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New Mental Health Act

ferganoid | 26.06.2002 10:14

Stop the DSPD Order Bill

First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.

by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945

ferganoid
- Homepage: http://asperdis.org/dspd_order_bill.html

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This is a neo-Victorian piece of legislation

26.06.2002 16:05

which , effectively, allows anyone to be criminalised, while the genuinely ill will lose all their rights to decent treatment. A cycle of repression might go like this.
1: Are you suffering a psychological disorder ? Then youre a potentially dangerous lunatic.
2: Are you feeling the pressure of life under Blair's regime ? Worse still, are you trying to organise against it ? then you might be suffering a psychological disorder...

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