Commentary: Pfizer and other sociopaths!

by Martin Hanson

January 5, 2025 - “…if we fail, then the whole world, including the (Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA)), including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”

Winston Churchill spoke these words just before the Battle of Britain, but if he was alive today, he could be referring to the non-existent COVID-19 pandemic. His reference to “the lights of perverted science” would have rendered his words even more fitting in the fight against rule by Big Pharma.

In an earlier essay I argued that New Zealand, together with many other nominally “democratic” countries, is fascist, and in a follow-up, I went on to argue that Pfizer and other Big Pharma corporations are organized crime networks operating what amounts to a global protection racket.

What I left unsaid was that Pfizer and other corporations are also sociopathic. In an open letter to the CEO of the Fascist United Kingdom (FUK) General Medical Council, Dr. Aseem Malhotra, an internationally distinguished and award-winning cardiologist stated that:

“The diagnosis made by the pre-eminent forensic psychologist Dr. Robert Hare and law professor Joel Bakan over 20 years ago is that Big Corporations (such as Big Pharma) are psychopathic in their pursuit of profit. Institutionally, they show the same characteristic behaviors as individuals with psychopathic tendencies: callous unconcern for the safety of others, incapacity to experience guilt, repeated lying and conning others for profit.”

Robert Hare is a leading forensic psychologist specializing in psychopathology. He developed the widely used Hare Psychopathy Checklist for assessing cases of psychopathy.

He also drew a distinction between “psychopathy” and “sociopathy” on the basis that the former are “born” whereas the latter are “made”. Psychopathy manifests itself in early childhood and is thus innate, while sociopathy develops as a result of environmental experience. In the struggle up “the greasy pole”, politics is likely a potent influence.

Since I doubt if anyone imagines that Big Pharma CEOs and politicians such as Jacinda Ardern and Justin Trudeau enjoyed torturing animals when they were children, we can assume their manifest lack of conscience is the product of life experience. For that reason, throughout most of this essay I shall describe the perpetrators as sociopathic rather than psychopathic.

Despite the clear distinction, the terms are often used interchangeably, and since I shall be quoting Joel Bakan, I shall begin with his use of the term.

Bakan deals with the nature of the corporation in his book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power. In it, he shows how the world’s dominant institution is essentially psychopathic, being amoral and without conscience. A YouTube documentary is based on his book.

Bakan shows that corporations not only put shareholders’ interests (i.e. profit) above everything else, but they are also bound to do so (at least, in the FPSA) by law. As Bakan puts it, “corporate responsibility is thus illegal, at least when it is genuine.”  I shall be revisiting this particular quote from Bakan’s book later.

In lacking any consideration for human welfare, corporations thus fall within the definition of psychopaths (if it seems odd to regard an organization as having a personality, since the end of the 19th Century, corporations have been legally considered in the FPSA as “persons”).

As management guru Peter Drucker said to Bakan, “If you find an executive who wants to take on social responsibilities, fire him. Fast.”

Journalist and entrepreneur Brian Basham, writing in The Independent, recalls a senior FUK investment banker saying, “At one major investment bank for which I worked, we used sociometric testing to recruit social sociopaths because their characteristics exactly suited them to senior corporate finance roles.”

The following two examples described in Bakan’s book illustrate the nature of corporate psychopathy.

On Christmas Day 1994, a mother and her four children in their Chevrolet Malibu car were hit from behind when stopped at traffic lights, causing the petrol tank to explode, badly burning all five of them. General Motors was sued and in the trial, evidence was produced showing that GM knew the tank was positioned so far back that it could explode on impact.

This was not an isolated case; about 500 people were being killed in this way each year at the time when the new Malibu cars were being planned.

A company engineer calculated that each fatality could cost GM $200,000 in legal damages. Dividing this figure by 41 million - the number of cars GM had on the road, the engineer concluded that each death cost GM only $2.40. The cost of relocating the fuel tanks to ensure that they not explode in rear-impact crashes was estimated to be $8.59 per car. The company could therefore save $6.19 per car if it let people die in such fires rather than alter the design of vehicles to avoid them (Bakan, pp. 61-63).

In 1998 the International Monetary Fund lent the government of Bolivia $138 million. A condition was that the government would sell off its publicly owned assets, including the city of Cochabamba’s water agency. After a secretly negotiated deal, Cochabamba’s water facilities were sold for $12.5 billion to the Bechtel Corporation, which had given assurances that water prices wouldn’t rise by more than 35%.

By January 2000, prices had more than doubled, and one particularly egregious regulation was that the people were not even allowed to collect rainwater in tanks (pp 164-166).

In an unofficial referendum, 96% of the 50 000 people voted against the water privatization, but even after protests turned violent, the government refused to end the contract. President Hugo Banzer declared a “state of siege” and finally, when police fired live ammunition into protesting crowds and the situation threatened to turn into mass insurrection, Banzer was forced to end privatization.

It’s now clear that Aseem Malhotra was right on the money when he stated that Big Pharma is psychopathic, subordinating the lives of patients to profit for its shareholders.

Recalling Bakan’s statement that “corporate responsibility is thus illegal, at least when it is genuine,” Pfizer would have been arguably breaking FPSA law had it taken into account warning signs regarding the “safety and efficacy” of its poisonous COVID-19 injections.

Despite the compelling evidence of government complicity, many will still resist the implication that governments and media are co-complicit in the deaths of thousands of innocent people. Considering recent disclosures forced on the FPSA Food and Drug Administration (FDA), some will argue that “murder” might be appropriate.