By Janet Phelan
Like others in my generation, I remember proudly the response of the American people to the war in Vietnam. I remember the marches, the sit-ins, the protests. I remember the small Midwestern liberal arts college I first attended deciding to shut itself down as its students readied to pour into the nation’s capital and I remember being tear gassed in Berkeley.
Vietnam pales in magnitude when compared with the military actions launched by the US since the turn of the century. Since 2000, US troops have fought in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria.
War, no longer an anomaly, has become common fare.
The virulence of the US government is increasingly evident towards its own people. In certain arenas, and against certain kinds of people, the US has become brutally aggressive against its own citizens.
The response by the people of the United States to its continuing incursions abroad has been colorless, to say the least. No schools shut down, no massive mobilizations on Washington, no general strikes. As far as the domestic violence goes, the response is equally bland. One might posit that the people of the US have become accustomed to their bellicose government.
In light of the history of protest, how does one account for the muted response of the American people?
The Drugging of America
For one, Americans are being drugged silly. Per capita, the US population consumes an astounding number of psychiatric medications. A 2011 Medco Health Solutions report stated that one in five Americans takes at least one psychiatric drug.
According to an IMS Health Vector One report, a grand total of 78,694,222 Americans were consuming at least one type of psychiatric medication in 2013.
“Over the past decade, there has been a significant uptick in the use of medications to treat a variety of mental health problems; what is not as clear is if more people — especially women, are actually developing psychological disorders that require treatment, or if they are more willing to seek out help and clinicians are better at diagnosing these conditions than they once were,” David Muzina, MD, a psychiatrist and national practice leader of the Medco Neuroscience Therapeutic Resource Center, said in a release.
The drugs being prescribed range from drugs for mood disorders to anti-anxiety drugs to more serious anti-psychotic medications. According to a 2011 Harvard report, the federal government’s health statisticians figure that about one in every 10 Americans takes an antidepressant.
According to a Yale study, published in 2013, there are significant geographical clusters of psychiatric medication use. The study reported that in Alexandria, Virginia, “two in five residents received an antidepressant, compared to a mean of 10.4% nationally.”
Quoting the Medco Report, the WHO has stated that in 2010 21% of American women were taking antidepressant drugs.
WHO also reports that the Medco data shows that women have the highest utilization rate of anti-anxiety medications; in fact, 11 percent of middle-aged women (age 45-64) were on an anti-anxiety drug treatment in 2010, nearly twice the rate of their male counterparts.
In addition, Medco reported that the use of anti-psychotic medications has soared and that the usage of these drugs is up over 300% in the last ten years.
Adults are not the only consumers of psychiatric drugs. The 2011 Medco report stated that the number of children receiving atypical antipsychotics doubled from 2001 to 2010. The CDC reports that over ten percent of children are now diagnosed with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). Approximately 8% of American children are taking Adderall, Ritalin or other stimulant medications.
Many psychiatric medications include the mind-numbing compound, fluoride. Fluoride was used extensively in the concentration camps in Eastern Europe to keep the camp denizens docile.
The Fluoride Toxicity Research Collaborative has launched a project to list which medications contain fluoride. Here’s a partial list of fluoride containing antidepressants.
In addition, many cities fluoridate the public water.
Parenthetically, a recent New Yorker article cites the failure of medicine to find organic causes for depression. The article suggests that placebos are as effective as the prescribed drugs in treating depression.
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The “Awry Factor
Life situations seen as overwhelming may produce a depressive response. Equally, the perception that an aggressor is in control may produce a reaction accommodating and enabling the aggressor. This reaction, “identification with the aggressor,” is popularly called The Stockholm Syndrome. It is this psychological reaction to the perception of being held hostage by an aggressor that we turn our attention to now.
Since the events of September 11, 2001, an increasing number of American citizens have become aware that something is going on in the United States that is not normal. The evidence that something is going seriously awry is evidenced in a number of specific situations and is impacting an increasing number of American citizens.
The “awry factor” is evident in adult guardianship proceedings, where elders and the disabled are being ripped from the protective shelter of their families, their estates are being plundered and all too often, the wards are being sent to an early death.
The “awry factor” is evident in what happens to family members and attorneys who attempt to protect these people. Very often, restraining orders are issued against family and sometimes the family members are jailed. Attorneys who seek to protect their clients are often disbarred.
The “awry factor” is evident in family court proceedings. When there are allegations that one of the parents has abused a minor child, all too often the child is remanded into the custody of the abuser.
The “awry factor” is evident in the alarming numbers of police officers who escape culpability when they murder US citizens, and the “awry factor” is evident in the increasing numbers of whistleblowers being charged under the Espionage Act.
The “awry factor” is evident in the growing numbers of ordinary American citizens who are alleging that they are being placed into covert experimental governmental electronic weapons programs, without their informed consent.
The “awry factor” is not only evident in what is happening legally or “extra-legally” across America, however. Growing numbers of Americans are becoming aware that the mainstream press is not giving them the real deal, as far as the news goes. More and more, Americans are turning to internet news sites in order to learn what the mainstream press isn’t telling them.
The “awry factor” is increasingly evident in the US’s foreign policy, where lies are stacked upon lies in order to present overwhelming and utterly false reasons to go to war.
Certain professions are known to have their fingers on the pulse of the nation. These professions may include those in the legal profession, journalists, police officers and many in government employ. The wave of shock that comes with the realization that your own government has moved out of the position of protector and is now a potential assailant may result in a personal crisis, a coming to a crossroads.
Some people simply pack up and leave. They quit their jobs, knowing that a once noble profession is now a tool of oppression. They may go so far as to leave the country. The majority, however, appear to make other decisions. They may button their lips and go along with a heinous situation simply because this is how they pay the mortgage.
In some, the decision to “go with the program” results in the psychological syndrome called “identification with the aggressor.” A medical dictionary defines this syndrome thus: “In psychology, an unconscious process in which a person adopts the perspective or behavior patterns of a captor or abuser.” In other words, the individual is not simply going with the current. He has become the aggressor.
Held Hostage
In a sense, the US populace is now held hostage. We are drugged, lied to and even when we emerge from these experiences with our perceptions intact, we find ourselves tied up in knots. These knots are intrapsychic. They involve the implicit awareness that speaking out, acting in accordance with moral principles, is now a dangerous endeavor.
In every generation, in every totalitarian situation in recorded history, there have been individuals who refused to be intimidated. There are individuals whose moral compass overrides the danger alert. It is well known that if the entire population refused to be intimidated, the problem of aggression, abuse, murder and wars could be resolved very quickly. But first, we need to come to terms with the fact that we are frightened. We may be confused and we are scared. Somewhere within each and every one of us is that small, still voice which can encourage us in this time of great occlusion.
Within each and every one of us resides a hero. We only need to clear away the adulterating effects of mind numbing substances and the hypnotic media propaganda and allow him to emerge.
Janet C. Phelan, investigative journalist and human rights defender that has traveled pretty extensively over the Asian region, an author of a tell-all book EXILE, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
The study reported that in Alexandria, Virginia, “two in five residents received an antidepressant, compared to a mean of 10.4% nationally.”
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Well, that explains a lot. 40 percent of them are on “uppers”.
We have been tricked at every turn into giving up our inalienable (sovereign) rights as the posterity of the people of the united States of America for the mere privileges (and gazillion restrictions) that come with citizenship. And, working side by side with this brainwashing from youth, there is an increasingly alarming absence of employing critical thinking skills.
What’s their current excuse for taking no action?
No need since they have been spoon fed the “answers” by their TV heroes. Again this is showing the lack of critical thinking that leads to action.
Fear.
This is why you can point out something obvious to someone you know has a 3 digit IQ and still can’t get them to acknowledge it’s existence.
For once a sleepy citizen nibbles on a chicken wing of truth…
you are really asking them to eat the whole elephant.
Forfeiting the safety net they thought protected them.
For their personal power was supplanted long ago.
Subconsciously, the implication being; ‘if they would do that, then they would do this too’.
Fear.
Fear is the anchoring postulate of all oppression.
The 2nd component of Hegel’s Dialectic.
The almost mathematical formula for control.
Problem / Reaction (fear) / Solution.
Perhaps the best thing about humans:
when TSHTF they come together.
The takeover is largely complete.
Maybe our ‘savior’ is the People coming together like never before.
The only thing ‘they’ are afraid of.
That’s why every indoctrination, every socially engineered move is about keeping us in a construct of separation.
Maybe Divine help and our helping each other is one in the same.
Of all the lies and omissions that make up this Matrix…
our separateness is the biggest lie of all.
One can hope.
You’ve struck on the great truth that is overlooked many times purposely.
Mankind/the common man, MUST come together to defeat this enemy.
Many are still looking for God or Jesus or whatever other savior is worshiped to save them, but this would only enable our irresponsibility to correct our own problems.
These are problems we have allowed to develop from our own apathy, cowardice and irresponsibility. We have a couple of generations of people who have been raised by being coddled and no longer know how to solve their own problems.
Many times I see this as one BIG test to force mankind to come together and put aside their petty differences or be destined to ash bin of history.
There is one thing for sure, and as Einstein quoted, ” We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them ”
I do not agree with Randall’s comment below that we are savage and only live and die as animals fighting for diminished resources.
Mankind DOES have a duality but many times we are at our best when things are at their worst, so this shows we have the capability to rise above it.
The only way I see us getting past our current problems is to come together and show/ demand that the immature irresponsible people in control need to step down. We have out grown them.
Maybe our coming together,
and the Divine Savior are the same?
Evolution.
The past 40 years the American demographic evolved into a spineless species. No courage to throw themselves on the spearhead of the rich – get out into the streets and shut down commerce. They all ‘inherited’ liberty.
Couple that with all the illegals and you get a population with heads bowed down and hand outstretched. They learned not to look their oppressors in the eyes.
Denial to their very end.
This is one of the best, and most honest articles assessing our current position, that I have read in a long time.
Thank you Janet.
We need more like this, and possible solutions to counter these affects.
One I can think of is encouragement.
Hopelessness syndrome relies on you giving up.
There is always hope.
Refuse to give into the fear and conditioning.
This is how they defeat you.
What do think about “action”?
By our very LAWS the only appropriate action should be the incarceration and HONEST judicial processing of the criminals in power.
No lip service from bought and paid for judges and lawyers.
We must employ those who are not capable of being bought or coerced, and are dedicated to the honest execution of our laws.
Find police chiefs, lawyers and judges you trust and back them with a small army of deputies.
We have laws on the books that have been developed for just this, and those who appose the legal execution of this should be immediately arrested and charged with obstruction.
The criminals have many thugs on the payroll and will follow illegal orders of protecting them, but their blind obedience will be a blessing as you will not have to go look for the criminal supporters. They will unwittingly deliver themselves by their own hubris.
Man is a savage animal…. Face the Truth…. What other species on earth live the way we try to live?…. There will always be Lions and Sheep…. Then comes Vultures to clean up that mess…. It’s the way of life…. Lions will never live with Sheep without taking a few for food… Trying to deny our natural instinct is an exercise in futility… Violence has always been the final answer… If a compromise can not be reached in a timely manner, the use of violence is inevitable… Trust is essential to security… Man will never trust Man, because all men are capable of this savagery… Security is created through the threat of violence, is it not?… If it were not true, police would not have guns…Countries would not have Armies…. Even the Vatican has an Army… To deny the inevitable, to not be prepared for violence, to think we as humans will ever live together in total peace is lunacy… Is that what the Left wants?… To live in Peace?… Is that what humans really want, to live in Peace?… We do have too many people living on this planet and natures way of thinning the heard is through disease… Disease is spreading all over the planet. Insanity is spreading all over the planet… If there wasn’t so many people on this planet, we would not have to see each other every day… Only like minded people can live together in relative Peace… I say, lets have us a good old fashion cleansing… Those that don’t want to participate will be relegated to the Vulture’s task….Clean Up…
Randall, Randall, Randall….please set a good example and line up first for your proposed ‘cleansing’.
I have always been first through the door…..
Great article. Rockefeller Medicine has done a real good job lobotomizing Americans, but there’s also the mainstream media which has promoted the consumer culture, the public school system that’s done nothing but lie to us, and the sold out traitors in the District of Corruption who have stabbed us in the back over and over and over.
We gave been lied to, led astray, manipulated, exploited, militarized, brainwashed, and imprisoned more than any other society on the face of the earth ever.
When I end up angry and upset with my fellows because we’re allowing the bastards who are doing this to us to get away with it, I have to remember these facts, and just how effective the assassinations of the ’50’s and 60’s were in neutering a whole country. Vietnam protests aside.
So we can’t undo 70-80 years of damage in 1 or 2. Those of us who know the truth, and are fighting for it, need to appreciate that these things take time. Time and patience.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!
I remember well the demonstrations against the US war of aggression on Vietnam. The in the streets rebellions were the driving reason for ending the US military draft. Many of the demonstrators were of draft age and were on the streets to end the war they wanted no part in. With no drafting of the young folks today, there is less vigorous opposition to the US ‘for profit’ fraudulently justified wars.
With the draft gone, nobody gives a crap as they think they and their children can live safely. Foreign policy has no importance in US elections and who ever gets the most Wall Street money will win.
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We are paying for these wars and have become accomplishes in the murdering; the Stockholm Effect kicks into gear and has US by the balls. We are identifying with the alien/military/industrial/complex as a good thing. It is a minority that sees the injustice being perpetrated and the numbers are small due to the reasons above plus other factors; sports mentality, media, hanging out in virtual town USA, etc. The Usually Stupid citizens are lazy folks when it comes to protesting or taking up arms. Also being disenfranchised results in no visible lever for those who wish to be active. I mean which politicians are actually against the military flat out? You can protest and make noise but that is it – not much of a revolution. Non-violent protesting does not end wars; at best it is a pressure release mechanism which tires people out and bears no fruit. Those who have been disappeared or killed for direct actions are no longer players. Most of the Sixties revolutionaries are dead, in jail on pot and drug charges or missing; those of us who are still functioning are small in number and are usually ignored by others, friends and family. My family and friends think that war is good for business, the military will have to beat ISIS in the streets of the USA and we will win in the end because they pray to god.
Every action, every item, and every human now has a price tag, just like any good, chattel or slave. In 1913 your country was captured by the Fed. Ever since central banking spread it’s tentacles around the world YOU have been manipulated with greed and self interest. When the poor countries were being sold into slavery, YOU benefited and enjoyed your privilege and luxury whilst BILLIONS STARVED TO DEATH. When YOUR armies invaded illegally, stole assets and decimated their counties, YOU did NOTHING. Many have shares in the military industrial complex and reaped the blood money, as souls perished. YOU laughed as Towel Heads were bombed. YOU rejoiced at your superiority. NOW the boot is being placed on YOUR throats and YOU don’t like what YOU have dished out. Oh it’s fine to bomb the living daylights out of ‘savages’, but how dare they finally strike back! YOU morons. YOUR elite all took the blood money for their mansions, holidays, toys, etc whilst 90% of the global population grovelled in garbage. Look what YOU did to South America, South Africa, Asia, The Middle East. etc…ad infinitum. YOUR banking system has spread it’s cancer to every corner of the Earth.
Every day by complicit actions YOU pay taxes and support this insanity. Like zombified idiots you pay for your own destruction. Every one knows that without money you die. Ask any of the 20,000 dead folks from just yesterday, or wait and ask the next lot the day after. Oh, ‘it’s just the way it is’, is it? NO it is just the way YOUR bankers have led you all by the hip nerve to annihilation. The global financial system is about to collapse right out from under the other 9% of USA, as the elite finally come for YOU.
The Africans asked for help and no one came, the Latinos asked for help and nobody came, the Asians asked for help and nobody came, and NOW, YOU are asking for help and there is NOBODY to save YOU.
This was ALL done under the banner of GOD is on your side. It was ALL done for PROFITS: FALSE PROFITS. If YOU continue with the same insanity that caused this atrocity. How on Earth are exactly the same IDIOTS who did this allowed to remain in POWER? The USA voted in a muslim sodomite and you imagine GOD would be impressed? NO, he warned YOU all about the final equation: LOVE or MONEY, let me make sure nobody misses this: GOD or MAMMON. Please pay attention to the OR. It means ONE or the OTHER! Fail FOOLS you ALL picked the MONEY. No love for GOD but plenty of interest and love of money. How are your useless retirement plans looking now? This could all be easily fixed with a change of mind from EVERYONE.
One Global Non-Profit Bank, would eliminate every lying, two faced money junky and banker in a heartbeat. But still YOU argue. You ignore Einstein. You ignore GOD!
I heard NO mention of an elite banking cabal in Eden, NO ATM’s, NO 401K’s! NADA! Except a SNAKE!
YOU ARE THE SNAKES NOW. The USA escaped the UK for freedom and BECAME the evil they fought against. JUDGEMENT IS HERE. Only a miracle can save this from happening, but sadly YOU are the miracles that never appeared. YOU became evil little scumbags for trinkets, and NOW you will pay the price. I weep for YOU.
“YOUR banking system has spread it’s cancer to every corner of the Earth.” Study up, Mr. Bitter. Central Banking has its roots in England, France, Germany, Bavaria. The USA fell prey to a system well established by 1913.
All this ‘YOU’ nonsense. The average American did not and does not rejoice. We are sickened. As a society, we have failed the world and ourselves and our children, but the fact I was born within these borders does not automatically indicate an endorsement of the policies of this nation.
I don’t fault you for your diatribe; it is deserved, but please try to go from ‘boil’ to ‘simmer’, and realize the vast majority of Americans did not ask for, do not want and do not endorse this government many are keenly aware we have been taken over by a foreign enemy and we are a captured nation. Study up on Sun Tzu and you will understand more of whence I speak.
At least you weep for us…so thanks for that.
Reply censored. I did try to reply, but your mediator is a shill. My comments are not here.
More scum acting like God.
Wow Janet you really hit the nail on the head. There are many who know what is going on but have no idea what to do about it. I have been following your stories on elder abuse & predatory conservators and would like to know more about how to prevent this. Info & dis info are coming at you so fast & the police state is swift & deadly. Many protests have few participants or no media coverage.
I am 63 w/ CFS/FM & have marched twice with my grandson at age 6 & 7 in the March against Monsanto. I still grow most of my own food. I try to teach him to think & eat real food for starters. He is the only one of my 9 grandchildren unvaccinated & not on meds & is way healthier & smarter than the others. Everybody I know is on least two prescriptions.It is so sad & we are conditioned to believe it is because we are defective when really we are poisoned & duped.
I may be too old to be a revolutionary but I can still talk to people and withdraw my support for the system by how & where I spend & invest my dollars & my time. It is encouraging that there are people out there catching on.
Thank you for you laser focus & summary of the problem; now we need to get others to realize it and take action.
“What in the World has Happened to the American People?”
The answer to this is actually: Nothing.
However, it appears like something has happened because you are listening to the side of the socialists, communists…let’s just call them the America Haters.
So all that is typically allowed on the news, radio shows, TV, etc. are the America Haters. It is so rare to hear someone who is not, that most of us can name those few people on one hand.
Even “Right Leaning” websites have very little speech/comments/talkback from the Right because most of the moderators are Liberals themselves and/or they have a very poor understanding of the law or even worse like on many sites, they are masquerading as Right when they are actually the Left.
Here is a good example:
We have the Bill Of Rights because the about half of the Founding Fathers were told by the other half that if there was no written guarantee of the Rights from God n the Constitution, they wouldn’t sign off on it. The group that actually required this was called the Anti-Federalists. There was even a book written called the Anti-Federalist Papers as a response to the The Federalist Papers.
In the Bill of Rights is the Second Amendment, which basically says, if the government gets too uppity, we will need a way to kill them and take control back from a government run amok. We don’t the 2nd Amendment to kill skeet, doves, targets, turkeys, deer or burglars; no, we have it to kill people in the government. As in, go to their house or office and kill them when they government gets out of hand.
That above paragraph is WAY to explosive for most websites. And so, even “Right” leaning websites censor and cut down on the voice of the Right.
Fortunately there are many people out there who will say what needs to be said here, or, elsewhere. Even here though at Activist Post…admit it:) You lean a bit left:)
I will leave you with this last piece of advice…it is okay to yell FIRE! in a theatre that is one fire. And, when you can’t see the screen due to the smoke…stop telling people to sit down and shut up…you will live longer:)
This is but the reward for falling prey to a deception so complex that it is mind altering. From the diet, to the money, to the interactions, even within the very words we speak can its presence be found. It has found way into every facet of life, and it’s existence has whittled mankind from day one.
It consumes men, to the point that their very dna is altered. It started as a minuscule thing and it has etched it’s way into the very fabric of reality. The people no longer know exactly what is worth pursuit, some can no longer even distinguish between right and wrong. They have even grown proud of their ignorance, while every act inches them closer to their destruction. They say “this little thing is of no relevance”, but it is all pertinent. They now exist in a kingdom ran by something which is hard to explain without sounding like a heretic. The closest explanation ever recorded is tied to religion, and all religion has been stained, so that no man will truly hear, or see when using it as an explanation. The very words which once shed light upon the evils, have veen construed in a way which makes it technically still truth, but literally false.
i have been trying to articulate it, searching fir a way to explain for nearly 3 years now. Information moves so fast now, that by the time i get close it is no longer relevant. I’ve been called every name in the book behind attempting it. i realized that it is a formless entity which inhabits men as it pleases, encouraging rage within them when I get to close at times. Other times it raises distractions, which are too perfectly timed, to be coincidence.
It is a truth we all knew once, and must know again in order that we may resist. Yet in order to know, we must learn it, which takes time. Time which is always foreshadowed by money, events, news, sometimes even just ego. I will nevet give up trying to share with my brothers and sisters of earth, but i sure wish they would at least meet me half way. I can feel the onset of something big on the horizon, and i fear i will not reach everyone.
All of mankind cannot be saved. So few will be saved and that is a sad fact. Some will do nothing and be destroyed, some will do the same ol’ and be destroyed. A few will fight with every ounce of strength, and still not succeed. Fewer will resist and actually obtain the freedoms promised. I dont say this to incite fear but rather to inspire hope within those who wish to know. The truth is hiddin in the words, and all can find it.
another drug of choice – digital phones and tv’s – we’ve all bought into the internet of hings.
Concerning the middle East – the common folks believe that they have always been at war – better over there than here (the current belief).
but I’m sure that at least 10% of the population have their eyes and ears open.
a record 185,000 back ground checks over black friday implies the sleeping dawg has opened it’s eyes.
I like to say – we may be down but we are not out.
and did anyone here Barry the fairy say – blahblahblah…”will keep ‘us’ safe”…blahblahblah – by us he meant him and the shadow scum that pull his strings.
the 2 biggest LIES American’s believe…
If it’s true it would be on TV
Our govt. wouldn’t do that to us
Cognitive dissonance is rampant…when will we reach the tipping point?
Everyone seems to think this a great article, though much of it has been said many times before. I don’t feel like a hostage? Do you? What about the 175,000 people who got off their butts the day after Thanksgiving and bought guns? Is this from fear? Or from bravery? What do you call the millions of citizens who have quietly gone about arming themselves into a silent militia while all this nattering “Americans are fat, stupid and drugged” goes on in the background? I was in college in the era of anti-war demonstrations and was tear gassed and arrested too; the “establishment” blamed it all on shiftless hippies and drugs. I didn’t buy it then and I’m not buying it now.
Luke 21:
25 “There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. 26 People will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken. 27 At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”
Luke 21:33
*33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
John 14:26
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.