The Virginia Tech Shootings: A Psychiatric Drug Connection?

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Jon Rappoport comments on the shootings on the Virginia Tech campus and delves into what makes people prone to suicide or violence - certain drugs being pushed in a concerted effort on America's students. This is an angle the so-called 'mainstream' media are studiously avoiding to discuss.

The Secret Behind Secret Societies - Jon Rappoport

In CHO, THE VIRGINIA MURDERS, AND THE DRUG QUESTION Rappoport asks the obvious questions.

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APRIL 18, 2007. Reports have surfaced that the accused murderer of 33 people at Virginia Tech was briefly under medical care for depression. So the question naturally arises: was he taking SSRI antidepressants? Prozac? Zoloft? Paxil?

These drugs are known to cause suicides and murders. That is, the person taking them kills himself or others.

Glaxo, the maker of Paxil, has been under the gun for some time now, because it knew Paxil had problems and concealed those problems from the FDA and doctors and the public.

The lawsuits against Glaxo, sitting in line like ships waiting to dock, have mainly concerned so-called “discontinuation syndrome.” This is a fancy euphemism for “withdrawal effects.” In other words, the drug makes addicts. And when people try to withdraw from it, even gradually, all sorts of hell can break out.

But under the surface, there is more. I’ll lead up to that by quoting from an excellent April 26, 2006, article published at Scoop, and written by Evelyn Pringle. My comments are in brackets.

“The [Paxil] withdrawal syndrome is real and in fact, it is now known that infants of women who take SSRIs in the last 3 months of pregnancy, may experience symptoms of withdrawal, including convulsions, according to a study published in the February 4, 2005 issue of the journal Lancet.

[DID YOU GET THAT? CONVULSIONS IN INFANTS. JR]

“In addition, experts warn against the use of Paxil and other SSRIs with children. According to Fred Baughman Jr, MD, an adult and child neurologist in private practice for 35 years, ‘most antidepressants have not proved effective in treating depression in children and some studies suggest they may cause some children to become acutely suicidal.’

“Yet in 2002, Dr Baughman says, ‘nearly 11 million prescriptions for the drugs were given to children, 2.7 million of them to children under 12.’

[IT ISN’T JUST STREET DRUGS, FOLKS. JR]

“A report by an expert witness [in a lawsuit against Glaxo], previously sealed with a protective order, reveals how Glaxo concealed and manipulated data concerning Paxil-induced suicidality and how suicide attempts in studies by patients on Paxil were underreported and attempts by people taking a placebo were inflated.

[HELLO. GLAXO SAID SUICIDES WERE FEWER THAN THEY WERE. THEY ALSO CLAIMED SUICIDE ATTEMPTS IN THE CONTROL GROUP, THE PEOPLE TAKING A SUGAR PILL, WERE HIGHER THAN THEY REALLY WERE. TO MAKE IT SEEM THAT PAXIL DID NOT POSE A THREAT TO COMMIT SUICIDE. GET IT? JR]

“Excerpts from the report were published by psychiatrist, Peter Breggin, MD, in Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, (Volume 8, Spring 2006, pp. 77-84). Dr Breggin is a founder of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP) and the author of the Antidepressant Fact Book (2001).

“His report also documents how Glaxo hid the incidence of akathisia (agitation with hyperactivity) and stimulation, which he says, are known risk factors for suicidality and violence.

[VIOLENCE. LIKE KILLING SOMEBODY. JR]

Dr Breggin’s original report was based on a 3-day review of Glaxo’s sealed files, and was written for the California case of Lacuzong v GSK, and attached to a July 21, 2001, affidavit submitted in a case filed by the widow of a man who drowned their two children and himself in a tub after taking Paxil for three days.

[A MAN TAKES PAXIL FOR 3 DAYS AND THEN KILLS HIS CHILDREN AND HIMSELF. JR]

“At Glaxo’s insistence, the report remained sealed. However, in the more recent case of Moffett v Glaxo, in the US District Court for the South District of Mississippi, the report was filed in the public record.

“’The drug companies,’ says Dr Breggin, ‘settle almost all legal cases brought against them in order to seal incriminating scientific data.’

[IN ORDER TO HIDE THE TRUTH. THE DRUG COMPANY AGREES TO PAY THE PLAINTIFF A LOT OF MONEY, ON THE CONDITION THAT THE DETAILS OF THE RELEVANT REPORTS ARE BURIED. JR]

“’The publication of a previously sealed medical expert report is a rare event,’ he [Breggin] explains, ‘the first in my experience.’”

End of Scoop snip

How do you like those apples? “Well, sure, some people who take our drug kill themselves or other people, but that’s OUR information. We don’t have to tell anybody about it. I mean, the drug is our property, so then all the information pertaining to it that we discover is ours, too.”

So the question again: was Cho taking one of these SSRI antidepressants?

Following me so far? I hope you are. I have one more wrinkle to feed you.

The drug companies definitely do NOT want a very clear law to pass WITH MUCH PUBLICITY---a law that states they CAN conceal any information they want to about their drugs. Why not? Because then it would be open hunting. People, doctors, whoever, could say, “Screw you. Since you can hide any adverse effects you want to, we won’t use your drugs.” The drug companies want to slime along the fence in the dark, without publicity, without notice. They want to exist in a gray area between some revealing and some concealing. And they’re willing to pay for this privilege with big cash settlements in lawsuits. They know the numbers. They’ve figured out how much they can give away and still make out like bandits on the sales of their drugs.

An interesting business, the drug business.

An earlier report by Jon Rappoport follows here. It includes an investigation into the 1999 Columbine high school shooting and other similar incidents, most of them involving psychiatric drugs taken by apparently normal kids who suddenly turned violent, committing horrible crimes against others and often ending their lives by suicide.

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THE VIRGINIA TECH SHOOTINGS: A PSYCHIATRIC DRUG CONNECTION?

APRIL 18, 2007. We can expect a number of outcomes from the Virginia Tech shooting. Among them, so-called teachers of writing will be working closely with psychologists and school counselors to pounce on any kid who writes essays or poems in a dark and “abnormal” fashion---because the accused murderer of 33 people did “that kind” of writing.

This will put a lid on what students dare to write, because the consequence may be mandatory counseling and psychiatric drugs and “suspicion of a tendency toward murder.”

MSNBC.com is now stating that the shooter at Virginia Tech, according to other reports, was (or may have been) under the care of a doctor for depression and was taking medication.

See below my 1999 essay, SCHOOL SHOOTINGS IN AMERICA, available all over the Internet. It details the connections of shooters to SSRI antidepressants (Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, etc), and it shows, as other authors have, the ability of these drugs to scramble the brain and evoke violence, including homicide.

So, a result of Virginia Tech, we may have a new funnel here: at a young age, those who seem to exhibit abnormal behavior (whatever the hell that is) in their artistic and creative output will be shoved into taking the very drugs that can and do cause violent behavior.

Beautiful, isn’t it?

When you have a population (and mental professionals) who haven’t the slightest idea what creativity and imagination are all about, because they are terrified of finding it in themselves---TERRIFIED--you get this sort of reaction:

“He was writing dark things; therefore he was always a threat to kill people.”

That’s the level of understanding. ZERO.

Whereas instead: LOOK AT THE DRUGS. LOOK AT THE DRUGS. WAS CHO TAKING PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS? FIND OUT WHAT HE WAS TAKING? WAS HE TAKING PROZAC? WAS HE TAKING ZOLOFT? WAS HE TAKING PAXIL?

You want killers? Look at the companies who are making this stuff and lying about it and selling it. Look at the arrogant and insulated doctors who are prescribing it.

I’m an artist. I’ve been writing and painting for 47 years. I write and paint anything I want to. And I don’t have the least interest in killing anybody.

In the days to come, you’ll read and hear and see more about the supposed connection between this kid and what he was writing at school and his rampage. All manner of idiots will comment on it. As if they know. They are robots at the gate. They have nothing at stake except to promote the leveling down of everyone to android status. That’s the way more and more people in this country are making their living these days.

“Jimmy? Oh, he wants to go to school and major in criminology. Isn’t it wonderful? He wants to spy on everybody and put everybody in jail. Then we’ll have a noble and religious nation, just as our forefathers hoped for at the beginning. If he can’t get into school, he’ll join the Army and go kill some people overseas. We’ll fly the flag and pray for his safe return.”

Have fun. Good luck.

When you turn a nation in the direction of becoming one enormous bureaucracy, you get a truly perverted form of caretaking-surveillance-monitoring-enforcement that floats like a foul bilge on the water. Everybody and his brother automatically think they are experts on behavior. It’s all a lab run by self-inflated types who’ve had no real contact with life.

They fake that contact. They are transparent. They learn only one lesson: control.

That’s called the end of empire.

----Here is my 19