When Stalkers Do Their Thing - A Stark Reality.

Big news item of the day is the Mike "Did you spit on your first wife" Stark nutroot under the radar attack on Michelle Malkin by pretending to be a fan. Number one, anyone who throws questions like "Did you spit on your first wife?" after pushing past guards just to get close to Republican candidate George Allen is simply a sign of a loose canon. Secondly, by pretending to be a fan just so he could get a photograph with her and believes that she likes him is another symptom of neuron synapses not firing all in the right sequence. Perhaps it was Mike's subconscious desire to be a Republican conservative someday or in the fact secretly in love with Michelle Malkin? Then again what we have seen so far is not a good sign if one reads a recent study on stalking.

A recent study by the National Institute of Justice found that stalking was far more prevalent than anyone had imagined: 8% of American women and 2% of American men will be stalked in their lifetimes. That’s 1.4 million American stalking victims every year. The majority of stalkers have been in relationships with their victims, but a significant percentage either never met their victims, or were just acquaintances - neighbors, friends or co-workers.

Not very encouraging information.

There are various forms and ways of stalking nowadays with technology into consideration. One is email. Another is to make use of a person's website or blogsite's commenting section. Or easily set up his/her own blogsite/website to describe the details or success of a stalking event. and describes the encounter with such emblazoned title as "Look who loves me!"

A typical stalker is described as such:

The typical profile of delusional stalkers is that of an unmarried and socially immature loner, who is unable to establish or sustain close relationships with others. They rarely date and have had few, if any, sexual relationships. Since at the same time they are both threatened by and yearn for closeness, they often pick victims who are unattainable in some way; perhaps she is married, or has been the stalker’s therapist, clergyman, doctor or teacher. Those in the helping professions are particularly vulnerable to delusional stalkers, because for someone who already has difficulty separating reality from fantasy, the kindness shown by the soon-to-be victim, the only person who has ever treated the stalker with warmth, is blown out of proportion into a delusion of intimacy. What these stalkers cannot attain in reality is achieved through fantasy and it is for this reason that the delusion seems to be so difficult to relinquish: Even an imaginary love is better than no love at all.

An erotic fantasy of Mike Stark's?

These delusional stalkers have almost always come from a background which was either emotionally barren or severely abusive. They grow up having a very poor sense of their own identities. This, coupled with a predisposition toward psychosis, leads them to strive for satisfaction through another, yearning to merge with someone who is almost always perceived to be of a higher status (doctors, lawyers, teachers) or very socially desirable (celebrities). It is as if this stalker says, "Gee. If she loves me, I must not be so bad." As Dean Martin compellingly crooned what could be considered the delusional stalker’s anthem: "You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Loves You." It is not unusual for this type of stalker to "hear" the soothing voice of his victim, or believe that she is sending him cryptic messages through others

Yet he get to post on Arianna Huffington's blogsite about his time at CPAC while flying under the radar to report his story. Nothing wrong with that but to pose next to someone by pretending to be a fan while holding up a book that Michelle wrote is not what you'd call being of sound mind.