The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy (22 page)

Only an awakened American public can rein in the power of the globalist pharmaceutical monopoly, concluded Angell. “Drug companies have the largest lobby in Washington, and they give copiously to political campaigns. Legislators are now so beholden to the pharmaceutical industry that it will be exceedingly difficult to break its lock on them…. But the one thing legislators need more than campaign contributions is votes. That is why citizens should know what is really going on. Contrary to the industry’s public relations, they don’t get what they pay for. The fact is that this industry is taking us for a ride, and there will be no real reform without an aroused and determined public to make it happen.”

DRUGGING THE KIDS

I
N YEARS PAST, IF
a child was acting up or caught staring out the window, he or she received a rap on the knuckles with a ruler and was told to stay with the rest of the class. Today, the child is sent to the school nurse, who often tells the parents the student has been diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and advises them to see a psychiatrist, who usually recommends the administration of Prozac (94 percent sodium fluoride), Ritalin, or Zoloft—psychotropic drugs that have been shown to produce psychosis in lab rats.

At least one state has put a stop to this practice. In 2001, the Connecticut House of Representatives voted 141–0 on a law prohibiting school personnel from recommending to parents that their children take Ritalin or other mood-altering drugs. One of the bill’s primary sponsors, Republican state representative Lenny Winkler, quoted studies showing the number of children taking Ritalin nationally jumped from 500,000 in 1987 to more than 6 million by 2001. The bill also prohibited the state Department of Children and Families from taking children away from parents who declined to put their children on mood-altering drugs.

If the fact that unaware parents are being urged to drug their children is bad enough, consider that the effectiveness of the medication they’re being asked to use has come under scrutiny. A 1999 study at the Human Development Center at the University of Wisconsin in Eau Claire found that thirteen “ADHD” children on medication performed progressively worse over four years on standardized tests than a group of thirteen normal children with similar IQs and other characteristics. Another study by Dr. Gretchen LeFever, an assistant professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at Eastern Virginia Medical School, revealed that while children in her community used the drug Ritalin two to three times more than the national rate, their academic performance in relation to their peers showed no improvement. Her persistence in questioning the rising incidence of drug use in schoolchildren was muted in 2005 when she was fired.

Alan Larson, a former secretary of the Oregon Federation of Independent Schools, criticized the expanding diagnosis of attention-deficit disorder (ADD), stating, “[T]he labeling of children with ADD is not because of a problem the kids have; it is because of a problem teachers who cannot tolerate active children have.” Other questionable diagnoses include syndromes concerning children who are victims of obesity, junk food, lack of exercise, and inattentive parents. Clearly, some children have serious mental disorders, but these are relatively few compared with the number of currently medicated children.

There is also the possibility that some of the diagnoses that doctors give to children are for nonexistent diseases. In his 1991 book
Toxic Psychiatry,
psychiatrist Peter Breggin wrote: “Hyperactivity is the most frequent justification for drugging children. The difficult-to-control male child is certainly not a new phenomenon, but attempts to give him a medical diagnosis are the product of modern psychology and psychiatry. At first psychiatrists called hyperactivity a brain disease. When no brain disease could be found, they changed it to ‘minimal brain disease’ (MBD). When no minimal brain disease could be found the profession transformed the concept into ‘minimal brain dysfunction.’ When no minimal brain dysfunction could be demonstrated, the label became attention deficit disorder. Now it’s just assumed to be a real disease, regardless of the failure to prove it so. Biochemical imbalance is the code word, but there’s no more evidence for that than there is for actual brain disease.”

Textbooks of psychological disorders blossomed in size after programs such as Project Paperclip brought German psychiatrists into the military and intelligence fields after World War II. In its 1952
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders
(DSM), the American Psychiatric Association defined only 106 mental disorders. By the publication of
DSM-IV
in 1994, the number had grown to 374. Meanwhile, the number of child psychologists in U.S. schools grew from a mere 500 in 1940 to more than 22,000 by 1990. In 2006, the number of school psychologists, including clinical and consultation, had grown to 152,000, with an anticipated 176,000 by 2016.

The unscientific and political nature of psychiatry was noted in a resignation letter to the APA from Dr. Loren R. Mosher, former chief of the Center for Studies of Schizophrenia at the National Institute of Mental Health: “…why must the APA pretend to know more than it does? DSM IV is the fabrication upon which psychiatry seeks acceptance by medicine in general. Insiders know it is more a political than scientific document…. It is the way to get paid.”

This growth of an immense and well-funded field of psychiatry is worrisome to those who recall that in both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, the incarcerations and, ultimately, the genocides practiced there all began innocuously as mental health programs. Persons who were considered defective, either physically or mentally, were the first victims of the Nazis, long before they turned to the Jews.

“Today, though psychiatry may still be suspect among the public, it has won over both government and the media. The profession and its treatments inundate talk shows, magazines and the front pages of our news papers,” wrote Bruce Wiseman, the U.S. national president of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights and former chairman of the history department at John F. Kennedy University.

Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was initially studied as an antipsychotic and antidepressant as well as a truth drug by the military. When LSD was outlawed in 1968 for its dangerous side effects, drug companies sought substitutes. They developed the antidepressant Prozac (fluoxetine), then Zoloft (sertraline), Effexor (venlafaxine), and Paxil (paroxetine).

These companies also developed the drug Ritalin. Long after the war, Dr. Helmut Remschmidt proposed “a genetic answer” to hyperactivity and was a leading proponent of the use of drugs such as Ritalin. Remschmidt was the director of the Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and studied under Dr. Hermann Stutte, a man associated with Nazi psychiatrists involved in the German euthanasia program. Remschmidt received his doctorate from Robert Sommer, director of the Deutscher Verband fur Psychische Hygiene, or the German Association for Mental Hygiene, the institution that in the late 1920s laid the psychiatric groundwork for the idea of “mental hygiene.” The end result of this attempt at eugenics was the hands-on Nazi sterilization and euthanasia programs that led to the Holocaust. Long after the war, Remschmidt still proposed “a genetic answer” to hyperactivity and was a leading proponent of the use of drugs such as Ritalin.

Could it be that Ritalin is doing more harm than good? A 1986 edition of the
International Journal of the Addictions
listed 105 adverse reactions to Ritalin, including serious ones such as dangerously high blood pressure, aggressiveness, restlessness, hallucinations, unusual behavior, and suicidal tendencies. Investigative reporter Kelly Patricia O’Meara spent sixteen years working as a congressional staffer before writing investigative articles for
Insight Magazine
. Her reports on child vaccines and mood-altering drugs prompted congressional hearings. She wrote: “Thirty years ago the World Health Organization (WHO) concluded that Ritalin was pharmacologically similar to cocaine in the pattern of abuse it fostered and cited it as a Schedule II drug—the most addictive in medical use. The Department of Justice also cited Ritalin as a Schedule II drug under the Controlled Substances Act, and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) warned that ‘Ritalin substitutes for cocaine and d-amphetamine in a number of behavioral paradigms.’” O’Meara referenced a 2001 study at the Brookhaven National Laboratory that confirmed the similarities between cocaine and Ritalin, but found that Ritalin is more potent than cocaine in its effect on the dopamine system, an area of the brain many doctors believe is most affected by such narcotics.

Although Americans wonder why there has been a rash of school shootings and teen suicides in recent years, few take into account that virtually all of these killings have involved a student who was on—or was just coming off—mood-altering drugs. In five cases of school shootings between March 1998 and May 1999—including the tragedy at Columbine High School—the students involved with the shootings were medicated. Though it was downplayed by the media, Seung-Hui Cho, the gunman in the Virginia Tech shootings in April 2007, had been undergoing psychological counseling and possessed prescription psychoactive drugs.

In his book
Reclaiming Our Children,
psychiatrist and drug critic Dr. Peter Breggin argued that Eric Harris’s violence at Columbine was caused by the prescription drug Luvox. “I also warned that stopping antidepressants can be as dangerous as starting them, since they can cause very disturbing and painful withdrawal reactions,” said Dr. Breggin.

The claim that drugs are behind school shootings was echoed as far back as a 1999 article in
Health and Healing
, written by Dr. Julian Whitaker: “[V]irtually all of the gun-related massacres that have made headlines over the past decade have had one thing in common: they were perpetrated by people taking Prozac, Zoloft, Luvox, Paxil or a related anti-depressant drug.”

A website called TeenScreenTruth.com is dedicated to gathering information off the Internet to help teens “connect the dots to see the revealing connections” between mood-altering drugs and teen violence. The site compiled a list of violent episodes dating as far back as 1985 when Steven W. Brownlee, an Atlanta postal worker on psychotropic drugs, killed two coworkers. Despite sealed medical records, the sheer totality of evidence pointing to psychiatric drugs as the culprit behind most school shootings, teen suicides, and other violent behavior is most compelling, if not overwhelming.

It would appear from the evidence that German drug science and German psychiatry have provided the foundation for today’s schools where children increasingly are being steered to drugs for any complaint—from true antisocial behavior to merely daydreaming.

The effort by Big Pharm to mold education, physicians, politicians, and even health care in general to its will requires massive amounts of money. Such great sums are only available to the globalists with Nazi roots and well beyond the reach of even well-off Americans, thanks to a crumbling economy and never-before-seen debt.

PSYCHIATRY AND EUGENICS

B
Y APPLYING PSYCHOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES
developed by the Germans, Big Pharm, the corporate mass media, and even education have been turned into tools for mind control. But before examining how this has occurred, one must first understand the history of psychology and psychiatry.

HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY

P
RIOR TO THE LATE
1800s, the mentally ill were treated little better than torture victims—chained to the walls of basements, cages, or dungeons; beaten; and subjected to “therapies” such as bloodletting, partial drowning, and primitive shock treatments. A change to these treatment methods came when, in the 1860s, German medical doctor Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt proposed the idea that man is simply a higher-order animal and that feeling and emotions may be studied and altered scientifically rather than through physical punishment. Wundt’s work emphasized the physiological relationship of the brain and the mind. He explored the nature of religious beliefs, denied the human soul, and began to identify mental disorders and abnormal behavior, which led to the creation of the field of psychology. His
Lectures on the Mind of Humans and Animals
was published in 1863, and a year later, he was promoted to assistant professor of physiology at Heidelberg University. There his work continued and, with the support of German militarists and aristocrats, he became known as the “father of experimental psychology.” Wundt, who found studies of the human soul incompatible with scientific empirical investigation, set out to explain what had previously been metaphysical matters in terms of mere animalistic and body chemical reactions.

Many believe that Wundt’s studies, as well as other European studies of the human mind, were major influences on the Nazi eugenics programs, which ultimately led to some of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century. Thus, some of Germany’s most learned men provided justification for Nazi euthanasia and extermination programs. “Hitler’s philosophy and his concept of man in general was shaped to a decisive degree by psychiatry…an influential cluster of psychiatrists and their frightening theories and methods collectively form the missing piece of the puzzle of Hitler, the Third Reich, the atrocities and their dreadful legacy. It is the overlooked yet utterly central piece of the puzzle,” wrote Dr. Thomas Röder and his coauthors, Volker Kubillus and Anthony Burwell, in their 1995 book
Psychiatrists—The Men Behind Hitler.

Psychology, the scientific study of the human mind, and psychiatry, the study and treatment of mental disorders, go hand in hand and led to a viewpoint that certain people, endowed with better education, and presumably understanding, were more competent to judge the behavior of others.