Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
September 18, 2013
Despite every indication that Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis was
on SSRI drugs that have been linked to dozens of previous mass shootings, the
mainstream media has once again avoided all discussion of the issue, preferring
instead to blame the tragedy on a non-existent AR-15 that the gunman didn’t even
use.
Image: Wikimedia Commons
We
now know that Alexis “had been treated since August by the Veterans
Administration for his mental problems.”
As Mike
Adams points out, “This is proof that Aaron Alexis was on psychiatric drugs,
because that’s the only treatment currently being offered by the Veterans
Administration for mental problems. Alexis’ family members also confirmed to the
press that he was being “treated” for his mental health problems. Across the
medical industry, “treatment” is the code word for psychiatric drugging.”
Alexis also suffered from PTSD, blackouts and anger issues – all
of which are treated with SSRI drugs. The most
common form of treatment for PTSD is Paroxetine, which is listed as the
number 3 top violence-causing drug by the
Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP).
The Navy Yard shooter was clearly on some form of psychiatric
drug, but the media has shown no interest in discovering its identity.
Despite it being reported that prescription drugs were found in
the apartment of ‘Batman’ shooter James Holmes days after the Aurora massacre,
it took nine months to find out exactly what those drugs were. Like Columbine
killer Eric Harris, Holmes
had been taking Zoloft, another SSRI drug linked
with violent outbursts.
The length of time it took to find out that Holmes was on Zoloft
was partly because the media habitually shows zero interest in pursuing the link
between anti-depressants and violence.
As the website SSRI
Stories profusely documents, there are literally hundreds of examples of
mass shootings, murders and other violent episodes that have been committed by
individuals on psychiatric drugs over the past three decades. The number of
cases is staggering.
Why is the corporate media so disinterested in pursuing this clear
connection?
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the
pharmaceutical giants who produce drugs like Zoloft, Prozac and Paxil spend
around $2.4
billion dollars a year on direct-to-consumer television advertising every
year. By running negative stories about prescription drugs, networks risk losing
tens of millions of dollars in ad revenue.
While failing to ask questions about what SSRI drugs Aaron Alexis
was taking prior to his rampage, the media instead blamed the shooting on
assault rifles, even after it had been confirmed that no AR-15 was used by
Alexis during the massacre.
FBI assistant director Victoria Parlave stated at a press
conference on Tuesday that authorities, “do not have any information at this
time that [Alexis] had an AR-15 in his possession.”
Despite there being no evidence that an AR-15 was used, the New
York Daily News ran a front page
headline yesterday morning entitled, “Same Gun Different Slay,” next to a
picture of an assault rifle.
Hours after the FBI stated that no AR-15 had been used, MSNBC’s
Alex Wagner, who previously blamed
the Boston bombings on Alex Jones, continued
to use an animated graphic depicting Alexis carrying an assault rifle during
the massacre.
Anti-second amendment crusader Piers Morgan also erroneously
blamed the shooting on “a man with a legally purchased AR-15, who just committed
the same kind of atrocity as we saw at Sandy Hook, and Aurora,” during his CNN
show on Monday.
CNN’s
live news coverage also reported that Alexis had “recently purchased (an)
AR-15 shotgun,” when in fact that purchase had been denied.
Both the New
York Times and the Washington
Post also falsely reported that an AR-15 had been found on Alexis after the
massacre.
D.C. gun grabbers Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin also
regurgitated the false claim that Alexis used an AR-15 during the rampage.
The U.S. press has once again behaved like state media in the
aftermath of the Navy Yard shooting by pursuing the assault rifle angle –
despite the fact that it was patently false – in order to bolster the White
House’s gun control agenda.
In doing so, they have concurrently buried an integral aspect of
mass shootings that needs to be highlighted as part of a national conversation –
the clear connection between violent outbursts and SSRI drugs
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