From:                                         Jim Gottstein [jim.gottstein@psychrights.org]

Sent:                                           Saturday, March 23, 2013 3:06 PM

To:                                               MMFlint@MichaelMoore.com

Cc:                                               'Jim Gottstein'

Subject:                                     #RAquestion  Investigating The Role of Psych Drugs In Mass Murders

 

Dear Mr. Moore,

 

I know this can't be long, so I won't include all the backup, but I will be available if you would like to follow up with me.

 

In Bowling for Columbine, you repeatedly ask the question of why there are so many gun deaths in the United States, but never arrived at an answer.  Since then, in Gary Null's film, "The Drugging of our Children," you have apparently become informed about psychiatric drugs causing people to commit horrific acts, such as Columbine, and said,  "there should be an investigation in terms of what prescribed pharmaceuticals these kids were on."   One of the problems is that this information has been suppressed for many of the shooters.  For example, I think it is known that Eric Harris, one of the Columbine shooters, was on psychiatric drugs, but it is unclear whether Dylan Klebold was.  The records regarding  Adam Lanza, the NewTown shooter; Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech shooter; James Holmes, the Aurora Shooter; Jared Loughner, the Tucson Shooter; and many more have been suppressed.

 

My question is are you willing to put up a fraction of yours or your company's money to sue to obtain the information on what psychiatric drugs Dylan Klebold and the perpetrators of some of these other horrific acts were prescribed?  Toxicology reports won't tell the whole story, because these drugs can have such effects long after they have been taken.  Especially with the so-called anti-depressants, the two-week or so period after any dose change is especially dangerous.  That means going up or down, starting or stopping.  See, Medication Madness by Dr. Peter Breggin for well-documented instances of psychiatric drugs causing people to commit horrific acts.

 

The United States Supreme Court has held "the courts of this country recognize a general right to inspect and copy public records and documents."  Nixon v. Warner Communications 435 U.S. 589, 597 (1978).  I have urged a number of news agencies to file lawsuits to get this sort of information to no avail.  I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that the pharmaceutical industry's massive advertising payments are preventing such inquiries.  In fact I have been told as much by reporters.

 

I wrote the President's Task Force on Gun Violence for the same sort of investigation you called for and got a form letter in response.  It is clear our mainstream media and government are bought and paid for by big business interests to the detriment of the public.  I am admirer of your incredible work in exposing this and hope you will find the merit--and necessity--of taking the step yourself of financing litigation to expose the contribution of psychiatric drugs to gun violence.

 

 

 

 

James B. (Jim) Gottstein, Esq.
President/CEO

Law Project for Psychiatric Rights
406 G Street, Suite 206
Anchorage, Alaska  99501
USA
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