HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO POPE LEO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Pope Leo,

We love you and pray for you every day.

May all the blessings of Heaven rain down on you.

May God bless you and keep you.

With Love in Christ,

Barbara Hartwell

Your Sister in the Lord 

May 8, 2026 

PUBLIC NOTICE & COMMENTARY TO RHINEBECK TOWN OFFICIALS: THE SLUMLORD & HIS CRIMINAL TENANT- OUTRAGEOUS INJUSTICES IN RHINEBECK, NY

 

NOTE: To my regular readers, this report may not be of interest to you, as it is in regard to personal legal issues. But this website is the only venue I have, or use to publish material, whatever the reasons may be. Boring as I'm sure it is, just skip it. I hope to have more interesting subjects coming up soon.

 

FOR THE PUBLIC RECORD 

The purpose of this report is to create a public record and direct it to the attention of officials in the town of Rhinebeck, all of whom have jurisdiction over the area where I live, and some of whom have been contacted in reference to these issues.

The Rhinebeck Police. The State Police. The Housing Department. The Health Department (including Water). The Zoning Board. Dog Control.

This is a tale of two utterly unscrupulous individuals, who, separately, and in tandem, have perpetrated a number of egregious and injurious injustices against others, in particular, Barbara Hartwell. That would be me.

They (individually and in collusion) are also violating various codes and ordinances in the town of Rhinebeck. See below for details.

One of these individuals is the landlord (or should I say, slumlord) of a number of rental properties on a parcel of land in Rhinebeck, NY, namely one Kirk Rotger of New Millennium Realty. The other is his tenant, one Tracy Krawitt aka “Spacey Tracy”, proprietor of Spacey Tracy's Deep Fried Pickles, a commercial business she runs on the property, thus violating the zoning laws.

This is a classic slumlord story. Those reading this, who have had the bad fortune of dealing with a slumlord, will anticipate where this story is headed. But I have my reasons for documenting this debacle publicly. Mainly, it is about justice. Justice I don't expect to see, because I am a poor person who can't afford a lawyer, and because justice is for sale, to those who can afford to pay. But then, those people would not be living where I live, as they are more likely to own their own property.

For the most part, nobody cares for the poor. We fall through the cracks and are treated with disrespect, simply because we are considered the lowest of the low, having no money. And because they think they are safe from the consequences of their abhorrent actions, as we have no resources to pursue justice under the law.

The exceptions are pro bono lawyers for the poor, elderly and disabled, who are limited in their practice to the minimum assistance, to stopping unlawful evictions and other such abuses by landlords, but are not able to advocate for anything more. Still, I am grateful for those who have helped me, who have provided advice for me to deal with the injustices I face by ill treatment and offenses from the slumlord.

Nonetheless, I still care about justice and I want the gross injustices exposed. If that is the only satisfaction I can get, so be it. As well, I am a journalist, who has a venue (unlike many others victimized by such a slumlord), so I will use what I have to expose wrongdoers, even if only to warn others.

And because for various reasons (including the aforementioned poverty) I cannot afford to move, not for the foreseeable future. And I don't intend to allow the landlord (or any hostile tenant) to drive me out of my home. I know my rights, I know the law and I am documenting the facts for my own protection.

In January, 2014, I entered into a contract for a rental on this property, in Rhinebeck, NY, where I still reside today. This is a one room cottage, located on a small plot of land, with an area in front for parking, a small strip of land I have turned into a garden, as well as a backyard.

It is located on a piece of land where there are several such cottages, in a complex owned by the same landlord (slumlord).

There is a common circular driveway, but aside from that the rental properties have separate, private yards.

When I first met with a representative of the landlord to view the property, I asked a number of questions to determine if the property would meet my requirements.

First and foremost, I require a freestanding building (no matter how small), as I will not live in an apartment where other people have access to the building or yard. Privacy and security are my main concerns.

It must be in a rural setting, strictly residential, where the zoning laws prohibit commercial enterprises, which also disturb the peace and privacy of tenants.

I require privacy and an environment which allows for my lawful right to “quiet enjoyment” of the property. Meaning, no source of noise, disturbances, or other intrusions preventing me from having peace in my home.

I clearly and specifically explained my requirements to the landlord's representative when I first viewed the property. I explained that I am a disabled senior citizen, so I am unable to do heavy labor (yard work) and that I cannot afford to hire out for help.

My stated requirements were as follows:

Exclusive private access to the rental property and surrounding yard (front and back). Meaning no common access from other tenants.

Basic maintenance of the property and yard provided, specifically that the grass be mowed and the property cleared of weeds. And I wanted the option of making a garden and other landscaping, which I would tend myself.

That any visits to my rental property by the landlord or his employees (for repairs or other necessary issues) be by appointment only, at a mutually convenient time, agreed upon in advance by both parties, with a minimum 24 hour notice. No unannounced visits for any reason.

I was assured by the representative that these requirements, being standard procedure and reasonable, would all be met. In good faith, expecting the landlord to keep his part of the contractual agreement, I signed the lease.

However, I soon learned that any idea of “good faith” was a false expectation; that the landlord was a liar, as was his representative who showed the property to me. Not only was he a liar, but a greedy slumlord, who cared nothing for the needs of his tenants, nor had any respect for their privacy, or even their fundamental rights, not only as tenants, but as human beings.

As it turned out, every legal right I have as a tenant has been violated. I have been denied the quiet enjoyment of the rental property for which I am paying. And what I am paying far exceeds the value of the rental, all things considered.

In January, 2014 the rent was $575.00 per month. For a one room shack with bad plumbing, bad water, a leaking roof, inadequate heat, and in need of various other repairs, inside and out.

The rent has now more than doubled. He is charging $1250.00 a month. And I am attempting to survive on disability, which is the paltry sum of less than $12,000.00 a year. That does not even cover the rent.

(I know my own poverty is not the issue, and I can't blame the slumlord for that. But he is well aware of my situation, and continues to raise the rent, in efforts to price me out.)

Many of the necessary repairs still have not been made (after all this time) and in desperation, I have had to hire workers out of my own pocket.

In some cases, the landlord's workers were so sloppy and incompetent that they actually did damage to the walls and floors, while making other “repairs”. The damages were never acknowledged, nor rectified.

This is the highest rent I have ever paid anywhere in my life, for the smallest place I have ever lived, totally lacking in any but the most primitive amenities. I rented a 4 bedroom beach house in Maine for less than I am paying now.

Simply as a result of my reasonable efforts to make my home habitable, by making complaints of unacceptable conditions, I have been harassed, threatened with eviction (for which there are no grounds); I have been publicly slandered and insulted; I have been falsely accused of offenses I did not commit. I have had my sanity impugned. I have been treated with a total lack of respect by the landlord, his office workers and his hirelings, and my privacy has been regularly invaded.

I have been traumatized by this horrible treatment, and my health has suffered from the extreme stress, which I have been warned about by my doctors. I have medical conditions which are exacerbated by stress, which I need to avoid at all costs. The landlord's office has been notified of this, in writing, after I suffered one particularly stressful, traumatic episode of the landlord creating a public scene, while banging on my door, threatening, harassing and slandering me. I had to visit the emergency room later that day, as a result of a medical episode.

I have lived in unacceptable conditions, for years on end, even with health hazards, due to the landlord's failure to make necessary repairs and renovations, even after he was cited for violations by town officials.

I have documentation for all of this. In addition to phone calls, I have made formal complaints in writing, sent to the landlord's office, since January, 2014 when I first moved here. It's all on the record, I have left nothing to chance. No one can prove otherwise.

And before I go further, I will state for the record that never once have I violated any laws, nor broken any agreements in the lease, nor caused any disturbances on this property. I have paid the rent on time, with no exceptions. I have always been quiet and respectful of other tenants. There is no just cause for the execrable way I have been treated, and no excuse whatsoever.

Now, add to this that a criminal tenant, Tracy Krawitt, who moved to the property (I believe in 2018) has created a hostile environment, is violating numerous codes and ordinances and has harassed me by making false complaints to the landlord. The woman is a pathological liar and appears to be a psychopath, with no respect whatsoever for the privacy, personal boundaries and fundamental rights of others, specifically, in this case, her neighbors.

I say she is a criminal for at least one criminal offense that I know of: She made a false police report against Barbara Hartwell, lying to the police that I had “threatened to kill” her, in December, 2019. Making a false police report is a crime in and of itself. Details of the event of the false police report are documented in reports, links below.

Krawitt is also running a commercial business on the property, which violates the zoning laws. She has a huge food trailer and attached truck parked in front of her house, a garish monstrosity, an eyesore, along with other commercial paraphernalia, tables, plastic drop cloths, metal stands, gas tanks and other trash which litters the road in front of her house. The side of the ugly trailer, showing images of what appear to be the flames of Hell rising from the base, faces the main road, which ruins the rural setting and makes the whole place look like the site of a shantytown for itinerant carnival workers.

Krawitt has a number of commercial vehicles, including trucks, which she parks in the common driveway (just a narrow dirt road), cutting off access to other tenants, which we have the right to use, and which she has no right to do. Other vehicles (including trucks), owned by her associates/employees, come in and out at all hours. Making a racket, creating gridlock and blocking the road. All violating the zoning laws and disturbing the peace on the property.

Huge, noisy commercial delivery trailer trucks also come in to the property, while men wheel the deliveries to her house on carts. US Foods is one such company. The drivers are loud and rude and have blocked the driveway on a regular basis, stopping me from pulling my car out to the main road.

This was a quiet residential area, as it was meant to be, until Krawitt invaded with her multiple commercial vehicles, all her piles of trash and noise pollution, and she is violating the laws by running this commercial business. She is depriving other tenants of the right to quiet enjoyment of their rental property. And the landlord is allowing it, so he is also responsible for what goes on, as he owns the property. He does nothing to stop her, despite complaints from other tenants.

But the violations don't end there. Krawitt is the owner of a large, aggressive, out-of-control dog, violating the laws as a dog owner. She allows the dog to run free, unleashed, on the property and the roads, thus creating a safety risk for other tenants, animals, pedestrians and motorists, and for the dog himself. She has neglected the dog and left him home alone, to be hanging out an open window, howling and barking, disturbing the peace. I had to make repeated complaints to Dog Control to stop her from causing daily, hours-long disturbances by the howling dog.

She has been cited for violations several times by Dog Control, but has failed to take any action to comply with the leash laws. To this day, the dog is running loose over the property. Looking out the window as I write this, I see him, and hear him...barking at her associates, also low class loudmouths, just like Krawitt, a constant invasive presence on the property. There are now 5 vehicles blocking the driveway.

The dog has invaded my rental property numerous times and has run in front of my car while I was driving, forcing me to slam the brakes to avoid hitting him. How dangerous is this!

Krawitt has regularly invaded my property as well, chasing the unleashed dog, and when confronted to “get the hell out of my yard”, has cursed at me and called me a “psycho”. Which is exactly a description of her, considering her outrageous behavior. I mean, you can't make this stuff up.....

I do not know this woman and have never spoken to her, nor do I engage her in any way in discussions or arguments, despite her offenses and provocations. My policy is to ignore her, document her offenses (see reports on this site) and when necessary, report her offenses to authorities. The one exception is to say: Get the hell out of my yard, when she and her dog invade my rental property. In fact, in most cases, I have ignored her rather than engage in a confrontation. 

See links to reports exposing Krawitt below for details.

But back to the slumlord, and let me start from the beginning. When I moved into the rental property in January, 2014, it was quiet and peaceful. There was a beautiful stream (a creek), which flowed through my backyard. The stream was one of the reasons I wanted the property, as I love moving water. At that time, I met the neighbors in the cottage next-door, who were friendly and quiet. They still live there, and I have always been on good terms with them.

[NOTE: The stream has now been destroyed. The slumlord had his workers come into my yard, chop down a lovely old tree, covered in vines, and just threw all the branches and the huge trunk into the water, clogging it up with refuse and changing the course of the stream. It's mostly now a dry bed, which I can't see, nor can I hear the sound of the rushing water at night. What a crying shame to destroy such a once-peaceful natural setting. But then, he doesn't care, he doesn't have to live here. And by the way, where the old tree once stood, he erected what appears to be a metal cell tower-type receptor or some such electronic device. Adding more electronic pollution right in my own yard. Horrible!]

But by the time the spring came around, I knew I had some serious problems.

It started with the weeds. When I say “weeds”, I don't mean the garden variety. These were huge stalks, rising to over 6 feet tall. They covered the backyard and actually grew so close to the house that they blocked all light from the windows in the kitchen area (a small galley at the back of the room) and adjacent bathroom. The weeds were literally pressing up against the windows, blocking the air flow. But that didn't stop the insects (including horseflies and wasps) from invading through the ripped screens. Which I finally had to replace myself, at my own expense, as my complaints were, as usual, ignored.

I called the landlord's office to report the problems caused by the overgrowth of weeds. The office workers said they would send someone to take care of it. But nobody ever showed up. Time went by. Week after week, I kept calling. I sent letters by certified mail.

Meanwhile, the weeds continued to grow. I was suffering from allergies and from the stifling lack of air inside the cottage. I was unable to use the backyard, there was no space left.

I continued to call the office. The office workers continued to assure me that the problem would be taken care of. But, as usual, they lied. Nobody ever showed up, and no explanation was given.

July, August, September, October, came and went. Finally, in sheer frustration and desperation, in November, I called the Town Hall in Rhinebeck, attempting to get some relief. I reported the situation with the weeds, and a town official from the Housing Department came to make an inspection.

As can be imagined, he was shocked and horrified. The man stood there, shaking his head (Oh, this is terrible, terrible...) at the back of my cottage, viewing the field of stalks, now dried and brown, but leaning against and totally blocking my windows, an eyesore as well as a health and fire hazard.

He contacted the slumlord, citing him for violations of the housing code and notifying him that he must immediately rectify the situation.

But now, things only got worse for me. The slumlord, finally forced to take action, sent some workers to cut down the stalks. But instead of cleaning up the dead stalks, they just left them in a pile against the side of the house, to rot there in the yard. I was forced to hire someone myself to clear the dead foliage from my yard. The entire summer had passed, I had no use of my own yard, and now the winter had come.

No apology was ever issued. No compensation for the stress and health hazards to me. And even worse, the slumlord blamed me for the problem. When I had called to report the pile of trash left in the yard, he shouted at me, claiming, That is your responsibility!, when in fact he had always been responsible for maintaining the property, as per the lease agreement.

When I protested that I had done nothing wrong, nothing to cause the problem, that it was not my fault, he shouted at me, You called the town! As if this were a heinous crime, to call the town for relief because of his negligence! Truly unbelievable.

No, I was expected to live in filthy, unsafe, inhabitable conditions, rather than take action to rectify the situation.

Then, there were the workers he hired. Most did not even speak English. And the slumlord would just send them out, at his own convenience, in violation of his agreement with me to arrange a mutually convenient time when I could expect them. Which was not only the agreement, but is my right as a tenant.

They would come banging on my door, expecting to be let in, with no concern for my privacy. I would not let them in, or I would just ignore them.

On my door I have a NOTICE posted:

NO TRESPASSING

NO SOLICITING

SERVICE VISITS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

I had notified the slumlord years ago that I require, and that I have the right, to a minimum 24 hours notice if a worker needs to come to my home. He is well aware of this policy, but has repeatedly disregarded it, with no respect whatsoever for my rights as a tenant.

I ignored the knocking. The workers were tramping around outside my house and then came knocking and shouting again. I ignored them.

Don't they speak English? Well...no, unfortunately they don't, and I guess they can't read English either.

I once again had to call the Health Department, for yet another issue with the plumbing. The Health Department came, investigated and made a diagnosis regarding the situation.

They made it very clear that there was a major overhaul needed and also cited the slumlord (once again) for the health code violation, which involved a major problem with the sewage and water system.

The Health official told me that he had explained all this in detail to the slumlord. He also told me that there was no need for anyone to come inside my house: the issues were all outside. So, why send his workers to come knocking at my door? Aside from the total lack of respect for my privacy and my rights, there was no good reason to do so.

I am a tenant, not a plumber or contractor. It is not my responsibility to discuss the problems with his hired help (who do not speak English), especially since they do not need access to my house. The slumlord was told exactly what the problem is. If he failed to take action to rectify his violations, that's on him, not me.

But of course, I am the one (as always) who suffers the consequences of his negligence, total lack of respect and callous disregard for his tenants.

In one instance, when I called the office to complain about this unacceptable behavior, I was actually told by the woman that, He has million dollar properties, and they take precedence, so I would have to wait until they could fit me in to the schedule. Maybe when hell freezes over.

Unbelievable. Imagine the level of arrogance, and the unmitigated stupidity of the woman delivering this message.

Then, there is the fact that I am not on speaking terms with the slumlord. Not since October, 2023, when he staged a horrible disruption and public scene outside my home, when he showed up unannounced, with a crew of his workers, in total disregard for my policy, and demanded to be let in, which I did not allow.

He was banging on my door, making threats to evict me – for which he has no grounds. He was harassing me, making demands to be let in. He was publicly slandering me, so all the neighbors could hear, and making false accusations against me, based only on false complaints by another tenant, one Tracy Krawitt, a criminal offender who had made a false police report in December, 2019, lying to the police that I had “threatened to kill” her.

And the slumlord actually went across the road, marching straight to her door, after falsely accusing me of “harassing” the other tenants (none of whom I know, nor had ever even spoken to), which was a total fabrication by Krawitt, threatening that these tenants (including Krawitt) would back him up against me.

 

Next, I was expecting him to recruit a mob, with torches and pitchforks, a veritable witch hunt! 

 

These false accusations by Krawitt, then repeated at me by the slumlord, had absolutely no basis in fact, and was apparently an attempted intimidation tactic, which he was foolish enough to believe would work on me. And I do have witnesses to his threats and harassment. If there were an actual legal issue (which there was not), the only way he could have dealt with it is using the law. But it is on record, documented and he cannot deny his false accusations without lying. But then, that's never been a problem for him. Just like his pal, Krawitt.  

In fact, Krawitt, the odious liar, had been making false complaints to the landlord's office, claiming the devil knows what, and he apparently believed her.

He also grossly insulted me and impugned my sanity, accusing that there were “mental health issues” because I refused to open my door for an unannounced service call. Absolutely outrageous!

Never in my life had I witnessed such totally insane and aggressive behavior from any landlord, nor had I ever encountered any neighbor as crazy and evil as Tracy Krawitt.

I have lived with substandard conditions for the entire time I have had this rental. Including "health hazards", as cited by the Health Department.

Now, about the water. It is water from a well on the property. The water is so dirty it often comes out of the tap brown, at times even black. It stinks like sulphur from the bowels of hell. Not only that, but on a regular basis, the water would just shut off and the tenants would be without water for hours, sometimes days.

As it turned out, the landlord had been violating the codes by not installing a proper water system. The plumbing was so bad, you never knew if there would be enough pressure to take a shower, even to flush the toilets. Everyone that I knew of suffered from this unacceptable situation.

The problems in my house were particularly bad. Plus, the fixtures in the bathroom were nonfunctional, crusted with mineral deposits. I had to use buckets of water to flush the toilet. I had reported this to the office in 2022, saying I needed immediate action, for major repairs to be made.

I was told by the morons in the office that a “work order” had been put out for the repairs. Of course, nobody got back to me. Time passed, as the problems became worse and worse. Again, I called, I wrote certified letters, made detailed formal complaints. Only false promises, more suffering for me, no action taken.

When calling the office, as usual, got no results, I finally also called the town, the Health Department. An officer came to do an inspection and take my formal complaint.

He, like the officer from the Housing department, years ago, was shocked at the condition of my bathroom. He inspected outside and found that there was no pipe system at all. The water from the bathroom sink and shower, and the kitchen sink, was just draining into the ground outside the house, and then going into the stream (what was left of it) polluting the area.

I don't know all the gory details, but suffice to say it was a total mess, and the slumlord was cited for numerous violations of the health code, and forced to do major renovations, inside and outside.

The officer from the Health Department actually thanked me. He said if not for my complaints and my persistence in documenting the issues, they never would have known about the deplorable conditions on the property, and the “health hazards” (their words) to tenants, including me.

From the beginning of this ordeal, all officials from the town have been respectful and supportive of me; they knew my complaints to be justified, and even thanked me for issuing the complaints, so the major problems with the property could be rectified, not just for me, but for other tenants.

Next item: The backyard excavations. Early on, I was experiencing serious issues with the plumbing. The landlord did not know where the septic tank was located, on his own property. He sent a crew of workers with a bulldozer (or a backhoe) to dig up my yard, littering it with rocks and debris, which he just left there. (As usual, I later had to hire someone to clear out the rocks and clean up the mess.)

The septic tank was finally located, right behind the house. A septic service was called, to pump the septic tank. When the man came to the door, he actually said to me, something about the “slumlord”, as if it was a known fact. Evidently, he was notorious in the area.

 

After the septic tank was pumped, the slumlord's workers just left the metal cover (which had been covered with soil and grass) to sit there, without covering it back up. Again, I had to hire someone to clean up the yard, shovel the dirt back and plant grass. 

Of course, there is much more to this saga...it never ends...

There is no rest for the weary.

But enough for now.

And I will end with this:

With all due respect: Town Officials of Rhinebeck, please take note.

 

People who own property, who become landlords, need to at least abide by the laws and the codes and the ordinances of the town where their property is located. Tenants have rights, whether they are rich or even the poorest of the poor – people like me, who are ill treated and deprived of the right to quiet enjoyment of the rental property for which they are paying. (In my case, an exorbitant sum.)

Tenants also have the right (as part of quiet enjoyment) to not be disturbed by violations of other tenants, such as howling dogs, running unleashed on the property and in the road, causing safety hazards; or commercial businesses operating unlawfully in a residential zone, disturbing the peace, preventing them from the use of a common driveway, and the noise pollution of huge delivery trucks, shouting workers, horns blasting. 

 

The eyesores of trailers and piles of trash, meant for an industrial setting, not in what should be a quiet residential family neighborhood. We also have the right not to have our property invaded by a negligent dog owner, a lying criminal who makes false police reports, cursing at us when she is warned to stop her invasions and harassment.

This aberrant and injurious behavior is truly outrageous! Somebody needs to do something about it. Sooner, rather than later.

I was told by a town official that I could make a formal complaint against Tracy Krawitt to the town by filling out a form. I haven't done that yet. I have other pressing issues to deal with that take precedence over this.

 

But I am issuing a public warning to Tracy Krawitt, whom I consider a public menace, here and now: 

 

Stay off my rental property and keep your unleashed dog out of my yard, the road where I am driving or walking. Stay away from me, and any guests I may have, who have been accosted in the past.

 

I can't stop this woman from making false complaints, nor from continuing to slander me. But if she ever invades my private yard again (for which I am paying rent for the exclusive use), I will call the police and let them deal with it. Enough already!

 

For now, this is my report for the public record.

But I need to make it clear that I have sustained tremendous damages, financially, and to my health, by the invasions of privacy, the stress and trauma, the public slander (including to the police) and intentional infliction of emotional distress by these individuals, one of whom is a known criminal.

I am seeking justice and will continue to pursue it, even if that means only exposing these people in my reports, and using any and all lawful and ethical means at my disposal.

Unlike my adversaries, the slumlord and his criminal tenant, I am a law-abiding citizen, seeking only peace and the quiet enjoyment of my home.

As stated, I can't afford a lawyer, but I do know that I have solid grounds to sue these individuals for extensive damages. If there's a lawyer out there who is interested to take the case on contingency, please contact me at:

Barbara Hartwell

PO Box 22

Rhinebeck, NY 12572

Thank you for your consideration.

Barbara Hartwell

Law-abiding Tenant in a Hostile Environment

Deprived of Quiet Enjoyment of Rental Property

Rhinebeck, NY

May 7, 2026

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CARTOON OF "BIG BAD BABS" ACCOSTED BY VARIOUS AGGRESSORS, COURTESY OF AN ANONYMOUS (BUT BELOVED) CREATOR

WARNING TO ALL BUSYBODIES:

I have a real problem with busybodies who try to invade my life. They have been the bane of my existence for as long as I can remember. I have taken all measures to prevent busybodies from causing the trouble that comes from their aggression.

I have a public website (since 2000). However, I am a very private person. Very, very private. I am not a participant in the Internet culture. I have never used social media. I do not seek contact with strangers from the general public, nor with readers of my site. I am a recluse, a fact I have stated repeatedly.

Let me be very clear. On this website I have several NOTICES which specifically state my policies. Yes, I am a person with policies. These policies are for my own protection. For my security and to prevent invasions of privacy. 

 

These NOTICES have been posted for decades. Anyone who visits my website may see these NOTICES prominently displayed.

In fact, I removed any public e-mail addresses from my website in 2003. That was 23 years ago.

I have always given my readers, and the general public, a way to contact me. That is by postal mail. Anyone who finds it important to contact me may easily do so. All it takes is addressing an envelope and adding stamps. If that is too much trouble, then I can't imagine it was all that important.

And I actually do welcome communications from my readers, as long as they are respectful and not invasive.

And yet, despite these NOTICES, I have been shocked by the total lack of respect from people who have just decided to disregard my clearly stated policies and wishes, apparently thinking (for whatever reasons) that they are exceptions. These individuals seem to think that instead of respecting my wishes, they can get to me by approaching “known associates” who do have public e-mail or social media and exploiting them as intermediaries. WRONG.

This is the worst sort of aggression, showing arrogance and a total lack of respect for my privacy and personal boundaries, and not tolerated by me.

I should also state, for the record, that regarding those whom I consider friends, and/or professional associates, I have made it clear that if anyone should contact them asking them to pass on messages, by e-mail or otherwise, they are to simply say that they are not intermediaries for Barbara Hartwell. Period. 

 

That they should direct anyone making such inquiries to go to my website for any contact info, and leave it at that. My friends have been told that I do not want them discussing me with anyone, that this would be an invasion of my privacy. Anyone who disregards my wishes is no friend of mine, and not to be trusted. As will be shown, some time back, I had to cut off one such person, Ramola Dharmaraj, for completely disregarding my wishes.

Now, before I get to the example of two such disrespectful, aggressive busybodies, namely Ramola Dharmaraj (a former associate) and a woman named Camille Piona, whom I do not know, here, for the record, are the actual policies stated clearly in my NOTICES.

Barbara Hartwell does not offer professional services or consultations (pro bono or for compensation) to the general public. This includes offering advice, or discussions relating to legal (or other) issues of a personal or professional nature.

The readers are asked to please NOT contact Barbara Hartwell for the purpose of requesting such advice, discussions or consultations.

Barbara Hartwell does not solicit comments, opinions, or advice from the readers of this site, nor from the general public.

Barbara Hartwell does not use intermediaries for any purpose. No person or entity is authorized to speak for or about the personal or professional business of Barbara Hartwell.

Barbara Hartwell does not have a public e-mail address or telephone number for use by readers of this site, or the general public.

Any and all “known associates” (including those editors/publishers of websites, radio/TV hosts, etc. who publish the work of Barbara Hartwell) do NOT function as intermediaries, or conduits, for the purpose of passing messages by e-mail, telephone or post.

No communications sent to third parties, which are intended for Barbara Hartwell, are to be assumed to have been received or read by Barbara Hartwell. Barbara Hartwell does not respond to third party communications.

For the record, all personal contact information for Barbara Hartwell is, and shall remain, UNLISTED, UNPUBLISHED and PRIVATE. The exception is my postal mailing address, given at the top of this site.

As for my private e-mail addresses and telephone numbers, they are for use by "authorized persons only." Case closed.

If there is anyone who feels it is urgent or otherwise important to contact me, for personal or professional reasons, you may easily do so through my postal address.

Back in the days when I had a public e-mail address, I found myself swamped with unsolicited messages, at times more than a thousand e-mails a week.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Anyone who wants to contact me, for any legitimate reason, may easily do so, by sending me a card, a note, a letter, a donation to support my work (or whatever) by post, at the postal address given on this site. As long as such communications are respectful of my privacy, and not requesting professional consultations or assistance (pro bono or otherwise), which I have stated in my NOTICES that I DO NOT OFFER to the general public, I do welcome communications from those who want to contact me.

There is no other public contact info. If it is too much trouble to purchase a stamp and send something by mail, then I can't imagine it would be all that important for anyone to contact me, for whatever reason.

I have posted NOTICES which clearly outline my policies, and yet these are regularly disregarded or ignored. My e-mail address is PRIVATE and yet I get e-mails from people I don't know, who have contacted “known associates” of mine (usually editors of websites or talk show hosts who have published my work), used as intermediaries to try to bypass using the post.

These messages are always ignored, on principle, as those sending them have shown no respect for my clearly stated policies.

All communications, as well as donations, intended for Barbara Hartwell should be sent to:

Barbara Hartwell

PO Box 22

Rhinebeck, NY 12572

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Now, could I possibly have been any clearer?

 

So why, oh why, do these aggressive busybodies just think they can disregard my wishes? Why do they think I would want anything to do with them?

I really have had enough! I don't ever respond to these interlopers personally, so I have decided to respond to them publicly. Maybe that will stop them from their harassment, for that is what it is, when they continue to try to contact me, by inappropriate means, disregarding my policies.

Here is an e-mail I received from Ramola Dharmaraj, in November 2021. This was after I had cut off contact with her months before, for cause, in part because she was acting as an unwanted intermediary, in total disregard of my clearly stated wishes to her, that she NOT meddle in my business. And yet, as a typical busybody, she forwards a message from another busybody, one Camille Piona, who was trying to use her as an intermediary, contacting Ramola when she could not reach me directly by e-mail.

 

E-mail has been edited for privacy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RAMOLA IN TIN FOIL HAT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CRAZED RAMOLA WITH DEW DETECTOR

 

 

E-MAIL FROM RAMOLA DHARMARAJ TO BARBARA HARTWELL

 

"Dear Barbara,

 

It's been ages since we spoke--do hope you are doing ok in these completely insane times....

 

Barbara, this lady Camille Piona--whom I have completely forgotten--asked me to send this to you so I am passing it on. I believe I met her once, several years ago, when Cait Ryan organized a get to-gether with some local Massachusetts people who were all reporting being targeted--we met at the Wollaston beach here (which is close to our house) in Quincy. I totally do not recall which one of the ladies was this one--there were a few.

 

Anyway, just passing it on--and no need to worry about getting back to me regarding this.

 

I would love to hear from you quite apart from her note -- please feel free to call to chat anytime."

Ramola had been told, more than once, that I do not use intermediaries, and that should she be contacted by anyone trying to use her as such, she was to tell them she was NOT an intermediary and leave it at that. Instead, she stuck her nose into my business and forwarded the unwanted messages from this Piona woman to me, as if she had heard nothing I said.

BUSYBODY CAMILLE PIONA TO RAMOLA DHARMARAJ: MESSAGE NUMBER 3

"Hi Ramola,

Just checking to see if you received and forwarded my letter to Barbara Hartwell in regard to my possible plans to move out to her area. If it is not too much trouble, would you mind letting me know if you sent it, and checking to see if she received it? My perps cut me off quite a bit, and it would be a shame if it fell by the wayside, as it took me a good hour to write that letter and I think we could truly be a blessing to each other.

The letter comes up below when you click on the three dots.

Thank you so much,

Camille"

BUSYBODY CAMILLE PIONA TO RAMOLA: MESSAGE NUMBER 2

"Dear Ramola,

You may remember me from the day a group of TIs met at the clam shack on Wollaston beach and you came to say hello. You told your story and we had a nice visit.

I am writing because I have been writing to people seeking any who might be interested in moving to the mountains of Northern New York or Northern New England.

Then I woke up the other morning with the name "Barbara" strongly on my mind, and wondered about it. I know only one Barbara, and she is not someone I would want to move with.

Then I remembered your interview with Barbara Hartwell, whom I wrote to many years back when she lived in Maine and I lived in Boston. I was just waking up to my targeting back then and was hoping to meet other TIs. But she never responded, and perhaps didn't get the letter at all.

I have a prophetic gift and feel that the name was given from the Holy Spirit of God and that she may be "the" Barbara, I can feel in the Spirit that she too is a finely tuned receiver of the Spirit's guidance. So I am asking if you wouldn't mind forwarding this email to her, and also, if you wouldn't mind, checking to see if she received it.

I know Barbara's story and have seen videos of she and other survivors. I have read Cathy O'Brien's book and professional articles on the subject. This along with my little bit of professional training as a psychotherapist, as well as my experience as a wonderfully healing and shining survivor/overcomer of childhood trauma, gives me much insight into what she was dealing with and I think we would be a good match.

Here is the letter I sent out. The invitation is of course extended to you also":

LETTER FROM CAMILLE PIONA TO “TARGETED INDIVIDUALS”

"Dear (sent to a few trusted people, mostly Christians and TIs),

I am planning to move to the mountains of Maine, Vermont, NH, or NY, in an area where there are no smart meters; I am also open to other parts of the country too. I am hoping to hook up with others who are looking to move also, so feel free to pass this email on to trustworthy people you may know. I have strategies for surviving and thriving in the midst of the workers of iniquity that will keep us safe.

Case in point:

We recently had work done on my home in Massachusetts, and a carpenter apparently implanted something in the wood beams behind my bedroom that greatly increased the targeting to an intolerable extent. This reminded me about an often-overlooked part of being targeted - that getting access to the home to install weapons components is a big part of this. It seems that most carpenters and workers of all types (plumbers, electricians, etc.) can be easily bought and commissioned to do a dirty deed. I tried to warn my landlord that this was likely to happen, but to no avail.

Thus, TIs make the mistake of moving from place to place, and the targeting soon starts up again, because all it takes is a few hours when no one is home, and they get in and do their dirty work. And as TIs know, the law enforcement and intelligence communities are highly skilled at breaking and entering. They employ sophisticated technologies that can get around any lock, camera, or alarm system. They keep you under surveillance in your travels so they know when it's time to leave your house because they see that you are headed home. The occupants virtually never know that someone was just in their home installing weaponry in the attic, basement, walls, ceilings, roofs, floors, siding, etc. Unless, as happens in many cases, they intentionally want to intimidate you; in which case they leave evidence that they were there, such as rearranging your furniture, yet with no outward signs of a break-in. Jesus said that if you knew what hour the thief was coming, you would not have allowed your home to be broken into. That prophecy is now coming to pass right before our eyes.

As an apartment dweller, in ignorance I have moved 10 times in 7 years trying to flee the targeting, and 10 times the same scenario repeats - "work" is always and immediately done on the building. The weapons components are interfaced with the smart meter and WiFi, and if you don't have WiFi, they give you one surreptitiously that shows as an open WiFi accessible to your perps. According to weapons expert Mark Steele, the collective components interfaced together is what forms the weapon. The weapons system further interfaces with satellites and drones, aircraft, and neighborhood shenanigans - the interface being a built-in feature of the smart meter. According to Steele, there must be a ground array in order for targeting to be feasible from the sky. Last year I submitted a 24 page white paper on smart meters deployed as weapons to the Massachusetts legislature detailing how it all works.

For this reason, I am looking to establish a home where someone is always home 24/7. It's a strategy that works. After my 10 moves in 7 years, I found success for the next eight years in my present living situation that was largely free of targeting. There was "some" coming from the surrounding area, but was I was feeling was shieldable, and so they were limited in what they could do. Then came the recent carpentry experience where something was installed directly behind my head, and I found myself in a microwave oven. They finally won.

I will be home almost all of the time anyway, as a writer who works at home. I also have a powerful legal strategy in mind to keep the perps out of the neighborhood, which I can't discuss here, as the matter is sensitive and could get interfered with.

Secondly, as we transition into tyranny, it seems that there is a larger plan to get the entire population on board with this, achievable by moving everyone into the cities (Agenda 2030) and onto the smart grids, where the issuance of ever more powerful 5G and 6G, combined with the magnetic and metallic components administered by "vaccine," will hook our heads up to the grid to monitor and influence thoughts, turn eyes into cameras and ears into microphones, view our most intimate moments by issuing millimeter-wave through-the-wall radar, along with other delightful things like inflicting illness and electrocution-like shocks whenever you misbehave (punishment-and-reward social credit system). Apparently the increased power of 5G/6G and whatever weapons components they are implanting under city streets and on utility poles, including radar scanners on the streetlights, when combined with bodily components (self-assembling nanotech/neurotech), will soon forego the need to install weapons components inside your home.

Hence, the need to flee to the wilderness.

There are still untouched places in Northern New England and Northern New York where we would have at least a few more good years. And we can be healthy there as we continue our important work. If you look up cell tower locations here:

www.scadacore.com/tools/rf-path/cell-tower-map-united-states

- and go to Northern New York or Maine, and you will see hundreds of miles of wilderness where there are no cell towers. I went up to that area of Maine and stayed in an AMC Wilderness Lodge, had the best night's sleep of my life, and woke up feeling like my real self again, with a perfectly normal, pain-free head. You could also look up a map of 5G coverage in the United States and see the same pattern.

I am living on a tiny income, so costs in my case would need to be below-market. My friend Mary, if she comes, may be able to buy a more substantial house, but if you or someone else buys instead, I would also consider an arrangement of a room in exchange for helping out in some way if this should be desired, perhaps with child care, home schooling, elder care, cooking, cleaning, etc., as long as there is enough time left for me to pursue my prophetic ministry that will serve the Kingdom to come. I also have writing and editing skills that someone might need, and an interest in healing ministry that may come to be a blessing to someone who is ill.

So please consider moving with me and maybe one or two others. The TIs of my acquaintance whom I am sending this email to are mentally healthy TIs (not the bonkers kind), many of us serious Christians (including myself), and some are serious activists and heavyweight fighters. The sooner we can do this, the better.

Please know that sometimes I have problems with email and phone. If I don't return a call or text within 24 hours, or don't respond to an email within one week, it means I didn't get it. In that case, try from another phone or another email address, and keep trying. I will definitely respond so you can be sure that I got your message. The email address below is the only one I am using these days, so you can delete any others you may have.

Please be in touch, so I can know if this is a real possibility for you. I will be praying.

God bless,

Camille Piona"

[CONTACT INFO REMOVED]

MESSAGE TO BUSYBODIES LIKE CAMILLE PIONA

I will not address any such individuals personally, as they have forfeited that privilege by their aggression in their total disrespect of my privacy and personal boundaries. I will speak about them, rather than to them.

Ms. Piona had been sending postal mail to me since I lived in Maine. I ignored her letters because they were of no interest to me, and because she had disregarded my wishes, stated in my NOTICES, that people not write to me about issues such as government harassment, or seeking discussions with me about their personal cases. I remember that she was trying to set up a meeting with me, something I would never do with a stranger.

Ms. Piona disregarded my stated policies, and I had no reason to want to communicate with her. That was it. But she persisted. I ignored all communications from this woman. Did that stop her? No.

Now, years later, she tried to use Ramola Dharmaraj, whose podcast I had appeared on as a guest, as an intermediary.

But that is not the worst of it. This woman, Camille Piona, made numerous false assumptions regarding Barbara Hartwell. She does not know me, nor anything about me, as revealed in her e-mails to Ramola, as well as her public letter to so-called “TIs”.

She lumped me in with the so-called “targeted individual community”, of which I have never been a part, and also named individuals such as Cathy O'Brien, in the false assumption that I, Barbara Hartwell, had any commonalities with such a person, a “sex slave” who claimed to be involved in “MONARCH”.

Many years ago, I was being harassed by O'Brien's husband (and handler), Mark Phillips, by e-mail. I responded by telling him to MIND HIS OWN BUSINESS. Just as I am directing these other busybodies, such as Camille Piona. Phillips was an accomplice of Ted Gunderson.

In fact, I have no commonalities whatsoever with the likes of Cathy O'Brien, nor these “targeted individuals”, the crazies who wear tin foil hats.

Ms. Piona needs to learn to MIND HER OWN BUSINESS. At least where I am concerned.

 

I have no interest in Ms. Piona's schemes of moving to some commune in the mountains, with her crazy tin-foil hatter associates. I don't have associations with the kind of "Christians" or "prophetic ministry" she promotes.

None of this has anything to do with me, nor have I ever, in any way, shape or form, stated anything on my website, nor in any radio broadcasts, to suggest anything of the kind. Why she would be trying to contact me, so aggressively, for so long a time, I have no idea. I only know that she is barking up the wrong tree and needs to look elsewhere for recruits. 

She claims that she “knows” my “story”. But she knows nothing whatsoever about me. NOTHING. That has been made clear by her comments to Ramola, and her generic letter to "Christians" and "TIs". And how dare she address me by my first name. She is not on a first name basis with me, she does not know me at all. But it is clear that she is full of false assumptions, which she is passing on to others, including Ramola Dharmaraj.

Ramola herself was committed to a psych ward in 2025. I saw it coming, as she was out of control as a public nuisance in her neighborhood, accusing her neighbors of being CIA, and of attacking her with directed energy weapons, aggressively libeling them and invading their privacy. She also accused me of being CIA, and promoted her many libelous delusional fantasies against Barbara Hartwell on her website. All very damaging to me. She claims she is not mentally ill, but has continued her crazy rants on her website for years, with self-aggrandizing boasts of her own importance, and bizarre accusations against others which have no basis in fact.

 

FOR THE RECORD 

These busybodies, these tin-foil hat crazies, these “targeted individuals”, promoting their paranoid fantasies of persecution, have nothing to do with me, nor any commonalities with me.

I have been targeted by these characters for years, evidently because for some odd reason, they think I am “one of them”.

No, I am certainly not.

I am not seeking communication with “targeted individuals”.

I am not seeking to move to a commune in the mountains.

I don't own a tin foil hat.

I am not a "targeted individual".

I am a person seeking only privacy and peace, and to stop the tin foil hat crazies from harassing me.

So here's my message to the delusional crazies and busybodies:

Get the hell off my case and leave me alone!

Barbara Hartwell

May 1, 2026