The day after Peter
Jenning's April Fool's Day 2004 show about Ecstasy, "Ecstasy Rising," I went to
the ABC website and perused the related section. The main article, also
entitled Ecstasy Rising, read like an Ecstasy-pusher's sales pitch:
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Overwhelming, positive
word-of-mouth is often cited as the cause of Ecstasy's explosive growth.
"There is an evangelical
fervor with Ecstasy," says Robert MacCoun, a drug policy analyst at the
University of California, Berkeley. "People who experience it tell their friends
to try it."
This has never happened
before, said [Mark Kleiman, a drug policy analyst at the University of
California]: "I have never heard anybody say to me methamphetamine improved my
life. I know people who like to use cocaine, but I have never heard anybody try
to claim that cocaine is good for me. But with MDMA, lots of people think that
the drug has improved their life."
[...]
[Alan Leshner, a former
director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse] launched the U.S. government's
campaign against Ecstasy. The headline of this campaign is that Ecstasy causes
massive brain damage.
Whether this is true remains
very controversial.
The use of Ecstasy has
declined among teenagers in the last two years. Is this an indication that
Ecstasy is on the way out? Kleiman says no. "The [government's anti-Ecstasy]
propaganda effort has had its impact, but it competes rather poorly, though,
with word of mouth [rumor]."
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A sidebar contained the
following links: Can Ecstasy Treat Post-Traumatic Stress?; Study: Teen Ecstasy
Use Rising Fast; DEA, Military Announce Ecstasy Busts; and Ecstasy's Deep
Abyss. Following the second link leads to an article entitled Ecstasy: The
New Cocaine?, which should be entitled something like: Ecstasy, Then
Agony. Fortunately, its dire warnings were the subject of a segment of
Good Morning America, but they should not be buried in a sidebar under
inappropriate headlines.
Ecstasy-pushers' targets:
thought and free will
Reason and Knowledge only
thou despise
The highest strength in man
that lies!
Let but the Lying Spirit
bind thee,
And I shall have thee fast
and sure!
Mephistopheles, Faust
MDMA was first synthesized
by Merck Pharmaceuticals in 1912, after which it was patented and relegated to
obscurity. It was resurrected in the 1950s by the notorious mind-war
practitioners of MK-Ultra, and became prominent in the late 1970s.
One of the more widely
reported after-effects of Ecstasy use is a persistent difficulty in
concentrating which worsens with each use. This is due to the damage it
does to the NMDA receptors:
"The NMDA
(N-Methyl-D-Aspartic acid) receptor system IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT RECEPTOR
SYSTEMS INVOLVED WITH COGNITIVE FUNCTION AND MEMORY. NMDA receptors are widely
distributed in the brain, and their effects are mediated by excitatory amino
acids like glutamate. It has been shown that the density of NMDA receptors
declines with age. Damage to the NMDA receptors is also the most severe adverse
effect of the street drug, Ecstasy (MDMA). " [a]
Obviously, an advanced
society which allows widespread Ecstasy use among its young people, with their
potential for a lifetime of intellectual contributions, would be suicidal, and
would be allowing the forces of evil to undermine mankind's potential for
consciousness-evolution.
THE MORE FLAGRANT, MORE
RADICAL, DEVIATIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS are those where the will becomes defective
or so weak that a man can do no other than surrender himself entirely to his
life of soul with WHAT AMOUNTS TO THE EXCLUSION OF HIS WILL. [3]
As mentioned in my article
The Eighth Sphere: Lucifer's Dream, relinquishing our reason and free will serves
Lucifer's agenda of regressing us to our "cosmic childhood" so he can divert
these forces into the Eighth Sphere, a work in progress which Lucifer hopes to
rule forever. Splitting the human soul thusly would bring human evolution
to a grinding halt.
In connection with the
quasi-group-soul consciousness sought through "raves," I found the following
interesting passage on a website which blatantly downplays the downside of
Ecstasy:
Raving is really nothing
new. It has a lot in common with rites such as the Eleusinian mysteries,
the ancient Greek communal festivals involving the mysterious drug Soma.
It also mimics DIONYSIAN FESTIVALS [which were specifically intended to regress
mankind to an earlier unthinking, clairvoyant mode of consciousness in which
mankind "communed" with the spiritual world and was largely a puppet of certain
benevolent higher beings such as Jehovah and other Elohim] , the American Indian
long dance, Buddhist chanting, revivalist meetings, sports events, Grateful Dead
concerts [attended by "Deadheads"] and the disco craze. In each of these
experiences, PARTICIPANTS LOSE THEMSELVES [indeed] TO A COLLECTIVE ENTITY IN A
COMMON ECSTATIC EXPERIENCE THAT BONDS THEM TOGETHER.
Most primitive cultures used
some form of psychotropic substance in adolescent initiation rites, but our
Judeo-Christian sensibility, morphed into Puritan "thou-shalt-not"-ism, forbids
it. [He evidently doesn't make the connection between primitive cultures and the
state of mind which produced them.] However, repression hasn't stopped
adolescents from craving THE DRUG-INDUCED VISION QUEST THAT HAS TRADITIONALLY
BEEN A DOORWAY TO ADULTHOOD. [In primitive societies, perhaps, but not in
advanced societies.] The fact that this behavior is deemed illegal and immoral
means adults aren't around to provide any guidance or moderating influence to
their children who reject the simplistic "just say no" message.
THE JURY IS STILL OUT OVER
HOW HARMFUL OCCASIONAL MDMA USE IS [untrue], especially compared with other
drugs. But our government's enforcement-heavy response [based on sound
arguments which the writer dismisses] probably won't have much effect on its
use, and almost certainly will increase its harmful effects. [4, emphasis
added]
LaRouche vs. the
Ecstasy-pushers
Not coincidentally, Lyndon
LaRouche, the prime exponent of the free application of reason and science to
the development of society (as opposed to "free trade" feudalism in which
Synarchists dictate the shape of society through lies and, when necessary, brute
force) traces the roots of his enemies all the way back to the practitioners of
the aforementioned Dionysian rituals:
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Since the Paris events of
July 14, 1789, orchestrated by British agents Philippe Egalité and Jacques
Necker, and until today, the greatest overt internal threat to the continued
existence of modern European civilization, has come from the recurring public
eruptions of a hybrid, quasi-Phrygian-Dionysian freemasonic religious
association [i.e. one of many fronts for the Cult of Isis], known as the
Martinists, which originally emerged during the closing decades of the
Eighteenth Century. These Martinists have operated together with the network of
family merchant-banks, which used them as instruments of political power.
Britain's Lord Shelburne, then the leading political representative of Barings
Bank, was a key figure behind the unleashing of the Terror of 1789-1794 [French
Revolution], for example. This is the inner aspect of that recurring threat to
civilization known to history books and newspaper headlines by such names as
Jacobinism, Bonapartism, Synarchy, and as the fascist regimes which proliferated
in post-Versailles Europe of the 1920s through 1945. The extreme right-wing
Synarchist networks left over from the fascist regimes of the pre-1945 period,
figured in crucial roles in the European terrorist wave of the 1970s, and are
still active in Europe and the Americas today. [They were behind the Madrid
train bombings.]
Although the terrorism
motivated by today's Synarchists is presently the leading subversive form of
security threat to U.S. interests, I am, so far, virtually the only candidate
for the 2004 Presidential nomination who has exhibited both the will and
knowledge to address the explicitly religious character of this specific quality
of present threat in a systematic way. [5]
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Mammon-man George Soros is a
major force behind the drug-legalization movement. Although I question
whether its actual goal is to legalize drugs or to sell more drugs by convincing
people that they aren't all that bad, the main theme of this movement is that
drugs aren't inherently very harmful, and that legalization would reduce the
harm done by keeping them illegal. There is some truth to this, but the
implication is that the residual harm is acceptable, and that there are no
better solutions. EIR recently ran an article which exposes the connection
between the Synarchists, Soros, and the push to legalize drugs, including
Ecstasy:
George Soros is not a
Democrat. He is, like Shultz, a high-level operative of the "Synarchists," the
international fascist movement created in the 1780s in reaction against the
American Revolution, to impose "beast-man" dictators from Napoleon Bonaparte, to
Adolf Hitler, to Vice President Dick Cheney. The Synarchist International (see
"Synarchy vs. America," EIR, Sept. 5) is the heart of the drug and terrorism
operations that are used to destabilize most of the nations targetted by Dick
Cheney's cabal today. [Note that opium production in Afghanistan is at record
levels despite our supposed victory there.]
Soros is actually part of
the Cheney operation, by virtue of Soros's alliance with fellow drug legalizer
Shultz, the man who created the Bush Administration. Shultz assembled, in 2000,
the team of Halliburton's Cheney and of the neo-con Likudniks Paul Wolfowitz and
Richard Perle, to control then-candidate George W. Bush. The pre-emptive nuclear
war policy of the Bush Administration that Soros says is a "danger to the
world," was created by Soros's own cohort, Shultz. According to eyewitness
accounts at Soros's Drug Policy Alliance conference, it was Shultz who created
North America's biggest "legalized" dope operation in Vancouver, British
Columbiawhich is now being used by Soros's DPA as the model of models for North
and South America. From that conference, EIR can also report that Shultz and
Soros have been working together for the last decade, including during the time
Shultz created Soros' "enemy," Bush.
[...]
This was the message
delivered at the bi-annual conference of George Soros's Drug Policy Alliance
(DPA), at the Sheraton Meadowsland Hotel in New Jersey from Nov. 6-8. Throughout
the three days, when away from the cameras and the tape recorders, speaker after
speaker called for the legalization of drugs, and gleefully discussed how they
would implement it, all the time whispering that legalization has to be "kept
separate" from Soros's latest front-end operation: the takeover of the
Democratic Party of the United States.
[...]
The worst [speakers at the
conference] were "medical" experts. Chris Mann is the creator of MedEventa
nationwide organization made up of volunteer physicians, paramedics, nurses, and
EMTs who provide support for special events such as Raves. He argued that by
making Ecstasy illegal, you are denying Rave participants proper medical
attention, including chilling-out rooms. [Not necessarily - those who hold
illegal raves would still be responsible for ensuring that its participants
received necessary medical care, even if it alerts the authorities to the rave's
existence - unless they want to be held responsible for the consequences of
denying or delaying medical care.] Dr. Julie Holland, the "wicked witch" of
Bellevue Hospital, took the cake, claiming that human beings have "a biological
need to alter their states of mind. She co-authored Ecstasy: The Complete
Guide to MDMA [6]
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Use Ecstasy? It's a
no-brainer!
The fact is that Ecstasy is
being pushed by some of the most evil people on the planet, as part of their
program to destroy mankind. It's a textbook example of how subtly true evil
works - in this case, in the guise of a "hug drug." A more appropriate
name for it would be Anguish.