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   Next Step in Evolution of Police State: Perjury ➡ When lying to a judge   
   becomes routine for commitment hearings, the public should expect that it will   
   also become routine during trials. Historically, what is tried first on the   
   most voiceless...    
      
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   Heritage Foundation Presents Next Step in Evolution of Police State: Perjury    
   By dimarkco chandler on July 20, 2012   
   1 Comment    
   By Erin Lale    
      
   On July 18, 2012, the Heritage Foundation hosted a speech by perjury proponent   
   E. Fuller Torrey M.D., who was promoting his new book The Insanity Offense:   
   How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its   
   Citizens. In a previous    
   book, he stated with approval, "It would probably be difficult to find any   
   American psychiatrist working with the mentally ill who has not, at a minimum,   
   exaggerated the dangerousness of a mentally ill person's behavior to obtain a   
   judicial order for    
   commitment."    
      
   Activists with Mind-Freedom International and Occupy Psychiatry were on hand   
   to counter Torrey's message. James B. (Jim) Gottstein, Esq., President of   
   Psych-Rights, said, "The paid henchmen of the pharmaceutical companies, such   
   as E. Fuller Torrey, must    
   be challenged when they spin their web of lies."    
      
   When lying to a judge becomes routine for commitment hearings, the public   
   should expect that it will also become routine during trials. Historically,   
   what is tried first on the most voiceless members of society, those labeled as   
   mental defectives,    
   eventually is applied to everyone after going through several distinct steps.   
   In Nazi Germany, the mental defectives were the first people to lose their   
   right to life, turned in by their own doctors. That was stage 1. Next came   
   crimes by the state    
   against specific ethnicities, in that case Jews and Gypsies, and the denial of   
   the rights of homosexuals. That was stage 2. In stage 3, political enemies of   
   the state also lost their rights and were treated the same as the previous   
   groups. Political    
   enemies of the state included communists and members of minority religions   
   such as heathens. In the United States, imprisonment without charge or   
   conviction of crime was first applied to those labeled mentally ill. They were   
   imprisoned for indefinite    
   terms in mental health prisons, kept in restraints for long periods, drugged,   
   electroshock, denied sleep, and generally treated in ways that would meet the   
   definition of torture if applied to enemy combatants. That was stage 1. In   
   stage 2, the U.S.    
   invaded multiple Muslim countries, swept up people to imprison without charge   
   or trial, and imprisoned them as terrorists in overseas military bases, where   
   they were kept in restraints for long periods, drugged, electroshock, denied   
   sleep, and generally    
   treated in ways that our government admitted were torture, but claimed to be   
   legal anyway. Some of the same drugs used on psychiatric prisoners, such as   
   Haldol, were also administered to prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. These mind   
   altering drugs were used to    
   extract confessions which were called intelligence and used to justify war. In   
   stage 3, the President established a kill list and declared himself a new   
   power: the power to order assassinations without trial of anyone, including   
   American citizens.    
      
   In the Soviet Union, political prisoners were often declared to be mentally   
   ill and confined in mental institutions, where they were drugged and tortured.   
   Being politically opposed to the government was an official mental diagnosis.    
      
   In The Politics of Cruelty, Kate Millett wrote, "When one considers torture,   
   one comes to understand how crucial a precondition is capture; how great an   
   invasion of the human condition in imprisonment itself. How any confinement   
   erodes humanity, and how    
   broadly it is extended in the case of political imprisonment where there is no   
   criminal offense to extenuate the arbitrary cruelty of human incarceration.   
   Still more irrational to extend this detention in legal commitment under state   
   psychiatric power    
   and detention. Detention without trial or charge is responsible for torture to   
   a greater extent than any other modern factor."    
      
   What happens to those labeled mentally ill will eventually happen to everyone   
   else unless the people limit the power of the state and its proxies. Society   
   should fear the routine use of perjury to indefinitely imprison a person not   
   charged with any crime.   
    Changing an average citizen into someone labeled mentally ill and thus worthy   
   of indefinite detention without charge is a simple matter of paperwork. The   
   majority of American citizens will meet the criteria of at least one of the   
   mental conditions    
   described in the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) at least once in   
   their lives, and the use of lies as advocated by Dr. Torrey would make anyone   
   and everyone vulnerable to this form of imprisonment whether they truly met   
   any of the definitions or    
   not. Imprisoning a person for thinking the wrong thoughts -thought-crime--is   
   bad enough without the possibility that you might be imprisoned because a liar   
   said you committed a thoughtcrime.    
      
      
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