Suicide Club at New Ruskin College
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Lecture Notes: 03-07-05 Suicide Club
Just when you think ABC NEWS can fall no lower, that it has reached its nadir, then, unbelievably, it falls even deeper into hypocrisy.
Of the 32,000 plus suicides each year in Japan a few hundred are associated with the internet suicide clubs. Yet these few suicides are the subject of the evening news report.
Why?
The concerned “journalist” informs us that in Japan suicide has traditionally been regarded as an “honorable” way out of “failure.”
Failure?
See? The concerned and generous American “journalist” is displaying the broad reach of his transcultural insight. Yeah. Failure. You understand that right?
At ABC News “failure” is not problematic. No need to investigate or report on the meaning of “failure.” What does cause someone, young, in good health, to kill themselves?
No, what ABC News wants to investigate is the use of the internet in a tiny less than 1% of the suicides in Japan.
Why hypocrisy?
As regular College Visitors no doubt know, we say the hypocrisy of ABC News, because Jack Swanson, the manager of ABC radio station KGO, has a staff that has harassed, and hectored, and oppressed me for these fourteen (14) years.
Mrs. Jack Swanson used her influence to have me followed for a number of years reporting on her morning radio program where I had last been seen. Used her influence also with the millionaire owners of CENCAL insurance to harasse me there and then laid off.
Mr. Jack Swanson gave Michael Weiner, (aka Savage), his break in radio upon the suicide of Duane Garrett who jumped to his death from the Golden Gate Bridge.
Michael Weiner also had me followed and followed me himself on occasions. He burglarized my room at the Colonial Motel and shared the stolen notebook with his fellow employees of KGO. And used his influence with Scott Bobro to harasse me at Farmers Insurance. Or was Scott a friend of Ron Owens who used his contacts to harasse me at a local health club and at another job?
Former KGO employees Rose Guilbault and Michael Krasney also joined in the over a decade of harassment and oppression.
And ABC News knows about all of this, has helped cover it up, has calculated that it is cheaper to drive me to my death, in a futile protest in front of KQED, with my brains splattered across their walls, than admit any of this.
This corporation, ABC News, strikes a concerned pose over Japanese suicides, even as it works to cover up its own involvement, the involvement of its own manager, Jack Swanson, and his “talent,” in several suicides. Is this not hypocritical?
Bernie Ward has explained his religious faith in the “life after death,” his simple minded faith, because without it, without this belief “that my relationships with the people I love would continue . . . if they just ended . . . if all this is just temporary . . . I could not go on.”
Got that? “Could not go on.” He believes because otherwise he “could not go on.”
And isn’t this very much like Mr. Ward’s politics? For there also doesn’t he believe all sorts of things because he “needs to,” feels compelled to? As matters of “faith” not reason? You can reason with him all you want, discuss economics, world affairs, human nature, go on, talk all you like.
But you can never reach him. He has set himself in a certain way because he “needs to believe.” He is not free, is not at liberty, to reason, to think, to reconsider.
Is he really here? Is he not a kind of ghost already?
And is he not very much like his colleagues at ABC NEWS?
Are there any human beings left on the planet?
Failure? Is not Bernie Ward a failure of a human being? He has lost his reason.
And Jack Swanson? Would you say he is a failure? He has money, a “management job” with a big corporation, and yet can you not see the emptiness? For example, he thinks it is amusing that his wife when she travels back to Missouri changes her accent completely. He arranged for her to phone in her morning radio program so we could hear his crazy obsessive compulsive wife. Her colleague Lee Rogers asked her if she thought it odd that she should so completely change? “Well,” she said, still in that thick accent, “you try to fit in . . . you know . . .” (like marrying the station manager?)
And when Michael Weiner stole the notebook his ABC NEWS colleagues tried to “fit in” with that, a felony also, even though Weiner is a certifiable lunatic. He finds life more interesting as he oscillates from manic to depressive. But what is his periodic loss of reason? Is this not a “failure?”
And his colleagues? And what of the ones who went along with the felony, and went along with Ron Owens and Mrs. Jack Swanson, and have helped ABC NEWS cover up all of this? What are they but more “failures?”
“I’m not going to put a gun to my head for anyone.” ---- Don Imus
And what of ABC NEWS itself?
Their employees have used their positions of power to destroy another human being. But what of the company itself? What credibility can that “news” organization have left?
What is ABC NEWS but a failure?
And notice conservatives how ABC’s “liberalism” is only a patina, a color of virtue. See also how for a time Michael Weiner used “compassionate conservatism” for cover and how Mrs. Jack Swanson also has found a radio market niche claiming to be a “conservative” in between performing sex acts to get her husband’s absentee ballot, or calling Senator McCain a “media whore,” and on and on . . .
These are, all of them, people without morals or scruples. They solemnly report on the Japanese suicide club while they wink expectantly to one another, ‘not too much longer, . . . not too much longer . . .’
I stopped seeing Yvonne after Garrett’s death. I thought if only he had talked to someone. That perhaps he did not talk to anyone about his problems because he saw how Yvonne had betrayed me.
Now I can see that the betrayal was far larger than Yvonne violating my trust, he worked there at ABC. He must have seen all of this more clearly than I. He knew about Yvonne’s betrayal, yes, and perhaps he laughed with his colleagues there at ABC NEWS. But also he looked into their vacant eyes set in soulless faces, listened to their inane chatter, their hollow laughs. He knew them better than I.
No wonder he jumped. As the reporter said, it was an honorable way out of failure --- the failure that is ABC, KGO, San Francisco.
www.NewRuskinCollege.com
Lecture Notes: 03-07-05 Suicide Club
Just when you think ABC NEWS can fall no lower, that it has reached its nadir, then, unbelievably, it falls even deeper into hypocrisy.
Of the 32,000 plus suicides each year in Japan a few hundred are associated with the internet suicide clubs. Yet these few suicides are the subject of the evening news report.
Why?
The concerned “journalist” informs us that in Japan suicide has traditionally been regarded as an “honorable” way out of “failure.”
Failure?
See? The concerned and generous American “journalist” is displaying the broad reach of his transcultural insight. Yeah. Failure. You understand that right?
At ABC News “failure” is not problematic. No need to investigate or report on the meaning of “failure.” What does cause someone, young, in good health, to kill themselves?
No, what ABC News wants to investigate is the use of the internet in a tiny less than 1% of the suicides in Japan.
Why hypocrisy?
As regular College Visitors no doubt know, we say the hypocrisy of ABC News, because Jack Swanson, the manager of ABC radio station KGO, has a staff that has harassed, and hectored, and oppressed me for these fourteen (14) years.
Mrs. Jack Swanson used her influence to have me followed for a number of years reporting on her morning radio program where I had last been seen. Used her influence also with the millionaire owners of CENCAL insurance to harasse me there and then laid off.
Mr. Jack Swanson gave Michael Weiner, (aka Savage), his break in radio upon the suicide of Duane Garrett who jumped to his death from the Golden Gate Bridge.
Michael Weiner also had me followed and followed me himself on occasions. He burglarized my room at the Colonial Motel and shared the stolen notebook with his fellow employees of KGO. And used his influence with Scott Bobro to harasse me at Farmers Insurance. Or was Scott a friend of Ron Owens who used his contacts to harasse me at a local health club and at another job?
Former KGO employees Rose Guilbault and Michael Krasney also joined in the over a decade of harassment and oppression.
And ABC News knows about all of this, has helped cover it up, has calculated that it is cheaper to drive me to my death, in a futile protest in front of KQED, with my brains splattered across their walls, than admit any of this.
This corporation, ABC News, strikes a concerned pose over Japanese suicides, even as it works to cover up its own involvement, the involvement of its own manager, Jack Swanson, and his “talent,” in several suicides. Is this not hypocritical?
Bernie Ward has explained his religious faith in the “life after death,” his simple minded faith, because without it, without this belief “that my relationships with the people I love would continue . . . if they just ended . . . if all this is just temporary . . . I could not go on.”
Got that? “Could not go on.” He believes because otherwise he “could not go on.”
And isn’t this very much like Mr. Ward’s politics? For there also doesn’t he believe all sorts of things because he “needs to,” feels compelled to? As matters of “faith” not reason? You can reason with him all you want, discuss economics, world affairs, human nature, go on, talk all you like.
But you can never reach him. He has set himself in a certain way because he “needs to believe.” He is not free, is not at liberty, to reason, to think, to reconsider.
Is he really here? Is he not a kind of ghost already?
And is he not very much like his colleagues at ABC NEWS?
Are there any human beings left on the planet?
Failure? Is not Bernie Ward a failure of a human being? He has lost his reason.
And Jack Swanson? Would you say he is a failure? He has money, a “management job” with a big corporation, and yet can you not see the emptiness? For example, he thinks it is amusing that his wife when she travels back to Missouri changes her accent completely. He arranged for her to phone in her morning radio program so we could hear his crazy obsessive compulsive wife. Her colleague Lee Rogers asked her if she thought it odd that she should so completely change? “Well,” she said, still in that thick accent, “you try to fit in . . . you know . . .” (like marrying the station manager?)
And when Michael Weiner stole the notebook his ABC NEWS colleagues tried to “fit in” with that, a felony also, even though Weiner is a certifiable lunatic. He finds life more interesting as he oscillates from manic to depressive. But what is his periodic loss of reason? Is this not a “failure?”
And his colleagues? And what of the ones who went along with the felony, and went along with Ron Owens and Mrs. Jack Swanson, and have helped ABC NEWS cover up all of this? What are they but more “failures?”
“I’m not going to put a gun to my head for anyone.” ---- Don Imus
And what of ABC NEWS itself?
Their employees have used their positions of power to destroy another human being. But what of the company itself? What credibility can that “news” organization have left?
What is ABC NEWS but a failure?
And notice conservatives how ABC’s “liberalism” is only a patina, a color of virtue. See also how for a time Michael Weiner used “compassionate conservatism” for cover and how Mrs. Jack Swanson also has found a radio market niche claiming to be a “conservative” in between performing sex acts to get her husband’s absentee ballot, or calling Senator McCain a “media whore,” and on and on . . .
These are, all of them, people without morals or scruples. They solemnly report on the Japanese suicide club while they wink expectantly to one another, ‘not too much longer, . . . not too much longer . . .’
I stopped seeing Yvonne after Garrett’s death. I thought if only he had talked to someone. That perhaps he did not talk to anyone about his problems because he saw how Yvonne had betrayed me.
Now I can see that the betrayal was far larger than Yvonne violating my trust, he worked there at ABC. He must have seen all of this more clearly than I. He knew about Yvonne’s betrayal, yes, and perhaps he laughed with his colleagues there at ABC NEWS. But also he looked into their vacant eyes set in soulless faces, listened to their inane chatter, their hollow laughs. He knew them better than I.
No wonder he jumped. As the reporter said, it was an honorable way out of failure --- the failure that is ABC, KGO, San Francisco.
www.NewRuskinCollege.com
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