This essay is proof that persistent propaganda will come to be believed as truth. The unstated assumptions are where the errors begin. Conflating mental illness with crime is an egregious irrational assumption that is promoted by the psychiatric industry. It is difficult to admit that one's close relative is a criminal. That does not excuse obscene negligent police training in dealing with persons with disabilities. Police have one standard for shooting to kill suspects. It is their belief that they or someone else is in danger. Their irrational fear of persons they believe are mentally ill (have a disability) adds to their fear and justified many unnecessary killings.
Nonetheless, Pat Scimone who is described as an advocate for the mentally ill and their families advocates the position of the drug-company-funded front organization, NAMI. The idea of forced treatment is applied only to persons accused of mental illness, a disease that only psychiatrists can see. These illnesses are made up of constitutionally protected speech and behavior that psychiatrists do not like or do not understand.
Scimone laments legislators "listening to mental health service providers" and state officials, who are aware of the constitutional protections guaranteed to citizens. Why should persons accused of mental illness be denied the same rights? Treating all persons accused of mental illness as criminals shows extreme negative stereotyping. This applies to denying these persons access to self-protection by owning guns.
People convicted of crime belong in jail. If they are also accused of mental illness they need to be permitted access to treatment, not forced to take it. The problem with psychiatric drugs is that stopping taking them often makes people violent. If they never started they would not be violent. But the drug companies like the tobacco companies want patients to take their chemicals forever. It is a business model guaranteed to be profitable especially when the government forces these chemicals on civilians. Having forced taxpayer funded treatment guarantees high profits.
Unmentioned in this essay are the many deaths caused by vulnerable persons taking psychiatric drugs willingly. Almost all of the high school shooters were taking or had stopped taking psychiatric drugs. This fact is censored from major media outlets by high paid PR firms who protect the psychiatric industry. Keeping a pristine image for psychiatrists allows many abuses and serious harms to innocent civilians. When will the New York Post scrutinize the abusive drug and psychiatric industries and stop the murders caused by drug companies' greed?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/for_families_sake_fix_kendra_law_ePITirAXUcQunfZYIlDN5I
For families' sake, fix 'Kendra's Law'
By PAT SCIMONE
New York Post
Last Updated: 3:13 AM, May 23, 2011
Posted: 10:55 PM, May 22, 2011
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