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By: Brain Chip To “Enhance” Soldiers » Pop Occulture

Brain Chip To “Enhance” Soldiers » Pop Occulture — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:21:48 +0000

[...] to get people to believe you’re crazy when you kill someone on the grounds that you believed they had a computer chip in their brain designed to get them to in tur [...]

By: alistair

alistair — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:46:44 +0000

tinfoil hats.

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:40:34 +0000

With that in mind, Jeremy found another really good article along similar lines:

DAVENPORT, Iowa — A home in eastern Iowa no longer has the power to scare off underground aliens.

Police have taken away a device from a home in Davenport after its new tenants discovered a box containing what they thought was a bomb.

But the house’s former owner said it was designed to scare off aliens living underground.

http://www.kcci.com/news/5116630/detail.html

Again, what if it was real? Or what if we interviewed the man who was using it to ward off his aliens, and simply found out what he knew, and what he was fascinated by?

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:37:55 +0000

Yeah I agree 100%.

I re-read Philip K. Dick’s Radio Free Albemuth over the weekend, and one of the things that’s well done in that book is showing the perspective of somebody like Dick who was on the experiencing end of some weird phenomena, and then how these things would be reported in the news-at-large, and among the enemies of such things. This article has all the hallmarks of the kind of misunderstanding or cover-up that Dick might have been portraying in works such as that.

It’s also too bad that when we as a culture hear that somebody who committed a crime was insane, we sort of just write it off and forget about it. Even if they are insane, it might be interesting and somehow worthwhile to actually interview this person and find out WHY he thought there was a microchip in this person’s brain, and his theories about who put it there.

By: hebrides

hebrides — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:22:57 +0000

eye don’t say that this ngal person wasn’t nuts and delusional but eye don’t NOT say ngal was nuts and delusional, either. after you read the long history of CIA experiments with making perfect assassins, along with Dr. JosÃ© Delgado’s creepily, scientifically-rationalized fascism in “Toward a Psychocivilized Society”, I simply find it premature to dismiss these kinds of stories out of hand. I with-hold any opinion on it because, medically and scientifically speaking, this shit could happen, at least since 1965.

By: John

John — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:21:48 +0000

that would be nuts.

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:21:42 +0000

I didnt forget the best part: it’s included in my quote above.

I should have commented on it separately though. I wonder whose handwriting the “computer chip in brain” note was in. What if it was the victim’s and not the killers?

By: alistair

alistair — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 02:34:14 +0000

he obviously failed to complete his mission to remove the chip but was thoughtful enough to tell the authorities of it`s existance. what`s not insane about that?

By: John

John — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:10:14 +0000

dammnit tim, you forgot the best part:

On her body was a handwritten note that said, “Computer chip in brain.”