Showing posts with label Joker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joker. Show all posts

Monday, March 11, 2013

Veritas Vincit

Batman: "I have one rule."
The Joker: "Oh, then that's the rule
you'll have to break to know the truth."
~ The Dark Knight (2008)


"Judge OKs 'truth serum' for Colo. shooting suspect"

"...Suspect James Holmes could be required to submit to a 'narcoanalytic interview' as part of an evaluation to determine if he was legally insane at the time of the July 20 shootings, Arpahoe County District Judge William Sylvester said. A narcoanalylitic interview is a decades-old process in which patients are given drugs to lower their inhibition. Academic studies have shown that the technique has involved the use of sodium amytal and pentothal, sometimes called truth serum."

(Source: P. Solomon Banda and Dan Elliott, with Nicholas Riccardi "Judge OKs medication for Colorado shooting suspect," Associated Press, March 11, 2013, URL)

"Karen Steinhauser, a former prosecutor who is a law professor at the University of Denver and a defense attorney, said she could not find any case law about use of the narcoanalytic interview."

(Ibid. Regarding "secret law, sealed law, and the contamination and distortion of the case law" see: John Williams, "UNPUBLISHED AND SECRET LAW, AND CONTAMINATION OF THE CASE LAW," Monograph, Consumertronics, URL)







FLASHBACK ONE YEAR:

"A Chicago man who confessed to one of the most shocking slayings in the city’s history and paid for it with more years of his life than any Illinois state prison inmate has died. According to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office, 83-year-old William Heirens died March 5 at a Chicago hospital after officials at Dixon Correctional Center found him unresponsive in his cell. ...Mr. Heirens was a 17-year-old University of Chicago student and petty burglar when he confessed to killing two women in 1945...and the abduction, slaying and dismemberment of a 6-year-old girl the next year. ...In the ensuing decades, Mr. Heirens sought release from prison some 30 times, claiming that he was innocent and that he only gave a 19-page confession after police sedated him. ...In 2002, the Associated Press reported that students and law professors at Northwestern University who had worked to free other inmates had taken up his case. A clemency petition submitted to then-Gov. George Ryan claimed Mr. Heirens was given a spinal tap without anesthetic in one instance. One of the attorneys who prepared the clemency petition, Steven Drizin, said it also argued that police acknowledged that they gave Mr. Heirens sodium pentathol, a so-called truth serum, and that after that injection he made some admissions."

(Don Babwin with Adam Bernstein, "William Heirens, convicted ‘Lipstick Killer,’ dies at 83," Associated Press, March 06, 2012, URL. For more on the Heirens case, among other things, see: Cf. David McGowan, Programmed to Kill, iUniverse, 2004, URL.)



Although denied by "Lieutenant J.D. Knight...[and] Captain Vince Sauter of the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office", a possible jail informant named Steven Unruh makes several remarkable claims about an alleged conversation with James holmes. (Apparently, "[Unruh] has a form that indicates James Holmes tried to send him a letter, but it was rejected by jail authorities. ...Knight says he has no record of any letter sent by Holmes to Unruh, intercepted or otherwise.")

"What Unruh can prove is that he was booked into the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office Detention Facility on drug and theft charges at 6:44 p.m. on July 19 -- just hours before the attack in Aurora at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises that left twelve dead and dozens wounded. Unruh says he was still in the booking area when officers brought in Holmes, whose head was initially covered with a hood. ...[I]n an interview that took place several days before [Holmes' behavior was widely reported,]...Unruh described... [Holmes' running...(and) slamming his body and his head into the (jail) wall]."

(Alan Prendergast, "James Holmes: Inmate's strange tale of 'confession' and suicide efforts," Tues., Nov. 20 2012 at 6:40 AM, Denver Westword, URL. Thank you to Jim Brandon for the news lead.)

"[Unruh] says that Holmes told him 'he felt like he was in a video game' during the shooting, that 'he wasn't on his meds' and 'nobody would help him.' He says Holmes also mentioned NLP -- presumably, neuro-linguistic programming...-- and claimed to have been 'programmed' to kill by an evil therapist. 'When he got out to his car, he wasn't programmed no more...'."

(Ibid., URL. Cf. Here, here, & here.)




British mentalist induces a Zombie Shooter with a video game

Mentalist bests psychologist at "NLP"

Mentalist outdoes Advertising experts in subliminal game




"Headed by Sidney Gottlieb, the [Central Intelligence Agency's] MKUltra project was started on the order of CIA director Allen Welsh Dulles on April 13, 1953.... Its remit was to develop mind-controlling drugs... The CIA was also interested in being able to manipulate foreign leaders with such techniques... Experiments were often conducted without the subjects' knowledge or consent....In 1964, the project was renamed MKSEARCH. The project attempted to produce a perfect truth drug...and generally to explore any other possibilities of mind control. ...MKUltra involved the use of many methodologies to manipulate people's individual mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, as well as various forms of torture." (Source; cf. here and here.)

"Frank Olson (July 17, 1910 – November 28, 1953) was a biological warfare specialist working for the U.S. government at Fort Detrick in Maryland. He was drugged with LSD by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and nine days later plunged to his death from the window of a New York hotel room, in what some term a suicide and others allege was an assassination by the CIA." (Source; Cf. Here & here.)

(The Man Called X: Season 1, Episode 5: "Truth Serum" Feb. 24, 1956, URL; Image source)

SEE ALSO:

Mission Mind Control: ABC Documentary (1979)

Scopolamine: Zombie Drug?

Ted K[aczynski]., the CIA & LSD :

"It turns out that Theodore Kaczynski, a.k.a. the Unabomber, was a volunteer in mind-control experiments sponsored by the CIA at Harvard in the late 1950s and early 1960s."

(Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, "Ted K., the CIA & LSD," CounterPunch, July 15, 1999, URL .)



Professor Snape: "Know what it is?"
Harry: [sarcastically] "Bubble juice, sir?"
Professor Snape: "Veritaserum. Three drops of this and
You-Know-Who himself would spill his darkest secrets."
~ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

Veritas Vincit or Veritas Vin-cheat?
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

The serendipitous notebook

"...Police and FBI agents were called to the University of Colorado Anschutz medical campus in Aurora on Monday morning after the psychiatrist [?], who is also a professor at the school, reported receiving a package believed to be from the suspect. Although that package turned out to be from someone else and harmless, a search of the Campus Services' mailroom turned up another package sent to the psychiatrist with Holmes' name in the return address, the source told FoxNews.com."


Huh? What a lucky coincidence that the "authorities" had that false alarm! Or else they may never have turned up the real smoking gun package just loitering in the mail room.

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

A Fool's Journey


"the Joker as the perfect Fool"

"scene from Trinity #37 by Kurt Busiek and Fabian Nicieza; art by Scott McDaniel[:] D-level villains (and that’s being generous) Punch and Jewelee are used as the focus of Morgaine’s machine to find a new Fool for her villain’s Tarot. The machine identifies the Joker as the perfect Fool — which really isn’t a surprise — but unfortunately neither Punch nor Jewelee survive the process." (http://www.politedissent.com/index.php?s=punch&submit=search)




"three-parts learned, one part crazy"


"The 'Great Fool' ... Reason is an impasse, reason is damnation; only madness, divine madness, offers an issue. ...three-parts learned, one part crazy... they are all mad, that is, inspired. ...the general solution is to represent the saviour as the fool. (Attempts to attain this condition appear in the Bible. Note the 'coat of many colours' of Joseph and of Jesus; it is the man in motley[note] who brings his people out of bondage.)
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"[Note:] Call him 'Harlequin', and a Tetragrammaton evidently burlesquing the Sacred Family springs into sight: Pantaloon, the aged 'antique-antic'; Clown and Harlequin, two aspects of the Fool; and Columbine, the Virgin. But being burlesque, the tradition is confused and the deep meaning lost; just as the mediaeval Mystery-Play of Pontius and Judas became the farce, with opportunist topical variants, 'Punch and Judy'."
(Source: Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth, pp. 57-8 and footnote #1.)

(Edgar Degas - "Harlequin & Colombine")

Now playing:

http://www.muny.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=864&Itemid=100476

"The night is darkest just before the [aurora]. And I promise you, the [aurora] is coming." ~ Harvey "Two Face" Dent, "The Dark Knight," 2008 (quotation with substitution of a co-referring expression; "aurora" = "dawn"). The Aurora of the Dark [K]night.

"In the British Isles, the Northern Lights were known as the "nimble men" or the "merry dancers," names belying the fact that auroras were seen as clans at war, and the red light as blood spilt in violent battle. ... Scandinavian popular belief linked the aurora to dead women, especially to dead virgins."
http://www.webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/4C.html

The Victims in Pictures


"EOS (Êôs), in Latin Aurora, the goddess of the morning red... Eos [Aurora]] had an unquenchable desire for handsome young men, some say as the result of a curse laid upon her by the goddess Aphrodite. ... By Astraeus Eos became the mother of ... Boreas..."
http://www.theoi.com/Titan/Eos.html 

Doctor Polaris

"...Polaris has the unpredictable psyche of the Joker"

Doctor Polaris 



...As a medical student, Neal Emerson develops a fanatical interest in magnets, despite the teasings of his classmates. Emerson is convinced exposure to magnetic fields will give him more energy.

["Colorado Shooting Suspect Was One Of A Handful Of Students Accepted To Neuroscience Ph.D. Program" http://www.businessinsider.com/james-holmes-phd-program-2012-7]

...He later holds crowd-drawing lectures on "Health via Magnetism." Due to his medical background and belief in magnetism, Emerson adopts the name "Doctor Polaris." He even designs a special costume and mask to wear for his public appearances.

[There is a video being widely circulated depicting the alleged shooting delivering a speech at "science camp"; cf. "James Eagen Holmes Shown In Science Camp Video When He Was 18, Discussing 'Temporal Illusions' (VIDEO)" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/22/james-eagen-holmes-science-camp-video_n_1692991.html]

... Unfortunately, putting on the costume causes the evil persona of Doctor Polaris to take over...

["...covered in red paint and body armor" http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/dark-knight-theater-shooter-james-holmes-face-capital-charges-court-appearance-aurora-colorado-article-1.1119988; SWAT outfit: "Armored and Dangerous: The scariest innovation in the Aurora mass shooting isn’t guns or ammo. It’s SWAT gear." http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_nature/2012/07http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_nature/2012/07/the_aurora_shooting_bulletproof_vests_swat_gear_and_body_armor_refute_the_nra_.html; and "Joker Costume, hair: http://www.gossipcop.com/james-holmes-joker-costume-shooting-movie-theater-shooter-aurora-colorado-killing-spree/]

...Doctor Polaris is remanded to police custody; during that time, his "good self" resurfaces. ...

[Alleged Colorado Shooter James Holmes Is Dazed in Court
http://abcnews.go.com/US/colorado-shooting-suspect-james-holmes-appears-court/story?id=16834757]

...A reformed Emerson travelled to the Earth's magnetic North pole to study it. Emerson was at the point where the lines of magnetic force converge when an earthquake plunged him into a deep crevice. At the bottom of the crevice lay a glowing blue blob. The radiation from the blob altered Emerson's perceptions...Emerson created a mental duplicate of his evil alter ego...Once Green Lantern disintegrated the blob, the mental image of the evil Doctor Polaris faded away. ... Under unknown circumstances, the catatonic Polaris ends being held in Iraq, but he is rescued by Hatchet, Heat Wave and Sonar. The trio planned to carry him in the Aurora Borealis [a.k.a. the aurora polaris] to the magnetic North Pole for recharge... ...In 2001, Polaris emerges during the Joker's Last Laugh crisis attempting to take control of the magnetic south pole [aurora australis] itself...



[The Aurora Shooting: "James Holmes Aurora Shooting: University Of Colorado Keeping Quiet On Signs Of Trouble" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/23/colorado-theater-shooting-university-of-colorado-trouble-signs_n_1696502.html]

...Over the years, the Polaris and Emerson personalities fought for dominance, until Polaris was approached by the demon Neron. Polaris sold Neron Emerson's soul in exchange for greater power and being rid of the other, restraining side of his personality.

["...'He looks demonic,' David Sanchez said after Holmes' bizarre, semicatatonic first court appearance in Colorado, where prosecutors are considering the ultimate punishment.
'He had demonic eyes. There's something crazy about him.' ..." http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/dark-knight-theater-shooter-james-holmes-face-capital-charges-court-appearance-aurora-colorado-article-1.1119988]

...It eventually transpires that this is a new manifestation of his personality disorder; Polaris is hallucinating...

["Illusions Fascinated Colorado Massacre Suspect as Student" http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-07-22/illusions-fascinated-colorado-massacre-suspect-as-student]

...Another one of Emerson's weaknesses was telepathy, due to his fragile psyche....

["WATCH: James Holmes Spoke About Subjective Experience At Miramar College 6 Years Ago" http://pulse2.com/2012/07/23/james-holmes-subjective-experience/]

SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Polaris

Polaris "Jokerized"/"Jokerfied":