http://www.infowars.com/confirmed-navy-yard-shooter-was-on-anti-depressant-trazodone/
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/09/18/report-superiors-told-capitol-police-swat-team-to-stand-down-during-navy-yard-massacre/
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Confirmed: Navy Yard Shooter Was On Anti-Depressant Trazodone
Drug linked to previous mass shooting despite Washington Post declaring it “safe”
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
September 19, 2013
Infowars.com
September 19, 2013
It has been confirmed that Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis was on the anti-depressant drug Trazodone, providing yet another example of a connection between psychiatric drugs and mass shootings.
Trazodone. Image: Wikimedia Commons
In verifying that Alexis was prescribed Trazodone by the Veterans Affairs Office, the Washington Post published a brief article downplaying the danger of the drug, quoting Miami physician Gabriela Cora who stated (almost too eagerly), “Honestly, it’s a very safe drug to use.”
However, the drug has been linked to a number of murders, including one mass shooting.
Trazodone is sold under the brand names Desyrel, Oleptro, Beneficat, Deprax, Desirel, Molipaxin, Thombran, Trazorel, Trialodine, Trittico, and Mesyrel. Although not strictly a member of the SSRI class of antidepressants, it shares many of the same properties and also serves to increase the amount of serotonin in the brain.
Despite the Washington Post’s attempts to portray the drug as being safe, it is linked with a whole host of side-effects including suicidal tendencies, panic attacks, depersonalization and anger. Symptoms of Trazodone withdrawal include aggression and violent behavior.
The drug also carries an, “FDA black box warning for suicide, and is documented to cause mania and violent behavior,” writes Kelly Patricia O’Meara.
Several murder cases over the past few years have been directly connected to Trazodone.
- Eight people were killed and one wounded during a mass shooting at a beauty parlor in Seal Beach, California in 2011. The killer, Scott Evan Dekraai, was on Desyrel, a commercial variant of Trazodone.
- In 2009, Perley Goodrich Jr. beat his mother and then shot his father dead shortly after being injected with Trazodone in a psychiatric hospital. Goodrich had complained that he didn’t want to take the medication because it made him feel violent.
- In 2009, Steven Foster shot a gas station attendant in the head before shooting him a second time. Bottles of Trazodone pills were later found in Foster’s room.
- Marine Lance Cpl. Delano Holmes fatally stabbed an Iraqi soldier to death in 2007 after military doctors prescribed him Trazodone.
- Indiana soldier Pfc. David Lawrence was taking Trazodone in combination with Zoloft when he killed a Taliban commander in a prison cell in 2010. Lawrence was charged with premeditated murder. According to the FDA, taking these drugs in combination can cause “altered consciousness, confusion, hallucinations and coma.”
This is interesting given that Aaron Alexis had also suffered from PTSD, blackouts and anger issues years before he began receiving treatment from the VA. Was he on more than just one anti-depressant drug at the time of the rampage?
As we highlighted yesterday, the establishment media has been loathe to make the connection between Alexis’ rampage and anti-depressants, despite hundreds of other cases of suicides, murders and mass shootings linked to psychiatric drugs.
Presumably keen to protect around $2.4 billion in advertising revenue that comes from pharmaceutical companies every year, the media failed to even address the question of psychiatric drugs and instead blamed the rampage on the AR-15 assault rifle, which authorities confirm Alexis did not even use.
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/09/18/report-superiors-told-capitol-police-swat-team-to-stand-down-during-navy-yard-massacre/
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Report: Superiors told Capitol Police SWAT team to stand down during Navy Yard massacre?
POSTED AT 6:01 PM ON SEPTEMBER 18, 2013 BY ALLAHPUNDIT
I thought the biggest scandal to come from the shooting today would be the fact that the Pentagon didn’t run a full background check on this guy when he was re-hired as a contractor in July. All they did, which is apparently standard practice, was check to make sure his security clearance from 2007 was still intact. No interviews with family members, co-workers, or employers; if there had been, maybe someone would have tipped them to the fact of his mental problems.
But no, that’s not the biggest scandal if this BBC report is right. This … can’t possibly be true, can it?
Multiple sources in the Capitol Police department have told the BBC that its highly trained and heavily armed four-man Containment and Emergency Response Team (Cert) was near the Navy Yard when the initial report of an active shooter came in about 8:20 local time.The officers, wearing full tactical gear and armed with HK-416 assault weapons, arrived outside Building 197 a few minutes later, an official with knowledge of the incident told the BBC.According to a Capitol Police source, an officer with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), Washington DC’s main municipal force, told the Capitol Cert officers they were the only police on the site equipped with long guns and requested their help stopping the gunman.When the Capitol Police team radioed their superiors, they were told by a watch commander to leave the scene, the BBC was told.
Alexis wasn’t finally taken down until shortly after 9 a.m., more than 40 minutes later. “Odds are it might have had a different outcome,” said the head of the Capitol Police officers’ union, noting that the “Cert” team guys are expert marksmen and trained for live-shooter situations. The Metropolitan PD says none of this is true, but the BBC claims to have multiple sources within Capitol PD corroborating it. I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t be allowed to go in and liquidate Alexis, unless it’s some sort of moronic jurisdictional issue in which the Capitol PD is expected to stick to the grounds of the Capitol itself. (The Senate’s sergeant-at-arms denied that when the BBC asked her.) To paraphrase the old gun-rights saying: When seconds count, the police are … seconds away, actually, but forced to stand by while a maniac picks unarmed people off with a shotgun. There’s another argument for concealed carry.
The 24-hour rule is in effect, but the Beeb must be confident if it was willing to drop a bombshell with this kind of payload.
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U.S. Navy was warned that Washington shooter 'heard voices'
WASHINGTON/BOSTON |
(Reuters) - Rhode Island police warned the U.S. Navy last month that Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis had reported "hearing voices," raising further questions about how he gained security clearance at the complex where he went on a shooting rampage.
Officials say Alexis, a Navy contractor and former Navy reservist, opened fire at the Naval Sea Systems Command on Monday, killing 12 people before police shot him dead.
The shooting - a mile and a half from the U.S. Capitol and three miles from the White House - sent shockwaves through Washington.
The Pentagon said it would review security at military installations around the world and the White House promised to review standards for federal government contractors.
A Defense Department Inspector General's report published on Tuesday revealed security lapses that allowed 52 convicted felons to gain access to Navy facilities because budget cuts had undermined vetting.
Meanwhile, the U.S. capital paused to remember the victims, aged 46 to 73, who included retirees, parents and a bird lover.
Police in Newport, Rhode Island, were so concerned about Alexis' behavior on a business trip there in August that they alerted Navy police.
Alexis told police he believed people were following him and "sending vibrations into his body," according to a Newport police report.
He told police that he had twice moved hotels to avoid the noise he heard coming through the floor and the ceiling of his rooms, and that the people following him were using "some sort of microwave machine" to prevent him from sleeping.
"Based on the naval base implications and the claim that the involved subject, one (Aaron Alexis) was 'hearing voices,' I made contact with the on-duty Naval Station police," a Newport police officer wrote, adding that he faxed his report of the incident to Navy police.
The Newport police report said Navy police had promised to check if Alexis was in fact a naval base contractor.
Asked for comment, a spokesman said the Navy was looking into the matter, without confirming any details.
In addition, CNN reported that Alexis had contacted two Veterans Administration hospitals recently and was believed to be seeking psychological help.
"Initial reports indicate that this is an individual who may have had some mental health problems," U.S. President Barack Obama told Spanish-language network Telemundo.
"The fact that we do not have a firm enough background check system is something that makes us more vulnerable to these kinds of mass shootings." [ID:nL2N0HD27Y]
The Navy gave Alexis an honorable discharge despite a series of eight to 10 misconduct charges, ranging from traffic offenses to disorderly conduct.
SECURITY CLEARANCE
Using a valid pass as an information technology contractor with a private company, Alexis entered the Naval Sea Systems Command headquarters with a shotgun - bought legally in Virginia - and gained access to a handgun after he started firing, officials said.
He started picking off victims in a cafeteria from a fourth-floor atrium, witnesses said. Eight people were hurt, three with gunshot wounds, before Alexis was killed in a gun battle with police.
A U.S. defense official said a National Agency Check, a type of background check, was completed on Alexis in August 2007 and he was determined eligible to handle "secret" material in March 2008. Such clearances are valid for 10 years, meaning Alexis had no need to renew his.
Alexis' employer said it had enlisted a service to make what appeared to be two standard, employment background checks on him over the past year, finding only a traffic violation while twice confirming his "secret"-level security clearance with the U.S. Defense Department.
"The latest background check and security clearance confirmation were in late June of 2013 and revealed no issues other than one minor traffic violation," The Experts, an information technology company, said in a statement.
Alexis was arrested on September 4, 2010, in Fort Worth, Texas, on a misdemeanor charge of discharging a firearm. He was also arrested in Seattle in 2004 for shooting out a constructionworker's car tires in an anger-fueled "blackout" triggered by perceived "disrespect," police said. In 2008, he was cited for disorderly conduct in DeKalb County, Georgia, when he was kicked out of a club for damaging furnishings and cursing.
In each case, the charges were dropped.
People who knew Alexis said they were shocked by the shooting, describing him as a lover of Thai culture who worshipped at a Buddhist temple in Texas, although one acquaintance told reporters he had an unnatural affection for violent video games.
The Navy Yard was closed to all but essential personnel on Tuesday. Military police were stationed at the four entrances, checking the identifications of the employees who were being allowed back in. Other personnel milled around outside, hoping to retrieve cars that remained locked inside the gates.
"I've never ever felt unsafe at this place," said David Berlin, a civilian who works at the Navy Yard as an assistant program manager building weapons systems. "If someone wants to skirt the rules, they can do that, but you trust your colleagues."
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Navy Yard Shooter Security Clearance Oversight Not Credible
Why did military intelligence contractor hire violent former Navy reservist with mental health issues?
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
September 18, 2013
Infowars.com
September 18, 2013
As the official story on Aaron Alexis takes shape, crucial facts about the former Navy reservist are being glossed over by the establishment media – most notably his connection to the intelligence community through his employer.
Official story ignores intelligence connection and pushes gun and mental illness propaganda ahead of next attack on 2nd Amendment.
Thomas E. Hoshko is frequently quoted in stories about Alexis. Hoshko is the CEO of The Experts, a South Florida-based government subcontractor specializing in information technology. He is connected to the Pentagon and has a history in military intelligence.
Hoshko directed “operations of the Special Intelligence Communications Center for the Chief of Naval Operations, Director of Naval Intelligence and Joint Chiefs of Staff, including but not limited to, secure communications (DMS), satcom and cryptography for the DOD, NSA, White House and intel agencies,” a bio posted on the PlanIT Group website states. Hoshko is also president PlanIT Group, a government IT company that offers consulting services to the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security.
The official story has Alexis working with The Experts at a number of locations in Virginia, including at the Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story in Virginia Beach. The military installation is described as “the type [of] command for cryptography or signals intelligence, electronic warfare, information operations, intelligence, networks and space,” according to naval-technology.com.
Alexis also worked at the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in Havelock, N.C. and other locations in Bethesda, Md., and Arlington, Va. Arlington is the home of the Pentagon and the Defense Information Agency. A number of other intelligence agencies, including the CIA and the National Counterterrorism Center, are based in northern Virginia.
Navy Intelligence is one of sixteen elements of the intelligence community and the oldest continuous serving U.S. intelligence service, established on March 23, 1882. It works with a number of contracting clients, including cyber operations, specialized military operations, intelligence analysis, and information technology.
In virtually every mass shooting occurring over the last few years the corporate media has routinely glossed over glaring inconsistencies and oddities. In the Alexis case, the ignored oddity is the fact Aaron Alexis had at least two run-ins with the police involving violence and firearms and these incidents did not send up red flags and prevent his employment with a military contractor or receiving secret clearance. Alexis was also released from the Navy for misconduct.
Hoshko, a central figure in subcontracted military information technology, would have us believe he was unaware of these incidents prior to hiring Alexis. Regardless, he told Politico, they would not have prevented him from hiring the former Navy reservist who is now described as a paranoid schizophrenic suffering from hallucinations.
“I’m not the government and the DoD and DSS, but for a secret clearance, I’m not sure if someone fired a gun that that alone would have [stopped them],” he said. “Certainly, to me that would have raised a flag. But would that alone have stopped him from getting clearance? I don’t know that. I don’t authorize that and I don’t issue them. But he did not have a criminal record. He did probably have an incident.”
Hoshko passed the buck. “Obviously, that was a few years before he came to work for us, but how did he get a clearance issued back in 2007?” he said. “I’ve got the same questions as you. And I’m working with authorities to try to figure out why somebody didn’t see a pattern or certainly flag this back in 2007, whenever it happened.”
Like Adam Lanza, the alleged Newtown shooter, the story on Aaron Alexis simply does not add up and his questionable background lurking in the shadows of naval intelligence casts a suspicious pall over the story now cast in stone by the establishment media.
Is it possible the alleged violent behavior of Aaron Alexis was specifically designed as another social meme to demonize firearms and once again set the stage for yet another legislative attempt to strip law-abiding American citizens of their Second Amendment right to possess firearms?
and....
Like nearly all other mass shooters, Alexis was also being treated with psychiatric drugs
We weren’t planning to cover this story until the Associated Press confirmed that Aaron Alexis, the shooter believed responsible for the recent mass shooting at the Navy yard, “had been treated since August by the Veterans Administration for his mental problems.”
Image: Aaron Alexis
This is proof that Aaron Alexis was on psychiatric drugs, because that’s the only treatment currently being offered by the Veterans Administration for mental problems. Alexis’ family members also confirmed to the press that he was being “treated” for his mental health problems. Across the medical industry, “treatment” is the code word for psychiatric drugging.
Nearly every shooter has a history of psychiatric drug use
As Natural News readers well know, the vast majority of mass shooters in U.S. history have all been on mind-altering psychiatric drugs. Those prescription medications create feelings of detachment in people, making them feel like they “playing out a video game” rather than acting out in the real world.
See a list of some of the other shootings where the perpetrators were taking psychiatric drugs in this Natural News article.
Not coincidentally, Aaron Alexis was also “obsessed with violent video games,” reports The Telegraph. Violent video games allow potential shooters to “rehearse” their first-person murderous rampage actions, reinforcing the actions in their brain neurology. It makes the act of killing seem normal, if not habitual.
This combination is repeated over and over again in violent mass killings: psychiatric drugs + video games = mass death.
Press once again lies about the AR-15
Of course, a mass shooting also needs to have a firearm present, but even facts surrounding those claims are now proven to be widely and inaccurately reported by the mainstream media — an institution which has now utterly abandoned the concept of fact checking in its rush to get the story out. Not only has the media had to retract its initial claim of the identity of the shooter, it also turns out that there was no AR-15 used in the shooting at all.
“Federal law enforcement sources told CNN Tuesday that authorities have recovered three weapons from the scene of the mass shooting, including one — a shotgun — that investigators believe Alexis brought in to the compound,” reports CNN. “The other two weapons, which sources say were handguns, may have been taken from guards at the Navy complex. The sources, who have detailed knowledge of the investigation, cautioned that initial information that an AR-15 was used in the shootings may have been incorrect. It is believed that Alexis had rented an AR-15, but returned it before Monday morning’s shootings.”
Regardless of the shooter’s weapon of choice, it also turns out that once again he chose a “gun-free zone” to carry out his crime, knowing full well that no ordinary citizens would be able to return fire, giving him plenty of time to carry out his mad killing plan.
This is another characteristic of recent mass shootings: they have all taken place in gun-free zones. Such zones are obviously the preferred targets of mass killers who seek to minimize their own risk of being taken out by return fire.
Finally, it is worth noting that the SWAT team which eventually shot and killed Aaron Alexis most likely did so with an AR-15 rifle, proving that AR-15s are extremely useful in protecting the public when deployed in the hands of someone who has the best interests of the public in mind. The actual rifle model used to kill Alexis has not yet been released, so it could have been something else, but there is no question that SWAT team members were well armed with AR-15-style tactical rifles and that such rifles in the hands of those men unquestionably served a positive role of protecting the public.
You can’t trust the media to tell you the real story
The bottom line in all this is that when it comes to shooters, psychiatric drugs and firearms, you simply can’t trust the mainstream media to tell you the real story. They will often report half-truths or even just invent bizarre new “facts” they want you to believe, but they have no real investment in the idea of getting to the actual story of what happened and bringing that story to the public.
The media is mostly just using this shooting as another way to sell more advertising while pushing a particular political agenda that utterly ignores the far more dangerous chemical holocaust taking place in our nation due to the widespread deployment of psychiatric drugs.
In fact, I am the author of the widely-shared article from 2012 entitled, Gun control? We need medication control!
And I stand by that argument today. A firearm in the hands of a competent, ethical person who protects innocent bystanders is a blessing. But a mind-altering medication in the hands of a violent video game addict with extreme anger issues is a catastrophe waiting to happen.
And how did Monday go down again ? And another reference to this having been Aaron Alexis's first day on the job .... what happened to the two men observed with weapons one Monday ( one white in the tan outfit with a hand gun wearing a beret , one black around fifty years old with a long gun ... )
http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/navy-yard-shooting-aaron-alexis-narrative-crumbling/
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/09/16/223023740/developing-shooting-at-u-s-navy-yard-in-washington-d-c
And how did Monday go down again ? And another reference to this having been Aaron Alexis's first day on the job .... what happened to the two men observed with weapons one Monday ( one white in the tan outfit with a hand gun wearing a beret , one black around fifty years old with a long gun ... )
http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/navy-yard-shooting-aaron-alexis-narrative-crumbling/
Navy Yard shooting: Aaron Alexis
narrative crumbling
Navy Yard shooting: Aaron Alexis narrative crumbling
by Jon Rappoport
September 18, 2013
Yesterday, I referenced a USA Today piece which cited a federal law-enforcement source (off the record), who states that Aaron Alexis, the accused shooter, cleared a Navy Yard security checkpoint in his car. After parking in the lot, he got into an argument and opened fire on one or two people. He then entered the building where he went on a killing spree.
So did Alexis shoot his way past security guards at the building’s separate checkpoint? Why weren’t the guards waiting for him just outside the building with their weapons drawn, after he, Alexis, had already shot people in the parking lot?
This USA Today account hasn’t spread widely through major media. It’s a version of events quite different from the official, more peaceful “gained entrance to the building by using someone’s else’s ID.”
So that’s two accounts.
Now I have a third, from an unsourced person who appears to be familiar with procedures at the Navy Yard and other naval facilities where computer techs (private contractors) work.
According to this source, Alexis was to show up at the Yard to work. He’d been hired as a tech. This was his first day on the job. He didn’t need two IDs, because these private-contractor techs are issued a VAL, Visitor Authorization Letter, which permits them to enter and work in various buildings. These VALs have an expiration date.
Alexis would have been carrying a VAL to get past checkpoints. Also, these techs typically carry no more than a backpack or small bag for cables and program CDs. Highly unlikely that Alexis could have gotten inside with a shotgun.
So that’s three scenarios.
Then we have the variations. He obtained an AR15 inside the building. No he didn’t. He got hold of two handguns. He fired an AR15 shotgun (CNN), which doesn’t exist.
There were two other shooters. No there weren’t. One of the two was interviewed and released. The third suspect? Who knows?
Somebody’s lying, big-time.
Have the networks shown pictures of the actual security checkpoints outside the parking lot and at the building, allowing us to infer what really happened there? If so, I haven’t seen them. Neither have I seen pictures of the parking lot, where, if pictures were taken early enough, one would expect to find shell casings and blood, assuming the USA Today story is correct.
The narrative is crumbling. And reporters aren’t picking up the ball, because they merely take dictation from law-enforcement officials.
In view of such a miserable excuse for information, assuming Alexis was the killer is speculation.
According to this source, Alexis was to show up at the Yard to work. He’d been hired as a tech. This was his first day on the job. He didn’t need two IDs, because these private-contractor techs are issued a VAL, Visitor Authorization Letter, which permits them to enter and work in various buildings. These VALs have an expiration date.
Alexis would have been carrying a VAL to get past checkpoints. Also, these techs typically carry no more than a backpack or small bag for cables and program CDs. Highly unlikely that Alexis could have gotten inside with a shotgun.
So that’s three scenarios.
Then we have the variations. He obtained an AR15 inside the building. No he didn’t. He got hold of two handguns. He fired an AR15 shotgun (CNN), which doesn’t exist.
There were two other shooters. No there weren’t. One of the two was interviewed and released. The third suspect? Who knows?
Somebody’s lying, big-time.
Have the networks shown pictures of the actual security checkpoints outside the parking lot and at the building, allowing us to infer what really happened there? If so, I haven’t seen them. Neither have I seen pictures of the parking lot, where, if pictures were taken early enough, one would expect to find shell casings and blood, assuming the USA Today story is correct.
The narrative is crumbling. And reporters aren’t picking up the ball, because they merely take dictation from law-enforcement officials.
In view of such a miserable excuse for information, assuming Alexis was the killer is speculation.
and look at the initial narrative.....
(We're constantly updating the top of this post and adding to it below as well.)
The nation's capital went on high alert Monday after a shooting attack at the city's U.S. Navy Yard left at least 12 victims and one gunman dead and injured 8 others.
Police said one suspected shooter was dead at the scene. By day's end, authorities were saying they did not think there had been a second shooter — as some evidence had earlier led them to believe.
Authorities identified the dead suspect as Aaron Alexis, a 34-year-old man from New York, who the Pentagon says was a full-time Navy reservist from May of 2007 through January of 2011.
NPR's Carrie Johnson reports that law enforcement officials believe Alexis gained access to the secure military facility by using the ID of "a 50-odd year-old African American man who was recently dismissed from his job at the Navy Yard."
Alexis, however, was also working as for an IT company that was upgrading the Navy's computer system.
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said it's still unclear how Alexis died, but she said he was involved in gun battles with active shooter teams inside building 197 of the Washington Navy Yard.
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Lanier said police had "multiple engagements with the suspect" and it was after one of those that Alexis was found dead.
D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray said authorities did not suspect terrorism, but the motive for the shooting was still a mystery.
The attack was, President Obama told the nation, a "cowardly act ... [on] men and women who were going to work, doing their jobs, protecting all of us."
"They were patriots," he said of the victims.
At first police officials said that there were two other "potential" shooters they were looking for. Other law enforcement sources, though, cautioned that in the confusion some first responders might have been mistaken for additional attackers.
And just before 2:45 p.m. ET., D.C. Police announced that one of the potential other gunmen — "the white male in the tan outfit" — had been "identified and is not a suspect or person of interest."
The incident began around 8:20 a.m. ET when shots were fired around a building on the grounds of the facility in Southeast D.C., the Navy confirmed just minutes later.
Initially, there was word that only a few people had been injured and that only one gunman was responsible. Among those hurt, according to reports from emergency personnel, was a police officer who was struck at least twice.
But at 10:04 a.m. ET, the Navy added that there had been "reports of fatalities." Federal law enforcement sources told NPR a short time later that there had been "multiple fatalities."
Then as morning turned to afternoon, the death toll turned grim, when authorities said 12 victims were dead, not including the gunman.
We're updating as more news comes in. Our colleagues at WAMU are following the story here. As happens when news such as this is breaking, there will be conflicting accounts. We'll focus on information from authorities in a position to know what's going on and from news outlets with reporters at or near the scene. If things change, we'll pass along that information.
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