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Cannibalism

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8 "... Freely you received, freely give”.

            - Matthew 10:8 :: New American Standard Bible (NASB)

 

The attempt to make God just in the eyes of sinful men will always lead to error.

- Pastor William L. Brown.

 

1 “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.

2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,

4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God

5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.

6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires,

7 always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.                                                                  

8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth--men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.

9 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.”

            - 2 Timothy 3:1-9  :: New International Version (NIV)

 

The right to be left alone – the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by a free people

            - Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. U.S., 1928.

 

15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

            - Revelation 3:15-16 :: King James Version (KJV)

 

6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

            - Hebrews 5:6 :: King James Version (KJV)

 

3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.

- Hebrews 7:3 :: King James Version (KJV)

 

Therefore, I say:

Know your enemy and know yourself;

in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated.

When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself,

your chances of winning or losing are equal.

If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself,

you are sure to be defeated in every battle.

-- Sun Tzu, The Art of War, c. 500bc

 

There are two ends not to be served by a wanderer. What are these two? The pursuit of desires and of the pleasure which springs from desire, which is base, common, leading to rebirth, ignoble, and unprofitable; and the pursuit of pain and hardship, which is grievous, ignoble, and unprofitable.

- The Blessed One, Lord Buddha

 

3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.

          - Isaiah 56:3 :: King James Version (KJV)

 

19:12 For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

- Matthew 19:12 :: King James Version (KJV)

 

21 But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.

            - Matthew 17:21 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

 

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Foreword

Note:  This file was originally created in 2003...I withheld its publication...due to time constraints...Some other names...I tried to put were...Sex Predators... Male and Female Predators...Serial Killers... Human Hunters...Cannibals... Dr Hannibal Lecter...but they didn’t convey...the precise concept...what I was trying to put across...to the reader...through my readings...notes...highlights...writings...references...

Written around 0748 a.m. Thursday, October 23, 2008

Revised around 0222 p.m. Saturday, March 14, 2009

 

The Mahavidya references were added from year 2008 onwards...I came across the Mahavidyas only in February/March 2007...when I first read an article on The Ten Mahavidyas...accidentally...while surfing the web...

A feeling of attachment arose...things resonated...past experiences being expressed...in a new way...I became a fan...a worshiper...a devotee of the Mahavidyas...From then on... it was a quest to learn more about them...find their mantras...by heart the mantras...chant frequently...

Written around 0945 p.m. Thursday, October 23, 2008

Revised around 0950 p.m. Saturday, March 14, 2009

 

In January/February 2007...I underwent treatment as an inpatient...for the first time...at a nursing home...staying there couple of weeks...for mental disorder...Schizophrenia...I also underwent the first session of internal body cleaning using herbal oil...according to Ayurveda...On returning home...my rendezvous with the Mahavidyas occurred...

Written around 0956 p.m. Thursday, October 23, 2008

 

All About Hannibal Lecter

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/weird/lecter/

Grenier, Cynthia. (Saturday, October 05, 2002) Hannibal eats up big screen again. USA: WorldNetDaily.com.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29190

Murphy, Clare. (Tuesday, December 02, 2003) Cannibalism: A modern taboo. UK: BBC News.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3254074.stm

 

 

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All About Hannibal Lecter

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/weird/lecter/

Prologue

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/weird/lecter/1.html

 

Dr. Hannibal “the Cannibal” Lecter first appeared as a minor but important character in Harris’s novel Red Dragon.  In the next book, The Silence of the Lambs, Lecter came into his own, and the movie version highlighted the killer’s complex relationship with FBI agent-in-training Clarice Starling.  In these two novels, Lecter, in his indirect, Cheshire-Cat way, advises the FBI as they hunt for headline-making serial killers who are on the loose and very active.

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The portrait Harris paints of Dr. Lecter is vivid and terrifying.  His eyes are maroon in color, and his voice has a hint of a metallic rasp.  His teeth are small and white.  A mature man well into middle age, Lecter is small and compact, and moves with unusual grace and silence.   He has six fingers on one hand, the middle finger “perfectly replicated... the rarest form of polydactyly.” His sense of smell is highly developed as exhibited by his ability to detect Clarice Starling’s brand of perfumeL’Air du Temps—on their first meeting in The Silence of the Lambs, even though she hadn’t worn any that day.

 

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Adjective: vivid (vivider, vividest)

1. Evoking lifelike images within the mind

"a vivid description"

2. Having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience

"a vivid recollection"

3. Having striking color

"a bird with vivid plumage"

4. (of color) having the highest saturation

"vivid green"

Synonyms

bright

brilliant

graphic

intense

lifelike

pictorial

 

Noun: polydactyly

1. Birth defect characterized by the presence of more than the normal number of fingers or toes

Synonyms

Hyperdactyly

 

Noun: syndactyly

1. Birth defect in which there is partial or total webbing connecting two or more fingers or toes

Synonyms

syndactylism

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Before he was caught, he was a respected psychiatrist and patron of the arts in Baltimore, Maryland.   He was born in eastern Europe to an aristocratic family but suffered unspeakable hardship as a boy during World War II.   Fourteen homicides have been attributed to him, though authorities suspect that there were probably others.

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(For the purpose of this analysis, I will use only the literary Hannibal Lecter, the version of him that appears in the novels.  As good as some of the cinematic portrayals have been—particularly Anthony Hopkins’s bone-chilling interpretationit will be more beneficial to work from the primary source material.)

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Hannibal the Cannibal

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/weird/lecter/2.html

 

Gein, who lived in the heartlands of Wisconsin in the 1950s, was a quiet and introverted man who bore the scars of an overbearing mother.  He had considered undergoing a sex-change operation to relieve his misery, but given the strictures of his small-town existence, he ultimately decided against it.

 

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Adjective: overbearing

1. Expecting unquestioning obedience

"insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"

2. Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy

Verb: overbear (overbore, overborne)

1. Overcome

"overbear criticism, protest, or arguments"

2. Bear too much

3. Contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery

Synonyms

authoritarian

bearing down

dictatorial

disdainful

haughty

imperious

lordly

prideful

sniffy

supercilious

swaggering

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In creating Hannibal Lecter, Harris might have looked to real-life practitioners of anthropophagy (i.e. cannibalism).   David Sexton, author of The Strange World of Thomas Harris: Inside the Mind of the Creator of Hannibal Lecter, writes that Harris once told a librarian in his home town, Cleveland, Mississippi, that Lecter was inspired by a murderer named William Coyne, who had escaped from prison in 1934 and gone on a rampage in Cleveland that included acts of murder and cannibalism.  Coyne’s exploits were the stuff of local legend when Harris was growing up and might have planted the seed for Lecter in the author’s mind.  Sexton also suggests Welsh killer Jason Ricketts “who murdered and eviscerated a cellmate in Cardiff prison, mistaking his spleen for his heart,” as another possible model for Lecter.

 

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Noun: rampage

1. Violently angry and destructive behavior

Verb: rampage

1. Act violently, recklessly, or destructively

Synonyms

violent disorder

 

Adjective: eviscerate

1. Having been disembowelled

Verb: eviscerate

1. Surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ

2. Remove the contents of

"eviscerate the stomach"

3. Remove the entrails of

4. Take away a vital or essential part of

"the compromise among the parties eviscerated the bill that had been proposed"

Synonyms

disembowel

draw

resect

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David Kinsley. (2003) Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahavidyas. (First Indian Edition reprint) Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited. ISBN: 81-208-1523-8. Page: 82.

http://www.thediary.org/afailedstudent/11442/sheet83.html

 

...a story recorded in Orissa. Durga became angry when she found out that she could defeat the buffalo demon only if she showed her genitals to him. She did so, but then went on a terrible rampage.

Her anger grew so terrible that she transformed herself, grew smaller and black and left her lion mount and started walking on foot. Her name then became Kali. With tongue lolling out and dripping with blood, she then went on a blind, destructive rampage, killing everything and everyone in sight, regardless of who they were.

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In March 1990, the city of Tokyo breathed a sigh of relief when Tsutomu Miyazaki confessed to kidnapping, murdering, and dismembering four preschool-age girls in 1988 and 1989.  Miyazaki, who was twenty-six at the time, came from a respectable middle-class Japanese family, which made his crimes all the more shocking to a country unused to serial violence.  Generally unassuming in appearance, Miyazaki was a loner who worked in a print shop.  He was born with deformed hands and couldn’t turn his palms upward or grasp objects easily....

 

As described by Robert Ressler and Tom Shachtman in their book I Have Lived in the Monster, Miyazaki taunted the families of his victims during his active killing period by writing letters to them and signing them with a female name “Yuko Imada,” which literally means “Now I have courage” but is also a pun on the Japanese words for “Now I will tell you.”

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Lecter’s polydactyly (extra finger) could relate in some way to Miyazaki’s deformity, but Lecter’s condition is never described as a handicap while Miyazaki’s hands sometimes made him the object of ridicule and could have hastened his descent into madness.

 

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Personal Note

The object of ridicule...could be anything...Something that is used to ...provoke...pester...IRRITATE...mentally disturb...constantly...day and night...

Written around 0806 p.m. Monday, January 26, 2009

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Milwaukee serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer has been suggested as another possible model for Lecter.  Dahmer, who targeted young homosexual men, murdered, dismembered, and ate his victims, claiming at one point that consuming young flesh gave him an erection and kept him vital with their spirits.

 

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Adjective: vital

1. Urgently needed; absolutely necessary

"vital for a healthy society"; "of vital interest"

2. Performing an essential function in the living body

"vital organs"; "blood and other vital fluids"; "the loss of vital heat in shock"; "a vital spot"

3. Full of spirit

"a vital and charismatic leader"

4. Manifesting or characteristic of life

"a vital, living organism"; "vital signs"

Synonyms

critical

full of life

life-sustaining

lively

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David Kinsley. (2003) Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahavidyas. (First Indian Edition reprint) Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited. ISBN: 81-208-1523-8. Page 71.

http://www.thediary.org/afailedstudent/11442/sheet71.html

 

The description of the temple itself underlines Kali's awful, uncivilized nature. The temple is constructed of bones, flesh, blood, heads, and body parts of enemies killed in battle. The severed heads are used as bricks, the blood used to make mortar, elephant tusks serve as roof trusses, and on top of the enclosure walls (a common feature of South Indian temples) "the severed heads of peacocks, the heads of men offered as sacrifice, the heads of young babies also severed in sacrifice and blood-oozing flesh as standards were placed as beautifying elements."14 The temple is "cleansed" daily with blood instead of water, and flesh is offered to the goddess instead of flowers. The fires consuming the corpses of sacrificial victims also serve as lamps.

 

14 R. Nagaswamy, Tantric Cult of South India (Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan, 1982), p. 26.

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Dahmer killed boys or men who looked like boys; Lecter prefers mature men.  In all likelihood, Lecter would have preferred to have Dahmer on the menu than share notes with him.

 

Another possible source for Lecter is the Russian serial killer and cannibal Nikolai Dzhurmongaliev who made it his mission to rid the world of prostitutes and managed to eliminate 47 women before he was caught.  Though the gender of his preferred victims does not match Lecter’s, Dzhurmongaliev did share Lecter’s appreciation for a well-prepared meal.  The Russian made a habit of preparing ethnic dishes out of his victims and serving them to his friends.  Dzhurmongaliev shared other characteristics with Dr. Lecter.  As Carrie Comeaux, Elizabeth Eads, Sheila Dickerson, and Van Tran write on their website “Real vs. Fiction: The Minds of Serial Killers,” Dzhurmongaliev “was always seen as an unusually calm man with an air of stillness about him, but when provoked, would strike out with alarming force and injure those trying to restrain him.

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The aristocratic Lecter would not stoop so low as to kill simply to achieve orgasm. Look at his attitude toward Miggs, his neighboring inmate at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, when Miggs has the audacity to flick semen at Clarice Starling.  The next day Miggs is mysteriously found dead in his cell, having swallowed his own tongue.  When Starling asks the doctor if he’s responsible, Lecter pointedly ignores the question.

 

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Noun: audacity

1. Fearless daring

2. Aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery

"he had the audacity to question my decision"

Synonyms

audaciousness

temerity

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Personal Note

Cross Refer to...Bagalamukhi portrait...pulling out...pegging...the enemy’s...offender’s tongue...An offender...who displayed the audacity...to do something...unacceptable...

Written around 0836 p.m. Monday, January 26, 2009

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Lecter brings all the skills of a trained French chef to his cannibalism, and Fish also relished the preparation of freshly slaughtered young humans.

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Fish, who frequently beat himself with a homemade cat-o'-nine-tails, was convicted of killing ten-year-old Gracie Budd in 1934 and sentenced to death by electrocution, a punishment that apparently appealed to him.  A Daily News reporter who covered the trial wrote that Fish’s “watery eyes gleamed at the thought of being burned by a heat more intense than the flames with which he often seared his flesh to gratify his lust.”

 

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Personal Note

Cross Refer to...Dhumavati portrait...holding a flaming bowl...urn...

Written around 0850 p.m. Monday, January 26, 2009

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David Kinsley. (2003) Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahavidyas. (First Indian Edition reprint) Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited. ISBN: 81-208-1523-8. Page: 171.

 

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Bhairavi’s fierce, terrible, or destructive nature is emphasized in some of her descriptions; for example, she is said to wear a garland of freshly severed heads that gush blood over her breasts and to be seated on a corpse (see the dhyana mantra of Rudra-bhairavi, preceding note 2 above). This aspect of Bhairavi is also mentioned fairly often in her thousand-name hymn from the Visvasara-tantra, where is called Extremely Terrible (Ghora-tara), Black Night (Kalaratri), Fierce One (Candi), She Who Creates Fear and Awe, Who Has a Terrible Face, Who Has the Face of a Ghost, Who Arises from the Body of a Corpse, Who Likes Blood, Who Drinks Blood, Who Destroys the Body, and Who Is the Cause of Mahapralaya.6 This hymn also often identifies her with the sun and fire, which may have destructive functions but are not specifically mentioned as destructive forces when she is associated with them.7

 

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5. Rajes Diksit, Bhairavi evam Dhumavati Tantra Sastra (Agra: Dip Publication, 1988), p.1.

6. Ibid., pp. 57-58, 61, 64.

7. Ibid., p.61; see also her thousand-name hymn in the Sakta-pramoda (Bombay: Khemraja Srikrsnadasa Prakasan, 1992), p.288, where she is said to exist in a circle of fire, to be a circle of fire, and to be destructive fire.

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But Fish was more pathetic than demonic, a broken-down old man who had spent a lifetime nurturing his unhealthy predilection in secrecy.  None of the cannibals mentioned here comes close to the sweep and panache of Hannibal Lecter whose literary antecedents certainly include Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and Milton’s Satan.

 

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Noun: predilection

1. A predisposition in favor of something

"a predilection for expensive cars"

2. A strong liking

Synonyms

orientation

penchant

preference

taste

 

Noun: panache

1. Distinctive and stylish elegance

2. A feathered plume on a helmet

Synonyms

dash

elan

élan

flair

style

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Lecter Profiled

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/weird/lecter/3.html

 

Lecter Profiled

 

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Silence of the Lambs video cover

 

To profile Hannibal Lecter, we must ignore the vivid character Thomas Harris has depicted in his books as well as Anthony Hopkins’s chilling portrayal of Lecter in the films The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal.  Instead we must treat Lecter as what the Bureau refers to as an UNSUB, an unknown subject.   A useful profile is not based on what the profiler hopes to get (a sociopath, a paranoid schizophrenic, etc.), but on what he has (crime-scene evidence).  We know from the books that Lecter has killed at least fourteen times, and Harris has described these killings variouslysome in great detail, some only in passing.  By examining the crime scenes Lecter left behind, we may be able to gain some clues as to his origins.

 

Noun: sociopath

1. Someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder ('psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by 'sociopath')

Synonyms

psychopath

 

During Clarice Starling’s first visit with Dr. Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, Lecter mocks the FBI’s system of categorizing serial murderers as organized or disorganized:  “...Most psychology is puerile, Officer Starling, and that practiced in Behavioral Science is on the level with phrenology.  Psychology doesn’t get very good material to start with.  Go to any college psychology department and look at the students and faculty: ham radio enthusiasts and other personality-deficient buffs.  Hardly the best brains on campus.  Organized and disorganizeda real bottom-feeder thought of that.”

 

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Adjective: puerile

1. Of or characteristic of a child

"puerile breathing"

2. Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity

"puerile jokes"

Synonyms

adolescent

jejune

juvenile

 

Noun: phrenology

1. A now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties

Type of

craniology

 

Noun: buff

1. An ardent follower and admirer

2. A soft thick undyed leather from the skins of e.g. buffalo or oxen

3. Bare skin; naked

"swimming in the buff"

4. A medium to dark tan color

5. An implement consisting of soft material mounted on a block; used for polishing (as in manicuring)

Verb: buff

1. Strike, beat repeatedly

2. Polish and make shiny

"buff the wooden floors"; "buff my shoes"

Adjective: buff

1. Of the yellowish-beige color of buff leather

Synonyms

buffer

buffet

burnish

caramel

caramel brown

devotee

fan

furbish

lover

raw sienna

yellowish brown

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Despite the doctor’s low opinion of their method, the FBI would classify him as an organized killer because his crime scenes show that he had a plan and he carried it out.  The murder of Italian Chief Investigator Rinaldo Pazzi in Hannibal, for example, took extraordinary planning in order to duplicate the gruesome defenestration and disemboweling that one of Pazzi’s ancestors suffered.   Lecter generally spends some time with his victims, which is another characteristic of an organized killer.  He savors the experience as he plays out his fantasy, which is the motive for all serial murder.

 

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Noun: defenestration

1. The act of throwing someone or something out of a window

Type of

ejection

exclusion

expulsion

riddance

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Serial killers cherish a personal fantasy of one sort or another, and killing lets them live out that fantasy.  Ed Gein, for example, killed women and wore their skin because he wanted to be a woman.  Lecter picks his victims to fulfill his own unique fantasy.  Interestingly, however, all of Lecter’s victims are men.  Despite his fascination with Clarice Starling, his fantasy apparently doesn’t include women.

 

A murderer’s modus operandi (MO) is the actions he must take to complete the kill.  The murderer’s signature is what he does beyond that, ritualistic behavior that satisfies some aspect of his fantasy.  Cannibalism is Lecter’s signature, but Lecter is not satisfied to simply eat his victims.  He must feast on them.  The elaborate preparation for a five-star meal of human flesh is as much a part of his fantasy as eating the flesh.  The preparation of the still living brain of Paul Krendler, Starling’s nemesis, is a recipe worthy of Gourmet magazine.

 

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Noun: nemesis (nemeses)

1. Something causing misery or death

Noun: Nemesis

1. (Greek mythology) the goddess of divine retribution and vengeance

Synonymms

bane

curse

scourge

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David Kinsley. (2003) Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahavidyas. (First Indian Edition reprint) Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited. ISBN: 81-208-1523-8.

 

Pages 185-186.

The Dhumavati temple in Varanasi

Dhumavati temples are few and far between. In Varanasi I visited one of these rare temples on several occasions.(43) Although the central image there is covered with clothing, the priest assured me that it represents Dhumavati. He described her as a widow, riding a chariot; in three of her hands she holds a winnowing fan, a broom, and a pot, and with the fourth she makes the fear-not mudra. The image is of black stone with large eyes and red lips. She receives as offerings the usual things, such as flowers and fruit, but also likes liquor, bhang (a form of hashish), cigarettes, and meat. Blood sacrifices are performed occasionally at this temple. She does not like offerings burnt in a fire that is not smokey, so the priest said he is always careful to create a lot of smoke. She also likes smoke from incense, offerings, and cremation fires. Smoke attracts her because it suggests destruction. She herself, the priest said, exists in the form of smoke, and like smoke she drifts everywhere at will.

 

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43. There are also small Dhumavati temples at Ranchi in Bihar and near the Kamakhya-devi temple near Gauhati in Assam.

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Personal Note

She does not like offerings burnt in a fire that is not smokey,...

 

She also likes smoke from incense, offerings, and cremation fires.

 

Human meat...barbequed...and served...smoking...emitting hot fumes...

Written around 0524 p.m. Monday, March 16, 2009

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Personal Note

She herself, the priest said, exists in the form of smoke,...

 

A living spirit...hard to discern...her shape...with human eyes...

Written around 0526 p.m. Monday, March 16, 2009

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Cross Reference

David Kinsley. (2003) Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahavidyas. (First Indian Edition reprint) Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited. ISBN: 81-208-1523-8.

 

Page 50

In the context of temple worship, the individual Mahavidyas are perceived as very similar to other Hindu deities. They are thought of as great beings who have an objective existence outside the devotee and who live in heavenly places or special, sacred dwellings constructed for them on earth. In this context, the ritual actions of the devotee are directed outward toward the powerful being, who is affirmed to exist outside, above, or beyond the worshiper.

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Personation, the positioning or systematic mutilation of the victim’s body, is another trait commonly exhibited by organized serial murderers.  The killer may leave some object on or near the body or he may take something from the body.  Whatever the act of personation is, it’s intimately linked to the killer’s fantasy.

 

Rinaldo Pazzi’s grand guignol exit in Hannibal can certainly be taken as an act of personation, but a more typical example is Klaus the Swedish sailor in The Silence of the Lambs whose partial remains Clarice Starling finds in the backseat of a 1938 Packard limousine locked in a warehouse.  At first she discovers a mannequin in a tuxedo sitting in the backseat.  On the seat next to the figure is an open album full of old-fashioned valentines.  The head of the mannequin is covered with a “black hood...as though it covered a parrot’s cage.  When Starling removes the hood, she finds a human head partially submerged in liquid, “the eyes long burned milky by the alcohol that preserved it.”  

 

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Noun: mannequin

1. A woman who wears clothes to display fashions

"she was too fat to be a mannequin"

2. A life-size dummy used to display clothes

Synonyms

fashion model

form

manakin [non-standard]

manikin

mannikin

model

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Cross Reference

David Kinsley. (2003) Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahavidyas. (First Indian Edition reprint) Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited. ISBN: 81-208-1523-8.

 

Page 68

She is like a mountain of collyrium, and her abode is in the cremation ground. She has three red eyes, her hair is disheveled, and she is awful to look at because of her emaciated body. In her left hand she holds a jar full of liquor mixed with meat, and in her right hand she hold a freshly severed head. She is eating raw flesh, she is naked, her limbs are adorned with ornaments, she is drunk on wine, and she smiles.(3)

 

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3. Dhyana mantra of Smasana-kali; Tantrasara, p.461.

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Hannibal in his cage (AP)

 

When Starling questions Lecter about this victim, he admits to putting Klaus’s head in the car, but says he didn’t kill the man.  Klaus was killed by one of Dr. Lecter’s patients, Benjamin Raspail, “first flutist for the Baltimore Philharmonic Orchestra,” a whiny man whose inadequate musicianship offended Lecter.  Lecter did kill Raspail, however, serving his pancreas and thymus at a dinner party for the president and conductor of the philharmonic.  For some reason, Lecter took it upon himself to embellish Raspail’s crime, creating a macabre setting for Klaus’s disposal.  But why?

 

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Verb: embellish

1. Add details to

2. Be beautiful to look at

3. Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.

4. Make more beautiful

Synonyms

adorn

aggrandize

beautify

blow up

deck

decorate

dramatize

embroider

fancify

grace

lard

ornament

pad

prettify

 

Adjective: macabre

1. Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror

"macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"

Synonyms

ghastly

grim

grisly

gruesome

sick

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Hannibal in straight jacket

 

Professional profilers analyze the victimology of their UNSUB to find out what the victims have in common.  Lecter’s victims were all men.  In most cases he spent time with them, completing his elaborate premeditated plan.  (He did kill a police officer during his escape in The Silence of the Lambs, but it’s safe to say that this killing was not planned to satisfy his fantasy.  It was a brutal act of survival.)   Some victims he knew well, like Raspail and Pazzi; others, like the census taker whose liver he consumed with “some fava beans and a big Amarone,” he killed impulsively, simply because what the man did for a living offended him.  In fact, that seems to be a common element among all of Lecter’s murders, the victim offended his sensibilities in some way.  The census taker tried to “quantify” him as if he were just one of the masses.  Pazzi was crooked and venial.  Krendler and Dr. Chilton, who ran the hospital for the criminally insane where Lecter was incarcerated, were both vindictive petty bureaucrats.  Raspail was a bad musician as well as an annoying personality.  Miggs had no manners.

 

Unlike other serial killers, Lecter took no souvenirs or trophies to help him relive the act and obsess over his fantasy.  He has only his memories.  But what is this fantasy that he holds so dear and must feed like a beast locked within his soul? Why do petty, uncouth, common males drive him to kill?  And why does he eat them—and not just eat them, dine on them, turning the objects of his distaste into gourmet meals?  What exactly is Hannibal Lector’s fantasy?

 

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Cross Reference

David Kinsley. (2003) Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahavidyas. (First Indian Edition reprint) Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited. ISBN: 81-208-1523-8. Page 50.

 

Several of the Mahavidyas like blood offerings (which are made in the form of animal sacrifices), in addition to the typical flowers, incense, and fruit. Kali, Chinnamasta, Tara, and Bagalamukhi all have a reputation for being pleased by blood offerings, although practices vary from temple to temple.

 

Personal Note

...in the form of animal sacrifices)

 

Human...man...male/female...is an animal...first of all...

He/she is first of all...an animal...then only a human...

Written around 0556 p.m. Monday, March 16, 2009

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Cross Reference

David Frawley. (2005) Tantric Yoga and the Wisdom Goddesses:  Spiritual Secrets of Ayurveda. (First Indian Edition reprint) Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited. ISBN: 81-208-1357-x. Chapter 8. Bagalamukhi: The Hypnotic Power of the Goddess. Page 133.

 

The Reversal of Opposites

Bagala turns each thing into its opposite. She turns speech into silence, knowledge into ignorance, power into impotence, defeat into victory. She represents the knowledge whereby each thing must in time become its opposite.

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The answer, I believe, is in the story of Mischa.

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Mischa

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/weird/lecter/4.html

 

Mischa

 

Behavioral science has taught us that serial killers aren’t born that way; they’re formed by a combination of factors that begins in childhood.  The blueprint for a serial killer’s rampage is his inner fantasy life, which is a direct response to traumatic events that occurred when he was a child or young adult.  Hannibal Lector’s life-defining trauma happened at the age of six when he witnessed the death of his beloved sister Mischa.

 

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Adjective: traumatic

1. Of or relating to a physical injury or wound to the body

2. Psychologically painful

"few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child"

Similar

painful

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In Hannibal, Thomas Harris presents us with a dream that Dr. Lecter has when he dozes off during an airplane flight.  It’s his memory of an event that happened during World War II.   His parents have been killed, their estate taken over by “deserters.”  The children are locked in a barn.

 

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Personal Note

Those who walked away from the war...while being enlisted in the military...Some may be injured physically...some mentally...disillusioned...with war...

Written around 0730 p.m. Monday, March 16, 2009

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The mixed bag of deserters who used the remote hunting lodge ate what they could find.  Once they found a miserable little deer, scrawny, with an arrow in it, that had managed to forage beneath the snow and survive.  They led it back into the camp to keep from carrying it...

 

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Adjective: scrawny (scrawnier, scrawniest)

1. Being very thin

"a long scrawny neck"

2. Inferior in size or quality

"scrawny cattle"

Synonyms

boney

scraggy

scrubby

skinny

stunted

underweight

weedy

 

Noun: forage

1. Bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle

2. The act of searching for food and provisions

Verb: forage

1. Collect or look around for (food)

2. Wander and feed

"The animals forage in the woods"

Synonyms

eatage [dialect]

foraging

grass

pasturage

pasture

scrounge

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They did not wish to fire a shot and managed to knock it off its spindly legs and hack at its throat with an axe, cursing one another in several languages to bring a bowl before the blood was wasted.

 

There was not much meat on the runty deer and in two days, perhaps three, in their long overcoats, their breaths stinking and steaming, the deserters came through the snow from the hunting lodge to unlock the barn and choose again from among the children huddled in the straw.  None had frozen, so they took a live one.

 

They felt Hannibal Lecter’s thigh and his upper arm and chest, and instead of him, they chose his sister Mischa, and led her away.  To play, they said.  No one who was led away to play ever returned. 

 

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Personal Note

No one who was led away to play ever returned. 

 

It was thus...NOT two kids alone in that barn. Many others should have been there.

Written around 0749 p.m. Monday, March 16, 2009

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Hannibal held on to Mischa so hard, held to Mischa with his wiry grip until they slammed the heavy barn door on him, stunning him and cracking the bone in his upper arm.

 

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Adjective: wiry (wirier, wiriest)

1. Lean and sinewy

2. Of or relating to wire

3. Of hair that resembles wire in stiffness

"wiry red hair"

Synonyms

stringy

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They led her away through snow still stained bloody from the deer.

 

He prayed so hard that he would see Mischa again, the prayer consumed his six-year-old mind, but it did not drown out the sound of the axe.  His prayer to see her again did not go entirely unanswered—he did see a few of Mischa’s milk teeth in the reeking stool pit his captors used between the lodge where they slept and the barn where they kept the captive children who were their sustenance in 1944 after the Eastern Front collapsed…

 

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Adjective: reeking

1. Wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears

"wiped his reeking neck"

2. Giving off a strong unpleasant smell

Verb: reek

1. Have an element suggestive (of something)

2. Smell badly and offensively

"The building reeks of smoke"

3. Be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face

4. Give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc.

"Marshes reeking in the sun"

Synonyms

fuming

smacking

smelling

stinking

watery

 

Noun: stool

1. A simple seat without a back or arms

2. Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

3. (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings

4. A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

Verb: stool

1. Lure with a stool, as of wild fowl

2. React to a decoy, of wildfowl

3. Grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers

4. Have a bowel movement

Synonyms

BM

ca-ca

can

commode

crapper

defecate

dejection

fecal matter

feces

make

ordure

poop

pot

potty

throne

tiller

toilet

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Mischa’s horrible slaughter and consumption by the deserters formed the fantasy that shaped Hannibal Lecter, a revenge fantasy.  In his dream, the deserters are crude and uncouth.  They’re not soldiers but deserters, cowards, ignoble by definition.  They take over Lecter’s parents’ property and relegate the young residents to the barn.  Their breath stinks.  They butcher a deer as Neanderthals would.  They screech like greedy vultures when they see the spilled blood seeping into the snow.

 

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Adjective: uncouth

1. Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste

"an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"

Synonyms

coarse

common

rough-cut

vulgar

 

Adjective: ignoble

1. Completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose

"something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude"; "I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part"

2. Not of the nobility

"of ignoble birth"

Synonyms

ungentle

untitled

 

Verb: relegate

1. Refer to another person for decision or judgment

"She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues"

2. Assign to a lower position; reduce in rank

3. Expel, as if by official decree

4. Assign to a class or kind

"People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms"

Synonyms

banish

bar

break

bump

classify

demote

kick downstairs

pass on

submit

 

Noun: Neanderthals

1. Extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia

Synonyms

Homo sapiens neanderthalensis*

Neandertal man*

Neandertal*

Neanderthal man*

 

Verb: screech

1. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise

2. Utter a harsh abrupt scream

Noun: screech

1. A high-pitched noise resembling a human cry

2. Sharp piercing cry

Synonyms

creak

screak

scream

screaming

screeching

shriek

shrieking

skreak [non-standard]

skreigh

squawk

squeak

whine

 

Adjective: seeping

1. Leaking out slowly

Verb: seep

1. Pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings

Synonyms

oozing

oozy

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Cross Reference

David Kinsley. (2003) Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahavidyas. (First Indian Edition reprint) Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited. ISBN: 81-208-1523-8.

 

Page 67

She is the terrible one who has a dreadful face. She should be meditated upon as having disheveled hair and a garland of freshly cut human heads. She has four arms. In her upper left hand she holds a sword that has just been bloodied by the severed head that she holds in her lower left hand. Her upper right hand makes the gesture of assurance and her lower right hand, the sign of granting favors. She has a bluish complexion and is lustrous like a dark cloud. She is completely naked, and her body gleams with blood that is smeared all over it from the garland of bleeding severed heads around her neck. Her ear ornaments are the corpses of children. Her fangs are dreadful, and her face is fierce. Her breasts are large and round, and she wears a girdle made of severed human hands. Blood trickles from the corners of her mouth and makes her face gleam. She makes a terrible sound and lives in the cremation ground, where she is surrounded by howling jackals. She stands on the chest of Siva in the form of a corpse. She is eager to have sexual intercourse in reverse fashion with Mahakala. She wears a satisfied expression. She smiles(1).

 

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1. Dhyana mantra of Daksina-kali from the Kali-tantra: Krsnananda Agamavagisa, Brhat Tantrasara (Calcutta: Navabharat Publishers, 1984), pp. 387-88.

 

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Personal Note

How a spirit is praised...in a specific format...to possess you...

Written around 0242 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, 2009

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Page 95

Other fierce forms of Tara in Buddhism include Mahamayavijayavahini-tara(18), who is called The Blue She-Wolf(19), and Mahacinatara. Mahacina-tara (also known as Ugra-tara) is described in both Buddhist and Hindu sources.

 

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1. Stephan Beyer, The Cult of Tara: Magic and Ritual in Tibet (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), p. 7.

18. B. Bhattacharyya, Indian Buddhist Iconography, pp. 134-46.

19. Beyer, p. 292.

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David Kinsley. (2003) Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahavidyas. (First Indian Edition reprint) Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited. ISBN: 81-208-1523-8. Page 71.

http://www.thediary.org/afailedstudent/11442/sheet71.html

 

The description of the temple itself underlines Kali's awful, uncivilized nature. The temple is constructed of bones, flesh, blood, heads, and body parts of enemies killed in battle. The severed heads are used as bricks, the blood used to make mortar, elephant tusks serve as roof trusses, and on top of the enclosure walls (a common feature of South Indian temples) "the severed heads of peacocks, the heads of men offered as sacrifice, the heads of young babies also severed in sacrifice and blood-oozing flesh as standards were placed as beautifying elements."14 The temple is "cleansed" daily with blood instead of water, and flesh is offered to the goddess instead of flowers. The fires consuming the corpses of sacrificial victims also serve as lamps.

 

The description of the worshipers and the puja at the temple is equally horrific. A graphic account is given of a devotee chopping off his own head as an offering to the goddess. (15) Warriors also offer their heads to the goddess to demonstrate their fearlessness. Yoginis frequent the temple and arrive there with swords and severed heads, in appearance like Kali herself. The temple is “full of blood, flesh, burning corpses, vultures, jackals and goblins.”(16) Kali herself is seated on a couch of five ghosts (panca preta) with a corpse as a pillow. She sleeps on a bed made of flesh.(17)

 

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14. R. Nagaswamy, Tantric Cult of South India (Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan, 1982), p. 26.

15. Ibid., p.26.

16. Ibid., p.27.

17. Ibid., p.28.

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When he grows up, Lecter targets men he considered petty and uncouth.   Raspail the inferior flutist, Krendler the vindictive bureaucrat, Pazzi the corrupt cop, the census taker, even Mason Verger the former libertine who managed by a miracle of medical science to survive Lecter’s wrath—all of them are nothing more than stand-ins for the deserters who ate his sister.

 

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Noun: stand-in

1. Someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)

"the star had a stand-in for dangerous scenes"

Verb: stand in

1. Be a substitute

Synonyms

backup man*

backups

fill-ins

fills in

reliefs

relievers

subs

substitutes

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Photo

Anthony Hopkins in Hannibal.

 

Obviously he eats his victims because they ate Mischa.  An eye for an eye.  But why the gourmet preparation?  Why serve their organs sautéed in butter and shallots?  Why spend exorbitant amounts of money on vintage wines to go with these human entrees?  Because Lecter knows he’s better than the troglodytes who killed his sister.     He has refinement and a noble lineage.  He would never eat meat roasted on a stick.  He does it the most sophisticated way possible.  His meticulous preparation of human flesh is his way of throwing it in the faces of the deserters who gnawed on Mischa’s bones.

 

Though Harris taunts his readers with the expectation that Lecter will hurt Clarice Starling the moment he gets the chance, Clarice is the safest of anyone in the books because she becomes Lecter’s surrogate Mischa.  Lecter states it directly after he has her securely under his spell: “’And so I came to believe,’ Dr. Lecter was saying, ‘that there had to be a place in the world for Mischa, a prime place vacated for her, and I came to think, Clarice, that the best place in the world was yours.’”

 

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Verb: spell (spelt, also spelled)

1. Write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word)

2. Orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of

"How do you spell this word?" "We had to spell out our names for the police officer"

3. Indicate or signify

"I'm afraid this spells trouble!"

4. Relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn

5. Place under a spell

6. Take turns working

"the workers spell every four hours"

Noun: spell

1. A psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation

2. A time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)

"a spell of work"

3. A period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition

"a spell of good weather"

4. A verbal formula believed to have magical force

"he whispered a spell as he moved his hands"

Synonyms

charm

enchantment

go

import

magic spell

magical spell

patch

piece

spell out

tour

trance

turn

while

write

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This is Lecter’s fantasy—to seek revenge on Mischa’s slayers and restore her to the place of dignity and refinement as she has always deserved.  By the end of Hannibal, the third and latest book in the series, Lecter has achieved his goal.

 

But does this mean that Lecter’s reign of terror is over because he’s finally satisfied his fantasy?  He’s righted the wrongs and brought back his dear sister in the person of Clarice.  What more is there for him to do?

 

In real life a serial killer’s fantasy is never fulfilled.  It evolves, becomes more elaborate, consumes more of the killer’s being.  He keeps killing because there is never any closure.  Similarly, a fictional series character goes on and on as long as the public thirsts for more adventures featuring that character.  The series detective returns time and again in book after book to solve more and more crimes.  Dracula springs fresh from the grave in new movies and books season after season.  The spirit of Lecter will go on as well, if not directly from the pen of Thomas Harris, then in the myriad serial-killer clones he has spawned on the page and on the screen.

 

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Adjective: myriad

1. Too numerous to be counted

"myriad stars"

Noun: myriad

1. A large indefinite number

"he faced a myriad of details"

2. The cardinal number that is the product of ten and one thousand

Synonyms

10000

countless

infinite

innumerable

innumerous

multitudinous

numberless

ten thousand

uncounted

unnumberable

unnumbered

unnumerable

 

Verb: spawn

1. Call forth

2. Lay spawn

"The salmon swims upstream to spawn"

Synonyms

bred

engendered

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But there’s no adequate substitute for the real Hannibal Lecter, and hopefully there’s no substitute for the real Mischa.  Clarice may not satisfy that lust within Lecter forever.  The doctor’s many fans eagerly wait for him to feel a bit peckish again, hoping that his insatiable urge to dine on the “deserters” returns so that Mr. Harris will bestow upon us another installment in the deliciously horrifying exploits of Hannibal Lecter.

 

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Adjective: peckish

1. [Brit] Somewhat hungry

2. Easily irritated or annoyed

Synonyms

cranky

fractious

irritable

nettlesome

peevish

pettish

petulant

pouty

scratchy

techy

testy

tetchy

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Reference

HBO Movie Review: Ted Bundy

http://www.hboasia.com/browse/details.jsp?id=1103&curCountry=91&curCountry=91

 

Ted Bundy

 

Hollywood's odd fascination with serial killers - typified by the continuing adventures (and box office success) of the Hannibal Lecter franchise - has spawned a series of biographies about genuine mass murderers.

 

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Noun: box office

1. Total admission receipts for an entertainment

2. The office where tickets of admission are sold

Synonyms

ticket booth

ticket office

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First it was Ed Gein, then Henry Lee Lucas, now comes a biography of Ted Bundy - the first person ever to be called a "serial killer" for his murderous spree across from Seattle to Florida in the '70s. Brilliantly portrayed by Burke (Mars Attacks!) the film follows Ted's life as he evolves from shoplifter and peeping Tom to necrophiliac butcher - murdering and raping anything between 30 and 100 women.

 

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Noun: spree

1. A brief indulgence of your impulses

Verb: spree

1. Engage without restraint in an activity and indulge, as when shopping

Synonyms

fling

 

Noun: shoplifter

1. A thief who steals goods that are in a store

Synonyms

booster

lifter

 

Noun: Peeping Tom

1. A viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others

Synonyms

peeper

voyeur

 

Noun: voyeurism

1. A perversion in which a person receives sexual gratification from seeing the genitalia of others or witnessing others' sexual behavior

Type of

paraphilia

 

Noun: paraphilia

1. Abnormal sexual activity

Type of

perversion

sexual perversion

 

Noun: necrophilia

1. An irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies

Synonyms

necromania

necrophilism

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David Kinsley. (2003) Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahavidyas. (First Indian Edition reprint) Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited. ISBN: 81-208-1523-8. Page 71.

http://www.thediary.org/afailedstudent/11442/sheet71.html

 

The description of the temple itself underlines Kali's awful, uncivilized nature. The temple is constructed of bones, flesh, blood, heads, and body parts of enemies killed in battle. The severed heads are used as bricks, the blood used to make mortar, elephant tusks serve as roof trusses, and on top of the enclosure walls (a common feature of South Indian temples) "the severed heads of peacocks, the heads of men offered as sacrifice, the heads of young babies also severed in sacrifice and blood-oozing flesh as standards were placed as beautifying elements."14 The temple is "cleansed" daily with blood instead of water, and flesh is offered to the goddess instead of flowers. The fires consuming the corpses of sacrificial victims also serve as lamps.

 

The description of the worshipers and the puja at the temple is equally horrific. A graphic account is given of a devotee chopping off his own head as an offering to the goddess. (15) Warriors also offer their heads to the goddess to demonstrate their fearlessness. Yoginis frequent the temple and arrive there with swords and severed heads, in appearance like Kali herself. The temple is “full of blood, flesh, burning corpses, vultures, jackals and goblins.”(16) Kali herself is seated on a couch of five ghosts (panca preta) with a corpse as a pillow. She sleeps on a bed made of flesh.(17)

 

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14. R. Nagaswamy, Tantric Cult of South India (Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan, 1982), p. 26.

15. Ibid., p.26.

16. Ibid., p.27.

17. Ibid., p.28.

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The film follows him all the way across the country, through two prison escapes and finally to his execution in 1989. Certainly not for the faint-hearted!

 

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Adjective: faint-hearted

1. Lacking conviction or boldness or courage

Synonyms

faint

fainthearted

timid

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CAST

Michael Reilly Burke, Boti Ann Bliss, Stefani Brass

(Reference: HBO Movie Review: Ted Bundy.)

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A Peeping Tom should wave some red flags. It goes along the line of a sexual predator.

    - Police Chief Don Dixon, Lake Charles, Louisiana

(Reference: Roberts, Penny Brown. (Sunday, June 01, 2003) Killer suspect arrested and released again and again. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA: The Advocate.)

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Noun: red flag

1. A flag that serves as a warning signal

"we didn't swim at the beach because the red flag was up"

2. The emblem of socialist revolution

3. Something that irritates or demands immediate action

"doing that is like waving a red flag in front of a bull"

Type of

alarms

alarums

alerts

allegories

annoyances

annoyings

emblems

flags

irritations

signal flag*

vexations

warning signal*

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Reference

Grenier, Cynthia. (Saturday, October 05, 2002) Hannibal eats up big screen again. USA: WorldNetDaily.com.

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Hannibal eats up big screen again

 

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Posted: October 5, 2002

1:00 a.m. Eastern

 

Editor's note: Because of the subject of this review, some readers may find it objectionable.

© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com

 

That cannibal from Baltimore is back again, this time in "Red Dragon," which opened nationwide yesterday. It would seem the movie-going world simply cannot get enough of that master of evil, Hannibal Lecter - at least as incarnated by Anthony Hopkins, who is quite delicious even in his third round in the role. Indeed, Entertainment Weekly in a recent poll declared Hopkins' Dr. Lecter the most popular villain in movie history.

 

The several hundred members of the Washington audience at the film's preview Wednesday night went utterly bonkers from beginning to end. I don't know when I've exited a movie theater surrounded by so many people positively bursting with such high enthusiasm about a movie they had just seen.

 

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Adjective: bonkers

1. Informal or slang term for mentally irregular

Synonyms

around the bend

balmy [archaic]

barmy

bats

batty

buggy

cracked

crackers

daft

dotty

fruity

haywire

kookie

kooky

loco

loony

loopy

nuts

nutty

round the bend

wacky

whacky

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Mind you, this is the second big-screen telling of Dr. Lecter's adventures from Thomas Harris' "Red Dragon" and the third time Sir Anthony has slipped into the persona of the infinitely charming and deadly psychopath. Director Michael Mann shot the same story in 1986 under the title of "Manhunter" with Brian Cox as the evil doctor. In 1991 came "Silence of the Lambs," winning Hopkins an Academy Award as well as one for writer Ted Tally for a screenplay that utterly seized movie audiences. Eleven years later famed director Ridley Scott brought Hopkins and Lecter back together again to the screen in "Hannibal." That success convinced legendary Italian film producer Dino De Laurentis there was still cinema gold to be mined from another outing of the good doctor. Universal Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer agreed.

 

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Noun: psychopath

1. Someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder ('psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by 'sociopath')

Synonyms

sociopath

 

Noun: outing

1. A journey taken for pleasure

2. A day devoted to an outdoor social gathering

Verb: out

1. To state openly and publicly one's homosexuality

"This actor outed last year"

2. Reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle

"The gay actor was outed last week"; "Someone outed a CIA agent"

3. Be made known; be disclosed or revealed

"The truth will out"

Synonyms

coming out

coming out of the closet

excursion

expedition

field day

jaunt

junket

picnic

pleasure trip

sashay

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Enough of the backstory. "Red Dragon," despite its fanciful and obviously implausible storyline, enjoys the presence of three magnificently first-rate actors and one actress playing at full measure of their skills - and throw in such worthy actors as Harvey Keitel, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Mary-Louise Parker in secondary roles. The film sets out at a high pitch. Before the opening titles, we rapidly meet Dr. Lecter in fine fettle giving a dinner party in his elegant town house. When a woman guest queries as to the contents of the main dish, Hopkins, with a slyly discreet smile, allows that he thinks his guests best enjoy a meal without going into its composition. The audience let out a roar of delight. Here was their old friend Hannibal back in full flower.

 

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Adjective: implausible

1. Having a quality that provokes disbelief

"gave the teacher an implausible excuse"

2. Highly imaginative but unlikely

"an implausible explanation"

Synonyms

farfetched

 

Noun: fettle

1. A state of fitness and good health

"in fine fettle"

Verb: fettle

1. Remove mold marks or sand from (a casting)

Type of

fitness

get rid of

physical fitness

remove

 

Adjective: sly (slyer, slyest, slier, sliest)

1. Marked by skill in deception

"sly as a fox"

Synonyms

crafty

cunning

foxy

guileful

knavish

slick

tricksy

tricky

wily

 

Adjective: discreet

1. Marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint

"his trusted discreet aide"; "a discreet, finely wrought gold necklace"

Synonyms

circumspect

discerning

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As Dr. Lecter is doing the dishes, a young FBI agent, Will Graham (Edward Norton) who's been seeking the doctor's help with a criminal investigation arrives. After a few minutes of discussing a case wherein the criminal in question appears to be keeping the victims' body parts, Lecter excuses himself. (The audience chortles in anticipation.) Graham browses around in Lector's library, rifles through the French Larousse cookbook that falls open to a page on which the word "sweetbreads" has been written in as the translation of "ris de veau."

 

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Verb: chortle

1. Laugh quietly or with restraint

Noun: chortle

1. A soft partly suppressed laugh

Synonyms

chuckle

laugh softly

 

Noun: rifle

1. A shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore

"he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired"

Verb: rifle

1. Steal goods; take as spoils

2. Go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way

"Who rifled through my desk drawers?"

Synonyms

despoil

foray

go

loot

pillage

plunder

ransack

reave [archaic]

strip

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Illumination instantly is followed by Lecter's return with a knife which he plunges into Graham's stomach. "Relax. I don't want to hurt you. Give in. Think you're sinking into a warm bath." Before Graham passes out, he manages to thrust a heavy object into Lecter's body sending him to the floor.

 

Titles start appearing over newspaper headlines telling the tale of the two men at death's door, Lecter's trial and Graham's retirement to Florida. Now the movie proper begins, as Graham's old FBI boss (Harvey Keitel) turns up to ask Graham to come back to help him solve a nefarious pair of murders of two whole families, children and their parents. Of course, Graham reluctantly acquiesces.

 

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Adjective: nefarious

1. Extremely wicked

"nefarious schemes"

Synonyms

villainous

 

Adjective: reluctant

1. Unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom

"a reluctant smile"

2. Disinclined to become involved

"they were usually reluctant to socialize"; "reluctant to help"

3. Not eager

"foreigners stubbornly reluctant to accept our ways"; "fresh from college and reluctant for the moment to marry him"

Synonyms

loath

loth

 

Verb: acquiesce

1. To agree or express agreement

Synonyms

accede

assent

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Finally, about halfway through the film - at least that's what it felt like to me - we get to meet the mad psychopathic killer surnamed by the press "The Tooth Fairy," played by a splendidly buffed Ralph Fiennes. (If a body double wasn't being used for some of his naked scenes, producers might well start to consider starring him as an action hero.) He brings real passion, violence and subtlety to his psychopath, reminding us he played a notable Hamlet on the stage, and making the character far more interesting than the script suggests.

 

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Noun: buff

1. An ardent follower and admirer

2. A soft thick undyed leather from the skins of e.g. buffalo or oxen

3. Bare skin; naked

"swimming in the buff"

4. A medium to dark tan color

5. An implement consisting of soft material mounted on a block; used for polishing (as in manicuring)

Verb: buff

1. Strike, beat repeatedly

2. Polish and make shiny

"buff the wooden floors"; "buff my shoes"

Adjective: buff

1. Of the yellowish-beige color of buff leather

Synonyms

buffer

buffet

burnish

caramel

caramel brown

devotee

fan

furbish

lover

raw sienna

yellowish brown

 

Noun: subtlety

1. A subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude

2. The quality of being difficult to detect or analyze

"you had to admire the subtlety of the distinctions he drew"

Synonyms

niceness

nicety

nuance

refinement

shade

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A blind young woman, played by the utterly admirable Emily Watson, finds her way to the tiny bit of humanity that still lies buried within. The two play out a very bold if tactfully shot love scene together. Indeed, perhaps only two such gifted actors could bring such a scene off without it falling into the coarsest vulgarity.

 

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Adjective: coarse (coarser, coarsest)

1. Of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles

"coarse meal"; "coarse sand"; "a coarse weave"

2. Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste

"he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"

3. Of low or inferior quality or value

"of what coarse metal ye are molded"

Synonyms

common

harsh

rough-cut

uncouth

vulgar

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Fiennes goes on to perform several more horrible deeds, and Sir Anthony gets to purringly proffer quizzical advice before the final credits which sent the audience out into the night cheering and - dare I say it - hungry for more.

 

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Noun: purr

1. A low vibrating sound typical of a contented cat

Verb: purr

1. Make a soft swishing sound

"the car engine purred"

2. Indicate pleasure by purring; characteristic of cats

Synonyms

birr

make vibrant sounds

whir

whirr

whiz

whizz

 

Verb: proffer

1. Present for acceptance or rejection

Noun: proffer

1. A proposal offered for acceptance or rejection

Synonyms

offer

proposition

suggestion

 

Adjective: quizzical

1. Playfully vexing (especially by ridicule)

"his face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air"

2. Perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know)

"he had a quizzical expression"

Synonyms

mocking

questioning

teasing

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Cynthia Grenier, an international film and theater critic, is the former Life editor of the Washington Times and acted as senior editor at The World & I, a national monthly magazine, for six years.

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Personal Note

Ancient Rome, Gladiators, killing, blood, the cheering of audience...

The same psychology in the modern “high-tech” environment.

Written sometime in 2003

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Reference

Mansnerus, Laura. (Monday, November 17, 2003) Questions Rise Over Imprisoning Sex Offenders Past Their Terms. USA: New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/17/nyregion/17COMM.html?ex=1069736400&pagewanted=all&position=

 

Questions Rise Over Imprisoning Sex Offenders Past Their Terms

By LAURA MANSNERUS

 

Published: November 17, 2003

 

KEARNY, N.J. — Robert Deavers, guilty of two rapes, has done his 20 years in prison. He still has not been freed. Instead, for five years, he has been locked up by state officials who are worried about what he might do.

 

Mr. Deavers took another try at gaining his release in the fall of 2002 at a hearing, his third. The subject was his state of mind, and he quickly lost hope.

 

A state psychiatrist who had interviewed him briefly told the closed, nearly empty courtroom that Mr. Deavers tended to self-righteousness and had been taken to task in group therapy for being overconfident.

 

A psychologist who had never met him but had reviewed his records said he was egocentric. There was much testimony about an incident in which he had bumped into a female guard.

 

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Adjective: egocentric

1. Limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs

Noun: egocentric

1. A self-centered person with little regard for others

Synonyms

egoist

egoistic

egoistical

self-centered

 

Verb: bump

1. Knock against with force or violence

"My car bumped into the tree"

2. Come upon, as if by accident; meet with

3. Dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward

"bump and grind"

4. Assign to a lower position; reduce in rank

5. Remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied

Noun: bump

1. A lump on the body caused by a blow

2. Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

3. An impact (as from a collision)

"the bump threw him off the bicycle"

Synonyms

blow

break

bulge

chance

demote

dislodge

encounter

excrescence

extrusion

find

gibbosity

gibbousness

happen

hump

jut

kick downstairs

knock

prominence

protrusion

protuberance

relegate

swelling

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By noon Mr. Deavers knew what would happen a month later: the judge would rule that he was too dangerous to be released.

 

Back in his room, Mr. Deavers resumed his role in a fiercely debated but politically popular system of preventive detention used by New Jersey and 15 other states. In hearings here at the Northern Regional Unit at Kearny, a Department of Corrections center, men who have finished their prison terms are involuntarily committed as psychiatric patients and, with a handful of exceptions, are recommitted each year.

 

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Adjective: committed

1. Bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude

"committed church members"; "a committed Marxist"

2. Associated in an exclusive sexual relationship

Verb: commit (committed, committing)

1. Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation

2. Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause

"She committed herself to the work of God"

3. Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution

"After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"

4. Confer a trust upon

"I commit my soul to God"

5. Make an investment

6. Engage in or perform

"commit a random act of kindness"

7. (computer science) make permanent changes to a database

Synonyms

attached

charged

confided

consecrated

dedicated

devoted

entrusted

gave

institutionalized

intrusted

invested

perpetrated

placed

practiced

pulled

put

sent

trusted

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Mr. Deavers is one of 287 "sexually violent predators" in two high-security psychiatric centers in the state.

 

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David Kinsley. (2003) Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahavidyas. (First Indian Edition reprint) Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited. ISBN: 81-208-1523-8.

 

Page 186

Painting of the other Mahavidyas adorn the inner walls, although some have been effaced. Matangi, Chinnamasta, Sodasi, Bhuvanesvari, and Bagalamukhi still remain. The priest said the temple exists on the spot (pitha) where a piece of Sati’s body fell to earth and was founded a long time ago by the sage Dhurvasa, who had an irascible disposition, appropriate for a devotee of Dhumavati, who causes such irascibility in those who worship her. The priest said that the goddess tends to be in a sad frame of mind and is quarrelsome, that her lips are red because they are covered with blood, and that she is the same as Smasana-kali (Kali who lives in the cremation ground).

 

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Verb: efface

1. Remove completely from recognition or memory

"efface the memory of the time in the camps"

2. Make inconspicuous

"efface oneself"

3. Remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing

Synonyms

erase

obliterate

rub out

score out

wipe off

 

Adjective: irascible

1. Quickly aroused to anger

2. Characterized by anger

"an irascible response"

Synonyms

choleric

hotheaded

hot-tempered

quick-tempered

short-tempered

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Personal Note

although some have been effaced.

 

Worn off...faded away...with the passage of time...

Written around 0845 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, 2009

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Page 190-192

Hints that Dhumavati possesses sexual attractiveness and allure can be found in her thousand-name hymn. She is said to give enjoyment (v. 10), to be completely beautiful (v. 15), to be lovely (v. 20), and to be doe-eyed (v. 71). She is also said to create dance and to be a leader of dancers (vv. 76-77) and to be adorned with new garlands, clothes, and ornaments (vv. 77-78). She is also called She Whose Form Is Rati (either Kamadeva’s wife or, literally, “sexual intercourse,” v. 82) and is said to enjoy sexual intercourse, to be present where sexual activity is, and to be occupied with sex (vv. 81-83). She is also said to have disheveled hair, which suggests a certain wildness, perhaps sexual wildness (v. 8), to like liquor and to be intoxicated (vv. 87-88), to be worshiped by intoxicated people (v. 112), and to partake constantly in the five forbidden things (panca tattva) (v. 92).(46)

 

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46. Diksit, Bhairavi evam Dhumavati, pp. 160-67.

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Noun: allure

1. The power to entice or attract through personal charm

Verb: allure

1. Dispose or incline or entice to

Synonyms

allurement

tempt

temptingness

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The law has long allowed the commitment of mentally ill people who pose an imminent danger to others. But the detention of these men, many legal experts say, is a striking departure from the principle that people who are not mentally ill may be confined only for their acts, not their thoughts.

 

In yearly review hearings, the men are judged by their sexual tastes and fantasies — or what psychiatrists suppose to be their fantasies — as well as their performance on psychological tests, their attitudes toward authority and their willingness to acknowledge their crimes and disorders.

 

Many are rapists or child molesters, and the fear that they might commit more of the same crimes is grave. In 1998 New Jersey — like other states reacting to murders by sex offenders with previous convictionsauthorized the commitment of anyone who has served time for a sex crime and is found to have a "mental abnormality or personality disorder" that makes him likely to commit another crime. These men are to be given treatment, chiefly group therapy, until they are judged no longer dangerous.

 

Five years later, only a handful have been released, and critics of the commitment process — psychiatrists, civil-liberties advocates and even some early supporters of the law — are concerned that it is merely an exercise rigged to keep sex offenders locked up for a lifetime.

 

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Adjective: rigged

1. Fitted or equipped with necessary rigging (sails and shrouds and stays etc)

Verb: rig (rigged, rigging)

1. Arrange the outcome of by means of deceit

"rig an election"

2. Manipulate in a fraudulent manner

"rig prices"

3. Connect or secure to

"They rigged the bomb to the ignition"

4. Equip with sails or masts

"rig a ship"

Synonyms

manipulated

set

set up

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One Kearny resident, committed after five years in prison for having sex with a teenager, said, "I'd be better off if I'd killed him."

 

The process is severe for a purpose: dealing with a type of criminal that society regards as dangerous, devious and manipulative.

 

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Adjective: devious

1. Indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading

"used devious means to achieve success"

2. Characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive

"a devious character"

3. Deviating from a straight course

"a scenic but devious route"

Synonyms

circuitous

oblique

roundabout

shifty

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New Jersey's law is considered one of the strictest, prompted in part by the 1994 rape and murder of a 7-year-old, Megan Kanka, by a neighbor who had served two prison terms for sexually assaulting children.

 

Supporters of the law note that most of those committed are repeat offenders, and say they warrant every effort to determine whether they might commit future crimes. As hard as it may be to predict behavior, they say, the alternative is waiting for another rape.

 

Yet because of the secrecy surrounding the law, few of those supporters know how it has been put into practice.

 

New Jersey, more than most states, seals the commitment process from public view. It is one of three states that do not have juries at the hearings, which are closed to protect patients' confidentiality. Patients' names never enter any public record. The decisions of the two Superior Court judges who handle all the cases are sealed.

 

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Personal Note

You can cross question...this extreme punishment...when you look into sexual harassment FOR YEARS...using advanced spy devices...where sex predators...ordinary men...women of society...with no previous criminal record...harass their victims...day and night...on becoming mind trackers...monitoring the victim’s mind...

Written around 0825 a.m. Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Revised around 0827 a.m. Wednesday, March 18, 2009

 

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Verb: cross question

1. Question closely, or question a witness that has already been questioned by the opposing side

Noun: cross-question

1. A question asked in cross-examination

Synonyms

cross-examine

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But in a half-dozen recent cases, a New York Times reporter was allowed, with the patients' permission, to attend hearings at Kearny. Those proceedings — along with interviews with lawyers who represent sex offenders, with some current and former state employees and with more than a dozen patientsoffer a glimpse into the workings of the Sexually Violent Predator Act.

 

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Personal Note

You HAVE TO UNDERSTAND...that being a Christian nation...with Christian laws...inbuilt into the national laws...by the nation’s founding fathers...they use the Christian Bible...as the benchmark...standard...for comparison...on how a man or woman SHOULD be...

Written around 0825 a.m. Wednesday, March 18, 2009

 

And the founding fathers of America...who held fanatic views about Christianity...were not ascetics of the wilderness...nor virgins...following what their ascetic Jesus taught...

They just had intense admiration...towards a concept...which says sex is dirty...sinful...

Written around 0840 a.m. Wednesday, March 18, 2009

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The proceedings are a mix of psychiatry and law that according to many in both professions, blurs distinctions the system has long made between the mad and the bad.

 

The hearings are roughly modeled on commitments for the mentally ill, but with a key difference. In a regular civil commitment, the focus is on the patient's current state of mind; crimes committed long ago are usually not considered relevant. In the hearings at Kearny, however, criminal records are considered critical evidence of the patient's thoughts, behavior and possibility of committing future crimes.

 

Since the patient's state of mind is at issue, almost any information about him is admissible, including much that would be barred in a criminal proceeding, like hearsay evidence, evaluations written years ago by the police or psychiatrists, statements to therapists and the patient's own writings.

 

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Personal Note

If you read the Bible...then you understand...there is NO DETAILED explanation...on the working of the human mind...To know about the human mind...you need to read Buddhist literature...especially books on Abhidharma...

Written around 0848 a.m. Wednesday, March 18, 2009

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Critics say the hearings deny offenders both the legal protections of a criminal prosecution and the sound medical grounding of a regular civil commitment case. They say the diagnoses — framed by lawmakers rather than doctors — are so vague they could apply to millions of people. By rummaging through a patient's past and psyche, they say, the state can always find a reason to keep him confined.

 

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With rampant use of satellite based spy devices...to access the thoughts of any man or woman...by just anyone in this planet...even from far away...over 3500+ kms away...can you create a mass jail...imagining this whole planet of humans are mentally ill...with intense sexual emotion...Thus mad...bad...dirty...

Just ponder...on the implications...

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The fault is then on YOU...who used the Bible as the benchmark...to judge others...You have to throw the Bible away...since you are not in the wilderness...nor a virgin...striving to uphold YOUR virginity...

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Several people who have worked in the system told of prosecutors' shopping for psychiatric opinions and of exaggerated, even erroneous testimony and public defenders too overwhelmed to organize a proper defense.

 

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...worked in the system...

 

How that branch of government runs...how things work there...in actual practice...

Written around 0906 a.m. Wednesday, March 18, 2009

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It is hard to find anyone working in the system to speak about the process. All the state agencies involved declined requests for interviews with officials; the public defender's office and the attorney general's office answered some written questions.

 

John Kip Cornwell, a law professor at Seton Hall University who testified in support of the sexual predator bill and still backs it, said that it was difficult to draw distinctions between the truly dangerous and the merely criminal but that those judgments could and should be made. Psychiatry is an inexact science, he said, but the hearings do allow expert testimony from each side.

 

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Adjective: inexact

1. Not exact

Similar

approximate

approximative

free

imprecise

inaccurate

liberal

loose

odd

rough

round

Antonyms

exact

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Psychiatry is an inexact science,...

 

Psychiatry is a WESTERN science...founded by white people...by Christians...followers of Christianity...

Thus mental concepts of other religions...eg. Buddhism...is not openly handled there...Being Christians...they can’t just accept what another religion say about the mind...If they do...then it is like accepting TRUTH in other religions...

Christian doctrine teaches its followers...all other religions are FALSE...

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Still, he is concerned that the process focuses on the patient's criminal record, "and then once you're in, it's tough to get out."

 

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Once legally determined...you are a sexually violent predator...and go to jail...then you are jailed for life...locked up until you die...

No more sex...and literally you are castrated...by being locked up...

You only had...a heightened level of sexual emotion...You were sexually strong...which the Christians following the Bible...viewed as dirty...bad...insanity...

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And those very Christians...when ‘not working’ at office...strived on how to increase sexual strength...how to fuck hard...to enjoy more sexual happiness...

Written around 0934 a.m. Wednesday, March 18, 2009

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Other backers of the law have similar qualms. Five years ago the New Jersey Psychiatric Association broke with its national parent organization and supported the predator law, to assure psychiatrists a role in the process.

 

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Noun: qualm

1. Uneasiness about the fitness of an action

2. A mild state of nausea

Synonyms

misgiving

queasiness

scruple

squeamishness

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Has the law worked as hoped?

 

"Let me put it this way," said Dr. David A. Reskof, chairman of the association's forensic psychiatry committee. "How many people have been committed to Kearny? And how many have come out?"

 

Days Before Freedom The secret process begins, aptly, with a surprise. Days before they are to be released, inmates are notified that they will be sent to Kearny.

 

Candidates for commitment are identified by the Department of Corrections shortly before their release dates. The attorney general's office screens the cases and seeks commitment of about 45 percent of those offenders, said Barbara Waugh, the assistant attorney general who supervises the cases.

 

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Noun: attorney general (attorneys general)

1. The chief law officer of a country or state

Noun: Attorney General (Attorneys General)

1. The person who holds the position of secretary of the Justice Department

"Edmund Randolph was the first Attorney General, appointed by President Washington"

2. The position of the head of the Justice Department and the chief law enforcement officer of the United States

"the post of Attorney General was created in 1789"

Synonyms

Attorney General of the United States

United States Attorney General

US Attorney General

 

Noun: French Revolution

1. The revolution in France against the Bourbons; 1789-1799

Type of

revolution

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"This is not something we take lightly," Ms. Waugh said through a spokesman. But she said the office had no written guidelines for the screening process, which is under challenge in federal court. In a class-action suit, patients contend that it is unconstitutionally arbitrary; the state has not replied.

 

To get a temporary commitment order from a judge, the state must present two medical recommendations. One psychiatrist who supplied them, Dr. Gerald Groves, said that sometimes, if he advised against committing someone, "the institution might go find another psychiatrist who would be willing to commit."

 

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What communism/Marxism under Stalin...fascism under Hitler did...capitalism does through other means...to lock up those...whom they don’t like...

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If ever those committed...leave jail... incarceration...imprisonment...even if by jail breaking...then he/she MUST MAKE IT A POINT...to do cannibalism...eat the flesh...drink the blood...of those psychiatrists...doctors...who gave that medical recommendation...

May the sexually aggressive...sexually violent woman...Goddess Kali be worshiped!...

You are a pagan...NOT a Christian...to PRACTICE violent sex...

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The offender then awaits an initial commitment hearing. There, the state presents its diagnoses and usually argues that the offender has shown an inability to control his deviant impulses, which in turn shows a high likelihood of committing another crime. The state wins 95 percent of those cases, according to the attorney general's office, and even more of the annual review hearings that follow.

 

In five years, 11 patients have been released out of 302 committed, according to the Department of Corrections, which would not say why. The state has recommended none for release.

 

Courts around the nation have upheld violent-predator statutes since Washington State enacted the first in 1990, but have expressed concerns. The United States Supreme Court cautioned in 1997 that a commitment must have a psychiatric basis and cannot be a mere extension of punishment, and it held last year, in upholding the Kansas law, that states must establish an offender's "serious difficulty in controlling behavior" before committing him.

 

The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled last year that the offender must be found "highly likely," not just more likely than not, to commit further sex crimes.

 

But experts say none of those rulings have had much effect.

 

Dr. Paul Appelbaum, a past president of the American Psychiatric Association and an authority on psychiatry and the law, said the United States Supreme Court had ratified a vague standard that gave wide discretion to prosecutors and judges.

 

The association has called the predator statutes "a serious assault on the integrity of psychiatry," objecting to the use of statements made in psychotherapy as evidence against patients, and the use of the mental health system for people who are not mentally ill. (Like most states, New Jersey has a separate hospital for violent criminals who are mentally ill.)

 

"It's hard to know where to start because the whole thing is so crazy," Dr. Appelbaum said.

 

Many of those familiar with New Jersey's process say the diagnoses, which need not include specifically sexual disorders, are often highly debatable.

 

Dr. Timothy P. Foley, a forensic psychologist who has testified for both sides in commitment hearings, said one common diagnosis — "personality disorder, not otherwise specified," or N.O.S. — could apply to "anybody who's interesting."

 

"I would diagnose myself with personality disorder, N.O.S.," he said.

 

Most psychiatrists and psychologists also say they can never reliably predict recidivism, which Justice Department analyses show is lower among sex offenders than in the general criminal population, though it varies greatly by offense.

 

The state often cites patients' denials — or playing down — of offenses as evidence that further treatment is needed. But most forensic studies have found no link between denial or hostility to treatment and future crimes.

 

Proponents of the sex-offender laws say it is the responsibility of the legal system to make that difficult prediction.

 

"That's the way the law always works," said Richard Samp, the chief counsel of the Washington Legal Foundation, a conservative group that filed a friend-of-the court brief supporting the Kansas law. "When you're predicting the future, all you can do is ask a doctor to make his best medical judgment."

 

Brushing Against a Guard

 

Robert Deavers was the first person to be committed under New Jersey's sex-offender law. And at his last review hearing, he expected to become the first to be released.

 

Mr. Deavers, a 53-year-old Vietnam veteran, has a dubious history: shortly after finishing a prison term for attempted rape, he raped two women. Yet he has been considered a success in treatment, and the state attorney general's office had tentatively endorsed a plan for his release.

 

"I told them I'd wear a bracelet, a chip with a G.P.S. tracking device," Mr. Deavers said in an interview before the hearing. "I told them I'd urinate in a jar weekly. I'm the one who put myself in this position, so in order to make them feel comfortable I'm willing to give up some of my own civil liberties."

 

But in the hearing, a new problem emerged: rushing through a doorway recently, he brushed up against a female guard. Sent to solitary confinement, he went on a hunger strike in protest and refused to speak to staff members.

 

Mr. Deavers's public defender, Joan Van Pelt, said the incident had been an accident and not sexually motivated, and introduced the results of a polygraph test that backed him up. But the state's psychiatrist was skeptical.

 

"That doesn't mean he didn't have those thoughts," said the psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Gnassi. "Brushing past a woman, a man — it's difficult, I would think, not to have some type of sexual thinking."

 

But it was Mr. Deavers's reaction to the incident that most concerned the state's next witness, Dr. Merrill Berger. "He didn't get it," Dr. Berger said of the guard's complaint. "He was crushed that she would feel this way. This really speaks to his egocentric view of the world."

 

The state contended that the incident showed a lack of self-control, which would make Mr. Deavers likely to commit another crime. The argument succeeded. The judge, Serena Perretti, found that he had been "acting against his best interest, asserting his entitlement, regardless of the rights of others."

 

In some states, similar commitment hearings are full-fledged trials lasting weeks, but in New Jersey, they rarely take more than a day. In most cases, the state's experts have only recently met the patient. Therapists who have treated the patients do not normally testify, since that might interfere with the treatment.

 

Patients often have no expert witnesses to dispute the state's findings. Many said the public defender's office had denied their requests for an independent evaluation, leaving them with no allies in court but a public defender who might have 40 other cases.

 

Their complaints are hard to verify; the public defender's office would say only that "occasionally" it would refuse to hire an expert "where to do so would not be reasonably expected to advance the client's case."

 

Most of the testimony is based on the patient's records, containing everything from juvenile charges to the notes of his therapists. Many of the evaluators' reports were written years ago and borrowed from yet older evaluations. The reports are often ambiguous or sketchy, even indecipherable.

 

At a September hearing for Edward Gorcica, an exhibitionist who had exposed himself to children, the state's psychiatrist, Dr. Michael McAllister, said he would tentatively add fetishism to his list of diagnoses. He said he had just noticed a statement in a 1999 psychiatrist's report that Mr. Gorcica had mentioned fantasizing about feet.

 

Patrick Madden, the public defender, said the handwritten report appeared to say that the patient "fantasized about women but not children." Dr. McAllister, he said, had probably mistaken the word "but" for "feet."

 

Judge Perretti, squinting at the document, said that was the more logical interpretation and asked the doctor if he would withdraw his statement. Not necessarily, Dr. McAllister replied. He said he had seen other reports by that psychiatrist, who was foreign-born, and that "sometimes his syntax is a bit off."

 

The record of a patient's crimes — usually called "the official version" — takes on an authority of its own, not just for its details, but also for the psychiatric interpretations it contains about those details.

 

"This is so much like everything that was criticized in the Soviet Union," said Margaret Smith, a criminologist who works at the Prisoners' Self-Help Legal Clinic in Newark, and is one of the few outsiders who has attended hearings at Kearny. "There's no way to contest any part of the official record without it being spun in a way that makes you look sicker."

 

She added, "If you say you didn't do it, that's just evidence of how much you need treatment."

 

A Piece of His Record William Anderson, an amateur boxer and occasional drug dealer from Newark, pleaded guilty to two felonies — the rape of a 21-year-old woman and aggravated assault on a 12-year-old girl — and he served seven years in prison.

 

But in July, at his latest review hearing, he was confronted with a piece of his record that he thought had been resolved: the specifics behind charges that were dropped when he accepted the plea bargains.

 

Mr. Anderson, 34, maintains that from the start, he had denied some of the accusations in police reports. That was exactly the problem, said Dr. Stanley Kern, the state's psychiatrist, who argued that Mr. Anderson posed a risk of offending again in part because he "does not fully admit to sex offenses as documented in the official records."

 

As Dr. Kern recounted the rape, Mr. Anderson, then 23, forced the woman to perform oral sex on him and submit to vaginal and anal sex, and then raped her anally with a flashlight.

 

Mr. Anderson's public defender, Ms. Van Pelt, protested that there was no evidence of an assault with a flashlight and that that charge had been dropped. Ms. Van Pelt asked Dr. Kern if he had seen the report of the doctor who examined the victim; it noted that there was "no medical evidence of any lacerations or bleeding in the genital or rectal area." Dr. Kern said he had not.

 

When Judge Perretti announced her decision, it was not clear what weight she had given the events of a decade ago. But she did note another detail from his record: Mr. Anderson had fathered five children by the age of 18, "only three in wedlock."

 

"That does clearly indicate a maladaptive pattern of behavior," she said.

 

She concluded, "I do not find any evidence that, given denials, rationalizations and blame-shifting, that the respondent's treatment has in any respect diminished his risk."

(Reference: Mansnerus, Laura. (Monday, November 17, 2003) Questions Rise Over Imprisoning Sex Offenders Past Their Terms. USA: New York Times.)

 

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To conclude...Junk monogamy...Make polygamy...polyandry...the accepted practice of human society...

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Natalia Akhtyrskaja. Problems of juvenile psychology of persons committing crimes in the sphere of information technology. Russia: Computer Crime Research Center. www.crime-research.org 

http://www.crime-research.org/eng/library/Juvenal.html

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Guggenbuhl-Craig, Adolf. (September 1999) The Emptied Soul – On the Nature of the Psychopath.

Spring Audio & Journal; ISBN: 0882143719; Pages: 144. Chapter One. Total Health and the Unhealed Daimon. Page 2-3

 

The World Health Organization defines "health" as unim-paired mental, physical, and social well-being and functioning. We have a long way to go before even half of the human race reaches this condition. In the meantime a large number of therapists will either lose their initial optimism and succumb to depression or cynism, or they will talk themselves into believing that they have been more successful than they actually have been.

Clearly, then, there are definite limits to healing, although the word itself suggests otherwise. "Heal" is related to the German word, Heil, meaning “heal” or “whole”. In northern German dialect the word Heil is used in the sense of “whole”. The Swedish word hel, “whole”, and the Slavic word celyj, “whole” or “complete”, belong to the same word family. In other words when we set about to “heal” our patients, we want them to become “whole”.

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Hare. Robert D. (January 08, 1999) Without Conscience. Guilford Press; ISBN: 1572304510; Pages: 236.

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Yochelson, Samuel., Samenow, Stanton E. (April 1995) The Criminal Personality: A Profile for Change. Jason Aronson; ISBN: 1568211058; Pages: 552.

Chapter 1 The Reluctant Converts

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We describe here how we tried various approaches, discarded what failed to work, and developed and refined new concepts and techniques. Our end product is a systematic process that, under specified  conditions, can achieve the single objective of helping a criminal to change himself into a totally responsible and constructive person.

The title of this chapter may seem to refer to criminals. It does not.  We, the investigators, were reluctant to give up concepts and theories that had worked for us in treating noncriminals.

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Our criminal patients have come from a wide range of backgrounds, with respect to socioeconomic status, religious preference, and domestic stability. Our subjects were of average intelligence, as determined by prior testing...The age span of our group has been fifteen to fifty-five. We have worked with drug users and nonusers.

We began our work with the attitude that it was to be an open, diligent search for facts. We encountered things that we did not understand at the time, but we kept minutely detailed notes, which were a continuing source of methodologic change. We were not interested in diagnostic labels, having believed for years that such labels concealed more than they revealed. Our emphasis was to be on patient's underlying motivational factors that led to their committing crimes. We were actively interested in sociologic factors, as well as psychologic.

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We were not thinking of these men as hardened criminals, but as mentally ill patients.

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Benjamin B. Wolman. (October 1999) Antisocial behavior: Personality Disorders from Hostility to Homicide. Prometheus Books; Paperback: 200 pages. ISBN: 1573927015.

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Antisocial behavior is an extraordinarily well-written book. It reveals the psychological nature of the psychopaths. Moreover, Wolman makes an attempt to explain what factors give rise to antisocial behavior. Admittedly, he does this very well. Psychopaths are described as being indifferent, cunning, immoral, impulsive and insidious individuals. What is more, they usually show no signs of remorse for their gruesome deeds. The implication here is that they totally lack compassion for their fellow beings. Wolman unveils that psychopaths are narcissistic individuals; they have a tendency to think that they are entitled to other people's things and that they deserve to be loved. The above mentioned traits are thought to be characteristic of highly maladaptive individuals. However, Wolman also points to environmental determinants as possible causes of deviant behavior. Parents and teachers can sometimes contribute to the rise of antisocial and sociopathic behavior. Wolman emphasizes that hyper-permissive parents do not teach their children the importance of morality and consequently their children will fail to distinguish right from wrong. According to Wolman, the primary purpose of morality is to inhibit inborn instincts and impulses. Furthermore, the way that parents rear their children can be crucial. Parental rejection can adversely affect their children's self-confidence and self-reliance. Undeniably, these children will feel neglected and unwanted if their parents are not affectionate and considerate. Needless to say, abusive parents foster deviant behavior in myriad ways. Children of abusive parents are usually very aggressive, hostile and tend to hate their parents. These children cannot however behave aggressively toward their parents as they fear that they might retaliate. Instead, they behave aggressively toward weak people who are unable to fight back.

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Stanton E. Samenow (January 1984) Inside the Criminal Mind. Times Books. ISBN: 0812910826. Hardcover. 285 pages.

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…or else he wore them down through endless argument.

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But a responsible person will not be turned into a criminal by what he watches or reads.

Ultimately, however, it comes down to how each person chooses to deal with adversity.

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Psychology always has a clever theory about any bit of behaviour and offers an explanation, but only after the fact.

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Psychologists stress the importance of parents as role models, especially fathers for their sons and mothers for their daughters.

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Far from being a formless lump of clay, the criminal shapes others more than they do him.

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Criminals are remarkable in their capacity to size up their environment in order to pursue objectives important to them.

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Hans Gross. (Trans. Horace M. Kallen) Criminal Psychology: A Manual For Judges, Practitioners, And Students. (Translation of the Fourth German Edition)

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Two centuries ago, while modern medical science was still young, medical practitioners proceeded upon two general assumptions: one as to the cause of disease, the other as to its treatment. As to the cause of disease,--disease was sent by the inscrutable will of God. No man could fathom that will, nor its arbitrary operation.

Nowadays, all this is past, in medical science. As to the causes of disease, we know that they are facts of nature,--various, but distinguishable by diagnosis and research, and more or less capable

of prevention or control or counter-action.

the individualization of disease, in cause and in treatment, is the dominant truth of modern medical science.

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Douglas, John. (December 1998) Obsession. Pocket Books. ISBN: 0671017047. 481 pages.

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Obsession

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The text that followed the descriptions was only semicoherent, going on for several paragraphs about how hard it was to control himself and that, since the murders, he didn't have any effective way of dealing with the urge to kill, since he couldn't approach anyone else about his problem.

"When this monster enters my brain I never know. But, it is here to stay. How does one cure himself? If you ask for help after you have killed four people they will laugh or hit the panic button and call the cops."

 

Barbara Kirwin. (October 1998) The Mad, the Bad, and the Innocent: The Criminal Mind on Trial--Tales of a Forensic Psychologist. Harper Mass Market Paperbacks; ISBN: 0061013447. 352 pages.

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Drifter obsessed with younger girls. (Thursday, December 18, 2003) Australia: The Age.

 

Drifter obsessed with younger girls

December 18, 2003

 

Murder victims Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

Picture: Supplied

 

Ian Huntley's very ordinary world was turned upside down when his wife ran off with his younger brother and his mother set up home with a lesbian lover.

 

The traumatic events in the mid-1990s brought him close to a complete breakdown and he embarked on a string of affairs in which he preyed on younger women and underage girls, seeking to control and manipulate them.

 

He impressed the youngsters by projecting an image of success, wearing suits and telling tall tales about his past, including that he was a pilot and a bodybuilder.

 

But, in reality, it was all a facade which hid his own failings as he drifted aimlessly between bedsits and low paid jobs.

 

Huntley was born on January 31, 1974, and brought up in the working class port of Immingham, near Grimsby, by parents Kevin and Lynda, with whom he later worked in a Heinz factory.

 

A weak child, hospitalised by asthma and bullied, he went to Eastfield Primary school, then Healing Comprehensive, where Maxine Carr was later a pupil, and finally Immingham Comprehensive.

 

He was ridiculed by other pupils as "Spadehead" and the "white cliff of Dover" because of his large forehead and was in the bottom class for most subjects.

 

Classmates remember a child who was "quiet", a "bit of a loner" and a "hanger-on" who ran to teachers if provoked.

 

Little about him stood out apart from his having had to be taken to hospital several times after asthma attacks.

 

A friend, Yvonne Puck, now a mother of two, said Huntley was an "average lad".

 

"He just blended into the crowd. He wasn't outstanding at anything. He was just your normal, average kid growing up," she said.

 

But in the years immediately after he left school it seems Huntley's obsession with younger girls was already materialising.

 

Schoolgirls would give him money to buy alcohol for them in off licences and, after his arrest at Soham, one woman came forward to say she had been French-kissed by Huntley when he was 18 and she was 13.

 

She said he had tried the same with some of her friends.

 

In December 1994, Huntley met 18-year-old Claire Evans, embarked on a whirlwind romance and asked her to marry him.

 

At least one local girl had already turned him down.

 

They wed within weeks at a register office in Grimsby and went to live in a one-bed flat above an electrical shop.

 

But the marriage was over within days and Claire, an RAF administrator, moved out.

 

She later fell into the arms of Huntley's younger brother Wayne, who had been a witness at the wedding.

 

After much soul-searching Wayne, an engineer, confessed the relationship to Huntley, who was living with their mother at the time.

 

The cuckolded older brother flew into a rage, vowing never to speak to the younger, more successful Wayne or his wife again.

 

The love triangle became the subject of local gossip and Huntley was shattered, claiming to fellow drinkers in pubs that he had caught his brother and his wife in bed together.

 

His revenge was to refuse to get divorced until 1999, during which time Wayne and Claire stayed together.

 

In 2000 they were eventually able to marry at Thetford United Reformed Church in Norfolk in a ceremony much grander than the first wedding. Ian Huntley was not there.

 

Following the collapse of his marriage in 1995, Huntley moved round various cheap rented flats and dead-end jobs in Grimsby in what became a humdrum life.

 

His only release was his ability to pick up girls, generally young, in pubs and clubs.

 

Huntley's final partner Maxine Carr told jurors that one of his girlfriends had given birth to Huntley's daughter, now aged five, in 1998.

 

Another woman he was involved with was Rebecca Bartlett, who was 19 when Huntley was 23.

 

She lived with him for nearly six months, during which time Huntley was calling himself Ian Nixon.

 

Bartlett says he flew into a rage when she told him she believed she might be pregnant - and the relationship ended.

 

During this turbulent period in his early 20s, Huntley's parents, Lynda and Kevin, also split up and Lynda went to live with a lesbian lover Julie Beasley, who was nearly 20 years younger and a security guard at a factory where she worked.

 

The couple lived openly together above a shop.

 

This and his own turbulent love life took their toll and, according to friends, Huntley had some form of breakdown.

 

One said: "He couldn't believe what was happening to his life, everything he loved was turning upside down."

 

It was following the parental split that Huntley took his mother's maiden name and began calling himself Nixon.

 

His tendency towards being a Walter Mitty character intensified and he would tell workmates and girlfriends all sorts of stories about his past.

 

At different times he said he was a former RAF pilot pushed out on medical grounds, that his father had died when he was a child and even that he had won the Lottery.

 

He got jobs through a local recruitment agency, including working at a fish processing plant in Caistor, near Grimsby.

 

- PA

 

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Associated Press. (August 12, 2003) Judge Orders Sex Predator Released by Friday. USA: Los Angeles Times.

     

3:04 PM PDT, August 12, 2003

 

Judge Orders Sex Predator Released by Friday

 

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Brian DeVries

(AP) 

 

From Associated Press

A judge today again ordered that serial child molester Brian DeVries, the first graduate of a state-mandated sex offender treatment program, be released this week to live in a trailer on prison grounds in rural Monterey County.

 

Lawyers and residents from a town nearest the prison urged Santa Clara County Judge Robert Baines to delay the release, but he said DeVries must be sent to Soledad by Friday -- or he will be released to his father's custody in Washington state.

 

Baines said the state program was effective, adding that keeping DeVries in a state hospital would be unconstitutional and that giving Soledad residents more time to prepare for his arrival was unnecessary.

 

"The program is elaborate and can certainly assure every resident ... that Mr. DeVries' placement will not in any way be a risk to them or their families," Baines said.

 

DeVries, 44, successfully completed the program at Atascadero State Hospital more than a year ago. In February, Baines agreed that DeVries was ready for the program's final outpatient treatment phase, and ordered the state to find him a home.

 

DeVries molested at least nine young boys in New Hampshire, Florida and San Jose before serving his last, four-year prison term.

 

To help demonstrate his intent to reform, DeVries was castrated in August 2001 -- a surgery DeVries said took away his ability to become sexually aroused.

 

"I knew molesting was wrong," he said in an interview last month. "I wanted to stop doing it."

 

DeVries, who has pledged to live a "kid-free" life, was sent to Atascadero after finishing his last prison sentence. He has been locked up in the hospital or in prison since September 1993.

 

After more than 100 potential landlords refused him and facing a court-imposed deadline, the state Department of Mental Health decided to house DeVries in a mobile home outside a medium-security prison about five miles from the small, rural Central Coast community.

 

City residents objected and a judge delayed DeVries' release, originally planned for no later than Aug. 10. That judge scheduled a hearing before Baines, who signed the original release order and was vacationing when Soledad's city attorney asked to push back DeVries' release yet again.

 

Before the hearing, about 60 protesters -- mostly parents with children -- lined up outside the courthouse entrance. Among them was car dealer Miguel Gutierrez, who donated three of his 15-passenger vans to haul neighbors to San Jose.

 

"We don't want this guy in our town. This guy is sick," Gutierrez, 43, said. "He should go to a place in the desert where there's no kids around."

 

California's sexually violent predator law lets the state lock up repeat sex offenders after they serve prison sentences and force them to undergo treatment until they're no longer deemed a threat to society. About 400 such offenders are currently locked up at Atascadero.

 

DeVries is one of three men who've completed the in-patient treatment since the program began in 1996.

 

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Reference

Murphy, Clare. (Tuesday, December 02, 2003) Cannibalism: A modern taboo. UK: BBC News.

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Last Updated: Tuesday, 2 December, 2003, 10:19 GMT 

 

Cannibalism: A modern taboo

 

By Clare Murphy

BBC News Online 

 

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The new world was frequently depicted as being rife with cannibals

 

Armin Meiwes, the German who is standing trial for eating an acquaintance, has advised others not to follow his example.

 

But he is unlikely to be the last to sample human flesh.

 

After years of wrangling over its very existence, anthropologists increasingly concur that cannibalism is a tradition which has spanned both cultures and centuries, although the extent to which it has been practised remains an academic battleground.

 

General repugnance has met the case of Mr Meiwes, who has confessed to killing and eating a man he met after advertising for someone who wanted to be killed and eaten.

 

While modern societies have proven largely sympathetic to "survival cannibalism" - eating others on the grounds of nutritional necessity - many remain uncomfortable with the notion of the ritualistic consumption of human flesh - however consensual the act may be.

 

Demonising effect

 

The term cannibalism derives from the name of the West Indian Carib tribe, first documented by the explorer Christopher Columbus. The Carib tribe was alleged to eat others - it remains unclear whether they did indeed do so.

 

Early accounts of cannibalism by European colonisers have been widely viewed with suspicion on the grounds that allegations may well have been made in an effort to illustrate the necessity of civilising foreign peoples.

 

For cannibalism has frequently been used as a means to demonise others: Medieval Christian culture frequently depicted the Jew who had a taste for the blood of Christian babies.

 

But while anthropologists approach stories of cannibalism with caution, there do nonetheless appear to be substantiated examples of both ritualistic and survival cannibalism throughout history.

 

Murder and survival

 

The Aztecs are believed to have practised cannibalism on a large scale as part of the ritual religious sacrifice of war captives and other victims in a practice known as exocannibalism - the eating of strangers or enemies.

 

Earlier this year the United Nations accused rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo of cannibalising their enemies, and of forcing families of the victims to eat the organs of their relatives.

 

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Mr Meiwes insists the act was consensual

 

Aboriginal Australians are meanwhile believed to have taken part in what is seen as a more benevolent form of cannibalism - endocannibalism - the consumption of friends and relatives, who are usually dead.

 

In this case, the body of a dead person was ritually eaten by his relatives as a means of allowing his spirit to live on.

 

History also provides ample examples of cannibalism during famine and other periods of severe shortages.

 

Survival cannibalism was made famous by the film Alive, based on the 1972 air crash in the Andes, when surviving members of the Uruguayan rugby team ate the dead to stay alive.

 

And somewhere between ritual and survival lies the case of the Fore tribe in Papua New Guinea, who engaged in cannibalistic practices from the end of the 19th century until the 1950s.

 

While the men of the Fore tribe supplemented their bean-and-sweet-potato diets with small game, women and children made up for their lack of protein by eating the brains of tribal members who had recently died.

 

Some scientists hold the practice responsible for incidences of a fatal brain disease, the symptoms of which are similar to the human form of mad cow disease, although other experts have disputed the link.

 

Breaking a taboo

 

In many countries, the consumption of human flesh is not itself a crime.

 

Perpetrators tend to be convicted on the basis of accompanying acts: Mr Meiwes, for example, has not been charged with cannibalism, but with murder for "sexual satisfaction".

 

A number of high-profile cannibal cases have involved the eating of flesh in a sexual context.

 

Albert Fish, who has been called America's Bogeyman, raped, murdered and ate a number of children during the 1920s. He claimed to have experienced immense sexual pleasure as a result.

 

Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, who murdered at least 53 people between 1978 and 1990, also indulged in cannibalism. His crimes were linked to sexual problems.

 

But what distinguishes Mr Meiwes' self-confessed sexual cannibalism from killers such as Fish and Chikatilo, or acts committed by peoples such as the Aztecs or the Congolese rebels, is the ostensibly consensual nature of his act.

 

Mr Meiwes met the man he was ultimately to eat, 43-year-old Bernd-Jurgen Brandes, in early 2001, after advertising on websites for "young, well-built men aged 18 to 30 to slaughter".

 

Mr Meiwes told investigators he took Mr Brandes back to his home, where Mr Brandes agreed to have his penis cut off, which Mr Meiwes then flambeed and served up to eat together.

 

Mr Meiwes says he then killed Mr Brandes with his consent.

 

But the allegedly consensual nature of the act has done nothing to pacify German disgust.

 

Whether Mr Meiwes' victim was willing or not, eating another for anything less than necessity remains a taboo in the modern world.

(Reference: Murphy, Clare. (Tuesday, December 02, 2003) Cannibalism: A modern taboo. UK: BBC News.)

 

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Served flaming in ignited liquor: steak flambé.

 

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American mutilation of Japanese war dead

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American mutilation of Japanese war dead

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

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1945 image of a Japanese soldier's decapitated head hung on a tree branch, presumably by American soldiers.[1][2]

 

During World War II, some United States military personnel mutilated dead Japanese service personnel in the Pacific theater of operations. The mutilation of Japanese service personnel included the taking of body parts as “war souvenirs” and “war trophies”. Teeth were the most commonly taken objects, but skulls and other body parts were sometimes also collected. This behaviour was officially considered prohibited by the U.S. Military, but the prohibitions against it were not always enforced by officers in the field. It is not clear how common these behaviors were, nor have its causes been authoritatively determined.

 

Contents

1 Trophy taking

1.1 Extent of practice

2 Motives

2.1 Dehumanisation

2.2 Brutalization

2.3 Revenge

3 U.S. reaction

4 Japanese reaction

5 Context

6 Contemporary

7 See also

8 References

9 Further reading

10 External links

 

Trophy taking

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Front line warning sign using a Japanese soldiers head on Peleliu

 

Only a minority of US troops collected Japanese body parts as trophies, and it is not possible to determine the percentage who did. However "..their behaviour reflected attitudes which were very widely shared."[3][4] In addition to trophy skulls, teeth, ears and other such objects, taken body parts were occasionally modified, for example by writing on them or fashioning them into utilities or other artifacts.[5] "U.S. Marines on their way to Guadalcanal relished the prospect of making necklaces of Japanese gold teeth and "pickling" Japanese ears as keepsakes."[6] In an air base in New Guinea hunting the last remaining Japanese was a “sort of hobby”. The leg-bones of these Japanese were sometimes carved into letter openers and pen-holders,[5] but this was rare.[3]

 

In 1944 the American poet Winfield Townley Scott was working as a reporter in Rhode Island when a sailor displayed his skull trophy in the newspaper office. This led to the poem The U.S. sailor with the Japanese skull, which described one method for preparation of skulls (the head is skinned, towed in a net behind a ship to clean and polish it, and in the end scrubbed with caustic soda).[7] In October 1943, the U.S. High Command expressed alarm over recent newspaper articles, for example one where a soldier made a string of beads using Japanese teeth, and another about a soldier with pictures showing the steps in preparing a skull, involving cooking and scraping of the Japanese heads.[7] Charles Lindbergh refers in his diary to many instances of Japanese with an ear or nose cut off.[7] In the case of the skulls however, most were not collected from freshly killed Japanese, most came from already partially or fully skeletonised Japanese bodies.[7]

 

Extent of practice

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News of the Bataan Death March sparked outrage in the US, as shown by this racially-charged propaganda poster.

 

Most U.S. servicemen in the Pacific did not mutilate Japanese corpses. The majority had some knowledge that these practices were occurring, however, and "accepted them as inevitable under the circumstances".[8] The incidence of soldiers collecting Japanese body parts occurred on "a scale large enough to concern the Allied military authorities throughout the conflict and was widely reported and commented on in the American and Japanese wartime press", however.[9] The degree of acceptance of the practice varied between units. Taking of teeth was generally accepted by enlisted men and also by officers, while acceptance for taking other body parts varied greatly.[3]

 

There is some disagreement between historians over what the more common forms of 'trophy hunting' undertaken by U.S. personnel were. John W. Dower states that ears were the most common form of trophy which was taken, and skulls and bones were less commonly collected. In particular he states that "skulls were not popular trophies" as they were difficult to carry and the process for removing the flesh was offensive.[10] This view is supported by Simon Harrison.[3] In contrast, Niall Ferguson states that "boiling the flesh off enemy [Japanese] skulls to make souvenirs was a not uncommon practice. Ears, bones and teeth were also collected".[11]

 

The collection of Japanese body parts began quite early in the campaign, prompting a September 1942 order for disciplinary action against such souvenir taking.[3] Harrison concludes that since this was the first real opportunity to take such items (the battle of Guadalcanal), "Clearly, the collection of body parts on a scale large enough to concern the military authorities had started as soon as the first living or dead Japanese bodies were encountered."[3] Eric Bergerud explains the attitudes which lead to this behavior by noting that the Marines who fought on Guadalcanal were aware of Japanese atrocities against the defenders of Wake Island, which included the beheading of several Marines, and the Bataan Death March prior to the start of the campaign.[12] When Charles Lindbergh passed through customs at Hawaii in 1944 it was controlled if he was carrying bones.[vague] This was because of the large number of souvenir bones discovered in customs, also including “green” (uncured) skulls.[13]

 

On February 1, 1943, Life magazine published a famous photograph by Ralph Morse which showed the charred, open-mouthed, decapitated head of a Japanese soldier killed by U.S Marines during the Guadalcanal campaign, and propped up below the gun turret of a tank by Marines. The caption read as follows: "A Japanese soldier's skull is propped up on a burned-out Jap tank by U.S. troops." Life received letters of protest from mothers who had sons in the war and others "in disbelief that American soldiers were capable of such brutality toward the enemy." The editors of Life explained that "war is unpleasant, cruel, and inhuman. And it is more dangerous to forget this than to be shocked by reminders." Indeed, remarkably, Life received more than twice as many protest letters over a photograph of a mistreated cat in the same issue than they did over the photo of the severed head of the Japanese soldier.[citation needed]

 

In 1984 Japanese soldiers remains were repatriated from the Mariana Islands. Roughly 60 percent were missing their skulls.[13]

 

Motives

Dehumanisation

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U.S government poster from WWII featuring a Japanese soldier depicted as a rat

 

In the U.S. there was a widely held view that the Japanese were less than human.[14] This view was caused by the popular anger at the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor amplifying pre-war racial prejudices.[11] The U.S. media helped propagate this view of the Japanese, for example describing them as “yellow vermin”.[14]. In an official U.S. Navy film Japanese troops were described as “living, snarling rats”.[15] The mixture of racism, dehumanizing propaganda, and real and imagined Japanese atrocities led to intense loathing of the Japanese.[14] Despite the impact of this propaganda, U.S. Army opinion surveys found that the high degree of hatred towards the Japanese expressed by soldiers in training typically declined dramatically once the men entered combat.[16]

 

The combination of Japanese soldiers' reluctance to surrender and hostile American attitudes to Japanese contributed to the fact that relatively few Japanese soldiers were taken prisoner. (For a discussion of Allied soldiers "standard practice"[17] of killing Japanese prisoners and Japanese attempting to surrender see Allied war crimes during World War II.) Niall Ferguson states in Prisoner Taking and Prisoner Killing in the Age of Total War: "To the historian who has specialized in German history, this is one of the most troubling aspects of the Second World War: the fact that Allied troops often regarded the Japanese in the same way that Germans regarded Russians – as Untermenschen."[18] Since the Japanese were regarded as animals it is not surprising that the Japanese remains were treated in the same way as animal remains.[14]

 

Simon Harrison comes to the conclusion in his paper “Skull trophies of the Pacific War: transgressive objects of remembrance” that the small minority of U.S. personnel who collected Japanese skulls did so as they came from a society which placed much value in hunting as a symbol of masculinity, combined with a de-humanization of the enemy.

 

Brutalization

Some writers and veterans state that the body parts trophy and souvenir taking was a side effect of the brutalizing effects of a harsh campaign.[19]

 

Harrison argues that while brutalization could explain part of the mutilations, this explanation does not explain the servicemen who already before shipping off for the Pacific proclaimed their intention to acquire such objects.[20] He believes that it also does not explain the many cases of servicemen collecting the objects as gifts for people back home.[20] Harrison concludes that there is no evidence that the average serviceman collecting this type of souvenirs was suffering from "combat fatigue". They were normal men who felt this was what their loved ones wanted them to collect for them.[21] Skulls were sometimes also collected as souvenirs by non-combat personnel.[19] Skulls and teeth were also sometimes traded amongst personnel.[19]

 

Revenge

According to Bergerud U.S. troops who mutilated the bodies of their Japanese opponents were also motivated by a desire to seek revenge against Japanese atrocities. For instance, Bergerud states that the U.S. Marines on Guadacanal were aware that the Japanese had committed atrocities against the Marine defenders of Wake Island prior to the start of the campaign[22] and first began taking ears from Japanese corpses after photos of the mutilated bodies of Marines on Wake Island were found in Japanese engineers' personal effects.[23] Weingartner believes that these actions were premeditated, however, and states that U.S. Marines were openly declaring their intent to "pickle" Japanese ears already while en-route to Guadacanal.[24]

 

U.S. reaction

“Stern disciplinary action” against human remains souvenir taking was ordered by the Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet as early as September 1942.[3] In October 1943 General George C. Marshall radioed General Douglas MacArthur about “his concern over current reports of atrocities committed by American soldiers”.[25] In January 1944 JCS issued a directive against the taking of Japanese body parts.[25] Directives of this type may have been effective in some areas, "but they seem to have been implemented only partially and unevenly by local commanders".[3]

 

In May 1944 Life Magazine published a photo of an American girl with a Japanese skull sent to her by her naval officer boyfriend.[26] The letters Life received from its readers in response to this photo were "overwhelmingly condemnatory"[27] and the Army directed its Bureau of Public Relations to inform U.S. publishers that “the publication of such stories would be likely to encourage the enemy to take reprisals against American dead and prisoners of war.”[28] The junior officer who had sent the skull was also traced and officially reprimanded.[21]

 

The Life photo also led to the U.S. Military to take further action against the mutilation of Japanese corpses. In a memorandum dated June 13, 1944, the Army JAG asserted that such “such atrocious and brutal policies” in addition to being repugnant also were violations of the laws of war, and recommended the distribution to all commanders of a directive pointing out that “the maltreatment of enemy war dead was a blatant violation of the 1929 Geneva Convention on the sick and wounded, which provided that: After every engagement, the belligerent who remains in possession of the field shall take measures to search for wounded and the dead and to protect them from robbery and ill treatment.” Such practices were in addition also in violation of the unwritten customary rules of land warfare and could lead to the death penalty.[29] The Navy JAG mirrored that opinion one week later, and also added that “the atrocious conduct of which some U.S. servicemen were guilty could lead to retaliation by the Japanese which would be justified under international law”.[29]

 

On 13 June 1944 the press reported that President Roosevelt had been presented with a letter-opener made out of a Japanese soldiers arm bone by Congressman Walter.[21] Several weeks later it was reported that it had been given back with the explanation that the President did not want this type of object and recommended it be buried instead. In doing so, Roosevelt was acting in response to the concerns which had been expressed by the military authorities and some of the civilian population, including church leaders.[21]

 

In October 1944 the Right Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, issued a statement which deplored "'isolated' acts of desecration with respect to the bodies of slain Japanese soldiers and appealed to American soldiers as a group to discourage such actions on the part of individuals."[30][31]

 

Japanese reaction

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An example of American domestic propaganda using a fanged Japanese.

 

News that President Roosevelt had been given a bone letter opener by a congressman were widely reported in Japan. The Americans were portrayed as “deranged, primitive, racist and inhuman”. This reporting was compounded by the previous May 22, 1944 Life Magazine picture of the week publication of a young woman with a skull trophy.[32] Hoyt in "Japan’s war: the great Pacific conflict" argues that the Allied practice of mutilating the Japanese dead and taking pieces of them home was exploited by Japanese propaganda very effectively, and "contributed to a preference to death over surrender and occupation, shown, for example, in the mass civilian suicides on Saipan and Okinawa after the Allied landings"[32]

 

Context

All WWII remains discovered in the U.S. attributable to an ethnicity are of Japanese origins, none come from Europe.[5] The practice[citation needed] of taking skull trophies was resumed during the Vietnam War.

 

Many Australian soldiers also mutilated Japanese bodies, most commonly by taking gold teeth from corpses. "The vast majority of Australians found such behaviour abhorrent", however, and it was considered a crime by the Australian Army and officially discouraged.[33] In another similarity to the U.S. Army, Australian troops almost never mutilated the bodies of the German and Italian soldiers they faced in North Africa and Greece. Australian soldiers "unusually murderous behavior" towards their Japanese opponents was caused by racism, a lack of understanding of Japanese military culture and, most significantly, a desire to take revenge against the murder and mutilation of Australian prisoners and native New Guineans during the Battle of Milne Bay and subsequent battles.[34]

 

Contemporary

Skulls from the Vietnam War and from WWII keep turning up in the U.S., sometimes returned by former servicemen or their relatives, or discovered by police. According to Harrison, contrarily to the situation in average head-hunting societies the trophies do not fit in in the American society. While the taking of the objects was socially accepted at the time, after the war, when the Japanese in time became seen as fully human again, the objects for the most part became seen as unacceptable and unsuitable for display. Therefore in time they and the practice that had generated them were largely forgotten.[13]

 

See also

Headhunting

Anti-Japanese sentiment

Jap hunts

Japanese war crimes

Comfort women

Nanking Massacre

 

References

1. ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3651/is_199510/ai_n8714274/pg_1 Missing on the home front, National Forum, Fall 1995 by Roeder, George H Jr

2. ^ Lewis A. Erenberg, Susan E. Hirsch book: The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness during World War II. 1996. Page 52. ISBN 0226215113.

3. ^ a b c d e f g h Harrison, p.827

4. ^ Weingartner, p.56

5. ^ a b c Simon Harrison (2006). "Skull Trophies of the Pacific War: transgressive objects of remembrance". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 12: 826. 

6. ^ James J. Weingartner (February, 1992). "Trophies of War: U.S. Troops and the Mutilation of Japanese War Dead, 1941-1945". Pacific Historical Review 61 (1): 556. 

7. ^ a b c d Harrison, p.822

8. ^ Dower, John W. (1986). War Without Mercy. Race and Power in the Pacific War. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0571146058. , p. 66

9. ^ Harrison, p.818

10.                    ^ Dower, p. 65

11.                    ^ a b Ferguson, Niall (2007). The War of the World. History's Age of Hatred. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 9780141013824. , p. 546

12.                    ^ Bergerud, Eric (1997). Touched with Fire. The Land War in the South Pacific. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 01402.46967. , p. 407

13.                    ^ a b c Harrison, p.828

14.                    ^ a b c d Weingartner, p.54

15.                    ^ Weingartner, p.54. Japanese were alternatively described and depicted as “mad dogs”, “yellow vermin”, termites, apes, monkeys, insects, reptiles and bats etc.

16.                    ^ Spector, Ronald H. (1984). Eagle Against the Sun. The American War with Japan. London: Cassel & Co. ISBN 0304359793. , p. 411

17.                    ^ Niall Ferguson (2004). "Prisoner Taking and Prisoner Killing in the Age of Total War: Towards a Political Economy of Military Defeat". War in History 11: 181. 

18.                    ^ Ferguson, p. 182

19.                    ^ a b c Harrison, p.823

20.                    ^ a b Harrison, p.824

21.                    ^ a b c d Harrison, p.825

22.                    ^ Bergerud, p.407

23.                    ^ Bergerud, p.411

24.                    ^ James J. Weingartner (February, 1992). "Trophies of War: U.S. Troops and the Mutilation of Japanese War Dead, 1941-1945". Pacific Historical Review 61 (1): 556. 

25.                    ^ a b Weingartner, p.57

26.                    ^ The image depicts a young blond at a desk gazing at a skull. The caption says “When he said goodbye two years ago to Natalie Nickerson, 20, a war worker of Phoenix, Ariz., a big, handsome Navy lieutenant promised her a Jap. Last week Natalie received a human skull, autographed by her lieutenant and 13 friends, and inscribed: "This is a good Jap – a dead one picked up on the New Guinea beach." Natalie, surprised at the gift, named it Tojo. The armed forces disapprove strongly of this sort of thing.

27.                    ^ Weingartner, p.58

28.                    ^ Weingartner, p.60

29.                    ^ a b Weingartner, p.59

30.                    ^ "Tucker Deplores Desecration of Foe; Mutilation of Japanese Bodies Contrary to Spirit of Army, He Says of 'Isolated' Cases", The New York Times (1944-10-14). Retrieved on 2008-05-11. 

31.                    ^ "The Morals of Victory", Time (1944-10-23). Retrieved on 2008-05-11. 

32.                    ^ a b Harrison, p.833

33.                    ^ Johnston, Mark (2000). Fighting the Enemy. Australian Soldiers and their Adversaries in World War II. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521782228.  p.82

34.                    ^ Johnston, pp. 84–100

 

Further reading

·        Paul Fussell "Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War"

·        Bourke "An Intimate History of Killing" (pages 37-43)

·        Dower "War without mercy: race and power in the Pacific War" (pages 64-66)

·        Fussel "Thank God for the Atom Bomb and other essays" (pages 45-52)

·        Aldrich "The Faraway War: Personal diaries of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific"

·        Hoyt "Japan's war: the great Pacific conflict"

·        Charles A. Lindbergh (1970). The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.. 

 

External links

·        One War Is Enough War Correspondent EDGAR L. JONES 1946

·        American troops 'murdered Japanese PoWs'

·        The US Sailor with the Japanese Skull by Winfield Townley Scott

·        Eerie Souvenirs From the Vietnam War Washington Post July 3, 2007 By Michelle Boorstein]

·        2002 Virginia Festival of the Book: Trophy Skulls

·        War against subhumans: comparisons between the German War against the Soviet Union and the American war against Japan, 1941-1945 The Historian 3/22/1996, Weingartner, James

·        Racism in Japanese in U.S. wartime propaganda The Historian 6/22/1994 Brcak, Nancy; Pavia, John R.

·        MACABRE MYSTERY Coroner tries to find origin of skull found during raid by deputies The Pueblo Chieftain Online.

·        Skull from WWII casualty to be buried in grave for Japanese unknown soldiers Stars and Stripes

·        HNET review of Peter Schrijvers. The GI War against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific during World War II.

·        The May 1944 Life Magazine picture of the week (Image)

 

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