Re: Shocking therapy

"Rowland McDonnell" <real-address-in-sig@flur.bltigibbet> wrote in
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> CJ Dunnaway <cj_dunnaway-news@yaWHOhoo.com> wrote:
>
>> "firemonkey" <firemonkey@gatty.me.uk> wrote:
>> > http://www.newsweek.com/id/159114
>>
>> Why do governments allow that to continue? Civilized people don't
>> behave
>> that way.
>
> In which case, one of the very few nations on Earth that is civilised
> is
> Cuba.  Most of their loonies are looked after in a hospital that's run
> by the inmates, so that sort of thing can't happen (in theory, that
> is).
>
> The USA and the UK and France certainly do not count as civilised,
> because all three treat the mentally ill just as bad or worse in some
> cases.
>
> At least the UK and France don't have the death penalty and don't have
> a
> president who thinks that it's perfectly acceptable for his nation to
> kidnap, imprison without trial in inhumane conditions, and then
> torture
> anyone that the president names as an `enemy of the people' or
> `counter-revolutionary element' or whatever bogeyman Stalinist phrase
> he
> chooses.
>
> And don't tell me that's not what Dubya thinks - I've heard him say it
> in a speech.  He's an affront to civilisation - a brutal, ignorant
> barbarian claiming leadership of the free world.  Which might be okay
> if
> `the free world' had had a chance to vote for him...
>
>> Mexico is our next door neighbor. If they'd been born a few
>> miles to the north they'd get a little better treatment. It's crazy.
>
> You're naive if you think that widespread abuse of the mentally ill
> does
> not occur in almost all societies.
>
> Rowland.

Yes, I'm a little naive and ignorant about a great many things - I am,
after all, a US American. I've worked in factories most of my life and
only recently pulled my head out of my ass.

I've had much more than my fair share of the US medical system, and I
was astonished and envious when Michael Moore took a crew to Cuba to get
medical treatment in Sicko.

I'm not sure our mental health system is quite as bad as Mexico; I think
we put most of our nuts out on the streets to fend for themselves (or in
prisons).

I can't talk about W without getting angry, but I share your sentiments.

CJ
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