Conspiracy, sexual emancipation and a little about medication…

Lars Ohly.

Romano Prodi.

George W. Bush.

[Updated June 9 in the end!] Two news-items side by side in the local newspaper today made me think. The leader for the left party in Sweden Lars Ohly said during the congress now that he sees conspiracy behind demands on aircraft security (terrorism in Europe). I searched on the net for this and got some hits there, so people have noticed it.

He said during the congress that once when he was out flying his shaving cream was confiscated. He says that he of course congratulates the European Union for the enormous success in the fight against terrorism which this confiscation marks.

In a speech he said that:

“These rules are an expression for a panic that is created and fills a political purpose. The rulers (the ones in power) want us to believe that the law and order and democracy only can become defended through becoming restricted.”

After the speech he confessed that he believes in a conspiracy.

“Yes, I seriously mean that one does this to create a ground for other changes."

What he means is the increased security leading to a climate where people experience that security is so threatened, that it is justifiable with restrictions in the democratic freedoms and rights (privileges or civil rights).

They asked Ohly whom he thought was lying behind this conspiracy, and he said that George W. Bush after September 11 sent a letter to the European commission’s Romano Prodi with a list on 47 points which USA wanted Europe to introduce.

The other news-item was that many teenage girls have sex against their will. In research the psychologist Gisela Priebe has established that one of seven girls in the upper teens have had sexual intercourse against their own will. Among the boys in the same age one of seventeen have had difficulties saying no.

The press living up to the ideal of sexual emancipation has made it difficult saying no.

This conclusion is made by the psychologist Gisela Priebe who has made research on adolescents being exposed to sexual abuse. This winter her dissertation comes at the University of Lund.

More than 4,000 (4,139) young people in gymnasium-age have answered questions. As many as 65 percent of the girls say that they have been exposed to some form of unwanted sexual action which can be everything from tampering or pawing (tafsande) to sexual intercourse.

Priebe means that the research so far has focused on incest and paedophilia, but abuse between young people in the same age is in fact more common. The girls had been in age 14 in average when they were abused in some form the first time. Eleven percent of the girls had such experiences at 10 or even younger at the first occasion.

Priebe says that it isn’t always a question of physical violence, sexual abuse isn’t always connected to physical violence or force. It’s common with persuasion or that someone uses his/her position. And she thinks there is a widespread picture among young people that one shall be emancipated and sexually accessible. This can make it difficult for many young people feeling they have the right to say no.

Yes, I think Ohly can be right about conspiracies from people in power, giving the power right to control us. And I wondered to what degree this is conscious. From a person like George W. Bush for instance. I reread some pages from “Base Instincts - What Makes Killers Kill?” by the American neurologist Jonathan H. Pincus. He writes about the possible roots for terrorism and about societal approval and also that (page 191):

“The unrestrained approval of violence in certain political parties and gangs may make such groups attractive to the abused. Although we have very little information about the family dynamics of the members of terrorist organizations, I believe that the history of physical and sexual abuse, and even mental illness [also due to abuse] paranoia, and brain damage is prevalent among them.”

I also skimmed the chapter on prevention and treatment and my impression is that medication isn’t always a secure method… But I have to read this chapter better to say he means this. But our current government want to medicate people with means of coercion (medicate all “dissidents” I wonder quite ironically. Another thing this government does which isn’t properly supported by science?). Addition in the evening: see the last posting today "Can a pill make a murderer safe?"

See Pincus on Hitler and Hatred, the essay "George W. Bush's projection and dislocation of self", and here and here are the links to all earlier postings with the label “J. Pincus” and to postings with the label the “ruling classes’ paranoia” here and here.

And that about sexual abuse: why haven’t young people learned to say “no”? I also wonder (ironically) if they have learned to trust their senses and feelings, and been allowed to respect them, by their parents already.

See the article “Childhood Sexual Abuse – Women’s Mental and Social Health Before and After Group Therapy.”

A common denominator to the topics in this posting is "integrity violations" and their effects?? Which all this above is about?

PS. In his youth Lars Ohly belonged to the Liberal Party!!! (I don't vote on them though, and will probably never do).

Addition June 9: Watch this video-clip about chasing terrorists in Indiana, USA, "War on Terre Haute." :-) And read about Terre Haute here. I didn't know it was a city! :-)