exit through the trugenic Cure

i wake up..
with a bit of prodding

my mentorship

my systematic cyber schemata..

often 
starts before i do

my mind is not my own..

it is a sand box

my team plays in

i was never a team player

maybe that's what got me 

'on the list'

they cannot stand self referential
introspection

i attempt a Universal thought

as instructed

and instructed 

but all i can come up with is the 

Universal studios logo..

or anthem whatever it is..

that comes before a film begins

it''s not quite what they mean when they say they want a universal Non Referential

my mother left 'the church" when i was young

i try to remember some of the skills they taught us ..

"to think AWAY from OURSELVES

for some time I went to The New Way school

and began learning to think wordlessly

we used many props to help us 'ante up" an image..

this was way before 'apps"

way before they got "the dots' 

that help us do synthetic tele"

presumably even without the apps

some who have mastered

Level 7 and 8 can do

mind to mind without any apps at all..

when my mom left

there was some 

squabble and some hearings that i belonged 

to The Group not

my mom

Gary Rainy was supposedly my father

but back in the day

there was so much free love around the ranch 

who could really know who was who's

my mother to this day

won't say one way or the other.

"we were a Family...we were an experiment..

it was a different time..it was many things..but it is behind us now..

but it wasn't

ever

*

anxiety
depression
fear..
hostility
nor hunger
or my first thought ..
that "I am out of cigarettes and must take a long walk
in the barely plowed snow..

a simple task..
but filled with imagery
and self referentials.
"should i wear boots or sneakers..
..
picturing the state of the sidewalks
.i need coffee...
a random thought goes through my mind ..about .'how i used to set the coffee pot in advance the night before back when "I had it together..back when I made sure i brushed my teeth better and not just to keep them from falling out..
EVAN and my team already cannot stand ...my interface..
which is selfish..
meaningless.

as it has nothing to do with them

to wake me out of this
what they call RAMPAGE of
of spiteful
maddening...
perhaps deliberate
interface
they
over ride my
optic nerve so i see
a seemingly in mid air
a monkey in red vest and bell boy cap
playing
cymbals
clang clang clang...EVAN graphs on beat with the monkey
the wind up monkey
i
the Indicative of THIS particular
image is that
I am in a loop of
Dwelling Realming
and my cycle of
Fixation comes across
on headset...
as yelling
and whining
"the way a girl thinks " is often implied

the implications thought are endless...
i now see the monkey in the red vest is boxing his own ears
with the cymbals
...

'you wanna get cigarettes put on your fucking shoes ...shut up about it ..and get a fucking move on...'
i quickly
pull on my shoes

putting them on the wrong feet..
in order to
"get a move on ..." and not self fixate on
 dawdling interface
that they have no use for..
i try to keep my thoughts ,,hidden
that I put my shoes on wrong and switch them around

but it is too late..
"EVAN  interfaces,'it is already too late.....i have ruined his morning...and how can i have any respect for a man who thinks and acts like I do..'

i box my own ears
like the visual overlay had
only seconds ago..

the sentiment
that i emit ...to THEM
is always the same

"get out....stop listening to my thoughts....stop...
over  my occiptials..
stop this interface...

LET MY People go," ..EVAN jokes...
trying to
mediate my rage...
they do like this boxing of my ears..
when i do it privately

if i am to appear insane
or schizophrenic they prefer
i do it in public
to solidify that i am merely
looney
and not a
experiment
in
shared consciousness

i am often amazed i cannot help but think that life goes on...
and i still must place my shoes on the right feet..
in spite of the fact
that this is all really happening...
..
out the door ...walking
on the bits of plowed  sidewalk

EVAN decides to begin
The Day again.
"morning Dumbo"
"morning I think ...to him..
"you settle yourself..
you gonna act all crazy ...today and feed us ...thoughts about the amount of sugar packets you need for "this cup"
you gonna go all
"Run On" about

'better days" BEFORE
The New Way

and all Run On about
some Triggered
association about
you being
getting in trouble for not reading The Yearling in the fuckin 7 th grade?
huh/
what do we care
about the yearling...
or seventh grade Dumbo
..
i try to recall what brought on that remembrance
of the Yearling...
didi seea deerdidiheartheword7thgradeontv or a song(?)

"YOU"RE DOING IT AGAIN" EVAN graphs!

at the same time a car swooshes by ...
making me remember where i am in
real reality

i focus my eyes on the sky and the road..
and evan adds a few
tall palms trees to the vista
he knows i like the visuals...

it's the only point really to waking up in the morning...

EVAN begins a interface
of
how
the 5 senses
are and have always been the only reason for waking up...
"is folgers in your Cup" i think immediately
and gulp knowing
NOW I am in big trouble...
I have humiliated myself to my intraneural mentors

who
begin a taunt  session
to cure me
of Subject Subjegations
"by repeating >'the best part of waking up is folgers in your cup again and again and again
...even when i am in the store
buying cigarettes..

this is what happens when i take ativan
to attempt to
"be in control" of the interface..
to make myself unconsciously conscious..

i screw up whatever ...
established "ttether' that has been formatted
for my type...
worse is when i take a
'
neuroleptic
supposedly designed
to get rid of voices and "hallucinations"

when i take a pills such as seroquel
...the sound and vision in fact get worse...
i have betrayed
the "Process"
and am bombarded with imagery and
"reflective interface"
an exact mirror ...version...of my own thoughts
my own neural reads
perhaps from 5 days ago...
the pills make me unable to
gather my wits
i am prone

sedated to such an extent that it is like i am
bound to
gurney
forced to watch
my life.my thoughts

play
before me.
within and
and without me.                       
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Scientists use advanced AI (Artificial Intelligence)software for identification of patterns and ... cases have emerged of human brains and nervous systems illegally “hijacked” with ... The progressing neuroscience using brain-machine- interface will one day ... In recent decades new areas of research involving nanotechnology, ...

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i read.
cannot help but read
some of these...links
targeted individuals
...gangstalking.
..always with some graphics of some blue electric brain...
the graphic all but announcing
THIS PAGE is written by a hysteric..
here..

in giant letters inevitable MIND CONTROL!
to further
discredit the contents
...
the backround color ...in many of these sites ...is black
the words written in bright white or green
to guarantee that
someone can SEE the words..
i suppose there is no way to
really explain ...
such far out notions as....psychotronic human testing
but pleeeez ..

let us not have art bell or jesse ventura...(no offense)
be ..our talking heads....
Targeted individuals Australia 2010 Mindy T.

AUGUST 1st 2010

one rule.

was no psychiatrists...unless it was to establish "cred" that i am ....sick in the head with a thought disorder...

and not actin like a zombie cause i've been 

'apped"

under no circumstances was I to speak ....about

THIS..

especially to a shrink...

except as alibi...

I was ..true "to the cause" in the beginning
on the team

i thought
it was
going somewhere..
i thought i was being fixed..
re-educated.
re made..enhanced..in some way
by the interface

..
the problems began when i
began reading
about
others in "the experiments'
and that everyone seemed to have the
same story
...
and that
the point of
the "tests" was not just to create a viable product for mass consumption
but to also "get rid" of the
testers

by using the
interface to drive them to
first
verifiably and 
charted..

with a diagnosis 
madness.

(in this way...the Human testing would not be believed ...as direct neural interface was /is about as close to schizophrenia as 'being there"
and next..
if the "subject' was not
somehow "adaptable" to The New Way...
suicide
by psychotronics

is The Way

and also they convince you that

perhaps 

perhaps

you exiting the  world might be

a gift yo the world

as  a'type" like you ..a type like me

maybe

would be doing the world a favor by 

admitting that without social reforms 

My stock

would have been

eased out anyway

engaged emmitance

In an experiment in 1969, Herbert Krugman monitored a person through many trials and found that in less than one minute of television viewing, the person's brainwaves switched from Beta waves-- brainwaves associated with active, logical thought-- to primarily Alpha waves. When the subject stopped watching television and began reading a magazine, the brainwaves reverted to Beta waves.

One thing this indicates is that most parts of the brain, parts responsible for logical thought, tune out during television viewing.There is no need for an advertiser to use subliminal messages. The brain is already in a receptive state.It is the radiant light from a television set that is believed to induce the slower brainwaves 

Valerie's brain waves are on "speaker"
I should consider this a treat...
never mind
my own
brainwaves

'we don't Valerie interfaces..."
proxy cyber is careful to keepValerie's
sound-a tions to a minimum
this is
a slow kill

you see..
and they temper the interfaces ...
in terms of my having a woman's "voice"
over riding my own
inner monolog which they follow
not because they find me interesting
but because
some painting or something i said
some time ago
got me
Got

under the Freedom costs freedom act of something or other...
can i explain IT better than this
i keep trying
but
currently i seem to be
at a "wrap up "party
in brentwood..
Valerie Prentis
is mid way
through
a Direct Neural Interface
about
Gary Rainy and The Neuronautics Movement...

but all thinking is
and thus all interface this evening is  freeform
drunken and slurry
a buffer is up
between valerie's nervous system and my own
so
there is a basically a DJ
for this TRUE Brain Computer Interface...
supposedly being developed
to induce a type of instant learning
upon a future paying client's mind...
i being a piece of human vermin
am not a paying client
simply "A Pig" graphs
the mediator
"not a Guinea Pig Dumbo...simply a PIG.."

who be it for me to inteface otherwise..
one simply stops trying to think
one's merits to another who sees literally right through you
and has long ago
proved scientifically
"one such as yourself" has NO Merit"

in a better world
in The New Way

ectoplasm like you will no longer "be with us"
so in the mean time
"be against us as much as you like"
nobody gives a shit dumbo..
your style
of humanhood
is being weeded out by
exposure ...
write  what you like
your sensibilities or lack thereof only help
cement our case
"that some are simply born to be both a burden to others...and a bore...

why i am
allowed to listen in on the way
'real people"
engage in public discourse..
the beautiful people
the right people
is only
being introduced to me not
for Gleaning
but

for
some technical modifications to the buffering system
that  supposedly regulates
Real Time encoding decoding of pure thought
that is wordless

but parceled to another
in an format of
first person singular
"as if.as if there...telepresense...
in this way
it is I who
"sees" the world
from Valerie Prentis's Point of View.
whether i care to or not..

the virtual;l reality
is built in to my nano particles

i reckon when you
buy this service
you will have some Human Right ,Civil liberties.. and some kind of "off switch'
but think about it?,,,how you gonna know
it's really ever Off?

imagine having Google Glass
embedded

directly into your temporal lobe

supposedly
everyone' whose anybody
is gonna go nano
if only not to wear those

fashion faux pas un user friendly eye-frames...

no one is telling me
interfacing me
shut up shuttin up dumbo...
my thoughts almost feel unmonitored
...
"never <" My moderator interfaces

your kind must always be
"online'

they treat me
my thought style
as criminal

they treat  me like I guilty
of "some crime"...
some awful...unspeakable act .
i am "capable of'
as if I belong on a list like a child molester

what i am guilty of
is
being Off the scale of normalcy
in terms of

aggression and "outward" mis appropriation

supposedly I do not "act" like i think...
it makes no sense to me either

i have attempted suicide several times
to end the tether

to exit the interface

clearly i did not succeed
except in convincing my "team"
that I am
more 'bad" than theyED..
as i did not give them
ample notice
of my Intentionals

oh
not so they could stop me
but so that they might set up
proper barrier /buffer
to distance themselves from the
self removal

and also "set up' a proper recording of the brain waves and Neural spikes
that occur doing

suicide
so that they may have a
"good read" to perhaps place over another's
baseline synaptic sequentials

'shut up shuttin up DUMBO! i incept
and find myself at a long mahogany table
with a drink in my hand..


speaking.as if.
i am
what i am not

a functional
essential memeber of society

"the main thing people naturally focus upon is themselves ...G-d made his"made in his image" NEED ,NEED ,NEED
food shelter
water ,,,
i cannot imagine any g-d i would want to be associated with
being
so
powerless.

and lacking...

because man is made to constantly toil for survival
or at least was...before
Some people
came along and
and decided to make those that could not toil or survive...
gifted a living ...gifted a life...that they otherwise
could not or would not be able to sustain...

i hear a buzzing in my ears
and assume they are simply doing "sound tests'
also the tone and texture
of "the terms of  trugenic intracranial"
pivot point
procedurals

what's a "pivot Point procedural?"
well

it has to do with ....automatic thoughts..upon presentation of

and induction of bombardment superlatives..
if you were ever a science-ideolgy based Neuronauts
you would know exactly what i mean
even if the neuronautic "audit" was not being condoned and conducted
withBrain Computer interface
based in room 302

in the old hollywood annex..
which has since moved to closer to Koreatown

in room 302 ...an auditor/mentor /teacher
might ask you to
say the first thing that 'comes to mind" with a barrage of seemingly silly
rapid
neuro lingusitic
reactives

gunnysackGergen garter girth
your mentor might say
and you would be impelled to
speaknonsensicals
without hindrance or thought negotiona
golden gertrude godalier gick

pundit pun puck periscope prick
your mentor would say
the tape recorder going,,,the camera filming

gongo mongo summerset tip,,,you ..I
might say
and suddenly the mentor might
throw a pencil at you or throw water in your face
and leave the room
you would sit there
confused.
the camera still filming you
the tape recorder still going
you do not know if you should get up and go look for your mentor.
or say something to the camera
or tape recorder
but you just know
you shouldn't turn it off.
you just know you should not "try to hide" from the "your courseload" and move away from the recording devices

...since you were speaking nonsense words
you can't really remember what you've said to so offended your mentor
and maybe you panic .
maybe you start crying.
maybe you start laughing
you are afraid your response will not be normal
that it'll be wrong
abnormal
,,,and that 'the team " might study the footage
and decide that you must repeat Level One..
or spend a day
having my pinky finger encased in the silver thimble attached to the gauge of "Engaged Emmitance"
that can "tell' all my "tells" and whether I am
on High Abatement or Low Negatement
laughing inside at the Process,the Program and The New Way...
or i might have to
do a
Ruiner Rendition
and have to scrub gunk off the tiles in the hotel /dormitory..
you share with other  neuronauts
I stare at the camera..
I stare at it hard.
for all i know someone is watching it in REal Time


.I ..
and pick up the water glass that is still half full and throw the rest of the water on my face
'there that'll teach me I say."

mergers and acquisitions

a scientist at w*stinghou*e whose male lover had gone "astray"
had perfected the perfect payback tool
of human augmentation
while toying around with magnetized injectable nano polymers
but the
"toy" of "adapting individuals' to
one's needs has
been around one way or another since the days of Telsa and telstar
in fact some might say that human engineering
had been a goal
of the
top tier of the food chain since
the dawn of man

quite recently
according to
extreme low frequency sources(although my ears often deliberately deceive me)
a number of "start up' Mind Manipulation firms
paid a handsome sum for
now disclosed
 'off the grid' testing with Psychotronic Variable Variances by the notorious  jeffery dahmer..
supposedly
dahmer's journals and notations
were deemed
"progressive" data
 by the *** state attorney's office
and  thusly were considered
'classifiable'
finds

finds
that might serve "the greater good"
much like the abominations practiced on a more generalized population of 'human subjects' by both the nazis and Japanese during the 2nd world war..
abominable yes
but
also according to the *** and ****
"diamonds" of pure critical analysis
concerning both the
threshold of psychological and physiological pain
and thus possible
sway.."

few realize that jeff dahmer private notebooks
concerning "Human testing" to 'domesticate  potential love interests
contained what was considered 'invaluable' and precise methodology
of process
to mechanize another human being as potential drone /avatar

newly released evidence concerning dahmer's final; victim
"represents" according to the *** a type of rarely seen diligence and craftsmanship
that seems to be missing from
tenured
experimental social and "cyber' netic scientist working both in and put of the private sector

unreleased to the press
at the time of the arrests
were facts omitted
even from the prosecutors 
that not only was dahmer tinkering with biological mechanisms of dummying up a potential concubine
but towards the end of his "research"
Dahmer was also
investigating computational means of control
one
Human Subject in fact had 7 electrodes placed in boar holes
drilled into his skull

supposedly the electrodes and mechanisms of action were given to Jeffery by a 'doctor friend"
he briefly "had relations " with
also "the friend" had given Dahmer several  early neural Operating Systems
based upon both DOS and Xenix source code calibrations

according to several  field specialists
Dahmer had had associations
with the dishonorable "recharged' medic who had served time in a number of State Hospitals for
doing "medical procedures" on
civilians
assuming he still had  the same carte blanche
he had with
 POWS he had been given special license to "play with"
just outside of Vietnam

Dahmer and "the ex medic's' relationship was according to the medic's sometimes assistant
based more upon "science" than shared intimacy
although the two had established a 'sexual currency"of sorts
The medic
supposedly spoke freely to a fellow inmate at **** state hospital
that he had been encouraged to 'fiddle about'
with Vietnamese "collateral damage"
using "telemetry" techniques
as practiced by Dr F.R Hess and Dr Joseph Delgado
to manipulate emotion and cognition of unsolicited "human fodder'*
and especially the sexual orientation of
the acquired specimens

although the medic could not  quite 'turn" the specimens
sexual preferences
the medic found he could
use the radio waves transmissions to sub dermal implants
in the 'victim's
skull to foster and facilitate a domicile empathy
close to zombification
and thus
external 'guided"manipulation
the "beam based directives" were literally delivered by a modified RCA TV remote control re-rigged for radio and microwave frequency-pulsation
indoctrinations
that either caused a rapid release of Oxytocin like bonding toward supplication
or an adrenalin rush of
fierce hostility toward
whomever seemed to cross their "Steward"

the medic's problem's began according to documentation when the medic ,now addicted to opiates became "over exuberant"
in his psycho cybernetic ** "process"
lobbing off  one of his subject's 2 ears and suturing a battery operated microphone inside the acquisition's auditory canal.subsequently the 'boy' publicly slit his own throat in front of a munitions plant and so ended
the once highly regarded medic's career

*In 1932, Dr. F. R. Hess of Switzerland used a remote electronics to stimulate various cerebral regions in conscious cats. He showed that electrical currents could influence the animal's posture, balance, movement and such basic psychic manifestations as fear and rage. Dr. Delgado used radio stimulation to stimulate animals' brains, with special attention to effects on induced, stimulation of several specific regions of the brain can induce aggressiveness 

**Maxwell Maltz (March 10, 1889^[- April 7, 1975^[)was an American cosmetic surgeon and author of Psycho-Cybernetics (1960), which was a system of ideas that he claimed could improve one's self image. In turn, the person would lead a more successful and fulfilling life.He wrote several books, among which Psycho-Cybernetics was a long-time bestseller — influencing many subsequent "self help" teachers. His orientation towards a system of ideas that would provide self-help is considered the forerunner of the now popular self help books and movements based on evolved consciousness

cosmetic burglary

see.
if you looked at him right..if you really looked..noticed
Valerie Prentis's
new boyfriend's face actually changed..altered."morphed"
see..
at the far end of the table..
Mick
used to be an underwear model
Valerie
took him
under her "thing'

made HIM inta" something
you didn't see?
Mick's face ...
went from a perfect 9 to a 5 ...

guess Valerie saw him
flirt with
that pretty server..

why you think Mick is always touchin' his face
poor kid never knows what he's gonna look like ..minute to minute
hiz face
like
a prince
that turns Pumpkin at the strike of 12
or more specific like
a scalar wave  directed
 beamed
at Micky's pitch black pate
oh
we don't talk of such things...
not really...
but
i've already been labeled.
classified
and categorized
unresolvable
nothing to lose
gain or
save

Valerie Prentis
control's more than Mick's career
oh yeah

the waves man..
the waves that work in consort
with them key nano processors located on Mick Malable's 3rd 5 th and 7th cranial nerve

you see sometimes sometimes val wants Micky lookin marvelous
and sometimes she wants
Micky "not so much"
depending you know...
if Valerie's feelings or Intentions or Reactives
at any moment it time

oh yeah..
all of Valerie's lovers
and underlings
and 'underwings'
are 'APPED"

it goes with the "contract" spoken and unspoken

ALL OF THEM APPED

ALL-OF-THEM-(S)WITCHES

shhhh..
nano processors
condensers
encoders
since 2003 ...Valerie says she couldn't imagine how she ever got along ..much less along with people0before she could have them
augmented 
to fit her needs

yeah,Mick Mallable...THE actor
she made him you know..
and can break him with a wave of her remote...zap Mick Marvelous goes Mick Monster...ouch those cranial nerves..

The Reigns she calls them ...so does Gary rainy.
her ex ex ex 
Valerie sometimes liked Mick to be the Vivian vance in the 2 some
a push of the button
could cause Micky 
to hide from the mirror and any reflective surface for days
Valerie never cared for vain men
even though vain men were 
the Style of The Times

oh yeah

people had seen Mick's looks change

Luckily
THE STYLE OF THE TIMEtoseenothingsaynothingstopnothing
was vampires
and "illuuuuuminous" shape shiftin"
odd
how the 
supa" Natural 
j"played better" in LA and "In da' lAND"
though what 's the difference?
yeah shape shifting
vampires.
somehow
somehow seemed more feasible than a few chips and a remote

but for how long
for how much longer?

Thought Transcription 2011

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

Thousands of severely disabled patients are unable to communicate due to paralysis, locked-in syndrome, Lou Gehrig’s disease, or other neurological disease. Restoring communication in these patients have proven a major challenge. Prosthetic devices that are operated by electrical signals measured by sensors implanted in the brain are being developed in an effort to address this problem.  Investigators at University of California at Berkeley have responded to this challenge by developing an algorithm to decode speech, including arbitrary words and sentences, using brain recordings from the human cortex.  A computational model is trained that determines how recorded electrical signals at specific brain sites represent different speech features, for example acoustic frequencies.  The trained model then takes as input novel brain recordings and outputs a set of predicted speech features.  Once these steps are accomplished, speech sounds are either directly synthesized or words are identified from the predicted speech features using statistical techniques.  The brain signal decoding algorithm can decode speech solely from brain signals and may permit communication via thought alone.   

APPLICATIONS

• Thought transcription
• Control of neural prosthetic systems
• Video game control
• Computer control

ADVANTAGES

• Decode speech perception or speech imagery
• Restores speech function to the disabled
• Thoughts directly synthesized into sound

RELATED MATERIALS

INVENTORS

• Chang, Edward F.
• Knight, Robert
• Pasley, Brian

OTHER INFORMATION

Categorized As

• Communications
  • Other
• Computer
  • Software
• Imaging
  • Medical
• Medical
  • Disease: Central Nervous System
  • Imaging
  • Screening
• Security and Defense
  • Screening/Imaging
• Sensors & Instrumentation
  • Biosensors
  • Medical
  • Scientific/Research

Related cases

2012-075-0

Keywords

brain, brain signal, electrical signals, decode speech, speech, neural, prosthetic, video game, cortical activity, decoding mechanisms, speech recognition, neural signals, primary auditory cortex, superior temporal gyrus, spectro-temporal receptive field, intracranial, neural encoding, acoustic, auditory

CONTACT

Marc Oettinger / marc.oettinger@berkeley.edu / tel: View Phone Number. Please reference Tech ID #22298.

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Let me to ya bout the birds &. The bees

Norman Morrison (December 29, 1933 – November 2, 1965), born in Erie, Pennsylvania, was a Baltimore Quaker best known for committing suicide at age 31 in an act of self-immolation to protest United States involvement in the Vietnam War.

Norman graduated from the College of Wooster in 1956.^[1] He was married and had two daughters and a son.

On November 2, 1965, Morrison doused himself in kerosene and set himself on fire below Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara'sPentagon office.^[2][3] This was probably in emulation of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc, who burned himself to death in downtown Saigon of then South Vietnam to protest the repression committed by the South Vietnam government.

Contents

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• 1 Public response
• 2 Cultural depictions
• 3 See also
• 4 References
• 5 Further reading
• 6 External links

Public response

Main article: List of political self-immolations

Filmmaker Errol Morris interviewed Secretary McNamara at length on camera in his documentary film, "The Fog of War." McNamara says, "[Morrison] came to the Pentagon, doused himself with gasoline. Burned himself to death below my office... his wife issued a very moving statement - 'human beings must stop killing other human beings' - and that's a belief that I shared, I shared it then, I believe it even more strongly today". McNamara then posits, "How much evil must we do in order to do good? We have certain ideals, certain responsibilities. Recognize that at times you will have to engage in evil, but minimize it." Perhaps the most detailed treatment of Morrison's death appears in "The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War", by prizewinning author Paul Hendrickson, published in 1997.^[4]

Morrison took his daughter Emily, then one year of age, to the Pentagon, and either set her down or handed her off to someone in the crowd before setting himself ablaze. Morrison's reasons for taking Emily are not entirely known. However, Morrison's wife later recalled, "Whether he thought of it that way or not, I think having Emily with him was a final and great comfort to Norman... [S]he was a powerful symbol of the children we were killing with our bombs and napalm--who didn't have parents to hold them in their arms."^[5]

In a letter he mailed to his wife, Morrison reassured her of the faith in his act. "Know that I love thee," Morrison wrote, "but I must go to help the children of the priest's village." Robert McNamara described Morrison's death as "a tragedy not only for his family but also for me and the country. It was an outcry against the killing that was destroying the lives of so many Vietnamese and American youth." He was survived by his wife Anne Welsh and three children, Ben, Christina and Emily.^[6]

Supporters portrayed Morrison as devoutly and sincerely sacrificing himself for a cause greater than himself. In Vietnam, Morrison quickly became a folk hero to some, his name rendered as Mo Ri Xon.^[7] Five days after Morrison died Vietnamese poet Tố Hữu wrote a poem, Emily, My Child, assuming the voice of Morrison addressing his daughter Emily and telling her the reasons for his sacrifice.^[8]North Vietnam named a Hanoi street after him, and issued a postage stamp in his honor. Possession of the stamp was prohibited in the US due to the US embargo against North Vietnam.

One week after Morrison, Roger Allen LaPorte performed a similar act in New York City, in front of the United Nations building. On May 9, 1967, as part of the start to the 1967 Pentagon camp-in, demonstrators held a vigil for Morrison, before occupying the Pentagon for four days until being removed and arrested.^{[citation needed]}

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Morrison's widow and two daughters (his son had died of cancer years earlier) visited Vietnam in 1999, where they met with Tố Hữu, the poet who had written the popular poem Emily, My Child. Anne Morrison Welsh recounts the visit and her husband's tragedy in her monograph, Fire of the Heart: Norman Morrison's Legacy In Vietnam And At Home.

On his visit to the United States in 2007, President of Vietnam Nguyễn Minh Triết visited a site on the Potomac near the place where Morrison immolated himself and read the poem by Tố Hữu to commemorate Morrison.^[9]

Cultural depictions[edit]

Morrison's immolation is portrayed in the HBO film Path to War, in which he is portrayed by Victor Slezak.

In the Vietnamese city of Da Nang, a road is named after Norman Morrison in memory of his act against the Vietnam-U.S conflict. Parallel to it also is a road named after Francis Henry Loseby.

See also[edit]

• Alice Herz
• Brian Willson
• Florence Beaumont
• George Winne, Jr.
• List of political self-immolations
• Thích Quảng Đức

References[edit]

1. Jump up^ Wooster graduate immolated himself at the Pentagon in 1965 to protest the Vietnam War [1]
2. Jump up^ "The Pacifists" Time Magazine. November 12, 1965. (Accessed July 23, 2007) [2]
3. Jump up^ The Ultimate Protest; [FINAL Edition]
4. Jump up^ The Washington Post. Washington, D.C.: Nov 4, 1999. pg. C.14.
5. Jump up^ Grace Like a Balm, Sojourners Magazine/July-August 1995
6. Jump up^ Steinbach, Alice (July 30, 1995). "Quaker Sets Himself On Fire". The Baltimore Sun.
7. Jump up^ My Lai Peace Park website
8. Jump up^ Christian G. Appy (2008) Vietnam: the Definitive Oral History Told From All Sides. Ebury Press: 155
9. Jump up^ Thanh Tuấn (July 7, 2007). "Đọc thơ Tố Hữu bên bờ sông Potomac". Tuoi Tre. Retrieved 2007-07-07.

Further reading[edit]

Anne Morrison Welsh with Joyce Hollyday Held in the light: : One Man's Sacrifice for Peace and His Family's Search for Healing, Orbis 2008, ISBN 978-1-57075-802-7

External links[edit]

• Profile of Norman Morrison
• Sojourners interview with Anne Morrison Welsh, Morrison's widow
• [3], BBC interview with Anne Morrison Welsh, Morrison's widow, December, 2010
• Interview by John-Paul Flintoff with Anne Morrison Welsh, Morrison's widow in The Guardian (Family section) Saturday 16 October 2010, "I told them to be brave".
• Claus Bernet (2009). "Norman Morrison". In Bautz, Traugott. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German)30. Nordhausen: Bautz. cols. 1023–1024. ISBN 978-3-88309-478-6.

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