------ Forwarded Message > From: Sardar <sar...@spiritone.com> > Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 19:40:17 -0700 > To: Sardar <recon1968br...@yahoo.com> > Subject: Psychology Today Hit Piece Labels Conspiracy Thinking A Psychotic > Illness > > I wonder how much this fool got paid by his Illuminati controllers? > Sardar > > Psychology Today Hit Piece Labels Conspiracy Thinking A Psychotic Illness > a.. Text size > b.. > c.. > > Paul Joseph Watson > Prison Planet.com > Wednesday, September 2, 2009 > > > > In an article entitled Dark Minds: When does incredulity become paranoia, > Psychology Today writer John Gartner attempts to make the case that the > concerns of "conspiracy theorists" are not based in reality but are a > product of mental instability, while himself fulfilling every criteria for > what he claims classifies such people as psychotics - ignoring evidence that > contradicts his preconceptions while embracing the ludicrous "conspiracy > theory" that powerful men and governments do not conspire to advance their > power. > > Probably somewhat upset about how our coverage of the dangers associated > with the swine flu vaccine has contributed to a global revolt against mass > vaccination programs being readied, Psychology Today's gravy train of big > pharma advertisers will no doubt be pleased to see the publication wastes no > time in savagely attacking radio host and film maker Alex Jones, dispensing > with any notion of fairness and zealously going after him as early as the > second paragraph. > > The nature of this vicious hit piece ( PDF link) is confirmed when Gartner > laments that Jones refused to provide him with phone numbers for friends he > grew up with, presumably frustrated that he couldn't dig up some dirt from > an old girlfriend to throw into the mix of what is nothing more than a > personal attack on Jones' character, and a complete departure from any > debate about the issues Jones covers on his radio show, which is the phony > pretext that Gartner used in order to secure the interview in the first > place. > > Gartner has trouble believing that eugenicists occupy powerful positions, > even in the aftermath of the John P. Holdren story when Obama's top science > advisor was exposed as having advocated forced abortion, sterilization and > mass drugging of the public. Despite the fact that we sent Gartner dozens of > pieces of evidence for his article, he cites a single national security > memorandum and dismisses it as "a bland policy report". > > Mr. Gartner was obviously too lazy to read the entire document and/or too > stupid to comprehend it. > > The document to which he refers is National Security Study Memorandum 200, a > 1974 geopolitical strategy document prepared by Rockefeller's intimate > friend and fellow Bilderberg member Henry Kissinger, which targeted thirteen > countries for massive population reduction by means of creating food > scarcity, sterilization and war. > > The document, declassified in 1989, identified 13 countries that were of > special interest to U.S. geopolitical objectives and outlined why population > growth, and particularly that of young people who were seen as a > revolutionary threat to U.S. corporations, was a potential roadblock to > achieving these objectives. The countries named were India, Bangladesh, > Pakistan, Nigeria, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, the Philippines, Thailand, > Egypt, Turkey, Ethiopia and Colombia. > > The study outlined how civil disturbances affecting the "smooth flow of > needed materials" would be less likely to occur "under conditions of slow or > zero population growth." > > "Development of a worldwide political and popular commitment to population > stabilization is fundamental to any effective strategy. This requires the > support and commitment of key LDC leaders. This will only take place if they > clearly see the negative impact of unrestricted population growth and > believe it is possible to deal with this question through governmental > action," states the document. > > The document called for integrating "family planning" (otherwise known as > abortion) with routine health services for the purposes of "curbing the > numbers of LDC people," (lesser-developed countries). > > The report shockingly outlines how withholding food could be used as a means > of punishment for lesser-developed countries who do not act to reduce their > population, essentially using food as a weapon for a political agenda by > creating mass starvation in under-developed countries. > > "The allocation of scarce PL480 (food) resources should take account of what > steps a country is taking in population control as well as food production," > states the document. > > Later in the document, the idea of enforcing "mandatory programs" by using > food as "an instrument of national power" is presented. > > This is the quintessential example of powerful men conspiring to use > eugenicist policies in order to advance their power. Gartner's lazy claim > that the document is just a "bland policy report" is manifestly absurd. > > > a.. A d v e r t i s e m e n t > b.. > This isn't a conspiracy theory, this isn't a "connection" that we invented > out of fresh air to make our brains release dopamine, as Gartner's bizarre > hit piece goes on to claim, it's there in black and white, but Gartner has > either failed to read the whole document or has performed his own act of > psychological gymnastics and summarily dismissed the evidence because it > does not fit with his preconceptions - the very charge he levels at > "conspiracy theorists" in his hit piece. > > Gartner says conspiracy theorists are "immune to evidence" and yet he > displays that very trait in this instance. > > It isn't long before Gartner regurgitates the tired old cliche about people > needing to create conspiracy theories and some semblance of order to make > themselves feel better in a chaotic world. He even claims that "finding > meaning in sometimes insignificant events" creates dopamine, an > overproduction of which can lead to schizophrenia. Of course, none of this > has any relation whatsoever to powerful people planning the future of the > planet that they rule (a ridiculous "conspiracy theory" in Gartner's mind), > but Gartner's objective isn't to disprove the claims of Alex Jones in a > logical manner, it's to denounce the messenger using convoluted and > ham-fisted psychological rhetoric that isn't even applicable. > > But what's good for the goose is good for the gander. The greatest purveyors > of myths and "conspiracy theories" about political events have and always > will be authorities and governments. Scientists who recently investigated > why so many people believed the falsehood that Saddam Hussein was behind > 9/11 found that Americans wanted to believe that Iraq was connected to 9/11 > because it helped them make sense of current reality. How is that any > different from the claim that conspiracy theorists invent connections to > help them better comprehend current events? > > Beyond the accusations of who invents what to justify their worldview - > conspiracists and debunkers alike - are the facts. History is littered with > political conspiracies that actually happened and were not the manifestation > of unstable minds. > > Indeed, history tells us that the bigger the lie, the bigger the conspiracy, > the more likely the masses are to believe it, and governments throughout the > ages have harnessed this trick to pursue their agendas since time began. In > such an environment, those who aggressively question the official authodoxy, > or "conspiracy theorists" as Gartner labels them, should be welcomed as a > key bulwark against the kind of tyranny and oppression that has blighted the > world at numerous intervals in the past, aided in no small part by the quack > psychologists in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany that classified > skepticism of the state as a mental illness, an implication Gartner > regurgitates in his hit piece. > > It was not deception on behalf of "conspiracy theorists" that convinced > Germans to follow Adolf Hitler, the lies that built the Nazi tyranny came > directly from the state. It was not the beliefs of "conspiracy theorists" > that hoodwinked Americans into thinking Iraq had weapons of mass > destruction, that particular "big lie" came directly from the lips of the > President of the United States. > > "We're all conspiracy theorists to some degree," writes Gartner and never > has a truer word been spoken. Gartner has to be the biggest conspiracy > theorist of all because he seems to hold the ludicrous belief that powerful > men do not get together and plan things, which in Gartner's mind is a > viewpoint indicative of a psychotic mind. > > As is always the case, the debunker, in this case Gartner, completely fails > to grasp that his stance is completely out of touch with modern day > sentiment. He poses as some kind of authority figure casting down his > disdain upon the bedraggled minority of "conspiracy theorists" below, yet he > is in the minority. It is Gartner's twilight zone world of angelic > governments who commit no sin except within the twisted minds of dangerous > psychotics, in light of admitted conspiracies that continue to be exposed on > an almost daily basis - the phony terror alerts, the cronyism of the banker > bailout, the torture scandal, that represents a genuine display of psychotic > thinking. > > Gartner is really scraping the barrel when he unearths a 7-year-old incident > about a disturbed man attempting to enter Bohemian Grove carrying guns in an > effort to portray conspiracy theorists, an in particular Alex Jones, as a > physical danger to society. > > In reality, the kind of warped thinking that Gartner embraces, that > skepticism of government is a form of mental illness, is one of the most > dangerous threats to a free society that ever existed. > > As we have seen before in history, the designation of political opinions > deemed to be antagonistic towards or even merely skeptical of the state as a > psychological illness is a hallmark of tyranny. > > In the former Soviet Union, psikhushkas - mental hospitals - were used by > the state as prisons in order to isolate political prisoners, discredit > their ideas, and break them physically and mentally. The Soviet state began > using mental hospitals to punish dissidents in 1939 under Stalin. > > According to official Soviet psychiatry and the Moscow Serbsky Institute at > the time, "ideas about a struggle for truth and justice are formed by > personalities with a paranoid structure." Treatment for this special > political schizophrenia included various forms of restraint, electric > shocks, electromagnetic torture, radiation torture, lumbar punctures, > various drugs - such as narcotics, tranquilizers, and insulin - and > beatings. Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag: A History, indicates that at > least 365 sane people were treated for "politically defined madness," > although she surmises there were many more. > > These kind of "treatments" for the "mental illness" of being a conspiracy > theorist or merely being skeptical of government were brutally enforced by > quack psychologists in both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, a fact that > Gartner, trapped in his bubble of delusion and ignorance of any evidence > that contradicts with his preconceptions, claimed to be completely unaware > of when we confronted him with it. > > Quack psychologists like Gartner who define distrust of authorities and > alternative explanations for the "official story" put out by governments who > have repeatedly proven themselves to be liars as a form of psychosis are > themselves as mentally unstable as their much vaunted peers - people like > the insane cocaine addict Sigmund Freud and the Nazi child abuser Alfred > Kinsey - and represent a far greater danger to society than the "conspiracy > theorists" that they so readily seek to denigrate. > > > a.. > b.. 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