Anti-Government = Mental Illness According To Study
Friday, February 10, 2012 13:46
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A disturbing piece was published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. In it is a study that claims people who are anti-government or believe in conspiracies around the government are suffering from a condition called Anti-Government Phobia (AGP). Meaning that anyone who has a distaste for the government, the way it operates, its polices and believes there is a particular force behind it, must be mentally ill. The implications here are frightening, if you feel the government is doing something that will harm you and that it is a part of a bigger plan, you are sick. Thus the government can respond as though you are a a threat.
This is what the study actually claims:
“This study conclusively demonstrates that unfounded fear of government is a recognizable mental illness, closely related to paranoid schizophrenia. Anti-Government Phobia (AGP) differs from most mental illnesses, however, in that it is highly infectious and has an acute onset. Symptoms include extreme suspiciousness, conspiracy-mongering, delusional thought patterns, staunch “us against them” mentality, withdrawal from reality, and often religious fanaticism.”
The problem here is how do you define “unfounded fear”? What constitutes something as being “unfounded”? Is the belief that the government is doing things we don’t know about “unfounded”? Or seeing that it puts forward policies that reduce health care and education “unfounded”? Or is thinking the government lies in order to justify war “unfounded”? What is unfounded , is whatever the government says is. Its one of those vague definitions that can be used to cover anything, like the definition of terrorist right now. The blanketing statement is the ‘”us against them” mentality’, as it is the cornerstone of every conflict. This can be interpreted in almost an infinite number of ways. This will cover any criticism you have of the government.
The study also gave a suggestion on how to deal with someone who is considered to have Anti-Government Phobia:
“Having the patient committed to a qualified mental health institution is the best option for family and loved ones. For this reason, all psychiatrists and family physicians should be provided with educational materials which will help them recognize the various symptoms and warning signs accompanying onset.”
In other words, the plan is to have you quarantined from the rest of the public and have you discredited by having been held in a psychiatric hospital. The stigma that is placed against mental illness is sufficient to discredit anyone who shows any discontent with the government. Its an extremely effective manner in which to silence dissent from anything the government says is the official truth, or official line. Because as I said before, what is defined as truth is defined by the government. In addition, by having you committed by your family, even your family will have turned on you, leading to a greater level of being discredited. People can say, “Oh look, even his family thinks he’s crazy”.
The study is aware of the growing discontent people have towards the government.
“Anti-Government Phobia has a worldwide distribution, but has a particularly high incidence in the United States. Infection rates are estimated by mental health officials to be about 5% of the general population, and this rate is growing at an alarming rate. Rates are highest, but not limited to, those who are disaffected in some fashion, especially those who have a strong personal grudge against the federal government for one reason or another.”
It should not be unexpected that people are growing more disaffected with the government. Particularly if they didn’t vote for the persons or polices in power. To imply in this way, that anyone who disagrees is a problem, implies that you are not allowed to. This statement alone is a support of fascism. If people are unhappy with the policies being put forth by the government, they not only have a right, but a duty to say something about it. There is wide spread disaffection with the government right now. From all sides of the political spectrum. Whether you are a believe in the New World Order, a socialist, a Ron Paul follower or a religious Oathkeeper type, you know the government is not being honest to you. That is not some kind of bias, we all see something is wrong. We all have different interpretations of what the problem is, but we all acknowledge there is one. The harder the government pushes against the will of the people the more disaffected people are going to become.
The study even hints at a suggestion of shutting down any media that promotes dissension from the government. It promotes it as being a source of the mental illness, it spreads the “disease”, it claims.
“Common ways in which this harmful, anti-government propaganda is spread include: books, pamphlets, magazines, newspapers, audiotapes, videotapes, short-wave and conventional radio programs, computer bulletin boards, and various Internet sites…”
“… Upon exposure to “patriotic” propaganda, the patient mysteriously begins to imagine hidden links between unrelated current events, weaving these gross distortions of reality into a complex delusional web; a labyrinth of conspiracy theories with all imagined clues leading straight to the federal government. …”
“This mysterious malady progresses until the patient invariably assumes a staunch ‘us against them’ mentality.”
“Fortunately, Anti-Government Phobia is non-genetic and thus wholly preventable. From an individual standpoint, the most effective prevention policy is obviously not to allow oneself to become indoctrinated by a self-styled “patriot,” preferably by staying as far as possible away from any potentially divisive propaganda. As an added precaution, one should rely exclusively on well-known and reputable sources for news and other information.”
http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/info_schedule_battle/Anti_Government_Phobia.html
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The original study is a fake.. it does not exist in the Journal of Clinical Psychology, its not on Pubmed, Elservier or any other academic, scientific or medical search engines. The author has never published in the journal.
The article follows the structure of scientific paper but there glaring mistakes that would never have got passed the peer review process… you’ve been had.
Dont believe me… go search it out… I did. Use the above sites to help you
just goes to show the brainwashed mentality of the people we are meant to accept as authority’!! Anti-Govt is not what people are. It is anti-BAD-govt that people are. Why should we be terrorists for not conforming to the terrorists agenda? It defies logic and reason…
Government is ok or fine, until it itself starts stealing from WE THE PEOPLE, until it starts lying to cover up their stealing and sordid affairs. I don’t TRUST DISHONEST PEOPLE, WHY should I be forced to TRUST A LYING DECEITFUL THIEVERY GOVERNMENT?? THE WHITE HATS REPORT tdarkcabal.blogspot.com You’ve been caught-blame yourselves!
ivor e tower ? hehe, pretty funny…
heard any good knock knock jokes lately? hehe,, knock knock.. who’s there? ivor e….. come on, wake up, people..
All people reading this site should go and give themselves up,if they belive anything published is true. Well what are you waiting for,go get your coats.(grin)
you may also want to read “monuments of the illuminati” by ivor e.’s grandfather, eiffel.
So those in Nazi concentration camps who rather resented the regime that put them there were not only Jewish, but mentally ill? This must be why in all those old film clips they look so thin and miserable.
What this preposterous nonsense is saying is don’t think about things outside of your own immediate business, or you might get unhappy. For some reason that I’m sure is lost on all sane and well-adjusted citizens, some people have the morbid habit of wondering if the world is set up to the general benefit of its inhabitants. What a silly thing to be thinking. How mad can you be?
can anyone else hear the laughter echoing throughout the ivory towers? what fools these MORTals be…
more to read.. “a slant on truth” by ivor e.’s son, lee ning tower
yes i will continue to mock this hoax of a story until it is pulled.. makes one wonder about those who print such things…
From a scientific point the study may be fake, but how about
facing reality? We have protected the civilian population in
Lybia and have protected more than 10 000 of them into their
graves! And we have destroyed the WMD`s of Saddam Hussein, killed a million people in the process and displaced four million. We are killing women and children in Afghanistan in
order to democratise them (into their graves). We even blow up nuclear power stations to force people to stay “democratic”.Well, if I would be a member of those murderous syndicates I would think to myself: maybe it will not take a long time before a lot of people will ask a lot of questions. So it is just as well that we prepare the grounds,
with a touch of science journal on it, so that we can put all
these people in the loonie bin instead of being forced to answer their questions!
This article that is referenced here [no author] has about as much credence as the two “pixilated” spinsters in that old Gary Cooper movie, “Mr. Deeds Comes To Town.” “I’m not pixilated, everyone else is”. I like a good laugh every now and then.
What’s shocking is that 20% who have read this considers it “fact”. WOW
geez… again… the “author” is IVOR E. TOWER MD. grandson of eiffel tower and father to lee ning tower. other illustrious members of the tower family were the twins, but they fell down.
lol I’ve heard of the “author” IVOR E. TOWER MD; They’re collegiate staples/reading material. Several former friends of mine spoke highly of that author. Didn’t go to college, myself….. You sure IVOR E. TOWER wrote this article? I know that IMA I.D.IOT also writes along the same subject line.
hehe, yes well.. seriously though, such an obvious spoof should be readily dismissed as such, especially by the contributor who posted it on tetrahedron originally, as well as here. aside from the fake name, the paper itself reads like an article from the onion.. anyway, i’ll stop the mockery now if people will be a little more discerning and debunk dejunk. ivor e tower.. hehe, i still find that funny…
This is a HOAX. The author of the supposed study is “Ivor E. Tower, MD” and the ref to the journal is fake (volume ~62 years off) according to http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2844948/posts
Uh oh… all you peeps the proving the study right. Lots of paranoid delusions here.
Oh my God! They’re coming for me! I got my food supply and gun. Living in a permanent state of fear and tension.
Ahhhh… now this is the life. Kickin baby! Kickin it! Lovin life as a ball of stress.
Oh oh, I already lost. I gave up my peace of mind.
Oops.
Ivor E. Tower
No wonder Mort edited out the name of the “author.”
You’re a dumbass, Mort.
This story is fear mongers . If you want a real story about reality go read up on the HARRP war taking place over the Atlantic ocean .
TEAM 7 ROCKS !
wtf.. 30%fact now? hah, and rudrdude was shocked at 20… help me out here, are people incapable of comprehending what they’re reading? come on now.. “AGP differs from most mental illnesses, however, in that it is highly infectious and has an acute onset.” hah! and all this time i thought it was mere paranoid schizophrenia driving me insane but no.. its the 30%ers…
20000 thousand drones to patrol the US skies? “This study conclusively demonstrates that unfounded fear that government has of its own people is a recognizable mental illness, closely related to paranoid schizophrenia.”
On the other hand, just because they are paranoid, does not mean they don’t have real enemies, and rightly so.
I’m sure this study is fake, but it’s fun. And the official diagnostic medical books do in fact cite “ODD” as a new illness; ie “oppositional defiant disorder”; so the story is in fact very much built on, even if it is not actually a mirror of, reality. That is why a lot of people will swallow the ideas herein. Don’t forget that committing people to psychiatric facilities is a well-known strategy in fascist states, eg Soviet Russia, and the New Soviet USA. The so-called Bill Wood spent six months in one of these places as a punishment for confronting the state.
But you notice that the people commenting here are as much for the article as against it; if this piece were being run in a mainstream publication, everybody would be focused on only one viewpoint, so maybe BIN isn’t so crazy and conspiratorial as the rest of our fellow-Americans would like to pretend. Not that I am an American, of course, but you get my drift.
I would not put anything past the thugs controlling America, and those who control them. They are evil criminals, and they do not like the thought that the people are waking up to their no good rotten deeds and treason.
Hymen Rickover,U.S. Navy rear admiral and father of the first nuclear submarine “Nautilus” a polaris class submarine of his design, was put in an insane assylum in the state of Virginia by the then secretary of the Navy Lehman for bringing evidence against electric boat for building submarine with faulty materials intentionally (cheap replacements for the contract specified materials) to steal from the Government. The Navy then had to arrange for the Rear Admiral to be brought out of the state asylum and be examined by 5 Navy psychiatrists. They found him to be perfectly sane ,filed an injunction against the states committal order and had him permanently released back into the public which the 5 state doctors claimed he was a menace to. A hero in his own right because of his contributions to the National security of the U.S. did not preclude him for being victimized by a politically based medical board. So the scare tactic of calling you crazy when your in disagreement with a politician is nothing new and they have enough corrupt doctors to help them kill you off, literally and figuarativly . Yankee phil
During the days of the slave trade any slave who “conspired to escape” or actually did escape was classed having the made up illness “Drapetomania” and that was the “official sickness” that apparently “makes you want to escape captivity” I wonder if they will invoke that one for people who dont want to be part of the unlawful killing machine that is now the US Police States.
please read and apprehend: A Slant On Truth by Ivor E. Tower’s illustrious son, Lee Ning Tower.
” truing one’s world through operant conditioning.”
As it used to be said when students put flowers down soldiers’ gun barrels: “Do not adjust your mind; there is a fault in reality.
In point of fact, before the collpse of the USSR, it was ,indeed, the official, medical line that anyone who disagreed with the state in all its apspects and purposes was mentally ill. They were then disappeared to a “Hospital,” In spite of all the help, some of them never got better.
Work to re-establish psychiatry on saner lines is still going on in Russia.
“The Truth is the enemy of the State”
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” — Joseph Goebbels
This must mean therefore that people who tell The Truth are mentally ill – sounds like the Devil’s handiwork to me.
This is a PsyOp that first surfaced in 2005. Now it’s being rolled out again and site after site has been picking it up and printing it. Disturbing? In too many ways.
btw, the fact that this roll out coincides with a recent report from Infowars concerning the APA is pretty damn spooky.
It’s not government, per se, I have a problem. It is the corruption, lies, viewing American citizens as ‘the enemy’, over reaching and unconstitutional government action, illegal wars, malfeasance, the elitist mentality of mocking those they seem to believe they control, racial and gender hypocrisy in government. Other than that, government is fine.
this study conclusively demonstrates that 31% of the readers here are dumber than rocks.
“If you think freely then you must be Al Qaeda”
Chris Geo
(check out his music if you are diagnosed with this AGP they speak of in the article. Sounds serious, could be contagious)
Funny how I could actually see this happening, and also it being accepted by the sheeple out there. Even though this article is as creditable as buying U.S. treasury bonds as an investment strategy.
May god bless the biteing sheep. Also know as you AGP psychos!
Truth? truth is irrelevant, exiled to a state of nonexistence. to outwardly seek truth is futile, it is the idea that one must apprehend.
..and Freedom? A concept as elusive as Truth. Apprehension of one ensures that of the other, yet it is the idea that manifests both.
The Idea: Mind is a conception of the Idea. The Idea is not conceived by Mind. This must be comprehended: The Idea must be apprehended.
The Idea must be apprehended: The Idea must be apprehended.
What was, is, and will be: The Idea.
The Idea: what will be, was, and is.
I am concerned that nearly 1 in 4 of folks reading this cannot recognize obvious satire. Thus, in an odd recursive sort of way, it may be in part true!
Yes.
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This is utter bilge. Fake report on fake research.
I’m not anti-government. I’m just anti-corruption. It just so happens that the government currently has a monopoly on it these days.
it is a fascinating read.. deliberately sophomoric and insulting, it is insidiously brilliant in deception. replete with falsehood, illusion and contradiction, blatantly satiric and obfuscating, it nevertheless accurately mirrors the reality we now live in. it serves as both a gauge of the human condition, and a tool for psychological conditioning. this is a psy-op of a very high order. absolutely haunting.
Spooky for sure. And where did this “study” originate? cleverly hidden within the acknowledgements, a particular name serves as a clue to the source…..
Good thing that Hitler and Stalin rounded up and killed all those sick anti-government people, else those countries would have been overrun with the mentally ill.
Since I don’t want to be considered mentally ill myself, I will not suggest that the federal government might be moving in the direction of carrying out the same sort of purge to rid the US of the mentally ill too.
“Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.” Go ahead, drink your diet coke, breath your chemtrailed air, inject yourself with heavy metal adjuvants, bathe your body in fluoride… maintain faith in corporate media and radiate yourself as often as possible… eat GMO 3 times a day and keep telling yourself that despite all you do day after day after day, you are sane.
heheh.. “Clinical Analysis…” – that alone is really funny but the “study” in its entirety is loaded with gems…
“In an ironic twist of fate, when “patriots” expose others to their divisive anti-government propaganda, through their misguided efforts to restore “individual liberty”, they are actually infecting them with an extremely contagious mental illness.”
I rest my case.
Well, this makes people such as Alex Jones the modern day Typhoid Mary.
..bazinga..