The core guarantee of American freedom is not the 2nd Amendment. Freedom may come through the barrel of a gun, but it's survival comes through a form of government entangled in a web of checks and balances, one of which is due process of law. The right to call a lawyer, and to know the charges against you, and to confront witnesses, before a jury of your peers, and to file a writ of habeas corpus are the guarantors of freedom, not the right to shoot your way out of jail. And these rights are guaranteed equally, to all. Unless you’re under the care of a psychiatrist, that is.
The American psychiatrist wields a degree of power not seen since King George sat on the throne. They have reserved for themselves the right to direct the police to break down your door, seize you by force, deposit you behind locked doors, in secret, without proof of articulable fact sworn to under penalty of perjury, subject to examination before a jury of one's peers. And they do it all on the basis of their opinion.
Imagine your cardiologist sending the cops to your home because you don't take your blood pressure pills and you're clocking in at 220/110, while you chain smoke cigarettes, and the size of your beer gut means your A1C is out of control because you refuse to follow doctors' order to stop eating Baconaters and exercise twenty minutes every day. Clearly, you are a danger to yourself, and clearly, you find this scenario ridiculous.
But what's the difference? The 14th Amendment guarantees that the law applies equally to all, so why are there two sets of laws - one for "mental patients" and one for "medical patients?"
CONSIDER, if you mistake your wife for a hat, you have a brain malfunction, but if you mistake your wife for a secret agent, you have a disordered mind.
This clear hypocrisy peddled by the medical profession has produced the flagrant denial of equality and due process rights to psychiatric patients.
AND NOBODY SEEMS TO NOTICE.
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