What in the World has Happened to the American People?By Janet Phelan 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? 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 governments 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. Heres 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. 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 isnt telling them. The awry factor is increasingly evident in the USs 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. 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. 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. Whats 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. One can hope. Youve struck on the great truth that is overlooked many times purposely. 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 Randalls comment below that we are savage and only live and die as animals fighting for diminished resources. 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, Evolution. This is one of the best, and most honest articles assessing our current position, that I have read in a long time. 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. 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. Its 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 gunsCountries 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 wasnt 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 dont want to participate will be relegated to the Vultures 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 theres also the mainstream media which has promoted the consumer culture, the public school system thats 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. 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. You can sum up that question in one word ***** OBOOOOMA ****** the magnificent FARCE and MUSLIM in CHIEF . //////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 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 its 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 dont like what YOU have dished out. Oh its 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. etcad infinitum. YOUR banking system has spread its cancer to every corner of the Earth. YOUR banking system has spread its 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 dont 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 usso thanks for that. Reply censored. I did try to reply, but your mediator is a shill. My comments are not here. 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. 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, communistslets 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 wouldnt 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 dont 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 selfnews Postadmit it:) You lean a bit left:) I will leave you with this last piece of adviceit is okay to yell FIRE! in a theatre that is one fire. And, when you cant see the screen due to the smokestop telling people to sit down and shut upyou 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 its 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 its 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. Ive 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 tvs weve all bought into the internet of hings. but Im sure that at least 10% of the population have their eyes and ears open. I like to say we may be down but we are not out. and did anyone here Barry the fairy say blahblahblahwill keep us safeblahblahblah by us he meant him and the shadow scum that pull his strings. the 2 biggest LIES Americans believe If its true it would be on TV Cognitive dissonance is rampantwhen 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 dont 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 didnt buy it then and Im not buying it now. Luke 21: Luke 21:33 John 14:26 