The Great Childhood Maddening

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The Great Childhood Maddening

by Phillip Day

 

" Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane because he

comes to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers, towards our

elected officials, towards his parents, towards a belief in a supernatural

being, and towards the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's up

to you as teachers to make all these sick children well - by creating the

international child of the future. " - Psychiatrist Chester M Pierce, Harvard

University, addressing teachers at a 1973 Childhood International Education

Seminar

 

" I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of

tyranny over the mind of man. " - Thomas Jefferson

 

" If you tolerate this, then your children will be next. " - The Manic Street

Preachers

 

The sleepy September day in Greenwood, South Carolina, meandered peacefully as

James Wilson loads the small .22 calibre shells into his rifle and works the

bolt, driving the first tiny bullet into the breach. Minutes later the

19-year-old walks into the elementary school cafeteria and begins shooting

screaming children and a teacher, before working his way through the school,

systematically selecting his targets. He kicks open the door to a girls'

restroom, where he shoots another teacher, moving next to a third-grade

classroom, where he shoots more children. Two children die and seven are wounded

in the killing spree.

 

James' senseless and chillingly unemotional act shocked the world. How could

someone do such a thing? Schoolyard shootings, increasingly bizarre and

horrifying street murders and drug violence had been increasing since the 1970's

in America, and people were at a loss to know why. Wasn't there something

other-worldly and, well, frankly demonic about such a scene of carnage, set in

the heart of one of the safest zones in society - our schools?

 

THE CIRCUS SPECTACLE

Violence in society is of course nothing new. Back in Nero's day, the popular

sport was setting light to Christians or watching criminals torn apart by wild

animals in the arenas. Hangings, impalings, crucifixions and various executions

down through the ages drew large crowds. The French Revolution was extremely

popular for those women who used to knit in front of the guillotine, making

their garments all the while experiencing the bloody executions of unfortunates

right before them. Yet, although violence perpetrated by rulers in the past was

ubiquitous, it is interesting to note that private citizens were generally not

taking each others' lives the way we are seeing today, even though the weapons

to do so were widely available. In America during the '40's and '50's, for

example, guns were still commonly owned, even as they are today, yet school

shootings and road rage incidents were unknown. The concept of right and wrong

prevented explosions of personal violence in the main, and

punishment was swift and harsh for those who disobeyed the law.

 

But today, four decades after 'progressive education' was introduced into

classrooms aimed at eroding this same concept of right and wrong, everything has

changed. When examining shooting incidents like James Wilson's, we can note some

common denominators:

 

· Often the shooter has given warning signals of impending violence

· The shooter has previously displayed evidence of a blurred understanding of

right and wrong

· The shooter often commits suicide after the event

· The shooter has a history of psychiatric drug treatment

· The incidents occur in societies where psychiatric drugs are commonly

prescribed

· These psychiatric drugs themselves have an extremely well documented history

of altering perceptions, inciting hostility and violence, and dissipating

inhibitions

 

James had been taking psychiatric drugs for years, prescribed to him by

Greenwood psychiatrist Willie Moseley. These included Xanax, Valium, Vistaril,

Mellaril, Thorazine, Tofranil and Halcion. James Crossen, program director of

the Chemical Dependency Recovery Unit at the Medical Center of North Hollywood,

California, gives his considered opinion on what could have caused the 1988

shootings to happen: " That that young man should have been on drugs all his

life, since he was fourteen, is ghoulish. The drugs would be a major

contributing factor in such a surprising and sudden act of violence - a major

contributor. "

 

Four months after James' rampage, Patrick Purdy, 26, entered a Stockton,

California schoolyard and opened fire, killing five children and wounding 29

more, including a teacher, before killing himself. Purdy had an extensive

psychiatric drug history.

 

Two years previously, on 20th November 1986, 14-year-old Rod Matthews had gone

on the rampage in Canton, Massachusetts, beating a classmate, Shawn Ouillette,

to death with a baseball bat in the woods near his home. The academically gifted

Matthews had been taking the psychiatric drug Ritalin since he was nine, and was

withdrawing from his medication at the time of the killing. Matthews had told a

teacher in the weeks before the killing that he had an urge to kill somebody.

The teacher had merely replied that murder was a felony.

 

Nine months previously, young Timmy Becton, aged 10, had used his 3-year-old

niece as a shield while wielding a shotgun at a sheriff's deputy, who had

visited the Becton residence with a truant officer. " I'd sooner shoot you than

go to school! " Timmy reportedly yelled. The month before, he had been taken to

see a psychiatrist to help him with his hatred of school. The psychiatrist

prescribed Prozac. His parents described that their son had suffered personality

changes when the dosage of the drug was increased. They reported violent mood

swings, during which Timmy would get 'really angry'.

 

The first of the school shooting incidents had occurred on 20th May 1988, when

Laurie Dann, 30, walked into a school in Winnetka, Illinois, with three handguns

and opened fire, killing one and wounding five. Laurie then fled the school and

killed a man in a house nearby before committing suicide.

 

In 1995 in Illinois, Brian Pruitt, 16, fatally stabbed his grandmother in her

bedroom and then laid in wait, killing his grandfather when he returned home.

Brian had a history of psychiatric drug treatment.

 

In July 1996, two boys, aged 15 and 16 stabbed a high-school student after they

had been taking sedatives, which they later told police made them feel

'invincible'.

 

In 1997 in New Jersey, Sam Manzie, 15, attacked and raped 11-year-old Eddie

Werner, who had called on the Manzie home selling items door-to-door for the

local PTA. Sam strangled Eddie with an electrical cord after the assault,

photographing him with the cord still wrapped around his neck. He then threw

away his victim's clothes and possessions in a rubbish bin next to the

psychiatric facility where he had been receiving regular treatments, including

the drug Paxil. His mother reports that Sam had told her: " I wasn't killing that

little boy, I was killing [my psychiatrist] because he didn't listen to me. "

 

On 25th May 1997, 18-year-old Jeremy Strohmeyer raped and murdered a 7-year-old

girl in the ladies' room of a casino one week after commencing the drug

Dexedrine.

 

On 21st May 1988, 14-year-old Kip Kinkel began his brief rule of terror. Kip's

problems began when he was diagnosed with dyslexia and placed on Ritalin. His

problems persisted. He attended 'anger control' classes and was additionally

prescribed Prozac. Kip later went bezerk, entering his Springfield, Oregon high

school and opening fire, killing two and injuring 22. He had also shot both his

parents to death.

 

On 20th July 1987, two horrified parents walked into their garage to find their

16-year-old son swinging from the ceiling. After nine years on Ritalin, and

undergoing withdrawal from the psychiatric drug, the tormented young man had

hanged himself with water-skiing rope.

 

In October 1993, 15-year-old Gerard McCra shot his parents and sister to death.

He had been taking Ritalin since the age of six. While this explosion of

violence shocked Massachusetts, the Boston Globe was keen to begin its story,

not in lamenting the tragedy to the family and the neighbourhood, but citing a

quote from a medical spokesman incongruously attempting to cover himself: " There

is no scientific evidence indicating that Ritalin causes, or in any way triggers

violence in children who take the commonly prescribed medication for

hyperactivity. "

 

That this ridiculous statement is allowed to be published is all the more

unsettling since the manufacturer of Ritalin itself, CIBA Pharmaceutical

Company, had published the following public warning about its drug eight years

before in 1985:

 

DRUG DEPENDENCE: Ritalin should be given cautiously to emotionally unstable

patients, such as those with a history of drug dependence or alcoholism, because

such patients may increase dosage on their own initiative. Chronically abusive

use can lead to marked tolerance and physic dependence with varying degrees of

abnormal behaviour. Frank psychotic episodes can occur, especially with parental

abuse. Careful supervision is required during drug withdrawal, since severe

depression as well as the effects of chronic over-activity can be unmasked.

 

Gerard McCra was reportedly abused by his parents while on Ritalin. Note that,

by the admission of the manufacturers themselves, the purpose of Ritalin is to

'mask' the symptoms of 'over-activity', not cure them.

 

On 14th September 1989, Joseph Wesbecker marauded through a Louisville, Kentucky

printing works, blasting eight former co-workers to death, wounding 12 others

before turning the gun on himself. One of his surviving victims shudders: " I

looked up into the face of who was holding the rifle. He was completely gone.

There was just nothing there of what makes a person a person. He was gone. And I

thought that, soon, I would be even more gone than he. " An autopsy later showed

that Joseph had 'therapeutic' levels of the anti-depressant Prozac in his blood

at the time of the killings.

 

Prozac has a long and infamous history of dangerous side-effects. Regulatory

agencies around the world consistently receive a string of adverse reaction

reports on the drug. Even Valium, a known, highly addictive anti-depressant,

only garnered 7,000 adverse reaction reports in the US over 20 years. In just 10

years, Prozac had amassed a stunning 40,000 complaints, including mass murders,

suicides, mutilations and more than 2,30o deaths.

 

On 20th April 1999, Eric Harris, an 18-year-old senior at Columbine High School

in Colorado, went on a murderous killing spree. Both Eric and his partner, Dylan

Klebold, committed suicide after the event. Blood samples confirmed that Eric

had been taking Luvox, a mind-altering drug in the same class as Prozac. Luvox

(fluvoxamine) and Prozac (fluoxetine) are known as 'selective serotonin

re-uptake inhibitors' (SSRI's), so-named because they block the brain's

absorption of the neurotransmitter serotonin, responsible for mood

stabilisation. Luvox's manufacturers even warn that Luvox is 'sometimes fatal'

to those who take it, and can activate mania and impair judgment and thinking.

 

Nicholas Regush, producer of medical features for ABC News, stated: " This is a

widely recognised feature of antidepressants, as documented by their very own

manufacturers. These drugs are also associated with bouts of irritability,

hostility and aggression. Exactly how all this behavioural change is processed

in the brain and how long-lasting it might be is poorly understood. Contrary to

the big shows of knowledge by psychiatrists, there is a whole lot of guessing

going on. "

 

Eight years before the shootings, Columbine High had been the subject of a 1991

ABC 20/20 documentary for its controversial 'death education' class, in which

students discussed such macabre topics as how they wanted to look in their

caskets. Both Eric and Dylan had a well-documented obsession with violence,

Satanism and weapons, both having been arrested for burglary in 1998 and placed

into an 'anger management' program. Both were fans of the infamous pop-star,

Marilyn Manson. Eric's web-site alone should have had the alarm bells ringing.

Warning statements abounded, such as " I am the law. If you don't like it, you

die! " and " You all better… hide in your houses because I am coming for EVERYONE

soon, and I WILL be armed to the … teeth, and I WILL shoot to kill and I WILL…

KILL EVERYTHING! "

 

DEATH IN THE PLAYGROUND

Today, children routinely threaten their teachers with extreme violence - so

much so that in America, a special school police force patrols the campus to

confiscate weapons and keep an eye on things. When I was at school, threats of

that kind, while maybe entertained after a public humiliation, were never

articulated. Even to breathe a threat to a teacher would have ensured a

punishment so swift and solid, our feet wouldn't have hit the ground.

 

Fifty years ago, children almost never killed. Today it is commonplace. Apart

from the above, cases such as those involving James Bulger, the Menendez

brothers and Damilola Taylor have horrified the world. Gil Garcetti, District

Attorney for Los Angeles County, remarks: " It's incredible, the ability of the

very young to commit the most horrendous crimes was unthinkable 20 years ago. "

 

Today, robberies are carried out by conscience-deadened youth drug-addicts.

Murders, tortures and sadism are practised with Satanic ritual to a degree that

was unheard of prior to the advent of the drug culture. Judge Susan Winfield of

Washington DC comments: " Youngsters used to shoot each other in the body. Then

in the head. Now, they shoot each other in the face. " But still the 1980

Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry persists with its nonsense: " …taken no more

than two or three times a week, cocaine creates no serious problems. "

 

'Time Bombs' in our Schools

 

A DIFFERENT TYPE OF TERROR

" I became stronger. I climbed on top of the roof of the car. They gave me a

weapon and put some marks on my face. I was no longer human. I could do

anything. "

" Prince " , a child soldier given psychoactive drugs in order to kill

Sierra Leone

 

In 1999, journalist and author, Alexander Cockburn wrote about the Unabomber,

Theodore Kaczynski's history as a volunteer for mind-control experiments at

Harvard in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Cockburn asked, " Did the experiment's

long-term effects help tilt him into the Unabomber's homicidal rampages?…How

many other human time bombs were thus primed? How many of them have exploded? "

 

DRUGGED CHILDREN USED FOR ARMED COMBAT

Around the world, some 250,000 children, some as young as seven, have been used

by revolutionaries and terrorists for armed combat. In Afghanistan, for example,

about four in 10 soldiers are younger than 18.

 

According to a UNICEF report, many children have been given amphetamines and

tranquilizers to enable them to " go on murderous binges for days. " According to

Tina Susman, African correspondent for Newsday, " A close look into the faces [of

these children] revealed hazy, bloodshot eyes behind the pervasive dark

sunglasses, the result of drugs forced upon them or taken voluntarily to dull

the fear of death. "

 

Corinne Dufka from Human Rights Watch, stated, " It seemed to be a very organized

strategy of getting the kids, drugging them up, breaking down their defense and

memory, and turning them into fighting machines that didn't have a sense of

empathy and feeling for the civilian population. "

 

These same types of drugs have been used to train children in terrorist and

revolutionary activities and murder. For example, revolutionaries in Sierra

Leone, Africa, abducted Siamba at age 12 and gave him cocaine and amphetamines

to prepare him for combat. Human Rights Watch reported in 1999 that " child

combatants armed with pistols, rifles and machetes actively participated in

killings and massacres, [and] severed the arms of other children....Often under

the influence of drugs, they were known and feared for their impetuosity, lack

of control and brutality. "

 

But, as Mr. Cockburn warned, " There are other human time bombs, primed in haste,

ignorance or indifference to long-term consequences. Amid all the

finger-pointing to causes prompting the recent wave of schoolyard killings [in

the U.S.], not nearly enough clamor has been raised about the fact that many of

these teenagers suddenly exploding into mania were on a regimen of

antidepressants. " Eric Harris, one of the shooters at Columbine, was taking an

antidepressant known to induce psychosis which, in turn, can produce " bizarre,

grandiose, highly elaborated destructive plans, including mass murder…, "

according to a drug expert.

 

SCHOOLYARD " TERRORISM "

Time and time again, those who have been subjected to psychiatric or

psychological " therapy, " especially drugs, are offenders of the worst kind.

Drug-crazed youngsters, even in Western countries, have proven themselves

capable of the most callous violence imaginable while on psychiatric drugs.

 

DANGEROUS DRUG EFFECTS NOT LIMITED TO CHILDREN:

 

· On May 25, 2001, an Australian judge blamed a psychiatric antidepressant for

turning a peaceful, law-abiding man, David Hawkins, into a violent killer. Judge

Barry O'Keefe from the New South Wales Supreme Court said that had Mr. Hawkins

not taken the drug, " it is overwhelmingly probable that Mrs. Hawkins would not

have been killed…. "

 

· In June, 2001, $8 million was awarded by a Wyoming, U.S. jury to the relatives

of a man, Donald Schell, who went on a shooting rampage after taking an

antidepressant, killing his wife, daughter and 9-month-old granddaughter, before

turning a gun on himself. The jury determined that the drug was 80% responsible

for inducing the killing spree.

 

· Two days later, eight Japanese children were stabbed to death and 15 others

more injured in a frenzied knife attack by a man prescribed psychiatric drugs,

which included the same antidepressant that Schell had taken.

 

While the psychiatrist continues to " sell " us on all the wrong reasons -

everything from mental illness, poverty and broken families, to genetic makeup,

none of which they can prove or cure - the fact missed by most is that

psychiatric treatments, especially drugs, can cause violence.

 

But there is more. A 2000 Swedish study regarding 47 juvenile delinquents found

that 40% were acute abusers of a tranquilizer known as the " fear reducer, " a

drug that enabled them to commit extremely violent crimes without regret.

" Abusers showed no guilt about their violent offenses (When I stabbed him, it

felt like putting a knife into butter), " states the report. " I didn't feel any

emotion when I stabbed him five times, " one teenager reported.

 

As Cockburn summed up, " Land mines now litter the terrain of our society,

waiting to explode. "

 

It is hardly ironic then that in Afghanistan, where Osama Bin Laden and his

psychiatrist aide, Dr. al-Zawahiri reside, the main drug problem is tranquilizer

addiction. The International Narcotics Control Board report for the year 2000

also reports that in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkey, benzodiazepines

(tranquilizers) are often abused with heroin and opium. The main drug is the

" fear reducer " referenced in the above Swedish report.

 

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Further Resources:

The Mind Game by Phillip Day

 

 

 

 

 

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