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Recent investigationsshed new lighton causes of violencein society.

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n a le r t columnistp o i n t e dout afterColorado’s

Columbine HighSchool massacre inApril that this wasnot the first timethe school had beenin the news. Col-umbine High hap-pened to be fea-tured in a 1991ABC 20/20 seg-ment for its highly

debated “death education” class — inwhich students discussed such macabretopics as how they wanted to look in theircaskets.

The segment offered a glimpse at justone aspect of the “values” education thatinsinuated itself into our national schoolcurricula over the past four decades. Theirony is that programs implemented ostensi-bly to shape values have had the oppositeeffect. Educational experts have long sincesounded an alarm over an “anything goes”attitude born and bred with these programs,as we cover in more depth inside.

Much of the current public discussionabout youth violence focuses on depictionsof violence and brutality in entertainment,whether movies, video games or music.

Explicit, exploitative violence isunhealthy for anyone’s outlook on life. Butif one stops to consider it, it becomes readily apparent that this is nothing “new.”

Feeding Christians to lions was once popu-lar “sport.” For centuries, public executionsdrew large crowds in London regardless ofwhat king or queen ruled — as they did inother cities at various times in Europe andelsewhere. Our culture before televisionand film is strewn with explicit violence,mayhem and death.

Even so, people were not driven to takeeach others’ lives. In fact, statistics recentlycompiled from historical records reveal thatin battles between the third century B.C.and World War II, only 15 to 20 percent ofthe men engaged in fighting actually triedto kill the enemy. That was despite goinginto war with the stated purpose to kill, andwith their own lives at stake.

One could conclude that it requiresextreme persuasion to get a human being towant to kill another, let alone to do thedeed. And although some need lessprompting than others, they are few indeed— especially when young.

Yet with psychological manipulation,military forces solved their problem afterWorld War II, rousing the “kill will” in up to95 percent of soldiers through programsdesigned to inure them to taking another’slife.

These programs manage to overcomean individual’s innate sense that it is wrongto kill another human being — a sensestrongly present even in soldiers who arethere to kill.

It is time to take a closer look at the pos-sibility that the reason violence morestrongly influences youth in our schoolstoday is that the sense of right and wrong

has been eroded through the last fourdecades of “progressive education” — asystem designed more for psychologicalconditioning than academic success.

Add the wholesale labeling of childrenwith psychiatric “disorders” (such as“Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder”and a host of “Learning Disorders”) forexhibiting much of what was previouslyconsidered normal childhood behavior.These labels not only excuse the educa-tional shortcomings of our schools, but theyouth who receive them are told that theyare responsible neither for what they do norfor the decisions they make. In fact, andperhaps not so coincidentally, the DenverPost reported in December 1996 that federal law prohibited the expulsion ofthree kids who passed a gun around atschool because they were classified as “special-education” students. These stu-dents were not considered responsible forwhat they did.

Finally, add a chemical catalyst of mind-altering psychiatric drugs and the result isvolatile and even deadly. Keep in mind, too,that the types of “special education” students who are not held responsible forpassing around deadly weapons at schoolare the ones most likely to be on such drugs.

We explore, in our cover story, howthese youth are catching up to the societythat created them.

We also present other aspects of violence in this issue. While much has beenwritten and said on the subject, we hope wehave provided new perspectives — oneswhich will help open doors to more effec-tive and lasting solutions to this societalproblem.

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In the aftermath of the recentspate of assaults by students upontheir classmates and teachers, anappalled nation asked: Why?

That question continues toreverberate in discussions aboutthe tragedy of senseless violenceamong youth.

Seemingly random scenes insociety’s patchwork quilt ofsenseless violence contain acommon thread

by Thomas G. Whittle & Mark Stout

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Bloodshed in films and on television, bru-tality in video games and availability offirearms may well be contributing factors insome violent situations. But, as manyobservers have pointed out, these are not newelements in the mix and do not satisfactorilyanswer the question. Violence and gore inentertainment media three decades ago neverspawned repeated instances of wholesalemayhem, much less murder, in classrooms,even though guns and recipes for homemadeexplosives were virtually as accessible then asthey are today.

Recent assailants Eric Harris and DylanKlebold of Colorado, T.J. Solomon of Georgiaand Shawn Cooper of Idaho are but several ina long line of young people who turned mur-derously violent. A Freedom investigationshows that the divergent scenes in society’sseemingly random patchwork quilt of sense-less youth violence contain a common thread.More significantly, that common thread hasbeen detectable but has been ignored or con-cealed by those who have a professionalresponsibility to reveal it to the public.

Warning SignsA full decade before the Columbine High

School tragedy in April, the nation witnessed

a series of brutal incursions into its previouslysacrosanct schools.

The first came on May 20, 1988, whenLaurie Dann, 30, walked into a Winnetka,Illinois, classroom with three handguns andcommenced shooting, killing one second-grader and wounding five others before flee-ing from the school, shooting a man in a housenearby and then killing herself.

Four months later, on September 26,1988, 19-year-old James Wilson entered thecafeteria of a Greenwood, South Carolina,school and opened fire with a revolver,wounding a teacher and three students. Hethen walked into a girls’ restroom, where heshot another teacher, moving next into athird-grade classroom, where he shot severalmore children. Two students, both 8 yearsold, died from their wounds.

While both Dann and Wilson had exten-sive psychiatric histories at the time of theirassaults, neither had any record of violenceprior to undergoing psychiatric treatment.

What produced such startling change?Based on interviews Freedom conducted withrelatives and acquaintances of Dann and Wilsonin the aftermath of those tragedies, the factemerged that both changed sharply after beingadministered powerful psychiatric drugs.1

Four months after James Wilson’s ram-page, on January 17, 1989, another incidentexploded onto the national stage whenPatrick Purdy, 26, killed five children in aStockton, California, schoolyard and wounded29 more children and a teacher before tak-ing his own life. Upon investigation,Freedom learned that Purdy, too, was a psy-chiatric failure with an extensive psychiatricdrug history.2

“An Irresistible Urge”Such tragedies grow even more disturb-

ing as the age of the perpetrators decreases.One of the first cases that came to the

public’s attention was that of 14-year-old RodMatthews of Canton, Massachusetts, a highschool freshman. Matthews lured classmateShaun Ouillette, also 14, into the woods on aNovember afternoon in 1986 on the pretextof building a fort. Matthews carried a baseballbat, which he said he needed to return tosomeone.

Encouraging the larger boy to walk infront of him down the wooded path,Matthews waited for his opportunity and thensmashed Ouillette on the head with the bat.He continued to strike his soon helpless vic-tim, bludgeoning him to death.

On September 27, 1997,Sam Manzie, 15,

attacked, raped andstrangled to death an 11-year-old boywho had come to his family’s NewJersey home selling items door-to-door for the local PTA. Manzie hadbeen receiving regular psychiatrictreatments including the drug Paxil.

On May 21, 1998, KipKinkel, 14, killed his

parents and went on ashooting spree at his Springfield,Oregon, high school — killing twomore people and injuring 22.Kinkel was taking both Ritalin andProzac.

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LETHAL VIOLENCEby youths hasrisen with theincrease inpsychiatric drugprescriptions. Asample of recentkillersdocuments thetrend.

While Matthews informed police and hisparents that he thought Ouillette had runaway from home, he brought two friends,Robbie Peterson and Jonathan Cash, on sep-arate occasions to view the body of the boythe police were searching for in vain. Casheventually reported the murder to police bymeans of an unsigned letter. The next morn-ing, three weeks after the murder, policefound Ouillette’s body andarrested Matthews.

Matthews, a bright youthwith an IQ of 132, had beentaking the psychiatric drugRitalin, known generically asmethylphenidate. Accordingto federal law, Ritalin is aSchedule II controlled sub-stance, in the same addictivecategory as amphetamine,methamphetamine and co-caine, powerful drugs bearingwhat the National Institute onDrug Abuse terms “a highpotential for abuse.”

After the murder, it waslearned that Matthews hadplotted to kill someone sincethe start of his freshman year

— roughly two months before the crime wascommitted. He had discussed his plans withPeterson and Cash and had even admitted toa teacher in the weeks before the slaying thathe had an urge to kill somebody. His teachersimply told him that murder was a felony.

As the police put it, Matthews had devel-oped “an irresistible urge to see what it feltlike to kill someone” — an urge that became

lethal reality.Recent years have seen an

epidemic of such violenceinvolving children and adoles-cents, many of them notinvolving firearms.

In 1995 in Illinois, BrianPruitt, 16, with a history ofpsychiatric drugs and treat-ment, fatally stabbed hisgrandmother in her bedroom,waited for his grandfather toreturn home, and murderedhim as well.

In 1997 in New Jersey,Sam Manzie, 15, attackedand raped 11-year-old EddieWerner, who had come to hisfamily’s home selling itemsdoor-to-door for the local

PTA. After strangling Werner with an elec-trical cord, and photographing him with thecord still wrapped around his neck, Manziediscarded his victim’s clothes and posses-sions in a garbage bin by the psychiatricfacility where Manzie had been receivingregular treatments including psychiatricdrugs. According to Manzie’s mother,Manzie said, “I wasn’t killing that little boy.I was killing [my psychiatrist] because hedidn’t listen to me.” Other examplesabound.

“Fraudulent” DisordersIn addition to not listening to their

patients, many psychiatrists have also evi-dently chosen not to listen to clinical studiesand medical texts which contradict “conven-tional wisdom” in child psychiatry.

Fred A. Baughman Jr., M.D., a board cer-tified neurologist and child neurologist and aFellow of the American Academy ofNeurology, said that the problem originateswithin the psychiatric industry itself.

In an interview with Freedom,Baughman charged that “Attention DeficitHyperactivity Disorder” (ADHD),“Oppositional Defiant Disorder” (ODD),“Conduct Disorder” (CD) — the three

Eighteen-year-oldJeremy Strohmeyer

raped and murdered a 7-year-old girl in the ladies’ roomin a casino on May 25, 1997, oneweek after starting to take thedrug Dexedrine.

Eric Harris, an 18-year-old senior at

Columbine HighSchool in Colorado, led the

killing spree on April 20, 1999, which tookthe lives of 12 students and a teacher,before he and his partner took their ownlives. Harris had been taking Luvox.

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On May 20,1999, 15-year-old

T.J. Solomon openedfire on and wounded sixclassmates at Heritage HighSchool in Georgia. Solomonwas being treated with Ritalin.

Recent yearshave seen an

epidemic of violence

involving childrenand adolescents,

many of themnot involving

firearms.

psychiatric diagnoses that allegedly are bio-logical precursors to aggressive and violentbehavior — are uniformly fraudulent.

“Not one of the ‘disruptive behavior dis-orders’ has been validated as a disease, or asanything biological or organic,” he said.

Baughman noted that the Report of theNational Institutes of Health’s ConsensusConference on ADHD, November 16 – 18,1998, confessed that ADHD does not exist:“[W]e do not have an independent, valid testfor ADHD, and there are no data to indicatethat ADHD is due to brain malfunction.”

Likewise, Baughman pointed out, thereis no valid test for ODD or CD — despite thefact that psychiatrists across the country havelabeled millions of children with one or moreof the three fictitious “disruptive behaviordisorders” and have prescribed them destruc-tive, mind-bending drugs.

Each of these “diseases,” Baughman andother experts have charged, is a fraud, and anydiagnosis that results in a child being givendangerous drugs is not only fraudulent, butcriminal.

Lives of Ruin and DespairThe promoters of these “behavior disor-

ders” include at their forefront psychiatristFrederick Goodwin, former head of theNational Institute of Mental Health, knownfor generating a storm of controversy in 1992by means of racially offensive remarks thatcompared monkeys in the wild to citizens inAmerica’s inner cities.3

The fruits of the campaign, fueled by billions of dollars in pharmaceutical revenues,are becoming increasingly visible, as an esti-mated seven to eight million schoolchildrentoday take psychiatric drugs for nonexistentdiseases.

On May 21, 1998, Kip Kinkel, 14, killedhis parents and went on a shooting spree athis Springfield, Oregon, high school — killingtwo more people and injuring 22. Kinkel’sdownward slide began when he was diag-nosed with dyslexia. He was then labeled ashaving “ADHD” and placed on Ritalin, buthis problems persisted. After being diagnosedwith depression, he was also put on Prozac,known generically as fluoxetine. And then hewent berserk.

On February 19, 1996, according to localpolice, 10-year-old Timmy Becton, using his3-year-old niece as a human shield, pointed a12-gauge shotgun at a sheriff’s deputy whovisited him at his Lakeland, Florida, home, incompany with a truant officer. “I’d soonershoot you than go to school,” Becton report-edly yelled. Becton had been placed onProzac by a psychiatrist to cure his dislike ofschool. According to the parents, an increasein his dosage generated violent changes inmood and extreme anger.

The examples seem endless. More andmore children and teens are turning to violence — including killing classmates or

parents after taking psychiatric drugs. In1998 alone, more than 1.6 million prescrip-tions for antidepressant drugs alone werewritten for schoolchildren in the UnitedStates — up sharply from previous years.

Reliance on psychiatric drugs today per-meates the youth care industry from schoolsand the family pediatrician’s office to fosterhomes and juvenile offender programs.While the long-range consequences of thesedrugs cannot yet be measured, the increas-ing outbursts of unreasoning violence wit-nessed thus far give clues.

Violent BehaviorIt came as little surprise to the nation

that Eric Harris and DylanKlebold had problematic his-tories. Arrested in 1998 forburglary, both were placed inthe Jefferson County,Colorado “juvenile diver-sion” program for youthoffenders and participated in“anger management” classes.Blood samples confirmedthat Harris, the leader of thetwo, was taking Luvox — amind-altering psychiatricdrug in the same class asProzac, shown to create suici-dal thoughts or violentbehavior in many individuals.

While no one knowsexactly what Eric Harris wasthinking when he planned anddirected the macabre crimeand double suicide, he leftbehind enough information toshow an obsession with brutal-ity and violence that emergesas the signature of someonedriven into psychosis by psy-chiatric drugs.

Figures available in early1998 showed that Prozac —the most widely prescribed ofthe drugs in the class whichincludes Luvox (also known as fluvoxamine),Paxil, Zoloft and others — alone had amassedmore than 40,000 adverse reaction reports,including 2,300 deaths, under the adversereaction reporting system of the U.S. Foodand Drug Administration (FDA) — by far themost of any drug in history.

Between 1988 and 1992, when Prozacwas scarcely being prescribed to children,reports accumulated of more than 90 chil-dren and adolescents who suffered suicidalor violent self-destructive behavior whileon the drug. Examples of reports to theFDA include that of a 12-year-old who suf-fered hostility and confusion, was violentand became “glassy-eyed” on the drug. An18-year-old was hospitalized after being onProzac for 270 days and had reportedly sexually assaulted and stabbed a store

clerk. One 16-year-old, who had been onthe drug for 50 days, reported hostility, psy-chotic depression and hallucinations —symptoms which did not exist prior to tak-ing the drug.

As far back as February 1990, a publishedstudy by a team headed by Harvard MedicalSchool’s Martin H. Teicher, M.D., found that“six depressed patients free of recent serioussuicidal ideation developed intense, violentsuicidal preoccupation after 2 – 7 weeks offluoxetine treatment.”4

Another team of physicians, from theState University of New York HealthScience Center, reported in The NewEngland Journal of Medicine in February 1991

that individuals with no histo-ry of suicidal thoughts oractions developed suicidalthoughts after taking fluoxe-tine. One man was started ona 20-milligram daily dose offluoxetine and, according tothe doctors, “Three days laterhe had violent suicidalthoughts and tried to hanghimself with a rope. The flu-oxetine was discontinued,with complete disappearanceof suicidal ideation four dayslater.”5

Likewise, this second teamreported, a woman developedakathisia — a state of drug-induced insanity characterizedby extreme agitation and,sometimes, acts of violence —as well as recurrent suicidalthoughts after starting on fluox-etine. The symptoms resolvedafter she stopped taking thedrug. “Neither of our patientshad a diagnosable personalitydisorder or history of suicidalideation, gestures, mania orhypomania,” they wrote. “Inour patients, the temporal asso-ciation of suicidal ideation with

the initiation of fluoxetine and its rapid disap-pearance within a week of discontinuingtreatment strongly suggest that fluoxetine caninduce suicidal ideation....”

In a similar vein, a 1993 study of eightpeople on Luvox or fluvoxamine noted theonset of mania. The study team, headed byDr. Abraham Dorevitch of Hadassah-HebrewUniversity School of Medicine in Jerusalem,reported, “fluvoxamine may induce manicbehavior when administered at therapeuticdosages. Manic features appeared after four ormore weeks of fluvoxamine treatment in fiveof the patients and after three weeks or less inthree of the patients. ... Manic behavior in allour patients remitted after dosage reductionor discontinuation of fluvoxamine.”6

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While thelong-rangeconsequencesof these[psychiatric]drugs cannot yetbe measured,the increasingoutbursts ofunreasoningviolencewitnessed thusfar give clues.

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Children are being diagnosed with mental illnessesand prescribed drugs based on disorders voted intoexistence by psychiatrists and recorded in thepsychiatric industry’s diagnostic and billing bible,

the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). As many as eightmillion American children are now taking psychiatric drugs —representing hundreds of millions of dollars in profits.

Multiple diagnoses, and prescription of multiple drugs, arenot unusual. An examiner for the American Board of Psychiatrytold Freedom that “kids are commonly on as many as five to sixmedications at a time.”

Many educators and child authorities maintain that DSMdisorders are matters of learning and behavior routinelycorrected with better education, parenting and physiologicalmedicine, including improved nutrition.

ATTENTION-DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER(ADHD) and the related ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER(ADD) are the most prevalent “disorders”. Diagnoses of

ADHD are based on a combination of as few as three of a list ofopen-ended “symptoms” including inability to concentrate,fidgeting in one’s seat, speaking out of turn in class, having“sloppy” work and being easily distracted. ADHD and ADDdiagnoses have generated millions of prescriptions for Ritalinsince the late 1980s, and a 700 percent increase in production ofthe drug since 1990. Widespread use of the addictiveamphetamine-like substance and its subsequent proliferation asan illegal street drug have fueled national concerns that thelabeling and “legal drugging” of children is a manufactured,profit-driven epidemic. Escalating violence, suicide andhomicide by youth-prescribed drugs have caused those concernsto skyrocket.

Other “learning disorders” and “conduct disorders” forwhich children and adolescents are prescribed psychiatric drugscover a gamut of educational failures which plague schools andallow youth to be chemically restrained. A few examples areprovided here.

absorption of serotonin, a neurotransmitter;they are known as “selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors” (SSRIs).

A 1995 Nordic medical conferencereported that the newer antidepressant drugshave a particularly stimulating amphetamine-like effect and that patients can become“aggressive” or “suffer hallucinations and/orsuicidal thoughts.” One U.S. medical doctorwrote of the SSRIs, “I have testified as amedical expert in three teenage cases of murder in which SSRIs were implicated inplaying a role. In one case, a 16-year-old com-mitted murder and tried to set off multiplebombs and incendiary devices at the sametime. I have also testified in cases of adultmurderers who were under the influence ofSSRIs, including one mass murder of twelvepeople followed by suicide. The comparisonsto Littleton are obvious.”

In fact, Luvox’s manufacturer states that“Safety and effectiveness of Luvox tablets inindividuals below 18 years of age have notbeen established” and warns that Luvox is“sometimes fatal” to those who take it, alsocautioning that it can activate mania and thatit can impair judgment and thinking.

No one need look any further thanColumbine High School for an example ofmania and impaired judgment. Eric Harris’web site bristled with red flags that showedthe “delusions of grandeur” that characterize

mania, such as “I am the law. If you don’t likeit, you die.”

Or, in an even more sinis-ter tone, this: “you all better ...hide in your houses becauseI’m coming for EVERYONEsoon, and I WILL be armed tothe ... teeth, and I WILLshoot to kill and I WILL ...KILL EVERYTHING!”

Stealing the WillReflecting on the

Colorado tragedy and the factthat mania can spur bizarrebehavior, Nicholas Regush,producer of medical featuresfor ABC News, said, “This isa widely recognized featureof antidepressants, as docu-mented by their very ownmanufacturers. These drugsare also associated with boutsof irritability, aggression andhostility. Exactly how all thisbehavioral change is pro-cessed in the brain and howlong-lasting it might be ispoorly understood. Contrary to the bigshows of knowledge by psychiatrists, thereis a whole lot of guessing going on.”

The brain, however, he noted, “is not

some simple toy for make-believe psychiatricmagic bullets.”

On May 5, 1999, U.S.Congressman Dennis J.Kucinich wrote to FDACommissioner Jane Henney,expressing his “concern thatthe FDA has failed to provideadequate oversight of thehealth consequences of pre-scribing certain drugs to children.”

In his letter, a copy ofwhich was provided toFreedom, the congressmannoted that he had written tothe FDA after the schoolshooting in Springfield,Oregon, about the lack ofreview of the effects of pre-scribing Prozac to children, butreceived a response that hecharacterized as “indifferent.”

“Now, in the aftermath ofthe Columbine High Schoolmassacre, it has come to lightthat one of the killers was prescribed Luvox,” he wrote,

noting that Luvox is in the same family of psy-chiatric drugs as Prozac.

“The basic things these drugs do is theysteal the will,” said Beverly Eakman, author

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“If they’re onthese kinds ofdrugs, that havethese severepsychiatric andmental effects,you’re apt to geta reaction that isreally bizarre —and oftenviolent.”

— Beverly Eakman,National Education

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Studies amply document adverse effects ofpsychiatric drugs on youth and adults —effects frequently blamed on new“symptoms” and met with yet more drugs.

One U.S. medical doctor wrote that “in one case, a 16-year-old committed murder and tried to set off multiplebombs and incendiary devices at the same time. I have alsotestified in cases of adult murderers who were under theinfluence of [anti-depressants], including one mass murderof twelve people followed by suicide. The comparisonsto Littleton are obvious.” Reflecting on the Coloradotragedy, an ABC News producer commented thatthe brain “is not some simple toy for make-believe psychiatric magic bullets.”

According to the report of a 1995 Nordicmedical conference, the newer anti-depressantdrugs have a particularly stimulatingamphetamine-like effect and patients canbecome “aggressive” or “suffer hallucinationsand/or suicidal thoughts.”

“Make-believepsychiatricmagic bullets”

of Cloning of the American Mind, EradicatingMorality Through Education. “By stealing the will,I mean they destroy your inhibitions, so that anyinhibition that you had not to do certain things,you just don’t have it anymore — including get-ting angry.”

Children are extremely vulnerable to theeffects of antidepressants and other dangerousdrugs, according to Eakman. “If they’re on thesekinds of drugs, that have these severe psychiatricand mental effects, you’re apt to get a reactionthat is really bizarre — and often violent,” shetold Freedom. “Something that made you mildlyangry before will make you doubly furious.”

While the world has already witnessed far toomany instances of carnage from this manufac-tured fury, experts say that the future holds moreof the same unless society does something to haltthe legal but unnecessary doping of millions ofchildren — a national catastrophe which, in Dr.Baughman’s words, “is beginning to dwarf theillegal drug problem in this country.”

Senseless, extreme violence anda rising toll of victims haveraised serious concerns amongparents, teachers and doctorsover psychiatry’s “legal”drugs.

1 Freedom: “Laurie Dann: The Making of a Killer,” August 1988, and“Prescription for Murder: Psychiatric Drugs Create Killer,”November/December 1988.

2 Freedom: “Psychiatry Cannot Halt or Predict Violent Crime, Panel Finds,”January/February 1989

3 Freedom: “The Violence Hoax,” May 19934 The American Journal of Psychiatry: “Emergence of Intense Suicidal

Preoccupation During Fluoxetine Treatment,” February 19905 The New England Journal of Medicine: “Suicidal Ideation Related to Fluoxetine

Treatment,” February 7, 19916 The Annals of Pharmacotherapy: “Fluvoxamine-Associated Manic Behavior: A

Case Series,” December 1993

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights(CCHR) has published a series of booklets whichthoroughly document psychiatric harm, abuse,criminality and fraud in different zones of society.

The first of the series, Creating Racism,Psychiatry’s Betrayal, set off an internationalfirestorm of controversy about psychiatry.

The latest publication, Harming Lives —Psychiatry Betraying & Drugging Children,provides compelling evidence of a fraud of“educational disorders” carried out for theenrichment of those who profit from psychiatricdrugs — at the expense of our nation’s schoolchildren.

With up to eight million American childrenlabeled as having mental “disorders” or“illnesses,” psychiatrists are creating an entiregeneration of drug users and an unknown numberof future addicts.

To obtain copies of these booklets, contact:Citizens Commission on Human Rights6362 Hollywood Boulevard, Suite BLos Angeles, CA 90028Telephone (323) 467-4242 or (800) 869-2247

Psychiatric Crimes

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When individuals undergoingpsychiatric treatment commit acts of violenceand crime, blame is routinely placed ontheir so-called mental illness. The case ofSpencer Day — a child literally raised inpsychiatric hands — sheds new light on theactual cause. His life is a microcosm of asystem that creates violence.

Spencer Day was described by histeachers as an exceptionally brightand gifted child. However, his ten-dency to wander out of the class-room landed him in the preschoolcounselor’s office. He was labeled“hyperactive” (before the label“Attention Deficit Hyperactivity

Disorder” was assumed in 1987).By the time he reached kindergarten,

Day had seen several psychiatrists and wasbeing “medicated” with Ritalin, an addictivedrug generically known as methylphenidate.

The drug did not improve Day’s behavioror his ability to study. He was booted out ofelementary school and placed in the schooldistrict’s Emotionally and Behaviorally Disordered (EBD) program. His behaviorworsened and, at the age of 9, he was sent tothe Cleo Wallace Center — a psychiatric facil-ity in a Denver suburb which specializes inchildren and adolescents.*

There, Day was assigned a bed in the roomnext to one which housed older boys withknown sexual behavior problems. At night, theolder children would engage in sexual activitiesand Spencer was soon included. Because thesewere his first sexual experiences, Day was laterto say that he believed these encounters at theCleo Wallace Center to benormal sexual behavior.

The stay at CleoWallace rendered Day evenmore unstable. He wassoon arrested for setting fireto a gas station and again forvandalizing a local business.After more “treatment” pro-grams, the 12-year-old boywas returned to his schooldistrict’s EBD program.

When he told a counselorthere about sexual feelingscaused by his stay at CleoWallace, he was taken toCharter Psychiatric Hospitalin Denver, a facility which hassince closed. After sixmonths, Charter psychiatrists recommendedhe be taken to Desert Hills, a psychiatric facil-ity hundreds of miles away in Tucson, Arizona.

A year passed at Desert Hills and Daywas transferred to yet another psychiatricfacility. There he became self-destructive;he punched staples into his arms, smashed

out windows and once swallowed an entirebottle of iodine pills. He was “negatively ter-minated” from the facility in February 1991.

Day was shipped to the psychiatric wardat Denver General Hospital, and from there toa treatment center in Boise, Idaho, calledNorthwest Passages. “Treatment” at

Northwest Passages consist-ed of placing a cup-likedevice called a plethysmo-graph over Day’s penis tomeasure its reaction whilepornographic pictures wereflashed on a screen. Later hewas required to sit in a roomwith headphones on; whenlooking at pictures of youngwomen, pleasant musicwould play. When looking atpornographic pictures of boysand girls, he was givenintense electric shocks deliv-ered through electrodestaped to his forearm.

More torture than “treat-ment,” it is not surprising

that Day was worse when he left NorthwestPassages. “They indicated to me they werenot successful in their treatment,” a probationofficer testified later in court, noting thatplethysmograph test scores indicated Dayhad indeed become worse, “and they consid-ered him a risk, a high risk to the community.”

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With a regimenthat was more torture than

“treatment,” it isnot surprisingthat Day was

worse when heleft one facility.

The Case ofSpencer Day

His story sheds new light on causes of violence and crimein our society.

Nevertheless, Day was released with anankle monitor and an agreement to see a coun-selor specializing in sex offenders. He alsoreturned to school, where it was not long beforehe set fire to a classmate’s hair. More psychiatrictreatment and drugs followed, including Elavil— an antidepressant that can cause confusion,delusions and delirium — which he attemptedto overdose on.

Finally, in October 1993, Day committedthe crimes which landed him in jail longer thanhe could hope to live. Day grabbed a 10-year-old boy, compelled him to perform a sexual actand choked him into unconsciousness. Six dayslater, he forced another boy to perform oral sexon him at knife point. And just a few days afterthat, he took another boy into his truck at knifepoint, drove up a canyon and forced him to per-form oral sex. After being caught by police withhis last victim, Day pleaded guilty to all threecrimes. To ensure they never happened again,the judge added a 40-year sentence to his 64-year sentence.

At the time of his sentencing, Spencer Daywas just 17 years old. His parents and their insur-ance companies, who had spent more than$400,000 for his “treatment,” were betrayedalong with Day and the victims of his crimes.

* A yearlong investigation by the Colorado Attorney General Office,released in August 1999, found that the Cleo Wallace Center illegallylocked up dozens of children, charging taxpayers millions of dollars fordoing so as part of a money-making scheme.

W hy are school problemsincreasingly diagnosed as“mental disorders” and

“illnesses” which callfor costly, unendingtreatment?

How are childrenkept on powerful, mind-altering drugs in thename of “therapy”?

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A Chronicle of Tragedy■ In preschool, Spencer Day, a bright and gifted child, was labeled hyperactive; by the time he

reached kindergarten, he was on Ritalin.

■ Day worsened and was placed in the school district’sEmotionally and Behaviorally Disordered (EBD) program. At theage of 9, he was sent to a psychiatric facility in Denver, where heencountered boys with sexual behavior problems.

■ Day was arrested for arson and again for vandalism andreceived further treatment.

■ At 12, Day wasreturned to his schooldistrict’s EBD program.Over the next few yearshe was committed tofour different psychiatricfacilities in Colorado,Arizona and Idaho.

Day was releasedwith an ankle monitorand returned to school.He was given more treat-ment and drugs and triedto overdose on Elavil.

■ In October 1993,at 17, Day committed a series of sex crimes on boys whichlanded him sentences totaling 104 years in prison.

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Disorienting aGeneration

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In the national discussion of youthviolence, a growing number ofexperts point to the systematic erad-ication of moral values in schools,accomplished by “progressive edu-cation” techniques rooted in psychi-atry and psychology. Foremostamong these techniques has been“values clarification,” also known

variously as sensitivity training, self-esteem training, critical thinking andother names.

According to authorities like BeverlyEakman, director of the National

Education Consortium, and TomDeWeese of the American PolicyFoundation, the underlyingconcept of “values clarifica-tion” is to break down themorals and values childrenhave acquired in the courseof growing up, teach themthat there is no set“right” and “wrong”,and have them charttheir own valuesbased on personalfeelings and opin-ions. The sameconcepts underlie“outcome-based”or “performance-based” educationwhich stresses psy-chological objectivessuch as relationships,self-esteem andrefusal skills, insteadof academics.

William Kil-patrick, author ofWhy Johnny Can’t

Tell Right from Wrong, states that the psy-chological-values training emphasizes“feelings, personal growth, and a totallynonjudgmental attitude.”However, “no time is spentproviding moral guidanceor forming character. Thevirtues are not explained ordiscussed, no models ofgood behavior are provid-ed, no reason is given whya boy or girl should want tobe good in the first place.”Kilpatrick states that thekids “come away with theimpression that even themost basic values are mat-ters of dispute.”

An underlying currentin values clarification that“anything goes” is exempli-fied in the words of theauthors of the original 1960text on the subject, whostated that “it is entirelypossible that children willchoose not to develop val-ues. It is the teacher’sresponsibility to support thischoice also.”

The results, as Kil-patrick sets forth in his book, can be disrup-tive and disorienting to the students.

Behavior vs. AcademicsValues clarification and similar pro-

grams are rooted in psychiatry and psychol-ogy, not education, and signal a conversionof schools from halls of academic learningto laboratories for behavioral modification.

In the words of Eakman, the “clear andstated agenda” of psychiatry and psychology

in schools “has been to jettison systematic,academic, knowledge-based curricula infavor of psychologized fare that places theemotions and belief systems above any cognitive, rational, or communicative functions. What was first hailed as progres-sive and relevant education quickly degen-erated,” states Eakman. “Then it gotworse. What information youngsters didlearn was actually harmful.”

It is no coincidence that ColumbineHigh School in Colorado — the site of theApril 1999 killing spree by a student —was caught in the cesspool of so-called pro-gressive education techniques which over-took a number of Colorado schools in 1991.The name “outcome-based education”(OBE) was born in Colorado, the home ofits founder, William Spady. Some localschools embraced the concept, despitebeing strenuously fought by parents, edu-cators and religious leaders. For instance, abattle waged between 1991 and 1995involving Littleton Public school boardmembers — including three who were

ousted in favor of boardmembers who advocated“back to basics” in theschools, and others whoeventually quit in frustra-tion over fighting OBE —as well as public referendaand volleys in the press.

Columbine High, part ofColorado’s Jefferson Countyschool system, was featuredin a 1991 ABC News 20/20segment on the controversyover “death education” inpublic schools. The class wasto teach them “how to bebrave enough to face death.”One student interviewed onthe ABC report believed shewas “seduced into a suicideattempt by her death edclass.”

Undoubtedly, the worstcasualties of the battle overthe psychiatric and psy-chology-based educationmethods have been thestudents themselves.

In the four decades psychiatrists havebeen active in U.S. schools, SAT scoreshave plummeted, tens of millions ofAmericans have left high school functional-ly illiterate and drug abuse among youthhas escalated. The suicide rate for 10 to14-year olds increased by 190 percent(from 0.6 to 1.74 per 100,000 between 1963and 1995), while teen suicides have tripled— with suicide the second leading cause ofdeath (after accidents) for 15-24 year olds.

Education experts take aim at“progressive education” techniquesas a corrosive force on moral valuesin schools.

Kids“come away

with theimpressionthat eventhe most

basic valuesare mattersof dispute.”— William Kilpatrick

Author, educator

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Peacekeepingforces remain on the

ground in Kosovo.But how were ethnic

rivalries inflamedinto war in

the first place?

Jovan Raskovic Heard on Yutel television in Belgrade in January1992, these words, and the person who spokethem, may reveal more about the Balkan conflictsthan the many and varied interpretations offeredthrough media and politicians over recent years.The speaker was Serbian psychiatrist JovanRaskovic, founder of the Serbian DemocraticParty (SDP) of Croatia.

“I feel responsible because I made the preparations for this war —even if not the military preparations. If I hadn’t created the emotionalstrain in the Serbian people, nothing would have happened.

“My party and I lit the fuse of the Serbian nationalism not only inCroatia but everywhere else in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

“We have driven this people and we have given it an identity.I have repeated it again and again to this people that it comes fromheaven, not earth.”

by Gail Armstrong and Patricia Forestier

BALKAN NIGHTMARE

Endingthe

MONTENEGRO

SERBIA

Subotica

Podgorica

Novi Sad

The international discussion of the polit-ical, social and military situation in theBalkan states generally omits mention ofRaskovic. Yet, as one of the modern dema-gogues of ethnic cleansing in the region, heplayed a pivotal role in shaping currentevents. His ultra-nationalism and zeal for thecreation of a “Greater Serbia” under theguise of a call for “peace” preceded the 1992outbreak of ethnic massacres in Yugoslaviaby more than a decade. And although hedied that year, his legacy has included themurder, harm and/or rape of hundreds ofthousands of innocent civilians.

Raskovic’s influence started in his homecity of Sibenik, in southern Croatia, in theearly 1980s. His application of fundamentalpsychiatric theories and practices as tools ofsuppression was already evident. Accordingto psychiatric colleague Brois Zmijanovic,who wrote in the newspaper NedjeljnaDalmacija on October 17, 1991, Raskovic

“used electroshocks and other sadistic psychotherapeutic methods with particularpleasure in the case of Croats, especiallyCroatian women.”

Raskovic glorified the Serbian minority inCroatia, telling them during public meetingsof atrocities committed against the OrthodoxSerbs during World War II by the Ustashi —Croatian fascists installed as puppet leaders bythe Nazis during the war. He spoke incessant-ly about the concentration camps built by theUstashi, attributing them to the “instinctiveurge for genocide” in the Croatian people.

Creating Mass ParanoiaAs a psychiatric expert in paranoia,

Raskovic could hardly be unaware of theeffect created by his accounts of massacredSerbian children or eviscerated Serbianwomen — events which had taken placesome 50 years earlier but which he presentedunder the color of the present.

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Jovan Raskovic ignited Serbian nationalist fervor, publishing tracts andappearing before crowds and in the media. His theories held that non-Serbian ethnic populations suffered from intrinsic psychological conditionswhich left the Serbs as the only people capable of leading the region.

Raskovic, as well as student and fellowpsychiatrist Radovan Karadzic (second fromleft), attended exclusive functions in Belgrade— including dinners at Slobodan Milosevic’s

and other political leaders’ villas — in whichan ethnically pure “Greater Serbia” wasplanned. Raskovic empowered Karadzic to leadthe Serbian Democratic Party in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1991.

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Raskovic in fact devoted much of hisown writing from the 1980s to psychiatry forthe masses. His 1990 curriculum vitae pre-sented to the Serbian Academy of Scienceslists many of his writings on the subject ofparanoia, focusing on the study of the mech-anisms triggering paranoia, jealousy, aggres-siveness of the masses, and related topics. Inone of his most well-known books, A MadCountry [Luda Zemlja], Raskovic wrote thatwhen three ethnic groups live together, “asparanoia overtakes their relations, the feelingof hatred becomes the normal, human factor,the factor of defense.”

But paranoia, he wrote, had to be pro-voked among the different ethnic groups inorder for hatred to set in.

The mass psychology of paranoia wasprecisely what was taking effect in the regionduring the 1980s when, “in formerYugoslavia, stories started about rape as war

crime,” wrote Mladen Loncar of the MedicalCenter for Human Rights in Zagreb, Croatiain early 1993. “The Serbian authorities started them in order to attain certain politi-cal goals — the abolition of the autonomy ofKosovo and the establishment of a dis-criminatory law. They released the news that Albanian men were raping Serbianwomen in Kosovo. However, this was neverproved, nor was any medical documentationfurnished.

“It was a ‘pilot’ study of the utilizationof rape in order to attain political and military goals,” continued Loncar. “Theysaw that this method was efficient for themasses. It provoked psychological effects; people rallied around the local authorities,asking for more repressive measures againstthe Albanians.”

It also taped a path for political action.Serbian politician Slobodan Milosevic

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While Karadzic was rising through ranks inBosnia, Slobodan Milosevic(left) came to power inSerbia. As the self-proclaimed “liberator” of the

Serbs, he stripped Kosovo of its autonomy in1989. By 1992, with both Karadzic and Milosevicin power, sporadic conflicts in Yugoslavic republicshad escalated to full scale violence.

Through the work of Karadzic and Milosevic — the latter whom Raskovicproclaimed to be “the result of the work of those who have brought the Serbianpeople back to consciousness” — the ethnic cleansing agenda has resulted inmassive loss of life. Both men have been indicted for crimes against humanityby the International War Crimes Tribunal. Neither has been brought to justice.

Through 1999 : Increasing violence sweeps the region

KOSOVO

Belgrade

Pristina

Nis

exploited the tensions in Kosovo to rise topolitical power. He declared himself the“liberator” of the Serbian people, and in1989, stripped Kosovo of the autonomy ithad enjoyed since 1974.

Loncar also wrote of a “special group ofpsychiatrists” at the military hospital inBelgrade who “specialized in war psy-chology and who worked out the method of systematic raping and proceeded to use it inthe war against Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.” Realizing the psychologicaleffects of rape, the strategists then exploiteda statement made by a Serbian bishop whodeclared that 30,000 Muslim women hadbeen raped in Bosnia, “to frighten the rest ofthe Bosnian population. The goal of such adeclaration is to force people to leave theircountry.”

Lighting the FuseAs the campaign of terror was being pre-

pared against non-Serb populations inBosnia and Croatia, Raskovic spent moreand more time in Belgrade, gaining supportfor his theories and the creation of “GreaterSerbia.” He co-authored the “Memorandumof the Serbian Academy of Science” of 1986advocating the racially superior nation; the

unpublished tract circulated among politicalleaders and intellectuals.

And in 1990, he ultimately “lit the fuse”across the nation with publication of A Mad Country, little more than a manifestocontaining his psychiatric theories of ethnicdifferences in Yugoslavia.

According to Raskovic, the Croats possessa “fear of castration” and are afraid of every-thing and, therefore, cannot assert themselvesor exercise authority or leadership.

The Muslims, he claimed on the otherhand, have an “anal-erotic fixation” whichprompts them to gather wealth and hidebehind fanatic attitudes.

The Serbs, his own people, possess an“Oedipus complex” that empowers them tostand up to and “kill the father.” This is why,Raskovic explained, the Serbs are the onlygroup with a sense of authority and why theyneed to assert that authority over the otherYugoslavian peoples.

Raskovic’s book was touted in a pub-licity campaign in which he was hailed as thegreatest psychiatrist and scientist of his era.

While fueling his ultra-national Serbiancause through media and public appearances,Raskovic created the Serbian DemocraticParty in Croatia.

It was only a matter of time before theSerb minority’s instilled paranoia of theCroats would escalate to bloodshed.

In 1990, Serbian civilians from Krajina —the primarily Serbian-populated lands ofCroatia bordering Bosnia and Serbia — wereprovided arms by the Belgrade government,via the SDP leaders, in order to “defend”themselves from the Croats. Roadblockswere established by Serbs in order to pre-vent non-Serbs from entering areas ofKrajina proclaimed to be “Serbian.” Whenpolicemen were sent by the Croatian gov-ernment in order to bring order, they werekilled. War had broken out in Croatia.

Trouble SpreadsAs Croatia experienced sporadic con-

flicts, ethnic rivalries were escalating inneighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina. There, inSarajevo in 1991, Raskovic empoweredRadovon Karadzic to lead the Bosnianbranch of the SDP.

The choice of party leader for Bosniawas not a casual one. Karadzic had beenRaskovic’s student in group psychology inZagreb in 1988 and 1989, and his politicaltrainee. His allegiance to Raskovic was firm.Karadzic publicly proclaimed in a 1991

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Fleeing ethnic cleansing: Mass psychological theories expounded by Jovan Raskovic and his tutelage about the inferiority of non-Serbian ethnic populations,combined with propaganda to instill fear of “genocidal conspiracies” against the Serbs, have led to incalculable misery, destruction and death.

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media interview that he was ideologicallyinfluenced by “above all, Jovan Raskovic.”

Karadzic, like Raskovic, specialized ingroup psychology and in paranoia, as evi-denced by works on the subject he presentedto the Fifth Congress of Psychotherapists ofYugoslavia in October 1987 in Sarajevo.Karadzic’s “research” involved reciting tovarious patient groups a story in which sev-eral people sliced members of their ownfamily into pieces. The purpose was toobserve the intense fear the story created inthe patients.

Like Raskovic and various Serbianintellectuals and politicians, Karadzic hadattended the exclusive dinners held inBelgrade in Milosevic’s and other politicalleaders’ villas, during which Greater Serbiawas planned. Both Karadzic and Raskovicwere also members of the Association ofSerbian Writers, located at Francuska 7 inBelgrade, in which the idea of an ethnicallypure Serbia was disseminated among theSerbian intelligentsia.

Karadzic, with Raskovic, embarked on asystematic campaign to instill fear in theminority Serbian community in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1991. They organized aseries of public meetings which wereattended by thousands of Serbs, who weretold of supposed threats and a genocidal con-spiracy against them by the Bosnian Muslims.

And at a national assembly in Bosnia-Herzegovina in September 1991, Karadzicdelivered a chilling speech which foreshad-owed the coming genocidal horror against the

local Muslims. “The Muslims must be carefulof what they are doing,” he warned. “Theymight very well disappear.”

Under Karadzic’s leader-ship, concentration camps —whose inmates, according to aJuly 26, 1995 report in The LosAngeles Times looked “eerilysimilar to the famous pho-tographs of Nazi concentra-tion camp victims rescued halfa century before” — and sys-tematic raping of womenforced non-Serb populationsto flee from Bosnia.

“A New Trend has Begun”Before Karadzic rose

through the ranks to lead theeugenics-driven SDP causethroughout Bosnia, SlobodanMilosevic had come topower in Serbia. After hiselection as president of therepublic in 1989, he trans-formed the communistSerbian party into thenationalistic Socialist party.It was only a matter ofmonths before ethnic rival-ries swept the formerYugoslavia at a fever pitch,and the first open warfare broke out in theregion.

In an arrogant claim for the strength ofthe agenda he principally authored,

Raskovic declared in A Mad Country that“Milosevic has not been the promoter ofsuch events happening in our country, but

only the tool. The motiveshave been hidden deeper.Such motives have been concentrated in a nucleus offeelings of fear, that have notexploded. This nucleus haslost its shell and that is all.This shell has shrunk away.

“The frictions inside areless, the feelings of guilt havegone and a new trend hasbegun. The opposite trend,”he proclaimed.

Having already exploitedthe fears of the Serbianminority in Kosovo during hisrise to power, Milosevic con-tinued to foment and nurturestrain between the ethnicgroups in the region. By con-tinually spreading the notionthat the Serbian minority was“threatened” by the ethnicAlbanians, Milosevic widenedpockets of tension intochasms of ethnic differencesand hatred.

As Raskovic declared in atelevision interview after

Milosevic was elected President, “Milosevicis the result of the work of those who havebrought the Serbian people back to con-sciousness.”

The Serbian nationalist move-ment of the 1980s and early ’90srelied heavily on propagandadesigned to create fear ofaggression by Muslims, Croatsand Bosnians.

One aspect of that effort was to imparta threat that the Serbians were going to beoutnumbered by the differing ethnicgroups.

“The development of this propa-ganda may be divided into two phases,although they are constantly inter-twined,” wrote Stasa Zajovic, authorand president of a women’s associationin Belgrade, in “Birth, Nationalism andWar” in 1994.

“The first phase started as early asthe middle of the eighties. It consists ofthe preparation of various projectsaimed at the ‘suppression of the whiteplague’ [the name given to a reporteddecrease of childbirth rates amongSerbian women]. The second phase isthe propaganda about childbearing forpatriotic reasons, that is, for theenhancement of national security.”

At the beginning of the “first phase,”continued Zajovic, “demographers fol-lowed territorial principles, asserting that incentral and eastern Serbia, as well as inVojvodina, the birth-rate was dropping atan alarming rate, while in Kosovo it was rising disturbingly. At this time, demogra-

phers had not yet introduced the ethnicaspect. The imbalance of the demographicdevelopment was explained instead eitherby economic factors or by changes in thesystem of values. As a solution, mostlyadministrative measures were offered.

“The demographic discourse — inaccordance with the expansion of thenationalist ideology — soon acquired arepressive, racist character,” Zajovic wrote.

It also soon permeated Serbian officialdom. “Official documents startedmultiplying,” said Zajovic. Among themwas a Resolution on the Renewal ofPopulation, which contained a paper ofJune 30, 1992 entitled “The Warning”— composed by nine national institu-tions and adopted by the Socialist Partyof Serbia at a subsequent congress as anofficial document.

“The Warning” heralded the ominous“threat” that minority peoples posed to theSerbian majority, declaring per Zajovic thatsince “Albanians, Moslems and Gypsies,with their higher birth-rate, deviate fromrational, human reproduction, [they]threaten the rights of other peoples.”

The Warning

By continuallyspreading the

notion that theSerbian minority

was “threatened”by ethnic

Albanians,Milosevic

widened pocketsof tension into

chasms of ethnicdifferences and

hatred.

Propaganda effort spread ominousthreat of “the white plague.”

Theories Live OnSporadic hostilities increased through-

out the Yugoslavian region, and by 1992,the stage was set for a full-scale dischargeof the tensions ignited by Raskovic,Karadzic and Milosevic.

Two months after Raskovic’s chillingannouncement on Yutel television claim-ing responsibility for “preparations for thiswar” in terms of “the emotional strain inthe Serbian people,” war indeed brokeout in Bosnia-Herzegovina. And the chaosspread. A few months later, Raskovic diedof a heart attack in Belgrade. Karadzicbecame leader of the Bosnian Serbs, andas the war escalated, Bosnian newspaperGlas Slavonije observed on April 11, 1992,“The unhappiness of Bosnia-Herzegovinais once again due to a psychiatrist: Dr.Radovon Karadzic.”

Raskovic’s theories did not disappearwith him. As an article in Le Figaro, theFrench national newspaper, reported on April13, 1999:

“History remains very alive in Serbianpeople’s minds and Yugoslav media keepcomparing Nazi bombing of Belgrade of 6April 1941 with the ongoing NATO air

strikes. TV ads of RTS [Serbian Radio andTelevision] present U.S. and British politi-cians against a swastika background.

“In addition to history, psychoanalysis isalso used for propaganda. The newspaperVecernje Novosti yesterday published a brandnew thesis. Slobodan Jakulic, director of LazaLazarevic psychiatric institute, explained thatthe world is governed by exterminator politi-cians whose plans to create a new world orderare inspired by heavy sexual complexes andfrustrations. According to this theory, TonyBlair is a homosexual who has fallen in lovewith Clinton. U.S. Secretary of StateMadeleine Albright experienced a deep trauma during her childhood spent inYugoslavia — where her father used to beambassador for Czechoslovakia before theSecond World War. ‘Due to her ugliness com-pared with young Serbian girls, Serbian boyswould systematically avoid her, which causedher to have a permanent feeling of hatredtoward Serbian people,’ Dr. Jakulic explained.”

Such psychiatric theories about the worldoutside Serbia, nurtured over two decades,continue to spawn ultra-nationalism and itsattendant justifications for the destruction ofhuman life.

Crimes Against HumanityOn July 25, 1995, Karadzic was formally

indicted by the United Nations’ War CrimesTribunal for crimes against humanity. So far,he has escaped justice.

In May 1999, Milosevic was also indictedby the War Crimes Tribunal. If the record todate is any indication, the indictment willmake little difference in the long-term in theBalkans — unless he and the other purvey-ors of misery and death are actually broughtto justice.

While current Western political actionsare aimed at stopping violence and furthermisery in the Balkans, it will not prevent itfrom repeating in the future. Nor will itminimize the danger posed not just toMuslims, Croats and Bosnians but to theSerbs as well. It was, after all, the samefundamental psychiatric theory of racialsuperiority that the Croatian Ustashi learnedfrom Nazi eugenicists during World War II inorder to annihilate Serbs as one of several“inferior” ethnic groups.

Thus the paramount danger stems notfrom armies and politicians — but fromthose who exalt the belief that some humanbeings are “life not worthy of living.”

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The last time bombs rained onBelgrade, it was Hitler’s planesthat dropped them. But in oneof history’s more ironic twists,unlike the 1999 NATO attemptto prevent genocide, the Nazi attack was launched to

advance it.Following the Nazi invasion of

Yugoslavia in 1941, the territory was divid-ed among Germany and its allies, includ-ing the Ustashi — a group of Croatian fas-cists put into power by the Nazis. TheUstashi created the “Independent Stateof Croatia,” an ally of the Axis Powers.

“Racial purity” programs were car-ried out against Serbs, Jews, Gypsiesand other ethnic groups. More than600,000 were murdered.

But to blame Hitler singularly withthe destruction of the Balkan peoples— not to mention the millions ofGermans, Poles and others who weredeemed unworthy of life — would be asevere understatement, as history hasproved.

Hitler was himself following amacabre vision laid down by othersbefore him. Chief among them wasErnst Rudin, a psychiatrist who playeda major role in setting the stage for theHolocaust. Rudin was president of theInternational Federation of EugenicOrganizations and world leader of theeugenics movement which sought toremove “inferior” individuals fromsociety by segregation, sterilization, ordeath in order to create a “better” race.

In 1916 he established the field of“psychiatric hereditary biology” whichbecame “psychiatric genetics” in the

1930s, and which has subsequently beenused to justify several efforts toward themass destruction of unwanted ethnicgroups.

In 1933 Rudin was chosen byHitler’s Reich Ministry to leadGermany’s racial purity program. Rudinwasted no time in drafting the NaziSterilization Law which originallycalled for the sterilization of “schizo-phrenics,” “alcoholics,” and “manic-depressives” — the subjects of Rudin’s“research.” As these legal sterilizationsbegan, programs were already under-way to sterilize “black” Germans. Thesterilization program expanded toinclude Jews, Gypsies and, in the words of Rudin, other “inferior racetypes.”

Rudin’s programled to the establish-ment of a pilot killingprogram at several of Germany’s psychi-atric hospitals. Thefirst to die were375 ,000 menta lpatients. Rudin pub-licly praised Hitler formaking his “morethan thirty-year-olddream a reality” by imposing “racialhygiene” upon theGerman people. Rudinadmitted that when

the killing program was started, he hadnot been informed, “because it was notthought right that I should have such amatter on my conscience.” Eventually,the genocide program “involved practi-cally the entire German psychiatric community,” according to The WorldMust Know, a history of the Holocaust byauthor Dr. Michael Berenbaum.

But the psychiatric theories thatspawned the racial hygiene movementin the 1930s did not end with WorldWar II and the tribunals that followed.And while most of the world’s attentionregarding eugenics remained focusedon Germany during the past half century,the same fundamental theories of racialhygiene sown by Nazi psychiatristscontinued to germinate among leadersin their Balkan neighbor, bringingunspeakable horror upon the innocent.With a growing global community, thetheories and those who author them canno longer be overlooked today.

The theories that spawned the racial hygienemovement in the 1930s did not end with WorldWar II and the tribunals that followed.

The “EthnicCleansing”Agendaby Dr. Mark Barber

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Human Rights

MakingHuman Rightsa Fact

MakingHuman Rightsa Fact

When talk turns to human rights, one would normallyexpect events in places like the former Yugoslavia,China or Rwanda to dominate the discussion. Onewould little expect to hear of atrocious abuses at home in the United States or even in other “developed” nations. And certainly not at the hands of trusted, degree-holding professionals who walk freelyamong us.

Yet such abuses exist; they are very real, and they are the focus of theCitizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a group dedicated toinvestigating and exposing psychiatric violations of human rights. “Tosay that psychiatry violates human rights is a misnomer,” saysDr. Thomas Szasz, professor emeritus at the State University of NewYork. “Psychiatry is a human rights abuse.”

Szasz, himself trained in psychiatry and author of the leading textscritical of the field, worked with the Church of Scientology in 1969 tofound CCHR. At that time, according to a CCHR report, the victims ofpsychiatry were a “forgotten minority group, warehoused underdreadful, even terrifying conditions” in institutions around the world.Today a leading and powerful voice for mental health reform, withrecognitions from the United Nations and other private andgovernmental bodies, CCHR is now active with 130 chapters in 30countries.

Members of the Citizens Commissionon Human Rights bring psychiatric abuseand fraud to the attention of the public.by Mark Stout

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From New York to Los Angeles and abroad, members of the CitizensCommission on Human Rights (CCHR) have been on the front linesof mental health reform since 1969. With 130 chaptersin 30 countries today, CCHR actively works with a wide varietyof private and public citizens to investigate and expose psychiatricviolations of human rights.

And when CCHR celebrated its 30thanniversary at the Bonaventure Hotel in theheart of downtown Los Angeles in March, itwas with Hollywood stars and recordingartists, award winners who came from as far ashalfway across the globe for the occasion, anda house packed with hundreds of humanrights activists and supporters from around theworld. By any measure, the event reflectedthe impressive accomplishments of thisunique organization.

“An Important Message”More than an anniversary gala, the

evening was an opportunity to send whatCCHR international president Jan Eastgatetermed “an important message” and toacknowledge “individuals of courage and per-sistence who have joined the battle” againstpsychiatric abuses.

Actress Lee Purcell, Mistress of Cere-monies for the evening, framed that messageat the outset of the evening when shedescribed CCHR’s “worldwide quest for theabolition of cruel and physically harmful psy-chiatric practices and to restore human rightsto the field of mental health.”

CCHR’s history has been one of excep-tional growth and accomplishment, Purcellnoted, considering that it “entered a worldalmost wholly ignorant of the nature, extentand effects of psychiatric practice and control.”

Those effects, as explained further bykeynote speaker Reverend Heber Jentzsch,President of the Church of ScientologyInternational and a founding member ofCCHR, came from psychiatry’s deeply imbed-ded antipathy to human rights. As Jentzschrelated, in 1776 the father of American psychi-atry, Dr. Benjamin Rush — whose face adornsthe seal of the American Psychiatric Societytoday — justified slavery because, Rush said,blacks suffered from an incurable “disease”called “negritude.” Jentzsch further unfolded

the unabashed 1940 plans of another of psychi-atry’s forefathers, the British J. R. Rees, for psy-chiatry to infiltrate and take over the fields ofreligion, medicine, law and education; and theunequivocal proposal in 1946 of WorldFederation of Mental Health founder BrockChisholm to eradicate the concepts of right andwrong.

Awards PresentedStanding in stark contrast

to psychiatry’s darkly stainedfoundations were those indi-viduals acknowledged duringthe evening with CCHR’sInternational Human RightsAward for perseverance inexposing human rights viola-tions.

Christine Hahn, journalistwith Brabant Newspapers ofOntario, Canada, was pre-sented with the award byPurcell for her investigation ofa scam involving abuse andbrokering of brain injuredpatients between Canada andthe United States. Prior toHahn’s investigation, abusesreported by patients — such as beingslammed into furniture, pulled by the hair,and needlessly restrained by psychiatric staff— had been dismissed as psychotic ramblings.

“When I first started writing about braininjury patients in 1996, I thought the story wasabout one patient and one hospital. I could nothave been more wrong,” Hahn said. “It was amulti-billion dollar cross border psychiatricindustry created to take advantage of the mostvulnerable people in our society.”

Hahn also accepted the human rightsaward for Toni Skarica, Canadian Member ofParliament recently appointed Chairman ofOntario’s Crime Control Commission, and the

man Hahn asked to help the victims she hadfound. Skarica joined the investigation in1997, visiting facilities in New York and Texas.His investigation resulted in the TexasAttorney General filing a lawsuit against a psy-chiatric hospital chain involved, the returnhome for Canadian patients detained in U.S.facilities, and a crackdown on fraud.

When fellow journalistand CCHR award winner Ms.Toni Eatts first contactedCCHR in Sydney, Australiaalmost two decades ago, she,like Hahn, did not anticipatethe magnitude of what shewas about to discover. As toldby actress Nancy Cartwright inher introduction to Eatts, thejournalist intended only to getsome information on one ofseveral psychiatrists who prac-ticed “Deep Sleep Treat-ment” for a book she estimat-ed would be six months in themaking. Deep Sleep Treat-ment (DST) consists ofknocking patients into a drug-induced, near-comatose statefor as much as several months

on end, during which time they are repeatedlysubjected to brain damaging electric shock,with the purpose of re-conditioning how theythink and behave. CCHR had been investigat-ing reported deaths from DST at Sydney’sChelmsford Hospital, the home of DST’sprime author, Dr. Harry Bailey.

Six months became a decade while Eattsworked alongside CCHR, whistleblowers andvictims, and formed the Chelmsford SurvivalGroup to battle a bureaucracy insensitive to thesituation. In Australia, 1,100 people were docu-mented to have been subjected to the brutalityof DST between the 1960s and 1980s, and aknown 48 victims died. Eatts generated

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Human Rights

“To saypsychiatry

violates humanrights is amisnomer.

Psychiatry is ahuman rights

abuse.”— Dr. Thomas SzaszProfessor EmeritusState University

of New York

Actress Nancy Cartwright with Australian journalistand CCHR award recipient Toni Eatts (right), whospearheaded exposure of massive abuse and deaths ofvictims of psychiatric “Deep Sleep Therapy” (DST),sparking a Royal Commission Inquiry, restitutionfor survivors and the ban of DST.

Beverly Eakman, author, educator and founder ofthe National Education Consortium is presentedCCHR’s human rights award by actress JulietteLewis for her efforts to remove psychological andpsychiatric influences in schools and salvageAmerican education.

CCHR Celebrates 30th Anniversary: Irving Sarnoff,founder of Friends of the United Nations,acknowledged author and humanitarian L. RonHubbard as an inspiration behind the formationof CCHR in a presentation to Kaye Conley of theL. Ron Hubbard Personal Public Relations Office.

unprecedented national media coverage on theabuses at Chelmsford and sparked a two-yearRoyal Commission Inquiry which resulted incompensation for 283 victims and the ban ofDST.

CCHR’s Human Rights LeadershipAward also went to Ms. Beverly Eakman ofthe United States for her tireless efforts toexpose psychiatry’s destructive influence onchildren. Actress Juliette Lewis, herself out-spoken against the psychiatric drugging ofchildren, presented the award on behalf ofCCHR.

When Mrs. Eakman settled on a career as ateacher in the public school system, sheintended to teach literature and other academ-ic basics. However, she soon found that schoolswere becoming psychological laborato-ries, where she was expected to advancepsychiatric and psychological-based pro-grams for shaping childrens’ behavior,without parental knowledge or consent.Eakman fought the incursion and turnedto the media for assistance, thinking thatit would be a fairly simple matter toobtain coverage of what she found. Shetook documentation of the forced drug-ging of children, psychological testswhich masqueraded as academic tests,and behavior modification programswhich were conducted in the classroomsto the top echelons of various newspa-pers and television news magazines.“While their eyes would get wide as saucers,”Eakman said, “they all in the end said it was toodifficult to do that kind of writing. So I decidedto do the job myself.”

Eakman first did that job with the publi-cation of her book, Educating For a New WorldOrder. She since formed the NationalEducation Consortium, became a CCHRInternational Commissioner and published asecond book, The Cloning of the American Mind:Eradicating Morality Through Education.

The final award, a special category for per-forming artists, was presented by thePresident of CCHR International, Ms. JanEastgate, to platinum-award winning musi-cian David Pomerantz for his work on behalfof CCHR. Pomerantz’ song, “InvisibleCriminals,” Eastgate said, “is a gripping rendition of the tragedy and destructionaccompanying psychiatric practice” and hasbecome the unofficial theme song of CCHRInternational, she said.

Making Human Rights a FactAmong the factors that led to CCHR’s

establishment in 1969 were the words ofauthor and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard,who declared that “the most basic laws ofhumanity had been broken” by psychiatristsand that “human rights must be made a fact,not an idealistic dream.” As an inspirationbehind CCHR, Mr. Hubbard was acknowl-edged by Mr. Irving Sarnoff, the founder of

Friends of the United Nations, a group whicheducates and advises citizens and governmentson the United Nations Universal Declarationof Human Rights.

Though written more than 50 years ago,the Universal Declaration of Human Rightsremains an unrealized ideal to 99 percent ofthe world. “Mr. Hubbard recognized thistragedy,” Mr. Sarnoff said. “He was particu-larly aware of how psychiatrists violated thisdeclaration. He wrote that their lack ofhumanity was easy to see in their commitmentlaws which deny patients due process of law.”

Presenting the award, Mr. Sarnoff said,“Mr. Hubbard gave us a vision, a technology,and a movement to save our world for futuregenerations. Because of him, millions areworking to make the world a better place.”The award was accepted by the L. RonHubbard Personal Public Relations Officer forthe Western United States, Kaye Conley.

CCHR has worked closely for 30 yearswith other concerned groups, citizens andcommunity leaders to document and informthe public of the destructive effects of psychi-atric treatments such as electric shock, psychosurgery, and drugging. Accomplish-ments of CCHR International over the pastyear were announced by its president, JanEastgate.

Among them was the publication ofone of the group’s most compelling publi-cations to date, Harming Lives: Psychiatry —

Betraying and Drugging Children. The book-let, which exposes and documents the psychiatric industry’s campaign to drugchildren for profit, has been translated into14 different languages and distributed in30 countries. After its release, emotionallycharged public hearings into the abuse ofchildren and families by psychiatrists andpsychologists were held in New York andLos Angeles.

But whether fighting psychiatric invasionsof patients’ rights or preventing the psychiatricdrugging of school children, by evening’s endit was more than clear that CCHR’s efforts areboth vital and urgent.

“A wide gap exists between what hasbeen and what should be in the field of men-tal health,” Ms. Eastgate said. “What has beenis possibly the greatest crime of all time. Whatshould be is an atmosphere characterized bytolerance, safety, purity and respect for peo-ple’s lives. While a lot remains to be done,what will be is now most certain. With thecombined effort of CCHR and numerousother organizations, individuals, and you,” shetold the audience, “we are bringing dignityand decency to the field of mental health.”

“Were it not for CCHR,” said Dr. ThomasSzasz when writing on CCHR’s accomplish-ments, “I wonder if anyone would know thetruth. Instead, thanks to their work, millionsknow. This has never happened before inhuman history.”

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Canadian journalist Christine Hahn was presentedCCHR’s human rights award for her investigationof a scam involving abuse and brokering ofbrain-injured patients between Canada and theUnited States. Her work fueled a major crackdownon psychiatric fraud.

Asmall revolution is occurringin part of the San Antonio,Texas school system, spear-headed by the HarlendaleAlternative Center for at-riskkids. Three hundred andfifty 6th – 12th grade stu-dents sent to the Center as

the result of disciplinary hearingshave been undergoing radicalshifts in their outlook in just six tonine weeks.

Naida Segura, counselor atthe center, explains why. “I intro-duced The Way to Happiness to theCenter after I saw it mentioned ina professional journal,” she says.“I was impressed with the way it providedthe specific information the kids needed toturn around their lives.”

The The Way to Happiness which Segurarefers to is a pocket-sized booklet contain-ing 21 precepts comprising all of the basic,time-honored and common sense morals ofa sound society. Each precept is explainedwith brief text.

“Although these children come fromvery difficult situations, once they havebeen exposed to The Way to Happiness, theyare able to make good choices,” says

Segura. “It is written in a stylethat is very simple and clear. Itgives the children enoughunderstanding to overcomepeer pressure and environmentor familial situations that wouldhave them otherwise make thewrong decisions.”

Segura takes the studentsthrough each precept of the booklet indepth, and observes that the children realizeaspects of their lives that they can change.

The children then visit elementary schoolsin the area, under a program called theStudent Experience Exchange (SEE), usingThe Way to Happiness to set a good example— one of the precepts in the booklet.

“Students in the SEE program tellyounger students, ‘I want to make sure youdon’t make the same bad choices that Imade, and I’m going to tell you why,’” saysSegura. The students have already workedout why in reading and applying principlesfrom The Way to Happiness.

“It is truly amazing. My students havethe undivided attention of the youngerones,” Segura states. “The program hasgiven my kids self-esteem and confidence,a sense of value.”

The Center started the The Way toHappiness program with 5th-grade stu-dents, but according to Segura, the demandfrom the teachers was so great that theyextended the program to all elementarygrades.

Students contribute to a variety ofother community projects, such as collect-ing food and clothing for the disadvan-taged, and visiting the elderly. Segura findsthat the kids will volunteer if they knowwhat good will result.

The Way to Happiness has also beenincluded in the activities of a family coun-seling group within the district, in which the

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In the aftermath of each act of senseless youth violence, parents,teachers and civic leaders amplify the national discussion about theneed to educate our nation’s children in values and morals.

One program has been successfully doing so for almost twodecades, with results.

Society

BringingBackMoralsby Marc Steven

hearing officer mandates a preceptfrom The Way to Happiness as thefocus for a specific community ser-vice project. An example of such aprecept, according to Segura, isthe one to “be competent.”

“Each precept is so funda-mental that it encompasses manyareas of life. I can see it blossom,”Segura says. “The booklet hasgenerated a lot of interest. Theprogram for teaching morals thatwas in place before just was not working.”

Making the Right DecisionsOver the past few decades, the teach-

ing of morals in schools has been on a rapiddecline, replaced by more “modern” psy-chological and psychiatric-based teachingswhich stress that kids figure out theirmorals and values on their own. (See also“Disorienting a Generation,” page 12.)

The teaching of morals in schools hasbeen frowned upon by some educatorsbecause of religious implications — sincemorals have traditionally been linked to

religion — even if the morals being taughtin schools are not religious in content.

With the The Way to Happiness, Segurasays, the students are “making choices anddecisions about values. Knowing how to doso is basically a human right, not a religiousissue.”

After four years of implementing TheWay to Happiness program, the HarlendaleAlternative Center was awarded first placefor the 1998/1999 school year in the nation-al Set a Good Example contest which usesthe booklet.

“Every now and then I meet or find outabout one of our graduates from the pro-gram. I just came out of the hospital, forinstance,” recounts Segura, “where Ibumped into a graduate. He had returnedto school and completed his studies, andthen found a job at the hospital.”

The Way to Happiness Set a GoodExample Contest is conducted bythe Concerned Businessmen’sAssociation of America (CBAA), a national organization whichencourages private sector businessowners and individuals to takeaction if they are unhappy aboutthe $200 billion that decliningmoral values among our youth iscosting the economy each year.

Based on countless results inelementary, middle and highschools, and in special educationsettings like that of the HarlendaleAlternative Center, the CBAA’slifeblood for the two decades of itsexistence has been the single pro-gram to implement The Way toHappiness booklet in different set-

tings in society.After 15 years of running the Set a

Good Example school contest, more than12 million students in America have beenreached with The Way to Happiness in nearly11,000 schools.

The program has received hundreds ofawards and recognitions from mayors, gov-ernors, congressmen and senators. In a1994 study conducted in schools using TheWay to Happiness materials, 85% of theteachers noticed positive changes in theirpupils and 88% of the students felt theyhad gained from the booklet; 97% of theteachers wanted to continue with the pro-gram and 77% of the students said theyused the precepts in their everyday lives.

With almost 51 million grade-schoolchildren and 108,520 schools in America,there is still some way to go, but considerthe effect on society of the millions of stu-dents who are graduating with a solidgrounding in morals.

An Amite, Louisiana high school prin-cipal gave an idea of that power when shesaid, “We are still reaping the rewards of

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Naida Segura (right), counselor at HarlendaleAlternative Center, introduces The Way toHappiness to a fellow educator. The schoolwon the national “Set a Good Example”contest for the 1998/1999 school year.

Thousands of students are being reachedthrough the “Set a Good Example” contestbased on common sense moral preceptscontained in The Way to Happiness.Eighty-five percent of teachers inparticipating schools reported positivechanges in their students; 77 percent ofstudents say they use the precepts intheir everyday lives.

having been involved in the Set a GoodExample program. The seventh graderswho began the program at our school arenow graduating seniors who have distin-guished themselves in all areas, includingacademics, athletics, drama, music andleadership roles. They have establishedgoals and have a well-developed workethic. They truly represent the ideals ... ofthe Set a Good Example project.”

The moral seems to be that if onetreats children with dignity, recognizestheir goodness, and shows them what to do,one receives good in return. If childrendon’t know the rules of the game, arecoerced with drugs, coddled with confus-ing counseling and left with the idea thatthey should decide for themselves what isright or wrong, then confusion, at best,results.

One 8th grade student on the The Wayto Happiness program put it this way: “Ifadults set a good example for us, then welearn to set a good example for youngerkids. Who else do wehave to look up to forhelp in our lives? Ifyoung people are goingto do great things, thenthey need great exam-ples.”

An Idea Whose Time Has Come

It may seem remark-able to some that a smallbooklet with a commonsense moral code couldcreate such positiveeffects. The power of anidea whose time hascome cannot be disput-ed. The desire for aneffective moral educationis on the minds of teachers, parents andpoliticians throughout the country. A pollof parents showed that 79% were in favorof public schools teaching morals, whichthey rated second in importance only towriting and speaking skills.

With 53 million copies distributed in 57countries and in 22 languages since it wasfirst released 18 years ago by author andhumanitarian L. Ron Hubbard, this littlebooklet is proving to be an easy and effec-tive answer to the enormously complexproblems that result when a society partscompany with its moral code.

The Way to Happiness Foundation,which oversees the distribution of thebooklet around the world, also runs pro-grams in U.S. schools. More than 2,000schools have participated to date. One suchprogram is the annual Creating a BetterWorld essay contest, asking children towrite about how they feel particular pre-

cepts should be implemented toimprove society. Not surprisingly,children have had much to sayabout where our society is going.

One 13-year-old girl showed The Way toHappiness to her friends, who had beendrinking, stealing, taking drugs, beingpromiscuous, and had dropped out of

school and been in trouble with the policeseveral times. They realized how muchharm they were doing and weaned them-selves off the drugs, stopped drinking andeventually quit everything else they were

doing that was illegal andimmoral. “The precept ‘Do NotDo Anything Illegal’ saved myfriends’ lives, and mine. Now weread and use all the precepts every day. We arespreading The Way to Happinessto everyone, and one by one,creating a better world,” the stu-

dent wrote.A 15-year-old boy with a remarkable flair

for writing stated, “There is a place whereviolence is commonplace and expected

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Students in The Way to Happiness programget hands-on experience applying the commonsense moral precepts contained in the booklet andlearn why a moral life is a happy one.

Society

much as unpleasant weather.Where nothing is thought ofarmed robbery. Where nar-cotics and hallucinogens aresold like newspapers. Wherethe only safe haven can befound in alliance with agroup of armed and hard-ened people who are foreverdefending and conspiringagainst other affiliations.Where brutal crimes arepunished by temporary con-finement measured in hours,or black marks on one’srecord, or not at all. Thisfence-and-metal-detector-encircled institution is thehigh school. In this environ-ment, the individual studentis liable to fall back to veryprimitive philosophies tosurvive, in place of themorals that were nevertaught. The government’ssolution is to build vandal-proof drinkingfountains. We must bring students the moralsin The Way to Happiness. We must bring themtoday. For without them, the future is dark.”

Another ChanceThe CBAA and The Way to Happiness

Foundation also direct additional projects

using The Way to Happinessto address the subjects ofdrugs, crime, violence andgang life, most of which arerun in coordination withfamily service agencies,police departments anddelinquency preventiongroups.

While it is best to startmoral education early on inlife, it is not too late for the1.8 million Americans in jail— a figure expected to riseto 3.5 million over the nextfive years — who wentthrough school without thebenefit of a workableMorals 101.

The Way to Happinessbooklet has also been find-ing its way into prisons andjudges’ chambers. Where80 percent of releasedoffenders are behind bars

again within a year, between 80 and 98.5percent of those who have completed a TheWay to Happiness program designed forinmates stay honest and straight afterrelease. The prison program using The Wayto Happiness is run by Criminon, an interna-tional criminal rehabilitation group.Currently, 2,250 prisons in the U.S. are

participating in the program.As contained in Precept Four of The

Way to Happiness, “Bringing a child into theworld today is a little bit like dropping oneinto a tiger’s cage.” But, as the author alsolater stated, “If people... could give eachother a way to happiness, yes, the worldwould change. Think what would occur ifpeople became decent to one anotheragain!”

With a simple booklet like The Way toHappiness, and programs to implement itsuch as the Concerned BusinessmansAssociation of America’s “Set A GoodExample” Contest and The Way toHappiness Foundation’s “Creating a BetterWorld” Essay Contest, the distinct possi-bility exists that educators and parents canrapidly alter the direction schools and soci-ety have taken over the last few decades,and create the kind of world we would allrather live in.

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■For further information on The Children’s Set a Good Example Campaign and School Contest, contact ConcernedBusinessmen’s Association of America(CBAA) at 13428 Maxella Avenue No.248, Marina del Rey, California 90292.Website address: www.cbaa.org, e-mail: cbaa@primenet.com.

Perhaps the first non-religious moral codebased purely on common sense, The Way to Happiness is a booklet containing 21precepts, or principles, for improving morals

in today’s world.The grass-roots demand for this booklet is

worldwide, and the precepts are applied by tens ofmillions around the planet, by men, women andchildren from every conceivable station in life —from Moscow police officers to convicts serving lifesentences in San Quentin, from schoolchildren inZimbabwe and Beverly Hills to heads of state. Itapplies to any person’s life, anywhere.

In The Way to Happiness, author L. RonHubbard included a detailed description of eachprecept, including how it works and how to apply itin life. Rather than just a set of rules or “do’s anddon’ts,” The Way to Happiness provides actual insightand shows how each precept can be put to practicaluse.

The 21 precepts are as follows:1. Take Care of Yourself2. Be Temperate3. Don’t Be Promiscuous4. Love and Help Children5. Honor and Help Your Parents6. Set a Good Example

7. Seek to Live With the Truth8. Do Not Murder9. Don’t Do Anything Illegal

10. Support a Government Designed and Run forAll the People

11. Do Not Harm a Person of Good Will12. Safeguard and Improve Your Environment13. Do Not Steal14. Be Worthy of Trust15. Fulfill Your Obligations16. Be Industrious17. Be Competent18. Respect the Religious Beliefs of Others19. Try Not to Do Things to Others That You

Would Not Like Them to Do to You20. Try to Treat Others As You Would Want Them

to Treat You21. Flourish and Prosper

More than 53 million booklets are in circulationworldwide. The Way to Happiness is a tool which canhelp anybody who wants to lead a better, happier life.

■ For more information or a complimentary copy of The Way to Happiness, write to:The Way to Happiness Foundation InternationalP.O. Box 2930Los Angeles, California 90028

About The Wayto Happiness

“The Wayto Happiness”program has

given my kidsself-esteem

and confidence,a sense of

value.— Naida Segura

CounselorHarlendale Alternative

Center

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Human Rights Leadership

PPrrooffiilleeU.S. Representative Matt Salmon

In 1990, Arthur J. Bomar, Jr. was releasedfrom prison in Nevada on parole. Bomarhad served 11 years of a murder sentencefor killing a man over an argument abouta parking space. Six years later inPennsylvania, Bomar brutally kidnapped,raped and murdered George MasonUniversity star athlete Aimee Willard.This time, Bomar was not given another

chance. In October 1998, he was sentenced todeath for Aimee’s murder.

Bomar is but one of a long list of felons con-victed for murder, rape or child molestation whohave been released, only to repeat heinouscrimes.

Among those crimes was the tragic murderof nine-year-old Megan Kanka, whose death atthe hands of a released, con-victed child molester spurred“Megan’s Law,” under whichU.S. citizens have the right tobe informed when a convictedchild molester moves into theirmidst.

The conviction that suchrepeat crimes are entirely preventable drove U.S. Repre-sentative Matt Salmon tointroduce House Resolution894 in the 106th legislative session. The bipartisan “NoSecond Chances for Murder-ers, Rapists, or Child MolestersAct” — known as “Aimee’sLaw” — provides a simplesolution: penalize states whorelease convicted murders,rapists or child molesters ifthey commit one of thesecrimes in another state.

Under the proposed law, which passed theSenate with a vote of 81–17 in May, the statewho paroled the convict would have to com-pensate the second state. The AttorneyGeneral, using federal law enforcement funds,would transfer costs from the state thatreleased the criminal to the second state whohad to apprehend, prosecute and incarceratethe criminal. With its financial incentive forstates, the bill has been called “fiendishlyclever” by its opponents.

Crime Victims’ Rights“Victims’ rights is a serious human rights

problem,” Rep. Salmon told Freedom. “Thereare all kinds of protections for accusers and vic-tims are left holding an empty sack. Criminalshave more rights than their victims do. That isfundamentally wrong.”

Rep. Salmon also notes that sentences forviolent crimes, and particularly sex crimesagainst women and children, are “incrediblyweak.” A full 13 percent of all convicted rapistsnever serve any jail time at all. According to U.S.

Department of Justice statis-tics, the average time actuallyserved for those men convictedof rape who do go to prison is5 and 1/2 years; for sexualassault — including molesta-tion and lewd acts with children— is just 4 years. The averagetime served for murder is8 years.

By making states fullyresponsible for repeat offensesby violent criminals and childmolesters, the law would mini-

mally impose much tighter controls and farmore caution in releasing them.

“What Matt has done is at long last found away to make the individual states pay attentionto, be accountable for, and take responsibilityfor the release of a very dangerous subset ofcriminals — not through legislating morality,but through legislating the distribution of fund-ing,” said Marc Klaas, father of murder victimPolly Klaas and supporter of Aimee’s Law.“Many politicians have only their self interestsat heart. But Matt Salmon is really concernedabout the public welfare. We need more peoplelike that.”

A Career HallmarkMatt Salmon’s desire to protect citizens

from all forms of abuse and to increase humanrights has been the hallmark of his public service career.

“When it comes to human rights, you cancount on Matt Salmon to defend them,” saidU.S. Representative Eliot Engel, liberalDemocrat from New York. “He does it not to

push an agenda but because he feels it is theright thing to do.”

When elected to the U.S. House ofRepresentatives in 1994 to represent Arizona’s1st District, he had already gained a reputationas a conservative with a conscience for his focuson children and the developmentally disabledwhile serving four years in the Arizona StateSenate.

Rep. Salmon has earned a similar reputa-tion in the U.S. Congress, particularly amongtaxpayer and government watchdog groups,from whom he annually receives awards for cut-ting waste and improving taxpayer rights.

During his three terms in Congress, Rep.Salmon has focused on a variety of issues toimprove measures for the care and protection ofU.S. citizens, including health care reform andchild support enforcement. His amendment towelfare reform was signed into law in 1996, facil-itating the collection of child support from“deadbeat” parents.

Rep. Salmon’s role as citizens’ guardian hasextended to his active participation in humanrights issues abroad as a member of the HouseInternational Relations Committee and its sub-committees on Asia and the Pacific andInternational Operations and Human Rights.

In fact, it was events in Asia, particularly theTianmenan Square massacre, that most affectedhis current outlook on human rights issues.“When those students were murdered,” Rep.Salmon said, “it broke my heart like nothingcould have.”

Priority ConcernTaking a first-hand approach to under-

standing and resolving such human rights

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by Peter Mansell

Rep. Salmon’stenure as public

servant hasperhaps been

most memorableprecisely

because of hisown ability

to follow thedictates of hisconscience.

As a member of the Helsinki Commission, Rep. Salmon, pictured with Reps. SheilaJackson Lee, Bob Ney and Joe Scarborough, was instrumental in bringing about hearings to address government discrimination based on religion or belief.

issues, Rep. Salmon — who lived inTaiwan for two years as a Mormon mission-ary, and speaks Mandarin Chinese fluently— has visited Taiwan, Hong Kong, Beijingand Tibet on official business since beingin Congress. A primary focus has been toraise concerns about religious freedom, apriority concern for the Congressman.While in China earlier this year, Rep.Salmon secured the agreement of Chineseofficials to review a list of eight “prisonersof conscience,” mostly Tibetan nuns andpriests.

“Matt did his missionary work in Taiwanand has a real love of the Chinese people,”said Lamar Slight, Director for Internationaland Government Affairs for the Church ofJesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. “But what Isee in Matt is a belief that people of all faithshave the right to worship as they wish. He actsin defending the rights of people every-where.”

From his position as a member of theCommission on Security and Cooperation inEurope (the Helsinki Commission), Rep.Salmon was behind hearings and a proposedbipartisan house resolution to address govern-ment discrimination based on religion or beliefin Germany. Government-instigated discrimi-nation in Germany increased dramaticallyunder the Helmut Kohl government, targeting Charismatic Christians, Muslims,Scientologists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonsand other minority groups.

Dictates of Conscience“If we don’t stop discrimination at the

forefront, particularly in Germany and the restof Europe, we will have a much harder path in

the future,” said Rep. Salmon. “If we don’tspeak up because we don’t want to offend ourfriends, we have lost the moral high ground.”

Under the resolution, the House ofRepresentatives would officially urge — andcall upon the President of the United States toassert — that the German government upholdits commitments to prevent and eliminate dis-crimination on the basis of religion or belief,and foster a climate of mutual tolerance andrespect between government and targetedgroups.

Those commitments are expressed in theOrganization for Security and Cooperation in

Europe (OSCE) Vienna ConcludingDocument of 1989 — a fundamental conven-tion on religious freedom in European nations— in addition to the Universal Declaration ofHuman Rights, the International Covenant onCivil and Political Rights and the HelsinkiAccords to respect and guarantee freedom ofthought, conscience, religion or belief.

“Internationally, religious freedom oughtto be our number one priority,” Rep. Salmonsaid. “We, as a rule, ought to stand for therights of people to worship as to the dictates oftheir conscience.”

Rep. Salmon’s tenure as public servant hasperhaps been most memorable preciselybecause of his own ability to follow the dic-tates of his conscience.

Out of his commitment to term limita-tions, for example, in 1995 he submitted hisown resignation, effective January 2001, tolimit his U.S. Congressional service to threeterms. And during those terms, he has also hadhis share of controversy, including his promi-nent role in effecting House Speaker NewtGingrich’s resignation in late 1998. Rep.Salmon had no regrets despite the tempeststhat followed him in Congressional halls andin the media.

As Rep. Engel put it, “He will do what hethinks is right for his constituents and hiscountry, regardless of consequences.”

But it is Rep. Salmon’s record onhuman rights issues throughout his threeterms that has been the strongest indicationof what he thinks is right. That perceptionis founded on his own basic philosophy that“we are all members of the human race, andwe have a mutual responsibility to look outfor each other.”

Actions to increase human rights, and to protect citizens from all forms of abuse, havebeen the hallmark of Rep. Matt Salmon’s publicservice career.

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Some say it’s the meetingplace of ghosts. I have towonder if the ghosts areours,” writes Vernon J.Baker of Italy’s CastleAghinolfi in Lasting Valor,his vividly examined

autobiography as a lieutenant in theall-black 92nd Infantry duringWorld War II.

Baker’s heroism in the battle atthe castle enabled the Allies to over-take the seemingly impenetrableGerman stronghold. His conductgained him a Distinguished ServiceCross; however, the Medal of Honoreluded him for more than 50 years.Baker was an exemplary soldier,leader and man. The singular reasonfor his 50-year-long wait to beacknowledged for bravery in fight-ing for his country was the color ofhis skin.

Three previous attempts at afrontal attack on Castle Aghinolfiwere a dismal failure. The fourthassault had to succeed if theGermans were ever to be driven out of Italy.Baker was quite sure the fourth siege wouldbe commanded by his platoon of black sol-diers, and he proved right. He and his menwere ready and eager to fight.

Built in the fifth century, the castle hadmodern armaments added: “Cannons andmortars were installed in key turrets and tow-ers. Military minds decided if they had heavyartillery in the castle, they could control thecountryside.” The castle ruled the mountainpasses at the west of the Gothic Line and italmost abutted Highway 1, the road that theAllies needed to travel north to reach Genoa.The Nazis knew the terrain and were inexpert command of it. On April 5, 1945, at 3a.m., the 92nd set out for Castle Aghinolfi.

When the Germans began firing on the47 men sent to overtake their stronghold,

Capt. John Runyon, the white command-ing officer of the 92nd, hid in a stone shed.“Runyon was sitting on the dirt floor, kneespulled up to his chest, his arms wrappedaround his legs. His face was translucent,the color of bleached parchment,” Bakerwrites. Amid the thunder of mortars andthe screams of the dying, Runyon askedBaker if the company was going to staythere — meaning would they finish theirmission or abort it. When Baker repliedencouragingly that they were going to stayand finish what they set out to do, Runyonabandoned those in his command underthe guise of “going for reinforcements.”Runyon told his commanding officer, how-ever, when he arrived at command, thatthere was no reason to send reinforcementsas the men “were wasted.”

The men were far from wasted.When Runyon abandoned his pla-toon, Baker and Sgt. “Dandy”Belk, so named for his meticulousstyle of dress, took over and ralliedthe remaining men to what was ultimately a bloody victory.Because of the advancement Bakerand the 92nd made on Aghinolfi,the castle was overtaken and theNazis flushed out. For his heroismin battle, Baker was awarded theDistinguished Service Cross in aceremony on July 4, 1945. Runyonwas awarded the Silver Star for hisparticipation in the battle, andwhen his nomination for the Medalof Honor was rejected, he insteadreceived the Distinguished ServiceCross. Although Baker’s receipt ofthe Distinguished Service Crossmade him the most decoratedblack soldier in the MediterraneanTheater, the Medal of Honor elud-ed him. What Baker would not findout until 1994 was that his Medalof Honor nomination had proceed-ed on channels during the war, butwas stopped by certain unnamedwhite higher-ups, strictly againstArmy policy. All Medal of Honornominations were to be forwardedto the War Department in

Washington for review, with no excep-tions.

The racism that Baker and his fellowblack soldiers faced was insurmountable.The War Department had decided thatwhite Southerners would command theblack combat troops as, “they know how tohandle those blacks.”

Baker, by his own admission, had growninto an angry young man. Being judged bythe color of his skin rather than by the con-tent of his character was not something hefirst experienced in the Army. Baker vividlyrecounts an exchange he had with his firstboss, the owner of a barbershop inCheyenne, Wyoming, where Baker workedas a child shining shoes. After his first week,the owner asked Baker if he wanted a hair-cut, which the young boy did.

Book Review

Lasting ValorLasting ValorPublisher: Bantam Books, 320 pages, 1999By Vernon J. Baker with Ken Olsen

Reviewed by Lori Jablons

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“His offer came after closing time,after my polish, brushes, and rags wereback in their box and after the other threebarbers had gone home for the day. Iexpected the haircut to come sometimethe following day, or later in the week,when business was slow. Instead, hecrossed to the door and threw the dead-bolt, hit the switch that controlled the juicefor twisting the red, white, and blue barberpole out front, and pulled the shades. Hewalked to his chair, the one nearest thefront door, and tapped the red leather backto indicate I should sit for the haircut rightthen.

“‘Don’t misunderstand, son,’ he said,sweeping the cape around me and tying itbehind my neck. ‘I want to give you hair-cuts. But if somebody walking down thestreet saw me cutting your hair?’ He ges-tured heavenward with open palms. ‘Iwould lose my business. You know this ismy livelihood. Only thing I’ve known fornearly thirty-five years.’

“I shrugged, and he gently pushedmy head forward and lathered up theback of my neck with shaving cream. Ididn’t understand.... It’s fine for cus-tomers to ask, ‘Who’s your new niggerboy?’ But don’t let them think they aregoing to have to dirty themselves by sit-ting in the chair where that ‘new niggerboy’ was sitting.

“That experience stuck. ... It went inthat place in my mind where ... taunts wereunintentionally filed. I didn’t want thebaggage. Somehow, it stayed around.”

After the events of April 5 and 6, 1945,

Vernon Baker left Italy andmoved on with his life. Hemarried, raised four daugh-ters, continued his Armycareer, retired, mournedthe passing of his wife,Fern, and eventually mar-ried again. In March 1994,Castle Aghinolfi, the placeof ghosts, began to rebuilditself in the peaceful Idahowoods that was Baker’sbackyard.

It began with a phone call. A ShawUniversity professor named Daniel Gibranhad been commissioned by the Secretaryof the Army to determine why no blackWorld War II veterans had ever receivedthe Medal of Honor. Since Baker hadreceived the Distinguished Service Cross,the professor wanted to review Baker’sconduct and see if maybe he should havebeen awarded the Medal of Honor as well.Reluctant to relive the most horrific timein his life, Baker refused to meet with theprofessor. Gibran persisted and Bakeracquiesced, realizing that his story shouldbe told.

Gibran presented the lieutenant withan abundance of interesting and revelatorydocuments. Among them was a report byRunyon claiming successes on the battle-field 50 years earlier as his own, whilemaligning black soldiers. As Runyon wrote:“In my opinion, the average colored soldierloses all control of his mind when subjectedto overhead mortars and artillery fire. I alsolearned that the colored soldier is for some

reason or other terrified to fight at night.His imagination and fear overcomes [sic]his judgment.”

On January 13, 1997, Vernon J. Bakerreceived the Medal of Honor for his servicein World War II. The ceremony made thefront pages of most major newspapers, witha photo of Baker shaking hands withPresident Clinton. Six others who hadserved with him were also bestowed withthe medal. However, Baker was the onlyone who lived to attend the Washingtonceremony.

While the passages in Lasting Valor onBaker’s life from his early years inCheyenne to his acceptance of the Medal

of Honor are rife withpathos and wonderfulimagery, the chapters on theattack at Castle Aghinolfiare particularly effectiveand suspenseful. The battleis recalled with impeccabledetail — from the calculat-ed moves to take Germanmachine-gun nests and thefrenetic activity when the shelling began, to theinconsolable grief Bakerexperienced when hefound nearly half his menwere killed trying to takethe castle. And thoughBaker took command of themission after Runyon hadleft them all to die, and thenext day the castle wastaken from the Germans,Baker was not even imme-diately acknowledged for

his immense courage. Instead, he wasupbraided by regimental commanderColonel Raymond Sherman for not wearinga helmet. “He looked me over andlaunched one of the better ass-chewings Iever received in the Army,” Baker writes.

Vernon Baker recalls his life — not justhis time in the Army — with a gift of prosemany writers would sell their souls to pos-sess. It is obvious the author has left hisanger behind, as no angry man could tellthis story with Baker’s grace. As he san-guinely expresses: “When I finally begandealing with my anger, and reflecting on myown agonizing experiences I realized thatpeople of all races and walks of life had mis-treated me. I also realized that people of allraces and walks of life were quite good tome. Color doesn’t determine how they willtreat me.... I began evaluating people theway I wanted them to evaluate me.”

Lasting Valor is the story of a man calledto face an overwhelming duty, whose onlytools were intelligence and integrity. It isthe story of an extraordinary life, one wecan all learn from and aspire to.

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Baker was anexemplary soldier,leader and man.

The singularreason for his50-year-longwait to be

acknowledged forbravery in fighting

for his countrywas the color of

his skin.

Vernon Baker is awarded the Medal of Honor for his service and courage in World War II.

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PSYCHIATRY’SFAILURES

by L. Ron Hubbard

The psychologists and psychia-trists depended upon utterly byWestern governments use onlythe technology of failed areas.

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The mental technology being used todayby the Western governments gave Germany aHitler, Russia a Stalin. Poland, Austria,Germany and Russia have been the scene ofdeath camps, mass slaughter, wars and totaldefeat. The ruling heads who bought andused this work are long since dead, execratedand condemned by mankind.

Yet Western governments now pantinglybeg for the faintest opinions of the currentexponents of these technologies.

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Article by L. Ron Hubbard

Either Western leaders are being stupidbeyond belief or they are themselves criminal.Take your choice. There are no other possibleexplanations.

To scorn and attack all Western develop-ments in the field of the humanities and engagein a death-kiss orgy with the Wundt, Pavlov rant-ings against man is not a “symptom of thetimes.” It is a planned destruction of the West bythe use of its own heads of state and should beregarded as such.

Watch carefully wherever the leaders of acountry shrug off these death camps that arenow being brought to view; you have men whosehatred of their own people is deep and bitter andwill not end until the population is shattered anddestroyed.

There is no possible sane excuse, pretext orexplanation for planned and “lawful” seizure,torture and murder of innocent human beings.

Why import failed technology?

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