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Penalty for wife leaving you? Electrocution for a week.

Penalty for wife leaving you? Electrocution for a week. WTF???

Every morning for one very, very difficult week of my life back in 2013 I had to listen
to a real gentleman tell me over a cup of tea that he had just spent the last half an hour
being electrocuted.

I simply cannot believe that people can be so cruel to each other. And so stupid.

All that had happened to him - according to what he said - was that he had reacted badly to his wife's leaving him.

A period of recovery is one thing.

A period of some fucking evil bastard of a psychiatrist trying and succeeding very quickly to murder you for no good reason is quite another!

This man was a West Ham fan who remembered the terraces of Upton Park from the 1970s.
He was in his 50s from Hornchurch - a town that helped save the world in World War 2.
He may be dead now for all I know!

BAN E.C.T. - Let's Begin Medicine on Planet Earth!

BAN E.C.T. NOW!!!

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I am an amateur FILOSOFER. (I am not really a sofa). I dropped out of Cambridge University though I got an "S" grade in the entrance examination. I eventually received a 1st class Bachelors degree elsewhere. I received A.H.R.B. funding to pursue postgraduate study, but did not do so. Please enjoy my blogs. To parafrase Orwell, I am trying to make political blogging into an art. My intellectual heroes are Kenan Malik, Thomas Szasz and Noam Chomsky. I have made some mistakes in my life - and I would like to apologize wholeheartedly and from the depths of my cushions for any problems I may have caused and may be causing for anyone anywhere.