911 Truther Shoots Movement in Foot - Commits Pseudocide

by SMiles Lewis

As if the 911 Truth Movement weren’t weird and ridiculed enough already - now it goes and shoots itself in the foot … again.

How often do people come across a severed human head lying in the middle of the road? Apparently as often as someone might happen to tune-in and hear a radio-show co-host commit suicide live on the air. Or is it simply a matter of weirdness acting as a strange attractor for ever more weirdness? Whatever the explanation, I witnessed both within forty-eight hours of each other.

On Tuesday, January 6th at about 2:35 pm (Central Standard Time) I was tuning in to the webradio stream of upstart Austin alternative media outlet, Freedom Underground Radio. This is the new radio station “rising from the ashes of We The People Radio Network.” WFU Radio has been founded by a co-founder of WTPRN. (Full disclosure: WFURadio has recently started carrying the PsiOp Radio show which I co-host with Mack White.)

I was tuning in to James Fetzer’s show, The Real Deal. Now, I’m not a huge fan of his research nor a regular listener to his show. He had on someone whose name I recognized as having been on the show before as a co-host who has been active within the 911-TV-Fakery branch of the conspiracy community, Ace Baker. Apparently they had switched roles for this particular show with Ace interviewing Jim instead of the other way around.

Within moments of tuning in I had the thought, “Is this guy (Ace Baker) about to commit suicide?” And moments later he did. He was speaking of regret, longing and despair regarding his daughter and deceased parents, about the disrespect and outright attacks that others in the movement had heaped upon him. “I’m coming home,” he said before I heard the sound of a gunshot. The moments leading up to and those that followed that bang were some of the most awkward live radio I’ve ever experienced.

Fetzer was understandably more or less speechless and to his credit seemed to keep his head. He managed to call Baker’s wife and leave a voicemail begging her to check on Ace saying he was worried about him. This is especially amazing for Fetzer as we were later to learn that his own Mother had killed herself when he was only 11 years old and he says had told Ace about this previously.

Of course immediately, the possibility of a hoax was apparent, at least doubly so because of the involvement of someone involved in the “fakery” branch of 911 conspiracy theories who is also a sound engineer. But even contemplating the hoax possibility I was still feeling shocked and shaky - calling my friend Mack and posting online and within Jack Blood’s Deadline Live website chatroom.

Meanwhile the stream for the station went down or was taken down by the internet service provider but came back up in time for a little more from Fetzer trying to manage a closing to the radioshow. Eventually Jack’s show started and Jim called in to talk about things as they developed. Fetzer apparently called the California Highway Patrol who took the possibility of suicide seriously and routed Jim’s call appropriately, eventually reporting back saying that Ace was still alive - the implication being that he was fine and had faked his death.

The next day Fetzer had Killtown call in to the show as a guest. Killtown is one of the people Ace Baker says has been harassing him - a fellow researcher / activist in the 911-Fakery community. Ace had lamented being persecuted by Killtown and other no-planers who have accused him of everything from being a Mossad disinfo agent to impersonating the other Ace Baker musician / sound engineer:

“See for example this, this, this, this, this and this.” - Ace Baker

Lo and behold the next day Ace posted the WHY of what he’d done to his blog laying out his gripes, research and assertions that it was all a performance art piece, with the full-extended video version to be released soon.

I’d come across Baker’s videos before, taking some time to watch his replication of the “Hutchison Effect” that proved to me what I’d suspected all along regarding the claims of gravity defying movements and levitations allegedly created by intense electromagnetic apparatus wielded by John Hutchison; that they are fake.

The very idea of a 911-TV-Fakery researcher faking their own suicide as a performance art piece is incredibly synchronistic for me given the last year and half’s experience of investigating the mysterious double suicide of conspiratorially minded artists Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake. In that case several folks at the Rigorous Intuition and Dreams End websites and forums were talking about the wild and weird world of Situationist performance art and related artistic movements, some of which seem to involve a lot of parapolitical intrigue that sometimes includes hoaxing, culture-jamming and even the faking of people’s murder or suicide, aka pseudocide. Other discussions centered on the idea of both real-world and online group-stalking and gaslighting of people driving them to perhaps commit suicide. In my interview last year with parapolitical activist, writer and researcher Len Bracken (author of the biography on Situationist movement leader Guy Debord - Revolutionary) I brought up the possible confluence of some of the wilder personalities within the 911 Truth Movement (folks who seem more like performance artists than activists and researchers) and the Situationist and Discordian communities.

Ace Baker does not purport to be a Situationist or Discordian but he is trying to justify his actions as a form of parapolitical artistic expression - a last resort that he feels forced into because of factions within the 911 Truth Community and the general public at large. Baker espouses an Anarcho-Capitalist political philosophy rooted in the Libertarianism of Murray Rothbard and so he was quite at odds with the Socialist Liberal leanings of host Jim Fetzer.

No-one deserves to be assaulted by the act of another taking their own life. Not me, not Fetzer, and certainly not the other listeners to this show. Fetzer particularly, having lived through the suicide of his own Mother when he was a child should not have been subjected to this emotional and political ruse. I didn’t know whether to take any of Ace’s research seriously before this incident and it certainly has done nothing to increase the likelihood of my listening to his arguments now. But witnessing the audio live on the air and struggling to ascertain the truth of the situation and the absurdity of experiencing “live” what I’d been contemplating for a year and a half (the “conspiracy researcher pseudocide” meme) have made this a difficult thing for me to simply drop and not speak about. As someone keenly interested in the Copycat Effect (where sensationalistic media coverage of murders / suicides triggers ever more murders and suicides) the staging of such a public death as created by Ace Baker leaves me angry and concerned yet also fascinated.

The reactions among the WFU Radio hosts and listeners has been what one would rationally expect, anger and resentment over the act itself (of suicide in general and faking it in particular), comedic relief and of course concern for the future of WFUR, the Truth Movement, Jim Fetzer, and in very few cases, concern for Mr. Baker’s well-being.

In the meantime, Fetzer appears to have been kicked-off or suspended from the Freedom Underground Radio Network for unclear reasons. Some are suggesting it might be because of his political philosophy being antithetical to the majority at WFU while others are speculating that it has more to do with him being a lightning rod for dissension and division within the movement - indeed that is the reputation that preceded him when I first learned of his migration from the JFK conspiracy community into the 911 research community. But to me it seems a rather dishonorable thing to kick someone off a budding new radio network on the heels of having experienced the trauma of someone faking their own death on your show. Not to mention the incongruity of someone being let go over their political beliefs on a network with the word FREEDOM in the title. Perhaps management are holding Fetzer responsible for the actions of his guest / co-host. I’m sure that we don’t know the whole story. I just hope that this incident won’t besmirch the image of the budding network that is Freedom Underground Radio.

It goes without saying that such tactics (pseudocide) and research directions (TV-Fakery) tend to be considered albatrosses around the necks of 911 Truthers and AntiWar activists who already fight an uphill battle against an unthinking, mind-controlled population. However, until antiwar activists can find common ground with the “Twoofers” and the Conspiracy Communities can come to grips with the various competing theory-factions (no matter how outlandish they seem) there will be no common front against the various Cover-Ups of ongoing Deep Political Corruption.

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Oh yeah! So what about the severed human head in the road? Well, after doubling back to prove to my loved-one that I had NOT in fact been hallucinating … we both saw the head laying in the middle of a busy street near our home, not a hundred yards from an Apostolic Christian Tabernacle church. Thankfully, it proved to be as real as Ace Baker’s on-air suicide.

A strange keep-sake for a strange week.