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Q: WHO WAS FRANCIS E. DEC, ESQ.?
A: He was a lawyer,
hailing from the state of NY. Or rather, he used to be one.
That was before he
was convicted and disbarred for his involvement in
two
counts of second degree forgery and second
degree grand
larceny,
as well as fraud in performing his duties as a
notary public. Details remained
rather
sketchy
until 2006 and 2007,
but now more
information has been located which can be found
here,
here,
here and
here thanks to
Ted Torbich and Mr. Forrest Jackson,
both huge fans of Francis
E. Dec, Esq.!
After he was excluded from the NY State Bar and his license to
practice law was revoked, Mr.
Dec embarked on the career for which
he is most widely known today, namely that of an
insane,
criminal
menace to this worse Gangster Government. Or, you know, just “insane
kook” if
you like
that term better. Either way he would come to
spend the next 20 years or so isolated alone
in his
house in
Hempstead NY, furiously typing and sending out mad letters of
warning to thousands
of
random households, media outlets and small
businesses all over the United States. From what
I’ve been able to
gather from his writings, it may have been a combination of being
convicted and
disbarred as a lawyer along with the intense isolation
in what he refers to as his “low, deadly
niggertown old house” that
finally drove Mr. Dec over the edge - although I suspect more than a
fair
helping of
paranoid
schizophrenia may have been a contributing
factor to his madness, as well.
Whatever the case, the results were to become as interesting as they
are hilarious.
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Q: SO YOU THINK
DEC AND HIS DELUSIONS ARE FUNNY?
A: Oh hell yes,
I fucking love this guy. As stated above, Dec and his insane
diatribes must truly
be
one of the greatest comedic gems of the 20th
century. I think the main reason why the rants
become so funny is that their humor is entirely
unintentional. Dec
really thought he was warning the
world of a deadly, vicious
conspiracy by
sending out his mad letters when, in fact, the only
thing he
actually succeeded in doing was making
people like me laugh
our asses off at the sheer lunacy
of
the things he believed were
true. I’m dead
serious here, folks; there’s not a single thing
you could
possibly change about his insane beliefs
that would
make them any funnier. If Francis E. Dec
was
a cartoon character on
TV, he’d have a
cuckoo on a spring that’d jump out of a little door
on
his forehead every time he’d say something.
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Q: SO WHAT ARE
DEC’S DELUSIONS ALL ABOUT, REALLY?
A: I won’t tell
you. It’d spoil the humor of listening to him for the first time.
Plus, I could go on and
on all day about what Dec’s delusions are
about but the only way of gaining any real understanding
(term used lightly in context) is to actually experience them for
yourself. Like the Matrix. Yes,
almost exactly like the Matrix, come
to think of it.
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Q:
DO YOU BELIEVE IN ANY OF THE STUFF DEC RANTS ABOUT?
A: No, I do
not. About the only conspiracy theory in any of Dec's writings into
which I put any
stock is his allegation, contained in his two
appeal briefs, that
he might have been singled out for
purposeful discrimination and persecution by members of the Nassau
Country judiciary. Other than
that, I consider all of Dec's claims to either be
schizophrenic
distortions of historical facts or
pure
fantasy invented by
a deranged mind. Some of the real-world experiences described by
him - such
as his flight to Poland,
for example
- probably did take place in reality, but even these
claims of
Dec's are
so mixed up with delusion and paranoia that it is hard to figure out
precisely to what
extent they're
true or what actually took place.
I am aware, however, that some mentally ill or delusional
people out there actually believe not
only in Dec being a supposed victim of "mind control" at the hands
of an evil computer, but in even
more far-fetched stuff that he rants
about as well. Some of these
people have actually contacted
me in the past; angrily frothing
about how Dec was right and how
I'm a deluded socialist nigger
kike sheeple for not realizing it.
Since I am not mentally ill myself,
however, I do not share their
beliefs in any way. Additionally, before you
ask, I'm not a believer in "normal"
conspiracy theories
(NWO, Illuminati, Mothman, faked moon landings,
etc.) either.
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Q: OK, SO WHAT
EXACTLY IS IT THAT YOU FIND SO INTERESTING ABOUT
DEC'S RANTS, THEN?
A: Lots of things. For starters: their humor. The entirety of Francis E.
Dec's worldview is just so
twisted, insane
and demented that it
becomes unintentionally hilarious. It becomes 100% obvious
while
listening to
Dec that he really believed everything he wrote about to be true. He
didn't see
anything at all strange
in people having
backup-brains in huge cities on the lunar surface or former
US
presidents
organizing "sodomy swimming parties" in the back of the
White House. Dec's
delusions are simply
so
unspeakably bizarre that
they remind you more of some kind of elaborate
parody of
Schizophrenia
than anything else. But there is no parody here,
folks, it's all for real. In
Dec's world,
both this planet
and the
entire Universe is a twisted, hostile place and everyone and
everything is in
on the giant
conspiracy against him. It's amazing!
Also: everyone is obsessed with
anal sex.
I don't just find Dec's rants interesting because of their
unintentional comedy, however. Dec
also had what you might call "a way with words". So
much, in fact, that it becomes
a true joy to
read his rants because of their rambling style of
writing and the (likely) unintentional poetry which
they contain.
For example, Mr. Dec's texts are completely riddled with
different forms of sentence
constructions and alliterations
(like "hopeless
helpless homeless derelicts") which actually gives
them a
genuine poetic touch. They
are also rife with prime examples of what
clinical psychiatrists
refer to as "word
salad", notably in
such gems as the phrases
"Computer God computerized
brain-
thinking sealed
robot
operating arm
surgery cabinet
machine removal" or "Deadly Gangster ghetto-
communist
Gangster Computer God-manipulated Gangster Court". You have to
read and listen to
the rants themselves to understand
what I'm
talking about here. The bottom line is that Dec's style
of writing serves to both
enhance the already hilarious nature of his
delusions, as well as transform
his literary production into a true and shining example of
outsider art.
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Q: WHAT THE HELL
WAS WRONG WITH DEC, SERIOUSLY?
A: That’s a very,
very good question, but I think I have gathered enough information
to actually
answer it with a good deal of accuracy. As far as I’ve been able to analyze
it, Mr. Dec
probably
suffered from severe acute
schizophrenia complete with both
hallucinations and paranoid delusions.
My judgment is based on the
many, many symptoms described by Mr. Dec in his rants, many of
which
fit the symptoms of schizophrenia to a tee. For example, Mr. Dec
repeatedly describes
seeing and hearing things which are not there,
such as “radio noises“ inside his head when sitting
very still or the wife of
felon-gangster Parroting Puppet rectum-lapper sodomist Judge William
Sullivan offering up her anus
for sucking at Dec’s
trial. I think it is pretty safe to say that
neither of
these things ever happened outside of Mr. Dec’s
own mind. Of
course, this complete inability to
separate one’s “inner” world from
the outer, real world
is also a symptom of severe Schizophrenia.
Naturally, there are many different sub-forms of schizophrenia, all
of which exhibit many different
symptoms. It would be my educated guess that Mr. Dec suffered from
the kind referred to by
Victor
Tausk as "Schizofreniform
Influencing Machine Delusion". In this particular sub-type of
schizo-
phrenia, the sufferer becomes convinced he or she is controlled and
constantly monitored by an
omnipotent, manipulating machine of some sort or other. One sufferer
was 18th Century paranoiac
James Tilly Matthews, who at length
explained his mad delusions of being "tortured-at-a-distance"
by an influencing machine he referred to as an "Air Loom" which, in
turn, was operated by a team
of spies skilled in "pneumatic chemistry" who influenced and monitored his thoughts using
"animal magnetism and
Mesmerism". Comparing Matthews delusions to those of Dec's, it is
not at all
difficult to see certain
similarities between the "Air Loom" and the "Worldwide Mad Deadly
Gangster Computer God"...
It would also be my educated guess that Mr. Dec was
actually driven to
type up his rants
and
flyers in the first place out of a strong
paranoia and fear of being killed (or as he puts it,
“exterminated”)
by the "Gangster Government". As he raises fears over meeting this
fate in pretty
much every single
letter, it would seem a logical
assumption that he would try to spread the word
about the giant
conspiracy threatening his life to as many people as possible. This
would likely
serve two purposes:
one being to alert others about it and
another to discourage the "Lurking
Government Assassins" from
murdering him since they’d know he would be missed by at least
some of the recipients of his
letters. This theory is also supported by
Dec himself in one of his
rants, where he explicitly
states: “Now
after all these years, after I've mailed worldwide thousands
of my
letters exposing the
Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God, I
can once again walk
the streets solely as I did
before 1969.”
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Q: WHEN WAS
FRANCIS E. DEC BORN?
A: Having
extensively pored over the databases
of the
NARA, more specifically their
World War II
Army Enlistment Records, both
Francis
E. Dec's date and place of birth are now at long last known.
He was born 1926 in the
state of New York.
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Q: WHAT DID
FRANCIS E. DEC LOOK LIKE? IS THE CARTOON VERSION OF HIM ON THIS
PAGE SIMILAR TO HIS ACTUAL APPEARANCE?
A: No, it is not. When I originally created the
cartoon
version of Dec I - like most other people - was
largely unaware of
what Dec actually looked like and just extrapolated wildly based
on the general
impression of his personality that I got from his rants. The
resulting caricature was a choleric and
almost-insane looking unshaven maniac with a shock of crazy, unruly
white hair and a solid jaw to
indicate moral righteousness in the face of a million corrupt
gangsters. However; the real Dec in his
heyday probably did not look very, if even at all, similar to my
cartoon caricature of him. I think my
caricature of him is more in keeping with what his actual
personality must've been like, though.
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Q: WHERE DID
FRANCIS E. DEC LIVE?
A: He appears to
for his entire life have been a citizen of Long Island, NY. More
specifically of
Hempstead. His exact address was 29 Maple Ave. It is still currently
unknown if he were born on
Long Island or
if this took place elsewhere in the state of New York.
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Q: WHEN DID FRANCIS E. DEC DIE?
A: In October 2006, brand new
never-before-known information about Mr. Dec's exact time of
death
was located, thanks to Decologist Ted Torbich. It was
early in 1996 when Dec left this
Gangster-
controlled-and-manipulated
worse ghetto-Communist mortail coil, something which took
place at
the St. Albans VA Extended Care
Facility in Queens, NY. For (much) more info
on Dec's
life (and
death), see the Official
Timeline!
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Q: DID DEC HAVE
ANY FAMILY?
A: Yes he did. His
rants identify the existence of a single brother named Joseph I.
Dec, whom Dec
refers to as a “deadly felon-murderer and secret
assassin-spy agent against me for this Gangster
Government”. They
seem to have lived together in the same house on 29 Maple Ave,
Hempstead,
NY up to 1966 when Joseph moved out. According to
Francis, Joseph beat him repeatedly and had
anal sex with loose
women while Dec hid in the garage. Given the nature of Dec’s mental
health,
these statements had better be taken with a grain of salt.
Or an entire truckload. Francis E. Dec
also had a mother named Rose M. Dec and a father named John F. Dec,
both of which immigrated
to the US from Poland and spoke fluent Polish. As was revealed in
late 2008 they also apparently
taught Francis to speak Polish, although it is unknown what level of
proficiency he achieved.
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Q: IS THAT DEC’S
VOICE I HEAR IN THE AUDIO RECORDINGS?
A: No, it is not.
Some of the rants, originally recorded way back in the 1980s, are read and recorded
by one Boyd Britton, better known as
“Doc
on the
ROQ”. See the “About” -section for more info on
him.
The voicework for the other rants on the web site were done much
more recently by other fans
of Dec, including
yours truly.
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Q: DID DEC
OFFICIALLY TITLE EACH OF HIS RANTS?
A: Not generally,
no. Most of Dec's rants contain one giant, massive stream of
rambling, paranoia-
laden insanity that isn't even broken up into sections. Words
literally cover
every single square inch
of Dec's rants.
When a "title" appears to be present, it is generally so much a part
of this stream-of-
consciousness that it is virtually indistinguishable from it. For
this reason, I have in the interests of
naming gone with
the ancient Sumerian practice of naming an
epic after the first line
contained
therein, as per the Sha Nagba Imuru. Of course, some exceptions
to this rule exists. Other rants
have been named more after their general theme than anything else. The rant “LONG Island
Lunacy”, for instance, was
expressively given this title in question by Doc Britton. Another
example
is "The
Top-Secret Dual Food
Standard", which was given its name by Decologist
Ted
Torbich.
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Q: YOU’RE
PROFITING FROM POOR MR. DEC’S INSANITY AND SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF
YOURSELF, YOU BAD MAN, YOU!
A: This entire page
is 100% non-profit and will so always remain. I
built this page solely to pay
homage to and to celebrate Mr.
Dec, as well
as spread his humor to
brand
new generations world-
wide
(as a Frankenstein slave). Fanclub memberships are 100% free, I don't
demand money for
viewing anything contained on the page and hence do not profit in any way what so
ever from any
of the material contained on it. Rather, I hope to be giving Mr. Dec
the official comedic recognition
he sadly never
received
in life.
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Q: FRANCIS E. DEC
WAS OBVIOUSLY AN INSANE RACIST AND YOU MUST BE TOO
BECAUSE YOU
PUBLISHED HIS RANTS. I HOPE YOU DIE IN A FIRE, YOU LOUSY COCK-
SUCKER!
I WILL RUN YOU OVER WITH MY SAILBOAT! RRRAARRRGGHHH!!!
A: Did you even
read the fucking disclaimer, moron? Otherwise, I suggest you
do
so now. It’s not
there just for clicking through, you know. Yes, it
is true that Dec was an insane racist anti-semite,
but his hatred
did not limit itself to any specific groups of people; he
hated everyone with equal
passion. Dec seriously believed
everybody was in on the massive conspiracy against him,
including
black people and Jews. And the Catholics. And the
Communists. And the police and judges. And
Ronald Reagan. And Jimmy
Carter. And so on and so forth. This is part of what is so funny;
the
unintentional humor inherent in his massive paranoia.
Furthermore, publishing an insane madman’s crazy rants and
thinking they’re funny does not
make me share his opinions,
you dumbass. I’m not celebrating Dec’s racism here, but instead his
unintentional humor. If you can’t see that humor you are obviously
looking at the wrong website. Go
someplace else instead; I’m not
forcing you to read this.
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Q: ARE THERE ANY
OTHER WEBSITES WHICH CHRONICLE THE LIFE AND TIMES OF
MR. DEC?
A: You bet. Not many, granted, but a few. I myself first
heard about Francis E. Dec from the site
The Kooks Museum, which is a great site, run by author Donna
Kossy, that has been online for
more
than 10 years. It has a
section on Dec along with lots of other wackos. Some of my
initial
information
on Francis was
borrowed from this site, although nowadays most of it has been
either
extrapolated from the rants themselves or dug up by
other fans of
Dec from various government
archives and the like. Additionally, be sure to check out Mr. Forrest Jackson's account of
actually
meeting Francis E.
Dec, Esq. In the flesh! On his DEATHBED! Definitely a worthwhile
read! If
you
like both kooks and Donna's site about them, you should definitely
check out her book, too!
Audio versions of several of Dec's rants are also available via
UbuWeb,
the web's leading non-
commercial resource for avant-garde recordings and material. Be sure
to check out additional
recordings by other outsider artists while you're there! The good
folks over at the radio station
WFMU
are also
quite partial to the rantings of Francis E. Dec!
The delusions of Francis E. Dec was, in 1999, also dramatized in the
form of a stage play by
theatre company
Radiohole.
You can check out their page for the play
here,
including a link for
downloading the script. Additionally, here's a
review by the web site CurtainUp!
For more info on Dec, please check out
his
legal correspondence, dug up and recovered by
Mr. Ted Torbich, a huge fan of Dec. The response to Dec's appeal
brief is also currently hosted on
Mr. Jacksons website!
Another great place in which to start learning more about the man is
to
check out the Fanclub's
official timeline over the events in his life!
Last - but definitely not least! - Fanclub member Mike
Toole (aka. Exilechump) has created a
wonderful animated short film based on the concepts contained in
Dec's rants, so be sure to check
it out! Other works by Mike can also be viewed via
his Youtube channel.
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Q: HOLY SHIT, I HAVE MORE INFO ON DEC WHICH ISN'T YET ON THIS SITE
OR HITHERTO
UNPUBLISHED RANTS BY HIM!
A: This Fanclub reached its present state of greatness solely
because of all the kind-hearted people
who's donated new material to it. If you therefore should happen to have ANY
new info on the man,
the myth, the
legend Francis E. Dec, Esq., please get in touch
with me
immediately! Information on
Dec can lead to big things, such
as swift and immediate
promotion if'n you're a
member of the Dec
Fanclub! See this page for details on how you can contribute to
the fanclub. Also: The same thing
goes for unpublished rants, which we are obviously also extremely
interested in!
ANY info on Dec is welcome,
so
please feel free to get in touch with me today! Alternatively,
you
could also check out the forum
if you'd like to chat with fellow
Dec-fans!
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Q: HEY, YOU MISSED A QUESTION, DUMMY!
A: If you think I
missed something in this FAQ, please get in touch with me and let me
know!
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