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  1. Kestrel <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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    Kestrel <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    In article <[email hidden]>, osmanthus
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    >In article <x08ac.65289$Bg.48869@fed1read03>, Hans
    >says...
    >>
    >>Barbara Schwarz wrote:
    >>>[email hidden] (NewzForYou) wrote in message news:<20040329111941.12182.00000329@mb-
    >>>m06.aol.com>...
    >>>
    >>>>The undeniable fact is that basic human rights are
    >>>>granted to killers and
    >>>>terrorists. Yet those same rights are denied people
    >>>>who have been accused of being mentally ill and
    >>>>subsequently committed. Similarly, the "burden of


    proof"

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    >>>>for any alleged criminal to be convicted and
    >>>>incarcerated is "beyond


    reasonable

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    >>>>doubt." For civil committal, however, all that is
    >>>>required is "probable


    cause,"

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    >>>>"reasonable grounds," or a "reason to believe" there
    >>>>might be a danger to


    self

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    >>>>or others.
    >>>>
    >>>>Hence, a disgruntled neighbor, a spouse, a fellow
    >>>>employee or anyone you


    know

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    >>>>could accuse you of being a danger to yourself and
    >>>>others, and you could be
    >>>>required to undergo a psychiatric examination to
    >>>>"prove" your sanity.
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> This is so true, Newzforyou. Somebody did it to me.
    >>> Somebody knocked at my door and outside stood two
    >>> representatives from a Salt Lake mental health
    >>> organization, approaching me as if I would be a
    >>> mentally retarded or something. It turned out that
    >>> somebody had just e-mailed to them that I would not
    >>> be sane, and they can ruin your life by just
    >>> comming and taking you with them.
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> Actually, the person who wrote that to the psychs
    >>> (she never met me nor corresponded with me) wrote
    >>> that she does not think that I am a danger to
    >>> myself or to others, but that was nevertheless
    >>> enough to send the psychs. She just did not like my
    >>> freedom of speech, the same problem under which so
    >>> many posters suffer. Psychs covered her identity up
    >>> despite that the person had bad intentions towards
    >>> me.
    >>>
    >>> If I would have been only slightly out of balance,
    >>> they would have committed me. If I would have
    >>> exploded angrily, (as it would be the right of a
    >>> person who is subjected to such a visit) they would
    >>> have used that certainly against me.
    >>>
    >>> It feels terrible when you have to defend your
    >>> state of mind, your personality, your views, etc.
    >>> Each mistake, each word that might slip out of your
    >>> mouth might be used against you.
    >>>
    >>> My warning to everyone in such a situation: don't
    >>> crack any joke. Be as calm and conservative as you
    >>> can be. The joke will be also used against you.
    >>>
    >>> However, I take my chances. I will say, write, and
    >>> post about my experiences, I will not allow anybody
    >>> to gag me, trying to restrict or steal my freedom
    >>> of speech. But there is no doubt, psychs need to be
    >>> handled, they are above the law. And if somebody
    >>> thinks, if that would happen to me, I will just ask
    >>> the courts for help, good luck. If the psychs claim
    >>> that you are crazy, the judge will believe them and
    >>> not you.
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> Barbara Schwarz
    >>
    >>If you're telling the truth and someone really did
    >>send people with butterfly-nets after you then they
    >>ought to be ashamed of themselves.
    >>
    >>As a clam you may be so full of [censored] that its coming
    >>out your ears, but that doesn't make you crazy.
    >>Foolish and gullible yes, but not psycho.
    >>
    >>The one thing I do wonder is how the person behind
    >>this email knew who you were, where you lived, and
    >>since when did someone sending the cops (I'm assuming
    >>the police were involved) an email constitute
    >>probable cause for them to come all the way out to
    >>see you, let along haul you away to Bedlam?
    >>
    >>If I call the cops and say that my neighbor is acting
    >>crazy they are going to want to know specifics.
    >>Futhermore they are going to want some indication
    >>that his behavior IS dangerous to himself or others.
    >>If he's talking to himself and staring at the walls
    >>while picking his nose then that just isn't good
    >>enough. Now if I lie and say he's running around with
    >>a chainsaw and a hockey mask then I've just filed a
    >>false police report which means I'm the one they're
    >>going to come looking for next. They're definitely
    >>not going to act on an email alone because of the
    >>inherent lack of accountability involved.
    >>
    >>If the police were not involved and the people who
    >>came to see you were not agents of law enforcement,
    >>then where on earth did you get the idea that they
    >>had the authority to detain you? Seriously. Jehovah's
    >>Witnesses and Utah Moonies come to my house from time
    >>to time and tell me all kinds of things, but that
    >>doesn't mean I have to get in their car with them.
    >>
    >>I remember a case a few years ago I heard about on
    >>the Gordon Liddy show. Gordon's assistant told the
    >>story about how she was drug away to a hospital and
    >>put under observation the night before. She was
    >>feeling depressed (about what I don't remember) and
    >>called some sort of crisis chat line because she
    >>didn't have anyone to talk to and the number was
    >>advertized on TV. While she was nowhere near suicidal
    >>the phone-monkey on the other end due to his infinite
    >>wisdom and fast-food experience decided that she was,
    >>and even told her that she was. Her claims to the
    >>contrary were not enough to change his mind. She got
    >>tired of talking to him because he was more
    >>interested in playing mind games than actually
    >>helping her. So she said goodbye and hung up the
    >>phone. At this point the mensa candidate on the other
    >>end called the police and told them that she was
    >>suicidal and was preparing to kill herself with a
    >>pair of scissors. She had just gotten out of the
    >>shower when the police start banging on her door. You
    >>can imagine her suprise to discover that the police
    >>were there to keep her from harming herself on the
    >>judgement of some nimrod phone-monkey. Well she was
    >>taken down to the hospital where they were going to
    >>hold her for observation. Luckily the doctor assigned
    >>to examine her was blessed with a brain and common
    >>sense and released her after about half an hour.
    >>
    >>My point is that things like what you're describing
    >>can happen, but not just because someone got an
    >>email. Even Bo-Bo the phone-chimp would have had more
    >>sense than to send out the butterfly net patrol
    >>because [email hidden] told him that the woman at
    >>123 Elm Street was psycho.
    >>
    >>If what you're describing REALLY DID happen and
    >>you're not just blowing smoke up our asses, then I'd
    >>suggest you get yourself a lawyer (a real one, not
    >>some clam hack) and pursue legal action against the
    >>person who caused you trouble for filing a false
    >>police report. A lawyer can do a lot to get the
    >>identity of that person revealed if nothing else.
    >>
    >>Hans
    >
    >
    >Hans, that is a very interesting story. I have an old
    >friend who was taken against his will and committed to
    >a mental hospital. He was in his 20?s so was not
    >a minor. I think it was his parents who reported him.
    >When it happened he


    wasn't

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    >sure who had reported him . But the point is that he
    >was kidnapped and held in the hospital for 60 or 90
    >days and forced to take drugs. When they let him out,
    >he was forced to continue to take drugs as a requisite
    >of his release. He


    didn?t

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    >want the drugs and protested but was told by the
    >authorities that if he didn?t
    >take drugs he would be re-committed. This is a true
    >story. The guy called me for help. It could happen to
    >anyone who gets in the wrong hands. Especially if a
    >family member gets duped into thinking this kind of
    >"treatment" would be helpful. I agree; my friend
    >should have gotten an attorney!
    >

    Yeah, but Hans is also incredibly naive. Of course an
    email can get someone dragged off to the loony bin! For
    christ's sake, Hans should go visit the websites of
    Support Coalition International and Mad Nation and read
    the oral histories of psych survivors who've been
    locked away for reasons just as flimsy as that and by
    people with no relationship to them whatsoever. Read
    about the 6 year-old kid who spent 10 years in a psych
    ward, much of it in solitary confinement, because HE
    PICKED FLOWERS FROM A NEIGHBOR'S GARDEN! Hans sounds
    like one of these starry-eyed types who thinks life is
    fair and the innocent are never imprisoned and men in
    white coats tell the truth. Hans thinks there are laws
    and rules that psychs obey and that lawyers leap to
    defend psych victims. DREAM ON, HANS. Most psych
    hospitals are owned by large corporations who can
    afford to litigate victims into the ground. And most
    victims can't afford to pay a lawyer because they have
    no income having just spend the last god-knows-how-long
    locked up in a psych ward! So don't feel you have to be
    easy on Hans. He doesn't have the first clue about what
    psychs will or won't do.

    And that's my rant for the day. ;-)

    ?The participation of physicians, especially
    psychiatrists, in the Holocaust is unprecedented in
    history. The crimes of German Psychiatry are unique and
    unprecedented in the history of mankind. The mass murder
    of Jews, Gypsies, and

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    patients.? Struan Robertson, The History of Jews in
    Hamburg rrz.uni-rrz.uni-
    hamburg.de/rz3a035/psychiatry.html

    Yes, indeed, there is no way that psychiatrists can talk
    them out of the Holocaust and the horrible things they
    did to minorities. One day they will be exposed of not
    just having been a part of it, but having been the
    driving force behind the Holocaust.

    Having lived for many years in Germany, I came to
    following conclusion to the question who is behind
    international psychiatry: Behind international psychiatry
    are German psychiatrists, the Nazi kind of psychiatrists.

    Barbara Schwarz

    Barb, you are so right. You will find that historians of
    the Holocaust back you up 100%. I always look forward to
    an opportunity to post excerpts from this speech by Ernst
    Klee, entitled "Killing by starvation in the institutions
    and other previous crimes of psychiatry." Klee is the
    author of "Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its
    Perpetrators and Bystanders," as well as other histories
    published in German. This speech is translated from
    German. The full text can be found in English at irren-irren-
    offensive.de/kleespeech.htm

    "German Psychiatry Needed the Nazis

    "Long before the Nazis would come to power psychiatrists
    already made similar demands [freedom to exterminate their
    patients].

    "Emil Kraeplin 1918: "An absolute ruler who unscrupulously
    interfered with human habits would, without any doubt and
    in the course of only a few decades, effectuate a decline
    in mental debility."

    "In 1931, Hermann Simon, Head of the Anstalt in Gütersloh
    clearly defines the supposedly inferior category of
    people. These include: the physically ill, the invalid,
    the weak, the imbecile, the crippled and the insane, and
    he concludes: "Someone will have to die again."

    "Ernst Rüdin 1934: "The psychiatrist and the healthy
    person are allies against the genetically defective. The
    psychiatrist must render his service to the ultimate aim
    of a hereditary pure, able and superior race." Rüdin, who
    regarded compulsory sterilization as the "most humane act
    of humankind', says in 1934 about [censored]: "Only Adolf
    [censored]'s political work made it possible that the people's
    awareness for the meaning and importance of the purity of
    race could be raised and heightened. Our dream, lasting
    for over more than 30 years now, has finally become
    reality."

    "The Nazis did not use German Psychiatry but German
    Psychiatry needed the Nazis.

    "Psychiatrists had to denigrate their patients because of
    their own incapacity to provide either cure or therapy.
    Hence, the first to be disposed of were those who
    confronted them directly with this inability: the
    chronically ill (the so-called incurable). German
    psychiatric history was to culminate into the almost
    unutterable: they said 'treat' but meant 'murder'
    instead."

    Thank you for posting that and providing the links, Kestrel.
    I read as much of your postings as I can. ARS became a much
    more interesting newsgroup since some individuals, critical
    of psychiatry post here. Before it were mainly psychiatric
    trolls which misinform, attack and heckle in typical German
    Nazi psychiatric style, religion and everybody who just
    happen to be of different opinion.

    Sometimes it looks like a waste of time to post, as it seems
    that nobody reads it or nobody is getting true information
    in their heads, but I know there are are many quiet readers,
    people that choose not to be hassled, and don't post, but
    which you educate through your postings.

    I hope you give nothing on hecklers and psychiatric trolls
    who post that you should go away.

    I am one of the unlucky people who had a real "run in" with
    German psychs of our times. They are people from hell,
    without human qualifications, without professional
    qualifications, and they are simply perverted butchers.
    Watching them and their determination to torture my religion
    and personality out of me made me see that they are still
    Nazi doctors.

    The problem in Germany is that when you say the truth, that
    psychs are still still operate like Nazis, they come, commit
    you, and force drugs and other butcher methods on you. If
    they really would not be Nazis doctor anymore, how come they
    can't take critic easy and have to quiet critique down with
    their brutal "treatments" and commitment?

    Psychiatry need to be outlawed. Human and decent methods
    need to be put in place to help the people which lost their
    balances. I saw nobody beign healed in mental institutions.
    Very honestly, people got crazier in there as they were when
    they came in. By posting what psychiatry really is, and who
    is behind it, you are doing the right steps.

    Don't forget to post the excerpts from the Klee speech, as
    soon you have time, Kestrel.

    Barbara

  2. [email hidden] (Barbara Schwarz) wrote in
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    Babsie, little dearest, I'm in the mood tonight to love
    you. Do us a favour and read 'Mask of Sanity'.
    cassiopaea.orgc%27sbook.htm Right-click or
    left-click, it's wonderful reading. Forgive me, I'm not
    posting it here, too much of a strain. It is a PDF. You can
    download it or read online. Go to page 102 and read one of
    the stories presented as material of illustration of the
    anti-social personality. Yes, you are right, you have heard
    this word before, and so had Hubbard. Mr. Hervey Cleckley,
    M.D. wrote this book 1941. If you take the pleasure and
    read it, you will immediately pick-up the sense of
    distinguished educated leasurely applied scrutiny and
    science, where Hubbard remembered a whiff of smell from
    later on, and invented the hangman knot, to get rid of it.
    I urge you here and now in this thread, as I am in sorrow,
    that innocent bystanders will take your verbal petting with
    imagined and real responders to your rant against psychatry
    as something to be read seriously. Mr. Cleckley is a true
    gem to read. Know what? I post a story here, now. It's not
    the one from Anna, this is Frank's. It sheds a wonderful
    light on how much of scrupulous thoughts go into applied
    everyday's psychatry by good people (That Hubbard stole
    from). Here it goes:

    Frank The following letter was received by an influential
    senator in Washington and referred by him to the hospital.

    Dear Sir: It is with regret that I find it necessary to seek
    consideration from higher authority but I have been confined
    in the Veterans Administration Hospital at for two years.
    During my period of incarceration here I have tried in every
    available way to cooperate with the officials, but it seems
    an impossibility to get any consideration from them toward
    gaining my freedom. I was placed here on the recommendation
    of my sister because she thought I was a drug addict, and
    she has written some pretty nasty things against me to the
    officials here. I can prove to the satisfaction of all
    concerned that I am not a confirmed drug addict or habitual
    user of any form of drug sufficiently to warrant continuous
    confinement. I am not a criminal, nor had I the slightest
    minor charge of any description against me at the time I
    came here. The Staff here has rated me less than 10 percent
    disabled and discontinued all government compensation;
    therefore, I believe you will agree with me that any man
    with a less than 10 percent disability could not possess a
    physical or mental disorder sufficient to prevent his having
    his freedom and making his own livelihood. I am not even
    allowed parole privileges of the grounds as a great many of
    the patients here are. Some are continually violating
    institutional rules and still retain their parole privileges
    undisciplined. I have two children, who need my support and
    as long as I am kept incarcerated I can't assist them in any
    way for I have no means other than my labor to support them.
    I hereby humbly request you to intercede in my behalf and
    demand these officials here to grant my release in order
    that I may be able to support my children to the best of my
    ability as is every man's duty. There are quite a few men in
    these institutions that are nothing short of impositions on
    the government and taxpayers of the United States. They, the
    same as myself, are perfectly capable mentally and
    physically to support themselves and should be forced to do
    so. I have begged for parole, trial visit, or any other
    means to prove myself selfsustaining, but the authorities
    here seem to take my plea as a joke and make a lot of
    promises that they have no intention of putting into action.
    I will gladly submit to any physical or mental examination
    you may deem necessary to assist you in obtaining my release
    from this place. I pray that you will give my earnest
    request your immediate consideration. Please be assured that
    I hold no malice toward any of the officials here or
    elsewhere but my only objective in writing you is to gain my
    freedom and support my children. Please let me hear from you
    personally, Yours very respectfully, Frank ______

    The writer of this letter has behind him a formidable record
    of misadventure. Detailed knowledge of Frank's early life is
    not available beyond the following facts. The son of a
    rustic blacksmith, he was raised in a small hamlet near the
    mountains of north Georgia. So far as can be learned, no
    members of his family suffered from nervous or mental
    disease or made themselves objectionable in the community.
    He completed the fifth grade in school, where he was
    considered by no means a dull boy, though often truant. Many
    of the hours he was supposed to have spent in school or
    working at some necessary chore for his family he is
    reported to have idled away in loitering about a local
    millpond drowning goats and doing other senseless or
    uninviting deeds of mischief. Before the United States
    entered World War I, Frank had forged his father's name to a
    false statement about his age and enlisted in the National
    Guard. He was given vocational training by the government
    after his discharge from the army. He was tried at several
    courses but made no serious effort to complete any of them.
    In his community he soon made himself a problem, sometimes
    drinking to excess, often behaving in a rowdy and
    threatening manner, contracting to buy small businesses,
    filling stations, farms, but never living up to his
    agreements. Local ex-service men, believing that he took
    morphine and that treatment might help his maladjustment
    (commonly referred to as "nervousness"😉, had him sent to a
    psychiatric hospital. He remained for a month, then returned
    to continue in his old ways. Now began a series of
    hospitalizations which extends to the present time. He would
    be sent first to one place, then to another. He has been
    treated in state hospitals, in federal hospitals, and in
    private institutions at the expense of the government. All
    told, he has been admitted no less than nineteen times to
    strictly mental hospitals maintained for the purpose of
    treating psychotic people. Sometimes he remained only three
    or four weeks and sometimes six or even eighteen months.
    Over the years his periods of hospitalization have grown
    slightly longer and his intervals outside shorter. He has
    never, during the past fifteen years, been free longer than
    a few months. While not under the care of psychiatrists he
    has received considerable attention from the police. His
    jail sentences number seven at the present reading,
    including a term of nine months in the Leavenworth
    Penitentiary (where he was sent for forging a prescription
    for morphine) but not counting a score or more of overnight
    or weekend stops in police barracks. Despite these
    preoccupations Frank has found time to marry and have four
    children and to become ordained as a minister in a small
    religious sect noted for vigorous evangelical fervor. His
    marital relations have been most unsatisfactory during the
    interludes when he was free to be with the family. His wife
    reports that he curses her and fights with her, and it is
    well established that he seizes any money that is available,
    hires automobiles, and drives aimlessly about the
    countryside, often drinking to excess and, according to some
    reports, occasionally taking morphine. At times he has
    seemed proud of his ecclesiastical title, referring to
    himself as a pastor and assuming unctuous and haughty airs.
    He has not, however, occupied himself with whatever
    ministerial duties he was supposed to fulfill any more
    consistently than with other work. His friends, especially
    those interested in the American Legion and other service
    organizations, have obtained many positions for him. He is
    shrewd, neat in appearance, and an excellent talker. He
    makes a good impression at first but always shirks his
    responsibility to such an extent that it is impossible to
    retain him. A few years ago he was given a place at a
    filling station and seemed, surprisingly, to show
    considerable interest in his work for several days. It was
    then discovered that he had been drawing off all the
    gasoline he could and taking it to a nearby town where he
    sold it and bought morphine from dope peddlers, most of
    which he, in turn, sold at a tremendous profit to local
    addicts. He has been consistently arrogant and aggressive
    toward his neighbors and acquaintances, usually over
    trifling matters. After taking a few drinks, he has often
    threatened others, claimed things that were not his own, and
    made such a nuisance of himself that local police would be
    called to deal with him. He is boastful and histrionic, more
    eloquently and aggressively so with a few highballs, and
    much given to temper tantrums. He frequently threatens to
    kill himself over some petty vexation and once offered a
    pistol to his wife, urging her grandiloquently to shoot him.
    He has never made an attempt, however, to harm himself,
    though his opportunities have been unlimited. He has been
    reported as having convulsive seizures. These developed when
    he was refused special attention by physicians and seemed,
    according to their descriptions, plainly and consciously
    designed toward obtaining various ends. This manifestation
    has also been noted when he was confined to jail and wanted
    to be sent to a mental hospital in order to escape charges
    that had been brought against him. These so-called seizures
    have been observed several times in this hospital by
    competent psychiatrists. They did not in any way suggest
    epilepsy nor were they convincing as possible reactions of
    true hysteria. The patient is unquestionably conscious and
    shows that he is behaving intentionally in this way to gain
    a recognized end. Unlike a conversion phenomenon, the
    purpose does not appear to be concealed from his conscious
    awareness.63,76 Though occasionally confused after heavy
    drinking (perhaps with the addition of drugs), he has at all
    other times been entirely rational, alert, shrewd, and free
    from delusions and hallucinations. Early in Frank's career
    his disturbance was diagnosed on several occasions as
    hysteria, sometimes as both psychopathic personality and
    hysteria. Once he was given a diagnosis of psychopathic
    personality with psychotic episodes. There was not, however,
    any evidence of behavior or symptoms different from what he
    has shown on other occasions. There is reason to suspect
    that the real and pressing need to keep this patient
    hospitalized may have played an important part in his being
    so classified. The genuinely irrational and incompetent
    behavior, no doubt, supports the use of such a term as
    psychosis, despite the lack of any additional symptoms. The
    irrational behavior which has characterized him is not based
    on a delusional system or on any loss of the good reasoning
    ability he shows on examination. Some of his most turbulent
    misconduct has, of course, been exhibited while he was
    intoxicated. At such times he naturally lacked his customary
    shrewdness and alertness. However, this cannot
    conscientiously be called a psychotic episode beyond and
    above his wellknown inadequacy but rather the manifestation
    of inebriety. I do not mean to say that this man is normal
    but only that he has none of the recognized types of mental
    disorder, episodic or constant. If his drunken and wayward
    episodes are to be termed psychotic, then it would seem that
    his state at other times might also be termed psychotic,
    since it is in his shrewd, technically sane condition that
    he decides to add the picturesque touches of intoxication
    which he well knows will bring him to the attention of the
    police. At this hospital, at the state hospitals, and at the
    other institutions to which Frank was sent in recent years,
    he has been considered a sane man without psychotic
    episodes. The symptomatic diagnoses of drug addiction and
    chronic alcoholism have been added. During all these years
    he has shown no evidence of deterioration or regression, and
    today at 38 years of age he is the same clever, alert person
    he was described as being twenty years ago. Unlike nearly
    all real morphine addicts, he does not show ordinary
    withdrawal symptoms or other signs of physical illness and
    acute distress when, after being admitted to the hospital,
    he is deprived of opportunities to obtain the drug. If the
    reports that he takes morphine have any factual basis, such
    use must be sporadic. There is little or no evidence that
    effects of the drug have regularly played any major role in
    his behavior. It appears that his chief connection with
    drugs has been through his part in peddling them illicitly.

    His career in the hospital has been marked by frequent
    paroles which are always terminated by his failing to
    return, returning drunk, or being taken up by the police for
    petty theft, swindling, and futile and unprovoked disorder.
    Though ingratiating and outwardly cooperative when he is
    trying to obtain parole or discharge, he constantly schemes
    to escape or, surreptitiously, to call upon high authorities
    to have him released. Once, while helping attendants on the
    disturbed ward, he succeeded in turning hot water into a tub
    in which a psychotic patient lay in a continuous bath. He
    did not try to injure the man seriously, but merely to hurt
    him a little as a joke. This is a fair example of the inane,
    humorless mischief that underlies the pretentious front
    assumed by this former pastor. Despite his medicolegal
    status, which, of course, is technically regarded as
    constituting sanity, those interested in finding some
    practical way to protect him and his family and to cope with
    the ever accumulating problems succeeded on one occasion in
    having him committed by the court. Those close to the
    situation evidently found in his behavior reasons for action
    more compelling than the abstract criteria which stood in
    the way of such a step. After being held in the hospital for
    several months, despite his reiterated demands for discharge
    against medical advice, he called in an attorney. Frank had
    in the past always found no difficulty in leaving when it
    suited his purpose or his whim. In view of his well-
    demonstrated inability to live in freedom, he was now, by
    means of the legal commitment, kept against his wishes in
    order to spare his family, the community, and himself the
    hardships he had brought about before and was sure to bring
    about again.

    The attorney for the government, in attempting to resist
    habeas corpus proceedings, found himself in a familiar
    dilemma, as the following quotations from his letter
    will show:

    "It is evident that the medical staff at the hospital are
    using the term insane to convey the meaning of the medical
    definition of the word rather than the legal definition. In
    other words, the thought back of the use of the word appears
    to me to be that it is the opinion of neuropsychiatrists
    that this man is not suffering from a mental disease as
    physicians understand the term, that he does not have a
    psychosis. It does appear, however, that it is their opinion
    that the state of his mind due to drug addiction and also
    manifested by his past antisocial behavior is such as to
    warrant the conclusions that he is incompetent and that he
    should receive treatment in a hospital for the cure of
    nervous and mental diseases. To say, however, that he is
    incompetent but not insane presents a rather inconsistent
    picture with which to go into court. We may be confronted
    with such a question as why he needs to be in a hospital for
    the care of nervous and mental diseases if he has no nervous
    or mental disease. I am inclined to think that the terms
    insanity and incompetency so far as their legal significance
    is concerned are used interchangeably and that the important
    point to be considered, whether you call a man insane or
    merely admit that he is incompetent, is whether the person
    is incapable of administering his personal estate in the
    normal manner of a prudent man and whether there is definite
    evidence of a more or less prolonged departure from normal
    behavior as compared with the standards of the community,
    such as dissipation of funds, unwise purchases, and utter
    lack of appreciation of values. Because of the fact that I
    anticipate some difficulty in trying to show that the man is
    incompetent but not insane, I would appreciate an expression
    of your views on the matter. It occurs to me also that a man
    ought to be confined who is a menace to others and likely to
    do harm to others, even though his mental condition may be
    due in part to inadequate mental development and in part to
    the use of drugs. He may be just as dangerous to himself or
    to others as a person suffering from a mental disease and
    who, according to the purely medical definition of insanity,
    would be pronounced insane."

    Of course, it might be asked why these people are not let
    out of the mental hospitals and left to the police. If they
    are considered responsible for their misdeeds, let them be
    punished. This, as a matter of fact, is what the average
    psychiatric hospital is nearly always forced to do, whatever
    its physicians may think of the wisdom and practicality of
    such a procedure. These men are studied, found free of
    recognized mental disorder which might make them unaware of
    what they are doing, and are sent back out into the world.
    They are arrested not once but many times. Most of them
    seldom commit such serious crimes that they are kept out of
    circulation in penal institutions for long periods. Only
    rarely can they be kept for more than a few days. They do
    not follow any purposive criminal life. They make a nuisance
    of themselves to the community as a whole and often
    tragically wreck the lives of those close to them, and all
    to no discernible end. The police and the courts tire of
    them. Through various influences they are forced back on the
    mental hospitals where they take legal action to regain
    their freedom, only to begin the process again. If, as
    stated in the quotations previously cited, it would be
    difficult to prove this man incompetent but not insane, it
    would be far more difficult, by existing definitions of
    psychiatry, to prove him "insane." His perfectly rational
    (superficial) behavior under scrutiny, his freedom from
    delusions, his shrewdness, his alertness, and his convincing
    plan for a normal, useful life, in short, his plain sanity
    as this is ordinarily understood, make it all but impossible
    for a judge or a jury to call him insane. Psychiatrists,
    familiar with his long record of senseless behavior, are
    able to see more reason to do so than could be brought out
    before a court in terms of abstract criteria by which the
    decision is determined.

    But according to the accepted standards of psychiatry, his
    diagnosis carries with it an official and automatic
    endorsement of the patient as sane and competent. No matter
    how strongly impressed by real and practical evidence to the
    contrary, all physicians, testifying in such a case must
    admit that the official technicalities approve this paradox.
    Having won his case in court, the patient was released
    against medical advice. Frank did not go home but remained
    in the city where he at once claimed the attention of the
    police. On being released after a few days in jail, he took
    a room at the best hotel and annoyed other guests by various
    tactics, such as trying to borrow money, sponge on them for
    a meal, or sell them something useless or nonexistent. He
    became at times loudly boastful or rowdy and eventually fell
    on the floor drunk. He refused to pay for his room and
    resisted the management's attempts to remove him. He sought
    loans under bold-faced pretenses, ran up debts without
    regard to the possibilities of payment, and telephoned and
    wrote to his family, threatening suicide unless his demands
    for money were promptly met. There are indications that he
    was not inactive during this period in old devices of petty
    thievery, shortchanging, and various types of fraud, sharp
    practice, and connivance that exist, more or less, on the
    fringe of organized but illegal racketeering found in any
    city. Nothing, however, could be pinned on him by the law
    that led to his being effectively controlled. In all issues
    of this sort that arose, he had his record as a patient once
    legally committed and often confined to psychiatric
    institutions. This record was, in his ingenious hands, of
    considerable value as insurance against penal restraint.
    After several arrests, the police began to call on the
    hospital to relieve them of their problems with this man.
    They were told that nothing could be done since he had been
    legally removed and the hospital was enjoined by the court
    not to hold him. Soon afterward the police and various local
    people began to seek advice on how to deal with him from the
    attorney who had liberated this man. The patient himself
    soon joined in, coming repeatedly to the attorney's office
    or his house, sometimes drunk and always unreasonable, to
    shout about the injustices of the world, borrow money, evade
    threatening penalties, and to demand diverse preposterous
    services. The veteran had promised to pay the attorney's
    bill with bonus money, but now it appeared that this money
    had already been squandered. Hoping to collect his fee and,
    no doubt, from humanitarian impulses, the attorney sought to
    keep in touch with his client. Those with whom he had run up
    bills and floated little loans joined others swindled or
    defrauded in small matters and took up their problems with
    the patient's legal representative.

    Soon the incessant complaints from annoyed people, the
    client's own nagging or uproarious invasions upon him at all
    hours, and the constant queries of the police drove him to
    seek relief. The patient being again in jail, the attorney
    persuaded him to agree to return to the hospital voluntarily
    and pled with the physician in charge to take him back,
    confessing himself at fault ever to have released such a
    scourge on the community and on himself. Arrangements were
    made for readmission. The patient arrived in custody of a
    policeman. He was still somewhat stimulated from a recent
    intoxication but, though overbearing and pompous, showed no
    signs of real drunkenness nor of an officially recognized
    psychosis. Frank took a high-handed manner, swaggered about,
    and finally refused to come back into the hospital, saying
    that he had no mental disease and that he preferred to
    return to jail where he would soon be released to carry out
    important business plans and social activities. He enjoyed
    the incident, played up his role dramatically, and took a
    peremptory and haughty tone with everyone. He soon obtained
    his freedom, but some weeks later after running up big
    debts, giving several more bad checks, and participating in
    a series of senseless, bawdy escapades, he was finally
    returned to the hospital. Three months later he again
    obtained his discharge on a writ of habeas corpus but not
    through the same attorney. The story in its broad essentials
    was repeated. Since his last admission, following the
    exploits just mentioned, he has been true to form. After
    varying periods on a closed ward, parole has been given; he
    has lost it repeatedly and gone back among "demented" and
    helpless groups with whom he is, to say the least, not at
    home. He has continued at all times free from the technical
    stigmata of psychosis, remaining crafty, intelligent, and
    superficially cooperative while trying to gain his ends.
    Frank takes advantage of every opportunity to make trouble
    in the hospital and is rather restless and extremely
    dissatisfied. He sends frequent letters to women in town to
    whom he regards himself as paying court. These are written
    in a neat hand, well spelled, and well expressed and are
    much better letters than would be expected from a man of his
    education. They are marked with self-righteousness, extreme
    egotism, trite sentimentality, and monumental falsehood. His
    tone is that of a lover who regards his own passion as very
    high and rare. "Only God knows," he writes, "why I wasn't
    left over there among the poppies with my heroic buddies,"
    falsely describing himself as a captain in charge of 272
    men. "My wife never understood me!" he complains in the same
    letter. What does he expect of her? The question invites
    meditation.

    OK, Barbara, if you really had the sincerity to have read it
    down to here, I give you my secret belief: Frank *might* be
    one of the anti-social personalities, Hubbard was talking
    about. Right? Now, what do you think, how many of these
    people are there out on the street. Three of a hundred? Not
    so! Right? And hanging them? Err.

    steff

    PS The next story is Anna! That's a nice one! So well
    mannered!

    Quoted message said:

    Don't forget to post the excerpts from the Klee speech, as
    soon you have time, Kestrel.

    Barbara

    -- If there ever was an apple, Hubbard was the worm. Es ist
    leichter, hinter einer Sache zu stehen, als vor ihr. Only
    plain text emails are accepted.

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    Quoted message said:

    [email hidden] wrote in
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    Quoted message said:

    [email hidden] (Barbara Schwarz) wrote in
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    Babsie, little dearest, I'm in the mood tonight to love
    you. Do us a favour and read 'Mask of Sanity'.
    cassiopaea.orgc%27sbook.htm Right-click
    or left-click, it's wonderful reading. Forgive me, I'm
    not posting it here, too much of a strain.

    Yes, I know, Marty would have never said that. May he rest
    in peace. What I ment certainly wasn't a strain on my
    part, but on the server's. I know your prudence would
    understand. Just to clarify for the readers;-)

    steff

    Quoted message said:

    It is a PDF. You can download it or read online. Go to
    page 102 and read one of the stories presented as
    material of illustration

    You are attacking Scientology because it is rightfully anti-
    psychiatry, Stefan. You are psychiatric troll like so many
    other posters here. You should read the below posting that
    was done by Kestrel not long ago in original thread. It
    seems to me that you try to get rid of the anti-psychiatry
    and the anti-Nazi information by opening another thread.

    Ernst Klee lives in Germany, a country that adores their
    unprofessional and brutal psychiatry as it would be a
    religion. Did you hear of him? I hope that Ernst Klee has a
    lot of lawyers surrounding him as I think that psychs would
    love to collect and commit him after he so properly and
    truthfully spilled the truth about psychs and Nazis.

    The psychs always talked about getting rid of the imbecile.
    If they would have committed suicide, they would have had
    that end product.

    Psychs suppressived mankind before the Nazis and they are
    still at it. And one of their movements was persecuting
    Scientology, infiltrating it and hiring guys like you and
    the other extremists and attacking Scientology in newsgroups
    or otherwise over the Internet or in the media.

    This is some of what Kestrel posted, read it and confront
    it, Stefan.

    "I always look forward to an opportunity to post excerpts
    from this speech by Ernst Klee, entitled "Killing by
    starvation in the institutions and other previous crimes of
    psychiatry." Klee is the author of "Good Old Days: The
    Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders," as
    well as other histories published in German. This speech is
    translated from German. The full text can be found in
    English at irren-offensive.dekleespeech.htm

    "German Psychiatry Needed the Nazis

    "Long before the Nazis would come to power psychiatrists
    already made similar demands [freedom to exterminate their
    patients].

    "Emil Kraeplin 1918: "An absolute ruler who unscrupulously
    interfered with human habits would, without any doubt and in
    the course of only a few decades, effectuate a decline in
    mental debility."

    "In 1931, Hermann Simon, Head of the Anstalt in Gütersloh
    clearly defines the supposedly inferior category of people.
    These include: the physically ill, the invalid, the weak,
    the imbecile, the crippled and the insane, and he concludes:
    "Someone will have to die again."

    "Ernst Rüdin 1934: "The psychiatrist and the healthy person
    are allies against the genetically defective. The
    psychiatrist must render his service to the ultimate aim of
    a hereditary pure, able and superior race." Rüdin, who
    regarded compulsory sterilization as the "most humane act of
    humankind', says in 1934 about [censored]: "Only Adolf [censored]'s
    political work made it possible that the people's awareness
    for the meaning and importance of the purity of race could
    be raised and heightened. Our dream, lasting for over more
    than 30 years now, has finally become reality."

    "The Nazis did not use German Psychiatry but German
    Psychiatry needed the Nazis.

    "Psychiatrists had to denigrate their patients because of
    their own incapacity to provide either cure or therapy.
    Hence, the first to be disposed of were those who confronted
    them directly with this inability: the chronically ill (the
    so-called incurable). German psychiatric history was to
    culminate into the almost unutterable: they said 'treat' but
    meant 'murder' instead." "
    -------

    Barbara Schwarz

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    Quoted message said:

    [email hidden] wrote in message news:<-
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    Quoted message said:

    [email hidden] wrote in
    :"]news:[email hidden]:

    Quoted message said:

    [email hidden] (Barbara Schwarz) wrote in
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    Babsie, little dearest, I'm in the mood tonight to love
    you. Do us a favour and read 'Mask of Sanity'.
    cassiopaea.orgc%27sbook.htm Right-
    click or left-click, it's wonderful reading. Forgive
    me, I'm not posting it here, too much of a strain.

    Yes, I know, Marty would have never said that. May he
    rest in peace. What I ment certainly wasn't a strain on
    my part, but on the server's. I know your prudence would
    understand. Just to clarify for the readers;-)

    steff

    Quoted message said:

    It is a PDF. You can download it or read online. Go to
    page 102 and read one of the stories presented as
    material of illustration

    You are attacking Scientology because it is rightfully anti-
    psychiatry, Stefan.

    That's plain [censored]. I am in no way related to
    psychiatry business.

    Quoted message said:

    You are psychiatric troll like so many other posters here.
    You should read the below posting that was done by Kestrel
    not long ago in original thread. It seems to me that you
    try to get rid of the anti-psychiatry and the anti-Nazi
    information by opening another thread.

    No, but like one other said, you are grumbling through
    stuff, that 60 and more years old, and try to draw
    connection to present time.

    Quoted message said:


    Ernst Klee lives in Germany, a country that adores their
    unprofessional and brutal psychiatry as it would be a
    religion.

    That is your fixed idea. In the opposite. Germany has very
    restrictive governmental rules to prevent a situation, that
    we had in the third reich.

    Quoted message said:

    Did you hear of him?

    It is good, that he shows the deeds of those perverted
    professionals of those days. I knew about those from my
    childhood on, as I was raised in a house, that was
    stigmatised and very alerted against fascism. So we had a
    great deal of talking on the subject, and the
    circumstance, that many of the pro-nazi people were in
    power again after the war, up into the siventies, was an
    often commented on fact.

    Quoted message said:

    I hope that Ernst Klee has a lot of lawyers surrounding
    him as I think that psychs would love to collect and
    commit him after he so properly and truthfully spilled the
    truth about psychs and Nazis.

    Until he steps on toes of those directly in power, he should
    not need that. Most of these old farts have gone down the
    drain. But, of course, it might be families of those
    accused, that try to start trouble.

    Quoted message said:


    The psychs always talked about getting rid of the
    imbecile. If they would have committed suicide, they would
    have had that end product.

    Psychs suppressived mankind before the Nazis and they are
    still at it. And one of their movements was persecuting
    Scientology, infiltrating it and hiring guys like you and
    the other extremists and attacking Scientology in
    newsgroups or otherwise over the Internet or in the media.

    Ah bull. Scientology is a quack undertaking. It's a
    collection of long established truths and half-thruths +
    plain phantasy. He would have liked to gain reputation by a
    serious fight with professionals, but noone did find enough
    substance to even start it, except maybe the AMA. In so far,
    that Hubbard claimed to be a professional in the beginning.

    Quoted message said:


    This is some of what Kestrel posted, read it and confront
    it, Stefan.

    I could bet, though I have not read it really, that he did
    not post about the relationship of psychatry and
    Scientology. So this is an artful suggestion you implement
    for innocent readers.

    Quoted message said:


    "I always look forward to an opportunity to post excerpts
    from this speech by Ernst Klee, entitled "Killing by
    starvation in the institutions and other previous crimes
    of psychiatry." Klee is the author of "Good Old Days: The
    Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders," as
    well as other histories published in German. This speech
    is translated from German. The full text can be found in
    English at irren-offensive.dekleespeech.htm

    I know of the terrible crimes, that german psychatrists did
    here during the fascist regime. And, I felt always special
    attended somehow by prosecuting procedings on that concern,
    as the central governmental agency in duty of it is located
    10 miles from here, in Ludwigsburg.

    Quoted message said:


    "German Psychiatry Needed the Nazis

    "Long before the Nazis would come to power psychiatrists
    already made similar demands [freedom to exterminate their
    patients].

    "Emil Kraeplin 1918: "An absolute ruler who unscrupulously
    interfered with human habits would, without any doubt and
    in the course of only a few decades, effectuate a decline
    in mental debility."

    "In 1931, Hermann Simon, Head of the Anstalt in Gütersloh
    clearly defines the supposedly inferior category of
    people. These include: the physically ill, the invalid,
    the weak, the imbecile, the crippled and the insane, and
    he concludes: "Someone will have to die again."

    "Ernst Rüdin 1934: "The psychiatrist and the healthy
    person are allies against the genetically defective. The
    psychiatrist must render his service to the ultimate aim
    of a hereditary pure, able and superior race." Rüdin, who
    regarded compulsory sterilization as the "most humane act
    of humankind', says in 1934 about [censored]: "Only Adolf
    [censored]'s political work made it possible that the people's
    awareness for the meaning and importance of the purity of
    race could be raised and heightened. Our dream, lasting
    for over more than 30 years now, has finally become
    reality."

    "The Nazis did not use German Psychiatry but German
    Psychiatry needed the Nazis.

    "Psychiatrists had to denigrate their patients because of
    their own incapacity to provide either cure or therapy.
    Hence, the first to be disposed of were those who
    confronted them directly with this inability: the
    chronically ill (the so-called incurable). German
    psychiatric history was to culminate into the almost
    unutterable: they said 'treat' but meant 'murder'
    instead." "
    -------

    And I do know of the racial theories of some of those
    psychatrists. Well, it's for long been overcome by modern
    theories, and these people do not play any significant role
    today in shaping our society. Not so, whatsoever. The
    results of modern scientific research ridicule all of this
    from the start. It's in the opposite. Any dog's owner knows,
    that racial mixtures live longer, and are more robust in
    general. Those theories of anxient times are a bizarre
    episode to tell us, what happens to science, if it is
    oppressed by worldly rulers. Just like there are no
    scientists in Scientology at all, as within this body of
    oppressive and permissive rules, there is no room for free
    study at all. Let's be thankful to god, that Scientology
    does not rule the world, as otherwise we'd have only
    gleichgeschaltete and brainwashed young *scientists*, that
    would rather say: 'Why, Hubbard has found all answers, isn't
    it? Now, let me try that R45A again..'

    steff

    Quoted message said:

    Barbara Schwarz

    --
    "Imagine a church If there ever was an apple, Hubbard was
    the worm. so dangerous, you Es ist leichter, hinter einer
    Sache zu stehen, must sign a release als vor ihr. form
    before you can Only plain text emails are accepted. receive
    its "spiritual assistance." This assistance might involve
    holding you against your will for an indefinite period,
    isolating you from friends and family, and denying you
    access to appropriate medical care. You will of course be
    billed for this treatment - assuming you survive it. If not,
    the release form absolves your caretakers of all
    responsibility for your suffering and death.

    Welcome to the Church of Scientology."

    Dr. Dave Touretzky Peter Alexander

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