THE SHRINKS AND BIG PHARMA, BAD AS THEY ARE, MAKE UP ONLY PART OF THE SURVIVAL PROBLEM FOR HUMANITY

By Benjamin Merhav

A written testimony by Dr./Col. BART P BILLINGS, PH.D. was emailed to me by him following my previous post (titled, The Truth About Psychiatric Drugs) with the following words :

"Thanks for the summation. I have been fighting this battle since 1974 with military vets. See attached congressional testimony I offered 1 1/2 years ago."

I should add here my own opinion on extreme mental stress and emotional crisis generally within human societies, and on the far more accentuated mental problems within the USA military IN PARTICULAR. It must be understood that the emotional state of people and societies are closely linked to life under political regimes of countries inhabited by these societies. There is a direct correlation between injustices perpetrated or encouraged by the rulers of countries and their citizens who either suffer from injustice or inflict on other fellow human being injustices.

Our emotional and mental states suffer as a result of such inhumanity. It is therefore primarily a political and moral problem rather than a therapeutic problem, and certainly not a medical problem. Thus, for example, the invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya by the USA and by its allies are unjust and inhuman, as are the military interventions by the USA in other parts of the world, including the sponsorship of the aggressive zionist apartheid regime of Israel. These imperialist crimes must stop for the good of the entire humanity, including the well being of young American soldiers themselves.

Moreover, there are direct and indirect links between Big Pharma with its subservient shrinks and the other sections of the American ruling class. For the latter unlimited profit making ranks far higher than any human values, including the sanctity of human lives. Hence the insistence on the use of dangerous psychiatric poisons within the USA military with the full support of Congress.

The suicides of many American soldiers who have been told to take psychiatric drugs to overcome stress have been the direct result of these dangerous drugs. No doubt about it. However, the stress itself was the result of taking part in unnecessary wars. Therefore, the entire ruling class must be confronted, not just Big Pharma and its subservient drug-pushers-shrinks.