#1015: Ron Patton

Ron Patton is yet another whale.to mainstay, specializing in mind control. Patton runs the site mkzine.com, and gives you a brief history of mind control here, where he focuses on all the usual (and some less usual) suspects: The Roman Catholic church, the Nazis, and The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, the apex having been reached with the Project MKULTRA and the non-existent Project Monarch.

Apparently these are all pieces in Illuminati attempts to control the general population. “A majority of the victims/survivors come from multi-generational Satanic families (bloodlines) and are ostensibly programmed to fill their destiny as the chosen ones or chosen generations,” says Patton. “Physical identification characteristics on victims/survivors often include multiple electrical prod scars and/or resultant moles on their skin,” so be on the outlook for people with these characteristics.

Patton’s theory even yields predictions. “Non-biological ‘twinning’” occurs when “two young non-related children would be ceremoniously initiated in a magical [it is worth pointing out that for Patton, mind control is not a matter of technology but of magic] ‘soul-bonding’ ritual[; they] essentially share two halves of the programmed information, making them interdependent upon one another. Paranormal phenomenon [sic] such as astral projection, telepathy, ESP, etc. appear to be more pronounced between those who have undergone this process.” Science cannot explain these phenomena. Patton can. What more validation could you ask for? You can see Patton interview Marion Knox on mind control here.

But Patton does of course not limit himself to mind control. Here is his take on aliens and demons. Essentially, UFOs and aliens are really Satanic demons – the Nephilim – and they founded most of the ancient civilizations “Egyptians, Babylonians, Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas.” Proof? Look at all the characteristics they shared: primarily that “they believed they had aquired metaphysical knowledge from the ‘gods’, whom they perceived as coming from the stars and also the subterranean level of the earth” (the other purportedly shared characteristics are demonstrably false; read them in Patton’s screed).

Mkzine is apparently a regular periodical that publishes articles that wouldn’t have been published elsewhere (because they are exposing the conspiracies, according to the authors, but we have to admit sympathy for a competing hypothesis). Its goal is “to be a nexus for psychological, occult, and religious perspectives, Christian and non-Christian, as well as experiential and scientific, on the vast subject of coercive mindcontrol.” This is, in other words, the place to go if you wish to read Roger Tolces talk about “Electronic Harassment” or “Our Isolation: Survivor Conferences and My Personal Experiences” by Neil Brick, not to mention “Voice-to-Skull Microwaves: Air Force Patent” by Dr. Allen Barker, “The Semiotic Deception of September 11^th” by Phillip Darrell Collins, “The Age of Etherics and Reconfiguring the UFO Question, or Does Janus Shave with Ockham’s Razor?” by Columbia Jones, or the balanced “An Empirical Look at the Ritual Abuse Controversy” by Dr. Randall Noblitt. All very enticing.

Diagnosis: I’m inclined to agree that there may be mind-related issues in the case of Patton and his associates. He is probably harmless, however.

#1014: Alice Patterson

We congratulate Cedarville student Ken Patrick with the publication of his paper “Geomorphology of Uluru, Australia” in the Answers Research Journal, the pseudojournal published by Answers in Genesis, and award him an honorable mention in our Encyclopedia.

He can’t compete for sheer derangement with Alice Patterson, however. Patterson is a leader in the New Apostolic Reformation, and one of the leadership team members at Rick Perry’s infamous prayer rally (Patterson was in charge of of “Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma Church Mobilization”). She is known for claiming (on stage at the rally, for instance) that the Democratic Party is a “demon structure”, which is standard batshit fundie for “I disagree with their politics.” As it turns out, it is not only the Democratic Party that is controlled by such spirits – the Republican Party is as well. But whereas the Democrats are controled by “Jezebel” through a “network of demonic principalities that demanded allegiance, worship, and the shedding of innocent blood,” the Republicans are controlled by “Ahab” which makes GOP leaders passive and yield to intimidation instead of standing up on Godly principles. So there. It is all described in her book Bridging the Racial and Political Divide. According to Patterson this “[p]assivity caused the court cases that removed prayer from our public schools to remain, causing the protective wall around the United States, our schools and our government to crumble. The very next year President John Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.” There’s got to be a connection there. Demons also explains why President George W. Bush did so many ungodly things, like appointing “an open homosexual to high office,” meeting with Muslims, and failing to pass a federal marriage amendment. (I am not sure Patterson knows what “explanation” means). Her historical revisionism (to a large extent based on the lies of David Barton) has gained her some attention, at least.

Patterson is currently leader of Justice at the Gate, an evangelical Christian political organization that sponsors prayer coordination campaigns in which participants pray for divine influence to sway federal court decisions – the program includes an “Adopt a Judge” campaign in which specific justices are selected as the object of prayer campaigns, and it is closely connected to the Texas Republican Party through David Barton. Part of Patterson’s daily duties is “racial healing” with the purpose of getting African Americans to leave the Democratic Party.

Diagnosis: I’ve sort of run out of these. Patterson’s belief world, which fuels her hate and deranged zeal, doesn’t have the faintest trace of a connection to anything in reality. She has some influence, and must be considered dangerous.

#1013: David Paszkiewicz

Phil Parker of the Phil Parker Lightning Process is British, and hence disqualified. One might have considered Tara Parker-Pope for drivel like this, but I’ll give her the benefit of doubt for the moment.

There is no possible excuse for David Paszkiewicz. Now, Paszkiewicz may not be a celebrity figure or big name, yet he is another of those poor religious fundamentalist martyrs who were tyrannized into not forcing his religious views on children in public schools. You see, Paszkiewicz was a history teacher who used to teach his students that the literal truth of the Bible was unquestionable and that dinosaurs were aboard Noah’s ark. If you do not accept Jesus, Paszkiewicz argued to his class, “you belong in hell,” singling out (by name) in particular a Muslim student, lamenting what he saw as her inevitable fate should she not convert. Of course, he also promoted biblical creationism, dismissing evolution and the Big Bang as non-scientific (no, he would have no idea, but “not lining up with my fundamentalist delusions” doesn’t sound as good as calling something “non-scientific”), arguing by contrast that the Bible is supported by what he called “confirmed biblical prophecies.” (Also here)

As expected, and as decency demands, he ended up in some trouble for the contents of his lectures. When a student confronted him, Paszkiewicz denied ever having made any of the remarks. The remarks had, however, been recorded, and when that was revealed, Paszkiewicz commented that the student “got the big fish … you got the big Christian guy who is a teacher…!” As a good religious fanatic he did not seem to have any moral concerns about his own lying.

He has later tried to defend his actions by trying to argue that “the words ‘separation of church and state’ cannot be found in our Constitution,” as well as making a string of falsehoods about history (his alleged area of expertise) that might have made David Barton blush (but probably wouldn’t).

Of course, Paszkiewicz has never managed to grasp why he got in trouble. It is, in fact, unclear to what extent he got in trouble at all, and many of the townspeople of Kearney, New Jersey, certainly didn’t get it. The Kearney school district, where Paszkiewicz worked, did something, however: they banned recordings of their teachers to prevent similar embarrassments in the future.

Diagnosis: The living, breathing meaning of the phrase “Liar for Jesus”. As spineless, dishonest and morally corrupt as they come; when combined with a solid dose of self-righetousness the resulting sight is not pretty.

#1012: Que Te "Andrew" Park

Que Te “Andre” Park is the head and founder of the enormously successful company QT, Inc. The success is based on the sale of the Q-Ray bracelets, perhaps the most famous piece of placebo jewelry on the market, which are marketed as “the world’s only ionized bracelet of its kind for balancing your body’s yin-yang (positive & negative ions).” According to Park and the QT folks, yin and yang are ions. Unfortunately there is no such thing as an “ionized bracelet,” because solid objects are not ionized, and there is no such thing as an ionic imbalance of the body. The product is discussed here. Indeed, during the Chicago court trial in 2006 (Park was ordered to turn over $22.5 million in net profits and provide up to $64.5 million more in refunds to consumers), Park admitted that he could not define the term “ionization” but picked it because it was simple and easy to remember.

According to the product description, Park is confident that the bracelets will “energize your whole body and relieve pains the natural way by boosting chi ...,” but unfortunately does not mention how they measure chi or how they know the Q-Ray increases it. Perhaps most importantly, wearing the bracelet has, as a double-blinded, randomized trial at the Mayo clinic showed, no effect (more here). Its apparent efficacy is rather explained here. During the 2006 trial, Park’s lawyers criticized the Mayo trial for not lining up with testimonials from Q-Ray customers.

The fact that the bracelets don’t work does not seem to impinge much on their commercial success, however.

Diagnosis: It is, of course, not entirely clear whether Park is actually a loon or more in the vicinity of the exact opposite. What is not in doubt, is that he has an overall negative impact on civilization.

#1011: Harry Palmer

Harry Palmer is the founder of the The Avatar Course, a series of Large Group Awareness Teaching (LGAT) self-development courses, and run by Palmer’s company Star’s Edge, Inc., which trains and licenses Avatar Masters (teachers) to deliver the bullshit worldwide. The Avatar course offers “belief management” – it claims to “identify and remove limiting beliefs” so that students can become more effective in life.

Palmer and his partner, Avra-Honey Smith, should be well qualified for this kind of thing. They ran the Elmira Church of Scientology officially for over 10 years prior to Avatar; that is, until Palmer ceased to make payments and was promptly sued by the Church of Scientology for trademark infringement. The lawsuit resulted in Palmer renaming his “Church of Scientology, Mission of Elmira, Inc.”  to “the Center for Creative Learning”. He apparently never left the ideology behind – just changed the name – and the Avatar-related materials contains extensive selections from scientology, although Palmer appears to have gradually altered the terminology – the contents are pretty much the similar. Palmer’s “history of consciousness in the Milky Way galaxy” is a take on the Scientology’s Galactic Confederacy, according to which Earth is one of the planets seeded with life, and asserting that humanity is at risk of destroying itself through a “blight bomb” that stops photosynthesis. He also claims to have learned things from extraterrestrials’ records on Earth.

As most of people of this ilk, Palmer has been in certain troubles over his alleged credentials.

Diagnosis: It is a bit difficult to imagine that Palmer is acting in good faith, but if he is, then his Avatar Course is as pure bullshit as bullshit comes. “Execrable” is probably a relatively accurate diagnosis.