In the wake of
outpatient commitment laws in the 1990s we now face a new and malevolent example
of aggression by the therapeutic state: the mass mental health screening,
a forced diagnose of the whole population implemented legally in Illinois,
USA.

This is as outrageous
an offense as the psychiatric system of forced sterilization practiced in
the USA in the 1920s and 1930s which culminated in Nazi Germany in the systematic
mass killing of medical genocide from ’39 to ’48. A genocide that started
with the killing centers in psychiatric institutions in Germany and escalated
into the extermination camps in eastern Europe. Against this aggression we
must develop a counterattack, and suggest a completely new path for our struggle.
We should cease all efforts to find doctors to support our views, because
the medical profession has again proved by this offense of mass screening
its fascistic-biological roots.

Instead we should
join existing Human Rights NGOs. We have to break through both the objection
of these NGOs to including in their agenda the Human Rights of those slandered
as “mentally ill”, and their divided definition of Human Rights
which splits humans beings into the “mentally ill” and others, resulting
in humans and sub-humans. The psychiatric prisoners remain the forgotten “Prisoners
of Conscience”.

Our existing
organizations should be maintained for communication purposes, but the complete
focus of our attention and effort should change to organizations such as Amnesty
International. We should establish new groups against torture within these
organizations and concentrate on the torture carried out by coercive psychiatry.
Our first aim is for those organizations to acknowledge that forced psychiatric
treatment is a form of torture all over the world, and must be banned. In
this way we have a chance to get allies for our struggle, because all Human
Rights groups do have to wave the insinuation, that they employ a double standard
for measuring and demanding Human Rights. It is their obligation to insist
on, that all humans beings have the same Human Rights and that there can never
be any exception excluding people medically slandered as “mentally ill”.

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