The Real Reason for Violence in America by Tom Hill I have been waiting patiently for some columnist or journalist to “discover” what’s staring us all in the face on the subject of violence, but I have decided that I can’t be a spectator any longer. Lee Harvey Oswald, Kip Kinkel, Jeremy Strohmeyer, Buford Furrow, and many others all have had one thing in common.  Everyone of them was under psych (psychology and/or psychiatry) treatment of some form or another prior to or during their infamous violent acts. I did some research on the web to get some of this data.  It’s amazing the amount of data available on this subject.  Use the keywords “violence” “psych” and “drugs” to see some interesting sites on this subject.  Here are a few examples of what I found: Lee Harvey Oswald, President John F.  Kennedy’s assassin, had been treated as a child by psychiatrist Renatur Hartogs.  Hartogs was tried in 1975 for having sex with his female patients.  Oswald was also hospitalized in a psychiatric institution in Russia. James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King’s assassin, had undergone hypnosis performed by a Beverly Hills psychologist in late 1967.  He had been hypnotized by eight previous practitioners. On January 30, 1977, Ronald Blair of Los Angeles arrived nude at his mother’s house and stabbed his two year-old son to death.  Just hours before, a psychiatrist at L.A. County-USC Medical Center had adjudicated that Blair was not a danger to himself or others. Remember the fellow who drove his car down Westwood sidewalks during the Olympics in 1984?  Daniel Lee Young had been seeing a psychiatrist for months and was taking psychiatric drugs.  He killed one person and injured 57 others. In October of 1991, George Jo Hennard crashed his pickup truck into a Killeen, Texas restaurant and shot 23 people to death.  He had undergone a six month drug treatment program at St.  Joseph hospital in Houston in 1989 and was given a psychiatric evaluation which stated he posed no danger to the public. How about Larry Singleton, the man who raped and cut off the arms of a 15 year-old girl in 1978?  He was arrested on February 19, 1997 for murder.  Just three weeks before he had spent a week in psychiatric custody. 18 year-old Jeremy Strohmeyer raped and murdered a seven year-old in a Nevada casino on May 25, 1997.  A week before the killing he started taking Dexedrine. Matthew Beck, a Connecticut Lottery worker, went to work and killed four fellow workers and himself on March 7, 1998.  He was under the influence of Luvox. On May 28, 1998, Brynn Hartman murdered her husband, comic Phil Hartman, and then committed suicide.  She was taking the psych drug Zoloft along with alcohol and cocaine. Kip Kinkel, Oregon school shooter, was taking Prozac and Ritalin when he killed his parents, two more people at school and left 22 injured. Eric Harris, one of the killers at Columbine, was found to be under the influence of Luvox at the time of the tragedy. Buford Furrow, the Jewish Center assailant and murderer, tried to get psych help.  He told authorities, "I've been having suicidal and homicidal thoughts that I would kill my ex-wife and some of her friends. ... Sometimes I feel like I could just loose (sic) it and kill people."   They ignored him, gave him some drugs, and set him loose to maim and kill. Larry Gene Ashbrook, who killed seven people and himself in a Fort Worth church in September, 1999, had Prozac prescribed for him. It now appears that the Virginia Tech killer was on psych drugs and was under psych care. However, the psychs released him from treatment just before he killed everyone. The above are just a few of the many hundreds and thousands of similar cases. Does anyone else see the common thread here?  Psychs, at best, do not have a 100% (or even 10%) workable technology for handling the insanities of the human mind and spirit.  Ask a psych what his operating basis is and you’ll get an entirely different theory than the last or next one you question.  They are shooting in the dark, and so they release violent criminals into the unsuspecting world, declaring them cured.  There are also the self-proclaimed psychs who believe they are the saviors of all mankind (delusional psychotics?) and do anything possible to control their patients (test subjects) and surrounding environments.  The practices they use and support include electric shock (care to stick your finger in a light socket?), lobotomies (how about an icepick through your eye to sever a piece of your brain?), and drugs. What are drugs?  Most are poisons, usually administered in small enough doses so as to not kill; but drugs do maim, alter minds and bodies, and speed up the route to death.  Psych drugs cause (rather than cure) brain damage, psychoses, neuroses, etc.  They make people violent.  They cause people to do violent acts against others.  It’s not the guns, education (or lack of), parents, teachers, or the wayward lover that push most people to murder innocents.  It’s the psychs and their drugs and barbaric practices which create this condition.  Of course, parents, teachers, and people in general have a responsibility to raise kids in a sane manner, and people - adults and kids - need to be responsible for their own conditions in life. Of course, all I’ve said is like trying to teach a teenage driver the meaning of the word slow. Consider this statement from G.  Brock Chilsom, co-founder of the World Federation of Mental Health: “If the race is to be freed from its crippling (emphasis mine) burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility.” Many of you who read this will think I’m crazy or a conspiracy nut.  However, before you make such a judgement I’d like you to consider something.  People tend to justify for others’ mistakes and crimes for at  least two reasons.  One is that they have done something similar themselves, and so in order to make themselves right for their own crimes they will go easy on the others’ sins.  How many adult Americans have cheated on their spouses, lusted for a younger person, or had “fun” with foreign objects, such as a cigar? The second reason I know of is that most people can’t confront or are even willing to admit that there is true evil in the world.  Evil deeds get justified with psych babblings such as “he was abused by his mother and grandmother when he was a child” or “ they were outsiders, loners, and played too many video games.”  There is a lot of good in this world, more good than evil, but evil is definitely there; and in order to conquer it we must acknowledge it, confront it, and then fight it. So I urge you to stop being a spectator in this decaying society.  Discover for yourself if I’m nuts or if what I’m saying has merit.  If you find you agree with me (as I believe most will), then throw out the drugs and the psychs (keep them out of our schools most certainly) and help your neighbors create a better world. Tom Hill October 8, 1999 Revised May 26, 2007 Check out the following links for more information: http://www.cchr.org/cchr_home.htm http://homes.acmecity.com/rosie/luck/279/drug.htm A disturbing footnote:  allegedly the driver for the vehicle that crashed and killed Princess Diana was on some psych drug at the time;  I believe it was Prozac. Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2007 by Tom Hill - All rights reserved.