Most of us are familiar with the plot of the movie "The Manchurian Candidate," but have merely brushed it off as pure fiction. It's a common belief that brainwashing and mind control were the realms of spy novels and Hollywood fantasy. The unfortunate reality is that both mass and individual hypnotic suggestion to result in political assassination and shooting sprees happens more than you would believe.
      The history of this practice dates back to the 50's with the CIA's Project Bluebird. This and it's derivative, Project Artichoke, employed the use of illegal drugs such as heroin, mescaline, high potency marijuana, and principally LSD along with powerful hypnotic suggestion to create an alternate personality or "shell personality" of the subject. The shell personality could be instructed to commit immoral acts or go against the individual's survival instinct. These projects led to the development of Project MK ULTRA, headed by Dr. Ewen Cameron in Canada and Dr. Louis Jolyn West in the US. Cameron and West used these techniques as well as techniques developed by the Nazi's (for which most of whom were prosecuted in the Nuremberg Trials) to develop the shell personality into the perfect assassin, one who would remember neither the assassination nor the instructions given by the hypnotic programmer.
      Fortunately, this barbaric project was uncovered in 1976 because of the many lawsuits lost due to the provability of physical damage to the victims through the drugging process. The project progressed, under the supervision of Dr. Jose Delgado, to the use of electroshock and focused microwave energy to alter the personality because they left no evidence. This aspect of the project (codename yet to be declassified) continues to this day in many universities like Virginia Tech and military installations like Colorado Springs and Fort Hood. The development of these projects could lead one to believe that some of the assassins and mass shooters in our recent history could by the result of this program.
      Is it a coincidence that RFK's assassin, Sirhan Sirhan and Timothy McVeigh both had the same court appointed psychologist? Would it be a greater coincidence that he was Dr. Louis Jolyn West, the head of the US branch of MK ULTRA? Is it a further coincidence that Major Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, received his undergraduate degree from Virginia Tech and was part of the psychological department at Fort Hood?

      Of course it is! Don't be ridiculous! Go back to sleep! What would be the point of the government creating all this death and destruction?
      First off, I would say that it is not our "government" that is leading this chaos, but a secretive cabal that has infiltrated the highest levels of our governmental, industrial, and military bureaucracies. They use mind controlled individuals to demonize certain groups and the 2nd Amendment, create public sympathy for themselves ensuring the acceptance of their actions which would not be otherwise, and to silence dissenters. Shortly after the Fort Hood shooting, Obama increased the level of troops in Afghanistan by 39,000 and has urged the Senate to sign an international gun-banning treaty that would supersede the 2nd Amendment with nary a peep from the people.
      We, as informed citizens, must research these programs and call out those in power when we smell a rat. If we fail to do so, we will be manipulated further and further down their agenda until they reach their true goal: a formation of a worldwide scientific dictatorship, from which mankind has no hope of escape. I urge the readers to become as knowledgeable about these issues as they are about football statistics, Star Wars quotes, and celebrity gossip. As the eco-eugenicist propaganda shill Captain Planet would say, "The power is YOURS!"