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)

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 Regarding "secret law, sealed law, and the contamination and distortion of the case law" see: John Williams, "UNPUBLISHED AND SECRET LAW, AND CONTAMINATION OF THE CASE LAW," Monograph, Consumertronics, URL)

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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.)

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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.)

Derren Brown:

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British mentalist induces a Zombie Shooter with a video game

Mentalist bests psychologist at "NLP"

Mentalist outdoes Advertising experts in subliminal game

Cf. Zombie Drug?

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"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 .)

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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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Inauspicious beginning?

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"As 2012 comes to a depressingly apocalypse-free conclusion..."?!

~ Brian Brooks (movie critic, source) 

"I'm going to be president for the next four years. I hope."

~ President Obama (source; cf. here)

"Could he actually have been joking about assassination? About impeachment? The apocalypse?." (Sources 1 & 2) Obama is such a joker (cf. e.g., here, here, and here).

"It's gonna be like fucking Doom, man..."

~ Eric Harris (Source)

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"Apocalypse" is, I think, also sometimes called "Doomsday."
 

(Source - DiCaprio again!)

What is the effect of publicizing these sorts of statements? Are the effects predictable? (Cf. Here) What "research program" (if any) has replaced "psychic driving"? Inception? (Cf. Here) Memetics? (Cf. Here)

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"Anyone who has been watching the news over the past few days will have heard the gunman, Adam Lanza, described as 'sick,' 'disturbed' and 'defective'." (Sources: 1 & 2)

"It's never just a dream is it?" 

~ Dom Cobb (Inception)

"Michael Carneal, who killed three and wounded five at a Paducah, Ky., high school in 1997, also was a video game devotee. Michigan State University law Professor Ken Saunders said the 14-year-old had no weapons training yet with eight shots struck three victims in the head and five in the torso. FBI officials say experienced officers hit a target once in five. 'It appears to have been his video game training that made him an effective killer,' Saunders said. Most recently, testimony at the Beltway sniper trial of Lee Malvo showed he trained by playing sniper video games." (Source: Jane Musgrave, "Game Link in Slaying May Have Merit, Experts Say," Palm Beach Post (Florida), Final ed., Saturday, February 21, 2004, Local, p. 1C.)

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"That's why the military developed dream sharing

- a training program where soldiers could strangle, stab and shoot each other, then wake up."

~ Arthur

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"U.S. Army recruiting at the mall with video games[:] The U.S. Army, struggling to ensure it has enough manpower as it fights wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is wooing young Americans with video games, Google maps and simulated attacks on enemy positions from an Apache helicopter." (Source)  "In recent years the Army has tried a number of ways to increase enlistment, including home video games, direct marketing promotions, a stronger online presence and recruitment-themed music videos. ... In recent years, the Army has had great success with using video games like America’s Army to attract recruits." (Source; cf. here) Joshua: "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."

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"A retired Army lieutenant colonel, [David] Grossman is the author of 'On Killing' and the founder of the Killology Research Group and its Web site, killology.com. He came to the World SWAT Challenge and Conference to address nearly 100 cops -- members of paramilitary police units known as SWAT teams, which is short for Special Weapons And Tactics. Grossman told them we're living in a 'new Dark Age,' an era of al Qaeda-style terrorism combined with Oklahoma City-style bombings and Columbine-style school shootings by kids whose brains are warped by violent video games. Most people are sheep, Grossman said, and you are the warriors who must protect them from the wolves. 'We need warriors who embrace that dirty, nasty four-letter word kill!' he proclaimed." (Source: Peter Carlson, "Sultans Of SWAT: Competition Has Law Enforcement Assault Teams Gunning to Be the Best," The Washington Post, Tuesday, May 25, 2004, Final ed., Style; C01, URL.)

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"A team of scientists have said they believe an old gourd contains the blood of French King Louis XVI. The monarch was killed by guillotine by French revolutionaries more than 200 years ago, on 21 January 1793. ... Analysis of DNA taken from blood traces found inside the vegetable container had already revealed that it probably matched someone of Louis' description but scientists could not prove it belonged to the beheaded king as they had no genetic material from any of his relatives. However, the team managed to find a rare genetic signature shared with DNA from a mummified head believed to belong to Louis' 16th Century predecessor, Henri IV, who was killed in 1610." (Source; cf. here)

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David Lightman: "I was trying to break into Protovision...[I]f it's military, why does it  games like checkers and backgammon?" Jim Sting: "Maybe that's because those are games that teach basic strategy." David Lightman: "Is this a game, or is it real?" Joshua: "What's the difference?" (WarGames)

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"The Connecticut school massacre gunman Adam Lanza spent hours playing violent video games such as Call Of Duty in a windowless bunker, according to an interview with a plumber who worked at the family home." (Source; cf. here.) It's just a video game!

Flashback: "Anders Breivik 'trained' for shooting attacks by playing Call of Duty" (Source) "On Aug. 28, [2003] two teenagers from Newport, Tenn., pleaded guilty to two sniper-style shootings that left one man dead and a woman injured. The boys claimed to have gotten the idea from Grand Theft Auto, a violent video game that has caused controversy over its potential effects on kids." (Source cf. Here)

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Apropos of nothing: Happy 19th Anniversary of CIA's involvement in the manufacture of video games!

See also:

"Tidbits"

"Hercules (and his twin)"

"Tony Scott" (&al.)

"Threats"
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