Psychiatric Abuses Cause Violence

Psychiatric Abuses Cause Violence
Lamenting the free exercise of speech the Boston Herald ridicules a protest of psychiatric abuses by a human rights group. (Editorial, "Church makes matters worse," Boston Herald, January 25, 2007)
Calling them "zealots, blinded by ideology," the Herald editors show their own ignorance. Clinical studies prove that psychiatric drugs cause violence. American journalists remain blissfully ignorant.
Calling opposition to destroying young brains "pitiful propaganda" shows how thoroughly the public discourse is controlled by the drug industry. If the Herald editors would take the time to view the DVD published by the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights they might learn some facts instead of the industry propaganda they so fervently believe without the slightest skepticism.
Ridiculing Kevin Hall "as a total stranger [who] know[s] better than John Odgren’s parents and doctors how his condition was being treated." shows the myopia of the editors. Why do police encourage strangers to report child abuse? Parents know better what their children need? Ahem!
This is corporate institutionalized child abuse by drug companies in the public schools. Instead of "The phrase 'get a life'" the editors might consider the phrase "Save some lives, stop the drugging."

-- Roy Bercaw, Editor
Cambridge MA USA
Church makes matters worse
By Boston Herald Editorial Staff
Thursday, January 25, 2007

No Tom Cruise in sight, but a collection of his fellow zealots, blinded by ideology, yesterday deepened the pain of every person connected to the tragic killing of a 15-year-old boy at Lincoln-Sudbury High School, disrupting a community’s grief to spread their pitiful propaganda. Members of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a wing of the Church of Scientology, held a banner near the school to condemn the practice of psychiatry and demanded information about any medications the suspected killer - an autistic 16-year-old - might have been taking. “These doctors shouldn’t be prescribing willy-nilly,” said Kevin Hall, the group’s New England director. Ah, yes, Mr. Hall - surely you as a total stranger know better than John Odgren’s parents and doctors how his condition was being treated. The phrase “get a life” comes to mind.