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Kaczynski told me that the Henry A. Murray Research Center of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, although it released some raw data about him to his attorneys, had refused to share information about the Murray team's analysis of that data. Kaczynski hinted darkly that the Murray Center seemed to feel it had something to hide. One of his defense investigators, he said, reported that the center had told participating psychologists not to talk with his defense team.
I found that, among its other purposes, Henry Murray's experiment was intended to measure how people react under stress. Murray subjected his unwitting students, including Kaczynski, to intensive interrogation -- what Murray himself called "vehement, sweeping, and personally abusive" attacks, assaulting his subjects' egos and most-cherished ideals and beliefs.
My quest was specific -- to determine what effects, if any, the experiment may have had on Kaczynski. This was a subset of a larger question: What effects had Harvard had on Kaczynski? In 1998, as he faced trial for murder, Kaczynski was examined by Sally Johnson, a forensic psychiatrist with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, at the order of a court. In her evaluation Johnson wrote that Kaczynski "has intertwined his two belief systems, that society is bad and he should rebel against it, and his intense anger at his family for his perceived injustices." The Unabomber was created when these two belief systems converged. And it was at Harvard, Johnson suggested, that they first surfaced and met. She wrote,
During his college years he had fantasies of living a primitive life and fantasized himself as "an agitator, rousing mobs to frenzies of revolutionary violence." He claims that during that time he started to think about breaking away from normal society.
It was at Harvard that Kaczynski first encountered the ideas about the evils of society that would provide a justification for and a focus to an anger he had felt since junior high school. It was at Harvard that he began to develop these ideas into his anti-technology ideology of revolution. It was at Harvard that Kaczynski began to have fantasies of revenge, began to dream of escaping into wilderness
Originally posted by Bilk22
reply to post by darkbake
I started a thread regarding the idea that he was conducting some form of experiment in perception, a rather sick one, where he was not actually part of the shooting, but instead made himself appear to be through illusion. He'll have corroborating witnesses that place him somewhere else during the shooting. He then parked outside the theater near the exit, with equipment identical to that used in the crime. The actual shooter vanished before police arrived.
His hair is colored red and he was wearing all red so that he could be easily remembered. I won't be surprised to hear a report that some guy was in a nearby 7-11 or somewhere, at the time of the shooting, that fit his description. I just have some odd feeling the police are following all sorts of leads down a rabbit hole.
I guess we'll have to wait to hear more. He has not yet been formally charged, which is quite odd if they have incontrovertible evidence.edit on 24-7-2012 by Bilk22 because: spelling
Originally posted by michaelbrux
it seems obvious that James Holmes may have been applying his research into creating his own separate reality.
that he wired his home to be blown up and dropped out of the university suggests to me that he had no intention of returning. as if he was prepared to leave his former life behind and didn't want any evidence to remain that he'd ever existed.
this could explain why he has no facebook, for example;
i don't think his intentions were to be in the situation he now finds himself, but he did try.edit on 24-7-2012 by michaelbrux because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Bilk22
reply to post by darkbake
I started a thread regarding the idea that he was conducting some form of experiment in perception, a rather sick one, where he was not actually part of the shooting, but instead made himself appear to be through illusion. He'll have corroborating witnesses that place him somewhere else during the shooting. He then parked outside the theater near the exit, with equipment identical to that used in the crime. The actual shooter vanished before police arrived.
His hair is colored red and he was wearing all red so that he could be easily remembered. I won't be surprised to hear a report that some guy was in a nearby 7-11 or somewhere, at the time of the shooting, that fit his description. I just have some odd feeling the police are following all sorts of leads down a rabbit hole.
I guess we'll have to wait to hear more. He has not yet been formally charged, which is quite odd if they have incontrovertible evidence.edit on 24-7-2012 by Bilk22 because: spelling
Originally posted by Bilk22
Originally posted by michaelbrux
reply to post by Bilk22
you think they have nothing to charge him with?
lets say there is a Phantom "real" shooter and they don't charge him with murder....even though the the gloves he was wearing are probably covered in evidence after firing his weapons over 70 times.
who wired up his apartment to explode? is he going to claim to not have lived there? why is his DNA all over the place?
its quite obviously him...who did what he's accused of.
at this point his only hope of waking away from this is if someone can find the control panel of this world and make a change in his favor; outside of that...there is no hope for him.
edit on 24-7-2012 by michaelbrux because: (no reason given)
That was covered in my thread. Possible defense What if there was another person outfitted the same way, with the same weapons? What if they find all of the ammo he bought over the months prior, was still all there? How about finding that his guns were never discharged or that the ballistics don't match? If this is to be an illusion, that's what the evidence will show. He will have no forensics tied to him. Well that's my conspiracy until proven otherwise