THE PORT ARTHUR MASS MURDER AND TAVISTOCK

The Tavistock Institute in London, an arm of British intelligence. It touts itself as a "think tank". It was funded, in the 1920's, by William Rockefeller.

Tavistock specializes in what its own psychiatrists call "brainwashing"--the use of stress-induced fear to artificially create neurotic states of mind, which may be programmed as desired.

The Port Arthur events were indeed coordinated by Tavistock, the premier psychological warfare unit of the British Crown, which was founded in 1920 based upon studies of "shell shock" and related neuroses caused by the trauma of World War|I. Tavistock's strategic mission is to replace a civilization of self-ruling, industrial nation-states with a "post- industrial," globalized world ruled by a tiny oligarchy.

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Mass murder in Australia: Tavistock's Martin Bryant by Allen
Douglas and Michael J. Sharp

On April 28, 1996, twenty-eight-year-old Martin Bryant entered the
Broad Arrow cafeteria in Port Arthur, in the Australian state of
Tasmania.

After eating lunch, he remarked to a patron, "There are a lot of
WASPS, not a lot of Japs." He then picked up his bag and walked
toward the entrance, where he took out a military-style semi-
automatic rifle. Within 15 seconds, he had slaughtered 12 people
and injured several more. Some tried to escape; he gunned them
down systematically, laughing as he fired. He chased one man onto
a waiting bus and killed him, then shot the bus driver. Others tried
to hide beneath the bus, but he climbed underneath it and killed
them, too.

A young mother with a six- and a three-year-old daughter begged,
"Please don't hurt my babies." He shot her and the three-year-old,
then pursued the six-year-old behind a tree, where he put the rifle
to the girl's neck, and fired. After executing others in the parking
lot, he drove some miles to a bed-and-breakfast, the Seascape
Cottage, whose elderly owners he had known for most of his life,
and whom he had murdered on his way to Port Arthur.

Armed with an extensive arsenal, moving from room to room and
firing at police, he kept dozens of members of the elite Special
Operations Groups of Tasmania and neighboring Victoria at bay
throughout the night. Finally, at 8:45 the next morning, after
setting the building afire, Bryant emerged with his clothes alight,
screaming, into the arms of waiting police. The final toll, including
a hostage Bryant had taken with him to Seascape from Port Arthur,
was 35 dead and 20 wounded--the greatest mass murder in
Australia's history.

Within days, the Liberal-National coalition government of Prime
Minister John Howard called for the adoption of draconian gun
control laws, which proposal was protested with huge
demonstrations in Melbourne and other Australian cities; Deputy
Prime Minister Tim Fischer repeatedly made the false, outlandish
accusation that the demonstrations were organized by American
statesman Lyndon LaRouche.

- The Tavistock Institute's lone nuts' - As {EIR} has documented
(see issue of April 4, 1997), Great Britain is the command center
for world terrorism today. This article will demonstrate, through
examining the case of Martin Bryant, that the dozens of mass
murderers who have exploded into the world's headlines over the
last decade or so, constitute a special capability within the Crown's
arsenal.

Already in May 1996, after a quick investigation of the Port Arthur
massacre, including discussions with Australian police and
counter-terror specialists, LaRouche's Australian associates in the
Citizens Electoral Council charged in their newspaper, {The New
Citizen}, that the incident "bore all the hallmarks of the blind
terror' campaigns pioneered by the Tavistock Institute in London,
an arm of British intelligence which ... has conducted precisely the
kind of experiments necessary to create and manipulate damaged
personalities such as Martin Bryant." The article recounted the
evidence already in hand to support that conclusion; it was
hysterically denounced by some of Australia's major media, and by
the British Broadcasting Corporation, which broadcast the thesis
all over Europe, in order to deny it.

Further investigations over the past year, supplemented by files on
Tavistock which this news service has compiled since 1973, have
established the following: 1. The Port Arthur events were indeed
coordinated by Tavistock, the premier psychological warfare unit of
the British Crown, which was founded in 1920 based upon studies
of "shell shock" and related neuroses caused by the trauma of
World War|I. Tavistock's strategic mission is to replace a
civilization of self-ruling, industrial nation-states with a "post-
industrial," globalized world ruled by a tiny oligarchy.

Toward this end, Tavistock specializes in what its own psychiatrists
call "brainwashing"--the use of stress-induced fear to artificially
create neurotic states of mind, which may be programmed as
desired. For instance, Tavistock offered the anxiety-ridden
American youth of the 1960s--hit by the Cuban missile crisis, the
assassinations of political leaders, and the TV's incessant bloody
images of Vietnam--a retreat from this horrifying reality, into the
consolations of rock music, drugs, and sex.

Taking the bait, the future leaders of America and other nations
regressed into an infantile preoccupation with self; patriotism, and
an agapic concern for the "common good," were replaced by a
hedonistic obsession with "my body," "my feelings"--a
{counter}culture. More generally, Tavistock's "theory of
turbulence" specifies that entire populations may be driven into a
similar infantile regression by repeated terrorist shocks, such as the
bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, the sarin gas
subway bombing in Japan, or the dozens of Martin Bryant-style
mass murders around the world over the past decade.

It is precisely the "blind" nature of such events that makes them
psychologically so devastating, since there seems to be no answer
to the question, "Why?," and therefore, apparently there is little or
nothing that can be done to prevent them. 2. British intelligence
will trigger such terrorist events where it has control over the local
media, and psychiatric, police, and intelligence networks.

It has this control in Scotland, where a pedophile well known to
police murdered 16 five- and six-year-olds and their teacher, in the
town of Dunblane on March 13, 1996; it has this control in the
Commonwealth nation of New Zealand, where five such massacres
have taken place since 1990; and it has this control in Australia, to
which numerous of Tavistock's top operatives were deployed right
after World War II. Australia, which has seen a dozen mass murders
since the infamous "Hoddle Street massacre" of 1987, has been
subjected to particularly intense Tavistockian profiling and
manipulation--in part, no doubt, because Australia broke with the
British Empire in World War II, and allied with Gen. Douglas
MacArthur and America, against Churchill's plans to cede Australia
to the Japanese.

As an island-nation, Australia also offered a "controlled
environment" for Tavistock's experiments; in turn, the most isolated
part of Australia, the island-state of Tasmania, off the continent's
southeastern tip, has served as the perfect Tavistock laboratory.
And, Tavistock specifies that, because of the power of the modern
mass media, no matter where a terrorist attack takes place, the
shock is felt worldwide--it is a "global event." 3. Martin Bryant was
monitored, directed, and, in all likelihood, programmed by
Tavistock networks in Tasmania, from at least the time that one of
Tavistock's senior representatives in Australia, the now 88-year-old
Dr. Eric Cunningham Dax, first examined Bryant in 1983-84, and
set the parameters for all his future "treatment."

Dax was for decades an associate of Tavistock's longtime leader
and World Federation of Mental Health chairman, Dr. John
Rawlings Rees. Beginning with his collaboration with Rees in the
late 1930s, Dax, by his own account, had specialized in
"brainwashing." To cover its tracks, Tavistock invariably circulates
what might be called the "Lee Harvey Oswald theory of mass
murder"--that each such incident is the result of a "lone nut," who
one day just "went crazy."

Such was the "finding" of Melbourne-based British forensic
psychiatrist Dr. Paul Mullen, in his evaluation of Bryant for
Bryant's defense attorney, in which Mullen concluded, "It would be
more satisfactory if one could point to some simple and direct
cause of the tragedy at Port Arthur"; unfortunately, Mullen said,
one could not.

But, notwithstanding that Bryant was a "lone nut," Mullen
confidently predicted to the {Herald Sun} of Feb. 4, 1997, that
there would be "more such massacres because of strong evidence of
a copycat element," a warning echoed by other Tavistock assets in
Australia and abroad. Curiously, Mullen himself reportedly
participated in the investigation of two mass slaughters in New
Zealand, before coming to Australia. The Bryant case provides
some guidelines on how to rip up this Tavistock capability, before
the next atrocity is unleashed. -

Shock troops of psychiatrists' - In 1944, Bank of England chief
Montagu Norman suddenly quit his banking post in order to start a
Tavistock spin-off called the National Association for Mental
Health. Norman had been at the apex of the international financial
oligarchy: One of his proteges, longtime Australian Reserve Bank
head H.C. "Nugget" Coombs, called him the "head of a secret
international freemasonry of central bankers."

As such, he had supervised the banking arrangements which put
Adolf Hitler in power, as {EIR} History Editor Anton Chaitkin has
documented. Norman tapped his Bank of England assistant, Sir
Otto Niemeyer, to be the NAMH's treasurer, and Niemeyer's niece
Mary Appleby, to be general secretary of the association. Niemeyer
is well known to Australians: He headed the infamous "Niemeyer
mission" to Depression-wracked Australia in 1930, to tell Australia
to savagely cut its health and welfare spending, in order to pay her
British creditors.

The British NAMH soon gave birth to the World Federation of
Mental Health, one of the first of the innumerable, anti-nation-state
"non-governmental organizations" spawned by Tavistock. Affiliated
with the United Nations, the WFMH was one-worldist from the
outset. To head up the new organization, Norman tapped Brig. Gen.
John Rawlings Rees, the head of Tavistock in the 1930s, and then
the chief of Britain's World War II Psychological Warfare
Directorate.

Rees had commanded 300, mostly Tavistock-trained Army
psychiatrists; since then, Tavistock has been almost
indistinguishable from the various wings of British Military
Intelligence (MI-6