psychoceramics: IdEAL ORDER in reverse

[Andrew C Bulhak <acb @ cs.monash.edu.au>]

[News of the Weird [413] - 5Jan96]

Remember IdEAL ORDER Psychic TV (the group who claimed to 
telepathically cause news readers to blink by making lenses glow)?
Well, here's something similar, only in reverse.

    * Alex Troy Fersner of Johnson City, Tenn., filed a lawsuit in
    federal court in September charging that three news anchors (two
    male, one female) at WJHL-TV, Channel 11, have been flooding
    his mind with secret messages of "perverted lust and distracting
    TV illusions" that they "scream" and "breathe loud" at him.  He
    said the harrassment has caused the loss of facial hair as well as
    hair "in the back." [Kingsport Times-News, 9-18-95] 


And then there's this:

    * In October, a jury in Tucson, Ariz., found Robert Joseph
    Moody, 36, guilty  of the 1993 murders of two women despite
    his claim--made while acting as his own attorney--that space
    aliens made him commit the crimes.  Moody said, "I know it
    sounds crazy," but said that the aliens promised Moody they
    would raise him from the dead in the event he were executed. 
    Before the trial, the judge had scratched several UFO experts
    from Moody's witness list, as well as Barry Goldwater and
    presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford. [Tucson Citizen, 10-
    26-95; Arizona Republic-AP, 7-15-95] 

I wonder how often former US Presidents get called to appear as
witnesses at trials of or called by kooks (i.e., this case and 
Tyler-vs.-Carter)

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