In a landmark decision on June 23,
1997 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can lock up criminals in mental
health institutions, even after they have served their prison time. Although the
ruling is ostensibly aimed at sex offenders, the case sets an enormous
precedent affecting all who might find themselves the target of the criminal
justice system.
The five to
four decision upheld a
This decision
from the nation's highest court has opened a Pandora's box of possibilities -
and probabilities. "This law is going to spread like wildfire",
Few Americans
realize the alarming implications that this ruling has on American
jurisprudence. First of all, the Supreme Court has redefined the purpose of
psychiatric detention. Confinement for the purpose of psychiatric treatment and
rehabilitation is now broadened to include incarceration and punishment.
Secondly, this ruling destroys the constitutional provision forbidding
"double jeopardy" or punishing someone more than once for the same
crime. Thirdly, it sets the precedent that someone may be incarcerated before
they commit a crime, which is diametrically opposed to everything the
constitution stands for.
Most
importantly, the "mentally abnormal" person is denied due process of
law. Someone confined in a mental hospital under a civil commitment does not
have the rights of the accused because he is not "accused" of
anything under criminal law. He has merely been declared "dangerous"
in a civil proceeding and committed indefinitely for his own protection and the
protection of society. The state is his "guardian" and he has no
right to challenge evidence or face his accusers because there are none.
"This is a dramatic shift in policy in terms of our criminal justice
system," Fred Berlin, founder of the Sexual Disorders Clinic at
Even though
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SOVIET SYSTEM WHOSE
DEADLY WOUND IS HEALED
A few
Americans may remember the horror stories coming out of the
The health
ministry investigated and found that Fainberg and Borisov were committed by court order to a psychiatric
hospital where they were found to be "suffering from mental illness and
mentally incompetent." Mr. Fainberg was
suffering from "paranoid development of the social reforming type"
which he carried over from his youth. Mr. Borisov
suffered from "paranoia" and had "repeatedly undergone
compulsory therapeutic treatment...in connection with anti-social
behavior."
After
concluding their inquiry, the health ministry officials decided some changes
were needed. The report reads, "Taking into account the origin of
the...refusal to eat and the limited possibilities for medical treatment, a
change in the conditions to their custody...was declared advisable, having in
mind more active psychotherapeutic and readapting measures, but also the
exclusion of undesirable influences from the outside that would lead to the
reinforcement of their paranoid precepts [visits from friends, etc.]". (Source: Library of
Congress).
People in the West knew that these two men
were not "mentally abnormal" at all, but were highly respected and
sane academicians whose political beliefs got them committed to a psychiatric
hospital. Their intolerance of the Soviet system was diagnosed as
"paranoid" and "anti-social" behavior by the Soviet
psychiatrists. They were stripped of their last remnants of human dignity by
the administration of mind-altering drugs and other psychotherapy. The West was
outraged at this barbaric treatment of political prisoners.
CREEPING HUMANISM
Those who
have not yet made the connection between the Soviet use of psychiatric
hospitals and the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, do not understand the
inroads socialism has made into the U.S. or the true nature of modern
psychiatry. Humanism is the religion of socialism and psychology, in general,
has its roots in both. Karl Marx, the author of the Communist Manifesto
said, "Humanism is the denial of God and the total affirmation of man. Humanism
is really nothing else but Marxism." The Humanist Manifesto (John
Dewey et al) reads, "[We] believe that traditional theism, especially
faith in the prayer-hearing God, assumed to love and care for persons, to hear
and understand their prayers, and to be able to do something about them, is an
unproved and outmoded faith.... [We] discover no divine purpose or providence
for the human species."
Socialists
deny the existence of a personal God and His work of redemption in the soul.
They believe a man's conscience must be submitted to the community, and that
changes in human behavior may be achieved through proper understanding and
utilization of the mind sciences by the community; hence, the logical
application of psychiatric treatment to those exhibiting
"anti-socialist" behavior.
Socialists in
the U.S. have been applying mass psychotherapy to the American public for some
time. Their mediums of treatment are the television media and the schools,
among others. They know that "group therapy" is essential in order to
bring about World Socialism and the New World Order. In his book, The Impact
of Science on Society, Bertrand Russell said, "I think the
subject which will be of most importance politically is mass
psychology....Although this science will be diligently studied, it will well be
rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to
know how its convictions were generated."
"LET US MAKE THE SICK CHILDREN WELL"
A socialist by the
name of Harry A. Overstreet wrote in The Great Enterprise (1952),
"A man may be angrily against technical aid to backward countries... and
the preaching of social rather than salvational
religion.... Such people may appear 'normal' ...but they are well along the
road to mental illness."
Dr. C.M.
Pierce, Harvard University, said in a speech before teachers in 1973,
"Every child in America entering school at the age of five is INSANE
because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our founding
fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a
supernatural being, toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity.
It's up to you as teachers to make all of these SICK children well, by creating
the international child of the future."
These remarks
make it easy to see that socialists regard true religion and patriotism to be
symptoms of mental illness, qualifying the "mentally abnormal" for
ever intensifying psychotherapy until the "anti-social" tendencies
are either cured or...... The book 1984 is an accurate prophesy of
what's to come. "You will learn to love Big Brother."
The recent
Supreme Court decision has set the precedent and the constitutional dam has
been breached. The child molestation issue was the battering ram used to bring
this about. There is no limit to what courts can do now. Small incremental
changes in the law every now and then will increase the number of persons who,
although they have committed no crime, may be committed to a mental
institution. These persons may fit the criterion of "dangerous"
because of their religious or political beliefs or some other
"anti-socialist" behavior. Once committed, they will be in the
custody of the mind scientists who will have full control over their mind and
body until they are "rehabilitated".
As this
universal horror slowly unfolds, it remains almost universally unrecognized by
the short attention span that dominates our culture. There is One, however,
that recognizes the direction society has taken and He says, "And I saw a beast rising out
of the sea, with ... a blasphemous name upon its heads....One of its heads
seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole
earth followed the beast with wonder. Men ...worshiped the beast, saying,
"Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?" Rev. 13:1-4.
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Written 6/30/97
