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.<\/p>\n
Last Sunday, Wisconsin shooting suspect Wade Michael Page, 40, walked into a Sikh temple and began firing.\u00a0 In the aftermath, seven people, including Page, were dead and several others were critically wounded.\u00a0 Police are calling the shooting an act of domestic terrorism.<\/p>\n
Satpal Kaleka, wife of the Sikh temple\u2019s president, saw the gunman enter. \u00a0She 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.<\/p>\n
It was the area\u2019s second mass shooting involving a religious community in seven years.\u00a0 In 2005 a lone gunman shot and killed seven people and then committed suicide at a church in nearby Brookfield, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n
Sikh temple shooting suspect Wade Michael Page was ex-military.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Page served at both Fort Bliss in Texas and Fort Bragg in North Carolina.\u00a0 During his time at Fort Bragg, Page had served as a \u201cpsy-ops\u201d specialist, responsible for analysis, development, and distribution of intelligence used for information and psychological effects.<\/p>\n
Page was also a member of a racist, skinhead band called End Apathy.\u00a0 On their My Space page, the band is described as being an \u201cold school band with punk and metal influences.\u201d\u00a0 During interviews about the band, Page claimed to be a native of Colorado.<\/p>\n
Page does have a history in Colorado.\u00a0 Under the name \u201cWade Vanbuskirk,\u201d he attended Littleton High School in 1987 and Arapahoe High School in 1989 and 1990. \u00a0Page also had a criminal record.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 According to court records, however, the jail sentence was suspended and he only served 18 hours of community service.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Page lived in Littleton, Colorado, from 2000 to 2007.\u00a0 Littleton was the site of the Columbine High School massacre in 1999.<\/p>\n
According to 9Wants to Know<\/a> reporter Anastasiya Bolton, who spoke to a woman identifying herself as Wade Michael Page\u2019s grandmother, Page had sent her roses just two weeks prior to the shooting.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s the kind of guy he was,\u201d the woman said.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t know what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n So what did happen, and why does this continue to happen in America?\u00a0 The spate of recent violence reflects a definite lack of values and disregard for life.\u00a0 Even those suffering mental illness often keep their behavior in check if they\u2019ve had strong values instilled in them as children.\u00a0 But if values are declining in this country, then we can probably expect more tragedies like the one this past Sunday.<\/p>\n Another possible reason that has been suggested is that these killers were the products of some sort of mind control.\u00a0 According to the website The Cassiopaean Experiment (http:\/\/cassiopaea.org\/2012\/01\/30\/the-cs-hit-list-05-dr-greenbaum-and-the-manchurian-candidates\/<\/a>), \u201cOn 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 \u2018Hypnosis in MPD: Ritual Abuse<\/a>.\u2019\u00a0 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 \u2018programs\u2019 that were installed in victims.\u201d\u00a0 These layers included ritual and \u201cpsychic killing\u201d programs as well as shutdown and \u201cself-destruct\u201d codes.<\/p>\n Dr. Hammond indicated that he believed the purpose of the program was to create an army of \u201cManchurian Candidates\u201d who would participate in a variety of activities.\u00a0 Manchurian Candidates are individuals who have been \u201cbrainwashed\u201d and then hypnotically programmed to kill.\u00a0 One of the most famous projects involving mind control was the CIA\u2019s Project MKULTRA<\/a>, which was uncovered by the Church Committee<\/a> in 1975.<\/p>\n Is it possible that \u201clone wolf\u201d shooter Page was some sort of Manchurian Candidate?\u00a0 Page was ex-military and was involved with psy-ops during his time at Fort Bragg.<\/p>\n What about the Aurora, Colorado, alleged mass shooter, James Holmes?\u00a0 He had been a patient of former U.S. Air Force psychiatrist Dr. Lynne Fenton, who specializes in schizophrenia.<\/p>\n But were there similarities between these and other recent \u201clone wolf\u201d shootings?\u00a0 Oddly, the Aurora, Colorado, shooting had overtones of another shooting that occurred in April.<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0 After a long stand-off, Ferrario was killed in an inferno which police set.\u00a0 According to reports, Ferrario was wearing body armor and a gas mask and had booby-trapped his apartment. \u00a0Does this last part sound familiar?<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n The \u201codd coincidences\u201d don\u2019t stop there.\u00a0 The Sikh temple killer lived on Holmes Avenue.\u00a0 Holmes is the name of the Colorado shooting suspect, who lived on Paris Street.\u00a0 Paris is the name of the deputy shot and killed by James Ferrario in California, where Holmes was from.\u00a0 Wade Michael Page was from Colorado, and had lived in Littleton, the site of the Columbine Massacre.\u00a0 Page had been involved in psy-ops.\u00a0 Holmes was a neuroscience student studying the workings of the brain, and was under the care of an ex-military psychiatrist.\u00a0\u00a0 He was a loner, as was the California shooter who neighbors said lived a \u201csecluded life.\u201d<\/p>\n So are all of these just random, bizarre coincidences?\u00a0 If not, then how do we search for the clues that might prevent the next act of violence? \u00a0Perhaps it\u2019s time to rent \u201cThe Manchurian Candidate\u201d and watch it again.<\/p>\n