by Dreams End » Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:11 pm
Once I went on a delegation to Chiapas. One of the delegates was a priest who served in Chiapas but was from the US. Another friend and I had started talking about the term we had developed "Global Girls." This had to do with our interaction with earnest but glassy eyed female activists mostly from an organization called "Global Exchange." It was half joking, but these folks seemed always the first to get any political hot spots (still do, in fact) and their affect just had us conjuring up images of little robots, gathering info for someone.<br><br>The priest just chimed in about how a friend of his had written a book (though I don't think it came to print.) The friend was a psychiatrist and was running into all these female patients alleging MKUltra type stuff (I didn't even know that term then, so he didn't say it that way). the commonality they all had was that their fathers were in the military and the abuse was alleged to have happened on a military base.<br><br>Now, these were leftists in this conversation. And although most leftists are "anti-conspiratorial" (I won't bother to get into that discussion now) my friend and I were open to the idea though rather ignorant about the whole MKUltra thing. Still, it was weird to have this priest (a very good man) simply confirm what we'd "joked" about as a real possibility.<br><br>Since then, I've learned a lot. And one thing I think I'm learning is that, whether MC stuff is that widespread is an open question for me, the abuse and related is surely much more widespread than is popularly understood. Hmmm (and do keep posting, please!) is right...if you have eyes to see, it is everywhere. <br><br>Recently I had dinner with a friend. She was a leader at a teen program I'd worked for some years ago and is now 25. She kept zoning out -- and always had, though she was quite organized and didn't seem to fit the ADD category, which we talked about, since I most definitely do.<br><br>She shared how her half sister had "schizophrenia" and had left her parents' and ended up, I think, in a shelter in Hawaii or somewhere. The parents came to get her, but since she was over 18, it wasn't easy. Especially since the young woman was accusing them of abuse. <br><br>They got her back, and she's there today. But I hadn't realized where they live. In the same town as the school of the Americas (Torture University for all your dictatorial needs.) Not only that, but her Dad is in very tight with the CO of the place and actually hosts an annual party during the school of the Americas protests. And my friend was really unsure where she stood on the issue. But now she is back living there. Working at an institute her Dad started for kids with cancer (he's an MD). <br><br>What could I say to her? I both thought and sensed that there was so much beneath the surface there. Very deep issues, combined with the School of the Americas connection. But there's nothing I can do. If there is anything to it, she'll have to figure it out on her own. I'll just sound like a lunatic.<br><br>I really think that either most of this MKultra stuff is b.s. and highly exaggerated, or it's far worse than we, even on this board, really imagine. <br><br>Think about it. As soon as ONE succesfully programmed person was shown to function in the ways they hoped, you think they WOULDN'T keep doing it? You think that people who know how to do this would not also start "programming" people for their own pleasure?<br><br> <p></p><i></i>