TiLTNews Network: Earth Watch - Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference, not by safety. It is easy to clamor for government security when terrible things happen; but liberty is given true meaning when we support it without exception, and we will be safer for it ~ Dr. Ron Paul
By Redsilverj
YouTube reporter Redsilverj breaks down how the mainstream media stories surrounding the alleged Charleston shooting are tailor made to drive a long-sought-after and multifaceted agenda to stoke racial division, increase gun control, and to justify war-on-terror surveillance measures domestically.
Charleston Shooting Staged Perfectly To Advance Admitted Agendas
Activist Post
Mon, 22 Jun 2015 03:08:00 GMT
By Brian McIntyre
On Wednesday evening, a brutal massacre was perpetrated against nine black Americans, including several clergy and a State Senator, who were attending a Christian education class at a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina. A suspect, Dylann Roof, now in custody, is a white male who was allegedly being prescribed antidepressants and was found in possession of weapons.
The mainstream and pseudo-alternative media have predictably gone into overdrive, pushing the story into whichever direction suits their single-issue agendas: pro- or anti-Second Amendment rights, the dangers of psychotropic pharmaceuticals, and the threat of domestic or “homegrown” terrorism. Instead, this can be seen as a potentially manufactured event designed to displace attention from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) opposition movement, as well as the ongoing worldwide mass strike upsurge, highlighted this week by a powerful intervention against the nefarious Whirlpool Corporation in Caserta, Italy.
We know from patterns of past events that the events in South Carolina have the stink of an intelligence operation: a troubled individual with a convoluted past appearing out of nowhere; a highly manicured and social media presence; early reports of multiple shooters; and the quickness with which Roof was fingered for the crime and apprehended.
Just one day prior, the New York Times published an editorial about the pivot by local and metropolitan police departments away from radicalized foreigners towards domestic “right-wing extremists” (i.e., the white working class). The Southern Poverty Law Center, a well-known foundation funded by leftist oligarch George Soros, was among the first to push the narrative of Roof as a neo-Confederate dupe with a “recent history of anti-black” sentiments, congruent with the fishy origins of the suspect’s Facebook account.
We seek to draw attention to the fact that, regardless of its realities, this tragedy is being used by the controlled media to hide the successful passage by of the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) by the House of Representatives, a standalone version of Trans-Pacific Partnership’s controversial “Fast Track” provision. It gives the President greater unilateral power in pushing secretive deals and is not linked to any other legislation, including TPP.
This lurid story is also part of an ongoing counterinsurgency effort against the poor and working classes, designed to divide white and black Americans and to prevent them from uniting around mass traction demands. These demands include opposition to the TPP with protective tariffs for American producers, and the strengthening of labor against predatory mega-corporations like Whirlpool. Rather than building mass movements and capitalizing on mass strike trends worldwide, what we see between these groups—egged on by incompetent cultural and institutional leadership— is labeling one another as anti-law enforcement thugs and racist murderers.
This does not mean we are excusing the alleged actions of provocateurs or their handlers. Instead, we have to keep our eyes on the political football. We can do so by analyzing this from a higher level of organizing that seeks out the political reasons for such potentially staged events, rather than getting bogged down in the technical obscurities of the crimes.
The events in the Palmetto State also come on the heels of a blown synthetic terror operation in Garland, Texas, by “Islamophobia” network operative Pamela Geller, and the general failure of the public to respond to ever-increasing doses of provocations perpetrated by ostensibly Muslim fanatics in Massachusetts, Kansas, and elsewhere.Meanwhile, flagging campaigns of imperialist aggression against sovereign states such as the Donbass Peoples Republic, Iraq, and Syria, along with nuclear deal favorable to Iran and a walkout by the International Monetary Fund in the eleventh hour of Greek debt negotiations, indicate the growing desperation of the international ruling class and banking cartels. The apparent lack of enthusiasm for these subversive campaigns on the part of President Obama, who is also facing a spree of new security threats within the Secret Service, has caused these cliques to turn up the heat. This change of tone signified by the events in Charleston potentially signal a new cycle of the “strategy of tension” first pioneered in Operation Gladio in Cold War-era Italy and Western Europe. The ruling class reliably stages atrocities against populations in order to distract them as well as to shore up their political weakness.
In addressing Wednesday’s events, President Obama characteristically embraced the media’s tropes instead of issuing a strong rebuff to the blind alley of wedge issues and the incompetence of his closest advisors. It should also be noted that Obama knew the pastor of the Charleston church who was killed, State senator Rev. Clementa Pinckney. While the deceased’s surname is spelled differently than that of imprisoned anti-Whirlpool Corp. crusader Rev. Edward Pinkney, and presumably of no relation, this is a chilling coincidence.
The grisly events of Charleston should be investigated to their fullest extent and the truth of the allegations sought out by the appropriate parties, but this writer must implore you to ignore the banal sensationalism of the media and concentrate on agitating against the monstrosity of the Trans-Pacific Partnership legislation, as well as the entry of Donald Trump into the presidential nominee circus, whose aim is to dragoon moderate American voters from buying into the GOP quest for the presidency. With practical political demands, we can break the power of the Wall Street networks who facilitate these crimes and discredited politicians and achieve justice on all fronts.
Charleston Massacre: Racial Tension Ploy to Conceal TPP Deal and Derail Mass Strike Momentum
Activist
Sat, 20 Jun 2015 22:57:00 GMT
By Jeb Kicker
Many Americans have heard of this giant trade deal known as the TPP, or Trans-Pacific Partnership. Most don’t have a clue what the agreement actually contains or what effects it will have on our situation in America. All citizens should at least know what is being discussed; this pact will have enormous implications and the widespread ignorance of its provisions is by design. Let’s dive in.
One of the largest areas of contention with the TPP lie within the provisions strengthening copyright rules. Here are some of the most dangerous provisions:
The criminalization of the misuse of trade secrets
Under current U.S. law, trade secret misappropriation is only a criminal offense when harm is done to the owner or the action benefits someone else. No longer. Any unauthorized access to trade secrets on a computer system is illegal, even when no copy or disclosure is made, and even when the access neither harms nor benefits anyone. As a deeper concern, there are no safeguards included for the protection of investigative journalists, security researchers or whistleblowers, potentially criminalizing anyone who obtains access to secret information online.
ISP / Content Provider Liability
According to a leaked February 2011 draft, Article 16 of the Intellectual Property chapter insists that signatory nations provide legal incentives for internet service and content providers to police copyright infringement themselves, pushing the financial and administrative burden of copyright enforcement onto the ISPs and intermediaries. Put simply, this provision forces ISPs (Comcast, Verizon, SuddenLink) and content providers (Facebook, Google, Reddit) to police their customers for copyright infringement. Setting aside the implausibility of these providers to enforce draconian copyright measures 24/7, these rules also undermine due process protections by forcing providers to cut service to repeat offenders.
Copyright Term Extension & Criminal Enforcement
The current international copyright terms (as established by the Berne Convention) are 50 years after the author’s death for individual works and 50 years after creation for corporate works. The TPP would bind signatories to the current U.S. copyright term lengths: 70 years after author’s death and 120 years after the creation of a corporate work. Copyright was initially proposed to incentivize the creation of new forms of art; why create if someone else gets all the profits? However, terms that last for several generations are counter-intuitive to the initial purpose. Creativity and innovation are often made possible by building off previous works and the cost of making new works could become a huge entry barrier for smaller operations. This letter from 22 digital rights advocacy groups calls such copyright terms a “transfer of wealth in favor of large corporate copyright holders”, as they harm those who rely on the public domain (i.e. libraries, students, artists and writers) and further the likelihood of “orphan works”, those whose author is long gone and cannot be found to seek permission, rendering several works as “likely deadweight loss to the economy”. Due to the heavy price of royalties related to an extension of this size, one scholar estimated that copyright extension has cost Australia $88 million per year in royalties. Another concern is that such heavy copyright restrictions imposed under a trade deal of this magnitude could make it much more difficult for the United States to change our copyright policy down the road.
The U.S. is also pushing for a broad definition for criminal violation of copyright, including infringement for non-commercial purposes. The TPP would criminalize anyone who shares or otherwise makes available copyrighted works “on a commercial scale”, which, given how quickly memes can go viral, is quite a loose definition. The pact also requires that judges be authorized to order the seizure, destruction, or forfeiture of anything “traceable to infringement activity”. This clause further empowers law enforcement to take laptops and hard drives from suspects and even allows for the state seizure of internet domain names. Here’s the kicker: under the new terms, the government can act without a formal complaint from the copyright owner, meaning the government can take down internet content it doesn’t like, given it can be construed to have violated vast copyright restrictions. Censorship, anyone?Another major concern for opponents of the deal is called Investor-State Dispute Settlement, a form of neutral, international arbitration. Break it down:
ISDS is a form of arbitration designed to resolve international conflicts without becoming a state-to-state conflict, protect citizens abroad and signal to potential investors that the rule of law will be respected. The United States is currently party to 50 agreements that contain ISDS provisions, including six of the TPP signatory nations. This sounds like a reasonable thing; it protects foreign investors from the corrupt laws of rogue states, is typically used as a last resort, and the U.S. has never lost a case. Here’s the problem: ISDS has been increasingly used by foreign corporations to dodge domestic courts and it may even be unconstitutional.
Here’s how it works: a foreign investor takes issue with a United States law, whether it be local, state or federal, claiming it violates their minimum protections under the trade agreement. The case is brought before a tribunal consisting of three attorneys; one picked by the investor, one by the U.S., and one is chosen by the first two attorneys. These attorneys are not appointed by any federal court, do not have to be U.S. citizens and often serve as arbitrators while also representing investors in other cases. Their decisions are final and not subject to judicial review, with the only solution being money damages based on expected future income ‘lost’ due to the regulation. The federal government is the sole defendant, even when the cases are levied against state or local laws, raising the issue of federalism. Alan Morrison, a respected law professor who has presented more than 20 cases to the Supreme Court, penned a letter to Congress, writing that the ISDS protections in the TPP “improperly removes a core judicial function from the federal courts and therefore violates Article III of the Constitution.” Morrison argues that ISDS outsources the resolution of challenges to U.S. law to private arbitrators, completely bypassing the judiciary. To further illustrate how this could be disastrous under TPP, Morrison provides this example: a foreign firm could challenge California’s water-restriction laws due to the drought, claiming it violates their minimum protections under the TPP. Now, these tribunals do not have the power to directly change domestic laws, but even through the threat of litigation can influence governments to proactively remove regulations, as Germany and Canada have done.
Lack of Transparency
Though these areas are rife with potential weapons for abuse, the most outrageous of the issues with the TPP is the complete and utter lack of transparency. No full text has been issued to the public; our only knowledge of this pact comes from leaked texts. Even members of Congress (after just recently getting access) have to go read the deal one chapter at a time in the basement of the Capitol Visitor Center, being watched over as they read and being allowed to take no notes with them. On the contrary, over 500 ‘industry advisors’ [lobbyists] from the MPAA and RIAA have been granted online access to the deal they helped write.
These are just a few of the points of contention the Diurna has with the Trans-Pacific Partnership, though they certainly cause serious concern on their own. With Congress set to vote on separate fast-track bills next week, this time is crucial to call your representatives and tell them what’s up. We’ve seen a trade deal favored by the President, the controlling party and corporate America beaten back by grassroots activism and old-fashioned public participation. Fight the current. You may complain about a rigged system all you want, but when the cog that dismantles it is out in the open, it’s your duty to expose it. Stand up for our democracy.
To read more from Jeb Kicker, please visit his site the Diurna where this article first appeared.
What’s the deal with the TPP?
Activist
Sun, 21 Jun 2015 18:59:00 GMT
Interview with man who used personal firearm to save crowd from armed terrorists
by DAVID KNIGHT | INFOWARS.COM | JUNE 21, 2015
In just 30 seconds, the terrorists were able to kill 11 people and wound 58. Some were gravely wounded with injuries that would forever alter their life. But the terrorists had planned to kill everyone in the church and were equipped to do so.
We talk to Charl about the sensational events of the church shooting and his spiritual journey from Christian pacifist to a man God used to protect the lives of over 1,000 people.
Charl is a full-time missionary of Frontline Fellowship, the Director of Africa Christian Action ministry, the presenter of the weekly radio program “Salt and Light,” and the author of: “Shooting Back — The Right and Duty of Self- Defence”.
by ALEX JONES | INFOWARS.COM | JUNE 21, 2015
From the Greek-Euro crisis to gold’s sudden rise in popularity, the writing on the wall points to unavoidable economic doom.
On the eve of the Jade Helm military drill set to take place next month, Texas Governor Greg Abbott indicated his distrust of the Federal Reserve’s fiat monetary system in a move to repatriate $1 billion of goldback to his home state.
Countries such as China and Germany have made similar moves, with the German Central Bank, or Bundesbank, earlier this year saying it also has plans to repatriate 300 tonnes of gold from the New York Fed by 2020.
Just today, British hedge fund manager Ian Spreadbury, who handles billions in investments, revealed he warns his clients of the market’s “systemic risk,” and said he advises them to store “physical cash” due to its overwhelming volatility.
Former Congressman Ron Paul has also recently warned that the federal reserve’s money printing policies are unsustainable, and that the stock market’s “day of reckoning” is near.
All of this, coupled with the fact that billionaires are purchasing doomsday bunkers and offshore hideaways, paints a bleak picture of the global economic future unless more of humanity awakens and forces a sea change.
Adan Salazar
Prison Planet.com
June 21, 2014
Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton voiced her support for stricter gun control laws in the wake of last week’s shooting in South Carolina which left nine dead.
Speaking at the 83rd annual US Conference of Mayors Saturday, the former Secretary of State said she supported President Obama’s calls to further infringe on the Second Amendment if it means it will help the victims of “gun violence.”
Listen in at 20:02
“How [is it] that we as a nation still allow guns to fall into the hands of people whose hearts are filled with hate?” the former First Lady asked. “You can’t watch massacre after massacre and not come to the conclusion that, as President Obama said, we must tackle this challenge with urgency and conviction.”
“It makes no sense that bipartisan legislation to require universal background checks would fail in Congress despite overwhelming public support,” she said. (On Friday, it emerged that suspected Charleston shooter Dylann Storm Roof actually passed a background check to purchase a firearm.)
“It makes no sense that we couldn’t come together to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers or people suffering from mental illness, even people on the terror watch list,” she continued.
“That doesn’t make sense and it is a rebuke to this nation we love and care about,” the CFR member said, raising her voice loudly.
“The president is right. The politics on this issue have been poisoned, but we can’t give up. The stakes are too high. The costs are too dear, and I am not and will not be afraid to keep fighting for common sense reforms and along with you achieve those on behalf of all who have been lost because of this senseless gun violence in our country.”
In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, President Obama and Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr.both rushed to issue statements demonizing the Second Amendment over the shooter’s actions.
Meanwhile, black Americans took to Twitter and rallied around firearms, the Second Amendment and the God-given right to self defense, declaring a call to arms in rejection of the white supremacist ideology.
Candidate Clinton first made her anti-gun stance clear in April, asserting, “We cannot let a minority of people, and that’s what it is, it is a minority of people, hold a view point that terrorizes the majority of people.”
H/T: The Hill
This article was posted: Sunday, June 21, 2015 at 11:48 am
Published: 10:14 EST, 21 June 2015 | Updated: 12:23 EST, 21 June 2015
A well-known climate change doubter almost made it to a key Vatican summit on the issue before his invitation to attend was withdrawn at the last minute, it was claimed last night.
French writer Philippe de Larminat - who believes that solar activity rather than greenhouse gases are causing global warning - had been keen to get a place at the Vatican-sponsored event in April.
After he obtained a meeting with officials at the Vatican, Mr de Larminat was told that he could attend the summit, space-permitting – and booked a plane ticket from Paris to Rome.
'Action required': Pope Francis (pictured today in Turin, Italy) last week issued a stark warning over the urgent need to tackle 'extraordinary climate change and an unprecedented destruction of ecosystems'
But five days before the event, he received an email claiming there was no space left - which arrived after other scientists said that he should not attend, reported The Washington Post.
Speaking to journalists Anthony Faiola and Chris Mooney, Mr de Larminat told the newspaper: ‘They did not want to hear an off note.’
The event, sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, was attended by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and others calling for huge steps to reduce carbon emissions.
Mr de Larminat was given an indication that a space would made for him at the summit after meeting Cardinal Peter Turkson in March.
Present: The event in April, sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, was attended by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (pictured) and others calling for huge steps to reduce carbon emissions
But Pontifical Academy of Sciences chancellor Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo effectively vetoed Mr de Larminat's attendance less than a week before the summit on April 28.
They did not want to hear an off note
Philippe de Larminat
The bishop told The Washington Post that this was because Mr de Larminat is ‘not an academic authority in this field, neither a religious authority nor a UN authority’.
And in the end, Mr de Larminat - like many other climate change doubters - would have been saddened to hear Pope Francis come to the conclusion last week that ‘denial’ is wrong.
Last week, in an eagerly-awaited message, the Pope issued a stark warning over the urgent need to tackle ‘extraordinary climate change and an unprecedented destruction of ecosystems’.
Words: A man looks at a copy of Pope Francis's encyclical at the Vatican bookshop in Rome. He said climate change was mostly down to human activity and policies were urgently needed to cut carbon emissions
In the first papal encyclical Pope Francis has written, he said climate change was mostly down to human activity and policies were urgently needed to cut carbon emissions.
We are presently witnessing a disturbing warming of the climatic system
Pope Francis
In the face of opposition from climate sceptics, including many Catholics, the Pope spelt out human responsibility for climate change.
‘A very solid scientific consensus indicates that we are presently witnessing a disturbing warming of the climatic system,’ he wrote.
‘Humanity is called to recognise the need for changes of lifestyle, production and consumption, in order to combat this warming or at least the human causes which produce or aggravate it.’
While everyone is focused on the South and rightly so, not enough are focusing on the North. There is a lot of military movement as well in the Northern states that we all should be paying attention to.
SHTFPlan.com has the latest on what is going on up North.
Jeremiah Johnson is a retired Green Beret of the United States Army Special Forces (Airborne) and a graduate of the U.S. Army’s SERE school (Survival Evasion Resistance Escape). You can contact JJ by using this form.
The information presented within this article is in follow-up to the activities observed by the author in relation to U.S. Military maneuvers taking place on the Canadian Border in Montana. Since the first article was printed, a tremendous amount of comments, e-mails, and observations have trickled in to supplement the observations. Please take note: all commentators and information providers will be kept anonymous and their identities withheld. The area the observations were made will be the only thing provided.
COLUMBUS, MONTANA. Night helicopter activity around the Columbus, MT area has been observed. The reporter resides approximately fifteen miles outside of town and heard helicopter sorties flying a few times each week for the past 3 weeks. Most often it is just after sunset but some were observed in the early morning hours before dawn. Many small planes were observed circling the area overhead during the day, making 3-5 passes and then departing for an hour or two before returning. The observer did not notice any such activity when originally moving into the area the year before.
BUTTE, MONTANA. The observer noticed 3 airlifts into Butte Airport in May with C-17’s. Such was completely unprecedented. Multiple pallets were off-loaded from these aircraft each time, with the observer providing unconfirmed reports that these contained crew-served ammunition, transferred to storage facilities on site. Multiple C-130 operations concurrently with “local” security contracting company that is well-known in Butte. Parachute drops and airborne operations were conducted for 3 different days, and one of the aircraft remained there the entire week. The other operations with the 130’s involved only the transfer of cargo.
CARSON/DENVER, COLORADO. Observer reported Ft. Carsonutilizing 4000 troops to Trinidad County for maneuvers. Frequent Blackhawk and Chinook helicopters have been conducting flyovers during the day around Denver. The observer reported speaking with Apache pilots who told him their role was to “practice resupply and intercept,” although the intended object of interception was never specified.
KILA, MONTANA. Multiple C-130 flights observed originating with Glacier International Airport and flying NW at approximately 4-6000 feet. Distribution was 3 aircraft during the day, and 3 at night, in staggered formation to suggest potential practice for airborne operations. Flights observed over a 3-day period (6/12-6/14). Observer noticed (for the day flights) through high-powered optics that all of the aircraft bore U.S. Insignia; however, they were “sterile” of fin numbers and unit designations.
TREGO, MONTANA. Observer noticed what appeared to be a platoon-sized element of individuals hiking around in the National Forest in black BDU’s, and upon closer inspection the observer found all of them to be Asian in appearance with no unit patches, name tags, or any identifiable markings. The men were armed with black AK-47’s, load carrying vests, sidearms, and grenades. The element appeared to be “led” by two members of the U.S. Military, also in sterilized U.S. Uniforms and also heavily-armed. When questioned, a U.S. Border Patrol agent materialized and warned the observer to move out of the area or face arrest.
EUREKA, MONTANA. Two observers reported seeing a large column of 2 1/2 ton/Deuce-and-a-half type vehicles, Desert Camouflage colored with U.S. Army Personnel on board but with the normal bumper marker identifiers taped over with “100 mph” tape, and on some vehicles blacked out completely with spray paint. The observers (while following) noted the column was permitted to cross the border into Canada unimpeded and not inspected by Canadian or U.S. Border patrol officers. Movement occurred Sat., 6/13.
There has also been considerable activity in the areas of transport, supply, and logistics both in and around Glacier International Airport just north of Kalispell, Montana. Numerous flights of C-130’s were observed landing from the direction of East-West, suggestive of Malmstrom AFB in Montana. The 130’s off-loaded numerous pallets and crated supplies. There were several pallets that were placed in hangars and later a half dozen rental trucks (U-Haul) visited the terminal, specifically the building where the supplies were taken from the aircraft.
The author notes that the sorties in his area are up to 5-6 per day and holding at 3 per night, but now with increased numbers of choppers (6-8 minimum), all Blackhawks with an occasional UH-1 flying not in formation, but paralleling it.
Other observers who wished their exact locations withheld (but generally all within the Flathead valley) have been reporting small groups of foreigners (Russians, Canadians, and others not able to be positively identified, but definitely from Europe) in partial uniforms, such as BDU bottoms with black or tan tops and sans markings or unit insignia. Again, these individuals were accompanied by U.S. servicemen in sterile uniforms (American BDU’s).
Once again, any information that you can provide will be analyzed and presented in a fashion as to provide some timely reporting on things observed while maintaining anonymity. Photos and short film clips are also greatly welcomed. It is imperative that focus be maintained on the whereabouts and activities of these military units and any foreign troops, agents, or contractors they have in their employ. Keep up the good work and keep the information flowing. We need it while we can still get it. More information to be followed as we post it here. Stay in the fight and God Bless you.
Source: Update: Military Movements on the Northern Border: Small Groups of Foreign Military Units Sighted –
ROBERT HARRINGTON Prison Planet.com June 21, 2015
Suboxone is a powerful psychoactive drug which is utilized in breaking heroin and narcotic pain reliever addictions. Just like methadone*, suboxone has it downside risks and adverse side effects. It is a medication which contains two primary ingredients — buprenorphine and naloxone. Buprenorphine is a synthetic opiate; naloxone is drug that blocks feelings of euphoria.
*Methodone is such a dangerous drug that dedicated clinics were set up around the country because patients could not be trusted with more than one day’s dose at a time; hence, the daily visit to the methadone clinic. Methadone is actually more dangerous than all prescribed narcotic painkillers and can threaten a patient’s life with each dose. As a matter of fact, a methadone user doesn’t have to be addicted to methadone to die from it—the very first dose can kill, unlike both heroin and morphine.
These two ingredients — buprenorphine and naloxone –work in tandem assisting the addicted drug user in their intention to break a very strong habit. Like any drug that can successfully replace heroin, it is quite powerful and has some serious side effects. Just how does it work?
Buprenorphine is an opioid partial agonist. This means that, although buprenorphine is an opioid, and thus can produce typical opioid agonist effects and side effects such as euphoria and respiratory depression, its maximal effects are less than those of full agonists like heroin and methadone. At low doses buprenorphine produces sufficient agonist effect to enable opioid-addicted individuals to discontinue the misuse of opioids without experiencing withdrawal symptoms. [1]
As for adverse side effects, there are many and they can be severe. It has been reported that violent outbursts and aggressive acts of rage can be experienced while under the influence of Suboxone. There are other extreme and significant behavioral outcomes which can be exhibited by those who are under the influence of Suboxone which fit with the violent acts of the Charleston shooter.
Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof was a known drug user who was caught with the powerful mind-altering narcotic Suboxone when apprehended by police during an incident on Feb. 28.[2]
The bottom line here is that powerful psychoactive and/or psychotropic drugs can push young people into all sorts of highly anti-social and destructive behavior. The presence of these drugs is rarely, if ever, discussed in the mainstream media in the wake of events like Charleston. The focus is always on the usage of a gun(s), rather than the radically altered state of mind of the shooter.
The following article link contains a compilation of similar shootings and spells out a compelling narrative which seems to prove the direct influence of psychotropic drugs in these shocking episodes. It also points directly to the fundamental responsibility that ought to be shared by those pharmaceutical companies which manufacture and distribute these dangerous drug medications.
US Mass Shootings, 1982-2012: Data From Mother Jones’ Investigation
Suboxone is only one of many powerful pharma psych drugs which can trigger such a violent crime spree
Other drugs linked to mass killers have more often been geared toward treating mental illness. According to a data set of U.S. mass shootings from 1982-2012 prepared by Mother Jones magazine, of 62 mass shootings carried out by 64 shooters, the majority of the shooters (41) were noted to have signs of possible mental illness — the precise kinds of mental illnesses that psychotropic medications are prescribed for. [2]
This investigative study provides an indisputable body of scientific evidence which clearly points to a causal relationship between various psych drugs and extreme violence. What is particularly curious is why the government never addresses these quite obvious correlations. Instead, the authorities only speak to the utilization of a gun in the commission of the crimes.
Perhaps the time is now to shift attention to the dangerously mind-altering pharmaceutical drugs which regularly trigger this unacceptable conduct. The guns will always be there, just as knives will always be available. Therefore, only by addressing the root causes will this epidemic of shootings be brought to an end.
Sources:
[2] WND.com
Reference
Pharmaceutical Drug Interactions: Creating A National Mental Health Crisis
This post originally appeared at Natural Society
This article was posted: Sunday, June 21, 2015 at 6:42 am
