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Title: UPDATED: Another Iraq vet suicide--this one witnessed by his mom
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URL Source: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/5/105948/4984/169/509358
Published: May 5, 2008
Author: Greg Mitchell
Post Date: 2008-05-05 16:40:49 by aristeides
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UPDATED: Another Iraq vet suicide--this one witnessed by his mom by GregMitch As the scandal of suicide attempts by Iraq veterans expands -- in the face of Veterans Administration denials -- another horrific case has emerged, once again only gaining attention because of a local newspaper. I have been tracking these accounts for almost five years and only recently has the problem, with an estimated 1,000 attempts a month now reported, gained wide media, and to some extent official, attention. The latest story came Saturday in a story by Patrick McCreless in The Cullman Times of Cullman, Ala. The headline is similar to so many others lately: "Family pushing for changes after soldier's suicide." It tells how Dorothy Screws "witnessed her only son, U.S. Army Pvt. Tommie Edward Jones, commit suicide right before her eyes six weeks ago in Colorado. She says the Army, which promised to be there for Screws and her family to deal with the loss, has yet to provide assistance." The story continues: "Now Screws can hardly do her job without breaking down. Just the simple act of living is a challenge. "Only the memory of her son keeps Screws going as she fights to ensure another parent does not have to live through the same tragedy. 'I can’t save my son now ... I want to save somebody,' Screws said with tears in her eyes. 'If I can save one soldier, it will be worth it.' "Screws plans to petition the government for as long as it takes until a law is passed requiring soldiers to undergo some type of psychological therapy after they return from intense combat." Her son was 27 when he died at Fort Carson, Colo., on March 25. He served in Iraq in 2007 and suffered from PTSD. “He said, ‘I wake up every morning angry,’” Screws said. “He said, ‘My body is here but my mind is in Iraq.’” Screws said she wants therapy to be mandatory for soldiers because many, like her son, do not seek help out of fear of being stigmatized or prevent them from rising in rank. She also detailed how she has gotten little support from the military since his death. The article is at www.cullmantimes.com. UPDATE from Bloomberg News today: "The number of suicides among veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may exceed the combat death toll because of inadequate mental health care, the U.S. government's top psychiatric researcher said. Community mental health centers, hobbled by financial limits, haven't provided enough scientifically sound care, especially in rural areas, said Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He briefed reporters today at the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting in Washington." * Greg Mitchell's new book So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits -- and the President -- Failed on Iraq has several chapters on suicides and other "nonhostile" deaths in Iraq. It has been hailed by Susan G of Daily Kos, Bill Moyers, Glenn Greenwald, Paul Rieckhoff and others. It features a preface by Bruce Springsteen.
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"Screws plans to petition the government for as long as it takes until a law is passed requiring soldiers to undergo some type of psychological therapy after they return from intense combat." .... UPDATE from Bloomberg News today: "The number of suicides among veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may exceed the combat death toll because of inadequate mental health care, the U.S. government's top psychiatric researcher said. Community mental health centers, hobbled by financial limits, haven't provided enough scientifically sound care, especially in rural areas, said Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He briefed reporters today at the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting in Washington." www.bloomberg.com/apps/ne...d=a2_71Klo2vig&refer=home problem....reaction....SOLUTION: "....Soldiers who'd been exposed to combat trauma were the most likely to suffer from depression or PTSD, the Rand report said. About 53 percent of soldiers with those conditions sought treatment during the past year. Half of those who got care were judged by Rand researchers to have received inadequate treatment. Failure to adequately treat the mental and neurological problems of returning soldiers can cause a chain of negative events in the lives of affected veterans, the researchers said. About 300,000 soldiers suffer from depression or PTSD, the report said. Treatment Options Researchers aren't sure whether it's appropriate to treat such patients with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, *** a class of medications that include Prozac, and other anti- depressants, Insel said. His institute is examining that question and **** novel treatments for PTSD, including using so-called virtual reality technology. The psychiatric association reported last week that a survey of 191 military members and their spouses found 32 percent said their duty hurt their mental health, and six in 10 believed seeking treatment would damage their careers. More than 15,000 psychiatrists are attending the professional group's meeting. ....." Torpedo American industry; promote psycho-communism/fascism instead: 45 Goals of Communism in America: "....38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat]. 39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals....." www.restoringamerica.org/...45_goals_of_communism.htm PSYCHIATRISTS: THE MEN BEHIND HITLER "....The propaganda film about euthanasia that was produced by the Reich was based on an idea by Panse. In 1942, the treatment and cure of war-neurotics, using a form of electroshock, was named after him and called "pansen." It involved very painful stimulations of electrical currents applied to large sections of the skin using a roller. War neurotics in Panse's mind, however, meant that they had "psychopathy with the purpose of surreptitiously obtaining pensions and compensations." In other words, Panse believed soldiers faked being traumatized by the war. In 1943, he was present at a secret euthanasia conference attended by leading psychiatrists in Berlin in 1943. Acquitted: In 1947, he was acquitted of wartime collaboration with the Nazis; however, he was never even called upon to explain his actions as a psychiatrist or to account for his methodologies. He continued to lecture after the war until 1967 at the Universities of Bonn and Dusseldorf . He died in 1973....." www.oralchelation.net/data/Psychiatry/data18n.htm "....there were no limits to the enthusiasm that the psychiatrists in Berlin felt for T4. How patriotic they must have considered themselves when they then decided to put their brave teams into action in the East, to help the wounded in ice and snow. As Dr. Fritz Mennecke told his wife in a letter on 12th January 1942. "Since the day before yesterday a large delegation from our organisation, headed by Herr Brack, is on the battlefields of the East to help in saving our wounded in the ice and snow. They include doctors, clerks, nurses, and male nurses from Hadamar and Sonnenstein, a whole detachment of 20-30 persons. This is a top secret. Only those persons who could not be spared were excluded. Professor Nitsche regrets that the staff of our institution at Eichberg had to be taken away so soon." This quote speaks for itself, when one considers who was "helping" the wounded in ice and snow. It becomes evident that the German soldiers in the East had to fight three fronts: the Russian Army, the partisans and the enemies in their own ranks. As if the war-killing had not been enough, now special committees were put into action to relieve the wounded German soldiers from their painful existence. The soldiers thus were not only in a fix strategically, but also morally as well; if they were wounded, how would they be "helped"?....." Men Behind Hitler - The Death Machine www.toolan.com/hitler/death.html Secret US Human Biological Experimentation Re: (APFN) Secret US Human Biological Experimentation Mon Jun 25 08:27:10 2001 I would suggest that people be warned befor going to this article. ... www.apfn.org/apfn/experiment.htm Gulf War Soldiers Used for Human Experiments in HIV Gulf War veterans were not informed prior to vaccinations given. Evidence shows that the vaccines were administered as part of a human experiment in ... www.apfn.org/THEWINDS/1998/01/medical_experiments.html APFN - Secret Government Behavior Manipulation The documents ... suggested broader experimentation on unwitting humans by the intelligence agency or its paid researchers than had been publicly known ... disc.yourwebapps.com/disc...isc=149495;article=118428 APFN - 80 Institutions Used in C.I.A. Mind Studies "Experiments in influencing human behaviour through the administration of mind- or personality-altering drugs to unwitting subjects. ... disc.yourwebapps.com/disc...isc=149495;article=118429 The Phillip Schneider Investigation From American Patriot Friends Network ... Stealth technology, the Philadelphia Experiment, Operation Crossroads (Bikini Island A-bomb ... www.rense.com/general/phil.htm Electronic Mind Control - The Facts, The Proof From American Patriot Friends Network ... "Remote Viewing" at Stanford Research Institute or Illicit CIA Mind Control Experimentation? ... www.rense.com/general/mndcontrol.htm ============================ Now suppose a soldier is declared "missing in action" or even dead. Is it beyond the evil of the people we are dealing with in this government to deliver these soldiers up as psychiatric experiment fodder or organ donor fodder, and then to quietly dispose of them? One thing leading to another, I just ran across another possibly related topic I was familiar with from the Terri Schiavo travesty, which would make this possible, not only for Iraq war vets, but for any of us. "SECRET DOCKETS According to a survey by The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press for this guide, federal courts and many state courts allow for "super-secret" cases, which never appear on the public docket or are hidden using pseudonyms, such as "Sealed v. Sealed" or "John Doe v. Jane Doe." Courts that maintain these secret dockets will neither confirm nor deny the existence of such cases. As a result, these cases proceed through the court system undetected. Terrorism "outside the orbit" The most recent examples of secret dockets involve cases against accused terrorists. On May 1, Iyman Faris pleaded guilty to providing material support to al Qaida, including researching ultralight airplanes, procuring lightweight sleeping bags, plane tickets and cell phones, and assisting in a plan to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge for the terrorist organization. But his arrest, indictment and, ultimately, his plea bargain with the Justice Department proceeded in absolute secrecy. ..... ...while the law disfavors secret dockets, they are still used by federal and state courts to hide sealed cases. When an entire case is sealed, rather than individual documents, federal courts either remove the case from the public docket or replace the parties' names with anonymous pseudonyms such as "Sealed v. Sealed." At least 46 U.S. district courts across the country allow for these types of secret docketing procedures. Such a system makes it virtually impossible for the public and press to know what types of cases are being sealed or to challenge the constitutionality of the sealing orders....." http://www.rcfp.org/secretjustice/secretdockets/pg1.html Civil suits kept under wraps Federal courts across the country have procedures that keep civil suits hidden from public view. When an entire case is sealed, federal courts will either keep these cases off the public docket or place them on the docket with a case number and pseudonym. When a case is entirely sealed, court clerks will not disclose any information about the case, even to the parties of the lawsuit. "It's quite frustrating because [the parties] aren't only sealing it from the public, they are sealing it from themselves. So when attorneys call up to find out about the status of their case, for example, if their motion has been granted, we can't tell them. If a case is sealed, we won't even confirm or deny that the case exists," said Sonia Van Camp, a docket clerk for the Northern District of Texas. How often federal courts seal cases remains a mystery. The number of secret cases varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and many courts refused to reveal how many cases are kept off the docket or hidden by pseudonyms. As of June 2003, the Middle District of Georgia had 33 secret civil cases pending, the Northern District of Florida had seven secret civil cases pending, the Western District of Arkansas and the Eastern District of Wisconsin each had two secret civil cases pending, and the Districts of North Dakota and South Dakota did not have any secret civil cases pending. Many federal courts would not say how many cases they had, and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts does not monitor the number of secret cases filed in federal courts across the country. "Each federal court is an animal unto itself," said Terry Vaughn, operations manager for the Eastern District of New York. Vaughn would not describe the types of cases that are sealed. However, he did acknowledge that if a potential investor asked the court whether a company had been sued and the case was sealed, the investor would never know. "If the case is sealed, nothing is available," Vaughn said. When asked to describe what types of cases may be sealed, Kathryn Brooks, division manager for the Northern District of Indiana, described a situation in which a doctor filed a lawsuit, but requested leave of court to proceed by another name and to seal the case, which was granted. As a result, that case would proceed in secret. Even in state courts, reporters have discovered secret dockets. In California, Greg Moran, a court reporter for the San Diego Union-Tribune, discovered that the superior court in San Diego allowed cases to be kept off the books, including a few normal civil actions that did not appear on the docket. Among the secret cases was one involving two biotech companies, Moran said. "It was an eye-opening thing for us to see that you could go to court and no one would ever know," he said. Court reporters reveal secrets of success ....." www.rcfp.org/secretjustice/secretdockets/pg3.html "....There is the "perception that there's an insider's game . . . that there's a judicial system for the rich and powerful and then there's a judiciary system for the rest of us," said Sen. John A. Kissel during a Judiciary Committee meeting regarding the super-secret docketing of cases. ....." http://www.rcfp.org/secretjustice/secretdockets/pg2.html "....Jewish courts ... will be granted full legal sovereignty over Jewish citizens within each country, who will no longer be subject to the authority of gentile courts. The pre-existing Noachide judges and courts will replace the existing court system of each country, and the legal code will be drastically rewritten to conform to halacha.... .... And law and order will be fully restored through the establishment of internal security measures, again in accordance with Torah law. ...." http://www.cephas-library.com/nwo/nwo_noachide_judge_and_courts_will_replace_ours.html ["... In short, the 'house of world order' will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like a great 'booming, buzzing confusion,' to use William James' famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault." -- Richard N. Gardner, in Foreign Affairs (April 1974)...." http://www.penncrier.com/penncrier/pcnwoqut.html ] Now, couple the above with the so-called "privacy" laws that "prevent" a hospital from giving you any information about a patient in their care, without the patient's permission [do the mentally incompetent give permission?], or even if the person is a patient. Then add on the provision in the "Patriot" Act that allows the gestapo to pick up ANY American for any reason and to whisk them away to God knows where, without telling anyone. Everything is a deep dark secret....the better to pull off their dirty work. In Florida, the elderly and the "insane" were victims waiting to happen under Florida's cunningly written laws capable of disappearing people, charging the taxpayers for their "care" to the max, then disposing of them and absconding with their wealth or their organs, with none the wiser. This may sound preposterous, but from one who spent a great deal of time researching every angle of Terri's public murder, and the Florida statutes, I for one say it is not implausible, but on the other hand, probable, and imo, the grand finale in their plot against us. According to Otto Skorzeny, pictured is the Scherff family and a few friends (circa 1938). Holding “Mother" Scherff’s hand at left is Martin Bormann. In front is Reinhardt Gehlen. In back is Joseph Mengele and to his right is Skorzeny as a young man. At center right (in the German navy uniform) is George H. Scherff, Jr. and his father George H. Scherff, Sr. Bormann became Hitler’s second in command. Reinhardt Gehlen was a chief SS officer and assassin who was smuggled out of Germany under Operation Paperclip. Skorzeny was Hitler's bodyguard and SS spy/assassin who came to the U.S. after the war under Project Paperclip. Skorzeny and GHW Bush were instrumental in merging Nazi (SS) intelligence with the OSI to form the CIA with "Wild Bill" Donovan and Allen Dulles. These guys were also part of CIA mind control experiments such as MK-ULTRA. SS officer and physician Joseph Mengele, the notoriously sadistic “Angel of Death” of Auschwitz, escaped Germany to South America after the war. George H. Scherff, Jr., became the 41st President of the United States as GHW Bush and George H. Scherff, Sr., was Nicola Tesla’s “trusted assistant.”....." www.proliberty.com/observer/20070405.htm As George Bush II says "Even the unwanted have value." In one of the links above, it was stated that the Nazis started with the deformed infants, and proceeded up the line. CorpUSA has already started with their big-pharma experiments on orphans and mentally-handicapped children....and it should be remembered Hitler got his eugenicist ideas from US. ================= So what is the solution for the vet suffering from PTSD? I'd suggest we start here: Peter R. Breggin, M.D. and Psychiatric Drug Facts Peter R. Breggin MD, psychiatrist, author and medical expert provides up to date ... How to Withdraw from Psychiatric Drugs and Guidelines for Psychotherapy ... http://www.breggin.com/ =========
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