Thursday, November 27, 2008
These Lying Times....The Morbid History of Psychiatry Behind Guantanamo
These Lying Times....The Morbid History of Psychiatry Behind Guantanamo
11/26/08
By Carl G Loy
Many Americans, perhaps most, including many Christians, seem to have no abhorrence about what our military does to the so-called enemy. We easily relegate these enemies to something less than human. After all, they want to kill us, so we should kill them first. If we take prisoners, they are thought to have no rights and even torture is acceptable if needed to get information which might save our own losses. The ends always justifies the means. I accept that the secular world may well have this view with no scruples. However, the many so-called Christians who support atrocities committed by our military as these ends justifying the means, are alarming. "We should nuke those ragheads," I've heard from their lips. Anything goes, it seems, if it is to the enemy, but it's another story when it's in reverse and done to us. Somehow, we just think we're better and we don't 'feel their pain and suffering.' Perhaps that is why our history so easily conceals the many atrocities that we have committed against others. Their history is not so kind to us, however. They know about us, what we don't want to believe about ourselves. We don't want to know how ruthless we really are. So, when torture is exposed in places like Iraq, we don't recoil at the news; we simply ignore it as being a few over-zealous soldiers. In a prison in Guantanamo, we ignore the plight of those held years without charges, some guilty of little more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. We turn our attention elsewhere, when we hear that some were taken to foreign countries for torture, away from any possible scrunity that might get our attention. Yet, there is a torture that has existed in our military prisons for decades and it is approved by the government and accepted by the public. It is the torture performed under the auspices of psychiatry.
I know of no other profession that is more blatantly evil than is that of psychiatry. Not a science, not a medical profession, and with practically no regulations and oversight except for its' own, psychiatry operates freely and authoritatively, affecting the lives of millions of citizens, particularly children. Everyone knows someone that is prescribed mind altering, or 'psychiatric' drugs and we are little concerned by it. By their standards all of us can be diagnosed as having some type of mental disorder. They make up these names and determine a treatment for them and no one seems to question their expertise, when their expertise is mostly just that they can make up these names and labels. They can have people committed to an institution for treatment, against their will, and having no rights to refuse treatment. Courts always ignore the victim and rule in favor of the psychiatrists recommendations. Any of us can be imprisoned in an institution simply by an angry spouse obtaining the services of a psychiatrist, even if it's only for observation at first, or "for our own protection." I can personally vouch for this statement, as this happened to a friend. He was going thru a divorce and his wife was able to have him arrested at his place of business and taken to a psychiatric facility where he was held for a week for observation on her accusation that he was suicidal. He was not allowed any contact with anyone outside the hospital during this time. Virtually hidden from the outside world, he was helpless in the hands of the hospital staff. My contacting a lawyer and a medical doctor, both with whom I was acquainted, accomplished nothing, as they were not allowed to contact him, nor even provided with any information regarding his welfare. It was probably the results of his friends and employees harassing the wife that finally encouraged her to agree to let him out. I don't know what part her psychiatrist played, but I assume he simply followed her request. What I do know from studies is that psychiatrists wield enormous power and belong to one of the most wealthy professions in the world, and that they have a sordid history, which I'm about to highlight.
In the early days, 200 years ago, psychiatrists were routinely given patients deemed to be mad by local authorities, or upon the advice of those in the medical profession, or relatives, or whoever had some concerns either real or imagined. Treatment included flogging, being chained, starved, and later evolving into electroshock, surgeries, and drugs. Initially, this brutal treatment was performed behind walls not open to the public, nor to anyone outside the psychiatric profession. The methods used were never about curing anyone of anything, but were intended to bring the individual under submission. Eventually, it became not only a torture chamber, but a source of experimenting on humans with the use of psychology, various stimuli, and disease and drugs. Today, psychiatry also operates outside the walls of the past facilities and monopolizes the mental health agenda raking in many billions of dollars from both governments and individuals, more by far than does the medical profession.
Psychiatry cannot cure one single mental illness, by their own admission. Their treatments are experiments at best with unknown affects on any particular individual. According to Jan Eastgate an activist attempting to expose psychiatric lies and their money trail, more people have died in government psychiatric hospitals than have soldiers been killed in battle over the last 40 years. She goes on to provide these statistics: More than 20 million children are on prescribed drugs known to cause violence, psychosis, suicide, homicide, strokes, diabetes, heart attacks, hallucinations, and death from alleged disorders that have never even been proven to exist. Antidepressants are prescribed for over 150 million people worldwide, even though they have been proven to have no better results than placebos, (sugar pills). In one study, psychiatric treatment had a 99% failure rate. American seniors age 65 received electro shock treatments 3 and 1/2 times more than 64 year olds, who aren't covered by government health insurance.
Electro shock treatments have their own morbid history, but currently, electro shock treatments are killing 10,000 people per year. Half the elderly who receive the treatments die within two years.
Despite the trillions of dollars invested in psychiatry, it has cured nothing, but it has ruined lives and adversely affected the values of society. In 1940, the future co-founder of the World Federation for mental Health stated in a meeting that, "public life, politics, and industry should all be in the sphere of influence (of psychiatry)." He went on to state that it was easy to attack the teaching profession and the church, but more difficult to involve law and medicine. The other co-founder stated: "To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism, and religious dogmas."
The early history of psychiatry is basically one of torture. Kept in a cell or cage, chained naked, enduring blood-letting, held in ice water, and partial drownings are not foreign to what the American military has done to prisoners at Guantanamo, and particularly to other prisoners in other countries under the watchful eye of our CIA. The torture, including "water-boarding" at Guantanamo is under the supervision of psychiatrists and is reminiscent of the early days of psychiatric treatment in the 1700's and 1800's. It was in the late 1800's that the term eugenics was born. It was also during this time that we came to know psychology. By the early 1900's many of these torture techniques and 'treatments' had been refined and along with new drugs, were used in mind manipulation or brainwashing, and behavior modification programs, not only in prisons and hospitals, but on the public. Psychiatry with its' drugs and use of violence is a fraud and a danger to all of society and it is government sponsored. The 9/11 government sponsored terrorist attack is nothing compared to the evil that psychiatry has wrought for 200 years and continues to wreak.
Continued in part 2....
11/26/08
By Carl G Loy
Many Americans, perhaps most, including many Christians, seem to have no abhorrence about what our military does to the so-called enemy. We easily relegate these enemies to something less than human. After all, they want to kill us, so we should kill them first. If we take prisoners, they are thought to have no rights and even torture is acceptable if needed to get information which might save our own losses. The ends always justifies the means. I accept that the secular world may well have this view with no scruples. However, the many so-called Christians who support atrocities committed by our military as these ends justifying the means, are alarming. "We should nuke those ragheads," I've heard from their lips. Anything goes, it seems, if it is to the enemy, but it's another story when it's in reverse and done to us. Somehow, we just think we're better and we don't 'feel their pain and suffering.' Perhaps that is why our history so easily conceals the many atrocities that we have committed against others. Their history is not so kind to us, however. They know about us, what we don't want to believe about ourselves. We don't want to know how ruthless we really are. So, when torture is exposed in places like Iraq, we don't recoil at the news; we simply ignore it as being a few over-zealous soldiers. In a prison in Guantanamo, we ignore the plight of those held years without charges, some guilty of little more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. We turn our attention elsewhere, when we hear that some were taken to foreign countries for torture, away from any possible scrunity that might get our attention. Yet, there is a torture that has existed in our military prisons for decades and it is approved by the government and accepted by the public. It is the torture performed under the auspices of psychiatry.
I know of no other profession that is more blatantly evil than is that of psychiatry. Not a science, not a medical profession, and with practically no regulations and oversight except for its' own, psychiatry operates freely and authoritatively, affecting the lives of millions of citizens, particularly children. Everyone knows someone that is prescribed mind altering, or 'psychiatric' drugs and we are little concerned by it. By their standards all of us can be diagnosed as having some type of mental disorder. They make up these names and determine a treatment for them and no one seems to question their expertise, when their expertise is mostly just that they can make up these names and labels. They can have people committed to an institution for treatment, against their will, and having no rights to refuse treatment. Courts always ignore the victim and rule in favor of the psychiatrists recommendations. Any of us can be imprisoned in an institution simply by an angry spouse obtaining the services of a psychiatrist, even if it's only for observation at first, or "for our own protection." I can personally vouch for this statement, as this happened to a friend. He was going thru a divorce and his wife was able to have him arrested at his place of business and taken to a psychiatric facility where he was held for a week for observation on her accusation that he was suicidal. He was not allowed any contact with anyone outside the hospital during this time. Virtually hidden from the outside world, he was helpless in the hands of the hospital staff. My contacting a lawyer and a medical doctor, both with whom I was acquainted, accomplished nothing, as they were not allowed to contact him, nor even provided with any information regarding his welfare. It was probably the results of his friends and employees harassing the wife that finally encouraged her to agree to let him out. I don't know what part her psychiatrist played, but I assume he simply followed her request. What I do know from studies is that psychiatrists wield enormous power and belong to one of the most wealthy professions in the world, and that they have a sordid history, which I'm about to highlight.
In the early days, 200 years ago, psychiatrists were routinely given patients deemed to be mad by local authorities, or upon the advice of those in the medical profession, or relatives, or whoever had some concerns either real or imagined. Treatment included flogging, being chained, starved, and later evolving into electroshock, surgeries, and drugs. Initially, this brutal treatment was performed behind walls not open to the public, nor to anyone outside the psychiatric profession. The methods used were never about curing anyone of anything, but were intended to bring the individual under submission. Eventually, it became not only a torture chamber, but a source of experimenting on humans with the use of psychology, various stimuli, and disease and drugs. Today, psychiatry also operates outside the walls of the past facilities and monopolizes the mental health agenda raking in many billions of dollars from both governments and individuals, more by far than does the medical profession.
Psychiatry cannot cure one single mental illness, by their own admission. Their treatments are experiments at best with unknown affects on any particular individual. According to Jan Eastgate an activist attempting to expose psychiatric lies and their money trail, more people have died in government psychiatric hospitals than have soldiers been killed in battle over the last 40 years. She goes on to provide these statistics: More than 20 million children are on prescribed drugs known to cause violence, psychosis, suicide, homicide, strokes, diabetes, heart attacks, hallucinations, and death from alleged disorders that have never even been proven to exist. Antidepressants are prescribed for over 150 million people worldwide, even though they have been proven to have no better results than placebos, (sugar pills). In one study, psychiatric treatment had a 99% failure rate. American seniors age 65 received electro shock treatments 3 and 1/2 times more than 64 year olds, who aren't covered by government health insurance.
Electro shock treatments have their own morbid history, but currently, electro shock treatments are killing 10,000 people per year. Half the elderly who receive the treatments die within two years.
Despite the trillions of dollars invested in psychiatry, it has cured nothing, but it has ruined lives and adversely affected the values of society. In 1940, the future co-founder of the World Federation for mental Health stated in a meeting that, "public life, politics, and industry should all be in the sphere of influence (of psychiatry)." He went on to state that it was easy to attack the teaching profession and the church, but more difficult to involve law and medicine. The other co-founder stated: "To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism, and religious dogmas."
The early history of psychiatry is basically one of torture. Kept in a cell or cage, chained naked, enduring blood-letting, held in ice water, and partial drownings are not foreign to what the American military has done to prisoners at Guantanamo, and particularly to other prisoners in other countries under the watchful eye of our CIA. The torture, including "water-boarding" at Guantanamo is under the supervision of psychiatrists and is reminiscent of the early days of psychiatric treatment in the 1700's and 1800's. It was in the late 1800's that the term eugenics was born. It was also during this time that we came to know psychology. By the early 1900's many of these torture techniques and 'treatments' had been refined and along with new drugs, were used in mind manipulation or brainwashing, and behavior modification programs, not only in prisons and hospitals, but on the public. Psychiatry with its' drugs and use of violence is a fraud and a danger to all of society and it is government sponsored. The 9/11 government sponsored terrorist attack is nothing compared to the evil that psychiatry has wrought for 200 years and continues to wreak.
Continued in part 2....
