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Despite today's community-based treatment and CSX (consumer/survivor/ex) empowerment, involuntary mental health (MH) treatment laws are passed infringing on civil rights of selected people. These laws, backed by strong public opinion campaigns, open doors for more system abuse and close newly opened doors to accountability in gross violation of civil rights laws and court rulings. Women, already fair game for every serial killer or other assaultive and/or diseased weirdo who discovers and latches onto them, are additionally burdened.
*** ISSUE - living in fear of losing freedom and assets at any petitioner's whim however inappropriate, unwanted dark-age lifetime warehousing on State wards with no future. Other panelist concerns include:
*** ASSETS
Powerful practitioners are brought to fancy daylong seminars, secured to keep patients out, and sold bills of goods giving them false hopes of earning more money by involuntarily detaining more patients for noncompliance with outpatient drugging. With involuntary treatment legislatively expanded in the regime's favor, practitioners are less hot to trot without a pay raise. No Porsches, no fame and fortune as authors because their books are canceled out by the freedom crowd with their own better and more popular books. No more revenue from homeless MIs rounded up to fill treatment homes and centers. They tell us to "compromise within the system". We know compromise is treason, like appeasing Hitler by giving him Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland because he wants it in exchange for empty "peace in our time" promises. Of course we hate these speakers. They jeopardize our freedom and civil rights while retaining their own. Protest signs carry photos of Hitler captioned with "I love Helen Thompson" and "Join my team" and photos of Hitler's tanks in Poland's streets.
Officially sanctioned organizations (NAMI, NIMH, NHMA) calling themselves MH rights associations tout treatment access and funding, getting forced treatment bills passed as "critical steps in helping serious MI", giving us no safety or rest from Hitler's Jewish Police liaison between ghettoized Polish Jews and the Reich. Lights already not bright enough on civil liberty are doused, giving the worst people greater power and less accountability to incarcerate innocent CSX for life against their will by petitioning whatever judge they can persuade to take their side for whatever trivial reason they "prove" in court. It's cut, dried and unwinnable. Radicals are hushed up in favor of brainwashed, coached housepets working for the system trumpeting the praises of such laws and begging for their passage. They're not worth our freedom. Would you sacrifice your freedom and assets so they can be treated? Why should I sacrifice mine?
The HABEAS CORPUS (you have the body) Act, to secure a person's wrongfully denied liberty and preventing imprisonment abroad, was passed in 1679 in Massachusetts to correct violations as to legality of a detention. It later became part of the United States Constitution. Writs are often used in civil suits about child custody or institutionalization due to mental incompetence (Constitution Society)
United States Supreme Court ruled "Unjustified isolation or segregation of qualified individuals with disabilities through institutionalization is disability-based discrimination prohibited by Title II of the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), 42 U.S.C. 12101 et. seq. The Federal Government must assist States in implementing swiftly the Olmstead decision and avoiding disability-based discrimination -" The catch: "unless doing so alters the nature of service, program, or activity provided by the State" returns CSX to the community only at doctors' discretion, and their needs to observe and examine us. Do it to them instead. They need to be accountable - and liable - to us, not us to them. We get what we pay for - patients treated. Despite state mandate, in some counties MH rights lawyers are only there to keep MH from getting egg on their faces and getting sued. They even admit they're only for the system.
Mass market antipsychiatry literature illustrates the glaring, often ignored fact that the MH rights issue exists. Are honest readers interested in the subject? Is it merely preaching to the choir? Do readers view their rights to refuse treatment as only a myth? They think they're safe from involuntary treatment? "Constitutional rights are not absolute and must yield to government regulation advancing compelling state interests. Signing in as voluntary means you have the right to sign out of the hospital." (Winick) Another lie! Ask any CSX who's ever tried to sign out, refused to sign papers, or asked for a lawyer and been punished for his efforts. Hospitals don't want to let you go. Ever. When you sign in as voluntary you sign away your life, your freedom and the shirt off your back. Voila! Instant oxymoron, just add dope.
Reviewer Stephen M. Marson of Lumberton NC writes: "A sound conclusion from Winick's book is that we must study the process by which a client/patient moves from involuntary to voluntary, and how MH professionals can instill court-ordered clients' desire to successfully complete treatment." Insightful March 24, 2001 (worldlawdirect) This book is often paired with DSM-IV-TR handbooks about "psychological disorders" (Barnes & Noble) The smart money goes for pizzas instead.
While you enjoy your frabjous drug-free pizza, all yours with all your favorite toppings generously, mobile MH Crisis teams, today's "innovation," prowl streets taking calls concerning the "mentally disabled" and snatching up anything that moves. People canning, filling shopping carts with bottles and cans to recycle for cash, are among crisis team targets. So are unwary entertainment-seekers hurrying to catch a bus home after Casablanca or Greg Kihn, get inside quickly and lock the door before they're spotted. Serial killers and other predators hiding among the homeless are invisible to teams trained only to locate people labeled disturbed. They track, inject and keep people at the word of whatever pervert gets near a phone. "Reform" under the guise of keeping A/D weirdos like Joshua Rudiger (who should have been shanked long ago) off the streets makes it easier to detain and treat dissidents and uncooperative women and makes it harder for lawyers to defend us. Their files on us are lies, their witnesses liars yet their word is always what counts despite widespread citizen complaint. The system is at their disposal. It's called the "halo" effect. Witnesses in your favor are hard to find and harder to convince to defend you even without retaliation.
Headline-grabbing random violence involving disturbed perps cause ordinary CSX living quietly in the community to be perceived as potentially violent and needing forced psychiatric treatment and medication. People not even diagnosed as MI can still turn out violent. CSX numbers grow larger and stronger to organize, fight harder and vote. CSX, like mobes, are not criminals and are not interested in criminals. Instead, let's make our accusers the criminals. Watch out, normies, we're what you'll think about on your way to Hell!
Restricting public restroom use is uncouth. So-called men physically keep women out of single-fixture restrooms. Keep them out instead.
Schools are notorious for "barring individuals from campus" and enforcing it. Public libraries and other public places copycat. Schools let staff advocate medication and treatment and condone drugs on campus. School presidents and other top admin who don't cooperate run for their lives before they're assassinated. See Spartan Daily Tues March 12 2002 front page story SMOKE-FILLED HALLS by Dray Miller staff writer thespartandaily.com
Businesses fire nasty people on the spot for driving away paying customers. Government and nonprofits make us put up with them and theirs, costing us money. Fire them without pension so others won't think it's an easy ticket to early retirement with more money in 1 month than we get all year. They pop up again somewhere else get rid of them again there. I don't want to harm innocent people, only crummy ones. Better off short-staffed than have the wrong people. If an escort service wouldn't want them why should we put up with them?
FACILITY STAFF: Guilty of sexual harassment, assault and contingency
Shelter beds are connected to fees and invasive, day-consuming programs and strict curfews. Classes, work and other organized activity are no excuse. Not even choir practice or theater parts. If people could afford fees why bother with programs? Why answer questions and show documents? It penalizes those who need assistance while predators are still out there. Conservators have too much power and no accountability. It's all automatic and political. If they say you should be conserved and you have a friend or relative who's on your side instead of theirs they get mad and stipulate one of theirs to limit your life automatically and hand over your money against your will.
I change residence often. Too many weirdos out there. Police break into homes looking for me because some philandering pervert called them. If the man they dragged out of the shower and questioned had known who I was or where to find me I wouldn't be here now, writing this. Asked where I live I say "that's personal information" and they can't argue. Asked if I stay around here I say "I'm here when I want to be." I got every right to be paranoid. I don't need shots, liens, restraining orders or treatment. Do it to them instead. I screen visitors and calls. I ignore mail requiring signatures or postage. Even lawyers only know my post office box. Any questions? Ask my lawyers. They're the professionals.
SUPPORT AND EMPOWER HONEST MENTAL HEALTH RIGHTS AGENCIES. Donations are tax-deductible. Give them more power to defend your right to refuse mental health treatment, incarceration, or denial of public access. TELL THEM I SENT YOU! Have zero tolerance. Know your rights. Patients' rights are YOUR rights too! See attorneys at first signs of trouble. Relay relevant information to them. Raise funds for them. Often they're short-staffed - housing costs more than they can afford to pay staff - and must prioritize. This doesn't mean they don't care. Detained people are in direst need. Mental health rights lawyers state mandated by county for CSX interest are mostly honest but in some counties they're only there as witnesses for the state, keeping it from getting egg on its face and getting sued. We need that special, brave hero who says we need more teeth in the Olmstead ruling, the one who only cares about his clients, showing up unannounced on wards to inspect and find clients needing hearings. We must fight to untie his hands so he can better defend us.
NEVER ABOUT US WITHOUT US
Like innocence projects for prisoners. Locate people detained on EPS who shouldn't be there. No testa-lie. Don't let them just take us elsewhere, like shopping us around. No assaultives and no assistant staff giving us a bad name. I'd hate to be stuck somewhere with only those. Why settle for the reality the regime wants? We need the reality we want, starting in our own back yard and setting policy and precedents worldwide. Colorado lady won $6 million for irreversible drug damage. NY patients sue for $12 million for keeping them against their will. Guantanamo prisoners, SCOTUS decision re their rights including access to lawyers.
COST-SAVING MEASURES NOW IN USE
WE NEED
If Mental Health kept everybody who thinks like I do there'd be no taxpayers left on the street to pay their salaries but they'd have lots of homeowners and car owners to rip off! Plus lots of TVs, radios, bicycles, coats, blankets, shirts, money -
APA, NAMI, NMHA Call Upon States to Preserve Access to Psychotropic Medications
psych.org Multipage magazine ads and seminars tout atypicals as acceptable and good. No mention of diabetes and other permanent damage. Search keywords like diabetes show no results but are found in other medical journals and in common knowledge of anybody who's anybody (feels good to hear and use this term referring to homeless or CSX) Compliance is mentioned many times but civil liberty and the right to refuse is not mentioned. British studies show antidepressants harm children as well as adults.
"Legalizing outpatient commitment means innocent people living peacefully in the community could be sentenced to forced medication for trivial reasons." (Sally Thompson MD contac.org/contaclibrary/rights18.htm) Do we really have the right to refuse treatment?
No longer is involuntary drugging only a concern to inpatients. Laws quietly passed in 36 US states allow courts to order you to take psychiatric drugs even if you're law abiding and live at home. Court-ordered Involuntary Outpatient Commitment (IOC) typically requires you to report to community mental health centers every few weeks for a depot injection of oil-based, time released super-powerful neuroleptics such as Prolixin or Haldol, lasting weeks or months until your next injection. Court orders routinely reapprove these injections for years. There's so much court-ordered medication not satisfying legal requirements that holding the system to meeting these requirements is something most people support.
Psychiatrists' inservice training is conducted by drug companies, more marketing than education. These and other espensive unwanted facilities and treatment drain public funds while patients learn to function as patients on a ward instead of citizens in society. Drug companies contribute heavily to NAMI which, calling itself grassroots, in turn promotes "assertive community treatment" where court-ordered dose nurses show up at your house daily. If you don't answer the door with a glass of water in your hand it's 5150 and your party's over. NAMI's largest single donor is Eli Lilly, maker of Prozac.
Another ripoff. I voted NO. When I make over $1 million a year I'll shelter it and not leave it around for the system to Bogart. The state DMH says they want input on how this windfall is spent. Client input is window dressing. How do I know? Client feedback from input meetings said NO INVOLUNTARY TREATMENT. What we wanted was more power and resources (money) for MHAP. This can only happen if at all if MHAP fights for it and we help them, and we clean out bogus MHAPs only there for the state.
Other basic goodies wanted included medical care for physical ailments such as high blood pressure. The handout they gave us in our packets included none of these things, but instead more tracking and treatment. Whatsmore they wanted input from the general community and from the justice system (courts, police and probation) forgetting that this is about us, not them and they have no right to make these decisions. Education? Life's too short to waste enlightening the screwball element. The object is to shut them up so they can't do anything to us. Also present were more staff, providers with their hands out. We need to kick their hands away. They know so much why did they default on the mortgage on a board and care home and let the city take it over and convert it to apartments? Next time some sickbitch tries to sell me a board & care home I'll holler "foreclose foreclose foreclose" and enjoy making fun of them. They're better and cheaper than wards but still a big ripoff. They never tell people that by law they're free to move out at any time. They can't keep you against your will. What do they do with money they steal from patients? Blow it on dope. It was horrible, designed for their financial and other benefit, nowhere near our benefit.
LA County DMH website: they're considering using Prop 63 funds for emergency care at private psychiatric hospitals because county hospitals are overcrowded. Would they be overcrowded if Prop 63 funds were used for non-institutional services instead? Just one example of counties looking at more of the same.
PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI
IN MODUS PAUERUS I the petitioner am on Social Security as my only income, which barely covers living expenses. I am of low enough income as unable to afford filing or other fees. I need to file my petition in modus pauperus. I also need an attorney appointed by the Court to represent me.
<>I am writing about legal issues concerning mental health and the mental health system, of concern to direct consumers and to those who may become direct consumers through no fault of their own.
The other, 2004 referendum Proposition 63 (Mental Health Services Act) is a surtax on taxable incomes over $1 million for mental health services. LPS reduced their funding and AB 1421 didn't provide for funds so they forced this through. It should have lost, leaving no money to keep people against their will. Strategy teams formed to plan the use of these funds include "service providers" and people from the justice system, whose presence should be challenged as a conflict of interest. More staff with their hands out, I'd kick their hands away rather than fill them with cash. It's not their freedom and rights on the table anyway. Most of what's trumpeted already exists anyway. Lawyers are deliberately excluded form these panels. MHSA funds should go entirely for client-oriented, effective legal services because that's where the need is and the want is. Token consumers admitted to the panel are chosen for their cooperativeness with the system. Those who are antipsychiatry or antitreatment are not welcome. If they manage to get on the board they're soon discovered and kicked off it immediately. San Jose City College's (SJCC sjcc.edu) disabled students program (DSP) gets requests for legal services, not for treatment. DSP can only refer them to Mental Health Advocacy project (MHAP) MHAP gets lots punishment complaints they can't handle because of "lack of resources" lawfounhdation.org. MHAP presence in mental health situations is also limited by system "rules" and they're forced to respect it and obey without question. Police often threaten to take me to EPS and would if they could. With these funds it's easier to get taken there and kept involuntarily at their whim. Even with involuntary treatment not fundable they'll be all over us for signatures making us voluntary, billable and ineligible to file lawsuits. Signatures obtained by coercion should not be regarded as valid. Information about these committees is often removed from their websites. Government websites contain files in pdf or other files some people still can't read. On inquiry I'm told it's their policy. This violates the FOIA.
Another issue is punishment by government agencies or agencies receiving government funds. We're always punished and denied access to public amenities at staff whim. Lawyers are unable to represent us and elected officials uphold and often support what punishments are laid on us. We have no recourse but to put up with it and obey. If they couldn't enforce punishment I wouldn't obey nor would I respect anybody who would. They make up anything they want and it sticks, the "halo effect" and all one-sided. When service is poor and honest people are punished staff isn't fulfilling their side of the contract but they're still protected and it takes years if at all to uproot them while we stay punished so they can preserve their careers. When accused they pull out agreements we supposedly signed. Actually it's compulsory on their part, signed involuntarily to obtain access. They regard it as procedure and policy. Again we're accused and punished without effective, client- oriented representation. Do it to them instead.
I hope have enlightened you on these topics. I thank you for your support. I need these solved in my favor, not theirs. No more dead ends. I'm tired of being punished and tired of hearing them defended and upheld. I don't want mediation or dialogue. We need them fired and not let to pop up elsewhere to impact us. We don't owe them. We're not concerned about their needs, only ours.
Defenders of the People
PREEMPTION PROJECT
Release of nonviolent prisoners. Better preparation for community life. Abolishing parole for nonviolent crimes. New County policy: only kids charged with violent crimes go to Juvenile Hall. No shoplifters, taggers, runaways, burglars. The goal is to break the cycle.
Stigma means being shamed for advocating forced treatment for another person.
- wall sign behind the reception desk at Central County Mental Health Admin here in the United States, sweet land of liberty.
Drug companies influence psychiatrists (like they need influence) and mental health organizations to push dope
Forced drugs and treatment for others' convenience
The idea that it's constitutional and not an actionable civil rights violation to drug someone for the convenience of others, treating the person as an object to manipulate and deprive of natural consciousness to facilitate whatever purpose, alarms in big letters. This aspect should be made more of.
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ACT
SUPREME COURT