Bibliography

  • "The Myth of Mental Illness", Thomas Szasz, 1961.
  • "The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement", Thomas Szasz, 1970.
  • "Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry", Thomas Szasz, 1976.
  • "Anti-Freud - Karl Kraus' Criticisms of Psychiatry", Thomas Szasz, 1976.
  • "The Theology of Medicine", Thomas Szasz, 1977.
  • "The Myth of Psychotherapy", Thomas Szasz, 1978.
  • "Insanity - the Idea and its Consequences", Thomas Szasz, 1987.
  • "Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market", Thomas Szasz, 1992.
  • "The Meaning of Mind: Language, Morality and Neuroscience", Thomas Szasz, 1996.
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  • "Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good", James Davies, 2013.

"The Sanity Plea"?

Declaration of "Insanity", "Diagnosis", Incarceration, Poisoning - these seem to be our contemporary Ultimate Punishment.

A "fate worse than death" indeed - as millions of innocents know.

"Insanity" DOES NOT EXIST.

A mass murderer now uses the new-fangled "Sanity Plea" :) as a DEFENCE :) ????

Even if Breivik thought genuinely that all he slew were alien beings from outer space he would still be guilty of a crime.

Mistaken beliefs are not an illness nor an exoneration.

Extremely obvious, extremely simple, extremely correct.

I am ashamed that I have to emphasise something so obvious and so simple.


Yet I repeat - to be clear - it could not be clearer - 
Mistaken beliefs are not an illness nor an exoneration.

This is ridiculous farce.

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Is it now required of Breivik to convince the world that he is a "normal", "run-of-the-mill", "good old fashioned", sensible, healthy, right-wing extremist? :) ? Is that it?.....

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Incidentally - a comparison between Anders Breivik and Tony Blair may be enlightening and perhaps helpful.

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Breivik perhaps fits more into the pattern of Michael Ryan/Hungerford, Dunblane, Columbine etc. etc. = the pattern of a "beserker"/mass killing.

This too is NOT an illness or "insanity". No behavior or misbehavior is or can be an illness.

The struggles against Psychiatry is the struggle against Nazism

The struggle against Psychiatry is the struggle against Nazism.

Want to help secure the 1945 victory - still not fully won?...

And secure HUMAN RIGHTS as established in 1948. Churchill was one of the architects of them.

Stage one - to achieve them here in Churchill's home - is without doubt :-

 destroy the crime against humanity that is Psychiatry....





NEVER AGAIN!

This organisation had a Pastor Niemoller poem in its literature:


"First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me."

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In terms of the mass murder - the first to be killed en masse were - I repeat - the disabled and "mentally ill".

And like Niemoller, they were Germans.

And what I am saying VERY CLEARLY - is that this persecution and harm and, yes, this murder is not something I am warning you all about happening again.

I am saying to you all that IT CONTINUES in England and elsewhere right this very second and it is called Psychiatry itself.

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In the UK at least Africans in particular have been victims of the crime that is Psychiatry on a particluarly large scale.

I mean this entirely seriously.

These are serious crimes. Harming people is harming people. Crimes are crimes.

Crimes MUST be recognised as such for civilisation to continue and flourish.

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The solution is REMOVE ALL COERCION from Psychiatry.
This needs to be done as soon as can be managed - across the whole world.

Coercion is harm and is violence.

Even if this is a big change - it is a change that must occur.

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