I’ve been researching this story for awhile, and it is truly a shocker. I implore you all to read this in its entirety.
has anyone read this article by on-again off-again wife of St Marks’ Father Frank Morales:
The Golden Suicides
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/01...
apparently two very talented artists who fled california claiming they were being systematically harassed, smeared and psychologically tortured by cointelpro somehow ended up living in Father Frank Morale’s apartment in the rectory of St Marks church - cointelpro central - and ultimately BOTH ended up dead from suicide.
one of the “suicides†- Theresa Duncan – described the harassment as follows:
"Like the Federal "Cointelpro" campaign that deliberately drove Seberg to suicide..."
of course Nancy Jo Sales of Vanity Fair (as well as other well placed journalists) claim that these two individuals suffered from mental illness.
two people suffering from the same mental illness. how interesting. I guess these things happen.
some of us may remember Nancy Jo Sales from San Francisco when she attended the 911 seminar in spring 2004. I remember Nicholas Levis expressing his excitement over her participation.
anyway - she spent 2 days interviewing everyone of any interest in the movement - yet never ran a story. She asked deep penetrating questions. Took notes. And never ran a story.
years later she ran the "loose change" story "Click Here for Conspiracy" which paints a picture of 911 skepticism as the product of youthful flights of fancy - including the infamous closing quote:
"People say, Aw, we need a peaceful revolution. We need to peacefully change things. Trust me, that's a great idea—I'm all for it. But Americans are violent, especially when they've been lied to, especially over something like this..."
way to GO Nancy!!! Paint 911 Truth as potentially violent! Wooo….hooooo……
i also remember sitting with members of TruthMove and Levis as we attempted to reason with Nancy's on-again off-again husband Father Frank Morales regarding his decision to allow certain "researchers" to participate and speak at his church - while the more legitimate speakers from TruthMove were basically black-balled. He ultimately supported the disinfo crowd.
But – another thing bothers me:
according to both Morales and Sales - these 'golden suicides' were clearly paranoid and mentally ill.
Ok. fine. Maybe.
so how do you explain this interview Morales gave to Theresa Duncan:
http://theresalduncan.typepad.com/witostaircase/20...
In this interview he clearly lays out - in detail - all the dirty tricks and spying and disruption techniques of the government – to someone he himself has described as suffering from possible paranoid delusions. Way to GO Frank! The interview itself references the harassment Theresa and Jeremy claimed they were undergoing. Interesting that Father Frank would simply sit there and support their claims with facts if he truly believed they were ill. If he was truly concerned about their mental state – why would he stoke the flames? Was he not ‘enabling them’ to believe whatever paranoid delusions had forced them to flee califonia??? Did he not contribute to their delusions and ultimate suicides?
Anyway – another blogger remarks:
“Hmmm. Sure sounds like a tale of publishing intrigue here. It’s certainly odd that Sales, who is so connected to the story as Morales’ ex-wife, wound up with the assignment.â€
I would certainly agree that, from a journalism standpoint, this is unethical and a conflict of interest. In fact, someone else opined:
“And today I got a call from someone who was interviewed at length for the piece and was stunned to read at SoMA that Nancy Jo Sales had the byline. Asking not to be named, this person said that, last they knew, VF contributor John Connolly was writing the article, and that it was probably now in final edits, not already on the newsstand.â€
Who is Nancy Jo Sales? How did she end up controlling John Connolly’s project? Wasn’t VF concerned with the conflicts of interest?
In 1986 she graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with a B.A. in Literature from Yale, which awarded her its Willet's Prize for fiction writing. From 1986 to 1988 she lived in Tokyo, where she worked as an English teacher.
In 1988 she enrolled in Columbia University’s graduate program in Writing, receiving her M.F.A. in 1991.
Wow. Yale. Columbia. With honors. Very impressive.
I suppose if I was ‘mentally ill’ like Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake I would make political hay out of the fact that Yale is a known recruitment ground for American intelligence services – and the Bush family – and skull and bones.
anyway
I was shocked and surprised that Father Frank seemed oblivious to the obvious betrayal inherent in her 9/11 Loose Change article.
I was further shocked and surprised that Father Frank – who appears to be very intelligent – continues to enable disinformation to flourish at St Marks.
I was NOT surprised to hear that two artists fleeing California claiming they were the victims of cointelpro ended up somehow (despite the fact they were admittedly complete strangers) living in Father Frank’s apartment in the St Marks rectory.
what a coincidence!
And.. sadly – it does not surprise me that they are now both dead – with the internet swamped with claims that they were both insane.
I suppose it could be a little of both. I am not assuming or suggesting they were murdered. But – I also know first hand how cruel certain 9/11 ‘researchers’ can be in attacking their perceived enemies. I would assume that these disinformation ‘agents’ exist outside of the 9/11 truth movement as well. I would assume Hollywood would be a prime target for cointelpro. (Hollywood DOES after all control America’s perceptions with their product)
Strange anomalies do exist. Duncan’s claim that rock musician Beck was committed to doing her film has been substantiated – despite Beck’s public claim that he knew nothing of the project – and hardly knew the couple. An Italian interview with Beck has surfaced in which he definitively states he is in fact doing Duncan’s film. He even mentions the film by name! Further, photos have surfaced of Duncan and Blake vacationing together with Beck and his wife. Photos of the foursome on the beach together. Why all the subterfuge from Beck? Why the denials?
Additionally – one can still find remnants of an internet campaign to destroy Duncan’s writing career – with online accusations that she was plagiarizing other writer’s work. (plagiarism is a literary crime akin to career suicide)
Additionally, I have found videos online tied to Duncan that eerily mimic many of the same psyop videos we have seen attacking the 9/11 community. In fact – in one quote from Duncan she discusses how amazing it is that so many personal details of her life seem to be in the hands of her attackers.
And lastly, I have reviewed blogs discussing this double suicide only to find what appears to be tag-teams of ‘user comments’ smearing the couple and generally disrupting these message boards. I know this signature well. We have all seen these disruptions on message boards before.
And then there is this:
“I was a member of the congregation at St. Mark’s, where the deaths of Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake were handled so poorly by Father Frank that I wrote a letter of complaint to [New York Bishop Mark] Sisk and left the church. As Theresa Duncan’s minister, Frank performed last rites on her, and then used information concerning her and Jeremy’s deaths to further his own interests and gain inside access for his "ex-wife" Nancy Jo Sales’ Vanity Fair article. Understandably, [Blake’s and Duncan’s] families are really upset.
Furthermore, Sales’ piece, like other articles covering this story, includes lies and half-truths. Jeremy did not invite Frank Morales up to the apartment for a drink that night, as Frank has claimed. In fact, at the time of her death, Theresa and Jeremy were so suspicious and distrustful of Frank that they avoided him.â€
Also – according to this member of the congregation:
“Frank and Sales were never legally married. The truth is, Frank Morales told me he is legally married to a woman named Lisa Walker who, according to a New York Magazine article, was in prison on Riker’s Island in 2004, the year he "married" Sales. I forwarded the article to Frank this past summer, after the suicides, and he confirmed that Walker is still his wife, though he claimed to have left her 10 years ago.â€
“Oddly, when Nancy Jo Sales first contacted me this past September, she introduced herself to me as "Frank’s wife."
I suppose we will never know the truth. All of this could be coincidence?
But – when I heard that a young, talented and emotionally vulnerable couple fled California claiming they were being systematically harassed by cointelpro – it made me SHUDDER to hear they ended up at St. Marks. It just STINKS!!
And one last note:
According to another source:
"Morales asked to be let into the bedroom to perform last rites over Duncan’s body. "
Huh? Last rites–for a dead person? This struck me as odd, so I called Father Gawain de Leeuw, an Episcopal priest.
"That is very odd," he said. "And theologically, it’s ridiculous. You perform last rites for the sick, not the dead. You pray for the sick, you anoint them. You take their confession. Those, essentially, are the last rites. But you don’t pray with the dead, or anoint them, or take their confession, or do anything for them. They’re in the hands of God, and the priest’s next step, as far as the body goes, is the burial service. Until then, his or her job is to pastor to the living–to gather the family and pray with them, preparing them to release the body to the hospital, or whoever."
"Whatever he did, you wouldn’t call it ‘last rites,’" agreed Puck Purnell, another Episcopal priest and SoMA contributor.
Rest in peace Theresa and Jeremy. You will not be forgotten.