{"id":138,"date":"2009-04-29T09:54:38","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T15:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=138"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:43:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:43:48","slug":"columbine-anniversary-brings-columbine-red-lake-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/29\/columbine-anniversary-brings-columbine-red-lake-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbine Anniversary Brings Columbine & Red Lake Together"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/strong><\/span>Press Release
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Date:<\/strong> APRIL 20, 2009<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Place:<\/strong> Clement Park, Littleton, CO<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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INFORMATION CONTACT:<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/strong> Ann Blake-Tracy, PhD, Executive Director,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
International Coalition for Drug Awareness<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
www.drugawareness.org<\/a> & www.ssristories.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Phone: 1-801-209-1800<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
E-mail: atracyphd1@aol.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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INFORMATION INCLUDED:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/strong> Joint statement from the family of a Columbine victim & the family of the Red Lake, MN school shooter – total dead 25, total wounded 31<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Testimony of Columbine shooting victim Mark Allen Taylor, before the FDA<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Statement by Michael Moore about the cause of Columbine after making the\u00c2\u00a0movie, “Bowling for Columbine”<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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New\u00c2\u00a0Medical Article\u00c2\u00a0Linking Antidepressants to Murder\/Suicide in the Spring Issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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COLUMBINE & RED LAKE COME TOGETHER AT COLUMBINE ANNIVERSARY<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/strong> Donna Taylor:<\/strong> Mother of Mark Taylor, the first boy shot at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999 as Eric and Dylan, on their way into the school, shot at those gathered to discuss scriptures outside.\u00c2\u00a0Eric Harris shot Mark\u00c2\u00a06 – 13 times with 9mil bullets. Mark survived\u00c2\u00a0earning himself\u00c2\u00a0the title of “The Columbine Miracle Boy.”<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Tammy Lussier:<\/strong> Daughter of Officer Daryl (Dash) Lussier of the Red Lake Police Department and aunt to Jeff Weise who shot and killed\u00c2\u00a0Tammy’s father, his own grandfather,\u00c2\u00a0and eight others before taking his own life with his grandfather’s police firearm. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Our Message:<\/strong> Here we are together at the 10th Anniversary of the tragedy at Columbine High School.\u00c2\u00a0 So, why would a family member of a school shooting victim and a family member of a school shooter come together?\u00c2\u00a0We want the world to know that antidepressants cause violence with the most popular antidepressant on the market today listing “homicidal ideation” as a potential side effect.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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The one thing many shot at Columbine have learned to do is to forgive Eric Harris and Dylan Kleebold for doing what they did to them. We have just celebrated the glorious Easter season filled with the reassurance that through the mission of Jesus Christ we\u00c2\u00a0can overcome death and live again. <\/span>As we remember Columbine we feel it is crucial to recall that\u00c2\u00a0as\u00c2\u00a0Christ hung on the cross He plead with His Father in Heaven\u00c2\u00a0for those who were in the process\u00c2\u00a0of taking\u00c2\u00a0His life from Him\u00c2\u00a0“Father forgive them for they know not what they do.”\u00c2\u00a0In forgiving Eric and Dylan\u00c2\u00a0we believe that we are forgiving them for the same reason Christ asked for those taking his own life to be forgiven – they did not know\u00c2\u00a0what they were doing April 20, 1999 when they took\u00c2\u00a015 lives\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0injured\u00c2\u00a024 more. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Although USA Today attempted to rewrite history this past week and erroneously reported that the Columbine shooters were\u00c2\u00a0not on antidepressants we are here to remind the world that Eric Harris was on\u00c2\u00a0the antidepressant Luvox. Whether Eric was sharing his meds with Dylan, which is far too common with kids, or was\u00c2\u00a0on his own prescription we will never know as his records were sealed. In the Red Lake school shooting Jeff Weise was taking the antidepressant Prozac. Our statement today is that minus antidepressants we\u00c2\u00a0feel sure that\u00c2\u00a0the shootings at Columbine High School\u00c2\u00a0and Red Lake, MN\u00c2\u00a0High School would never have happened and neither would the majority of the other school shootings and workplace violence shootings (see www.ssristories.com<\/a> for a long list). <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Antidepressants push the user into a dream state\u00c2\u00a0leaving one\u00c2\u00a0to act out nightmares. Columbine was a nightmare acted out by Eric Harris and Dylan Kleebold, just as Red Lake was a nightmare acted out by Jeff Weise\u00c2\u00a0which took another 10 lives and injured 7 more. We do not believe they were conscious and coherent enough to\u00c2\u00a0fully understand\u00c2\u00a0what they were doing because of the adverse effects of antidepressants.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Over\u00c2\u00a0the past two years\u00c2\u00a0Donna has\u00c2\u00a0watched\u00c2\u00a0her son Mark go from a normal boy to someone\u00c2\u00a0she does no longer recognizes\u00c2\u00a0because he was given two short bouts of similar drugs given to Eric Harris<\/span>. Now\u00c2\u00a0Mark is living and experiencing\u00c2\u00a0firsthand similar adverse reactions to what Eric was when he shot Mark. How ironic and tragic! (See\u00c2\u00a0Mark’s powerful statement below given before the FDA about these drugs that have now robbed him of who he is or was.) <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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If we want the shootings of Columbine and Red Lake to end we MUST learn the truth about the dangers of antidepressant medications.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Mark Taylor’s <\/strong>testimony before the FDA 9\/13\/2004<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I am Mark Allen Taylor and I am a victim of the SSRI antidepressant era. I took six to thirteen bullets in the heart area in the Columbine High School shooting when Eric Harris on Luvox opened fire that now infamous day.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

They almost had to amputate my leg and my arm. My heart missed by only one millimeter. I had three surgeries. Five years later I am still recuperating.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I went through all this to realize that SSRI antidepressants are dangerous for those who take them and for all those who associate with those who take them.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I hope that my testimony today shows you that you need to take action immediately before more innocent people like me, and you, do not get hurt or die horrible deaths as a result.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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As Americans we should have the right to feel safe and if you were doing your job we would be safe. Why are we worrying about terrorists in other countries when the pharmaceutical companies have proven to be our biggest terrorists by releasing these drugs on an unsuspecting public?<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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How are we suppose to feel safe at school, at home, on the street, at church or anywhere else if we cannot trust the FDA to do what we are paying you to do? Where were you when I and all of my classmates got shot at Columbine?<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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You say that antidepressants are effective. So why did they not help Eric Harris before he shot me?<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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According to Eric they “helped” him to feel homicidal and suicidal after only six weeks on Zoloft. And then he said that dropping off Luvox cold turkey would help him “fuel the rage” he needed to shoot everyone. But he continued on Luvox and shot us all anyway.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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So, why did these so called antidepressants not make him better? I will tell you why. It is because they do not work.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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We should consider antidepressants to be accomplices to murder.<\/span> _____________________________<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

To listen to Michael Moore’s statement<\/strong> about the cause of the Columbine tragedy after making the movie “Bowling for Columbine” – go to www.drugawareness.org<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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“Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibior [SSRI] Drugs:\u00c2\u00a0 More Risks Than Benefits?”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
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Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons: Volume 14: number 1: Spring 2009, there is an article by Joel M. Kauffman, Ph.D., [Professor of chemistry emeritus at the University of the Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa.] <\/span><\/div>\n
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In regard to the International Coalition for Drug Awareness, the study reads on page 10: “The International Coalition for Drug Awareness in cooperation with the Prozac Survivors Support Group has produced a website on which about 1,600 [now 3,000] violent incidents associated with SSRI use are described (www.ssristories.come\/index.php<\/a>).”<\/span><\/div>\n
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In regard to SSRI Stories www.SSRIstories.com<\/a> <\/span>documenting the link between thousands of cases of multiple\u00c2\u00a0murder\/suicides and antidepressants, <\/span>Dr. Kaufmann made the following statement on page 10: “Since no clinical trial involving multiple homicides is ever likely to be run, no firmer evidence is likely to be found.<\/span><\/strong> Healy noted that much of the evidence for suicide and murder came from the efforts of journalists and lawyers”.<\/p>\n

To read the full article and see the data go to the journal site:<\/p>\n

<\/span>http:\/\/www.jpands.org\/jpands1401.htm<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/a>or<\/p>\n

<\/span>http:\/\/www.jpands.org\/vol14no1\/kauffman.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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