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A serious and dangerous error for the whole of humankind.

The United Nations Organisation and the World Health Organisation have seen "Mental Illness" as existing; and "Psychiatry" as part of Medicine.

The holding of these beliefs and principles by such organisations is a serious and dangerous error for the whole of humankind.

We owe it to the countless millions of victims of "Psychiatry" that there have already been to make sure that it ends its existence as a "discipline" of what is left of "Medicine" as soon as possible.

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"Mental Illness" is not really a DECEIT - it is a MISTAKE and it is not JUSTIFIED or JUSTIFIABLE.

Humanity's continued belief in it - in any form - is INTOLERABLY STUPID.

Belief in "Mental Illness" is not PREJUDICE - BUT IGNORANCE!


An insult to over a thousand years of English legal tradition!

It is an insult to over a thousand years of English legal tradition to compare the immoral crime of murder to an illness for which one receives "treatment".

The English legal system is very old - dating right back to the Anglo-Saxon period - and a very great achievement of English civilization.

The English legal tradition - in fact all legal traditions - rightly CONDEMN and rightly MORALLY CONDEMN the absolute crime of MURDER.

This weighty condemnation is demeaned and diminished by the recent foolish words of a judge, which seemed to imply that a murderer acted as he did through lack of medication.

How can we tolerate a situation where murder is effectively regarded by the state as a health problem on the part of the person that perpetrates it?

And in which people are arrested for it under health legislation of any kind?

How have we allowed such a farcical and disastrous situation to emerge in our great legal system?

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There is not and cannot be any "PRAGMATIC DEFENCE" whatsoever of "Psychiatry" as a "means of justice".

JUSTICE is emfatically never ever served by a FAKE science and never can be.

It is indeed ABSOLUTELY VITAL that MEDICINE and LAW are kept completely separate.

If a criminal needs to be "prevented" from committing a crime (a dubious concept straight away).
then this must be a PROVISION of the Justice system itself and never of anything else.

"Prevention of crime" is a highly dubious - and extremely dangerous and worrying - legal principle and is no part of "Punishment" anyway.

"Prevention" as a punitive principle is illogical for whilst the criminal cannot offend in prison (unless he attacks someone there or offends there) neither does denying him freedom guarantee that were he free he would not offend.

Every offence must be chosen.

This is a principle of Law and Jurisprudence which guarantees freedom and liberty for all.

If someone's behavior is "irrational" and "unusual" (according to someone) this is NOT and CANNOT BE an ILLNESS - of any kind. To treat it as such is illogical and an evil.

This logical error causes imense harm.

When one considers the Breivik case and the like, it becomes clear that there is indeed no such thing as "mental illness" and its ideology has no relation to anything - let alone the justice system.

The justice system must be worthy of respect. Such rulings and such speech by legal personnel are absolutely disgraceful.

To compare murder to having a migraine or sneezing has no justification of any kind.

The reality that the English government insults its people and its legal system by openly equating murder with sneezing, and has done for some time - should be a shock to our people.

IF we deny even the so-called "criminally insane" (and there are no such people) their REAL or CONCEPTUAL FREEDOM then we are BASICALLY NAZIS.

The legal implication is that such people have no choice but to act in such ways which is absurd.

The specific words of the legal official were something like "he murders because he hasn't had his pills".

Such words are entirely without the merest truth.

The young man involved - so clearly guilty of deliberate murder - was only charged with manslaughter. For no reason whatsoever.
An insult to and a disaster for the English legal system! There have been many over the last few years.
It is time that this farcical evil ended.

Many murders are committed by people who may have taken another USELESS medicine/poison - alcohol.

Should people who have taken their Pils be immediately incarcerated!

The whole country would be locked away in the local nick every Saturday night! :)

The utterly unspeakable and unconscionable dogshit that is ALL "Psychiatric" "Medication", if anything in reality causes the so-called "symptoms" that it supposedly "treats".

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The BBC News often reports stories in which the words like - "a "psychiatric patient" has admitted to stabbing someone".

Would the BBC - in any circumstances - report that a "tuberculosis patient" had admitted to stabbing someone?
Not at all. In no circumstances whatsoever would they use such words.

There is no necessary link - even according to "psychiatrists" - between so-called "mental illness" and violence.

Not least because "mental illness" does not exist.

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If any behaviour or feeling can be the "symptom" of an "illness" - then any crime can similarily be the "symptom" of an "illness"!.......
I hope I don't need to say much more in order to point out how dangerous and immoral a tendency this could be!
We must beware of this nonsense called "Psychiatry"!

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All so-called "Mental Health Acts" are not really parts of the Justice System - yet they are used as such.

They are intrinsically open to profound abuses!

And they are indeed consistently and systematically inappropriately and unjustly used.
On an horrendously large scale.
The are effectively "Laws unto themselves."

They should no longer be used at all; and I believe that they should be rescinded and abolished as soon as practicable.

Incidentally, all "Mental Health Acts" in the UK are extremely recent arrivals to the millenial tradition referred to above.

The Mental Health Act(s) are not really part of the justice system.

They are aimed at helping people who are supposedly in -
(a) a situation in which they are incapable of helping themselves in some way and/or
(b) may possibly harm others in some way.

ALL of this is highly dubious in principle and no basis for ANY law.

Though these Acts may have had some kind of benign intent they are all, for many reasons, I believe, absolutely inadmissable.

Their antecedents were perhaps the Vagrancy Acts.
Though there is no necessary link even to them!

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As the Northern Irish M.P. Jeffrey Donaldson has said:

"There is no nation in the free world today where murder is not a crime.
You cannot say that murder is not a crime - it is."

I agree.
And I am opposed to the Mental Health Act's serious compromise of this principle here in the U.K.

Psychiatry is itself murder as well.
And the murder that it perpetrates goes unrecognized and unpunished.



Here's to you Mrs.Robinson!

By the way, Jeffrey, the Missus of your Boss, Peter Robinson, was DIAGNONSENSED and LOCKED UP after simply feeling very bad about a misdemeanor.

Whereas we all know that guilt is no disease and no crime!


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END THE STIGMA! END PSYCHIATRY!

END THE STIGMA! END PSYCHIATRY!

"End the stigma of mental illness" say popular campaigns in the Media.

The latest to jump on board and be taken in seems to be the Duchess of Cambridge.

She has made a video to support children's "Mental Health".
What needs to be pointed out is that one of the biggest threats to children is child psychiatry.

The best way to end the stigma is to realize "mental illness" doesn't exist and to put a stop to Psychiatry - its language and concepts - in our culture.

END THE STIGMA!!! END PSYCHIATRY!!!

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