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We share this world with genetic psychopaths.  1 in 20/25 of us are psychopaths.  We need a way to recognize them, besides my saying, ‘well, in my opinion . . .’

$10,000 would allow me two months or so to dedicate to searching the literature for the genetics and thus a DNA test for psychopathy.  The information in the graphic below would be my starting point.

$60,000 would free me for a year to both produce posts every week and do constant literature searches.

https://pathwhisperer.info/2014/12/10/the-genetic-cocktail-of-psychopathy-genetic-markers/
https://pathwhisperer.info/2018/04/06/2-more-for-the-mix-the-ruthlessness-gene-and-the-wanderer-gene-that-genetic-psychopathy-cocktail/

I believe the DNA information is ‘out there’, waiting to be found in the tall grass.  Many, many of the researchers are themselves psychopathic and they don’t necessarily advertise what they know.  This is one of the paradoxes of the field.  Psychopathy is considered by some to be not quite a healthy field of interest.  However intelligent, self aware psychopaths are very interested in what makes themselves tick.  I believe that if I had time ‘to beat the rushes’, I could find the information we need to protect ourselves.

It seems psychopathy is one more genetic defect (as it were) overrepresented in the Ashkenazi Jewish population

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An astute observer will have noticed in Psychopathic Archetypes that many of the archetypes are Ashkenazis.  This result was never the intent, my intent was to find obvious at a glance individuals.

In my book, every grouping is responsible for their own psychopaths and protecting the world from them.

Post Redux: Teasing truth out of communications with psychopaths — their agendas, motivations, and thinking have no analogues in the normal world

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“Since psychopaths are pathological liars and their every interaction with others is self-serving and strategic, even seasoned investigators and forensic psychologists have great difficulty dealing with them. Basically, they’re always faced with the liar’s paradox yet still need to get useful and true information from them.

Katherine Ramsland (from trutv.com) wrote an excellent article about how investigators deal with the inevitable obstacles and difficulties they encounter when attempting to retrieve true information from psychopaths about their crimes. I’m pasting part of her article below:

“It’s not easy to know when to trust someone who has already exploited trust as a route to torture, rape and murder. Psychopathic killers view their victims as objects, useful only as pawns in their own personal game, and they thus have this advantage: they feel no remorse. They’re callous, manipulative and resistant to therapy, and when they choose to communicate, they have their own agendas, formed in self-interest and calculation. What we may accept as a “confession,” they may view as bait. Their motives take shape within a framework that has no equivalent in the normal world. That’s why we can’t just accept what they say at face value.

. . .  While psychopaths appear to use the same language as normal individuals, they have their own inner logic. They calculate the world around them in terms of self-gain. They are society’s vampires. They may be intoxicated rather than repulsed by the idea of targeting humans and picking them off, because it makes them feel powerful. Their agendas have no analogues in the normal world.“”  https://psychopathyawareness.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/investigating-psychopaths/

From “Damaged” by Malcolm Gladwell:

[Dorothy Otnow Lewis]:  “The day before [Ted Bundy] was executed, he asked me to turn off the tape recorder. He said he wanted to tell me things that he didn’t want recorded, so I didn’t record them. It was very confidential.” To this day, Lewis has never told anyone what Bundy said. There is something almost admirable about this. But there is also something strange about extending the physician-patient privilege to a killer like Bundy-about turning the murderer so completely into a patient.  . . .  It was at the end of that final conversation that Bundy reached down and kissed Lewis on the cheek. But that was not all that happened. Lewis then reached up, put her arms around him, and kissed him back.  http://gladwell.com/damaged/

Again, “To this day, Lewis has never told anyone what Bundy said.”  This is just downright bizarre.  She doesn’t know that she was being played?  She thinks Ted Bundy was capable of a ‘soul communication”, that deep inside his psyche was a tortured soul wishing to reach out to others?  “Bundy thought I was the only person who didn’t want something from him,” Lewis says.   Really? 

I do quote her approvingly elsewhere on dissociation (https://pathwhisperer.info/2014/03/19/to-the-de-blasio-administration-i-hereby-volunteer-to-identify-nypd-whiteshirt-psychopaths-gratis/).  I felt she had a deep knowledge of the psyche of human beings.  I don’t understand her blindness here, unless it’s simply the special relationship between females and the male psychopath.  Female therapists are just as susceptible as other women.  It’s not that women are born to be fooled by psychopaths, but that male psychopaths are born (have evolved) to fool women (I mean this literally).

She had no idea whatsoever of what was sitting across the table, in her discussions with Mr. Bundy.  Namely, a biological mechanism that could read/sense her emotions, vanities and vulnerabilities, instantaneously calculate a normal human response to his readings that would also cater to his manipulative ends, and then mime it.  Actually, in acting terms, psychopathic reactions are always a beat off, the readings do take time.  This momentary pause can and should be noted.

Psychopaths use words as tools, strategically.  The manipulative use of language is their main lifetool, as fins are to a fish.  Valuable communication is nonverbal.  Borrowing Ramsland’s phrase:  there is no analogue in the normal world to their use of language.  However their strategies are understandable and their communications should be interpreted through that understanding.  It is also important to figure out “how old” the target psychopath is.  That is, how far did they get in their arrested development path (somewhere in latency – 6/7 to puberty, though there are also very, very young traits — none of them for example get the ‘sharing thing’, though many can mime the behavior).  How self referential is the target?  What’s the need to brag?  How arrrogant?  What are the individual’s triggers?  What level of self control?  The more one knows about the individual’s personality the better.  All of this goes into the mix in teasing the truth out of a pathological liar’s communications.

 

Psychopathic archetypes

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Since psychopaths depend on the green beard trait for the survival of their biological subtype, it is necessary that they recognize each other. Thus psychopathic eyes/archetypes.

This is a Rick Singer. (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/28/rick-singer-mastermind-college-admissions-scandal-grand-canyon-university-student/5524754002/).  Anyone who looks like him is also a psychopath.

 

Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling, Ret., absolutely.

Jared Bernstein, I think so.

Anthony Fauci, dunno, but I suspect so.  (I live by the hairs on the back of my neck, they tell me that he is evil   I don’t think much of Dr. Birx either.  At a minimum I think they are both con artists.  That they are both endorsed by probable psychopaths, such as S. Gupta and J. Sciutto, isn’t in their favor, imo.

Dr. Birx lost me when she said to avoid supermarkets.  Avoid supermarkets?!  What about their employees?  Are they sacrificial lambs, should they just jump into volcanoes and have done with it?  I started asking around, never found any markets (or drugstores) which had employees getting sick.  And then when they started telling us to take off our masks with our pinkies as though the mask face was contaminated with Ebola — ha, ha, ha.  Psychopaths, being little children mentally, never know when enough is enough.  If covid is so dangerous you can’t protect yourself, then there is no reason to try, let fate take its course..  Fauci and Birx are stupid liars, imo, and need to prove they aren’t psychopaths, if they can.)

This is a Maury Povich, another archetype.

 

Maury has many psychopath traits.  One is that smile, or rather that facial expression.  If you look at many images of his, they show that exact smile, his personal mask of sanity.  At least that’s how I look at it.

C. Boyden Gray, yep.

John Kerry, to my best judgement.  John Kerry knows his place in the food chain and is capable of total self control.  However, if he thinks he is in a position of power, his true character comes out.  As far as I’m concerned he showed his true colors, contempt, lying ability (unless he stupidly believes outrageous lies and then passes them on) in his betrayal of the POW/MIAs and their families.  (Pres. Trump, send your envoys to Laos, there are still secrets there.)

Andy Williams, singer.  Looks that way to me.

This is a Shimon Peres.

Fotis Dulos (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Fotis+dulos+arrested+as+wife+murderer)

NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Joe Biden, all the lights are on but nobody’s home.  Evil/corrupt to his bone marrow, imo.

This is a Jacob Appelbaum.

I’ve seen him talk, and consider him psychopathically arrogant and pickled in self-love.  His eyes are the least of it.

Dov Charney, ex-CEO and founder of American Apparel.

More Dov Charney.

Too much Dov Charney. https://pathwhisperer.info/2014/06/30/dov-charney-fired-ceo-of-american-apparel/

The Minus Men

Perhaps the most tragic of the psychopaths, essentially emotionless and personality-less.  Chameleons who glom on to others and sometimes worm their way into positions of vast power through their psychopathic manipulative abilities and insight into the motivations of others. (The Minus Man (1999) movie.)

Jared Kushner.  Ivanka should get the marriage annulled, I don’t care how many children they’ve had.  How can one give informed consent to a ‘subtle reflex machine’?  ([A] genetic “nonhuman human . . . a subtly constructed reflex machine which can mimic the human personality perfectly” — Cleckley, https://pathwhisperer.info/2015/11/18/post-redux-a-more-nuanced-description-of-the-nonhuman-human/.)

I’ve known minus men to follow women they find attractive continuously (I don’t know what they say — ‘You don’t mind do you?  I just want to be friends.’?? or ‘You’re so beautiful, I just have to be in your presence.’??) and persistently.  And then THWACK, Cupid’s true arrow hits its target.  But it’s not Cupid’s true arrow but rather a psychopath adjusting and fine tuning his personality, sense of humor, etc. to his target’s desires.

 

Did you see that wacky conspiracy theory that the Barrett Rose Garden super spreader event was actually a hit on Trump and the Republicans? It is to laugh. Ha, ha, . . . What the hey? Who’s that psychopathic wraith flitting about?

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Sitting immediately behind Kellyanne Conway and Melania.  In line with Father Jenkins.  And across from Mike Lee and Kayleigh McEnany.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/asking-question-nobody-dares-ask-publicly

His name is C. Boyden Gray.  While there is no plastic boutonniere secret atomizer visible the cases do tend to circle him.
Hmmmm.

Now I haven’t described any behaviors or thinking patterns of his to support my claim of his psychopathy.  I know very little about him.  He’s a man of mystery to me, perhaps one of the deepest actors of the deepest part of the deep state.  I don’t know.  However his psychopathy is obvious.  Remember last class?  The Green Beard evolutionary strategy demands that psychopaths be able to recognize each other.  But that also means that others can also frequently recognize them.

PW goes all in. Psychopathy as a green beard trait.

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If this is the era of COVID, what is the time right now? Time to go all in. I have this fantasy of just barely leading my audience, hoping they will complete the journey on their own, without overwhelming their current understanding. This has never worked in real life, so why should it work in the blogosphere?

Are you sitting down? This is a really big deal. Ever hear of the evolutionary concept of the ‘green beard trait’?

Ding, ding, ding, ding! AWEEah, AWEEah, AWEEah, AWEEah, AWEEah! KLING-klang, KLING-klang, KLING-klang, KLING-klang, KLING-klang! BEE-bop, BEE-bop, BEE-bop, BEE-bop, BEE-bop. Ding, ding, ding, ding! AWEEah, AWEEah, AWEEah, AWEEah, AWEEah! KLING-klang, KLING-klang, KLING-klang, KLING-klang, KLING-klang! BEE-bop, BEE-bop, BEE-bop, BEE-bop, BEE-bop. Ding, ding, ding, ding! AWEEah, AWEEah, AWEEah, AWEEah, AWEEah! KLING-klang, KLING-klang, KLING-klang, KLING-klang, KLING-klang! BEE-bop, BEE-bop, BEE-bop, BEE-bop, BEE-bop. [various other klaxon sounds]

This is Nobel Prize territory folks! And you thought I was just a bum! Ha, ha, ha, ha! Bwah, ha, ha ha! I won, I won, I won! Just a bum?! Ha, ha, ha. . . . Wait, what? . . . I didn’t win no stinking Nobel? The nominating committee never heard of me? Well, how about the nominating secretary? Nope?? . . . Geez, hit a guy while he’s down why don’t you. Just like Jesus on the cross, I’m an easy target! I guess I’m the Rodney Dangefield of the blogosphere, I just don’t get no respect. Every dog has its day, where’s mine, where’s mine?

But I digress. Suddenly psychopathic types/eyes makes sense (not at all comparable to phrenology (the study of bumps on the heads of criminals) that seemingly reasonable claim of the wilfully blind). Suddenly the observed Psychopath’s Prime Directive, that fellow psychopaths must aid other psychopaths against the normy world, makes sense. Actually, that is the green beard trait. Holders of a green beard trait favor other holders of the green beard trait even over blood relatives. It’s always been just a theory in higher animals, mythological really. Until this very second.

Normal human eyes, psychopathic eyes

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The Bidens are a genetic grifter family (so many of Joe’s oddities can be understood as psychopathic arrested development traits (around age 6-7)).  Hunter is also a psychopath.  They cannot be allowed anywhere near the White House.

Acceptable outcomes:

  1. The election is postponed until the Democrats come up with a non-psychopathic candidate.
  2. The election is postponed until there is a clear and unambiguous test for psychopathy, such as a genetic test.  I believe I could find a precise DNA test, if anyone wants to front me 6 to 10 thousand dollars to enable me to dedicate all my time to this project for a couple months (it might take much less than that).  I believe the information is ‘out there.’  The problem is that the ‘experts’ are probably majority psychopathic themselves, so one can’t just ask them.
  3. If things remain as they are, all normal humans must gather behind the human candidate.  All we need to do, is to tell that to the TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) sufferers.  Oops.
  4. The military takes control of the situation.  How many colonels would be required to take over Northcom?  If Biden were an emotionless, emotion miming alien pod person who developed in his basement and then took over the real Joe’s life, then obviously the military would be entitled (and obligated) to take matters into their own hands.  Same if an alien cockroach had eaten his brains, staying in his skull and manipulating all nerve endings and muscle twitches.  So why not against a genetic “nonhuman human . . . a subtly constructed reflex machine which can mimic the human personality perfectly” (Cleckley, https://pathwhisperer.info/2015/11/18/post-redux-a-more-nuanced-description-of-the-nonhuman-human/)?  Literally all of Creepy Joe’s emotional declarations and facial expressions are shallow fabrications.  That’s why they call him Creepy Joe.  Here again, however, is a big problem.  The military would need to clear psychopaths from their own ranks.  Nothing impossible, just not easy.

Harassment by cop, psychopathic NYPD cop

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TLC 6Y87, unmarked police taxi, July 3, 2001

Dated: 010703, 3:19 pm

This car was waiting to for me to turn the other way and almost certainly follow me to the subway at a walking pace from a block back, as it had done multiple, multiple times.

The principal driver (light toned, very dark haired, 5′ 10″ ish caucasian, very arrogant) and his ‘crew’ of psychopathic Don Iquanas, along with an ex, had harassed me using police powers and prerogatives since 1994/5.  It seems he has resurfaced.

This car and license disappeared from the precinct after this date and I never saw it again.  You’d think he knew he had been caught in illegal activity.

He later moved, to NYS DPL 8171, which also disappeared from the neighborhood after I documented its presence in 2011.  The last car I saw him in was a DPA 4(?) something.

Other escapades of his and his crew were giving my ex tours of my apartment and apparently, from the excess noise on the line that only ceased years later when I started official investigations, access to my phone line.  Actually I still hear these phone noises occasionally.  The last time was December 24, 2020, Christmas Eve.  You read that correctly just a few weeks ago.  I guess my ex wanted to say hello.  NYC cops essentially have full freedom to break the law, they just can’t use the information in court.  Here it was just for entertainment, which is a crime.  But for all psychopaths there is no crime if they can’t or won’t be caught.

I first realized that one or more officers had become involved in my life personally was after filing a police report on my ex calling my answering machine 30-40 times a day (back in 92 or 93).  I had a Code-A-Phone machine which counted the calls. The report disappeared and the calls ceased, she was tipped off.

I wouldn’t believe a word this officer, TLC6Y87/DPL8171, says.  Fish swim, birds fly, squirrels climb trees and dirty cops lie.  Cops don’t come dirtier than this one.  Actually, all police officers have a license to lie, even in court under oath, Briscoe v. Lahue, immunity from perjury.

If BLM had any intelligence they’d seek to review this and the many other police immunities.  ‘Defund the Police’ is sheer stupidity that prevents a nuanced approach to police reform (not to mention that the police are in fact a sine qua non of civilization).

I would also like him and his crew to be investigated for possible attempted murder for the incident where there was an attempt to slam me into a barrier on the Jersey turnpike (or perhaps to break check me into a spin on already compromised tires – a screw had been placed through the tread the night before).  This took place within days of my offering the Inspector General of the NYPD to identify psychopathic officers on the force

HEY, HEY, HEY [this was written in segments, over time]!  The third license plate of the “lizard brained” NYPD Officer TLC6Y87/DPL8171 just came to me last night, must have been in a dream.  DPA MACKDADDY – yeah, that’s the ticket.  Now dreams never lie but they do speak in symbols and perhaps emotional truths.  Pimps of course are called mack daddies, because . . . they pick up certain smells from trying out, repeatedly, all their girls.  Mack . . . mackerel . . . get it?

How apt.  He is after all practically the NYPD Slut Master.  Oh, is that ‘slut shaming’?  OK, then, he’s essentially the Manager of the NYPD Whore Auxiliary (‘whore’ used non-pejoratively as another word for working girl).  Now, I had always thought when the police wanted to set someone up that they used actual working girls, prostitutes.  It turns out, from my experience, that they use nice neighborhood girls from local businesses.  BUT, they sort of pay them with sex (to a lizard brained Don Juan, sex is a work tool, like screwdrivers and wrenches to a handyman).  Or rather they seem to be seeking to please their police pimp lovers.

So, what’s the scenario, a badged Lothario comes onto a sales clerk like a Hollywood film lover?  And persuades the young thing that if she really loved  him (here the NYPD pimp officer) she’d turn tricks/do ‘special jobs’ just like those pimps ask in the movies?  Is this A-OK by their oath?  (Of course the lover boys’ targets aren’t always the young, I’ve certainly known mature women of serious professions, such as psychologists or therapists, to fall for these personality calculating, emotionless subtle reflex biological machines.)

They really do come across as equivalent to screen lovers, I’ve seen them in action, their eyes become melting pools of sincerity, etc., etc.  I once knew a Don Juan who was chasing two sisters simultaneously, though one thought she was chasing him.  Then one day, he came in chuckling, saying repeatedly, “I’m such a dog,  I’m such a dog.”  But offered no explanation.  I imagine he presented each with a picture such as this, but considerably more graphic.

Do I need to translate this?  Oh, OK.  NK:  ‘Do you really think I care about the P-word part of your anatomy?  You’ve been had.  I won.’  They are that cold blooded.  (Satan, leave my Instagram.)

What do pimps do (whether real pimps or psycho pimp cops like TLC/DPL/DPA MACKDADDY)?  They have to groom the young girls into acting out of character.  One of the prime ways is to pass the prospective prostitute (or police assistant setter upper of blackmail situations, or of criminal behavior, framed or otherwise) from ‘cool dude’ to ‘cool dude’.

MACKDADDY’s crew (all psychopaths) included an African American of a very young mental age who often hid in plain sight as a panhandler (The NY Daily News had a number of articles on undercover police using homeless/panhandler covers).  But I doubt he was much of a lover, too young emotionally (him:  ‘I once saw my mother coming out of the shower, sooooo scary’).  Then my personal nemesis, a shortish dirty blond tousled hair guy (Klaus Kinski looking), perhaps given to fancy Tecovas boots with lifts.  Then a 6 2ish movie star good looker. Then Gene de P (name approximate if I’ve scrambled it incorrectly after 25 years) who was in group therapy for being a womanizer (bwa, ha, ha — what a great way to meet women).  So MACKDADDY definitely had/has the grooming pals.

Did this conform to his NYPD oath?  The reprobate minded couldn’t care less.  Virtuousness or the appearance of being a good cop is only a cloak for evil.  All psychopaths are reprobate minded.  (It’s a great word — people know it already and it unites the many corrupt of that stripe.  Hopefully it will help people understand psychopathic evil — as opposed to saying, for example, ‘Oh, John Miller could never frame and murder the innocent, he could never kill a cop just for effect.’  Oh no?  What if he is reprobate minded to his very soul?  I would never underestimate John Miller’s capacity for deceptive evil.)

I think commissions should be set up both to reform the NYPD and to review related court cases concerning whether they produced justice or not.  Does the NYPD have pockets of the reprobate minded who frame and murder people or not?  Is there a criminal ‘deep NYPD/DA’s office’ or not?

I’d like to share a communication

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“Greetings. I have enjoyed reading your blog. I have only recently come to understand that my oldest brother was a psychopath. Well.. I figured it out a decade ago but my intellectual mind never connected the circuit. Due to my childhood with him I have C-PTSD. This was further aggravated by enlisting in the Army and serving a combat tour as an infantry platoon medic in and around Baghdad during the surge.

One thing about basic training and AIT, especially for Combat Arms folks is that it trains normals to build a sort of psychopathic emulator.  A sort of dissociative switch you can flip when you have to be able to take another human life. It is obviously an emulator because its use only contains the normal human response… and that containment field degrades over time. The officer corps does not go through anything as psychologically rigorous as basic training.. they don’t need to because most of the officers don’t have to emulate being a psychopath.

I have a burning hatred inside me for the officer corps.  I spent 10 years on active duty and the closer I got to them the more repulsed I became. Here is something you may find surprising though.. Psychopaths do  NOT do well in a line infantry platoon of “blood thirsty killers.” I am sure you have often heard of the ‘brotherhood’ of men at arms. You have to be ready to sacrifice for your brother.. even your very life for him. It is ingrained in you that you would share your last drops of water with your brother.. and it is not taught. It is just realized. Those who.. say.. steal extra food, which steals from all, usually end up with severe beatings. I have seen Barracks thieves marched out in front of an entire battalion of 800 men and identified by the sergeant major as a thief for all to see. As you can obviously see, in this form of environment a psychopath cannot hide. It is also well known that there is a natural despisement for the officer corps among the infantry.. a feeling that they are ‘other.’

One thing about ‘the eyes’ and that emulator acquired in basic training… I have on several occasions unnerved psychopaths that came across my path using that emulator.. though now only in hindsight. See.. When my subconscious detects that someone is attempting to manipulate me it uncorks the extreme and unbridled rage that resides within me from my experiences with my brother as a child.

This rage is one thing about myself that terrifies me because it is searing in its heat and inexhaustible in its depth. As I am now nearly 15 years this side of that deployment I have had to learn great emotional intelligence to deal with these experiences. I realize that my rage can be triggered accidentally and isn’t always rational.. what is my default reaction? I activate that emulator to snuff the emotion back into the bottle and calculate.. I look for malice. I tend to err on the side of caution and if i can see away this could have been unintentional, the spring is reset on the bottle’s lid and it remains closed. If I detect malice, I crack the bottle slightly in the fight of fight or flight. This analysis happens in about three heartbeats.

One thing i have noticed that surprised me when this process has occurred in response to some individuals I now suspect to be psychopathic.. when I flip that switch, my gaze probably mirrors theirs.. some would call it the war face.. the thousand yard stare.. in that instant I look through them. I see a flash of terror in their eyes. I suspect that the sudden evaporation of all emotion on my face in contrast is quite jarring.

I will be quite honest.. I love for that flash of terror.. or realization when dealing with bullies.. I am a very nice, laid back guy who enjoys banter, shit talking, and being around close friends where we all let our walls down. I tend to present a reserved, slouched posture (probably due to my childhood) and generally only stand tall in uniform. I suppose it makes me come across as an easy mark. That flash of terror I describe could probably better be describe as the “OH! SHIT!  I JUST FUCKED UP!” only too late realizing their easy mark is actually a rather stout man that can do them great physical harm if he chooses.  I believe you have commented on your site that bullies tend to be psychopaths.

Where being bullied was a way of life for me as a kid, now i absolutely delight in it because i experience terrific self-actualization in bullying bullies… I have always had an inner imperative that the strong defend the weak. In this, I have a truly irresistible compulsion to take bullies down a few notches. In reading your site I have come to realize that when I come across these people my favorite response is essentially beat them at their own game.

I have subconsciously realize that they are the enemy.. which I now realize allows me to use that emulator when dealing with them.. allowing me to avoid (and hopefully not delay) remorse and guilt from what I do to them. My favorite tactic, especially say.. when dealing with someone of superior rank, is to set them up for them to reveal themselves.. There are several expressions that come to mind.. “Give them enough rope to hang themselves with..” or perhaps “Hoist them on their own petard.”

One of the unofficial (and gulling) duties of a non-commissioned officer is to look after his commissioned Officer-in-charge.. to keep them from screwing up (and perhaps revealing themselves). I simply ignore the mistake i see he made in this report.. not correct his understanding of a training mission aspect.. not chase after him to keep  him on track with his paperwork.. all sorts of things while simutaniously working very hard at taking care of my responsibilities and my subordinates.  In some cases where the rank disparity is very great.. i begin to document ethical lapses via memorandums for record etc.. Eventually this person’s lack of actual occupational ability(tm) comes to a head.. they invariably blame me.. and I lay all my cards down on the table. I succeeded in taking out a Maj that way once. I managed to get the chain of command of a brigade combat team re-ordered with it once.. I once got a civilian supervisor of mine.. well not fired but not allowed to be in a leadership position anymore.

I consider these great victories because of how much they improved the quality of life for everyone else in the unit to have these folks removed from influence. I had a brigade commander, who was the kind of man we should all aspire to be, and he I guess he recognized this in me. I had changed to public affairs at this point in my career so I was lucky to be on what we call the commander’s personal staff.. it includes folks like the chaplain ect.. we are outside the normal chain of command. He gave me latitude that far exceeded my rank (far…).

One time in particular he sent me to shoot some interviews with one of our organic infantry battalions that had been attached to another brigade. The battalion commander, who had taken over just before we deployed, was a mad man. This guy ended up getting a SPC killed in Mosul over some frigging floor tile.. the SPC (a father of 3) told the battalion commander that the glue wasn’t the right kind and was hazardous and flammable. He said, “I am your fucking battalion commander.” Well.. somehow there was a spark and that Specialist and father burned alive. I had to film his memorial for his family. The Brigade commander of the unit he was attached to also displayed ‘the traits’ and didn’t do anything to him about it.

Anyway.. I had to interact with the guy and knew the instant we locked eyes.. (not intellectually). He was very dismissive of me, didn’t care that I was there to shoot these interviews and videos, he didn’t care that the point of my visit was to boost morale of the families back home as well as his troops. My interviews were to be played on the local news in El Paso where the families are were really great for the army and our division. He informed me i would receive no support or aid from his headquarters in my mission.. then the idiot proceeded to talk shit about the brigade commander.

I ended up succeeding because i already had relationships with the actually fighting companies of his battalion who provided me with housing and network access. When I went back to my brigade i was surprised when my the brigade commander called me into his office, closed the door, and picked my brain for half an hour of what i thought about my experience with this Lt. Colonel.. I laid it out there.. My brigade commander wasn’t a yeller.. or a screamer.. he was actually like talking to a teacher or uncle who liked you. So.. i later found out he torpedoed that LTC’s career via his Officer Evaluation Report and ensured he would never again be promoted or allowed to command so much as a janitor’s closet.

Anyway, I’m not super sure why I felt it important to share this with you but I detect we are both warriors of a kind.. I see now how much influence and sway these predators hold in the world and I’m not sure that it isn’t too late.. perhaps in the end.. we are both fighting against the dying of the light.”

Wow.  I’m raising an army, can I count you in?