There is a lot of context missing here but trust me when I say this was a malicious report based on me being located at this place via illegal tracking of my cell phone and vehicle. It is representative of dozens just like it that transpired over a very short period of time. The ONLY relevant variable was that I had begun, after a 3-year hiatus from cell phone ownership (due to my absolute knowledge of what happens when I carry one, and how many people have my back when it goes down - zero), powered on a new cell phone and taken it with me. Another thing only I know is that this is merely the beginning, a warning of things to come to me. It’s not a coincidence what followed in the months after this video which is absolutely tame (albeit ominous) by comparison. In short, nobody in America loses more in less time than Joe Leineweber once he’s decided to make himself real-time locatable to the kinds of people who purchase this kind of information in service of Q-Anon-ish theories of “stopping bad guys” especially as pertains to “missing children.” There comes about a subculture that seems hell bent on attaining “justice” based on lies, in other words treating me as though I actually have already kidnapped some chick … so even if this guy in the current video is well behaved and seems intent on deflecting / denying calmly why this is even transpiring, that was not my reality for the following several months. Think “Paul Pelosi Killer,” that’s what basically ensued, was that I encountered a lot of super sketchy dudes leveling super sensational allegations against me and being very aggressive in terms of thei threats of what they would do if I did not vacate said premesis, threatening litigation, arrest, etc, and in the end it was very effective, I lost it all - livelihood, pet, ability to travel freely for any reason to any place in my car or on bus or on a plane - with no consequences or investigation into why that suddenly became so. What I was doing there: running 22 miles on the Leif Erickson Trail, something I do probably twice a month, 24 times a year, going on 3 years. So like, only my 70-80th time in the area with this vehicle doing this exact routine.

Key detail - this was the first time in 2 full years that I’ve dared travel with an actively powered on cell phone on board. Why? Because everytime I’ve attempted to own one since early 2015, s*** like this starts happening, constantly - creepy mostly-white, 99.9% Christian malicious stalking, anticipatory “deterrence” behaviors outside of trailheads, empty homes / business buildings, even Honey Buckets (this also occurred during this run if you wonder why I make such a comment later in the video), all seen as “crime targets” by frustrated Old Establishment Americans who blame (a) Antifa, (b) the homeless & mentally ill (an apparently monolithic and very dangerous subdemographic of society) and (c) radical anarchist antigovernment extremists (dog-whistle for Liberal Activist) … and apparently “kidnappers” now - for all tha ails them spiritually, emotionally, and probably sexually.

What these people never do is correct their behavior, apologize for wrongly profiling their targets (why? because this is not a mistake, it’s a social punishment done on purpose to me via this very manipulation of power and systems), and god forbid offer me a freakin’ Gatorade rather than a squad car upon my completing the not-super-easy feat for the gazillionth time. They also never get off their ass and try to simply do what I’m doing, preferring to “protect property, women, and children” up to about where the asphalt ends.

Like I said, context is missing. I was just talking to the guy in red prior to the cop showing up. I wondered why every single Tri-Met bus stop all along Thurman, as well as Burnside as I drove to do this run, had a creepy white person leaning against their car watching it despite this being a torrential 45-degree downpour. It seemed weird that so many people would opt to stand outside when it’s clear they’re not bus riders, they drove their car there.

For the record, he was doing just that which got my attention and prompted the conversation. Note his house and the bus stop are the same place.

What he began to do was talk down to me, asking me in a suspicious tone if Im “from around here,” essentially “why are you here?” even though everyone in this neighborhood knows the only reason “strange cars” show up constantly, like once ever 15 seconds here, is because it’s a popular public trailhead they voluntarily chose to live next to.

Sensing the prejudiced vibes, I did something I can only do to save myself from these kinds of people in this specific neighborhood, which happens to be where I grew up running high school cross-country. I dropped the L-word. “Lincoln.” A college prep “public” high school that is may as well be private, my alma mater 25 years prior, the kind of place where bad people just don’t attend, home to the kinds of people bad things just don’t happen to. As is common, he suddenly changed tone and pretended to be nice. What “Lincoln” telegraphs to these people is “uh oh, this guy might have access to resources or people.” Ha. More likely, there is the strong possibility of our sharing in a common social network, so there’s an image-consciousness playing out as well, like perhaps he doesn’t want to risk any allegations of prejudice surfacing about himself, as LHS is a placethat that prides itself on the utmost veneer of open-mindedness and inclusiveness so commonplace among Old Money Liberals.

What was never mentioned to me, not once, was “I have reported my teenage daughter missing and summoned Portland Police to this location, the location of your vehicle, at the very moment you returned from your training run and turned the key in the ignition.

And that, my friends, is what makes this video make sense. It’s why I’m “calling bs*” which might not be obvious by just watching the video alone.

Since this day, Day 1 of Attempting to Carry a Cell Phone in Society, many many other horrible things piled upon me as they always have and apparently always will whenever I’m discoverable by a device in public. For example, I believe it was the very next day that the Arranmore guy (see my other video) ripped my window off and headlocked me, and subsequently a huge uptick in “patrol” behaviors began to meet me at my property line, accompanied by Right Wing religious zealouts continually continually coming to my door asking for me by name. This all culminated with the sudden and shocking collapse and death of my dgg right here at the property I live at, where I’m convinced I was ID’d and tracked back to via the movements of that freaking cell phone.

To everyone sick of me asking you to be my 2FA phone, to run my little Square transactions for me, for telling you “sorry I can only take Venmo and cash for my business,” this is why. Very hard to prove any of it, but in 8.5 years, you get a very clear understanding of the kinds of patterns that follow any attempt to carry any device that can be traced to me. It never goes any other way than horribly, and it always feels very, very intentional. To reiterate, this “missing girl” BS was just the start, what folowed was a 2-month span of pure Hell. Oh, and the day Brody my dog dropped dead, guess what? Everybody went back to their best behavior as if my magic. No more creepy people stationed outside my front door, no more suspiious visits, no more constant Cessna flyovers and circling of my property, no more trucks carrying a “Law & Order” bigot blocking every access road and empty building I pass, no more highly contrived “aggression” complaints (separate video forthcoming), no more ISP trucks and pest control trucks and Bible Thumping evangelical extremists parked right outside my window, etc. And as far as I know, no more BS “missing female” reports but for all I know there’s one in the works right now, it’s actually random chance I hung around this particular video’s scene long enough to “catch” what this dude was really doing to me.

Another thing that stood out to me in this episode was how afterward, the cop and the guy went into his house and closed the door to talk. I couldn’t help but wonder if that would occur if it were my house. In fact I know it wouldn’t. There would be no entering my house without multiple armed agents and likely a dog. There would be choppers and Cessnas all over the place. Axon body cams active. The works. And, if I had pulled what I strongly believe had just taken place here, an arrest and serious charges for making up such a baseless allegation (the kind that can destroy a person’s life, the kind that very much has destroyed mine). If the roles were reversed, as with the Arranmore guy above, I wouldn’t even be freely typing this right now.

What do I really think happened here though? Do I think this dude called 911 out of malice. I do not. I believe this is what is known as “person-based predictive policing.” Some BS app told both the guy (and all the other creepy guys who were guarding bus stops throughout my commute) and this cop that there is a suspected future tense kidnapper in the area. Why o I suspect this? Because it’s not the first time, far from it. Ridiculous, right? And that’s the really angering part of all this. I first became aware of my apparent status as a “future tense kidnapper” during my July 2023 trip to Oakland/Berkeley/SF to run the SF Marathon. It “followed” me back home to my SW Portland neighborhood. Ever since, each time I fly out or fly in or purchase a cell phone or sell / buy crypto or go to a public pool or library or … God this is exhausting but all of these acts seem to feed into this …. some bizarre “kidnapper prevention” protocol suddenly kicks in around me / the venue I’m located at. I will never know how this started and became “officialized,” due to my obvious self-knowledge that I have not kidnapped, do not plan to kidnap, have never shown an interest in kidnapping as a general topic, etc hahahaha. It’s so absurd and from a distance it’s funny, like how the f** does this even happen?? Until it does. And until it keeps happening, and doesn’t stop happening. Then it becomes a nightmare as you realize everyone who lives in America is an angry idiot and that they aren’t interested in evidence, only a Bogeyman, and your entire life is suddenly perpetually f***d without any legitimate path out of the nightmare.

Back to Paul Renfro’s book, I wonder how many random dudes since the ‘80’s have quietly wound up just like me, victim to “suspected kidnapper” status due to frequenting too many public parks and trails alone too many times. What befuddles me, however, and suggests pure malice, not a mistake, is that when I’m out and about, traveling to and from these venues, I’m always running (or dog-walking). Very clearly, in indisptable terms. If everything is so “smart” and closely surveiled, how does a long-time runner/hiker, who is only ever seen running/hiking in these areas, falling further into the “stop kidnapping” trap when in a just and non-discriminatory and non-fascist society I would be a super easy “strike a Sharpie line through his name because obviously this guy is clean and we’re f*** imbeciles” after a very very very minimal and cursory ground-truthing. American neighborhood dynamics have opened my eyes as to what people in America, especially white people, actually are versus what they say they are. The extent to which I continue to be vicously discriminated against even in Portland Oregon reinforces the one rule I live by as a downtrodden second class citizen here. The only thing you really need to watch to gauge what someone actually thinks of you is how you’re regarded when near (a) their property and (b) their children.

If you really care about real truth and justice in the world and our country, keep on top of this “missing person” trend. In my experience, it’s cover for surveillance abuses against critics of government, police, etc - what’s the difference, right? Police are the enforcement arm of government and there are no alternatives we can choose in whichever jurisdiction we reside in. My two cents on this is … the “war on terror” got played out and racial profiling is clearly on the outs post-George Floyd. So we’re kind of in this Gray Area era, and gray area is where Fascism thrives. I believe things like “missing persons” and “trafficking in humans” are genuinely cover for surveillance of an increasingly broad dragnet of people who have nothing to do with either. It sounds plausible, it plays to emotions and bets on public trust in the institution (police) over the individual (me) which - trust me - always works and they know this. I was subject to a dizzying number of sudden “missing person” claims at the very location of my APPLE cell phone (can’t underemphasize the culpability of this company in what’s happening to me, by the way), and so even if it’s a rare experience, it’s understood fully by me what this is really about.

How many of you will ever read this? How many of those select few will ever act on this? Where will I be when that time comes? Essentially, what the fuck else can I do but put this out there, and hope you realize this video, unexciting as it is, represents a trend of an alarming number of calls placed at the location of my phone / car of the EXACT SAME claim.

This is where I get frustrated with my vain appeals for help and protection under this paradigm. I often use the played out word “Nazi” to describe some of these surveillance state foot soldiers, but my experience bears far more resemblance to the STASI. How many of you even know what that is? Exactly. It’s far harder and more futile to try to garner support when something is so subtle and more targeted and you’re not conspicuously different from the oppressor by some genetic or religious feature. There’s really no way I escape these abuses if not for people who really understand what I’m asking for to speak the fuck up and put a stop to it. It’s not about this video, trust far far far far more fucked up things happened in my life, in a tight window of time, after this, as I knew they would, this was merely the first hour of having the detectable device on me and my realization that Bad Things I Can’t Prove Only Came About Via Real-Time Cell Phone Detection really occurred, I will never recover from them, and I regret even putting myself through the experiment of seeing if things had changed in America since 2021. Nope, they had gotten worse.

The other L-word I wanted to drop in this scenario but thought better of in the presence of a cop-plus-property-owner double-team dynamic: “Lying a** m***f***r.”

UPDATE - I continuted to encounter “missing girl” situations at the precise location of my cell phone / car after this initial eyebrow-raisingly-false report. Notably, as I was driving home from Portland Saturday Market (downtown) I was mobbed by like 5 cop cars at the very instant I passed by the Conservative Ahavath Achim Synagogue. Given that I’d been seeing these massive packs of cop cars showing up literally everytime I tried to drive home from downtown since getting this phone … I was feeling spunky and defiant so I pulled in to ask what the Hell was going on and that it appeared they were making a “show of force” to intimidate me.

The answer: missing girl.

The word “Bullshit!” escaped my lips involuntarily when I was told this, I expressed my strong opinion that these gentlemen were corrupt liars, and drove home.

But by this point I was beginning to grow concerned for my own safety. Why are the cops now showing up to a “missing girl” once a month (that I know about) whenever I enter Portland? What are they really doing? My assumption is that this is algorithmic manipulation of some kind, that by constantly associating my car with the location of a missing child report that I become “permanently” suspected of kidnapping everywhere I drive. Just a theory. Or perhaps it’s a way to exploit a loophole, a response to crackdowns on location data brokers that says “unless it is a case of a missing 5-year-old you may no longer just call random dudes ‘Antifa’ and hunt them” and that this was their showing just how badly they are willing to lie, cheat, and exploit the rhetoric of very serious crime to keep me in the crosshairs. I’ll never know. What I do know is that my life descended rapidly into a very dark spiral of pure shit surveillance-wise immediately after this second “missing girl” report, and that I have to suspect that there were more being made. After all, the two I have captured would never have been known to me if I hadn’t actually stopped to do my own questioning of what looked like an Abuse of Power in progress.

What these videos do not prove but I have many, many very good reason to suspect is that every single one of these incidents - all of them - arises for the sole reason that the other party was already tracking my real-time and historical movements. If you visit my DATA BROKERS page, you’ll read why it is of utmost importance to fully outlaw real-time location of people, devices, vehicles, and biometric features, and objects immediately, in all countries on this planet, before more lives are totally destroyed (often with total impunity for the perps) the way mine has been.