Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, killed a soldier in Ottawa and then rampaged through Canada's parliament
before being shot dead was a misfit and perhaps mentally ill, according
to friends and family, while his troubled and transient past included
robbery and drug offenses.
This report appears to be advocacy for the psychiatric industry.
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Police said all three were terrorists and motivated by ideology. Authorities and family members said they may have been mentally ill. A growing body of research suggests they might well have been both.
New studies have challenged several decades of thinking that psychological problems are only a minor factor in the making of terrorists. The research has instead found a significant link between mental problems and "lone wolf" terrorism.
Friends and family frequently reveal the medical records of their family and friends. This is unlawful for medical professionals in the U.S. But since the diagnoses are from non psychiatrists why do journalists report them as if valid? That is not to say that any psychiatric diagnosis is valid. Psychiatry is personal opinion masquerading as science. There is no causal connection between an accusation of mental illness and crime. Yet journalists report the connection as real. All persons accused of mental illness are not violent. The ones who commit crimes are criminals. The others are not. It is no different than suggesting that all black people and all homosexuals are criminals. It just does not make sense. Describing a "significant link" does not make a causal connection.
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his former lawyer said the standoff was "not a concerted terrorism event" but the work of "a damaged-goods individual."
The same can be said about all criminals, and all non criminals. Do all "damaged" people commit violent crimes?
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Spaaij said a number of law enforcement and intelligence agencies have shown interest in his work.
Police, spies, politicians, and psychiatrists are control freaks. Psychiatry is a means of social control with no due process protections. There is no appeal from a diagnosis. Police would love to be able to make arrests without probable cause. There are no penalties for misguided diagnoses by psychiatrists.
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Most people with mental health problems are neither terrorists nor violent, and mental illness alone can't explain lone wolf attackers. Some experts dispute whether there is a link at all.
No definition of "a link" is provided. What evidence is there of a causal connection between an accusation of mental illness and crime? None.
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a psychology professor at the University of Quebec at Montreal, told the Canadian Senate's national security committee that "to believe that radicalized individuals are crazy or not playing with a full deck will be our first mistake in developing effective counterterrorism strategies."
In order to combat terror and crime it is necessary separate them from psychiatry. Criminals and terrorists must be identified, isolated and punished. Persons accused of mental illness do not get an exemption.
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Critics say the strategy can amount to entrapment of mentally vulnerable people who wouldn't have the wherewithal to act alone.
Meanwhile, the fundamental question of whether there is a link between mental health problems and terrorism remains controversial.
It is not controversial. There is no link. No psychiatrist can provide evidence of a causal connection between crime, terrorism and mental illness. They can say there is one but they cannot provide evidence of it. For years the psychiatric industry promoted the idea of a chemical imbalance in the brain, as mental illness. But they were and are unable to provide evidence of any chemical imbalance. They can't even provide a standard for what a chemical balance is. It is propaganda.
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One psychiatric report found him to be insane, while a second concluded that he was sane — and judges agreed, sending him to prison indefinitely.
The killer was happy with the outcome. For Breivik, it was recognition that his views were legitimate and not those of a madman.
That is evidence of the arbitrary nature of psychiatry. They pretend to be scientific. Science does not vary based on the observer or the reporter. Nature is uniform, unlike psychiatric diagnoses.
http://www.wral.com/can-identifying-mental-illness-stop-terror-attacks-/14281189/
Can identifying mental illness stop terror attacks?
Posted 12:33 p.m. December 15, 2014 Updated 12:37 p.m. December 15, 2014
By JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press
