspected shoplifter” or “suspected vandal” or “suspected danger to your children” than any other) equates to: anyone who disagrees with them or criticizes or questions them for any reason. And sadly, I see the Establishment Left biting on this too hard and being easily manipulated. A common tenet of Liberalism is the concept of inclusion, often branded as “everyone deserves to feel safe.” Well, that’s all well and good until they are tested, until fed a bogeyman who may pose a threat to everyone’s safety, and that is exactly the type of character I’ve become to them in America, the guy who has been banished and barred from these public spaces, who is closely monitored at all turns, and otherwise takes the fall for this false crusade for safety despite not being unsafe at all in any conceivable way to anyone. This, without any investigation into who the “bogeyman” really is and why it is that the vast, vast majority of his so-called “accusers” all represent a conspicuously homogenous demographic of people suggestive of targeted discrimination and bias. Put simply, I feel that “safety” is highly likely to be manipulated by Right Wing interests to turn Left Wing people against their own, and that is what I strongly felt happened to me.
And in the months since I finally decided to post this page, let’s just say I have been punished via more of these reports. I see no justice for me, ever, as the masses are sufficiently turned against me via rather simple and obvious sleight of hand on the part of my abusers.
The elephant in the room I suppose remains - why are you all - the people in power, the attorneys, the judges, the CEOs, the sheriffs, and corporate suite, the HOAs, the upper management - all of you who know very well what I’m speaking about, about how sophisticated and downright dangerous and totalitarian facial rec, voice rec, device tracking, and vehicular tracking, among other things, are - why is there no meaningful pushback coming from your end? Surely you have at this point encountered serious dissonance between what “predictive” safety apps or “threat detection” programs are selling what they are actually delivering - to say nothing of what they are capable of. Locating humans in real-time enables quite literally anything to be done to them, and those most interested in seeking out such information about a person are going to tend to fall into the category of those looking to exploit this information, not those wanting to “deter crime” or “protect the community.” When are you all going to get off your ass and fix this so that I don’t have to fear for my life every freaking time I merely turn on a cell phone, let alone everytime I enter a new jurisdiction, run a transaction, import and export products for my company (which has all but been reduced to nothing through all of this, I didn’t want to close my website, I didn’t want to stop getting on the road to see wholesale accounts, I didn’t want to stop selling at events), etc etc etc. I’ve paid an extremely heavy price to be a great warning sign as to how these programs destroy lives and are held to absolutely no standards of evidence, reasonable suspicion, or probable cause to do so. Threat alerts and predictive stalkerware are ushering in a generation, likely many more to come, of Digital Klansmen and it kind of pisses me off that I’ve virtually sacrificed the past 9 years of my life to their abuses because absolutely everyone who should be looking into this is not only looking the other way, but in fact still looking way too closely at me when I arrive on their premises.