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that could point to contact with "handlers," if there were "handlers." Away from his home and parents; anonymous motel room, where anybody could have met him without someone noticing. Contact with "handlers" could have happened at a lot of different times/places prior to his change of personality, but in the specific prep the night before the horror at Safeway, a motel room would be one of a number of possible "safe" prep locations--for "handlers" putting the final touches on their "monster" or for Loughner acting alone. A motel room could be a "safe" location for Loughner acting alone in a calculated fashion or even in a crazed state (needed a place to plan, and to stoke himself up in private). So it doesn't prove anything. But it does make me wonder. If you are "controlling" somebody, what are your options for a "safe" place to make extended personal contact, at a crucial moment, if you deem that necessary?
I also think it's possible that Loughner's crazy statements were the result of "programming" of an already vulnerable young man, rather than mental breakdown of his own. There is something almost "too crazy" about them--as if they were an exaggerated version of somebody's idea of how a crazed person would think. Almost a cartoon. Something about them doesn't ring true. Maybe he's a VERY calculating psychotic and laid a trail for a psychological defense long before he took action and killed people. But the things that don't ring true could also have been planted suggestions, in a psychological conditioning, i.e., creation of a "Manchurian Candidate" (someone who could be directed to do what he did), and/or, it could have been in the interest of "handlers" or part of their plan, to make it appear that he was loony-toons.
There was a lot of political bloodshed over the past two weeks--top Defense Dept consultant John P. Wheeler found in a landfill in Wilmington, DE (expertise in cyber-security and cyber-warfare, nuclear weapons security, air space security, bio-chem weapons and the SEC; current job at MITRE Corporation as a cyber security/warfare consultant; he was also the force behind the Vietnam War Memorial) and Ashley Turnot burned to death in her BMW in her own garage in DC (wife of Obama liaison to the House, lobbyist for Progress Energy, which, on the day of her death, signed a $13 billion deal with Duke Energy, which has a new aviation facility that MITRE, a big high tech gov't aviation specialist, could be involved in). Giffords had proposed a bill banning the sale of military aircraft on the open market. So there are some potential connections here between all three events.
It was Wheeler's murder on Dec 30-31 that got me looking into this. I have to admit that I've been LOOKING for a "states secrets" assassination motive in Wheeler's case, and just stumbled across the possible connections to Turnot and Giffords. One other thing I've stumbled upon: Recent disclosure in a closed Senate hearing that the Air Force failed to advise the Senate on some cyber warfare ops of theirs. The closed hearing was to question Michael Vickers, nominee for Asst Sec of the AF. He said that the AF didn't disclose their cyber warfare ops because the law requiring disclosure to the Senate didn't mention this technology, but, "if confirmed," he would be sure to review the law to suggest changes.
The AF has been hiding something, and the two who are dead and the one who almost died all have possible connections to it. Maybe Giffords wasn't a personal target of Loughner's nor a random target, but a specific target connected to these other two targets, Wheeler and Turnot. Giffords was on every relevant House committee that would have touched on cyber security/cyberwar. Was she investigating the matter? Was her bill aimed at banning high tech drones on the open market that were being secretly and illegally tested by the AF for private Defense contractors? This bit from the Vickers hearing could point to significant crimes that, in turn, could point to motives for murder of anyone who knew about the matter, who might have been intending to expose or stop it.
Wheeler, by the way, was involved--I believe as an investigator--in the Minot air base nuclear incident (2007). He seems to have been some kind of internal investigator of big government messes--which may account for his many different kinds of expertise. (His report on bio-chem weapons is what got those weapons banned.) West Point grad. From all accounts, a straight-arrow military guy, but definitely an "insider." Ends up in a landfill--thrown out with the trash. Police say he was murdered, but so far no cause of death, no crime scene, no autopsy/tox report, no suspects.
A lot of questions. Few answers. But it most certainly has occurred to me that the random bloodshed around the attempt to kill Giffords was intended to distract from investigation of the other two murders--to get them out of the newsstream, get the spotlight off of them, while the perps cover their tracks and skulk away--and to occupy everybody with a 'civil war' about guns, Free Speech and vitriolic politics, in a very hurting moment for all of us.
If there is a connection, and if this was a conspiracy to kill all three--Wheeler, Turnot and Giffords--and to distract all of us while somebody turns billions of our R& D tax dollars into trillions in private profit in weapons--then it may well mean that Loughner was being controlled in some way.
Given the history of the U.S. over the last 50 years, and the very out-of-control MIC of today, I don't think it's at all crazy to suspect such a thing, and I think it warrants a full investigation of every aspect of the Wheeler and Turnot murders and the attempted murder of Giffords. (Wheeler's death has been designated a murder by the police. I don't think Turnot's has been--but a BMW spontaneously combusting surely is a suspicious circumstance, especially in the case of a key player in a $13 billion energy/aeronautics deal).
As to your specific question--does evidence of Loughner's high anxiety point to his being "programmed"? I don't know the answer to that question, and I would imagine that high anxiety could be a characteristic of anybody planning to kill others, rational or irrational. I am rather more struck by Loughner's calm than his anxiety. It's one of the reasons that Loughner's truly crazy statements strike me as contrived or planted in his brain by hypnosis. He was thinking this totally incoherent, 'off the planet' stuff, and yet methodically going about buying ammunition, a high-powered weapon and getting a motel room? And then, when he's brought down at the scene, he says, "I take the Fifth!"
His story is so contradictory--so hard to make even loonytoons sense of. It is the contradictions in his story that I think may point to "programming"--not his high anxiety but the fact that someone who could not construct a coherent English sentence could follow the steps--1, 2, 3--of buying ammunition and a gun, getting a motel room, hiring a cab, giving the cabbie change and then shooting Giffords point blank in the head, shooting and killing six other people, including a child and wounding many others. His writings point to the inability to do this. He can't get from point A to point B. His brain is scrambled. You find such people on the street, homeless, suffering mental illness and mumbling things to themselves. You don't find them shooting congresswomen and then saying, "I take the Fifth!" His story doesn't add up. It is this combination of anxiety/incoherence (utter incoherence), on the one hand, and cold, calculated, methodical action, on the other, that make me suspect that his mind--his ability to think rationally--and his self-control--his ability to assess what he was doing and control his own actions--have been deliberately messed with.
His utterly incoherent statements about grammar and numbers point not to thought but to hypnosis, someone using grammar and numbers to confuse him--someone playing upon his interest in esoteric subjects to gain control of him. Yes, it could be self-hypnosis. But I don't think someone deliberately messing with him can be ruled out, especially at this early stage of things, and IF there was a motive to kill Giffords--someone else's motive, not Loughner's--then we have to consider how Loughner was used as the weapon. That's what I'm trying to get at, above. WAS there such a motive? His aiming at Giffords first, point blank to take her out, SEEMS to be related to his own nuttiness and grievances. But was HE aimed--by someone else--AT Giffords? WAS there motive to do this and could it be connected to these other murders?
At present, it stands on thin reeds--Giffords' bill to ban the sale of military aircraft on the open market, and her membership on numerous relevant House committees. Did she have a staff of investigators who might have been onto something with regard to secret AF cyberwar, Duke Energy's new aeronautical facility and/or Wheeler's work at MITRE on cyber-security/warfare? Was she or her staff in contact with Wheeler or with Turnot on this or some other matter that could have led to their deaths? These are questions that need investigating before the notion of a connection between Wheeler's murder, Turnot's probable murder and Giffords' attempted murder can be taken further.
I can't know if this IS what happened--a murder conspiracy involving Wheeler, Turnot and Giffords. I'm in no position to investigate and find out. All I can do is assemble information from available sources, on what the victims were doing that could have created motives for their murders, and try to answer the question (partly because of the time proximity of these events--all within two weeks): Are there possible related motives for killing each of these people? The answer at this point is yes: there IS possible connecting motivation. But we need a lot more investigation to judge whether a connection is likely or true--and, on that connection, which rests on thin reeds, at the moment--the question of Loughner being a controlled assassin arises.
Yes, people can go nuts and do great harm, all on their own. Is that what happened in Arizona? I don't know, but my mind is open on this question until Wheeler's murder and Turnot's probable murder are solved, to my satisfaction. Also, I think that the forces that could be behind these horrors are quite capable of creating a robot assassin--AND, that the billions and billions of dollars to be made in cyber-security/cyber warfare weapons and aircraft would be quite a plausible motive for doing so, if that profit was threatened.
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