The Great Childhood Maddening

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The Great Childhood Maddening

by Phillip Day

 

" Every child in America entering school at the age of

five is insane because he comes to school with certain

allegiances to our founding fathers, towards our

elected officials, towards his parents, towards a

belief in a supernatural being, and towards the

sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's

up to you as teachers to make all these sick children

well - by creating the international child of the

future. " - Psychiatrist Chester M Pierce, Harvard

University, addressing teachers at a 1973 Childhood

International Education Seminar

 

" I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility

against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. " -

Thomas Jefferson

 

" If you tolerate this, then your children will be

next. "

- The Manic Street Preachers

 

The sleepy September day in Greenwood, South Carolina,

meanders peacefully as James Wilson loads the small

..22 calibre shells into his rifle and works the bolt,

driving the first tiny bullet into the breach. Minutes

later the 19-year-old walks into the elementary school

cafeteria and begins shooting screaming children and a

teacher, before working his way through the school,

systematically selecting his targets. He kicks open

the door to a girls' restroom, where he shoots another

teacher, moving next to a third-grade classroom, where

he shoots more children. Two children die and seven

are wounded in the killing spree.

 

James' senseless and chillingly unemotional act

shocked the world. How could someone do such a thing?

Schoolyard shootings, increasingly bizarre and

horrifying street murders and drug violence had been

increasing since the 1970's in America, and people

were at a loss to know why. Wasn't there something

other-worldly, frankly demonic, about such a scene of

carnage, set in the heart of one of the safest zones

in society - our schools?

 

THE CIRCUS SPECTACLE

Violence in society is of course nothing new. Back in

Nero's day, the popular sport was setting light to

Christians or watching them torn apart by wild animals

in the arenas. Hangings, impalings, crucifixions and

various executions down through the ages drew large

crowds. The French Revolution was extremely popular

for those women who used to knit in front of the

guillotine, making their garments all the while

experiencing the bloody executions of unfortunates

right before them. Yet, although violence perpetrated

by rulers in the past was ubiquitous, it is

interesting to note that private citizens were

generally not taking each others' lives the way we are

seeing today, even though the weapons to do so were

widely available. In America during the '40's and

'50's, for example, guns were still commonly owned,

even as they are today, yet school shootings and road

rage incidents were unknown. The concept of right and

wrong prevented explosions of personal violence in the

main, and punishment was swift and harsh for those who

disobeyed the law.

 

But today, four decades after 'progressive education'

was introduced into classrooms aimed at eroding this

same concept of right and wrong, everything has

changed. When examining shooting incidents like James

Wilson's, we can note some common denominators:

 

· Often the shooter has given warning signals of

impending violence

· The shooter has previously displayed evidence of a

blurred understanding of right and wrong

· The shooter often commits suicide after the event

· The shooter has a history of psychiatric drug

treatment

· The incidents occur in societies where psychiatric

drugs are commonly prescribed

· These psychiatric drugs themselves have an extremely

well documented history of altering perceptions,

inciting hostility and violence, and dissipating

inhibitions

 

James had been taking psychiatric drugs for years,

prescribed to him by Greenwood psychiatrist Willie

Moseley. These included Xanax, Valium, Vistaril,

Mellaril, Thorazine, Tofranil and Halcion. James

Crossen, program director of the Chemical Dependency

Recovery Unit at the Medical Center of North

Hollywood, California, gives his considered opinion on

what could have caused the 1988 shootings to happen:

" That that young man should have been on drugs all his

life, since he was fourteen, is ghoulish. The drugs

would be a major contributing factor in such a

surprising and sudden act of violence - a major

contributor. "

 

Four months after James' rampage, Patrick Purdy, 26,

entered a Stockton, California schoolyard and opened

fire, killing five children and wounding 29 more,

including a teacher, before killing himself. Purdy had

an extensive psychiatric drug history.

 

Two years previously, on 20th November 1986,

14-year-old Rod Matthews had gone on the rampage in

Canton, Massachusetts, beating a classmate, Shawn

Ouillette, to death with a baseball bat in the woods

near his home. The academically gifted Matthews had

been taking the psychiatric drug Ritalin since he was

nine, and was withdrawing from his medication at the

time of the killing. Matthews had told a teacher in

the weeks before the killing that he had an urge to

kill somebody. The teacher had merely replied that

murder was a felony.

 

Nine months previously, young Timmy Becton, aged 10,

had used his 3-year-old niece as a shield while

wielding a shotgun at a sheriff's deputy, who had

visited the Becton residence with a truant officer.

" I'd sooner shoot you than go to school! " Timmy

reportedly yelled. The month before, he had been taken

to see a psychiatrist to help him with his hatred of

school. The psychiatrist prescribed Prozac. His

parents described that their son had suffered

personality changes when the dosage of the drug was

increased. They reported violent mood swings, during

which Timmy would get 'really angry'.

 

The first of the school shooting incidents had

occurred on 20th May 1988, when Laurie Dann, 30,

walked into a school in Winnetka, Illinois, with three

handguns and opened fire, killing one and wounding

five. Laurie then fled the school and killed a man in

a house nearby before committing suicide.

 

In 1995 in Illinois, Brian Pruitt, 16, fatally stabbed

his grandmother in her bedroom and then laid in wait,

killing his grandfather when he returned home. Brian

had a history of psychiatric drug treatment.

 

In July 1996, two boys, aged 15 and 16 stabbed a

high-school student after they had been taking

sedatives, which they later told police made them feel

'invincible'.

 

In 1997 in New Jersey, Sam Manzie, 15, attacked and

raped 11-year-old Eddie Werner, who had called on the

Manzie home selling items door-to-door for the local

PTA. Sam strangled Eddie with an electrical cord after

the assault, photographing him with the cord still

wrapped around his neck. He then threw away his

victim's clothes and possessions in a rubbish bin next

to the psychiatric facility where he had been

receiving regular treatments, including the drug

Paxil. His mother reports that Sam had told her: " I

wasn't killing that little boy, I was killing [my

psychiatrist] because he didn't listen to me. "

 

On 25th May 1997, 18-year-old Jeremy Strohmeyer raped

and murdered a 7-year-old girl in the ladies' room of

a casino one week after commencing the drug Dexedrine.

 

On 21st May 1988, 14-year-old Kip Kinkel began his

brief rule of terror. Kip's problems began when he was

diagnosed with dyslexia and placed on Ritalin. His

problems persisted. He attended 'anger control'

classes and was additionally prescribed Prozac. Kip

later went bezerk, entering his Springfield, Oregon

high school and opening fire, killing two and injuring

22. He had also shot both his parents to death.

 

On 20th July 1987, two horrified parents walked into

their garage to find their 16-year-old son swinging

from the ceiling. After nine years on Ritalin, and

undergoing withdrawal from the psychiatric drug, the

tormented young man had hanged himself with

water-skiing rope.

 

In October 1993, 15-year-old Gerard McCra shot his

parents and sister to death. He had been taking

Ritalin since the age of six. While this explosion of

violence shocked Massachusetts, the Boston Globe was

keen to begin its story, not in lamenting the tragedy

to the family and the neighbourhood, but citing a

quote from a medical spokesman incongruously

attempting to cover himself: " There is no scientific

evidence indicating that Ritalin causes, or in any way

triggers violence in children who take the commonly

prescribed medication for hyperactivity. "

 

That this ridiculous statement is allowed to be

published is all the more unsettling since the

manufacturer of Ritalin itself, CIBA Pharmaceutical

Company, had published the following public warning

about its drug eight years before in 1985:

 

DRUG DEPENDENCE: Ritalin should be given cautiously to

emotionally unstable patients, such as those with a

history of drug dependence or alcoholism, because such

patients may increase dosage on their own initiative.

Chronically abusive use can lead to marked tolerance

and physic dependence with varying degrees of abnormal

behaviour. Frank psychotic episodes can occur,

especially with parental abuse. Careful supervision is

required during drug withdrawal, since severe

depression as well as the effects of chronic

over-activity can be unmasked.

 

Gerard McCra was reportedly abused by his parents

while on Ritalin. Note that, by the admission of the

manufacturers themselves, the purpose of Ritalin is to

'mask' the symptoms of 'over-activity', not cure them.

 

On 14th September 1989, Joseph Wesbecker marauded

through a Louisville, Kentucky printing works,

blasting eight former co-workers to death, wounding 12

others before turning the gun on himself. One of his

surviving victims shudders: " I looked up into the face

of who was holding the rifle. He was completely gone.

There was just nothing there of what makes a person a

person. He was gone. And I thought that, soon, I would

be even more gone than he. " An autopsy later showed

that Joseph had 'therapeutic' levels of the

anti-depressant Prozac in his blood at the time of the

killings.

 

Prozac has a long and infamous history of dangerous

side-effects. Regulatory agencies around the world

consistently receive a string of adverse reaction

reports on the drug. Even Valium, a known, highly

addictive anti-depressant, only garnered 7,000 adverse

reaction reports in the US over 20 years. In just 10

years, Prozac had amassed a stunning 40,000

complaints, including mass murders, suicides,

mutilations and more than 2,30o deaths.

 

On 20th April 1999, Eric Harris, an 18-year-old senior

at Columbine High School in Colorado, went on a

murderous killing spree. Both Eric and his partner,

Dylan Klebold, committed suicide after the event.

Blood samples confirmed that Eric had been taking

Luvox, a mind-altering drug in the same class as

Prozac. Luvox (fluvoxamine) and Prozac (fluoxetine)

are known as 'selective serotonin re-uptake

inhibitors' (SSRI's), so-named because they block the

brain's absorption of the neurotransmitter serotonin,

responsible for mood stabilisation. Luvox's

manufacturers even warn that Luvox is 'sometimes

fatal' to those who take it, and can activate mania

and impair judgment and thinking.

 

Nicholas Regush, producer of medical features for ABC

News, stated: " This is a widely recognised feature of

antidepressants, as documented by their very own

manufacturers. These drugs are also associated with

bouts of irritability, hostility and aggression.

Exactly how all this behavioural change is processed

in the brain and how long-lasting it might be is

poorly understood. Contrary to the big shows of

knowledge by psychiatrists, there is a whole lot of

guessing going on. "

 

Eight years before the shootings, Columbine High had

been the subject of a 1991 ABC 20/20 documentary for

its controversial 'death education' class, in which

students discussed such macabre topics as how they

wanted to look in their caskets. Both Eric and Dylan

had a well-documented obsession with violence,

Satanism and weapons, both having been arrested for

burglary in 1998 and placed into an 'anger management'

program. Both were fans of the infamous pop-star,

Marilyn Manson. Eric's web-site alone should have had

the alarm bells ringing. Warning statements abounded,

such as " I am the law. If you don't like it, you die! "

and " You all better… hide in your houses because I am

coming for EVERYONE soon, and I WILL be armed to the …

teeth, and I WILL shoot to kill and I WILL… KILL

EVERYTHING. "

 

DEATH IN THE PLAYGROUND

Today, children routinely threaten their teachers with

extreme violence - so much so that in America, a

special school police force patrols the campus to

confiscate weapons and keep an eye on things. When I

was at school, threats of that kind, while maybe

entertained after a public humiliation, were never

articulated. Even to breathe a threat to a teacher

would have ensured a punishment so swift and solid,

our feet wouldn't have hit the ground.

 

Fifty years ago, children almost never killed. Today

it is commonplace. Apart from the above, cases such as

those involving James Bulger, the Menendez brothers

and Damilola Taylor have horrified the world. Gil

Garcetti, District Attorney for Los Angeles County,

remarks: " It's incredible, the ability of the very

young to commit the most horrendous crimes was

unthinkable 20 years ago. "

 

Today, robberies are carried out by

conscience-deadened youth drug-addicts. Murders,

tortures and sadism are practised with Satanic ritual

to a degree that was unheard of prior to the advent of

the drug culture. Judge Susan Winfield of Washington

DC comments: " Youngsters used to shoot each other in

the body. Then in the head. Now, they shoot each other

in the face. " But still the 1980 Comprehensive

Textbook of Psychiatry persists with its nonsense:

" …taken no more than two or three times a week,

cocaine creates no serious problems. "

 

TEACHER'S COLLEGE

Psychiatry's penetration of the world's schools has

long since been accomplished. As early as 1925, more

than 1,000 schools in America were changing their

educational curricula according to the dictates of the

psychiatrists who dominated the highly influential

Teacher's College at Columbia University in New York.

The new educational system was designed to eliminate

what John Dewey, a Teacher's College educational

director, referred to as 'stress factors' in the

classroom. The 'evils' articulated by the college,

which were damaging the pupils, included school

failure, academic curricula and disciplinary

procedures.

 

The views of Dewey and his colleagues were congruent

with the beliefs of Wundtian psychiatry. Teacher's

College was to come to regard children as nothing but

animals requiring guidance. Dewey, widely renowned for

'revolutionising' American and Russian education, and

later world curricula, declared that putting undue

pressures on a child to perform was to risk making

them mentally ill. In fact, the true agenda espoused

by James Earl Russell, Edward Lee Thorndike and John

Dewey, who dominated Teacher's College, was no less

than exercising complete control over the minds of

youth, thereby gaining a more compliant society in the

future. Educators, trained in the new principles given

to them by Teacher's College, would help all the

children 'fit into society':

 

" The ultimate problem of all education is to

co-ordinate the psychological and social factors.… The

co-ordination demands… that the child be capable of

expressing himself, but in such a way as to realise

social ends. "

 

One knows trouble is coming when a luminary such as

Thorndike, occupying so powerful a position of

influence over the world's teachers, believes that

" …artificial exercises, like drills on phonetics,

multiplication tables, and formal writing movements,

are used to a wasteful degree. Subjects such as

arithmetic, language, and history include content that

is intrinsically of little value. Nearly every subject

is enlarged unwisely to satisfy the academic ideal of

thoroughness. "

2004 Phillip Day

Extracted from The Mind Game

 

Further Resources

To discover the truth about the so-called 'mental

health' industry and the damage it daily wreaks in our

society:

 

The Mind Game by Phillip Day