Are spies mind-f-ing UC students?
by Steed Dropout
Oct. 1, 2013
Berkeley, Ca
SO SPIES ARE MESSING WITH STUDENT MINDS, WHAT’S NEW?
A band of agitprop troupers entertained U.C. Berkeley students, Monday, only hours before a mysterious blast rocked the U.C. campus.
The blast caused a few (minor) injuries, but trapped hundreds of students in campus elevators. The campus was evacuated.
Several hours earlier, the troupers/performers…”artists” had enacted hypothetical homeland security spying in response to the naming, recently, of Janet Napolitano, former U.S, homeland security chief as system-wide president of one of the nation’s largest campus systems.
Say what you will about Janet N., but she for-sure has too long a name.
It took more than an hour for the troupe to “rehearse.” Channel 2 TV left in disgust. “They’re artists,” a drone explained.
FSM's Savio Returns to Cal. Photo by Ted Friedman.
In their last campus appearance the troupers enacted British Petroleum poisoning Sproul-plaza fountain, which is named after a sixties homeless dog.
The event organizer told campus police he was affiliated with Santa Clara University, which is owned by Jesuits, so maybe he knows something about mind-spy.
Ask Seth Rosenfeld, who recently revealed in “Subversives,” FBI spying on Cal Berkeley since 1942.
This was the kernel of an idea for the actors, Monday.
The agitpropsters can thank the Berkeley sixties free-speech-movement for the right to appear on the Cal campus. U.C. police did not enforce a Cal-students only policy and looked on bemusedly.
Checkpoint Janet. Photo by Ted Friedman.DO THE PROTESTERS HAVE A POINT? REFERENCE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, 1957-61
The renowned sixties article, “Don’t Fold Spindle or Mutilate,” inspired suit-wearing Cal undergrads to take U.C. Berkeley to the streets over unfree-speech at Cal Berkeley and ended the promising political career of Clark Kerr, who then sat in Janet N.’s seat.
Every charge made against Berkeley applied (years earlier) at the University of Illinois, 1957-61 except that UI (Champagne-Urbana) added a new twist — psych-ops. Instead of folding and mutilating, we were used as lab-rats for one of the leading psych-research departments in the world.
Could it happen here? Photo by Ted Friedman.We we’re given a steady diet of psych-questionnaires, semester after semester. Free speech was violated repeatedly, for desert.
Add that to FBI spying on scientists engaged in military-use projects and you’ve got a serious mind-f…k.
We just accepted it as part of the “Man in the Grey Flannel Suit” era. Some of my college friends were already working for an org with alleged ties to the CIA.
This gives me an inside track on security-checking and mind-control. This was also the era of “Manchurian Candidate” and suspected subversive activities.
Don’t forget Big Brother although we seem now to be watching him on You Tube, rather than his watching us.
SO IS JANET N. WATCHING CALIFORNIA’S VAST PUBLIC UNIVERSITY SYSTEM?
Watching for what?
According to the sixties concept — “you can bet your sweet bippy” she is. If she detected a threat to homeland security, she’d be duty-bound to report it.
If you don’t find this credible, look at last years (pre-Janet N.) response to occupy Cal, which was quashed under the university’s steel boot.
Your brain on Homeland Security. Photo by Ted Friedman.Are the merry-band of pranksters at Cal Monday suspected of involvement in the mysterious blast, which has officially been laid, reportedly, to the theft of copper wire?
I’m reaching for my sweet bippy.
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