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Press Release
THE HIDDEN HAND OF VIOLENCE
In the aftermath of each act of random, lethal violence
by youth in our schools, an appalled nation asks: Why?
Now, an in-depth investigation featured in Freedom
Magazine, the investigative reporting journal of the Church
of Scientology International, sheds new light on the cause of
violence in society among youth.
“It is time to take a closer look at the possibility
that seemingly random scenes in society’s patchwork quilt of
senseless violence contain a common thread,” says Freedom
senior editor Tom Whittle, co-author of Freedom’s current
cover story: “The Hidden Hand of Violence.”
Citing new and little-known evidence, including
statements from child behavioral experts and scientific
studies, Whittle and co-writer Mark Stout point to an
unmistakable pattern of adolescent killers having taken one
or more psychiatric drugs known to have adverse effects –
ranging from mania and impaired judgment to violent and
suicidal tendencies.
The authors list a number of the notorious instances of
youth violence, documenting that these teens had one for one
been under the influence of psychiatric drugs, including:
Eric Harris, who was taking Luvox, led a shooting
spree at Colorado’s Columbine High School, killing 13 before
he and his partner took their own lives.
Kip Kinkel, who was taking both Prozac and Ritalin,
first shot and killed his parents, and then went on a rampage
in his Springfield, Oregon, high school killing two and
injuring 22.
Sam Manzie, whose psychiatric treatment included
Paxil, raped and strangled to death an 11-year-old boy who
came to his New Jersey home selling items door to door for
the local PTA.
Jeremy Strohmeyer, one week after starting on
Dexedrine, raped and murdered a 7-year-old girl in a ladies’
room in a Las Vegas casino;
T.J. Solomon, who was being treated with Ritalin,
opened fire on and wounded six classmates at his Georgia high
school.
Authorities such as Fred A. Baughman Jr., M.D. and
Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, told Freedom that it is not so-called mental disorders causing youth to commit violence, but rather their psychiatric diagnoses and
treatment.
Baughman charges that diagnoses of such disorders as
“Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder” (ADHD), allegedly
biological precursors to aggressive and violent behavior, are
“uniformly fraudulent. Not one of the `disruptive behavior
disorders’,” says Baughman, “has been validated as a disease,
or as anything biological or organic.” Yet millions of
American school children have been diagnosed with such
disorders and prescribed drugs.
“If they’re on these kinds of drugs,” says Beverly
Eakman, author and director of the National Education
Consortium, “you’re apt to get a reaction that is really
Bizarre — and often violent.”
The future holds more of the same manufactured madness,
say experts, unless the widespread and unnecessary doping of
millions of children is recognized as the threat to society
it is.
Interviews available
Freedom Magazine has investigated violations of human
and civil rights for 31 years. Independent editions are
published in 9 countries in 15 languages. For more information: email editor@freedommag.org
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