{"id":5953,"date":"2017-12-05T17:51:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T01:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=5953"},"modified":"2017-12-05T17:57:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T01:57:50","slug":"the-dog-that-didnt-bark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=5953","title":{"rendered":"The Dog That Didn\u2019t Bark"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Has anyone else noticed an odd omission from all the recent, harrowing accounts of sexual assault and outright rape of young women in the motion picture and TV news industries by older, powerful men?<\/p>\n

All alleged assailants are owed a presumption of innocence in court, of course. But when so many scores of accounts describe curiously similar \u201cmodes of operation\u201d — and when in some cases these women now solve the mystery of their career eclipses by reporting they were traumatized for years — surely we\u2019re not forbidden to note this one, odd, missing detail — the \u201cdog that didn\u2019t bark.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wouldn\u2019t it seem to defy the odds that not a single one of these women ends her account by saying \u201cSo, since shouting \u2018No, I don\u2019t want this,\u2019 didn\u2019t work, pushing him away didn\u2019t work, trying to get out the door didn\u2019t work, finally after he pushed me down on the bed and started to rip off my clothes, I just couldn\u2019t think what else to do, so I pulled my snub-nose .38 out of my purse and fired two warning shots into the center of his chest. Do you think that was enough, officer?\u201d <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a reason for this. You don\u2019t see a pattern of this kind of depraved conduct in Alaska, Arizona, Missouri, Mississippi, New Hampshire or Vermont. Virtually all of these crimes occurred in such \u201cgun-free zones\u201d as New York, Los Angeles, London and the south of France, where these women presumably would have had no idea where to obtain a self-defense handgun, and where there\u2019s a good chance THEY would have been the ones arrested if they\u2019d availed themselves of the only method of protection which is EVER likely to work for a small woman against a larger, ruthless, powerful man.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s even stranger is that I haven\u2019t heard a single one of these women -\u2013 or any of the chorus of Johnny-come-latelies now \u201csignaling their virtue\u201d by racing to the ladies\u2019 much belated defense (generally a good thing, though men losing their jobs without due process remains worrisome) — say \u201cThat\u2019s why we need to get rid of these grossly harmful victim disarmament laws. We need to demand that our legislatures pro-actively declare it LEGAL for a woman to buy a self-defense weapon and carry it on her person at all times, without having to jump through a bunch of bureaucratic hoops.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not a one.<\/p>\n

WHY WOULD RAPISTS BE IN FAVOR OF \u2018GUN CONTROL\u2019?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In fact, can it be a coincidence that the biggest ogres in this ongoing scandal aren\u2019t merely passive, go-along type gun haters, but really arrogant, PUSHY gun-haters?<\/p>\n

At swampland.time.com, Denver Nicks reported back in January of 2014: \u201cFilm executive Harvey Weinstein said Wednesday he plans to make an anti-gun movie starring Meryl Streep that will take a direct shot at the National Rifle Association.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to take this issue head on, and they\u2019re going to wish they weren\u2019t alive after I\u2019m done with them,\u201d Weinstein said of the NRA on Howard Stern\u2019s radio show, where he was discussing a forthcoming project based on a novel about a Holocaust uprising, Mediaite reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a Holocaust story as much as it\u2019s Jews with guns. It\u2019s my whole philosophy,\u201d Weinstein said. \u201cIt\u2019s the idea that when injustice is so great you can\u2019t just march into the camps.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stern asked the big-time producer if he himself owned a gun.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never want to have a gun,\u201d Weinstein said. \u201cI don\u2019t think we need guns in this country, and I hate it, and I think the NRA is a disaster area.\u201d<\/p>\n

The millionaire movie producer said the film he was planning would be \u201ca big movie, like \u2018Mr. Smith goes to Washington,\u2019\u201d that will hurt the stock price of gun manufacturers. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be like crash and burn,\u201d for those businesses, he said.<\/p>\n

So . . . the Holocaust was facilitated by the fact European Jews and other minorities were disarmed by law, while the Gestapo and the SS remained armed? Correct. Jews who got hold of guns and — against all odds — rose up against their Nazis oppressors were heroes who deserve to have films made about their valor? Correct. Up to this point, Mr. Weinstein sounds like a good spokesman for Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.<\/p>\n

But then he asserts the NRA is evil and American gun manufacturers deserve to see their businesses lose value or fail because they . . . make available the firearms that allow everyday Americans to arm themselves, thus preventing similar Holocausts on these shores?<\/p>\n

That last part, the \u201cFar-Left turn,\u201d doesn\u2019t make a lick of sense. Unless, of course, when Mr. Weinstein said people \u201cdon\u2019t need guns in this country,\u201d he had in mind primarily people like Rose McGowan, Annabella Sciorra, Asia Argento, Lucia Evans, Mimi Haleyi, Dominique Huett, Rosanna Arquette, Lauren Sivan, Jessica Barth, Emma de Caunes, Cara Delevigne, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Daryl Hannah, Zoe Brock, Ambra Battilana Guttierez, (who wore a wire and got Mr. Weinstein to discuss how he\u2019d groped her breast the day before — but still couldn\u2019t get the Manhattan D.A. to do anything) . . . the list of women who have accused Weinstein of rape, attempted rape, and other forms of sexual pressure and assault is literally longer than we have room for.<\/p>\n

As John Nolte noted at Breitbart.com on Nov. 7:<\/p>\n

\u201cNo Coincidence Pro-Rape Hollywood and Media are Anti-Gun:<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to the latest numbers, there are 67 men in Hollywood who stand accused of abusing women and children. A few of those men are even accused of abusing other men. Moreover, the Hollywood Reporter reveals that \u2018these stories are just the tip of the iceberg. . . .\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it any wonder, then, that Hollywood, a town ruled by left-wing men, an institution dedicated to sexual abuse and shielding those abusers, is anti-gun, would prefer their pool of victims defenseless?\u201d
\nAnd it\u2019s not just Hollywood. Nolte notes. There\u2019s also our national electronic media.<\/p>\n

\u201cHigh-powered men (who) work(ed) for NBC News, ABC News, NPR, Vox, the New Republic, the New York Times. Mother Jones . . . all accused of various forms of misconduct towards women.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf these allegations are true, is it any wonder the powerful men who guide these media outlets, who shape conventional wisdom within the media, would prefer an unarmed populace, would feel better knowing a woman cannot suddenly equalize a situation with a firearm?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nolte cites the case of the slick and simpering gun-grabber Mark Halperin, attempting to humiliate one of his alleged victims, Emily Miller (the courageous, persistent author of the 2013 book \u201cEmily Gets Her Gun . . . But Obama Wants to Take Yours\u201d) during a \u201cMorning Joe\u201d broadcast, smirking and trying (unsuccessfully) to throw Ms. Miller off balance by pretending to be in favor of \u201cdefending his family\u201d with a machine gun — baiting the young author by asking if she’d be in favor of that.<\/p>\n

(Miller started to respond that — if he really meant it — he could contact the ATF and apply for a machine gun permit . . . but was cut off by all the leftists on the show breaking into laughter. Needing a firearm to defend yourself or your family from murderers and rapists is really funny, you see — until the day comes when you wish you had a firearm to defend yourself or your family from murderers and rapists, of course.)<\/p>\n

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Halperin, Nolte notes, \u201cstands accused of masturbating in front of women, rubbing his clothed erection up against women, throwing women up against walls. . . . If guilty, should we be surprised that such a man would be so hostile towards a female Second Amendment advocate, an apostle for the idea of women arming themselves? . . .<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are countless reasons our Morning Joe elites so desire a helpless population, and not a single one of those reasons has to do with stopping mass shooters,\u201d Nolte continues. \u201cDespite all these terrible events, not a single elite calling for more gun control can come up with a law that would have stopped even one of these massacres. . . .<\/p>\n

\u201cOur elites are not in favor of gun control to stop mass-shootings, rather, they are in favor of using mass-shootings to push the gun control that will result in a more vulnerable populace that is easier to control and victimize.\u201d<\/p>\n

WHAT LINKS ALL THE \u2018MASS SHOOTING\u2019 LOONIES?<\/strong><\/p>\n

And speaking of mass shootings, they\u2019ve multiplied from unheard-of events to familiar tragedies over the past 30 years \u2013 since about 1985.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s changed over those 30 years? Do Americans now have more ready access to firearms? Of course not. In fact, before 1968 you could buy guns THROUGH THE MAIL.<\/p>\n

No. Something else happened in 1985.<\/p>\n

In 1985, Hoffmann-La Roche’s patent on the widely used tranquilizer Valium expired, clearing the way for other pharmaceutical companies to begin manufacturing the drug on a generic basis \u2013 and selling them for small change. Since then, the routine prescribing of these \u201cMothers\u2019 Little Helpers\u201d -\u2013 especially the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) -\u2013 has skyrocketed.<\/p>\n

Chart the rise in mass shootings since 1985 against the increase in the number of prescriptions being written for SSRIs and other \u201cmood-altering\u201d psychiatric drugs. The two lines track really well.<\/p>\n

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Stephen Paddock, the man behind the recent Las Vegas mass shooting?<\/p>\n

A court deposition in a civil suit filed by murderer-to-be Paddock over a slip-and-fall incident at the Cosmopolitan Hotel finds him explaining that he often gambled all night, sleeping during the day. He testified he had no mental health issues. Yet he said Nevada internist Steven Winkler prescribed him Valium \u201cfor anxiousness.\u201d Asked if he had a good relationship with Dr. Winkler, Paddock bragged that he had him on retainer.<\/p>\n

While the toxicology report has not been released and it\u2019s not known when he last took the drug, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Paddock was issued another prescription for 50, 10-milligram diazepam (generic Valium) tablets on June 21, according to Nevada\u2019s prescription drug monitoring database. He filled the prescription the same day it was prescribed.<\/p>\n

Diazepam can cause aggressiveness, rage and irritability. Experts told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that people who have underlying aggression problems can become even more aggressive when you try to sedate them with the drug, and its effects can also be magnified by alcohol.<\/p>\n

A Finnish study published in World Psychiatry in 2015 examined people convicted of homicide and found their odds of killing were a remarkable 45 percent higher while they were on benzodiazepines.<\/p>\n

While the vast majority of people taking these drugs of course do no harm, and there\u2019s no proof their use directly CAUSES mass murders all by itself, use of psychiatric drugs is nonetheless common among mass murderers. Eric Harris of the high-profile Columbine school shooting tried to join the Marines, but was turned down because he was on prescription Zoloft and Luvox. He and fellow killer Dylan Klebold -\u2013 whose medical records have never been made public — between them killed 12 students and a teacher, and wounded 23 others, before killing themselves.<\/p>\n

Sixteen-year-old Jeff Weise was taking a high dose of Prozac in 2005 when he shot family members and students at his school in Red Lake, Minnesota, before turning the gun on himself. He killed 10, wounded 12.<\/p>\n

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Recent Sutherland Springs, Texas, church murderer Devin Kelley? A former high school classmate told Fox News that Kelley had a history of mental illness, and had been on psychiatric meds.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis parents had him on high doses of \u2018psych\u2019 meds from 6th to 9th grade, the time I knew him,\u201d said the student, who wished to be identified only as Reid. Kelley\u2019s use of prescription \u201cmood elevators\u201d since then? Not yet known.<\/p>\n

\u2018LA LA LA LA LA, I CAN\u2019T HEEEEAR YOU\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Web site of the Florida Citizens Commission on Human Rights notes:<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore the late nineteen eighties, mass shootings and acts of senseless violence were relatively unheard of. Prozac, the most well known SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) antidepressant, was not yet on the market. When Prozac did arrive, it was marketed as a panacea for depression which resulted in huge profits for its manufacturer, Eli Lilly. Of course other drug companies had to create their own cash cow and followed suit by marketing their own SSRI antidepressants.<\/p>\n

\u201cSubsequently, mass shootings and other violent incidents started to be reported. More often than not, the common denominator was that the shooters were on an antidepressant, or withdrawing from one. . . . <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Virginia Tech shooter killed 32 people and he was on an antidepressant. While withdrawing from Prozac, Kip Kinkel murdered his mother and stepmother. He then shot 22 classmates and killed two. . . . In a study of thirty-one drugs that are disproportionately linked to reports of violence toward others, five of the top ten are antidepressants,\u201d the Florida based Web site continues. \u201cThese are Prozac, Paxil, Luvox, Effexor and Pristiq. Two other drugs that are for treating ADHD are also in the top ten. . . .\u201d <\/p>\n

At www.ammoland.com, Dan Roberts reported back in 2013:<\/p>\n

\u201cNearly every mass shooting incident in the last twenty years — and multiple other instances of suicide and isolated shootings — all share one thing in common, and it\u2019s not the weapons used.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe overwhelming evidence points to the single largest common factor in all of these incidents being the fact that all of the perpetrators were either actively taking powerful psychotropic drugs or had been at some point in the immediate past before they committed their crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

There simply isn\u2019t room here to repeat all the links Roberts details between psychiatric drugs and teen shooters But because it didn\u2019t involve guns, how many people have heard about (just as one example) Jeff Franklin (on Prozac and Ritalin), of Huntsville, Alabama, who killed his parents as they came home from work, using a sledge hammer, hatchet, butcher knife and mechanic’s file, then attacked his younger brothers and sister?<\/p>\n

Was that was caused by \u201cthe more common availability of sledge hammers and hatchets\u201d since 1985 — best solved by more congressional hammer and hatchet control?<\/p>\n

What about Steven Kazmierczak, 27, who shot and killed five people and wounded 21 others before killing himself in a Northern Illinois University auditorium in February of 2008? According to his girlfriend, he had recently been taking Prozac, Xanax and Ambien. Toxicology results showed he still had trace amounts of Xanax in his system.<\/p>\n

Kazmierczak didn\u2019t use a so-called \u201cassault rifle.\u201d He used a shotgun and a couple of pistols. A problem best solved by more federal \u201cshotgun control\u201d?<\/p>\n

Wouldn\u2019t it be ironic if Congress — whose members have shrieked for more \u201cgun control\u201d after almost every one of these violent incidents — has had the real culprit right under their noses the whole time, and merely refused to look?<\/p>\n

That couldn\u2019t be because of the substantial \u201ccampaign contributions\u201d they receive from pharmaceutical manufacturers . . . could it?<\/p>\n

Vin Suprynowicz was for 20 years an editorial writer and columnist at the daily Las Vegas Review-Journal. He blogs at www.vinsuprynowicz.com .<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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