In yet another random shooting, this time at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, questions are being raised as to why these types of violence are on the increase.
Last Sunday, Wisconsin shooting suspect Wade Michael Page, 40, walked into a Sikh temple and began firing. In the aftermath, seven people, including Page, were dead and several others were critically wounded. Police are calling the shooting an act of domestic terrorism.
Satpal Kaleka, wife of the Sikh temple’s president, saw the gunman enter. She said that he did not speak but just began shooting, and that it seemed like he had a purpose and knew where he was going.
It was the area’s second mass shooting involving a religious community in seven years. In 2005 a lone gunman shot and killed seven people and then committed suicide at a church in nearby Brookfield, Wisconsin.
Sikh temple shooting suspect Wade Michael Page was ex-military. He entered the U.S. Army in 1992 and was discharged in 1998 for reasons unknown, having had his rank lowered from sergeant to specialist before his discharge. Page served at both Fort Bliss in Texas and Fort Bragg in North Carolina. During his time at Fort Bragg, Page had served as a “psy-ops” specialist, responsible for analysis, development, and distribution of intelligence used for information and psychological effects.
Page was also a member of a racist, skinhead band called End Apathy. On their My Space page, the band is described as being an “old school band with punk and metal influences.” During interviews about the band, Page claimed to be a native of Colorado.
Page does have a history in Colorado. Under the name “Wade Vanbuskirk,” he attended Littleton High School in 1987 and Arapahoe High School in 1989 and 1990. Page also had a criminal record. He was arrested and convicted of a DUI in Denver in 1999, for which he was sentenced to perform 56 hours of community service and serve 60 days in jail. According to court records, however, the jail sentence was suspended and he only served 18 hours of community service. Page was also ticketed in 1999 for driving without a valid license and also faced charges of driving with a suspended license in 2000, but the latter charge was dismissed. Page lived in Littleton, Colorado, from 2000 to 2007. Littleton was the site of the Columbine High School massacre in 1999.
According to 9Wants to Know reporter Anastasiya Bolton, who spoke to a woman identifying herself as Wade Michael Page’s grandmother, Page had sent her roses just two weeks prior to the shooting. “That’s the kind of guy he was,” the woman said. “I don’t know what happened.”
So what did happen, and why does this continue to happen in America? The spate of recent violence reflects a definite lack of values and disregard for life. Even those suffering mental illness often keep their behavior in check if they’ve had strong values instilled in them as children. But if values are declining in this country, then we can probably expect more tragedies like the one this past Sunday.
Another possible reason that has been suggested is that these killers were the products of some sort of mind control. According to the website The Cassiopaean Experiment (http://cassiopaea.org/2012/01/30/the-cs-hit-list-05-dr-greenbaum-and-the-manchurian-candidates/), “On 25 June 1992, Dr. D. Corydon Hammond of the University of Utah delivered a talk at the Fourth Annual Eastern Regional Conference on Abuse and Multiple Personality at the Radisson Plaza Hotel in Alexandria, Virginia. It was entitled ‘Hypnosis in MPD: Ritual Abuse.’ In it, he described a strange set of symptoms that he and other clinicians had discovered (often independently) in patients, which indicated a massive, nationwide, well-coordinated program of systematic abuse and mind control, which was often, although not always, indicated in family members of NASA, CIA and military personnel. Using ideomotor responses elicited under hypnosis, Dr. Hammond and his colleagues uncovered layers of ‘programs’ that were installed in victims.” These layers included ritual and “psychic killing” programs as well as shutdown and “self-destruct” codes.
Dr. Hammond indicated that he believed the purpose of the program was to create an army of “Manchurian Candidates” who would participate in a variety of activities. Manchurian Candidates are individuals who have been “brainwashed” and then hypnotically programmed to kill. One of the most famous projects involving mind control was the CIA’s Project MKULTRA, which was uncovered by the Church Committee in 1975.
Is it possible that “lone wolf” shooter Page was some sort of Manchurian Candidate? Page was ex-military and was involved with psy-ops during his time at Fort Bragg.
What about the Aurora, Colorado, alleged mass shooter, James Holmes? He had been a patient of former U.S. Air Force psychiatrist Dr. Lynne Fenton, who specializes in schizophrenia.
But were there similarities between these and other recent “lone wolf” shootings? Oddly, the Aurora, Colorado, shooting had overtones of another shooting that occurred in April.
On April 12, 2012, James Richard Ferrario shot and killed Deputy Robert Paris, 53, and civilian Glendon Engut, 35, in Modesto, California, after deputies tried to evict him from his home. After a long stand-off, Ferrario was killed in an inferno which police set. According to reports, Ferrario was wearing body armor and a gas mask and had booby-trapped his apartment. Does this last part sound familiar?
Aurora, Colorado, shooting suspect James Holmes wore tactical body armor and a gas mask and had booby-trapped his apartment on Paris Street with homemade explosives and chemicals meant to accelerate a fire.
The “odd coincidences” don’t stop there. The Sikh temple killer lived on Holmes Avenue. Holmes is the name of the Colorado shooting suspect, who lived on Paris Street. Paris is the name of the deputy shot and killed by James Ferrario in California, where Holmes was from. Wade Michael Page was from Colorado, and had lived in Littleton, the site of the Columbine Massacre. Page had been involved in psy-ops. Holmes was a neuroscience student studying the workings of the brain, and was under the care of an ex-military psychiatrist. He was a loner, as was the California shooter who neighbors said lived a “secluded life.”
So are all of these just random, bizarre coincidences? If not, then how do we search for the clues that might prevent the next act of violence? Perhaps it’s time to rent “The Manchurian Candidate” and watch it again.
Link to article as it appeared in print, http://www.gcnlive.com/wp/2012/08/10/barb-adams-recent-shootings-lack-of-values-or-mind-control/
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