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  Alex Jones Tv 1/2:Psychology Today Say's"Alex Jones & 9/11 Truthers Suffer from Mental Instability?"

  PSYCHOLOGY TODAY HIT PIECE LABELS CONSPIRACY THINKING A PSYCHOTIC ILLNESS Paul Joseph Watson www.prisonplanet.com In an article entitled Dark Minds: When does incredulity become paranoia, Psychology Today writer John Gartner attempts to make the case that the concerns of conspiracy theorists are not based in reality but are a product of mental instability, while himself fulfilling every criteria for what he claims classifies such people as psychotics ignoring evidence that contradicts his preconceptions while embracing the ludicrous conspiracy theory that powerful men and governments do not conspire to advance their power. Probably somewhat upset about how our coverage of the dangers associated with the swine flu vaccine has contributed to a global revolt against mass vaccination programs being readied, Psychology Todays gravy train of big pharma advertisers will no doubt be pleased to see the publication wastes no time in savagely attacking radio host and film maker Alex Jones, dispensing with any notion of fairness and zealously going after him as early as the second paragraph. The nature of this vicious hit piece ( PDF link) is confirmed when Gartner laments that Jones refused to provide him with phone numbers for friends he grew up with, presumably frustrated that he couldnt dig up some dirt from an old girlfriend to throw into the mix of what is nothing more than a personal attack on Jones character, and a complete departure from any debate about the issues Jones ...

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  Alex Jones Tv 1/2:Psychology Today's Hit Piece on Alex Jones

  Why Psychologists Are Infinitely More Dangerous Than Conspiracy Theorists Paul Joseph Watson www.prisonplanet.com Thursday, September 3, 2009 According to a Psychology Today hit piece written by psychologist John Gartner, people prone to thinking that powerful men might actually get together and plan to maintain and advance their power are borderline psychotics who are a danger to society. In reality, hundreds of years of history has taught us that psychologists routinely aid authoritarian regimes in enforcing tyrannical and inhumane policies while helping them crush political opposition by defining suspicion of authorities as a mental illness. As we highlighted in our article yesterday, psychologists in the Soviet Union were used to stifle free speech by classifying skepticism and political opposition to the state as a mental illness, which is precisely the implication littered throughout Gartners crass hit piece. In the former Soviet Union, psikhushkas — mental hospitals — were used by the state as prisons in order to isolate political prisoners, discredit their ideas, and break them physically and mentally. The Soviet state began using mental hospitals to punish dissidents in 1939 under Stalin. According to official Soviet psychiatry and the Moscow Serbsky Institute at the time, ideas about a struggle for truth and justice are formed by personalities with a paranoid structure. Treatment for this special political schizophrenia included various forms of restraint ...

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