Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder

Great read! Enjoying it so far, but the build of this book is very poor, upon my First chapter the pages began to fall out, and are continuing to fall out. I’d love a replacement but I also don’t want to stop reading.

From the very beginning to the end, there are things in here that you will never be able to unsee. What's crazy that the patterns McGowan points out is that you can see them to this day in insane murder or shooting cases. I only came across this book from a comment on a video and now I have learned so much.I was the author was around still to see what has happened in the world. I wonder what he would say.

I really enjoyed this book but in reading the e book version I hit a speed bump. It's not formatted correctly and any part of the page is visible. This keeps breaking up the writing and makes it Harding to keep my attention.

The corruption, brutality, and evil that McGowan describes in this book is literally unthinkable, surpassing by far the most gruesome and hideous depravity you are capable of even imagining. More revolting still is the unfathomable degree to which the most essential guardians of the public trust, the police, the courts, the legislators, etc., are *totally and actively complicit* in the most most unspeakably deplorable evils ever perpetrated either in reality or in the human imagination. The only possible explanation here is that these agents of public trust are *systematically* farmed from carefully cultivated and guarded pits of nefariousness. That is the *only* possible explanation for the corruption.McGowan methodically establishes his argument with a relentless account of strange coincidences, anomalies, curious omissions, and quiet disclosures that, when taken cumulatively, form undeniable patterns of criminal organization, corruption and covert military/intelligence activity permeating all of this. In the mist of this torret of documentation, he somehow manages to write with a verve and--amazingly--humor that, in light of the subject matter, can only be called heroic.McGowan really should do a better job in citing his sources clearly. With his prior book, *American Fascism and the Politics of Illusion*, this failure to cite his sources in a clear and timely manner impelled me to dock a star.With this book, I'll let it slide. McGowan does include a list of references at the end of the book, though he should back up at least his more extraordinary claims in the course of the text. Quite frankly, I have been able to independently corroborate every allegation in the book that I have looked into. Everything he says about Marc Dutroux is real. The fascinating story about G.W. Bush, as governor of Texas, commuting the death sentence of Henry Lee Lucas is real. The stuff about top NSA Operative Michael Aquino starting a Satanic cult and making a pilgrimage to a former Nazi palace in full Nazi regalia is true. And so on.This book convinced me that McGowan is essential reading for those who want to get to the real core of how modern power politics operates and what the real modes of government and social organization are around the world. McGowan is almost uniquely indispensable.

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It’s good but the Kindle version is messed up so the pages are out of order and it takes effort to find continuity.So odd how books and videos that criticize the deep state always seem to glitch

Programmed to Kill should be read by every truth seeker who can handle it.It's amazing to live in these times as the veils are lifted all around us. I used to think that anything "satanic" was just a joke, like some of the negative "reviewers" who probably did not read the book.I remember the media circuses around the Boston Strangler, Richard Speck, and others, and it's clear the media purposely see no deeper evil.You don't have to believe the devil is a living being to understand that satanism is the religion of the psychopathic power trippers, and satanic rituals reinforce the death of any shred of "conscience" and close this insider group together against the rest of the world.Dave did a lot of research that "mainstream media" would never touch. After all, influencing public opinion to make democracy safe for fascism is their job.People who have awoken since 9/11 can understand the "strategy of tension", as revealed about the Gladio program--keep the public scared, so the authorities gain absolute power.I get it now--Aleister Crowley was no joker. People who idolize him idolize any and all crimes including child kidnapping, torture, mutilation, and rape, even of small children.It's hard to read and hard to put down this book. It is very well documented, and reveals the most scary side of how evil criminals are used by government to demoralize the public.We can not hide from the fact that our government kidnaps and tortures people. These programs have roots in satanism, with "people" like Lt. Col Michael Aquino, founder of a satanist temple, their architects.This is a very important book. Read it!

a relentless and eyes wide open direct view of the true evil in the underworld sub-culture cult of parents who inflict, or have others inflict torturous systematic abuse of their children, and how these severely abused mostly young men, grow into programmed killers, who are enabled and used by the CIA or other nefarious intelligence governmental or private intelligence organizations, to kill who they're instructed to kill, and any others who "get in the way." some of these man-made monsters will never be caught, while others are made patsies to take the blame for the heinous slaughters of people done by other so-called "serial killers." a very informative, but disturbing look at the truth behind what has been labeled as "serial killings" done by so-called "serial killers", slaughters previously thought to be completely random, and senseless.we miss David McGowan, and his brilliant unflinching investigative journalistic writings. David having died in 2015 of lung cancer at 55 years old. his death is another very odd, and curious event, having been healthy all his life.a great book, worth the price, and you won't put it down until you're finished reading it.jeffy c edie.

It is amazing to discover that David McGowen had managed to piece together the diabolical workings of the under currents which ripple throughout our societies today, that go back to the ancient practices mostly unspoken about in everyday life. David McGowen a true modern day HERO who was brave enough to dare to put into text the information contained within this book. These subject matters are highly controversial yet apparent to those willing to think the unthinkable. David McGowen I love you and hope that God has mercy upon you brave soul.Everyone needs to read this book!

This is a very good book. It doesn't surprise me that serial killers are not what we have been lead to believe through hollywierd portrayal of them in movies. In fact it is a very cunning twist of perception on it's part. The dark dread creeping up inside you as you read through it is one of the things that keeps you hooked on it, and was all from real investigation into the events surrounding them which you do not hear in the newspapers. By now, if anyone believes that anything you are told in the popular media then God help you. Not to say that you should swallow whole even what is in this book, but a lot of it stands to critical thought, especially if one dares to consider the notion that we are not living in a very good place, controlled by not very nice 'people', that operate in the hidden, and very very effectively.It is clear, concise and does not come across as suggestive or opinionated, leaving the reader to ruminate over what is presented. It paints a much more horrifying reality than the one guy that kills people because his dog told him to do it, and the logistics of this scenario.It does let itself down in the end with anti-German lean, with the implication that the CIA got it's ideas from "nazi" Germany ( -not implying that what was said about Germany was true) with the post war extraction of scientists and prominent 'useful' people. This idea that there is no evil possible that does not in some way lead back to Germany (them being the only and ultimate evil in the universe) is a quite untrue, lowbrow and slightly disappointing coming from a book of this calibre, candour and depth. It does not take a stretch to see this institution as an evolution of itself, in the internal situation of controlling and exploiting the mass sleepers without some sort of historical buck passing from a very manufactured history.If you don't want your mind pulled into the cold uncomfortable, nigh on truth, about serial killers, then leave this alone and go and immerse yourself inside a popular novel that reinforces your escapism. This is a book that reminds you that the good guys never win, are stuck with cleaning up the mess fumbling for a paycheck in the name of indoctrinated ideals, break even at the best (providing the good guys are NOT placed there for the facade), and the bad guys not only win: but really run the whole show, the inexorable 'kings of the hill' can and do whatever they want, how they want and get away with it every time, all the time, unchallenged, untouched and totally unknown.This is a very uncomfortable read, even more so if the reader already has pre-constructed ideas about serial killers (such as myself), and pulls it into a very tangible and believable reality. Your lovely, friendly neighbours, may not be what they seem... Happy birthday, you are here in hell for life! Enjoy your barbecue and watch your children.

I found the beginning chapters of this book horrifying and depressing in equal measure. Mcgowans contention that pedophile activity on global basis is both organised and covered up at the highest levels is probably something most of us prefer not to dwell on too closely. Mcgowans claims are compelling and backed up with fairly extensive evidence (Depending on your point of view). The addition of satanist activity to the mix adds yet another terryfying element. The following chapters deal with serial killers and Mcgowans theory that many of them may be 'programmed' by brainwashing and other sinister means. The beginning of the book for me remains the most convincing but the rest of the book offers a fascinating alternative view of the phenomonal rise of the serial killer. Nowhere is that rise greater then in the USA.

McGOWAN HAS WRITTEN A TRULY FASCINATING AND DISTURBING BOOK; AND WHAT MAKES IT SO COMPELLING IS THAT IT HAS THE RING OF TRUTH ABOUT IT. THE THOUGHT THAT WORLD GOVERNMENTS ARE USING THE 'SERIAL KILLER' PHENOMENON TO THEIR OWN ADVANTAGE IS NOT SO OUTLANDISH AS IT MIGHT SEEM. McGOWAN CONNECTS ALL THE DOTS FOR THE READER, AND IT IS HARD TO FIND FAULT WITH HIS ANALYSIS AND HIS CONCLUSIONS. IF YOU ARE A SCEPTIC, I WOULD ADVISE THAT YOU READ THIS BOOK WITH AN OPEN MIND BEFORE JUDGING IT. NONE OF US WANT TO BELIEVE THAT OUR 'RULERS' ARE NOT MUCH BETTER THAN THE PSYCHOPATHS LISTED IN THIS BOOK, BUT BY BURYING OUR HEADS IN THE SAND, AND TRYING TO CONVINCE OURSELVES THAT GOVERNMENTS WOULD NEVER DO SUCH TERRIBLE THIMGS TO THEIR 'OWN PEOPLE' WE ARE SIMPLY FOOLING OURSELVES. IT IS HIGH TIME WE TOOK OFF OUR ROSE TINTED GLASSES AND FACED THE TRUTH; AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF POWER, THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE COVERING UP FOR SADISTIC AND EVIL CRIMINALS. I DEFY ANYONE TO READ THIS BOOK (ESPECIALLY THE MARC DUTROUX CASE IN bELGIUM) AND STILL CLAIM THAT McGOWAN IS SIMPLY A CRAZY CONSPIRACY THEORIST. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

If you are familiar with the subject matter you cannot fail to enjoy this book. One of the best True Crime books I have read.