Was Fort Hood Killer On Psychotropic Drugs?
Despite clear link between anti-depressants and mass shootings, media fails to ask if Hasan was on SSRI’s.
Paul Joseph Watson
Friday, November 6, 2009
Despite the fact that Fort Hood gunman Nidal Malik Hasan was a psychiatrist, the media has failed to even raise the question of whether he was taking psychotropic drugs before he gunned down over a dozen of his colleagues during yesterday’s tragic rampage, a hefty indictment of how the establishment rushes to blame politics, religion, gun rights, or any other factor for mass shootings in order to hide the direct link between such massacres and the use of anti-depressant drugs.
It has been confirmed that Hasan was an Army psychiatrist at Fort Hood. Psychiatrists have a history of “self-medication” because of the easy access they have to psychotropic drugs.
In almost every major mass shooting over the past two decades, since anti-depressant drugs became popular, the killer has been on SSRI’s – serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
The establishment media, allied closely as it is with the pharmaceutical industry, uniformly fails to stress this common factor, preferring instead to blame shootings on gun rights or, as in the case of Hasan, political motives.
However, any fair study of mass shootings cannot justifiably come to any other conclusion but the fact that SSRI’s play a central role in causing assassin’s to go berserk and engage in the kind of carnage that the average person struggles to comprehend.
Immediately after we learned of the Virginia Tech massacre, the largest mass shooting in U.S. history by a single gunman, we predicted that the assassin would be on psychotropic drugs, which is exactly what turned out to be the case.
Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, as well as 15-year-old Kip Kinkel, the Oregon killer who gunned down his parents and classmates, were all on psychotropic drugs.
Robert Hawkins, the 19 year old who killed himself and eight other people with an assault rifle in Omaha, Nebraska in December 2007 had a history of treatment with psychiatric drugs for depression and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and was on prozac.
Jeff Weise, the Red Lake High School killer was on prozac, “Unabomber” Ted Kaczinski, Michael McDermott, John Hinckley, Jr., Byran Uyesugi, Mark David Chapman and Charles Carl Roberts IV, the Amish school killer, were all on SSRI psychotropic drugs.
Northern Illinois University killer Steven Kazmierczak had taken Prozac.
Since these deadly drugs are prevalent in almost all mass shooting incidents, where is the call to ban prozac? Why is the knee-jerk reaction always to attack the 2nd Amendment rights of Americans to self-defense? The fact that yesterday’s shooting occurred on an Army base is the only reason that the establishment media has been unable to blame the carnage on gun rights. Instead, they have exploited Hasan’s religion to stir up more hatred for Muslims in a crude attempt to reinvigorate flagging public support for the war on terror.
Scientific studies proving that prozac encourages suicidal tendencies are voluminous and span back nearly a decade.
In 2005, it was revealed that Eli Lilly had full knowledge of a 1200% increase in suicide risk for takers of their Prozac. This evidence came in the wake of findings published in the British Medical Journal a year previously.
In 2006 a report was published outlining the fact that anti-depressant drug Paxil doubles the risk of violent behavior. Another study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry revealed that teens taking antidepressant drugs are more likely to commit suicide.
It is a well known fact among the makers of these drugs that they are directly linked to behavioral disturbances including agitation, panic attacks and extreme aggression, yet their use is so commonplace that they have now even found their way into our drinking water.
The corporate media, owned as it is by the U.S. military-industrial complex, will continue to gratuitously and shamelessly exploit yesterday’s tragedy by characterizing Hasan’s religious and political beliefs as the main motivation behind the massacre, without even investigating whether or not he was taking psychotropic drugs and what role these played in why he suddenly snapped, a character trait completely at odds with how Hasan’s own family described his personality.
The videos below highlight the connection between psychotropic drugs and violence.
Concerns Over Military Mental Health
Ft. Hood Shooting Reignites Worries
Lily Fu
November 5, 2009
Fort Hood Gunman Nidal Malik Hasan
The deadly shooting that killed 12 and injured 31 at Fort Hood on Thursday comes at a time when concerns have been mounting over the mental health of military personnel.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Fort Hood incident follows a particularly grim October during which 16 American soldiers killed themselves in the U.S. and while on duty overseas. The total number of suicides this year among active-duty personnel is now at 134, which puts the Army dangerously close to breaking last year's record of 140 active-duty suicides.
A 2008 report by the American Psychiatric Association found that the wars in Iraq have caused heightened stress, depression and sleeplessness among military personnel and their families.
Indeed the stress has manifested itself in violence at several military outposts. In May Sgt. John M. Russell was charged with the murders of five fellow soldiers at Camp Liberty in Iraq. Russell had been referred to the military counseling clinic after concerns over his mental state emerged.
CBS News reports that in Fort Carlson, Colo., 14 soldiers in the same brigade allegedly committed or were charged with murder between 2005 and 2008. The Army found that this particular brigade "experienced slightly higher levels of combat than any other brigades." In 11 of the 14 alleged murders, there were documented problems with alcohol and drugs.
Investigators are continuing to probe what led the accused Fort Hood shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan , to open fire on his fellow comrades. According to MyFoxDFW in Dallas , the accused shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was about to deploy overseas for Iraq or Afghanistan. Retired Army Col. Terry Lee told Fox News that he worked with Hasan, who had hoped Obama would pull troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq. Lee said Hasan got into frequent arguments with others in the military who supported the wars, and had tried hard to prevent his pending deployment.
Federal law enforcement officials said Hasan had come to their attention at least six months ago because of Internet postings that discussed suicide bombings and other threats.
Ironically just three days ago, Fort Hood commander Robert Cone issued a new mental health policy aimed at reducing the stigma associated with mental health counseling and urging soldiers to seek help.
U.S. Military Grapples With Record Suicides
November 5, 2009
The deadly shooting Thursday at the Fort Hood Army base in central Texas was one of the Army’s worst single-day losses of life since the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It follows a grim October, in which 16 American soldiers killed themselves in the U.S. and on duty overseas. The unusually high toll is fueling concerns about the mental health of the nation’s military personnel after more than eight years of continuous warfare.
The health of ground combat forces has emerged as an element of the White House’s review of its Afghanistan strategy. Conditions there have deteriorated in recent months amid lingering political instability and a worsening Taliban-led insurgency. The October suicide figures mean that at least 134 active-duty soldiers have taken their own lives so far this year, putting the Army on pace to break last year’s record of 140 active-duty suicides. The number of Army suicides has risen 37% since 2006, and last year, the suicide rate surpassed that of the U.S. population for the first time.
A 2008 report by the American Psychiatric Association found that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have caused heightened stress, depression and sleeplessness among some military personnel and their families. Here is selected Wall Street Journal coverage on the mental stress faced by soldiers, as well as soldier-on-soldier violence.
- Suicide Toll Fuels Worry That Army Is Strained - 11/3/09
- U.S. Sergeant Is Charged With Killing 5 Comrades - 5/12/09
- A General’s Personal Battle Against Military Suicides - 3/28/09
- Military Debates Purple Heart Awards For Mental Stress - 5/13/08
- War Takes Hidden Toll on Soldiers, Spouses - 4/30/08
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