Subjects covered in today’s program include Robert Hanssen, Kristine Marcy, Mary Harron, Bernadine Dohrn, Michelle Obama, the Pepper’s ghost illusion, and a radical feminist work called the SCUM Manifesto.
Field McConnell and David Hawkins discuss their thesis that FBI Agent Robert Hanssen recruited Field’s sister, Kristine Marcy, to set up the Senior Executive Service as Chicago Charlie, a treasonous team controlled by Hanssen’s alma mater, Northwestern University.
To get up to speed quickly about what David and Field are investigating, watch these videos.
Pattern Crimes
Pattern Signs
Pattern Times
Information can also be obtained from their books:
Hunter’s Wingman
Sister Abel, Brother Cain
OTHER REFERENCES
SCUM = Society For Cutting Up Men, a 1968 book by Valerie Solanas.
Torture: Paradigms and Practice
Catalog Number: CONPUB 678
taught by Bernadine Dorhn at Northwestern University
This small seminar will explore the ethical, practical and political consequences of Constitutional and international law prohibiting torture in the contemporary world. The class will read philosophy and literature, look at representations of torture in art and media, analyze case law and legal memoranda, learn about forensic evidence and healing, and look inside as well as outside the United States. Students will debate and discuss states of emergency (Ireland/England, Palestine/Israel), the war on terrorism, extraterritoriality, rendition, and rape, as well as legal sanctions and proposals for torture warrants. Research paper and participation required.