Chris Cornell's Bodyguard: 2020 Interview

Martin Kirsten was allegedly the last person to see Chris Cornell alive, and he is also the person who discovered the body. We were told he gave Cornell prescription drugs, which were blamed for his "suicidal behavior" in many news reports. Clearly, Kirsten should have been suspect number 1 in a possible homicide! But not even 24 hours had past before this incident was deemed "suicide" by the press and investigators. No autopsy had yet been performed, no forensics data had been processed or reviewed, and it doesn't seem like Kirsten was ever considered as a possible suspect at all! How do you rule a suspect out so quickly and so early in an investigation?

Regarding details, Vice and virtually all other mainstream media lied swiftly and thoroughly to the public, as I demonstrate in my blog "Chris Cornell: A Look at the Evidence" - using the official investigative report itself to back my claims. How ironic that the very man hired to protect Cornell's body seems to be part of the coverup in his murder!

At the time my written blogs were originally published, we didn't seem to have any interviews with Martin Kirsten, other than what is in the police investigative report itself - which is heavily paraphrased and only available to the public in text form. But I recently discovered a high production interview from 2020, conducted by Caleb Anderson of Spirit Farm podcast.

I've never heard of Caleb Anderson or his Spirit Farm podcast until discovering this 2020 interview. Martin Kirsten indicates that Anderson is a form of Pastor and conducted his wedding just a month or so before Cornell's death. I didn't spend much time looking him up because that's not the purpose here. My goal is to break down the script behind this episode, which was clearly manufactured in direct response to those hundreds of thousands of Chris Cornell fans convinced of Kirsten's involvement in his murder.

The title of this episode is "Travels and Trials of a Bodyguard." I assume the "travels" part of that is a reference to the fact Kirsten was not born in the United States, but lives here today. Or perhaps it's a reference to the fact his job takes him all over the world? I've read that Kirsten was also called an "Aussie" at one time - which is a nickname for someone from Australia. Australia comes up nowhere in this interview.

The use of the word "trials" here is interesting, considering many people believe this man to be a criminal who has never seen proper "trials." The title takes the word "trials" in reference to the subject, and turns it into a "positive." We're supposed to think Kirsten is this warrior that braved through adversity to become the "credible" man presented in this interview. But what makes him credible exactly? Dating his client [a no-no in the industry] Heidi Klum while she was still married to Seal? Evading scrutiny in the questionable death of his former client?

Caleb Anderson seems to have developed a rapport with his audience - as a friendly, family oriented, slightly feminine personality. Even if you know nothing about him, he's a smiling face without a history, if nothing else. So in that sense, his public reputation is cleaner than Kirsten's. It seems his job is to say good things about Kirsten and convince his audience what a stand-up guy he is. The entire exchange feels completely contrived in order to humanize the public perception of Kirsten, and convince us that "oh no, that nice man would NEVER participate in a murder!"

"First of all, you're like one of the most interesting humans in the world and one of my favorite people..." - Anderson

Anderson compliments Kirsten profusely, calling him one of "the most interesting humans in the world." If you type out that quote into Google, you will instantly see familiar images of actor Jonathan Goldsmith, "the most interesting man in the world," as endearingly depicted in Dos Equis commercials not so long ago - and endless "I don't always..." memes. This dialogue seems designed to "ring that same bell" and subtly addresses the fact that Kirsten is a "mysterious foreigner people don't know much about." It aims to turn that into a POSITIVE, without revealing a single thing about him - so he gets to remain "mysterious," but we're supposed to think that makes him INTERESTING, not "bad."

Martin Kirsten has the charisma of a lizard, so the topic of Cornell is probably the only one people really care to hear him talk about. Although they try very hard to downplay that by muddling it up with other topics nobody really cares about, it is clear that leaving it till the end was done under the assumption that it is the "big climax" viewers are waiting for. Placing it at the end encourages people to sit through all of the stuff before it, which is of course designed to COUNTER your pre-conceived ideas about Kirsten - so that by the time you arrive at the "nothingburger" served up, your mind will already be made up and you won't care about details. This was very well thought out in advance, I don't believe there is anything "organic" about this interview, but you can go watch it and judge for yourself.

Topics, as listed on the youtube link's notes:

- His passion for rhino conservation
- Coming to America and starting with nothing.
- Crossing the line with his former client, Heidi Klum.
- Losing his friend and client, Chris Cornell to suicide while he was on the job.

[Caleb Anderson's overly dramatic perfomance as he pretends to be "oh so concerned" about the poor rhinos in South Africa that "our hero, Kirsten" is fighting to preserve...]

The first 7 minutes of this interview is Martin Kirsten talking about his involvement in stopping poachers in Africa from killing endangered rhinos for their horns.

"We've worked with a couple of orphanages and in parks in South Africa that - having a security company has afforded me the advantage to buy equipment for the guys because they don't have much...The rangers. In the park." - Kirsten

Now pay attention very closely here, because this is extremely cunning! We know that Chris Cornell gave money to help out endangered and exploited children, and that he may even have been involved with a film exposing child trafficking ["the Silent Children," which never came out.]

["Eleonas refugee camp in Athens, Greece, where the Cornells and their daughter visited with families that had fled Syria and Afghanistan."]

It is believed that it was something to do with Cornell's effort to PROTECT CHILDREN that got him murdered. He stated very clearly, as quoted in previous blogs, that he used his "celebrity status" to help children in need. This interview is building a similar benevolent characteristic around Martin Kirsten. He states his security company has put him in touch with "orphanges" in South Africa. Why is he working with orphanages in South Africa and what has that got to do with protecting Rhinos there? He doesn't elaborate. Probably because the only reason he used that word "orphanages," was to project that same "protector of children" reputation Cornell was known for. See what they are doing here?

Without any further detail regarding his work with orphanages, Kirsten instantly segues into how he is helping equip local rangers with gear and resources to combat the poaching problem.

"When a rhino is killed and murdered for it's horn, that becomes a crime scene." - Kirsten

Kirsten starts going into detail about how Rangers are limited in their capacity to save rhinos that are poached in the night, and provides some gruesome detail as to how poachers obtain the horns, and even gets into forensics. He is now talking about MURDER, KILLING and a CRIME SCENE. Do you think it is a coincidence that Kirsten is talking about MURDER, KILLING, and a CRIME SCENE in the very same interview in which he brings up Cornell? Yet he abstracts the association by bringing it up in reference to endangered rhinos in another country, so that we subconsciously feel satisfied that Kirsten actually "went there," without really doing so in the manner people want him to!

Kirsten mentions an organization he is invloved with called Rhino Sheriffs, which appears to have a website. But there is not much information, or a way to donate there. Is this a real organization? Kirsten says they don't take donations because "there's so much shady things going on online and social media...clicking links...You donate through paypal or gofundme..." It seems strange that with all of the different ways to transfer money these days, that Kirsten would decline all the potential donations to his cause simply because he doesn't trust any of them or thinks people don't trust them enough to try. This explanation really doesn't make sense to me. Maybe "Rhino Sheriffs," which seems to be based in Long Beach, CA, is just a front organization for his image? Even if they are legitimate, charity elevates the image of the person donating. This would be particularly useful to someone with a reputation like Kirsten's!

Since Kirsten brought up "shady things" with regard to donating to charities, consider the fact that such organizations are sometimes associated with international money laundering operations, or other nefarious questionable activities - such as the Clinton's questionable work in Haiti. Kirsten's strange reference to "shady" online money transfer methods again references activities he may be involved with overseas, but turns it into a positive - by placing him on the side of "good guy trying to make a difference."

credible: able to be believed; convincing. - Oxford dictionary

"You KEEP that accent! It gives you so much credibility! I feel like people with accents just walk into a room and automatically have more credibility." - Anderson to Martin Kirsten

I'd love to see this assumption played out in a courtroom. "My client is innocent, can't you hear his thick foreign accent?"

Jean Claud Van Damm aka "The Muscles from Brussels" starred in many action films in the late 80s/early 90s - during the height of Arnold Schwartzeneggar's fame. Van Damm had a heavy accent in these films, and once told an interviewer that Schwartzeneggar advised him "keep the accent!"

"Keep the accent! Keep the accent, don't let it go..." - Anderson

First of all, South Africans are generally very easy to understand - at least to my American ears. Nothing on the scale of a thick Austrian, French, or Scottish accent. They are EXAGERRATING this point for a purpose. Again, Anderson's dialogue seems to tap into a pop culture cliche, this time regarding the "endearing foreign action hero whos poor acting and mispronounced English we love." Spirit Farm is basically suggesting that Martin Kirsten is like a "Schwartzeneggar" or a "Van Damm." Big and scary looking, perhaps even SUSPICIOUS or innapropriate in his behavior - but ultimately a loveable action hero born in another country. And all Kirsten had to do was sit there and take this "compliment" without revealing a thing about himself.

"I wanted to be like Arnold! He started in Venice beach!" - Kirsten, on his dream of moving to America many years ago

This is, again, part of a campaign to "endear" and "humanize" Kirsten in the eyes of the public - obviously in reaction to the KNOWN negative perception of him, which is never acknowledged by the media because that would then lead into questions regarding his potential involvement in Cornell's death.

"My dad committed suicide when I was 6...I was the oldest of 2 boys...we came, really blue collar suburb of Johannesburg. Mayfair..."

In the next part of the interview, Kirsten begins revealing information about his past that I have never heard before. While it is obviously tragic if his father truly did commit suicide when he was a child, I have no way of knowing whether he is telling the truth or not. But whatever the case, it seems an odd coincidence that Kirsten would decide to reveal such close, first hand experience with SUICIDE in the same interview he chooses to speak publicly about his former client. A former client that was said to have commited SUICIDE, which is NOT supported by the official investigative report. And while Cornell did have a father growing up, he said in interviews that he didn't really even know him. So in a sense, Kirsten's story echos Cornell's "fatherless" upbringing.

"Before becoming a successful musician, he [Cornell] worked as a busboy, as a dishwasher, as a fish monger at a seafood wholesaler and was a sous-chef at Ray's Boathouse in Seattle." - wiki

Kirsten goes on to speak about the difficulties his mother had raising him and his brothers in a blue collar suburb. Blue collar = working class. In other words, he is not from a privelaged background, he was an everyday working man. This echos Cornell's story, in which he famously worked as a cook and at a seafood store. Those of us who know Cornell's story are aware of his "working class" background and humble beginnings. Is Kirsten's story here simply fiction designed to ingratiate him to those very people that see him as the secret murderer of his former client?

He goes on talking about how he got into trouble as a youth, much like Cornell - who was very open about his profuse use of drugs at a very young age. At 17, Kirsten says he was forced into the military by his mother due to his "bad behavior." Some examples he provides are: getting a tattoo, getting an earring, playing the class clown - my, what disruptor he was! Then he goes on to state that all white males in South Africa were required to either attend college or enter the military. Are they exagerrating/fabricating this whole thing with his "bad behavior" just to depict him in a way they think Cornell fans can relate to?

"Looking back, I think kids that grow up without a dad...it's so vital. To have structure. Discipline. Learning teamwork. And that's what the military provided. The hard way."

It is tragic that Kirsten lost his father, if true. But again, this emphesis on how not having a father affects a child is parallel to Cornell's story of not really knowing his father. Coincidence?

Anderson moves on to the topic of Heidi Klum, who was first a client of Martin Kirtsen. She had previously been with singer Seal, and I believe was still married to him when she started dating Kirsten. Pretty much nothing is revealed here regarding this relationship, other than the fact that Kirsten states "rule #1" in the workplace is "don't date your clients." I suspect his relationshop with Heidi Klum was simply a publicity stunt of some sort, but who knows?

"With a religion like that [Catholocism], it's not designed for anyone to question. Being young people who have a natural curiosity and half a brain, you're going to start finding inconsistencies, which there are tons of in organized religion" - Chris Cornell

"I was raised Catholic in Sourth Africa...and, it didn't help when all those priests were exposed and all the news came out with all the dozens of them or hundreds of them with little boys and I said to my mother, "see? that's why I'm out." - Kirsten

Although Chris Cornell's mother Karen is supposedly Jewish, he referred to his father as "Roman Catholic," and associated his father's identity as a Roman Catholic with his alcoholic/non-present form of parenting. Kirsten also claims to come from a Catholic background, and adds that part of what turned him off to the religion, was the pedophile priests. As stated earlier, Cornell's interest in protecting children is what many believe made him a target of those not wanting to be exposed. Now here we have the man many believe was involved with Cornell's murder, speaking about pedophilia - albeit within a vague and passive context.

"I found transcendental meditation. And it helped me alot. I'd done a Tony Robbins seminar and I'd done a couple self-help workshops."

Kirsten goes a little bit into his "spiritual practices" and gets into a bit of self-help/New Age territory, which seems to be a theme behind this "Spirit Farm" podcast. But interestingly, Chris Cornell's mother wrote books about this sort of thing, such as "Transformation and Transcendence." Is someone just taking aspects of Cornell's life and simply writing them into Martin Kirsten's story? Convenient that we really know nothing about his past. He can just make it up right here and we'd not be the wiser!

I think some of what Kirsten says here may very well be true. But to have so many similarities to Cornell's life says to me there is a scriptwriter at work here, who's job is to associate as many "Cornellisms" as possible with Kirsten's character, in order to endear him to the very people who see him as a monster. And if he isn't a "monster," why all this effort to counter such views in one of the few segments this man decides to speak publicly on?

[Chris Cornell appeared in the 90s film "Singles," which attempts to capture the Seattle "Grunge" phenomenon at its peak. One of the main characters is a "coffee bar waitress," which riffs off of Seattle coffee shop culture. Seattle is incidentally the birth-place of Starbucks.]

"We met for coffee and that was our first date. We lasted 9 hours...We were at a coffee shop and they eventually closed..."

Kirsten describes his magical first date with what I believe is his current wife. He claims they spent 9 hours at a coffee shop, which makes me think of the film "Singles" and the grunge/Seattle coffee shop culture. Again, is this real or is someone just making this shit up for Kirsten to incorporate into "his story?" To ingratiate him to old "grungers?"

"I can't get into too many specifics, but it was a client that committed suicide on tour...My best friend in High school commited suicide, my father committed suicide, and now him..."

Kirsten does not get into ANY specifics, actually. In fact, the entire "Chris Cornell" segment of this interview is really just a "feel sorry for Martin Kirsten" session. I mean, maybe his father and best friend in high school really did both commit suicide. And that is very sad. But it's got nothing to do with the fact that the official investigative report doesn't just contradict itself and the mainstream narrative, it actually leans stronger towards MURDER and FOUL PLAY! So if Martin Kirsten is really the big fan of Law Enforcement he claims to be in this interview, why does he seem so very oblivious to what is in the official investigative report, and the media's ubiquitous lies surrounding it all?

"But one of the things that I love about you Martin, is that...you let yourself hurt to the core. You...you care deeply. And you love people well...I wouldn't think that's normal for people at your level of protectors."

"Pastor" Caleb Anderson is talking to you, the fans of Cornell who know full well Martin Kirsten was somehow involved in Cornell's death. He is telling you, IMPLORING you to believe that Kirsten is not a monster. No, he cares deeply. He loves people well. And that's not normal for people of his stature! Ever get the feeling someone takes you for an idiot?

"I've got a good friend at the FBI that's been insanely generous inviting me to trainings and speakings there where they share statistics of active shooter events and how the world is changing. It's not the world we grew up in."

According to Kirsten, he is friends with an FBI agent, and actually participates in their training drills. This suggests something I would not have brought up otherwise: Is Kirsten an undercover Fed, or a contractor for them? It would certainly make sense in this age of a weaponized U.S. Department of Justice, who conduct unconstitutional raids upon their political opponents as if they have the authority! It's frightening to consider, but the F.B.I. would have the ability to murder someone like Cornell and totally control all of the law enforcement and media surrounding the event.

Kirsten begins talking about "active shooter events." This is interesting considering the horrible Mandalay Bay Concert shooting occured the same year Cornell died. Mandalay Bay also happens to be owned by MGM. MGM Grand Detroit was the Hotel Cornell died in.

I don't claim to know much more than I did a few years ago about Cornell's death, but it becomes more and more obvious that it was an operartion that could only have been organised at a high level of power and influence. I believe this interview is one of many influence campaigns, designed to direct attention away from something. They can deprive the public of the truth all they want. They can feed us lies all they want. But when we begin to recognize patterns in their mind control techniques, their magical spell of influence rapidly dissipates. And for most of us, this may be the only path to justice, accountability, and prevention.

I would encourage everyone reading this to take a moment and say a prayer for justice and truth in the Chris Cornell Death. Even if just one of these types of events is exposed for what it is on a mass scale, the domino effect will likely lead to many more exposures and shine a light on the darkest pockets of our society. The more we shine the light of truth, the less places they will have to hide and accomplish their evil deeds.

Click here for my blog on the death of Chris Cornell.

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