The death of a Texas deputy, shot from behind while filling his patrol car with gas; the mob violence on a single mother in a park while her child looks on; the “knockout game” assault on a military veteran as he walked alone on the street; the mugging of a 92 year old woman as she prayed in a church; the killing of a 5 year old girl sitting on her Grandfather’s lap and a police officer who killed a black motorist, later found to have had two pounds of marijuana and thousands of dollars in his car. There are countless similar stories.
Have you heard of these? You may be familiar with the last one. That is about Officer Ray Tensing who fired one shot and killed Sam DuBose, a black man who had two pounds of weed and $2,600 in cash in his car. The stop and killing made the media, but not the dope or cash. Why? Because the media refuse to deviate from the Officer Ray Tensing narrative into which they have so comfortably fallen over the last twenty years. “White cop kills black man, white cop guilty of murder.” And the other stories? No, you won’t hear about them because they involve black on white crime. And the media must make excuses or provide cover for “thugs-of-color” who commit crimes.
The Texas Deputy Sheriff who was shot from behind was a family man, doing a job he loved to do and whose only transgressions were being white and a cop. A question for the shooter: If this officer had happened to be black, would you still have shot him? Does your hatred of police spring from the racist, “Black Lives Matter” mantra you have lived by? Or is yours an “equal opportunity” sort of hatred?
And as for the media that reported the crime, the man was black, not “dark-complexioned.” It is time for the media to shake off at least a little of the left-wing slant which colors their every story. There are two sides to race relations and blacks seem to be even more racist than whites. I was told that about a year ago by a black neighbor as she shook her head.
So let’s talk about the Black Lives Matter (BLM) crowd. They claim to want rights in order to improve the lives of fellow blacks. Explain how that can happen when you burn down your own neighborhoods, allow one third of abortions to be of blacks and threaten the very people you would need to improve things, that is, the white citizens who want to help? The people of this country, whether white or black, Democrat or Republican have looked at your behavior and object to the violence and disrespect you exhibit toward the nation and the culture of its people. A certain amount of organization and sophistication are needed for a movement to move forward. But BLM is not an organization, it’s a rabble.
BLM adherents have forgotten that the very first rule is to protect and improve your own. How many continue to die in inner cities? What has the BLM crowd done to end that? What about the dropout rate of black students, teen pregnancy rates, or the gangsta lifestyle so many emulate only to fall by the wayside in modern society? BLM, which purports to want to help blacks, will never take an overall look at what must be done to improve the lives of the black people. Everything is skin color and if you are of the right one, you can make demands of those who are not. It is the race baiter and those who espouse a deep visceral hatred of anything white that are causing the inability of all people to move forward. Your hatred is as racist as anything the KKK has ever done. It is up to you to stop leading the life of a victim, to move forward and set proper standards.
The media shares responsibility for turning a blind eye to the current reality of race relations. Riots in Ferguson, in Baltimore and elsewhere are led by professional activists-or should they be called professional rioters-and are funded by socialist George Soros, who has said he is working for the collapse of America. Add his participation to that of professional race baiters like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and you have the start of what might one day amount to a civil war. It that what the BLM movement really wants?
Last week, Democrats-the same Democrats of Jim Crow and poll taxes-put forward a resolution to back “Black Lives Matter.” Is it any wonder those who believe this country is worth protecting are arming themselves? “We want a Racial War, bring it on,” declared BLM spokesmen.
Well America is starting to say the same to you. Be careful what you wish for.
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Adam Lanza's mental illness claimed the lives of his mother and innocent school victims
There was a fear moving across the American heartland long before Adam Lanza stepped onto the nation’s stage and donned the dark murderous mass killer robe. This 20-year-old joined the unique club of notable mass murderers that used a gun as a weapon of slaughter. After his onslaught the gun control hysteria surrounding stricter legislation has risen to a fever pitch.
Why purposely avoid holding the gunman’s mental instability responsible? Should any dangerous behavior factors or legislation that could have been in place to prevent this terrible murderous outbreak be considered? What if there had been a 'Three Strike Rule' in place for Adam Lanza, which allowed automatic involuntary commitment by mental health authorities? Mothers, fathers and siblings need this kind of solution that will not make them the next horrific headline in America’s homes.
This rapid rush to judgment and instant condemnation of guns as the casual factor for the mindless killings by a disturbed gunman is just too convenient a straw man. Adam Lanza was the killer. Adam Lanza, according to Fox News reports, was upset that his mother was going to commit him for psychiatric treatment. And it was Adam Lanza that constructed the plan to destroy his computer to remove any evidence concerning his plan to murder.
Yet, it has been the mainstream media, along with the urgency of the gun control first responders to keep overlooking the obvious. This disturbed gunman may have used guns as weapons to kill, but it was his mental illness that was the true deadly assault weapon!
It is essential that the loss of such precious young children, teachers and Adam Lanza’s mother Nancy not be buried in the grave, while the true culprit to their senseless murders is ignored. Adam Lanza, a mentally disturbed young man, stole three legally registered weapons to commit his crimes the emphasis is on legal.
The actual crimes were formulated in his head and his conduct, unrestrained by possible intervention of law enforcement or mental health authorities, that became the deadly weapon.
So, why do politicians want to dismember the constitutional right to arm and protect the life of an individual or a family? These officials and gun control advocates are afraid to tackle the hard question and solution to this outrage. They absolutely refuse to hold the individual who had a mental illness, and has shown previous signs, of forceful dangerous behavior responsible for his actions.
Instead, this endless cat and mouse game is played on the national stage by congress, state legislatures, and mayors like Michael Bloomberg who hide behind their own protective guards and trained security. These first responders of gun rights denouncers are disingenuous. They purport to seek a conversation on what can safeguard society’s innocents, but denounce attacks on Hollywood movies and violent video games which savage the young minds of young children thousands of times a year.
These same gun control activists do not seek cooperation or genuine discussion but would rather demonize gun rights supporters and castrate the National Rifle Association (NRA) at every given opportunity.
On Friday, December 21st, when Wayne LaPierre, the NRA’s Executive Vice President advanced proposals at the Washington D.C. Press conference, the mainstream media and gun rights opponents trivialized his comments.
Expert: Psychiatric drugs likely cause of Lanza's extreme violence
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NEW YORK – From the moment news emerged Friday that a young man had carried out a horrific massacre of elementary-school children, politicians from local city halls to the White House have been restoking the age-old push for more gun control. While guns have been a common denominator in mass slayings at schools by teens, there’s another familiar element that seems increasingly to be minimized.
Some 90 percent of school shootings over more than a decade have been linked to a widely prescribed type of antidepressant called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs, according to British psychiatrist Dr. David Healy, a founder of RxISK.org, an independent website for researching and reporting on prescription drugs.
Though there has been no definitive confirmation that drugs played a role in the Newtown, Conn., assault, that killed 20 children and six adults, media have cited family members and acquaintances saying suspect Adam Lanza was taking prescription medication to treat “a neurological-development disorder,” possibly Aspergers.
Healy cautioned that the public needs “to wait to find out what Adam Lanza was on, and whether his behavior does fit the template of a treatment-induced problem.”
However, in an email to WND, he said he suspected prescribed psychiatric medications was the cause of Lanza’s violent behavior.
Healy said that while the public waits to learn more about Lanza, there are two general points that can be made.
First, he said, “psychotropic drugs of pretty well any group can trigger violence up to and including homicide.”
“Second, the advocates of treatment claim both that it is the illness and not the drugs that causes violence and that we are leaving huge numbers of people untreated.”
But Healy argued that if this were the case, “we should not find that comfortably over 90 percent of school shootings are linked to medication intake.”
Dr. Peter R. Breggin, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and former full-time consultant at the National Institute of Mental Health, told WND it’s likely that problems for Lanza began with “getting tangled up” with psychiatric medicine.
Breggin insisted there has been overwhelming scientific evidence for decades correlating psychiatrically prescribed drugs with violence.
Writing in Ethical Human Sciences and Services, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, in 2003, Breggin concluded SSRI drugs could be a factor in suicide, violence and other forms of extreme abnormal behavior, as evidenced in case reports, controlled clinical trials, and epidemiological studies in children and adults.
Since the 1970s, Breggin has testified in approximately 100 trials, including one in which Judge Robert Heinrichs ruled the adverse effects of taking Prozac drove a 16-year-old in Winnipeg, Canada, to commit an unprovoked murder.
Breggin appeared before the Veterans Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010 in support of his 2008 book “Medication Madness: The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Cases of Violence, Suicide and Crime.”
Breggin testified to Congress that research conducted in the medical science demonstrates a causal relationship between antidepressant drugs and the production of suicide, violence, mania and other behavioral abnormalities.
He warned Congress of the risks of giving these drugs to heavily armed young men and women in the military.
Mainstream religion
Breggin asserted that establishment media “ignores the scientific evidence linking psychiatric medications and violent behavior because psychiatry is the religion of the mainstream media, and they don’t want to see the dangers of psychiatrically prescribed drugs.”
“Besides, the drug companies also have incredible influence through advertising such that they can call the shots,” he said.
He believes the Lanza case fits the pattern of school shooters in some of the most famous incidents in recent memory, including the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado and the massacre at Virginia Tech in 2007.
“Adam Lanza has in common with many of the young men who were shooters that they were outsiders who lived in the shadows, who deal with a lot of shame, humiliation and isolation,” Breggin explained.
He calls the psychiatric diagnoses “worthless.”
“We know exactly who they are,” he said. “They are called ‘geeky’ in the extreme. Not a single one has ever come forward with a close friend. They are alienated from their families, and they have been involved in psychiatry.”
Breggin insists that instead of psychiatric treatment, children of this kind need “more reaching out, more socialization, more caring, more involvement.”
“Our schools, our families, and our communities need to be aware of the kids who are withdrawn and violent, not because they are going to become violent – hardly any of them are going to become violent – but because these are really hurt kids,” he said.
“We can call them evil, we can call them mentally ill, but the pattern is really quite clear,” Breggin continued. “They are highly intelligent and highly withdrawn and they are all involved with psychiatry, so the claim psychiatry is going to do some good is really ridiculous.”
In many school shootings carried out by minors, court documents are sealed and the extent of chemical use is unknown to the public.
But in a number of high-profile cases, the link has been reported:
- Kip Kinkel was withdrawing from Prozac and had been prescribed Ritalin when he murdered his mother and stepfather then shot 22 classmates, killing two, in 1998.
- Christopher Pittman was withdrawing from Luvox and from Paxil when he killed his paternal grandparents in 2001.
- Elizabeth Bush, who fired at fellow students in Williamsport, Pa., in 2001, wounding one, was on Prozac.
- Jason Hoffman, was on Effexor and Celexa when he opened fire at his El Cajon, Calif., high school, wounding five.
- Shawn Cooper of Notus, Idaho, was on antidepressants when he fired a shotgun on students and staff.
- T.J. Solomon, on antidepressants, wounded six at his Conyers, Ga., high school.
- Eric Harris was taking Luvox when he and fellow student Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 24 others before turning their guns on themselves at Columbine High School in Colorado.
- At Virginia Tech in 2007, where 32 were murdered, authorities found “prescription medications related to the treatment of psychological problems had been found among Mr. Cho’s effects,” according to the New York Times.
“Violence and other potentially criminal behavior caused by prescription drugs are medicine’s best kept secret,” Healy said in a statement last month. “Never before in the fields of medicine and law have there been so many events with so much concealed data and so little focused expertise.”
In the past six years, Healy has authored two best-selling books analyzing the degree to which the pharmaceutical industry has influenced medical doctors to prescribe antidepressant drugs to patients with psychiatric problems: “Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression,” in 2006 and “Pharmageddon” in 2012.
Recently, Healy’s RxISK.org added a “violence section” to its website, allowing users to enter the name of a prescription drug to find out the side effects recorded in the more than 4 million adverse drug event reports filed with the FDA since 2004.
Was Lanza on meds?
Writing for Slate.com Monday, Emily Willingham was quick to warn against demonizing Asperger’s syndrome, or autism in general, as the cause of Lanza’s violence. Likewise, in a New York magazine piece titled “Asperger’s is a Red Herring to Explain the Newtown Massacre,” Adam Martin wrote, “As the nation sets out to understand how Friday’s massacre came to pass, some are rightly worried that the high-functioning form of autism will become unfairly stigmatized.”
Nevertheless, credible sources have not withdrawn published claims that Lanza was on prescribed psychiatric medication at the time of the shooting.
On CBS’s “60 Minutes” Sunday, Mark and Louise Tambascio, friends of the shooter’s mother, Nancy Lanza, said Adam Lanza was being medicated for Asperger’s.
“I know [Adam Lanza] was on medication and everything, but she homeschooled him at home cause he couldn’t deal with the school classes sometimes,” Louise Tambascio told CBS reporter Scott Pelley. “So she just homeschooled Adam at that home. And that was her life.”
Her comment followed Mark Tambascio explaining to Scott Pelley that “friends told us that [Asperger's syndrome] did dominate the Lanzas’ lives.”
In addition, the Washington Post reported over the weekend an unnamed former neighbor of Nancy and Adam Lanza in Newtown, Conn., recalled Adam as “a really rambunctious kid” who “was on medication.”
The story became confused when a now discredited source claiming to be Adam Lanza’s “Uncle Jonathan” told several publications, including the Sun in the United Kingdom, that Adam was being treated with the strong anti-psychotic drug Fanapt.
Later reports found no relatives who knew “Uncle Jonathan.”
Separately, law enforcement officers have found evidence Lanza played graphically violent video games, the Hartford Courant reported on Sunday.
The Express in the United Kingdom reported Monday that Lanza had “an unhealthy obsession for violent video games” and that his favorite video game was said to be a “shockingly violent” fantasy war game called Dynasty Warriors, which is “thought to have given him inspiration to act on his darkest thoughts.”
Norway
On 22 July 2011, Anders Behring Breivik bombed the government buildings in Oslo, Norway, which resulted in eight deaths and carried out a mass shooting at a camp on the island of Utoya where he killed 69 people, mostly teenagers.
- There is a total ban on automatic weapons in Norway. Modification of semi-automatic guns into fully automatic without the consent of the police is a felony crime.
- You cannot buy any kind of firearms in Norway prior to obtaining an ownership license.
Finland
On Dec. 31, 2009, a gunman went on a shooting rampage in southern Finland, killing five people at a suburban shopping center before fatally shooting himself.
On November 7, 2007, at Jokela High School in Jokela, a town in the municipality of Tuusula, Finland. 18-year-old student Pekka-Eric Auvinen entered the school armed with a semi-automatic pistol. He killed eight people and wounded one person in the toe before shooting himself in the head. He died later that evening in a Helsinki hospital.
Less than one year after the Jokela school massacre, another school shooting occurred in Kauhajoki, Finland, in 2008 where a gunman shot and killed 10 people before killing himself.
Another incident occurred in 1989 at the Raumanmeri school in Rauma, Finnland, when a 14-year-old fatally shot two fellow students.
- Please note that in Finland firearms can only be obtained with an acquisition license. A separate license is required for each individual firearm. The applicants (for an acquisition license) are also subjected to an extensive background check from police accessible databases and even citations for speeding or drink driving can be grounds of not granting the license.
- Possession of destructive devices such as automatic weapons, Explosive Ordnance, breech loading cannons, artillery or missile systems is generally not permitted.
- Possessing a firearm without a license is a punishable offence in Finland.
England
The Cumbria shootings that occurred on June 2, 2010 was a killing spree when a lone gunman, Derrick Bird, killed 12 people and injured 11 others before killing himself in Cumbria, England.
- Fully automatic or burst-fire weapons, including air guns, are prohibited for civilian use.
- With a few specialized exceptions, all firearms in the United Kingdom must be licensed on either a 5-year firearm certificate or a shotgun certificate from the police. UK is a “shall issue” country.
- The penalty for possession of a prohibited firearm without a certificate in the United Kingdom is a maximum of ten years in prison and an unlimited fine.
- Please note that the crime rate has been skyrocketing in the UK since stricter gun control laws were enacted in 1996-1997.
Slovakia, European Union
On Aug. 30, 2010, seven people were killed and 13 were seriously injured in a shooting incident in the Slovak capital Bratislava. The gunman committed suicide after the shooting.
- Fully automatic guns, silencers and (hollow-point bullet for self-defense purposes) are forbidden.
- You cannot buy a gun in Slovakia w/o prior obtaining a valid license.
Germany
On March 2, 2011, a gunman attacked a bus carrying U.S. soldiers at Germany's Frankfurt airport, killing two people and injuring two others.
- Germany has one of the most strict gun control laws prohibiting both self defense and carrying of any firearm, concealed or unconcealed.
And now my personal favorite - Switzerland
- Switzerland practices universal conscription, which requires that all able-bodied male citizens keep fully automatic firearms at home in case of a call-up.
- Have you ever heard of any serious shootings in Switzerland for the last 10 years?
- In a word, Switzerland, which is awash in guns, has substantially lower murder and robbery rates than England and Germany where most guns are banned.
Let's make a law Sen. Lautenberg, no carrying guns, I'm sure the criminals will obey it...
