This is not exciting video, simply showing a very teeny tiny snippet of instances where I felt clearly followed by security through a parking lot in Old Town where I frequented to sell at Portland Skidmore Market for my company Toketee.Net.

Things like this used to be extremely frequent in my life to the point it was indisputable that security guards were “sharing” access to my real-time location via my devices.

As many of my market peers knew, I was that random dude who doesn’t even own a cell phone! Anytime someone needed a credit card run I had to beg-borrow-trade with a neighbor for the service since I couldn’t operate my Square account on-site.

This is why! Unbeknownst to my peers, I had begun around May 2024 to “test” whether it was safe to again carry a cellular device after a full 2 years going dark. It very obviously was not, as each time (these are just two of them) I was met with very, very unwanted attention from security / management.

These videos also reveal what many of you are always so happy to pounce on - my own character flaws. Note how I am not overly restrained with overt dissing of these dudes and their industry. It might seem harsh and uncalled for if you don’t know the whole backstory, how many hundreds, if not thousands, of times, I’ve been stalked, dissed, browbeaten, falsely accused, profiled, etc etc, by their people.

You also can kind of see that the two different dudes got two different versions of Joe Leineweber. These are not indicative of my fake “mental illness” the cops go to great lengths to portray in the face of surveillance abuse allegations.

It is in fact, ironically to use the words of the first guy, “you get what you give” in practice. The first guy attempted to intimidate me by trying to make me believe I had no right to film him (I did) and that it was illegal (it’s not). So he “got what he gave” - disrespect.

With the GuardaWorld guy, although I clearly was not thrilled to see him (or a bomb-sniffing robot, WTF?), it’s quickly apparent that he’s unmotivated to abuse authority, as he at no point attempts to escalate despite my strong disagreement with his pretense for being right there, right then, with that very logo (Garda trucks often follow me for a period of 30-60 minutes immediately after I withdraw my own money from my own bank’s ATMs as well).

These little episodes mean nothing to you, the viewer. All you see is a coincidence that I must be misinterpreting, and that’s what’s frustrating for me. Should I have to be the one to film every single time this happens, time-stamp it so you can clearly see how insanely frequent these “coincidences” are, and then edit and post these videos knowing even that would be in vain? I know what I know, I know what I live, I know nobody gets nearly even close to the same amount of constant attention from a narrow band of “safety” industries over and over, and I know it’s vastly different when I’m using a cell phone, running Venmo or Zelle transactions tied to my SS # or person biz tax ID, or running an ID, esp my passport, via any federal filter such as when verifying or setting up a new financial account, business retail online platform, hotel check-ins, airport check-ins obviously, etc.

I think also it’s important to note that at the end of the first clip I raise my voice a bit, something to the effect of “at least I’m not the one stalking people through parking garages.” Is that tone considered yelling? That’s about as tonally elevated as I get in these interactions, and yet there’s this constant flood of nefarious reports about me in the community, especially prejudiced Washington County, that I’m “YELLING!” and “being aggressive” in descriptions of non-incidents just like these where the other party goes to the trouble of filing a punitive / vindictive report to punish my righteous defiance of being profiled and singled out.

So there you have it. There are real police reports in Washington County where I’m treated very much like the first guy / parking lot manager treated me here (actually worse, as I recall) where it was then later reported to police that I was “scaring children,” “yelling at elderly ladies,” “banging on car windows” (note how the Garda guy and I have this uncomfortably long silence where he’s just sitting there with his window up?? It’s because I learned I cannot knock on windows to get their attention, the verb of choice is later described as “banging” and this is used to justify even more of this surveillance in the future by conflating your principled dissent with a threat of violence.

Final point - following these little security run-ins, I suddenly found myself being harassed and hovered over excessively in my own booth at the Skidmore Market, the quality of my experience got progressively worse, and I believe it’s possible that my movements were tracked, via either phone and/or face, to the location of my booth. Within just 1-2 weeks of the final Garda interaction, I was sort of “ambushed” you could say by a guy on the facilities / teardown crew who I attempted to toss a “joeleineweber.com” flyer after repeatedly turning to see him kind of like, excessively hovering over my load-out routine. He went ballistic on me, began to yell, scream, threaten, etc, and the following week I was informed that I, not the guy, was “yelling, screaming, and threatening” people and could no longer be safely allowed at the market. Boo-ya. Gut punch. Wow, no evidence whatsoever required! So there’s more power in these people’s horseshit allegations and a few loaded / dishonest verbs than in my own videos which, even if they don’t outright prove I’m already being profiled and followed, hopefully reveal a pattern of “snark, but not even close to ‘aggression’” and it should be very difficult to take any current, especially past, and future allegation against me without a massive grain of salt.

I’m sad to no longer get to be at the market, I loved some of my memories there, but I can also confidently say if I had not dared carry a cell phone, if I’d not accepted any digital transactions, or anything else to ID my location and movements there, none of it would have happened. I was hunted and set up only because I was trackable, and there was a security community in the area motivated for personal retribution to punish things I’d said to their buddies earlier.

You can read what kind of occurred (it was my last straw in the USA, it’s not like the market thing is the whole problem) at my “Last Post” page.

I think that was the realization though, and it’s one I’ve re-made every time I’ve left the country and returned - I don’t care how fun the market may or may not have been for me, I don’t want to be in a bullshit country where loser bullshit like this petty he-said-she-said nonsense can be “cop-laundered” (is that a term already? It should be - where you make a bunch of shit up due to some petty row and tell it all to a cop so it goes on the official public record about a person) to ruin your life. The market was a considerable chunk of my livelihood pie. And whoosh, gone because of a few overzealous butt-hurt white guys. To me, that’s a bullshit country that enables and doesn’t protect against that, and forces me to the margins, and I really don’t want to be a part of it.

***Notice how a huge percentage of these things turn into “you’re filming me!” Ask other people in my life who I like and trust. I don’t just randomly start filming them for no reason. It’s interesting that the people who were already harassing me egregiously make this big show about “filming.” Hmmmm. How is then that I can ever prove what you’re doing to me? How can you show someone following you around their premises if you can’t film it and you’re a highly discredited person (by these people) whose word has no value? And why do they get to have fixed and mobile AI-enabled biometrically enhanced cameras on me constantly if I can’t take out my old school basic ass camera just to show what is going on in my little snippets? It seems very clear that there is a goal to make examples of anyone even remotely attempting to engage even the slightest fraction of the surveillance power that they already have a stranglehold on in order to fight against this.

I think women are the only hope to change this. Why do I say this? I think surveillance enables obviously the ability to hunt people down, I think this caters to and enables the worst sides of certain males who perhaps instinctually have maladaptive “protector syndromes” or who culturally have been led to believe that is their purpose and duty (again very maladaptively in today’s society). I believe women are too often their willing pawns, made to believe, at least in my case, that I am the bad guy and these guys are their protectors from this unknown, unpredictable, unstable, and verf rightening demographic of bad guys. “Folk devils” like me seem to serve the yearning for American men to feel like “heroes” and American women to feel like they’re being “saved.”

So I really believe it boils down to “First-World-Problem” American women growing out of that, and even humbling themselves (often times it’s female demand that drives the security industry) to say “we’re not that important, we actually don’t need and more importantly don’t want ‘special treatment,’” or 6 security guards on every city block. We want to take our chances! We disbelieve that the world is as dangerous as claimed and refuse to be manipulated by a few high-profile (and very rare) headlines.

I’ve mentioned this in other parts of my page but I’m rephrasing here - you are more likely to be harmed by the things you didn’t do because you were being controlled by someone who in bad faith aligned your “being safe” with their interests, not yours, while presenting themself as your protector. I had a real life example of this just chatting with a runner I met in Portland before the Olympia Marathon. She said something like “I really love trail-running, but I just can’t train in Forest Park without my husband.” I was like “for real??? Girl, I AM the biggest threat to you according to the entire Forest Park community and bureaucracy and you’re literally talking to me right now.”

It was just disappointing to hear that, like, and if you read my narrative about my neighbor David engaging in this “women are vulnerable, they need my protection” mindset, you have perfectly capable people who have their chosen endeavors and passions, yet are curtailing them and changing their life choices according to some seed of fear that some third party has clearly planted in their minds on the basis of very questionable evidence.