Syntax Error

[salvorhardin]

Karen Stollznow had an excellent overview yesterday at CSI of the rather bizarre ideas of David Wynn Miller, which are said to have influenced Jared Loughner.

In an effort to understand the January 2011 shootings in Tucson, Arizona, the media took an interest in the online presence of the accused, Jared Lee Loughner. He had posted a series of YouTube videos in which he made some unorthodox claims about language. These ramblings included, “The government is implying mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar. You control your English grammar structure.”1

This brought to light the beliefs of conspiracy theorist David Wynn Miller, the inventor of Correct Language. Miller devised Correct Language as a method of writing and speaking while navigating the legal system that supposedly “protects people from the government.”

Although it appears his theories were influential to Loughner’s ideology, Miller has not been implicated in the murders. Let’s leave aside Loughner and take a closer look at David Wynn Miller, who prefers to be known as Judge :David-Wynn: Miller.

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Miller concluded that the world’s governments and legal systems are deceptive and that “The English Language Has Been Deliberately Modified to Enslave Us!” He embarked on a search for a method to circumvent deception in language, spending a reputed 59,000 hours studying historical linguistics, the evolution of language. He concluded that the world’s languages are all fiction: “Tirelessly researching Language globally, on the 6th of April 1988 cracked the code. His research took him back 8500 years prior, when it became apparent this was the beginning of Language being bastardised.”
Full post: http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/syntax_error

You know, I can understand how people get to most conspiracy theories but Miller's 8,500 year old language conspiracy is so far out there that it just boggles the mind. Karen's article is a fascinating glimpse into a very, very strange mind.

[OnTheOtherHand]

1. yikes

I had heard of this guy, but hadn't tried to wrap my head around the crazy. Probably just as well.

Oh, let me try that "name" with the "no emoticons" setting: Judge :David-Wynn: Miller. Naturally, the colons and hyphen change his name from two adjectives to a noun, because he uses prepositional phrases. Through punctuation. Which makes me want the emoticons back.

[salvorhardin]

2. Gah, I didn't even notice that DU transformed his name into emoticons

He's got the best 9-11 CT I've ever heard of though -- exploding plastic furniture!

When the Sept. 11 attacks occurred, the Center towers collapsed in six seconds, Miller says, not the 12 seconds it would have taken normal matter. Plus, all the concrete turned to dust. Having discovered the "mathematical interface that all steel is plastic" some years back, Miller understands perfectly what "the physics of plastic" is trying to tell him: A magnetic pulse brought down the towers.

What creates a magnetic pulse? C-4 plastic explosive. Who has C-4? The military. Who controls the military? The post office.

And there you have it. Postal authorities sneaked into the towers, replacing all chairs, tables and file cabinets with plastic furniture. Explosive plastic furniture. The steel in the building — well, that was plastic steel, and it was utterly destroyed by the C-4, which is only capable of destroying other plastic "polymers."

"That's what gave us certification that it was an inside job," Miller explains.

From this article: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2003/spring/full-colon-miller

[zappaman]

3. wow

that is some wacky stuff.
it is easy to see someone as mentally damaged as Loughner going for this and also being a 9/11 "truther".
Hard to say which is crazier.

[SDuderstadt]

4. I am petitioning DU to allow me to...

change my username to s*d'i?d,e.r:s;a!d"t¿

[salvorhardin]

5. Just be sure to include the "FOR THE" in front and do it in all caps. n/t

[SDuderstadt]

6. Damn it...

Maybe I need to take Miller's class.