Jared Blackburn wrote:
>> Greetings,
> I am concerned greatly by the abuse of psychiatry. Often, it seems,
> perfectly well adjusted indivduals are subjected to imprisonment in hospitals
> and to rediculous druging - especially anti-psychoic/major tranquilizors -
> simply because they're beleif do not conform to those of their culture or the
> subculture of those close to them. Often time this equate to religious or
> political discrimination. It time to breing freedom and equality to all - we
> have no right as a society to declare some to be "wrong-thinkers"! There are
> many prisoners of concience inthis coutry, but hear they are call mental
> patients, and it is they're very mind that is imprisoned with heavy
> tranquilizers!
>>> Dear Normal Not:
> >
> There are several places where active dialogue is occurring on
> the Internet "newsgroups" about this brain boycott.
>> Here's the cluster:
>> alt.conspiracy, alt.mindcontrol, alt.slack, alt.whine, misc.misc,
> sci.misc, soc.misc, rec.humor, alt.shenanigans, alt.guinea.pig.conspiracy
I find it rather amusing that this guy is promoting something whose major
debate is occurring in the alt.conspiracy, mindcontrol, whine, etc.
groups. That should say something right there (especially alt.humor).
Frankly, I'd like to keep these people's minds numbed - I don't want to
have some Jeffrey Dahmer type running around free because people like you
think that it's OK for him to think differently (that people are a food
source). A lot of the people you think are being oppressed are locked up
to protect the rest of us from them. Don't forget that. You think they
are the victims, and yet when a schizophrenic, paranoid individual hurts
or kills someone, you seem to forget that the people who were killed
never did anything to deserve it. Prevention is better than retribution
in this case. No, you can't lock everyone up to prevent people from
killing each other, but when someone is obviously disturbed enough in
their thought processes where they pose a danger to other people, they
can be locked up and should. Depressives think differently than you and
me, but they aren't locked up because they aren't going to hurt other
people. And I don't think the antidepressants they get are imprisoning
their minds. Generally, if someone is getting Thorazine, they usually
need it.
Andrew Ray
aray at emory.edu
Emory University Neuroscience Program
