Do all Muslims walk around in public places with explosives strapped to their bodies, hoping to blow themselves up along with a lot of innocent people?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 But it is fair to say that essentially all those who do walk around in public places with explosives strapped to their bodies, hoping to kill themselves and a lot of innocent people, are Muslims.<\/p>\n
Similarly, not all children who are prescribed behavior-modifying psychotropic drugs can be expected to pick up a firearm and murder members of their family, or walk into a school and murder large numbers of innocent people.\u00a0 However, in almost every such incident in recent history the killer or killers were found to be on one behavior-modifying psychotropic drug or another\u2026 sometimes more than one.<\/p>\n
In June 2006, The American Free Press quoted Dr. Ann Blake Tracy, executive director of the International Coalition for Drug Awareness, as saying that the brains of the Columbine High School killers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, were \u201cawash in serotonin, the chemical which causes violence and aggression and triggers a sleep-walking disorder in which a person literally acts out their worst nightmare.\u201d\u00a0 Dr. Tracey is the author of Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? – Our Serotonin Nightmare,<\/em><\/p>\n The report tells us that, \u201cShortly before the Columbine shooting, Eric Harris had been rejected by Marine Corps recruiters because he was under a doctor’s care and had been prescribed an anti-depressant medication. \u00a0Harris was taking Luvox, an anti-depressant commonly used to treat patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.\u201d<\/p>\n Dr. Tracey has also reported that Effexor, the most popular antidepressant on the market, has been shown to produce \u201chomicidal ideation\u201d (obsessive thoughts of killing and how to kill) listed as a side effect. \u00a0And while the manufacturer was aware of this side effect for over a decade, they chose not to disclose it until a few years ago.\u00a0 Andrea Yates, a nurse, drowned her five children while taking this drug.<\/p>\n A March 2011 report by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International tells us that, in 1997, five million children were listed as using psychotropic drugs, Ritalin being among the most commonly prescribed. \u00a0They report that Ritalin use has increased by 700% since 1990. \u00a0\u201cBy the year 2000, it was prescribed for approximately 7 million children.<\/p>\n The US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality says that treatment for mental disorders in children made up the bulk of the money spent on them in 2006 healthcare: $8.9 billion.<\/p>\n The agency tells us, \u201cKids are diagnosed with attention deficit disorders and drugged to make them more compliant in class and more convenient for both parents and teachers. The emotional rollercoaster that naturally occurs during adolescence is quickly diagnosed as pathological. \u00a0Bipolar disorder is a hugely growing childhood diagnosis, as if the normal ups and downs of life require smoothing out.\u201d<\/p>\n Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is diagnosed eight times more often in boys than in girls.\u00a0 Of these diagnosed children, 90% use a stimulant to help control their behavior. \u00a0Seventy percent of children with ADHD are prescribed Ritalin, while 20% use its counterpart, the generic form known as methylphenidate and an amphetamine known as Dexedrine.<\/p>\n Just days before his untimely death in an automobile accident, noted rifle manufacturer, John Noveske, published an extensive report on the apparent connection between psychotropic drug use and incidents of violence and mass murders.\u00a0 To cite just a few of his examples:<\/p>\n When I was a child, ADHD may have existed, but our parents and teachers failed to recognize it as a treatable disorder.\u00a0 Those who suffered from it were called \u201cdisruptive\u201d or \u201cunruly\u201d and were dealt with accordingly.<\/p>\n My boyhood friends who attended Catholic parochial schools told me many stories about how terrified they were of nuns armed with twelve-inch rulers.<\/p>\n My father had a dual-purpose device that was sure to cure any and all episodes of misbehavior in school.\u00a0 The primary purpose of the device was to keep his trousers from falling down around his ankles.\u00a0 The other purpose was to insure that I did not misbehave or fail to do what was expected of me in the classroom.\u00a0 It was called a \u201cbelt.\u201d<\/p>\n My Lutheran parochial school teachers, too, had their magic devices.\u00a0 My fourth and fifth grade teacher, Mr. Oscar Roschke, had a long thin hardwood device with a black rubber tip on one end, called a \u201cblackboard pointer.\u201d\u00a0 When he was not using it to direct our attention to things written on the blackboard, it was used to correct episode of unruliness or bad behavior\u2026 most often preceded by a command to \u201cgo to the front of the room, bend over, and grab your ankles.\u201d<\/p>\n My eighth grade teacher, Mr. Siebrass, also had a dual-purpose cure for unruly or otherwise unacceptable conduct.\u00a0 It\u2019s primary purpose was to smack a horse across the hindquarters to make him\/her move a bit faster.\u00a0 But since he didn\u2019t own a horse, the highest and best use of the device was to punish unacceptable behavior and poor performance in the classroom.<\/p>\n Since the days of Dr. Benjamin Spock, parents have been conditioned to believe that the act of administering corporal punishment to misbehaving children might in some way cause them lasting emotional damage.\u00a0 That simply is not true.\u00a0 It is nothing more than a \u201ccop out\u201d for lazy or uncaring parents and teachers.<\/p>\n In what he referred to as \u201ccommon sense,\u201d Barack Obama told the nation recently that, \u201cIf there\u2019s a step that we can take to save just one child from what happened in Newtown, we should take that step.\u201d<\/p>\n The nine cases of SSRI-induced violence cited above produced 52 dead and 92 wounded.\u00a0 In the absence of Ritalin, Prozac, Zoloft, and other behavior-modifying drugs, those 52 people would probably still be alive today.\u00a0 If Mr. Obama is truly interested in \u201ccommon sense\u201d solutions to school violence, he might want to take his attention off guns and background checks and focus on the psychotropic drugs that appear to be related to so much death and violence.<\/p>\n If we could prevent just one episode of massive violence by the judicious application of corporal punishment, where only one person experiences a bit of short term discomfort, instead of the use of behavior-modification drugs, where a great many people suffered and died, \u201cwe should take that step.\u201d\u00a0 We could have saved the lives of many children.<\/p>\n Once again, Obama lacks the ability to analyze simple cause-and-effect situations.\u00a0 Once again, he has it all backwards.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do all Muslims walk around in public places with explosives strapped to their bodies, hoping to blow themselves up along with a lot of innocent people?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 But it is fair to say that essentially all those who do walk … Continue reading \n