Using Sandy Hook Hoax as pretext, Obama backs psychiatric surveillance of my twin granddaughters

[William Gigantus]

Is it 1984 yet?
- Big Willy

Using Sandy Hook as Pretext, Administration Backs Psychiatric
Surveillance of School Children
http://memoryholeblog.com/2014/11/04/obamas-mental-health-mandate/#more-15136
By James F. Tracy

Using the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre as its justification,
the Obama administration has recently given the psychiatric business
and pharmaceutical industry a major gift by quietly introducing a
behavioral and mental health program in public schools throughout the
United States. The maneuver was initially laid out on January 16, 2013
in President Obama’s executive policy, Now is the Time: The
President’s Plan to Protect Our Children and Our Communities by
Reducing Gun Violence.

The document is partly devoted to articulating Obama’s proposed gun
control measures that failed to move gain legislative traction in
2013. Yet an under-reported section of Now is the Time is applied to
“making schools safer” and “improving mental health services” for
students.[1] While presented by the Obama administration as
“commonsense solutions to gun violence,“ one is left to consider the
long range implications of such an initiative, particularly in light
of the Affordable Care Act and the psychopharmaceutical complex’s
never-ending drive to expand its clientele.

On September 22, 2014 Department of Health and Human Services
Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced $99 million in new grants “to
train new mental health providers, help teachers and others recognize
mental health issues in youth and connect them to help and increase
access to mental health services for young people.”[2]

On September 23 the Department of Education announced an additional
$70 million in “School Climate Transformation grants.” According to
the DOE, over half of the funding “will be used to develop, enhance,
or expand systems of support for implementing evidence based,
multi-tiered behavioral frameworks for improving behavioral outcomes
and learning conditions.” The goals of such measures include
“connecting[ing] children, youths, and families to appropriate
services and supports,” and “increase[ing] measures of and the ability
to respond to mental health issues among school-aged youth.”[3]

Both HHS and DOE explicitly cite Obama’s Now is the Time declaration
as rationale for the new programs. “The administration is committed to
increasing access to mental health services to protect the health of
children and communities,” Secretary Burwell asserts. “If kids don’t
feel safe, they can’t learn,” Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
similarly remarks. “Through these grants of more than $70 million, we
are continuing our commitment to ensure that kids have access to the
best learning experience possible.”

NITTOf the DOE’s $70 million, $13 million is allocated to aiding
school districts in creating “high-quality school emergency plans.”
Another $14 million goes toward “Project Prevent grants” for
violence-plagued schools to “be used for school-based counseling
services, or referrals to community-based counseling services for
assistance in coping with trauma or anxiety.”[4]

Such designs should be viewed in light of two related concerns that
hint at broader motives and agendas: 1) the US government’s continued
aggressive transformation of the healthcare system; 2) psychiatry and
drug manufacturers’ shared mission to persuade an increasing segment
of the national and global population that it has one or more
undiagnosed mental or emotional “disorders” that require analysis and
treatment.

Introducing psychiatric explanations and methodologies into school
environments guarantees a growing customer base for the psychiatric
profession and pharmaceutical industry. Alongside government’s
increasing control of healthcare, the technocratic surveillance and
management of everyday thought and behavior is likewise emerging as
part of what is deceptively termed “wellness.” In reality such efforts
ensure an ever-expanding bureaucracy, handsomely line the pockets of a
select few, and further normalize a culture of learned helplessness
and control within an environment that already privileges conformity
as a matter of routine.

Between the early 1990s and mid 2000s antidepressant use in the US
increased almost fourfold.[5] At present 20 percent of Americans take
at least one psychotropic medication, a figure that at the present
rate of expansion will double by the early 2020s. Yet there is little
evidence such drugs actually address the symptoms psychiatric patients
are advised they have.

Indeed, the entire notion of “biological psychiatry”–that psychiatric
conditions are rooted in observable processes–cannot withstand serious
scientific scrutiny. Yet such notions comprise the underlying
rationale of psychopharmocology. As psychology professor Elliot
Valenstein observes,

The belief that the complex cognitive and emotional states that
underlie any emotional disorder are regulated by a single transmitter
receptor subtype is probably no more valid than the idea held earlier
by phrenologists who believed that complex mental attributes could be
localized in one specific part of the brain.[6]

More recently, Dr. Richard Friedman, professor of clinical psychology
at Weill Cornell Medical College, remarks, “[W]e don’t yet understand
the fundamental cause of most psychiatric disorders, in part because
the brain is uniquely difficult to study; you can’t just biopsy the
brain and analyze it. That is why scientists have had great trouble
identifying new targets for psychiatric drugs.”[7]

At present de facto behavioral examinations are administered by
medical providers’ inquiring on a patient’s tobacco and alcohol
intake. Yet psychiatry has been pushing for “mental health screenings”
to ferret out clientele since the early 1990s. The fact that such
mental health practices are being introduced throughout the nation’s
schools suggests how they will likely become much more commonplace
under in coming years.

“Absolutely, people should have a mental health checkup,” notes Dr.
Jeffrey Borenstein, editor of the American Psychiatric Association’s
Psychiatric News. “It’s just as important as having a physical
checkup.” Borenstein recommends the “P.H.Q.-9,” a “patient health
questionnaire,” freely available online, as a preliminary assessment
for determining mild-to-major “depressive disorder.” The P.H.Q-9 was
designed with funding from Pfizer.[8]

Perhaps coincidentally, the HHS and DOE announced their mental health
grants just two weeks before National Depression Screening Day on
October 9th. The occasion for “mental health awareness” has been
observed since the early 1990s by Screening for Mental Health, Inc., a
nonprofit 501c(3) offering its own free online examination.

“People stop and they check in on their physical health but they don’t
do the same with their mental health,” says Michelle Holmberg,
director of programs at SMH. “In the same way you would get a blood
pressure screening … why aren’t people stopping to do mental health
screenings?”[9]

Saul Levin, the CEO and Medical Director of the American Psychiatric
Association, sits on Screening for Mental Health’s board of directors.
SMH received over $16 million in “gifts, grants, contributions, and
membership fees” between 2008 and 2012, according to the
organization’s 2012 federal tax return, suggesting backing from APA
and like-minded stakeholders.

Corporate news media have thoroughly blacked out the Obama
administration’s program that further transforms the nation’s public
schools in to lucrative referral centers for big psychopharma. In
contrast, most school shootings that have become routine throughout
the US receive considerable publicity, yet almost no investigative
work or follow-up from the same news outlets sensationalizing
them.[10]

Alongside Obama’s mental health mandate, the coverage further anchors
in the public mind the idea—however subtle—that practically all youth
are potential time bombs that must be closely monitored and, where
appropriate, defused. Such approaches only negate the possibility for
achieving what they implicitly promise: the prospect for self
realization within a genuine community of peers.

Notes

[1] Now is the Time: The President’s Plan to Protect Our Children and
our Communities by Reducing Gun Violence (PDF), January 16, 2013,
Washington DC.

[2] U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “HHS Announces $99
Million in New Grants to Improve Mental Health Services for Young
People,” September 22, 2014, Washington DC.

[3] U.S. Department of Education, “U.S. Department of Education
Invests More Than $70 Million to Improve School Climate and Keep
Students Safe,” September 23, 2014.

[4] “U.S. Department of Education Invests More Than $70 Million.”

[5] Centers for Disease Control/National Center for Health Statistics,
“Antidepressant Use in Persons Aged 12 and Over, 2005-2008”(PDF),
October 2011.

[6] Elliot S. Valenstein, Blaming the Brain: The Truth About Drugs and
Mental Health, New York: Free Press, 1998, 226.

[7] Richard A. Friedman, M.D., “A Dry Pipeline for Psychiatric Drugs,”
New York Times, August 19, 2013.

[8] Ann Carrns, “A Regular Checkup is Good for the Mind as well as the
Body,” New York Times, November 13, 2012.

[9] Lindsay Holmes,” This Little Mental Health Screening Could Have a
Big Impact When It Comes to Depression,” Huffington Post, October 9,
2014.

[10] No major Western news outlets have given serious attention to the
Sandy Hook School massacre narrative’s many unanswered questions. In
the more recent Isla Vista and Las Vegas shootings the investigating
law enforcement agencies have refused to publicly release their
reports on those incidents.

[William Gigantus]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:00:30 -0800 (PST), Wild Caroline

Post by William Gigantus
Is it 1984 yet?
- Big Willy
Using Sandy Hook as Pretext, Administration Backs Psychiatric
Surveillance of School Children
http://memoryholeblog.com/2014/11/04/obamas-mental-health-mandate/#more-15136
By James F. Tracy

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Twists and Turns: Major Sandy Hook motive emerges/Wolfgang forced off
the road
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/11/08/twists-and-turns-major-sandy-hook-motive-emergeswolfgang-forced-off-the-road/
by Jim Fetzer

“Using the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre as its justification,
the Obama administration has recently given the psychiatric business
and pharmaceutical industry a major gift by quietly introducing a
behavioral and mental health program in public schools throughout the
United States”–James Tracy

Several significant developments confirm that we are on the track to
exposing the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about
Sandy Hook, including new information that appears to expose the
motive behind the hoax.

One is that Wolfgang Halbig, the Forida State Trooper, former school
principal and national school safety expert was warned that he was
“irritating” some powerful people during a 30-minute phone call last
Monday, 3 November 2014.

In a classic scene right from a Hollywood thriller, he was forced off
the road by a black SUV as he returned from Olive Garden with take-out
for him and his wife, scattering the salad and Italian cuisine
throughout his own vehicle.

Nathan Folks, the Hollywood producer/director who observed that one of
the players in Boston was an actor he had cast in one of his own films
and that what was taking place there is known as “hyper-realistic
filming”, in which scenes are made as realistic as possible (to
condition green troops as to what they might experience in combat),
mentioned Wolf’s experience on “Info Wars’ Nightly News” (Thursday, 6
November 2014) as follows (the 2nd hour):

Unbelievable as it may sound, today we spoke and he told me that black
SUVs were surrounding his building, which was a cause for alarm. When
we spoke later and I asked, “Did the SWAT team arrive?”, he told me
that they had kept it to letting him know he was under surveillance,
using the same car and the same observer to make it easy for him to
recognize what was going on. Welcome to the new, totalitarian United
States under Barack Obama!

A major motive emerges
A major motive appears to have been exposed by James Tracy,
“’Protecting our Children’ in the Wake of Sandy Hook: Psychiatric
Surveillance of US Public School Children”, Global Research (4
November 2014). As Tracy explains, the Administration has used Sandy
Hook to justify a massive new program of behavioral and mental health
in public schools, which is going to mandate a billion dollar bonanza
at taxpayer expense. As he lays it out in the article,

Bear in mind that the event at Sandy Hook took place on 14 December
2012, while Obama was authorizing this new program on 16 January 2013,
which is slight more than one month later. Only a nit would fail to
appreciate that complex programs like this require substantial study,
research and planning, which suggest that this program was not
inspired by Sandy Hook but that Sandy Hook was inspired by this
program–to serve as its launching pad!

On September 22, 2014 Department of Health and Human Services
Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced $99 million in new grants “to
train new mental health providers, help teachers and others recognize
mental health issues in youth and connect them to help and increase
access to mental health services for young people.”
On September 23 the Department of Education announced an additional
$70 million in “School Climate Transformation grants.” According to
the DOE, over half of the funding “will be used to develop, enhance,
or expand systems of support for implementing evidence based,
multi-tiered behavioral frameworks for improving behavioral outcomes
and learning conditions.” The goals of such measures include
“connecting[ing] children, youths, and families to appropriate
services and supports,” and “increase[ing] measures of and the ability
to respond to mental health issues among school-aged youth.”
Both HHS and DOE explicitly cite Obama’s Now is the Time declaration
as rationale for the new programs. “The administration is committed to
increasing access to mental health services to protect the health of
children and communities,” Secretary Burwell asserts. “If kids don’t
feel safe, they can’t learn,” Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
similarly remarks. “Through these grants of more than $70 million, we
are continuing our commitment to ensure that kids have access to the
best learning experience possible.”

When there are billions to be made, time cannot wait. So the
Department of Education–officials of which had confirmed to LA school
safety expert, Paul Preston, that Sandy Hook had been a drill and no
children had died–are moving aggressively to insure that taxpayer’s
money is efficiently disbursed to the right private entities at the
earliest possible opportunity. Beyond undermining support for the 2nd
amendment, Sandy Hook was designed to create an artifical demand for a
product that otherwise would have no market.

“GoFundMe” letter of complaint
Wolfgang has recently obtained the letter of complaint that led to the
cancellation of his GoFundMe account. It begins by committing the
classic fallacy of begging the question by taking for granted that
there was a real “terrible tragic mass shooting in 2012? that resulted
in the deaths of 20 young children and 6 adults, when all the evidence
is against it. But it also plays off the popular sentiments fallacy,
where the inference is drawn that, simply because most people believe
something to be true, it must be true, which is frequently committed
in this case.

Had Brad Damphouse and Andy Ballester simply forwarded the complaint
to Wolfgang BEFORE DELETING HIS ACCOUNT and given him the opportunity
to respond, the overwhelming proof should have been enough to convince
them, including that the school was closed by 2008, that there was no
evacuation of nearly 500 students and 75 staff, that the “iconic”
Shannon Hicks’ photograph was staged, and that the “final report” does
not establish a causal nexus connecting the alleged shooter to his
weapons or the victims he is said to have killed:
An Open Letter to the CEO & CTO of GoFundMe.com
An Open Letter to:
Brad Damphousse – CO-FOUNDER & CEO
Andy Ballester – CO-FOUNDER & CTO
GoFundMe.com
Gentlemen:
I am reaching out you on behalf of the Sandy Hook, Ct community. As
you probably already know the Sandy Hook community suffered a terrible
tragic mass shooting in 2012 resulting in the deaths of 20 young
children and 6 adults.

What you may not know is that in the wake of this tragedy a series of
alarming developments have unfolded as many of the victim’s families,
first-responders, witnesses and community members have experienced
serious incidences of harassment, threats and accusations at the hands
of a loosely knit group of internet based conspiracy theorists.
Memorials have been defaced and stolen. Parents who lost children on
that day have received harassing phone calls accusing them of being
actors – claiming their children never existed.

On October 1, 2014 the line was crossed when a bomb scare was called
into Sandy Hook Elementary School, forcing children and teachers who
are still suffering from post-traumatic stress to evacuate the
building.

I am bringing this to your attention because you may not be aware that
your organization is helping to fund these attacks.
Currently, your organization is running a funding campaign for Mr.
Wolfgang Halbig. Mr. Halbig is at the center of the proliferation of a
fraudulent campaign to slander, defame and, in an indirect way,
threaten our community through the dissemination of conspiracy
theories associated with our tragedy. Every attempt has been made to
reason with Mr. Halbig. One brave parent even traveled to Florida to
present him with the proof of birth and death of his son. Mr. Halbig
refuses to accept any evidence – and continues to spread known lies
about our community. And now he seeks to profit off these falsehoods.
This is the very definition of fraud.

It is our opinion that this violates the terms of your user agreement.
But it additionally makes you an accessory to the fraud if you enable
Mr. Halbig to continue to profit off of a campaign of proven lies. I
would implore you to consider the ramifications of this, and not test
our resolve.

In the wake of the bomb scare of October 1st the Sandy Hook community
is preparing to take legal action against those who would seek to
defame, slander, harass, stalk or endanger our community. As we have
limited resources we would hope to be able to resolve this with your
organization without resorting to legal remedies. Our resources would
be better spent going directly after the perpetrators of these crimes.
So it is our hope that your organization will fully review this matter
and make a determination that Mr. Halbig’s account should immediately
be terminated with no funds distributed towards his cause.
But beyond the legal ramifications, we simply ask you to act in the
name of common decency. We believe that you will make the right choice
and choose to stand with the Sandy Hook community.
And lastly, beyond removing this offending content, any additional
ideas or resources you may be able to suggest or provide to us in
helping us to combat this threat would be greatly appreciated. We can
use all the help we can get.
Respectfully,
SHDG

Let it be known that Lois Dial was not the author of this “Open
Letter”, contrary to my original impression. The Sandy Hook Defense
Group may well be composed of Keith Johnson, C.W. Wade and Lenny
Pozner (or some combination thereof). Lenny has posed as the father of
Noah Pozner and has sent Kelly from Tulsa a “death certificate”, which
turned out to be fake. If children had died at Sandy Hook, it would
not have been necessary to fake it. Lenny has been especially
despicable in his conduct in this matter, where it would not surprise
me if he were the entire “SHDG”. But those who manage GoFundMe
completely failed to exercise due diligence when they cut Wolfgang off
without even informing him and allowing him to make a response.
Indeed, over and beyond the points I have already made, the FBI
Consolidated Crime Report for 2012 shows no murders in Newtown during
2012, which raises the presumption that there were no murders in
Newtown during 2012, a report that is confirmed by Connecticut’s own
crime report, but where the authorities attempted to obfuscate the
data by a sleight-of-hand. We now have ten new proofs that vitiate the
official account, in addition to the original ten proofs that Sandy
Hook was an elaborate hoax. It might be a good idea for those who
manage GoFundMe to act more responsibly and with less haste.

The never ending story
Here is an interview with one Kaitlyn Roig, who claims to have been a
teacher who saved her children–15 in number, aged 6 and 7–into a tiny
bathroom, which strains credulity. Listen to what she has to say.
Reports have it that she has been making $10-15,000 fees for speaking
the public about the trauma of Sandy Hook, which turns out to be
benefitting the community and the players with “big bucks”, where more
than $27,000,000 has been donated and a $50,000,000 grant from the
state to build a new K-4 school on the old site, even though the
national average for such a school averages only $7,000,000:


Occasionally, there is a minor breakthrough, such as this comment I
was able to post when a Connecticut news channel published a story
about the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission, which has spent no time on
verifying the facts about what happened on 14 December 2012 and all
its time on developing an elaborate agenda for new mental health
programs for students in the state, which appears to be implementing
the new bonanza for “Big Pharma” and the psychiatric industry, which
is reminiscent of the old Soviet Union, where critics of the
government were declared “mentally ill” and then institutionalized.
NEWS8 Report

As a former Marine Corps officer, a retired professor and a journalist
and editor for Veterans Today, I have published 33 articles on Sandy
Hook, where, in collaboration with three other professors and experts,
such as Wolfgang Halbig, a national school safety authority, we have
established:

(1) that Sandy Hook Elementary School had been abandoned by 2008,
where we have extensive video footage, both inside and out and, where,
among other points, it was not even ADA compliant;
(2) that DASHCAM footage shows no evacuation of nearly 500 children,
where the official claim is that 489 students were there, which means
469 needed evacuation, not to mention the 75 staff;
(3) that the lone photo that appears to show the opposite was staged,
where we have a second showing parents with arms crossed watching and
the kids being rearranged for “the best shot”;
(4) that the official account of the shooting by Danbury States’
Attorney Stephen Sedensky does not connect the alleged shooter with
his purported victims or with the weapons he is said to have used.
Obama Department of Education confirmed to Los Angeles school safety
expert Paul Preston that it had been a drill and no children died. The
FBI’s Consolidated Crime Report for 2012 shows the number of murders
in Newton as 0 (as in none). Even the Connecticut State crime report
shows no children below the age of 10 had died there–but tried to
cover it up with a sleight-of-hand.
References:
“Sandy Hook Redux: Obama officials confirm that it was a drill and no
children died” (13 June 2014)
“Sandy Hook: Ten more proofs that vitiate the official account” (3
September 2012)
“Sandy Hook: CT crime data confirms FBI report” (28 September 2014)

It has been said that “The past is prologue”. It would appear that the
totalitarians who are running the DHS and FEMA have developed plans to
deal with critics of the government (9/11 and 7/7 Truthers, among
others), which not only include demonizing them (as has been done by
UK PM David Cameron and a Canadian reporter, who has introduced the
phrase, “terrorists truthers”) but by adopting the model and practice
of the Soviet Union by institutionalizing them. I therefore believe
the Beatles were prescient in composing, “Back in the USSR”, by
carrying the theme to “Back in the US, back in the US, back in the
USSR”.

Jim Fetzer, a former Marine Corps officer, is McKnight Professor
Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth.