{"id":268733,"date":"2023-05-12T07:59:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T07:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=268733"},"modified":"2023-05-14T09:36:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T09:36:52","slug":"drugged-up-and-ready-to-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=268733","title":{"rendered":"Drugged-Up and Ready to Kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Mike Whitney \u2013 The Unz Review May 11, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cPsychiatric treatment and psychiatric drugs are the common denominator of the growing number of shootings and other acts of violence, which are soaring right along with the soaring prescribing of psych drugs.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/psychiatricfraud.org\/category\/series\/killers\/\">Killers on Psych Drugs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a question that every American should be able to answer: <strong>What percentage of the killers\u2014that have carried out mass shootings across the United States\u2014were on powerful psychiatric medications?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>a<\/strong>\u20141%<\/li>\n<li><strong>b<\/strong>\u201425%<\/li>\n<li><strong>c<\/strong>\u201450%<\/li>\n<li><strong>d<\/strong>\u201475% or more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why don\u2019t we know the answer to this question? Doesn\u2019t the United States have more mass shootings than any country in the world?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes, it does.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And aren\u2019t these shootings the source of great suffering and anxiety?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes, they are.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And don\u2019t most people genuinely want to know why these lone gunman feel compelled to kill innocent people?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes, they do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then, why don\u2019t we know? Why\u2014after more than two decades of these bloody incidents\u2014do we still not have a definitive, thoroughly-researched answer to this one simple question: How many of these mentally-disturbed killers were on dangerous psychiatric medications?<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the media pursues a line of inquiry that fails to reveal anything even remotely conclusive about the gunman\u2019s actions. <strong>If \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d or \u201cNazi ideology\u201d impacted the killer\u2019s decision to go on a deadly shooting spree in Texas, then why didn\u2019t he target a black community center or a Jewish synagogue? <\/strong>Wouldn\u2019t that have been more consistent with his alleged ideology?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it would have been, which suggests that <strong>his alleged ideology is a symptom of his fragile mental condition not the primary factor driving his behavior. <\/strong>The reason these people go on crazed killing sprees is because they are \u2018damaged goods\u2019 not because they are ideologues. There\u2019s a big difference.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-268735\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Allen-shooter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Allen-shooter.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Allen-shooter-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>So, why does the media keep harping on this silly the idea that the killer\u2019s behavior was effected by his feelings about \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d or \u201cNazi ideology\u201d? It\u2019s ridiculous, after all, the killer was not white himself nor were his victims racially targeted. They were merely random passersby strolling through a shopping mall. In other words, there is no evidence to support the case that is being made by the media. But\u2014here\u2019s the thing\u2014the media doesn\u2019t care about evidence because <strong>their real goal is to advance a political agenda aimed at linking violent fanatical behavior to race-based uber-nationalism. What they are trying to do, is make a subliminal connection between the erratic behavior of a ruthless killer and the sincerely-felt patriotism of many Trump supporters. <\/strong>The media has been hammering away at this same theme for over six years culminating in the January 6 fraud. This is just the latest iteration of the same tedious political psy-ops.<\/p>\n<p>If the journalists were serious about investigating this latest bloody incident, they\u2019d try to find out whether the killer had been on the FBI\u2019s radar before the onslaught took place. (as so many mass killers have been in the past.) Was he? Was Mauricio Garcia on the list of potential \u201cdomestic terrorists\u201d compiled by the FBI?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll probably never know, because that would expose the inner workings of the nation\u2019s premier law enforcement agency which would undoubtedly cause considerable embarassment. So, the FBI is going to circle the wagons and make sure that never happens, which means that a good portion of the truth about this event will probably remain concealed forever. Even worse, we can expect that the media will continue to push their wacky theory that Garcia was a \u201cnon-white white supremacist\u201d regardless of the fact that the claim makes no sense at all. Here\u2019s how analyst Michael Tracey sarcastically summed it up:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">If a non-white person is a \u201cwhite supremacist,\u201d does that mean he believes in his own innate racial inferiority? @mtracey<\/p>\n<p>Leave it to Tracey to expose the imbecility of a meme that defies reason but to which the media clings like the Holy Grail. It\u2019s actually shocking that anyone can take this type of verbal hucksterism seriously when, in fact, the whole \u201cnon-white white supremacist\u201d thing is one of the most absurd concoctions of all time. It\u2019s pure gibberish.<\/p>\n<p>So, where should we look for answers? Where can we find rational explanations for these sporadic acts of violence?<\/p>\n<p><strong>There\u2019s only one place we can look; at the mental state of the person who committed the crime<\/strong>. That\u2019s where we have to start. If we want to understand what drives a man to kill random people in a school or shopping mall, we need to know something about the psychology of the perpetrator. Fortunately, volumes have been written on this subject by respected professionals who have researched the topic, studied the data, and drawn their own informed conclusions. Take a look:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Close to 17% of Americans are taking <strong>psychiatric drugs with side effects such as acting aggressively, being angry, or violent and acting on dangerous impulses..<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Psychotropic drugs are hardly helping when their side-effects include<\/strong> worsening depression, new or worsening anxiety, agitation or restlessness, panic attacks, new or <strong>worsening irritability, acting aggressively, being angry, or violent, acting on dangerous impulses<\/strong>, an extreme increase in activity and talking (mania), and other unusual changes in behavior or mood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cRather than helping the individual, psychotropics alienate, and push them into more and more potentially dangerous behavior,\u201d<\/strong> states the president of the Florida chapter of CCHR, Diane Stein.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This situation was so egregious that in 2004, the Federal Drug Administration issued a \u201cblack-box\u201d label warning indicating that the use of <strong>certain antidepressants to treat major depressive disorder in adolescents may increase the risk of suicide, homicide, and other acts of violence<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A study entitled Prescription Drugs Associated with Reports of Violence Towards Others\u2026 declared \u2026 In the 69-month reporting period we identified 484 evaluable <strong>drugs that accounted for 780,169 serious adverse event reports<\/strong> of all kinds\u2026. <strong>The violence cases included 387 reports of homicide, 404 physical assaults, 27 cases indicating physical abuse, 896 homicidal ideation reports, and 223 cases described as violence-related symptoms.\u201d<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrflorida.org\/psychiatric-drugs-and-side-effects-the-unseen-hand-behind-violence-in-america\">\u201cPsychiatric Drugs and Side Effects \u2013 The Unseen Hand Behind Violence in America<\/a>\u201c, Citizens Commission on Human Rights<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<div id=\"attachment_268736\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TexasShooterMW-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-268736\" class=\"wp-image-268736\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TexasShooterMW-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-268736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">These are the victims of the Texas Mall Shooting<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It all sounds very serious, doesn\u2019t it? It sounds like something that policymakers should be aware of so they can tighten regulations on these potentially-lethal medications. It also sounds like something that pharmaceutical industry would try to keep out of the newspapers so people don\u2019t see the connection between these drugs and the mayhem they produce. Simply put, the truth is being hidden for power and profits. What else is new? Here\u2019s more background from another article:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>A growing number of school shootings and other shooting rampages were committed by individuals under the influence of, or in withdrawal from, psychiatric drugs<\/strong> known to cause mania, psychosis, violence and even homicide. Consider this list of 13 massacres over the past decade or so, resulting in 54 dead and 105 wounded \u2013 and these are just the ones where the psychiatric drugs are known. In other cases, medical records were sealed or autopsy reports not made public or, in some cases, toxicology tests were either not done to test for psychiatric drugs or not disclosed to the public\u2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Given the growing list of shooters who were on psychiatric drugs, given the fact that 22 international drug regulatory agencies warn these drugs can cause violence, mania, psychosis, suicide and even homicide, and given the fact that a major study was just released confirming these drugs put people at greater risk of becoming violent, CCHR International asserts: <strong>\u201cAny recommendation for more mental health \u2018treatment,\u2019 which [inevitably] means putting more people and more kids on these [psychiatric] drugs, is not only negligent, but considering the possible repercussions, criminal.\u201d<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/psychiatricfraud.org\/2011\/04\/the-real-lesson-of-columbine-psychiatric-drugs-induce-violence\/\">\u201cThe Real Lesson of Columbine: Psychiatric Drugs Induce Violence<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, why aren\u2019t we addressing the elephant in the room? Is there any doubt that the gunman at the Dallas-area shopping mall was mentally-unstable, probably had some history of counseling and treatment, and may have been on powerful psychiatric drugs? If you were a professional journalist, isn\u2019t that where you would start your investigation rather than trying to cobble together some far-fetched theory based on photos of Nazi memorabilia on an isolated social media post?<\/p>\n<p><strong>We are told repeatedly by the media and the pundits on cable news that \u2018guns are the problem\u2019, but isn\u2019t the case against powerful psychiatric meds equally compelling?<\/strong> It\u2019s worth noting, that guns don\u2019t fire themselves and that, typically, guns are not fired into crowds unless they are wielded by unstable, deranged people who\u2014more often than not\u2014have some traceable mental history in which they were diagnosed, counseled and treated. All we want to know is which medications they were prescribed so we can better monitor their use in order to protect the public. Unfortunately,<strong> the media is unwilling to provide this information due to a fundamental conflict of interest. They are paid by the drug companies.<\/strong> Here\u2019s more from an article at the American Psychiatric Association:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>A link between several types of psychotropic medications and violent behavior toward others has been documented in a recent study\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In a study published in the December 15, 2010\u2026 They found that during the study period, 780,169 serious adverse events of one kind or another had been reported for 484 drugs, and that of those serious adverse events, 1,937 had been acts of violence. They defined a violent event as any case report containing one or more of the following items: homicide, physical assault, physical abuse, homicidal ideation, or violence-related symptom\u2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cIn addition, antidepressant drugs showed consistently elevated risk, even when compared with antipsychotics and mood stabilizers. . . .\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Paul Fink, M.D., an expert in the study of violent behavior and a past APA president, commented. \u201cI can tell you that <strong>as a psychiatrist who has practiced for a long time, I was unaware that [varenicline and antidepressants] had been linked with violence toward others. . . . Psychiatrists and mental health professionals need to be aware of this association.\u201d<\/strong> The study had no outside funding.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/psychnews.psychiatryonline.org\/doi\/full\/10.1176\/pn.46.3.psychnews_46_3_022\">Several Medications Linked to Violent Acts<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TexasShooterMW-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-268737\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TexasShooterMW-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TexasShooterMW-3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TexasShooterMW-3-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 640px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Keep in mind, normal, well-adjusted men who are happily married and gainfully employed, do not commit random acts of homicidal violence. These are people who have serious psychological problems, who may have sought professional help, and who have (oftentimes) been prescribed various psychiatric medications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>These medications\u2014while beneficial to many\u2014can result in excessive violence in a small percentage of users. The public needs to know about these drugs so they can balance their benefits against the risks to public safety.<\/strong> So far, there has been no admission that these risks even exist. Instead, all the blame has been placed on guns which has merely fueled greater distrust of both the media and the political establisment. In fact, most gun owners now believe that the politicians are not interested in public safety at all but merely use it as platform for promoting their own narrow interests. Ostensibly, those interests now include the repeal the second amendment followed by the disarming of the American people. That\u2019s the goal and most gun owners know that\u2019s the goal. Here\u2019s one last clip from a letter to the editor titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cantonrep.com\/story\/opinion\/2022\/06\/16\/letter-editor-psychiatric-drugs-behind-violence\/7624709001\/\">Psychiatric Drugs are Behind the Violence<\/a> by Doug Dale:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">As Congress, surrounded by armed guards, metal detectors, chain link fence and paramilitary forces, debates infringing on the constitutional right to bear arms by private citizens, isn\u2019t it time they actually address the root cause of these mass killings?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>These events were unheard of until the FDA began approving more psychiatric drugs several decades ago. From 2004 to 2009, researchers accessing the FDA\u2019s Adverse Event Reporting System revealed that 1,537 cases of violence were linked to 31 different types of psychiatric drugs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Other professional studies concluded that patients didn\u2019t have homicidal ideation until after taking these drugs. <strong>From 1992 thru 2017, 37 school shootings have been linked to these medications. In a report submitted to the Senate in 2014, it was estimated that 90% of school shooters were using antidepressants. Obviously, it\u2019s not a person\u2019s mental health, but the drugs that cause this violence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The pharmaceutical lobby contributes hundreds of millions of dollars to congressional members that craft federal laws. <strong>Who will deny that these drugs are the root cause of the mass killings?<\/strong> Will it be uneducated political groupies drinking the gun-control elixir, politicians taking campaign contributions from the pharmaceutical lobby, the pharmaceutical industry and\/or the doctors peddling this poison to the public, and if so, why?\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In 2001, a drug manufacturer removed a cholesterol drug from the market because it was linked to 31 deaths. We are way past that number in mass killings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Congress needs to ban gun ownership from anyone being prescribed these drugs, then, at the least, make it a federal crime to write new prescriptions going forward. To do otherwise, one can only conclude that Congress could care less about how much collateral damage they cause.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TexasShooterMW-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-268738\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TexasShooterMW-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TexasShooterMW-4.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TexasShooterMW-4-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 640px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If we want to stop the mass shootings, we need to strictly regulate the psychiatric medications that are causing them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/mwhitney\/drugged-up-and-ready-to-kill\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does the corporate media consistently cite \u201cWhite Supremacy\u201d or \u201cNazi ideology\u201d as a factor in mass shootings? Why when the perpetrators are not \u201cwhite\u201d and their victims are not Jews? With nearly 17 percent of Americans on psychiatric drugs, are the media covering for the pharmaceutical giants whose products play a crucial role in the shootings? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":268734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268741,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268733\/revisions\/268741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/268734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}