Biography
According to several sources, Francis E. Dec produced and self-published a series of fliers containing paranoid rants, all of which contained a number of recurring themes and claims of a more or less bizarre or fantastic nature.
Recurring themes and phrases in Mr. Dec's rants are, to name only a few, an entity referred to by Dec as "the Communist Gangster Computer God", its "Frankenstein Earphone Radio" and "Eyesight Television", along with allegations of political chicanery on the part of Presidents and Vice Presidents throughout US history. For example Dec alleges that Lyndon Johnson lured John F. Kennedy to Dallas in order to have him killed and that Teddy Roosevelt did the same to William McKinley by luring him to New York. Other recurring themes include anti-communism, anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, and various other conspiracy theories, racial and otherwise. Mr. Dec also claims to have been regularly abducted and operated upon by the so-called "Worldwide Mad Deadly Gangster Computer God" as well as constantly monitored via various cranial implants.
Although categorizing recurring themes in Dec's rants is relatively easy, further explaining the bizarre worldview expressed through his writings is largely impossible without quoting an actual excerpt:
“ Gangster Computer God Worldwide Secret Containment Policy made possible solely by Worldwide Computer God Frankenstein Controls. Especially lifelong constant-threshold Brainwash Radio. Quiet and motionless, I can slightly hear it. Repeatedly this has saved my life on the streets. Four billion wordwide population — all living — have a Computer God Containment Policy Brain Bank Brain, a real brain, in the Brain Bank Cities on the far side of the moon we never see. Primarily based on your lifelong Frankenstein Radio Controls, especially your Eyesight TV sight-and-sound recorded by your brain, your moon-brain of the Computer God activates your Frankenstein threshold Brainwash Radio — lifelong inculcating conformist propaganda. Even frightening you and mixing you up and the usual "Don't worry about it" for your setbacks, mistakes — even when you receive deadly injuries! THIS is the Worldwide Computer God Secret Containment Policy! ”
The Recordings
In 1985, after receiving a stack of Dec's flyers, Boyd "Doc" Britton (also known as "Doc on the Roq"), a disc jockey for the Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM, recorded himself reading five of Dec's rants over various background music selected and mixed in quite at random. The tapes circulated underground, creating and building further interest in Francis E. Dec. The voice track from Boyd "Doc" Britton's recording was used by Psychic TV's track "Sir Francis E. Dec", though this recording uses different background music. Various samples of these recordings can also be found on Venetian Snares' track "Americanized". MP3's of his original recordings are archived at WFMU's weblog.
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