SANITY WITHIN INSANITY

A recent article in Natural News says that academics have been studying the controversial views of conspiracy theorists and have discovered that most people who question the mainstream version of event,s or contest their validity, appear to be more sane that those who take official stories at face value.

“Researchers, psychologists and social scientists, mostly in the U.S. and United Kingdom say data indicate that, contrary to those mainstream media stereotypes, ‘conspiracy theorists’ appear to be more sane than people who accept official versions of controversial and contested events.…among people who comment on news articles, those who discount official government accounts of events like the 9/11 attacks and the assassination of John F. Kennedy outnumber believers by more than two-to-one.”
-Natural News

It is reported that “conventionalists” were the ones who appeared frustrated and hostile. I suppose the reason the hostility happens at all is because those who trust the mainstream spin become uncomfortable when they find out that the world is not what they thought it was and so the reality is harsh.

In the movie “In the Mouth of Madness” there is an important dialogue that is shared that is very important to those who fear that their world of reality could change at any time.

It is mentioned that reality is just what we tell each other it is. Sane and insane could easily switch places…if the insane were to become the majority. You would find yourself locked in a padded cell, wondering what happened to the world.

The Natural News article includes this quote from the book, Conspiracy Theory in America:

“The CIA’s campaign to popularize the term ‘conspiracy theory’ and make conspiracy belief a target of ridicule and hostility must be credited, unfortunately, with being one of the most successful propaganda initiatives of all time.”

Now, it may not be surprising that agree with that statement, but it may also surprise you that I have a modicum of mental balance when it comes to conspiracy theory being theory and not fact. Sometimes there seems to be a schism of sorts when it comes to what is theory and what is fact and it is in that gray area of study that we must be careful and aware of.

There is a piano wire thin line between belief and research, and while I seldom tell you that, this is my opinion. I have to say that I do not believe all theories that I read, I am aware of many of them, I entertain those that I feel show the most promising evidence and reject those that I feel don’t.

This is what makes me unique in my field, and although I know there are detractors out there that will paint me as a right-wing extremist conspiracy theorist, the truth is I analyze theories as to their validity and am not quick to call them fact until the facts have presented themselves.

I have been asked many times what my biggest fears are, being a talk show host that speaks about how the world is teetering towards madness. I always say that while have several fears one of the greatest is losing control of my mind and becoming so overtly paranoid that I hide within the nightmares of the things I speculate and talk about.

This is something that we should all be aware of. Many people aren’t and they allow themselves to be caught up in a form of involuntary entrapment with regard to their religious views and in some of their most extremist views with regard to theories presented about the government and how it deals with us and our well being.

In a lot of ways it is harmless to talk about various conspiracies and when the truth bears out we can always say that theory has been proven to be true, however there are always extremists in every religion, in scientific laboratory, and even the groups that hold beliefs that are considered to be fringe.
It can be laughed at, it has been depicted as tin foil hat territory, but it is most certainly considered as a part of the pop culture that can indulge in what is called sanity within insanity.

It is then we must draw the line between what is extreme belief and what is reasonable or normal questioning of the motives of government or the prevailing oligarchy.
Perceived public opinion, has been an agreed upon reality that is set primarily by social engineers that are found in places like the state department, and in news organizations that are owned by a few companies nationwide.
The standard of consensus belief is a very tricky subject to approach. There is a fine line between sane and insane.

Today the biggest enemy of the state is the person who asks questions. This is a very significant moment in history. The number one enemy of the empire’s process of takeover is the checks and balances that come with something as simple as critical thinking.

The safety and protection we have all wanted out of fear is now becoming a mandatory exercise and we are going to be under the microscope of big brother with state controlled medical healthcare, environmental enforcement, and further curtailing of individual freedoms.

I have pointed out that we are now in the middle of reality breakdown, and within that breakdown some people are losing their minds. Some people are not satisfied with speculation and discussion. It has to be a belief or disbelief without the middle ground to discuss. The reactionary eventually becomes an extremist and the extremist is fodder for the nightly news if the extremism extends to harming other people.

We must always remember that what we think we know about our reality is merely a spin provided by an information monopoly that hopes they can coerce you into believing things that may or may not be true. It is so hard to determine truth in times of cognitive dissonance in time where there appears to be a crisis of discernment.

Even though the mainstream narrative will attack those who wish to topple the information monopoly, there many people who see one thing and are told that what they are seeing is not what they think.

The reality that needs to be declared is that the media now assumes the role of twisting the public dialogue into accepting total control by the government and a police state spirituality that only gives a religious dynamic to the governing body and not to the citizens.

This type of information twist can confuse and create problems that will appear on the pop culture radar. Soon the court of public opinion will weigh in on the way a story is presented and those involved become less than people. They become subjects to ridicule and make fun of, when perhaps we should analyze more of what the subjects have been instead of what we and the media have shaped them to be.

In April 2013, Joshua and Sharyn Hakken kidnapped their two young sons from the home of the boys’ maternal grandparents. The family sought asylum in Cuba, but the Cubans turned them over to the U.S. government. The contents of documents pertaining to their kidnapping case are just now being reported. In them, the Hakkens tell a bizarre story of uncovering the government’s secret mind-control agenda and their subsequent harassment by the U.S. government.

Both were engineers by trade. Sharyn worked ten years for Hanecki Consulting Engineers and Joshua worked for Hahn Engineering. However, according to an FBI assessment found in the court documents, Joshua “lost his engineering job last year because of ‘erratic behavior and continually coming to work smelling of marijuana.’”

According to the Huffington Post, the Hakkens lived in the Tampa area, close enough to MacDill Air Force Base to see the base’s annual air show from their home.
Joshua had been a cadet at the U.S. Air Force Academy for two years but did not complete his studies.

According to a news reporter who read some of the court documents, Joshua claimed that while at the Academy he was a victim of torture and mind control experiments. According to the FBI assessment, “Joshua Hakken ‘felt the Air Force was trying to ‘poison’ the minds of cadets.’”

Meanwhile after a long and tenuous battle between the court system and the maternal grandparents there were incidents where both Joshua and Sharyn would take their children away.

According to the Huffington post, police in Louisiana came upon a disturbing scene in a hotel room: The Hakkens were inside with drugs and weapons, talking about “completing their ultimate journey” and saying they were traveling across the country to “take a journey to Armageddon,” Daniel Seuzeneau, a spokesman for Slidell Police, said in a news release. Their two children were in the room at the time.
According to Tampa Bay news Channel 9 :

Police were called to a motel the family was staying in after receiving calls that Sharyn was running down the halls and knocking on people’s doors. “They got a report there was a lady loud and running around the halls and knocking on doors,” said Jorge Leon Chalela, an attorney representing Joshua Hakken. “When they responded, they found her, they made observations of her and also concluded they couldn’t engage in a proper dialogue because she was unable to speak clearly and it was as if she was in another world.

The report said officers also smelled marijuana in the room.

Joshua Hakken was arrested on drug charges. His wife was taken to a mental health facility and the two children, ages 2 and 4, were put into foster care.

The Tampa Bay Times said that the police report states officers noticed Sharyn had “multiple bruises on her body and bumps on her head, where it looked like she was beaten.” It also says Joshua Hakken “stated he has choked Sharyn to the point of unconsciousness before to relieve her of evil spirits.

Joshua claimed that evil Spirits would take over his wife’s body and talk through her. And that physical abuse was the only way to bring her back to reality and get the spirits to go away.”

Finally the Hakkens decided to seek political asylum, in Cuba.

“We cannot safely return to the United States and are seeking political asylum in your country,” the Hakkens wrote in a letter explaining their predicament to the Cuban government. They claimed to have uncovered a shocking fact through their engineering jobs: U.S. officials were secretly trying to control Americans’ minds with chemicals spread from airplanes.”

The Hakkens believed that planes were dropping poisons in the form of Chemtrails and that with the use of HAARP the U.S. atmospheric research station in Alaska the government was able to control minds of people and the weather.

Now, many people have discussed this over the years, and while the idea of Chemtrails and HARRP are mainstream conspiracy theory topics, news papers from the Tampa Bay times and others have vilified the topics as right wing extremism, that is spoken of on “tea party” blogs and has pointed out that the Southern Poverty Law Center has placed Chemtrails and the HARRP project on their 2010 list of the radical right’s 10 most popular conspiracy theories.

Also according to the mainstream media Hakken was a right wing radical that believed in the Illuminati.

What is most disgusting is how the media in the midst of possible psychiatric problems with Hakken has opted to call conspiracy theorists right wing extremists, when conspiracy theory has existed to try and open the dialogue about the Kennedy assassination and most topics that span both political spectrums.

Peter Jamison is the reporter of the Tampa Bay times who is responsible for the article which labels conspiracy theory as form of right wing extremism and literally holds up Joshua Kakken as all that is wrong with even questioning the motives or activities of the government.

I think someone should tell Peter Jamison that his account and writing of the Hakken case is biased and screams of poorly written journalism. Conspiracy theorists and theories are not just provided by Tea Party members or even the right wing, but are shared amongst all political views.

The idea that Joshua Hakken’s beliefs and obvious mental illness is being made a political talking point and that his views are the viewpoints of all conspiracy theorists is irresponsible.

While much of what Joshua has stated has a lot of evidence backing it and while he was able to make a speech during his trial for kidnapping it is interesting to note that he will have to serve 15 years in jail for the kidnapping of his own children, Sharyn Hakken was sentenced to seven years in prison, followed by 10 years of probation. With credit for time served, she could be released in about five years, her attorney said.

Keep in mind that rapists, pedophiles, and some child murderers serve less time.

There is also the factor of insanity in the case of Joshua Kakken. Being a conspiracy theorist does not make you insane, at least this has not been made clear in a court of law but Joshua Kakken was allowed to make a 30 minute speech after sentencing where he claims to be a prophet.

Hakken stood and drawing on Greek mythology, the Abrahamic religions and the latest headlines he made a speech about being spoken of as a witness in the prophecies.

He had been reborn twice, survived attempts on his life and witnessed deer, snakes and foxes bow down to him, he said.

“I am Icarus,” he told the judge. “I am Muhammad to the Shia Muslims. I am the … Joshua to the tribe of Judah. I am the Pahana, or the true white friend of the Hopi.”

He apologized profusely to his wife for keeping this from her. But like most women presented a husband’s claims to divinity, Sharyn Hakken, 36, did not appear impressed in the courtroom.

“I am the one written about in prophesies,” Joshua Hakken said.

It was for this reason that CIA agents had been hunting him for years, he said. But it was when he was arrested in Louisiana in 2012 on drug charges and later lost custody of his children that he knew he could no longer abide the government’s fiddling in his life. Last year, he decided to “rearm” himself and flee, stopping first to abduct his sons from their grandmother near Tampa.

A 15-year prison sentence would cost taxpayers several hundred thousand dollars and will worsen Joshua’s paranoid delusions. Prison could offer no mental health treatment beyond psychotropic medications, which Joshua has refused to take, he said, adding that a state mental hospital is the proper place.

“I am not, nor have I ever believed myself to be insane. That is the prognosis of the court doctors,” Joshua told Tharpe. “I do want treatment, either to make these doctors aware of the logic of my arguments and convince them that these things happened to me … or to convince me that I’m wrong and I’m insane. I feel like I’m in two worlds right now.”

The strangest thing about the Hakkens is they, like other so called mind controlled suspects, seem to go through physical changes on their road to personal Armageddon.

It is interesting to note that while Joshua looks like a bearded lunatic now, he and his wife appeared as a normal couple in their photographs taken years before annd after their alleged mental attacks from government they look completely different.

It seems that there is a certain point where the so called mentally controlled suspect goes through a transmogrification or a shift in look.

Here is another example of suspects who claimed to be harassed by the government and claimed to have been programmed to kill: James Holmes of the Colorado “Dark Knight” shooting , and Jared Loughner, the lone nut shooter of Gabrielle Giffords.

Do they all look like they have been changed in some drastic way after the mind has kicked into a mode of traumatic mental control either real of perceived?

Needless to say the Hakken story feeds into the State Department’s narrative about the domestic terror threat posed by Veterans or former military personnel. It also feeds the monster that claims that conspiracy theorists are ticking time bombs that are ready to crack and in the case of the irresponsible reporting Peter Jamison, conspiracy theorists are right wing extremists and that anyone who indulges in a conspiracy theory has to be leaning towards becoming a tea party member or worse.

I hope all of those “left wing conspiracy theorists” still waiting for the truth about JFK and the 9/11 attacks are being equally considered for the cranky category.