by Allen Douglas and Michael J. Sharp
Mass murder in Australia: Tavistock's Martin Bryant
On April 28, 1996, twenty-eight-year-old Martin Bryant entered the
Broad Arrow cafeteria in Port Arthur, in the Australian state of
Tasmania.
After eating lunch, he remarked to a patron, "There are a lot of
WASPS, not a lot of Japs." He then picked up his bag and walked toward
the entrance, where he took out a military-style semi-automatic rifle.
Within 15 seconds, he had slaughtered 12 people and injured several
more. Some tried to escape; he gunned them down systematically, laughing
as he fired. He chased one man onto a waiting bus and killed him, then
shot the bus driver. Others tried to hide beneath the bus, but he
climbed underneath it and killed them, too.
A young mother with a six- and a three-year-old daughter begged,
"Please don't hurt my babies." He shot her and the three-year-old, then
pursued the six-year-old behind a tree, where he put the rifle to the
girl's neck, and fired. After executing others in the parking lot, he
drove some miles to a bed-and-breakfast, the Seascape Cottage, whose
elderly owners he had known for most of his life, and whom he had
murdered on his way to Port Arthur.
Armed with an extensive arsenal, moving from room to room and firing
at police, he kept dozens of members of the elite Special Operations
Groups of Tasmania and neighboring Victoria at bay throughout the night.
Finally, at 8:45 the next morning, after setting the building afire,
Bryant emerged with his clothes alight, screaming, into the arms of
waiting police. The final toll, including a hostage Bryant had taken
with him to Seascape from Port Arthur, was 35 dead and 20 wounded--the
greatest mass murder in Australia's history.
Within days, the Liberal-National coalition government of Prime
Minister John Howard called for the adoption of draconian gun control
laws, which proposal was protested with huge demonstrations in Melbourne
and other Australian cities; Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer
repeatedly made the false, outlandish accusation that the demonstrations
were organized by American statesman Lyndon LaRouche.
The Tavistock Institute's lone nuts -
As {EIR} has documented (see issue of April 4, 1997), Great Britain
is the command center for world terrorism today. This article will
demonstrate, through examining the case of Martin Bryant, that the
dozens of mass murderers who have exploded into the world's headlines
over the last decade or so, constitute a special capability within the
Crown's arsenal.
Already in May 1996, after a quick investigation of the Port Arthur
massacre, including discussions with Australian police and
counter-terror specialists, LaRouche's Australian associates in the
Citizens Electoral Council charged in their newspaper, {The New
Citizen}, that the incident -
"... bore all the hallmarks of the blind terror campaigns
pioneered by the Tavistock Institute in London, an arm of British
intelligence which ... has conducted precisely the kind of experiments
necessary to create and manipulate damaged personalities such as Martin
Bryant."
The article recounted the evidence already in hand to support that
conclusion; it was hysterically denounced by some of Australia's major
media, and by the British Broadcasting Corporation, which broadcast the
thesis all over Europe, in order to deny it.
Further investigations over the past year, supplemented by files on
Tavistock which this news service has compiled since 1973, have
established the following:
1. Co-ordinated by Tavistock
The Port Arthur events were indeed co-ordinated by Tavistock, the
premier psychological warfare unit of the British Crown, which was
founded in 1920 based upon studies of "shell shock" and related neuroses
caused by the trauma of World WarII. Tavistock's strategic mission is
to replace a civilization of self-ruling, industrial nation-states with a
"post-industrial," globalized world ruled by a tiny oligarchy.
Toward this end, Tavistock specializes in what its own psychiatrists
call "brainwashing"--the use of stress-induced fear to artificially
create neurotic states of mind, which may be programmed as desired.
For instance, Tavistock offered the anxiety-ridden American youth of
the 1960s--hit by the Cuban missile crisis, the assassinations of
political leaders, and the TV's incessant bloody images of Vietnam--a
retreat from this horrifying reality, into the consolations of rock
music, drugs, and sex. Taking the bait, the future leaders of America
and other nations regressed into an infantile preoccupation with self;
patriotism, and an agapic concern for the "common good," were replaced
by a hedonistic obsession with "my body," "my feelings"--a {counter}
culture.
More generally, Tavistock's "theory of turbulence" specifies that
entire populations may be driven into a similar infantile regression by
repeated terrorist shocks, such as the bombing of the Oklahoma City
federal building, the sarin gas subway bombing in Japan, or the dozens
of Martin Bryant-style mass murders around the world over the past
decade.
It is precisely the "blind" nature of such events that makes them
psychologically so devastating, since there seems to be no answer to the
question, "Why?," and therefore, apparently there is little or nothing
that can be done to prevent them.
2. Established networks
British intelligence will trigger such terrorist events where it has
control over the local media, and psychiatric, police, and intelligence
networks.
It has this control in Scotland, where a pedophile well known to
police murdered 16 five- and six-year-olds and their teacher, in the
town of Dunblane on March 13, 1996;
It has this control in the Commonwealth nation of New Zealand, where five such massacres have taken place since 1990; and
It has this control in Australia, to which numerous of Tavistock's top operatives were deployed right after World War II.
Australia, which has seen a dozen mass murders since the infamous
"Hoddle Street massacre" of 1987, has been subjected to particularly
intense Tavistockian profiling and manipulation--in part, no doubt,
because Australia broke with the British Empire in World War II, and
allied with Gen. Douglas MacArthur and America, against Churchill's
plans to cede Australia to the Japanese.
As an island-nation, Australia also offered a "controlled
environment" for Tavistock's experiments; in turn, the most isolated
part of Australia, the island-state of Tasmania, off the continent's
southeastern tip, has served as the perfect Tavistock laboratory.
And, Tavistock specifies that, because of the power of the modern
mass media, no matter where a terrorist attack takes place, the shock is
felt worldwide--it is a "global event."
3. Programmed in Tasmania
Martin Bryant was monitored, directed, and, in all likelihood,
programmed by Tavistock networks in Tasmania, from at least the time
that one of Tavistock's senior representatives in Australia, the now
88-year-old Dr. Eric Cunningham Dax, first examined Bryant in 1983-84,
and set the parameters for all his future "treatment."
Dax was for decades an associate of Tavistock's longtime leader and
World Federation of Mental Health chairman, Dr. John Rawlings Rees.
Beginning with his collaboration with Rees in the late 1930s, Dax, by
his own account, had specialized in "brainwashing."
To cover its tracks, Tavistock invariably circulates what might be
called the "Lee Harvey Oswald theory of mass murder"--that each such
incident is the result of a "lone nut," who one day just "went crazy."
Such was the "finding" of Melbourne-based British forensic
psychiatrist Dr. Paul Mullen, in his evaluation of Bryant for Bryant's
defense attorney, in which Mullen concluded,
"It would be more satisfactory if one could point to some simple
and direct cause of the tragedy at Port Arthur"; unfortunately, Mullen
said, one could not.
But, notwithstanding that Bryant was a "lone nut," Mullen confidently
predicted to the {Herald Sun} of Feb. 4, 1997, that there would be
"more such massacres because of strong evidence of a copycat element," a
warning echoed by other Tavistock assets in Australia and abroad.
Curiously, Mullen himself reportedly participated in the investigation
of two mass slaughters in New Zealand, before coming to Australia.
The Bryant case provides some guidelines on how to rip up this Tavistock capability, before the next atrocity is unleashed. -
Shock troops of psychiatrists -
In 1944, Bank of England chief Montagu Norman suddenly quit his
banking post in order to start a Tavistock spin-off called the National
Association for Mental Health. Norman had been at the apex of the
international financial oligarchy.
One of his proteges, longtime Australian Reserve Bank head H.C.
"Nugget" Coombs, called him the "head of a secret international
freemasonry of central bankers." As such, he had supervised the banking
arrangements which put Adolf Hitler in power, as {EIR} History Editor
Anton Chaitkin has documented.
Norman tapped his Bank of England assistant, Sir Otto Niemeyer, to be
the NAMH's treasurer, and Niemeyer's niece Mary Appleby, to be general
secretary of the association.
Niemeyer is well known to Australians: He headed the infamous
"Niemeyer mission" to Depression-wracked Australia in 1930, to tell
Australia to savagely cut its health and welfare spending, in order to
pay her British creditors.
The British NAMH soon gave birth to the World Federation of Mental
Health (WFMH), one of the first of the innumerable, anti-nation-state
"non-governmental organizations" spawned by Tavistock. Affiliated with
the United Nations, the WFMH was one-worldist from the outset.
To head up the new organization, Norman tapped Brig. Gen. John Rawlings
Rees, the head of Tavistock in the 1930s, and then the chief of
Britain's World War II Psychological Warfare Directorate.
Rees had commanded 300, mostly Tavistock-trained Army psychiatrists;
since then, Tavistock has been almost indistinguishable from the various
wings of British Military Intelligence (MI-6, MI-5, SAS, etc.)--a
connection perhaps of relevance to the military precision with which
Bryant planned and executed his mass slaughter.
At the war's end, in a speech to U.S. Army psychiatrists in 1945,
Rees called for the creation of "psychiatric shock troops," who would
move out of the military and psychiatric institutions, in order to shape
society as a whole:
"If we propose to come out into the open and to attack the social and
national problems of our day, then we must have shock troops and these
cannot be provided by psychiatry based wholly in institutions. We must
have mobile teams of psychiatrists who are free to move around and make
contact with the local situation in their particular area.... In every
country, groups of psychiatrists linked to each other ... [must begin]
to move into the political and governmental field."
The "mission" Rees outlined, was to create a situation "where it is
possible for people of every social group to have treatment when they
need it, {even when they do not wish it}, without the necessity to
invoke the law" (emphasis added).
Tavistock's methods were outlined by Dr. William Sargant in his 1950s
book, {The Battle for the Mind: A physiology of conversion and
brain-washing.}
A pioneer in the study of "shell shock," Sargant also emphasized the
work of Soviet psychologist Pavlov in the 1920s and 1930s, in particular
an incident in which a rising flood trapped some of Pavlov's dogs in
their cages, while the water rose up to their heads, before receding.
Pavlov found that the intense fear the dogs experienced "wiped clean"
the tricks they had been taught, following which they could be
"reprogrammed."
Further experiments by the SAS/SIS during the 1950s, including in
Malaya and Kenya, showed Tavistock that such stress, with resultant
"reprogramming" capabilities, could be applied to entire societies.
In a 1961 series of lectures at the University of California Medical
School, one of Sargant's closest collaborators, British novelist Aldous
Huxley, assessed the notorious MK-Ultra mass drugging and brainwashing
experiment which had been under way since the early 1950s. Huxley was
the author of the 1952 book, {The Doors of Perception,} which first
popularized LSD usage; he had long before fictionalized the results of
such experimentation in his novel {Brave New World}. Huxley himself
played a key role in MK-Ultra.
With such methods, Huxley now said, in 1961 lectures entitled
"Control of the Mind," there will be a "method of making people love
their servitude and producing dictatorships without tears, so to speak,
producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so
that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but
will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any real
desire to rebel--by propaganda, or brainwashing, or brainwashing
enhanced by pharmacological methods.
And this seems to be the final revolution." Another pet project of
Huxley's from the 1930s on, was the creation of what he called the
"somatotonic personality": one who would not hesitate to murder. The
Tavistockians operate with a construct of the human mind as a {tabula
rasa} that can be imprinted, or a mechanical system that can be
manipulated by such techniques. Since the essence of the human mind is,
on the contrary, its inherent creative capability, Tavistockian
brainwashing works only if the brainwashers can create a "controlled
environment," in which the victim sees only the alternatives presented
by his tormentors. -
Tavistock deploys to Australia
In the early 1950s, Rees sent two of his "psychiatric shock troops" to Australia, Dr. Eric Cunningham Dax and Dr. Fred E. Emery.
Dr. Eric Cunningham Dax
Dax had written a chapter for Rees's 1949 book, {Modern Practise
in Psychological Medicine}, and had trained at the same hospital where
Rees had practiced.
Dax was also a protege of Sargant. Sargant had initiated a
brainwashing technique called "deep sleep," in which patients were given
massive doses of drugs, to keep them asleep 20 hours or more a day,
which increased their susceptibility to "programming."
Under Sargant's tutelage, Dax performed 1,300 experiments in deep
sleep, and rapidly became one of Britain's top practitioners of
so-called "physical methods" of psychiatry, which included pre-frontal
lobotomies, on which Dax wrote a monograph, and electric shock, which
was often administered during "deep sleep."
The acknowledged problem with "deep sleep," was that up to 2% of the
patients subjected to it, died; those who lived were often
psychologically destroyed.
Arriving in Australia In 1952, Dax set up the Mental Hygiene
Department of Victoria, which in turn set up Australia's entire mental
health care system.
As Rees said in his introduction to the book he told Dax to
write, {Asylum to Community: The Development of The Mental Hygiene
Service in Victoria, Australia}: "The Mental Hygiene Service of
Victoria, may, indeed, have provided a major training ground in
psychiatry and mental health work for all the English-speaking
populations of the South-western Pacific region, and this is a matter of
very great importance."
Dr. Fred Emery
The second Tavistock brainwasher whom Rees dispatched to
Melbourne around the same time, and whose work would help shape Dax's
own, Dr. Fred Emery, set up shop as Senior Research Officer in the
Department of Audio Visual Aids at Melbourne University.
There, Emery began conducting experiments on schoolchildren, as
described in his article "Psychological Effects of the Western' Film,"
to see how "oedipal patterns" could be induced in schoolchildren--a
subject of some relevance to 28-year-old Martin Bryant, and the
mysterious deaths of both his father and Martin's own elderly girl
friend. By the early 1960s, Emery, together with the chairman of
Tavistock's governing council, Dr. Eric Trist, was giving lectures to
select audiences at Tavistock on methods to brainwash entire societies.
In this new age of mass communication, they said, a series of
short, universal shocks would destabilize a targeted population,
plunging it into a form of "shell shock," a mass neurosis. If the
shocks were repeated over a period of years, a more and more infantile
pattern of thinking would develop. Emery elaborated these concepts in
his 1967 article in Tavistock's magazine {Human Relations,} entitled,
"The Next Thirty Years: Concepts, Methods and Anticipations," and in his
1975 "Futures We Are In." In the latter, he outlined the three stages
of this process:
1.
People would "lose their moral judgment";
2.
Next, "segmentation"--societal disintegration--would begin,
in which the individual's focus moves from the nation-state to
preoccupation with local community or family; and finally,
3.
"Disassociation" would set in, "a world in which fantasy
and reality are indistinguishable," in which the individual becomes the
societal unit.
Emery calls this final result "Clockwork Orange," after the
Anthony Burgess novel, in which habitual, random violence by gangs of
youth is the order of the day, while adults retreat to their television
sets and other forms of "virtual reality."
In 1980, Trist looked back at the last two decades of the
assassination of the Kennedys, of Martin Luther King, the Vietnam War,
the oil shocks, the Iranian hostage crisis, etc., and announced that the
process Tavistock had predicted, had indeed begun, and would now
accelerate.
Meanwhile, in Australia, Dax brought Sargant to Melbourne on Aug.
14, 1962, to lecture on "The Mechanism of Brainwashing and Conversion."
Another of Sargant's proteges, the Sydney-based psychiatrist Dr.
Harry Bailey, was a fanatical practitioner of "deep sleep," and killed a
number of patients during experiments at the Chelmsford Private
Hospital in the 1960s and 1970s.
The resulting scandal led to the convening of an investigatory
Royal Commission into Deep Sleep, and to Bailey's own suicide in 1985.
As reported in the book {Deep Sleep,} by Brian Bromberger and Janet
Fyfe-Yeomans, which chronicled Bailey's experiments, Bailey and Sargant
"remained in constant contact for almost 30 years, and ... Bailey often
spoke of the competition between them to see who could keep their
patients in the deepest coma without killing them."
Dax himself pushed ahead with research on "turbulence,"
"aggression," and "brainwashing"--all from the Reesian perspective of
using psychiatry to shape society as a whole, as exemplified by a speech
he gave at the University of Melbourne on July 20, 1964, titled "Some
Observations on Psychiatric Research." "It is no more than a few years
past," he said, "when psychiatry was solely represented by the mental
hospitals, before the child guidance clinics were first begun or the
psychiatrists started to move into the outpatient diagnostic centres....
The mental hospitals may be likened to the grandmothers of community
psychiatry....
Within the span of a single generation, psychiatrists have been
thrown from the protective, circumscribed and alienating walls of these
hospitals into a restless, changing and aggressive community, seething
with turbulence, which struggles to adjust to the gathering speed of
mechanization and the disrupting forces of a disordered society.
"Most of us are more experienced in the treatment of individuals
than in correcting the pathological behavior of groups, though there may
be an increasing tendency to seek our advice in these and related
matters. For instance, the frightening implications of forcible
indoctrination of individuals on the one level and communities on the
other are closely related to our specialty. Yet almost paradoxically we
are driven to consider as to whether modifications of such methods of
indoctrination can be used in the treatment of some of the psychoses."
Foreshadowing his work on Martin Bryant, Dax continued: "In many
of these fields, the {consideration of aggression is of the greatest
importance. There is no more useful subject for research studies at the
present time, whether it be in the individual or the group}.
Here, from the individual, the psychiatrist has much to learn. It
may be that the aggression is turned inwards, ultimately resulting in
suicide, outwards in homicide, or more specifically in hostility towards
the community, in causing death on the road...
"Moreover many a murderer has the inability to postpone his
strong emotional reactivity to thwarting, and this often has an
association with a past history of repeated frustration of a variety
with which he has been unable to deal.
Or again, the person who uses a motor car as an extension of his
own aggressive body image may be using it in escaping from his anxieties
and supposed rejection by the community. Yet it seems that none of
these aggressive manifestations would be of the same magnitude were it
not for the effect of alcohol. It releases these strains by depressing
the inadequate control which spreads its thin veneer over the underlying
aggression" (emphasis added).
Precisely these elements were to arise in the Martin Bryant case.
In 1969, Dax left his prestigious, highly influential position in
Melbourne to go to the backwater state of Tasmania, an island of some
300,000 people off Australia's southeast coast.
A prominent U.S. psychiatrist who specializes in ritual abuse, and
who is intimately familiar with Australian psychiatry over the past
three decades, when queried by this news service as to why in the world
Dax would move to Tasmania, replied:
"Tasmania is the Appalachia of Australia. There is a lot of
alcoholism, a lot of incest. It is the poorest of all the states, very
primitive, with a lot of descendants from very violent criminals from
the British days. You will find many people there with no value system,
no super-ego.
"It is the perfect place for Manchurian candidates, and for all sorts of experiments. He could do whatever he wanted there."
Something of great interest must have been taking place in Tasmania,
because two of Tavistock's leading international operatives, the
Melbourne-based Dr. Alan Stoller, a past president of the World
Federation of Mental Health and a close associate of John Rawlings Rees
and of Dax, and Dr. John Bowlby, went to Tasmania for extended visits in
1971 and 1972, respectively.
Dax and Bryant -
From early childhood, Martin Bryant was a very disturbed individual,
as British psychiatrist Paul Mullen could not help but record in his
evaluation for the defense:
"Mr. Bryant was assessed on a number of occasions by
psychologists and psychiatrists.... He was noted to be aggressive,
destructive and very difficult with other children.... There are
references to him stealing, to him having violent outbursts and to
tormenting vulnerable children.... There are records of Mr. Bryant
torturing and harassing animals and of tormenting his sister."
Bryant was notorious among his schoolmates for carrying a green can
of gasoline, which he constantly threatened to pour on things and set
them alight, as he once did so on himself. His schoolmates would
frequently remark, "Here comes silly Martin with his can."
Before long, this behavior brought him to the attention of Dax, as
Mullen noted: "In February 1984 Mr. Bryant was assessed by a very
experienced clinical psychiatrist, Dr. Cunningham-Dax," an evaluation
which set the parameters for all further treatment of Bryant.
Contacted by an American academic on April 16, 1997 about his
evaluation of Bryant, Dax said, "I left Tasmania in 1983, I think it
was, and I had seen him a few times before that, but I had no notes on
him, except that I thought that he was below normal intellectually and
that his father was very permissive about him. And I wondered about the
boy, whether later he might have some schizophrenic features. But that
is as far as I went."
Judging by the impact Bryant made on another psychiatrist who
examined Bryant soon after, Dax was singularly unobservant. Dr. Ian
Sale, psychiatrist for the prosecution, recalled in a discussion on
April 16: "When he was about 16 or 17, he was examined by a government
doctor for the purpose of a pension assessment. It was to that doctor
that he made some reference to having a wish to {shoot people}. She
still remembers that to this day" (emphasis added).
Dr. Sale noted that, not only did Dax have "no recall of the
assessment," but that, "unfortunately, the clinical notes that were
made, were destroyed," ostensibly because Dax "was practicing in the
rooms of another psychiatrist. When that psychiatrist died, it was a
provision of his will, that his notes be destroyed, apparently, which is
remarkable.
And not only were his notes destroyed, but also Dr. Cunningham-Dax's
notes were destroyed." The psychiatrist, Dr. T.H.G. Dick, was also
British, and had served as Tasmania's medical commissioner beginning in
1969, the year Dax moved to Tasmania. Shortly after, Dax joined Dick on
the Medical Advisory Committee to Tasmania's Mental Health Commission.
Despite Dax's fascination with aggression, suicide, and murder, Dax
claimed he knew very little about Bryant. And, when asked to comment on
the relevance of his associate Emery's "theory of turbulence" for the
Port Arthur events, Dax replied, guardedly, "I don't think I can answer
your question usefully."
Emery himself died in early April 1997, and thus could not answer the
question either. But, Dax said, "The person who knows a good deal more
about Bryant is in the University of Tasmania, at the hospital there,
the Royal Hobart. They did a good deal of study of Bryant at the time.
Professor Jones is his name, but the person who knew more about him was
the research person, who was particularly interested in Bryant."
Dr. Jones, who is British, and who, until his retirement, headed the
two floors of Royal Hobart Hospital which are devoted to psychiatric
studies, was unavailable for comment. -
What the police knew -
As well known as Bryant was to Tasmania's Tavistock networks, he was
equally well known to the police--despite post-Port Arthur protestations
to the contrary--as evidenced in the following:
1. He had repeatedly threatened to kill some of his neighbors in
Tasmania, several of which incidents, at least, had been reported to the
police.
2. On one of his frequent international flights, he had been
arrested at Melbourne Airport on suspicion of being a drug courier, in
part because he travelled without luggage; he was taken to the Royal
Melbourne Hospital and examined before being released. On another
occasion, pornographic videos depicting bestiality were found in his
luggage. According to one police source interviewed by this news
service, Bryant's police records indicated a profile of a "psychotic
multiple killer."
3. That profile accorded well with what his neighbors thought of
him, and not merely because of his frequent threats. There was intense
suspicion among them that Bryant had murdered, first, his spinster
friend and protector, wealthy heiress Helen Harvey, and then, then
months later, his father, Maurice Bryant.
Eyewitnesses had seen Bryant wrench the steering wheel from
Harvey while the two were out driving, and Harvey had told the mayor of
Tasman Council, not long before the fatal car crash that killed her and
seriously wounded Bryant, "Oh, he's a worry to me sometimes. He grabbed
hold of the steering wheel coming down today, and nearly pulled me off
the road, going silly. What would you do with him?"
On Aug. 16, 1993, Maurice Bryant was found, wearing weight
belts, dead at the bottom of a dam on the property formerly owned by
Harvey, which she had willed to Martin Bryant. Bryant had had numerous
arguments with his father, who moved onto the property the same night
that Harvey was killed; his son was particularly bitter that his father
was getting rid of the menagerie that the younger Bryant and Harvey had
collected. After his father had disappeared, {but before his body had
been found}, Martin ran into neighbor Marian Larner outside the local
hospital.
As Larner reported to the police shortly thereafter--who never
questioned her further--Bryant had accosted her excitedly, grabbing her
by the shoulders: "Oh, Marian, it's so exciting. So exciting!" She
asked, "What are you talking about, Martin?" "Dad's at the bottom of the
dam," he replied. "You'll hear all about it soon. You'll read all about
it." And, when the elder Bryant's body was soon after pulled from the
dam, "The searchers were amazed to see Martin walking back from the dam,
laughing," according to a book about Bryant, {Suddenly One Sunday,} by
local journalist Mike Bingham.
Several days before, another neighbor, John Featherstone, had
run into strangers inquiring about a boat which a man named "Martin" had
advertised for sale. When asked why he was selling the boat, Martin
Bryant had told them that his father had just recently passed away.
After recounting the incident to his wife, Featherstone told her,
incredulously, "I saw Maurice just this morning!"
4. But, it was not only local police who noticed Bryant. In early
1994, on one of his trips to the United Kingdom, he checked into a hotel
in Hereford, the super-sensitive home of Britain's elite Special Air
Services (SAS). Bryant started acting so strangely, that the hotel
management notified the police, who notified Interpol, which in turn put
in inquiries to the police in Tasmania, who replied that his slate was
clean.
The guy had military training -
Beyond all these and other run-ins with the police, which curiously
never resulted in anything, still another anomaly is the obvious
planning and skill which went into the commission of the mass murder
itself--well beyond the capabilities of someone diagnosed as "borderline
intellectually disabled," in the lowest 1-2% of Australia's population,
and unable to manage his own affairs.
After reading Mullen's psychiatric evaluation, one of Australia's
senior counter-terror experts, who had himself investigated the case,
observed to this news service on the subject of Bryant ostensibly having
learned all he knew about weaponry and tactics from "survival
magazines":
"If this guy had weapons and survival skills from magazines, then
that conflicts with his learning difficulties--how could he understand
the books in the first place? Any decent lawyer would have a field day
with this report. They could pick it to pieces. For a start, Bryant
worked out the military aspects of the shooting. Most soldiers couldn't
do that on their own, but Bryant did. What's more, he outsmarted the
police by doubling back to the Seascape--that's not a low IQ.
"Then, look at the planning of the assault, the equipment
required, the weapons stash, the most effective weapons to use, how much
ammunition to take with him, how to use the weaponry, planning an
escape route, creating havoc in multiple areas to keep the authorities
guessing, and so on. Now, how could he have learned all that from books,
with such a low IQ and poor reading skills? This guy had military
training."
Tasmanian Deputy Commissioner Lupo Prins, who directed the overall
police operation at Port Arthur on April 28, 1996, observed drily to
{The New Citizen} in mid-April 1997, that Bryant had "set up six
different areas of activity--he had police running in circles. That's
pretty good for a guy who's a slow learner."
Prins also told the {Courier Mail} on April 28, 1997, that he
believes Bryant "was playing out some pre-arranged script. What that
script was, we don't know," because even though Bryant, unlike most mass
murderers, did not commit suicide and was not killed, and thus "is able
to tell the story ..., he hasn't. It's really frustrating."
That Bryant's actions, and even his very words, had been
choreographed, was also the assessment of the man who dealt most closely
with him, Sgt. Terry McCarthy, the police negotiator during the siege
at Seascape. McCarthy recalled with some amazement how very calm Bryant,
who was then calling himself "Jamie," was throughout the siege.
Author Mike Bingham interviewed McCarthy and summarized his
observations in his book: McCarthy had "found that parts of his
[Bryant's] conversation seemed prepared in advance, and it had become
clear that some of what Bryant had done was extremely well planned."
And, as Bingham further recorded, in the observations of Broad Arrow
kitchen supervisor Brigid Cook about Bryant: "The care that he took of
himself struck her. He appeared to be having a fine time, a very
exciting time, but he made sure there was no way he could be snuck up
on." And, where did the well-trained Bryant get his military-style
weapons?
In an interview with the {Herald Sun} on June 23, 1996, Victorian
farmer and gun collector Bill Drysdale said that he had turned his Colt
AR 15 in to the Victorian police in February 1993, but he was virtually
certain that the AR 15 Bryant used was his, both because of the rarity
of that weapon in Australia at the time, and because of the unique mark a
gunsmith had made on the barrel of his rifle, which matched that on
Bryant's rifle.
The serial numbers were almost identical, and "my rifle also had a
collapsible stock and a Colt sight, just as the massacre weapon has,"
said Drysdale.
The {Herald Sun} noted, "One of Australia's largest firearms
importers told the {Sunday Herald Sun} that firearms matching the Port
Arthur weapon were as scarce as hen's teeth,' and that the chances of
two weapons of the same type, with almost-matching serial numbers, being
imported into Australia, were next to nothing.'|"
After an interview with police, Drysdale was ordered by them not to talk to reporters any further.
Why did the Tasmanian police repeatedly overlook Bryant's activities?
The chief police official for Tasmania until his recent retirement
was Commissioner of Police John Johnson, who was also the head of the
Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence. Johnson commanded the police
team which carried out a 15-week investigation of the Port Arthur
events, and somehow managed to miss all of the anomalies recorded above.
Who is Johnson?
Among other things, he was the first prominent Australian police
official to call for the legalization of drugs, which he did in 1995. As
a series of articles in the {The New Citizen} in 1996 demonstrated,
those pushing the decriminalization of drugs in Australia--whose major
funder is George Soros--are precisely those London-linked financial
circles who are already benefitting from drug-money laundering.
Right after the Port Arthur investigation, Johnson retired, and has
seemingly disappeared. Said a police source to {The New Citizen}, "You
can't find him, because he doesn't intend to be found."
There are still other anomalies in the case, beyond Bryant's contacts with psychiatric networks and with the police.
Despite official pledges to "get to the bottom of the case, so
such a tragedy would never happen again," all evidence about the case,
including the psychiatric evaluations of Bryant, was ordered sealed by
the judge.
In addition, an expose which had been produced by the TV show
"Four Corners," on the Tasmanian Mental Health Department--which had had
extensive contact with Bryant from the time he was a child--was
suddenly cancelled, just before it was to air.
Then, several weeks after the Port Arthur massacre, 23-year-old Dion
Garry Yost went on a shooting rampage in the Northern Territory town of
Palmerston, in which he wounded one civilian and four police officers.
Yost had attended, several years after Bryant had, the same Tasmanian
high school! According to psychiatrists, Bryant modeled his murders, at
least in part, on that of Thomas Hamilton's March 13, 1996 slaughter in
Dunblane, Scotland, an act that horrified the world. Bryant's neighbors
even said that he was in the U.K., on one of his many trips there, when
Dunblane took place.
There, too, the "lone nut" Hamilton, a pedophile well known to
police, had nonetheless been allowed to organize "Scouting clubs" all
over Scotland. -
The Monarch Project -
The Tavistock-sponsored form of "blind terror" of which Bryant is an
example, has the great advantage to its authors, that its programmed
zombies almost invariably kill themselves, or are killed during the
course of the events, leaving little or no evidence.
"One of the essential elements ... is they are looking to kill
and be killed," as Mullen put it. Bryant stated that he was sure he
would be killed; though he has not yet killed himself in prison--despite
two attempts--prison authorities have publicly stated that they expect a
fellow inmate to kill him.
Was Bryant programmed?
Perhaps hard-core programming was not necessary; given his
psychological make-up, it may have been sufficient just to "steer" him.
But, he did show signs of one known form of Tavistock brainwashing in
which individuals can be programmed to kill, and then to kill
themselves, as a "sub-routine" of Tavistock's MK-Ultra known as the
Monarch Project. The best documentation on Monarch, although still
sketchy, is provided in the second edition of former Nebraska State
Senator John DeCamp's book, {The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse,
Satanism and Murder in Nebraska}.
One of DeCamp's clients, child-abuse victim Paul Bonacci, was a
Monarch trainee, and has described in detail (not all of which DeCamp
records in his book) some of the processes involved. These are much more
sophisticated than the average psychiatrist is equipped either to
recognize, or to treat.
Monarch, or related conditioning, leaves certain tell-tale signs in its victims:
1) Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD);
2) bizarre sexual behavior; and, frequently,
3) involvement in Satanic cult activity.
The normal, healthy personality could not be "programmed" without
going through degrading conditioning, which involved or resulted in the
above. Bryant did show signs of MPD, a disorder in which anywhere from
two to over a hundred distinct personalities are present in the same
individual. A neighbor, John Featherstone, told {The New Citizen,}
"Bryant had at least three or four very distinct personalities.
One I would call the surfer personality, in which Bryant used to dress
in surfer-type clothes and put a surfboard on top of his car, {even
though everyone knew he never surfed}." Then, there is the cool and calm
personality, "Jamie," who spoke with police during the siege at the
Seascape cottage, and who was strikingly different in demeanor, and even
in voice, than Bryant's usual self.
The "occasional sudden switches in the direction of Mr. Bryant's
discourse," which Mullen recorded, are also characteristic of MPD, as
different personalities emerge. Bryant's interviews with police after
the slaughter, in which he denied that he had even been at Port Arthur
and seemed genuinely astonished at the charges against him, are also
consistent with MPD.
The great usefulness of MPD for Tavistock controllers, is that
different personalities, whose existence is not even known to the main
personality, may be programmed to carry out distinct tasks, but unless
those personalities are later "accessed," the main personality will have
only a fragmentary idea, if any at all, of what has happened. As for
the bizarre sexual behavior, besides the pornographic videos Bryant
brought back to Australia depicting bestiality, he was known for
sleeping with a pig in his room.
Satanic activity has not been reported (it rarely is in such cases),
but his favorite video was reported to be "Child's Play 2," in which a
doll comes to life and goes around slaughtering people. On Nov. 22,
1996, Bryant was sentenced to 35 terms of life imprisonment, and to 21
years each on 37 other charges, the terms to run consecutively, and
without parole.
He originally pled "not guilty" to 72 counts of murder and mayhem.
With a new lawyer, and under pressure, he changed that to "guilty,"
which ensured that there would be no trial. Indeed, as Mullen stated at
the outset of his psychiatric report for Bryant's new lawyer,
"This report is intended to clarify for the court why an insanity plea was not considered appropriate...."
However, the decision to find Bryant sane, together with his sudden
change of mind to plead "guilty," is of enormous benefit to those who
want to make sure the truth never comes out.
Under Australia's law, if Bryant were found insane, then he would be
monitored and periodically re-evaluated, to see if he regained his
sanity.
Were he to do so, he would then be put on trial--and some more of
Tavistock's handiwork would undoubtedly be exposed to the light of day.
* * *
For further reading Citizens for LaRouche, "Stamp Out the Aquarian Conspiracy," 1980. Richard Condon,
{The Manchurian Candidate} (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959). The classic
fictional treatment of MK-Ultra experiments of the 1950s. John DeCamp,
{The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism and Murder in Nebraska}
(Lincoln, Neb.: AWT Inc., 1997, second edition). H.V. Dicks,
{Fifty Years of the Tavistock Clinic} (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970). Carol Greene,
{Morder aus der Retorte: Der Fall Charles Manson} ({Test-Tube Murder:
The Case of Charles Manson}) (Wiesbaden, Germany: Dr. B”ttiger
Verlags-GmbH, 1992). John Rawlings Rees,
{The Shaping of Psychiatry by War} (New York: W.W. Norton, 1945). William W. Sargant,
{Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brain-Washing} (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1975
[first edition, 1957]). "The Tavistock Grin," {The Campaigner,} 1974.From {EIR}:
"The Tavistock Psychiatrists Behind the Rape of Bosnia," Feb. 12, 1993.
"British Psychiatry from Eugenics to Assassination," Oct. 7, 1994. "Newt Gingrich Looks at the Future," Jan. 12, 1996.
"Tavistock's Imperial Brainwashing Project," May 24, 1996. "The Media Cartel That Controls What You Think," Jan. 17, 1997.
