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Lies and the State
by Elizabeth Cameron

I know there are some honorable people in government. I have even met some. 
This article is not about them. It is about those politicians, hereinafter 
referred to as "the government", who aid and abet the proliferation of 
politically expedient lies in a thousand sneaky ways. They would appear to 
be the majority, or things would be better than they are.

I often hear questions like these: Why doesn�t the government address the 
issue of the link between psychotropic drugs and mass shootings? Why do 
they talk only about gun control as a means to "stop the violence"? Why 
don�t they get it? Why are they so dumb?

Listen: They are not dumb. They know exactly what they are doing. And when 
it comes to mass shootings, despite all the sympathetic things they say, 
they actually find such crises useful. "Problem-reaction-solution" is the 
traditional tool used by authoritarian regimes to expand their grip. This 
was once affirmed by Rahm Emmanuel, Obama�s former White House Chief of 
Staff, when he said, in a rare moment of candor, "You never want a serious 
crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that it�s an opportunity to do 
things that you think you could not do before."

If the federal gun-grabbers actually wanted solutions to the problem of 
mass shootings, they would look for actual causes. Without extreme public 
pressure, they are not going to do this. They will look only for causes, 
however specious, that support their position that more government control 
is the only solution. And they will try to paint as crazy anybody who 
argues otherwise.

Truth: Psychiatric drugs are implicated as a causative factor in mass 
shootings. Evidence of this abounds � certainly enough to justify a serious 
federal investigation. The government prefers to ignore this. Why? Because 
as long as they pretend not to see the connection, they can use the crisis 
du jour to fuel their gun grab; and because Big Pharma, who makes 
approximately a gazillion dollars a year on the sale of psych drugs, has 
tentacles into the government and lots of high-priced lobbyists, and the 
government is not keen to buck this power structure.

Truth: Gun-free zones allow for the accumulation of many bodies in an 
attack. This is obvious, because in a "gun-free zone" there is nobody to 
shoot back. Is the government going to acknowledge this? No. It doesn�t 
serve their agenda.

It is crucial to remember that if a problem persists despite the existence 
of solutions, then that problem is being held in place by those who profit 
from it. This is done by the proliferation of lies.

Lie: We must pass more gun laws to keep guns out of the hands of violent 
criminals. This does not pass the test of even kindergarten logic, because 
criminals are by definition law-breakers, and therefore will have weapons 
whatever the law says. Do people really think that somebody who will mow 
down little kids in a classroom is going to stop because the rulebook says 
he isn�t supposed to have a gun? We outlawed murder long ago. How come that 
didn�t stop him?

Lie: We must have gun-free zones to keep our kids safe. This is patently 
absurd. Any criminal who is intent upon destruction will go for the soft 
target every time. Why? Because it is a soft target! But even a drug-addled 
psychopath may be startled back into reality if he enters the school with a 
rifle and comes face to face with adults bearing drawn weapons. If he is 
not so startled, then he will go down quickly, just as he should, and the 
little kids will go home alive to their parents.

Lie: We need more psychotropic drugs to handle people with violent 
tendencies. This does not hold up under any serious observation of cause 
and effect. The evidence keeps piling up that the more we pump psychotropic 
drugs into people, the more mass shootings we get. Arguments that neglect 
this evidence can be designed only to pave the way for increased drug sales 
and a tighter symbiotic power structure between Big Pharma and the State.

Big Pharma profits from the expanding market of psychotropic drugs. 
Government gains power from civilian disarmament. They are not interested 
in solutions. For them, no matter how horrible this sounds, the slaughter 
of little kids in government schools presents them with a valuable 
opportunity; it provides fuel for their propaganda fires. They will, of 
course, never admit this; they will express only the deepest sympathy for 
"our loss".

Any politician who really wants to solve the problem of mass shootings 
should be standing up loudly in opposition to gun control � not only the 
current push for new restrictions, but also 2nd Amendment infringements 
already in place � and should be calling for an immediate investigation 
into the connection between psychotropic drugs and mass shootings. Those 
politicians who prefer not to do this, whatever they may say to the 
contrary, are complicit in the lies and are therefore part of the problem.

The push for psychotropic drugs is built on a pack of lies. So is the push 
for gun control. But no matter how normal and sensible the lies are made to 
sound, they are told to keep the problem in place, because the problem 
serves the state. This is evil.

The way to handle this is to keep exposing the lies and keep telling the 
truth. Then, as we "Muggles" say, truth will out! Truth is more powerful 
than lies.

January 22, 2013

Elizabeth Cameron [send her mail] is a writer and farmer who lives and 
works on a small, diversified farmstead in the Midwest.

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