During the reign of Barack Obama, mass shootings prompted a White House
declaration that community mental health centers would be created across
America, in order to spot and treat persons before they committed
violent acts. Now, under Trump, we are seeing
a similar reaction, with a twist.
The Daily Caller, Aug 22, 2019: "Trump Admin Is Considering Using Amazon Echo And Apple Watch To Determine If Citizens Should Own A Gun".
"The Trump administration is considering a proposal that would use
Google, Amazon and Apple to collect data on users who exhibit
characteristics of mental illness that could lead to violent behavior,
The Washington Post reported Thursday."
"The proposal is part of an initiative to create a Health Advanced
Research Projects Agency (HARPA), which would be located inside the
Health and Human Services Department, the report notes, citing sources
inside the administration. The new agency would have
a separate budget and the president would be responsible for appointing
its director."
"HARPA would develop 'breakthrough technologies with high specificity
and sensitivity for early diagnosis of neuropsychiatric violence,'
according to a copy of the proposal. 'A multi-modality solution, along
with real-time data analytics, is needed to achieve
such an accurate diagnosis'."
"The document lists several technologies that could be employed to help
collect information, including Apple Watches, Amazon Echo and Google
Home. Geoffrey Ling, the lead scientific adviser on HARPA, told
reporters Thursday the plan would require enormous amounts
of data and 'scientific rigor.'"
Translation: Use all available resources to spy on Americans; and by deploying psychiatric definitions of mental disorders, somehow intercede before potentially violent individuals can legally obtain a weapon. Whether or not you favor gun control,
creating this new federal agency would be on the order of injecting poisons in people to prevent poisoning.
Why? Because some of the most popular psychiatric
drugs, given for "mental disorders," cause people to go over the edge
and commit violent acts, including murder. Once diagnosed, an
uninformed person is at the mercy of psychiatrists who
refuse to admit what their drugs are creating.
NOTE: Withdrawing from the drugs without expert supervision can result
in effects which are even worse than those resulting from taking the
drugs.
~~~
Here is an excerpt from my 1999 white paper, "Why Do They Do It? School shootings Across America.":
The massacre at Columbine High School took place on April 20, 1999.
Astonishingly, for eight days after the tragedy, during thousands of
hours of prime-time television coverage, virtually no one mentioned the
word "drugs." Then the issue was opened. Eric Harris,
one of the shooters at Columbine, was on at least one drug.
The NY Times of April 29, 1999, and other papers reported that Harris
was rejected from enlisting in the Marines for medical reasons. A friend
of the family told the Times that Harris was being treated by a
psychiatrist. And then several sources told the Washington
Post that the drug prescribed as treatment was Luvox, manufactured by
Solvay.
In two more days, the "drug-issue" was gone.
Luvox is of the same class as Prozac and Zoloft and Paxil. They are
labeled SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors). They attempt to
alleviate depression by changing brain-levels of the natural substance
serotonin. Luvox has a slightly different chemical
configuration from Prozac, Paxil, and Zoloft, and it was approved by
the FDA for obsessive-compulsive disorder, although many doctors
apparently prescribe it for depression.
Prozac is the wildly popular Eli Lilly antidepressant which has been
linked to suicidal and homicidal actions. It is now given to young
children. Again, its chemical composition is very close to Luvox, the
drug that Harris took.
Dr. Peter Breggin, the eminent psychiatrist and author (<em>Toxic
Psychiatry, Talking Back to Prozac, Talking Back to Ritalin</em>),
told me, "With Luvox there is some evidence of a four-percent rate for
mania in adolescents. Mania, for certain individuals,
could be a component in grandiose plans to destroy large numbers of
other people. Mania can go over the hill to psychosis."
Dr. Joseph Tarantolo is a psychiatrist in private practice in Washington
DC. He is the president of the Washington chapter of the American
Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians. Tarantolo states that "all the
SSRIs [including Prozac and Luvox] relieve the patient
of feeling. He becomes less empathic, as in `I don't care as much,'
which means `It's easier for me to harm you.' If a doctor treats someone
who needs a great deal of strength just to think straight, and gives
him one of these drugs, that could push him over
the edge into violent behavior."
In Arianna Huffington's syndicated newspaper column of July 9, 1998, Dr.
Breggin states, "I have no doubt that Prozac can cause or contribute to
violence and suicide. I've seen many cases. In a recent clinical trial,
6 percent of the children became psychotic
on Prozac. And manic psychosis can lead to violence."
A study from the September 1989 Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, by
Joseph Lipiniski, Jr., indicates that in five examined cases people on
Prozac developed what is called akathesia. Symptoms include intense
anxiety, inability to sleep, the "jerking of extremities,"
and "bicycling in bed or just turning around and around." Dr. Breggin
comments that akathesia "may also contribute to the drug's tendency to
cause self-destructive or violent tendencies ... Akathesia can become
the equivalent of biochemical torture and could
possibly tip someone over the edge into self-destructive or violent
behavior ... The June 1990 Health Newsletter, produced by the Public
Citizen Research Group, reports, 'Akathesia, or symptoms of
restlessness, constant pacing, and purposeless movements of
the feet and legs, may occur in 10-25 percent of patients on Prozac.'"
In his book, Toxic Psychiatry, Dr. Breggin discusses the
subject of drug combinations: "Combining antidepressants [e.g., Prozac,
Luvox, Paxil] and psychostimulants [e.g., Ritalin] increases the risk of
cardiovascular catastrophe, seizures, sedation,
euphoria, and psychosis. Withdrawal from the combination can cause a
severe reaction that includes confusion, emotional instability,
agitation, and aggression." Children are frequently medicated with this
combination, and when we highlight such effects as
aggression, psychosis, and emotional instability, it is obvious that
the result is pointing toward the very real possibility of violence.
In 1986, The International Journal of the Addictions published a most
important literature review by Richard Scarnati. It was titled, "An
Outline of Hazardous Side Effects of Ritalin (Methylphenidate)"
[v.21(7), pp. 837-841].
Scarnati listed over a hundred adverse affects of Ritalin and indexed published journal articles for each of these symptoms.
For every one of the following (selected and quoted verbatim) Ritalin
effects then, there is at least one confirming source in the medical
literature:
* Paranoid delusions
* Paranoid psychosis
* Hypomanic and manic symptoms, amphetamine-like psychosis
* Activation of psychotic symptoms
* Toxic psychosis
* Visual hallucinations
* Auditory hallucinations
* Can surpass LSD in producing bizarre experiences
* Effects pathological thought processes
* Extreme withdrawal
* Terrified affect
* Started screaming
* Aggressiveness
* Insomnia
* Since Ritalin is considered an amphetamine-type drug, expect amphatamine-like effects
* psychic dependence
* High-abuse potential DEA Schedule II Drug
* Decreased REM sleep
* When used with antidepressants one may see dangerous reactions including hypertension, seizures and hypothermia
* Convulsions
* Brain damage may be seen with amphetamine abuse.
Other ADHD medications, which also have a chemical profile similar to
amphetamines, would be expected to produce some of the same effects
listed above.
The ICSPP (International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and
Psychology) News publishes the following warning in bold letters: "Do
Not Try to Abruptly Stop Taking Psychiatric Drugs. When trying to
withdraw from many psychiatric drugs, patients can develop
serious and even life-threatening emotional and physical
reactions...Therefore, withdrawal from psychiatric drugs should be done
under clinical supervision..."
---end of excerpts from my 1999 white paper on school shootings and psychiatric drugs---
~~~
There is a problem. It is chilling. Pharmaceutical companies, which
manufacture drug after drug for "mental disorders," are doing everything
they can to cover up the drugs' connection to violence.
They use their lawyers and PR people---and their influence over the press---to scrub the connection.
And now, one typical, disturbing, official reaction to every new mass
shooting is: build more community mental health facilities. Obama was
prominent in this regard, after Sandy Hook in 2012. The implication?
More drug prescriptions for more people; thus,
more violent consequences.
I'll close with another excerpt from my 1999 report. It is the tragic account of Julie Marie Meade:
Dr. Joseph Tarantolo has written about Julie Marie Meade. In a column
for the ICSPP (International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and
Psychology) News, "Children and Prozac: First Do No Harm," Tarantolo
describes how Julie Meade, in November of 1996, called
911, "begging the cops to come and shoot her. And if they didn't do it
quickly, she would do it to herself. There was also the threat that she
would shoot them as well."
The police came within a few minutes, "5 of them to be exact, pumping at
least 10 bullets into her head and torso," as she waved a gun around.
Tarantolo remarks that a friend of Julie said Julie "had plans to make
the honor roll and go to college. He [the friend] had also observed her
taking all those pills." What pills? Tarantolo called the Baltimore
medical examiner, and spoke with Dr. Martin Bullock,
who was on a fellowship at that office. Bullock said, "She had been
taking Prozac for four years."
Tarantolo asked Bullock, "Did you know that Prozac has been implicated
in impulsive de novo violence and suicidalness?" Bullock said he was not
aware of this.
Tarantolo is careful to point out, "Violent and suicidal behavior have
been observed both early (a few weeks) and late (many months) in
treatment with Prozac."
The November 23rd, 1996, Washington Post reported the Julie Meade death
by police shooting. The paper mentioned nothing about Prozac.
Therefore, readers were left in the dark. What could explain this girl's bizarre and horrendous behavior?
The answer was there in plain sight. But the Post refused to make it known.
~~~
Mainstream psychiatrists would certainly be in charge of any new Trump
program to "predict violent individuals" before they obtain a gun or
commit heinous acts.
The program wouldn't just fail. It would increase violence.
Two questions always pop up when I write a critique of psychiatry. The
first one is: psychiatric researchers are doing a massive amount of work
studying brain function. They do have tests.
Yes, experimental tests. But NONE of those tests are contained in the
DSM, the psychiatric bible, as the basis of the definition of ANY mental
disorder. If the tests were conclusive, they would be heralded in the
DSM. They aren't.
The second question is: if all these mental disorders are fiction, why
are so many people saddled with problems? Why are some people off the
rails? Why are they crazy?
The list of potential answers is very long. A real practitioner would
focus on one patient at a time and try to discover what has affected him
to such a marked degree. For example:
Severe nutritional deficiency. Toxic dyes and colors in processed
food. Ingestion of pesticides and herbicides. Profound sensitivities
to certain foods. The ingestion of toxic pharmaceuticals.
Life-altering damage as a result of vaccines. Exposure to
environmental chemicals. Heavy physical and emotional abuse in the
home or at school. Battlefield stress and trauma (also present in
certain neighborhoods). Prior head injury. Chronic infection. Alcohol
and street drugs. Debilitating poverty.
Other items could be added.
Psychiatry is: fake, fraud, pseudoscience from top to bottom. It's complete fiction dressed up as fact.
But the obsessed devotees of science back away from this. They close
their eyes. If a "branch of knowledge" as extensive as psychiatry is
nothing more than an organized delusion, what other aspect of science
might likewise be parading as truth, when it is
actually mere paper blowing in the wind?
And yet, the Trump administration, following the same general game plan
as the Obama administration, is seriously considering the creation of a
whole new federal agency that will somehow use "psychiatric knowledge"
(an oxymoron), as a guide, to carry out new
forms of surveillance on the whole population and intercede, when
individuals with "mental disorders" try to buy a gun in order to commit a
violent crime.
Not only will this strategy utterly fail, it will, through the
prescription of violence-inducing drugs, make the tragedies expand and
multiply.
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