*Update: A concise version of this blog appears in this video
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It very rarely
happens, but when it does, it kinda tickles me a way I would call synchronicity
if I wasn’t such a cynic! I’m talking about when two of my interests, which on
the surface seem to have very little in common, somehow collide into one “entity”
and become even more interesting. WTF is
she talking about? is probably one of the more generous things you’re
asking about me right now, but what I’m talking about is this:
A few weeks ago
my interest in following televised American trials and my interest in all
things conspiracy theory, collided when the trial of the 2012 Aurora gunman,
James Holmes, began in Colorado.***
To be honest, I'm
surprised I haven't seen anything from the "everything-is-a-hoax-crisis-actors-fill-the-world-what-about-WTC7"
crowd about how it's a gigantic hoax.
Although the event did happen almost three years ago, so a lot of them may have been 5150'd into that great big FEMA Camp of oblivion and beautiful candies that make you see rainbows.
For the others, well they either got sucked into the Sandy Hook denialist bullshit, or well, like I said it's been almost three years...and they are mostly like off chasing something shiny.
You've probably noticed how I haven't suggested that they've simply realised the error of their retardation and quietly slipped away. Because we all know that very rarely happens.
Although the event did happen almost three years ago, so a lot of them may have been 5150'd into that great big FEMA Camp of oblivion and beautiful candies that make you see rainbows.
For the others, well they either got sucked into the Sandy Hook denialist bullshit, or well, like I said it's been almost three years...and they are mostly like off chasing something shiny.
You've probably noticed how I haven't suggested that they've simply realised the error of their retardation and quietly slipped away. Because we all know that very rarely happens.
I've been following the trial very closely. And I think that the "holmies" who believe it be all a hoax, might benefit from watching it too. Because as all that evidence comes tumbling out, it gets harder to shield your mind. Who the fuck am I kidding, right? It'd be fingers in their ears time until they hear something that would confirm their bias.
I've even picked up on a few things that they might have used to their advantage, had they been paying attention. ;)
In the opening statements, for the defence, lead defence attorney, Daniel King, gave several
examples of his actions that “prove” that James Holmes is insane.
King described
Holmes' delusions of believing that President Obama was communicating with him
through the television. And that Holmes thought that his thoughts were being
“telegraphed” to everyone else in the jail where he was being held.
But as we’ve
moved forward in the case, which is now in its twenty-sixth full day, we are
far from having to rely on Daniel King to deliver the words of the defendant.
Now, and for the past five court days, we have been hearing from the shooter
himself.
No, James
Holmes hasn’t decided to testify in open court, in front of possible survivors
or victims’ families.
Instead,
through the videoed psychiatric evaluation carried out over 22 hours (over
various days) by court-appointed independent psychiatrist Dr William Reid,
M.D., we got to hear it all straight from the Defendant’s mouth.
The videos were
entered into evidence through the testimony of Dr William Reid, who evaluated
Holmes over several days at Pueblo
State Hospital during the end of July 2014 and the beginning of August
2014. Dr Reid was the second independent evaluator to examine Holmes, as the
prosecution had found “flaws”
in the original evaluation. Reid again visited with Holmes on August 27th
2014, once he had been returned to the Arapahoe County jail.
Through this
video evidence we got to see what James Holmes was like once he had been
medicated for a year and a half. Contrary to popular belief, Holmes wasn’t
medicated when he was arrested. He had taken a Vicodin to manage the pain, in
case he got shot. But other than that, he wasn’t medicated. And as for his
rather spaced-out appearance at his first court appearance the Monday following
the attack? (Which we will examine in full later through Reid’s videos) Well,
he wasn’t medicated then either. In fact he wasn’t medicated with any kind of
psychotropic drugs until he had a complete nervous breakdown in November 2012.
A full four months after his arrest.
Previous to
this, he had been acting bizarrely: defiling Styrofoam cups by balancing them
on his penis while doing backward somersaults, during the trick. His fondness
for pushing the envelope on new uses for Styrofoam cups continued when he ate a
sandwich consisting of lunch meat between, yup, you guessed it: two Styrofoam cups!
The above
mentioned “delusions” by Holmes about Obama speaking directly to him through
his television, and the irrational thought that his thoughts were being “telegraphed”
to other prisoners, all happened while Holmes was in jail, but before he was
medicated.
Obviously, the
counter argument to this is that the bizarre behaviour was brought on by Holmes’
“mind control” handlers, and that any subsequent changes in behaviour brought
on post Holmes being medicated, were simply so he would go along with the story
of a lone gunman and not give away the vast MK-Ultra conspiracy that was
actually the cause of the 2012 Aurora Shooting.
Phew. I
need to take a breath after inhaling that much bullshit at once.
Anyway, back to
Reality Land. I once again offer the evidence of Dr William Reid M.D. to
counter that counter argument. (A counter-counter argument?)
Although, as
previously noted, Dr Reid did not evaluate Holmes until July 2014, just over
two years after the event. However, previous to these interviews, Reid
familiarised himself with the case by spending over three hundred hours going
over everything on record.
One of the
first things he viewed was video of Holmes in jail just after he was arrested.
Holmes is filmed twenty four hours a day, and Reid viewed the first week of
these video in their entirety. This was important, according to the doctor, as
it allowed him to see how the defendant behaved directly after the shooting.
The only thing of note, to the doctor, was that Holmes “sleeps at slightly odd
hours.” That was the only thing that he noticed in the week following the week
of the event. If that’s evidence of “MK Ultra level mind control”, then I guess
most teenagers, college students, and people in their twenties, are under a
similar type of control. :/
But before I
delve further into what Dr Reid (and he is only the first of many
psychiatrists-both independent and “hired”-to take the stand) has found about Holmes
after the shooting, let us first take a look at James Holmes in the year
leading up to that fateful night in July 2012.
You see there’s
two strands to James Holmes’ life in the year leading up to July 2012. There’s
the strand of Understanding the Year leading up to July 2012 through Holmes’ interactions with his family, friends and therapists.
And then there’s
the second strand which allow us to view the year leading up the massacre
through the lens of how Holmes’ was performing in his graduate course.
Throughout the
opening statements for the State, District Attorney George Brauchler interwove
into his speech, through many mediums, how it seemed that Holmes was
compartmentalising the different aspects of his, almost, double life.
Below you will
find two videos. In each video I have painstakingly woven these threads
together, one video represents Understanding the Year leading up to July 2012
through Holmes’ interactions with his family, friends and therapists. The
second video attempts to allow us to understand the year leading up the
massacre through the lens of how Holmes’ was performing in his graduate course.
In the third
video, in this series, you find a short rebuttal from Holmes’ lead attorney,
Daniel King, Chief Trial Deputy at the Colorado State Public Defender. I will
be producing a longer version, for Mr King to have an extended say on these
issues, but as he addressed this piece specifically to Mr Brauchler, I am
including it here as a third video.
Strand 1: Understanding the Year leading up to July 2012
through Holmes’ interactions with his family, friends and therapists.
Strand 2: Understanding the year leading up the massacre through the lens of how Holmes’ was performing in his graduate course.
