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State to Decide Who is a “Dangerously
Unstable” Person
Kurt
Nimmo
Sunday April 22, 2007
Recall the establishment of the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
in April 2002 and its “recommendations” issued in July,
2003. Bush’s commission found that “despite their prevalence,
mental disorders often go undiagnosed” and the way to address
this so-called problem was to screen “consumers of all ages,”
especially preschool children, for mental problems, or what mental
health “professionals” and drug company executives consider
mental problems. “Each year, young children are expelled from
preschools and childcare facilities for severely disruptive behaviors
and emotional disorders.” According to the commission, schools
are in a “key position” to screen the 52 million students
and 6 million adults who work at the schools.
The commission commended the Texas Medication Algorithm Project
(TMAP) as a “model” medication treatment plan that “illustrates
an evidence-based practice that results in better consumer outcomes,”
in other words, more people on expensive antidepressants and antipsychotic
drugs, the sort of drugs that worked so well in Cho Seung-Hui’s
case. It should be noted, as well, that the “Texas project
started in 1995 as an alliance of individuals from the pharmaceutical
industry, the University of Texas, and the mental health and corrections
systems of Texas. The project was funded by a Robert Wood Johnson
grant—and by several drug companies.” Allen Jones, an
employee of the Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector General, “revealed
that key officials with influence over the medication plan in his
state received money and perks from drug companies with a stake
in the medication algorithm,” reports BMJ,
a medical journal. For his effort, Jones was fired.
Now we have Bush directing “federal officials to conduct
a national inquiry into how to prevent violence by dangerously unstable
people” in the wake of Virginia Tech, according to CBN
News. Of course, in a free society, there are few ways to prevent
“dangerously unstable people” from going postal, especially
if they are law-abiding beforehand. No doubt we will see yet another
commission recommending the widespread use of so-called antidepressants,
never mind these SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors)
are reported to cause “anxiety, agitation, panic attacks,
insomnia, irritability, hostility, aggressiveness, impulsivity,
akathisia (psychomotor restlessness), hypomania, and mania …
in adult and pediatric patients being treated with antidepressants
for major depressive disorder as well as for other indications,
both psychiatric and nonpsychiatric,” according to David
Healy and David Menkes from Cardiff University, and Andrew Herxheimer
from the UK Cochrane Centre. In other words, in certain individuals,
presumably such as Cho, SSRI drugs act as a catalyst for violence,
both “self-directed” (i.e., suicide) and outward toward
the community. Apparently, Bush and the pharms want to make sure
every Cho in the country goes postal. It is a small price to pay
for record pharm industry profits.
“President Bush has directed three cabinet secretaries to
huddle with educators, mental health experts and government officials
across the nation to recommend ways to avoid a repeat of Monday’s
shooting rampage at Virginia Tech,” reports the Washington
Post. “The review—to be headed by Health and Human Services
Secretary Mike Leavitt, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings—comes as educational
institutions debate how to deal with early warning signs that a
student may be dangerous to himself and others.”
Here we have a gaggle of bureaucrats, including one who specializes
in legalizing torture, directing “mental health experts and
government officials across the nation,” in other words figuring
out how get the government even more involved in the lives of ordinary
people who, after all, might have another Cho or any number of Chos
in their midst. Leavitt will “summarize what they learn and
report back to me with recommendations about how we can help to
avoid such tragedies,” Bush said. Asked how long the review
will take, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said: “Not
long. This is a new tasking by the president, and so a lot of the
details are still being worked out. Secretary Leavitt said he plans
to get started quickly.” Translation: expect “recommendations,”
similar to those reached by the Texas Medication Algorithm Project,
to drug the population at large, that is after mandatory “screening.”
It should be noted that Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, a Democrat,
has empanelled a gaggle of “experts” of his own, including
former Ministry of Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge.
According to Universal
Health, “people with chronic mental illness or with exacerbations
of symptoms could be guided directly into supervised and therapeutic
settings…. Nurses learn early on that just because a patient
says ‘no’ to care, doesn’t mean that it goes unquestioned.
When ‘no’ isn’t based on rational decision making,
or when cognition and judgement are suspect, we have clear and ethical
processes to use to determine substituted judgment.”
In other words, “mental health” experts, in league
with government bureaucrats, will decide who is mentally ill. “There
is, of course, a balance to be struck between civil liberties and
treating the mentally ill,” writes Rich
Lowry for the Salt Lake Tribune. “But that balance is
now badly off-kilter. Cho Seung-Hui was basically abandoned to his
private mental hell at Virginia Tech. While he hatched his lunatic
and hateful plot, everyone tried to ignore the scary guy in class
behind the sunglasses.” It was Cho’s “poetry”
and “plays” that supposedly provided the tip-off to
his insanity.
“Certainly in this sensitized day and age, my own college
writing—including a short story called ‘Cain Rose Up’
and the novel RAGE—would have raised red flags, and I’m
certain someone would have tabbed me as mentally ill because of
them,” writes the novelist Stephen
King. “For most creative people, the imagination serves
as an excretory channel for violence: We visualize what we will
never actually do.”
Of course, in an era when “a balance” is “to
be struck between civil liberties and treating the mentally ill,”
there will be no tolerance for such “excretory” channels
for violence. Is it possible, if now just coming up as a writer,
Stephen King would be “guided directly into supervised and
therapeutic setting” and force-fed massive quantities of Selective
Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors? “On the whole, I don’t
think you can pick these guys out based on their work, unless you
look for violence unenlivened by any real talent,” King concludes.
Is it possible “Bush’s New Freedom Initiative, which recommends
mental health screening for all Americans, could ultimately be used
to institute ‘political psychiatry’ in this country”?
muses blogger Mack
White. “This practice is not without precedent, the most
notorious examples being the Soviet Union and present-day China.
Also, it is a fact that political psychiatry has been recommended
by at least one psychiatrist working for the CIA. In 1974, MK-ULTRA
scientist Dr. Jose Delgado, Director of Neuropsychiatry at Yale
Medical School, stated in testimony to Congress: ‘We need
a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society.
The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates
from the given norm can be surgically mutilated.’”
In our brave new era, surgical mutilation is no longer required.
Instead, our government, working with the pharm industry and psychiatric
“experts,” can “guide” the officially designated
paranoids, be they deluded writers or political activists, into
“supervised and therapeutic settings” where massive
doses of Paxil will be administered.
INFOWARS:
BECAUSE THERE'S A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND
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