Paxil: Child Murder And Madness
Tranquility (Herbal Antidepressant)
The Nuthouse Syndrome By Kurt Saxon
In June of 1964 I got work as a psychiatric aide at the Arizona State Hospital. I was a nuthouse attendant. There, I was my brother's keeper, and a good one. The patients were confined and being treated. Regardless of what they'd done, they were now harmless and society had agreed to care for them. Most of the patients were simply unable to manage their affairs and otherwise care for themselves. Others had been violent. By 1964, tranquilizers had been developed which would calm the most violent. This made them easy to handle but was no cure. Once the tranquilizers had worn off the delusions of persecution would return and they would again consider all those around them to be enemies. It was hoped that even the worst could finally be released with pills which they could be trusted to take. Sometimes this worked. But many released patients would forget to self-medicate or believed they were all right without them. As the medication wore off, the released patient would again become delusional and overreact to the slightest indication that people around him were working against him. This was so gradual that only the most intelligent released patient realized that the medication was wearing off and he had to take more. The less intelligent, especially those in the lower economic brackets, were often released back into hostile environments which justified beliefs that enemies abounded. Many stopped taking their medications because they believed their doctors were deliberately putting them off guard so their enemies could get at them. Paranoid George is a case in point. He's one of the main characters in "Wheels Of Rage". He was in a constant state of agitation and depression. I gave him eight ounces of Tranquility, when it was a tea instead of in its present caplet form. After about five minutes, he was flying. He thought it was the best dope. For George, feeling normal was feeling high. I gave him some of the compound to brew for himself. I talked to him a few days later and he was a different person. He could think clearly and all his hostility was gone. Two weeks later I met him again and he was just as nutty as ever. I asked him why he'd stopped taking the herb. He said it kept him from being aware of the people acting against him. George was clinically insane. He should have been confined. His illness was worse than depression so tranquilizers weren't enough. Like most of the truly insane, he couldn't be trusted to self-medicate. When I worked at the hospital I saw the most violent people come in, enraged and fighting. After a few days on tranquilizers they were calm and not at all troublesome. This was promising and many in the mental health field even exaggerated the effects, to impress those politicians who could legislate more funding. In 1964 the mentally ill were confined as well as the criminals. It's a fact that the great majority of harmful people running loose today would have been in mental hospitals or prisons then. But as our population has increased and our economy has suffered because of it, the mental hospitals and prisons have suffered under fundlng. This led to understaffing. Along with it came overcrowding, as more of the moronic and unfit had more unfit and moronic offspring. Possibly because of the surface effects of the tranquilizers, politicians and social workers overreacted. With no experience with mental patients, they decided to release those patients who had not been violent since being treated with tranquilizers. They couldn't be convinced that these patients were not to be trusted to self-medicate. Their optimism was reinforced by the knowledge of how much the state could save if thousands of mental patients could be released. So hundreds of thousands of mental patients were released, at great savings to the institutions. The heads of departments enjoying these savings boasted and were praised as good managers of the state's economy. Meanwhile, the released mental patients became a larger and larger police problem. They are mostly homeless, often violent and they don't take their medications. Moreover, their ignorant criminality early on began to overlap the simple thievery and casual violence of the common punk, at odds with society from childhood. In a short time, many crimes were seen as being caused by diminished capacity. Rape was not for sex by losers but out of hatred and the urge to hurt. Robbery did not end with the taking of the victim's money but was too often followed by unnecessary harm and even murder. So much of crime was irrational that the attitudes of the police were changed from enforcement to guardianship. Watch a few cop shows, those on-the-scene, live patrols by real on-duty officers and you'll see what I'm leading up to. The police officer is no longer a real cop but a coast-to-coast nuthouse attendant. You'll see the belligerent drunk, the doped, the mentally defective. Today's cop does it just like I did it in '64. He protects and serves the inmates. What happens to decent citizens is regrettable, of course, but his patients are ill and need his care. What else can he do? The asylums and prisons are full. Crime must be kept in check by the drunk tank and the tranquilizer. The incurably hostile, the disadvantaged, the oppressed, have rights the antisocial never enjoyed when society was sane. Then, the warped, downbred vermin were isolated or destroyed. The drunk tank doesn't work any more because one can't sleep off imbecility. Tranquilizers don't work because tranquilly isn't wanted by those who war against civilization. Obvious insanity is on the rise. So what used to be judged as criminality is seen as acts caused by mental illness and so must be excused and tolerated. The idea that one is innocent by reason of insanity has become entrenched in our justice system. This attitude has been helped along by the inability to confine the insane, criminal or otherwise. It has also set aside judgment. It should be obvious that no one in his right mind would choose to be a destructive, hated criminal over being a productive, respected member of society. So criminals are indeed insane. But society cannot long afford to excuse the dangerously unstable because they may or may not be responsible for their acts. And of course, the criminal is indeed being classed with the insane. For so long, we've heard about the growing number of mentally ill behind bars. The complaint was that as the mental institutions were being emptied, their violent rejects were being imprisoned. Overcrowding in the prisons caused the re-release of the criminally insane and gradually, the same attitudes toward the criminally insane were spread over the entire criminal population. So now whoever commits any violent crime is given the benefit of the doubt as to his sanity. Regardless of the innocence or helplessness of his victim or the savage cruelty visited on his victim, the concern is for the criminal lest his rights as a mentally handicapped citizen should be violated. And don't think the criminal doesn't know and take advantage of this attitude. He anticipates it and works it to the limit. The arresting officer knows it too. So while the criminal acts innocent by reason of insanity and the cop treats him as one who needs understanding, the victim lies there and bleeds. This attitude toward the criminal makes him immune to the law. He can rob, rape, maim and kill, almost with Impunity. He can't be punished, as any act against him while confined can be considered cruel and unusual. He can't even be confined for long because there isn't room. He knows this. He knows that whatever he does against society there's only a small chance that he'll be caught. If caught, there's only a small chance he'll be convicted. If convicted there's only a small chance he'll serve time. And if he makes it to prison, he'll be released in a fraction of the time his sentence calls for. So we have tens of millions of people in our country who were born to no purpose but to consume and pollute and prey on their betters. They are mentally deficient, impossible to civilize and are at the forefront of the revolt against civilization. Our government sees them as merely unfortunate, not really responsible for their acts. There isn't room to confine them, even during their violent periods. There Isn't enough money to build enough nuthouses and prisons to keep even the habitual criminals confined. So what to do? Our government, wanting to be fair, has decided to treat every citizen as an inmate and so institutionalizes everyone. The police are no longer enforcers of the law with the iron hand they once used against the harmful and the predatory. Instead, they act as nuthouse attendants, removing the dangerous only after a violent act and then only enough to temporarily medicate them. Then they are released back into the nonviolent ward of the institution. That's where you are. Say there is, in your neighborhood, a vicious dog that bites people and kills pets. You call the sheriff but that's not really his job but he'll get around to it in time. The pound is full and besides, the dog will be hard to catch. You kill the dog, or injure it so it will never dare come back into your neighborhood. Why not treat the two-legged animal the same way? Well, some people say he must be kept alive because he's a human being. But aren't his victims? And aren't there over six and a half billion "human" beings on our planet? "Human" beings aren't in short supply. Besides, their fertility insures their swamping our system with their degenerate kind, as some think they already have. But are they human in the first place? They are, consciously or unconsciously, at war with the rest of humanity. So the term "human" as a quality, does not apply to them, as compared with humans who are not harmful and are productive members of society. I call them "sub-human" and Lothrop Stoddard calls them "underman". No matter. If a being is an active danger to his fellows, he ought to be confined or destroyed, regardless of what you might call him. Such people must be removed from society if society is to survive. And society will not survive if our country is run like a coast-to-coast nuthouse.
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