Psychiatrist Goes On Killing Spree
By now you have heard about the Killeen, Texas killer being an Army Major and military psychiatrist.
The very next day a marine was being held as a suspect in the murder of a fellow marine in Camp LeJeune, North Carolina. The suspect is under police custody at the hospital where he is being treated for self inflicted wounds.
Last month a marine called 911 and admitted to strangling his wife to death. This summer an Army private was charge with the murder of a fellow soldier in Savannah, Georgia. In 2008, an Army chemical weapons specialist was picked up for the murder of an Army couple, whose bodies were found dumped in a bathtub full of acid.
Last year four marines were arrested in connection with the murder of a marine and his wife; the murdered couple was found tied up inside of a house that was set on fire near Camp Pendelton in California.
Also just last year, the burnt remains of a pregnant marine were found in a shallow grave in the front yard of a Marine Corporal who then fled to Mexico. He was extradited back to the States in April of 2008 to face murder charges.
These are not just bar room brawls gone wrong. These are all extraordinarily gruesome murders.
And then there’s suicide. In 2007 CBS reported on the stunning suicide rate among veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: “over 6,250 American veterans took their own lives in 2005 alone; that works out to a little more than 17 suicides every day.”
Soldiers are being massively doped up on psychoactive drugs during active duty. Every single one of the psychoactive substances being swallowed by the ton by our soldiers before, during and especially after active duty are labeled with FDA-mandated warnings about causing suicide, agitation, potential for violence, psychosis and abnormally aggressive behaviors.
We now have the highest ever rates of diagnosed mental derangement upon return to the States. It is no great leap to figure that Killeen killer Maj. Hasan was likely taking some of his own medicine.
It is a grave scientific mistake to treat the residuals of the horrors of guerilla warfare as if it were a brain biochemical disease. Nightmares from watching your buddy being blown up are not caused by a lack of serotonin. Difficulty sleeping after your unit accidentally fired upon civilians is not due to an Ambien deficiency.
Treating our soldiers with drugs that have these known common side effects is not only scientifically unsupported but it is profoundly socially irresponsible. It is betrayal in the name of help.
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