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Mental Health Constitutional Amendment Initiative
There remains since the founding of the United States of America a serious flaw in the Constitution which has left the door wide open for medical-legal tyranny in civil court proceedings. This problem has become more and more serious in recent decades due to the large profits which psychiatrists and psychologists along with their associates can make from court ordered treatment where insurance policies often cover such forced and unwanted intervention. These type of unethical doctors are therefore given a strong economic incentive to take advantage of this loophole in the Constitution which allows unjust civil mental health care court proceedings in all 50 states.
The general public in the United States often takes for granted that in any serious court proceedings the right to a trial by jury will be preserved. This simply is not true as the Constitution is presently written. The Sixth Amendment of the Constitution specifically states that the citizens of the United States are guaranteed the right of a speedy and public trial in all criminal court proceedings. The Seventh Amendment of the Constitution of the United States specifically states in suits in common law where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars the right of a trial by jury shall be preserved.
These provisions in the Constitution of the United States do not cover civil mental health care court proceedings. The public is generally not aware of this fact unless they are confronted with the injustices of civil mental health care court proceedings either personally or via watching someone close to them destroyed by such proceedings.
Furthermore, it is a myth to assume that the consequences of mental health care court proceedings are not serious since they are not actually real trials. The United States Attorney Generals office, the FBI, and the police view these cases as being as legitimate as any other court proceedings in the United States with anticipated drastic consequences for the victims of such mental health care court proceedings. The targets of court ordered psychiatric and psychological intervention in the United States are generally legally stigmatized as being mentally ill misfits by the United States Department of Justice for the remainder of their now tormented lives even if they were not mentally ill or criminals in the first place or even if they were perhaps suffering from some type of mental illness and recovered even in the absence of any serious criminal misconduct. This often results in the victims of such sham proceedings being socially ostracized along with blacklisting of the persons career and other vital financial interests.
This all generally also results in a forced economic downhill drift and repeated hospitalizations, court orders for dangerous and painful treatment, and even false arrests over petty matters as tempers in communities between the police and victims of such court proceedings snowball. So, more often than not well educated, nice, pleasant, sane, and law abiding people who are targeted by such court cases are devastated for the remainder of their lives by such mental health care court proceedings.
As the law presently exists in all 50 states in the United States there are no formal warrants necessary to bring someone into a mental hospital against their desires. The federal, state and local agents who do so, generally based on petty complaints by extremely abusive family members, teachers, bosses, and other abusive people, simply kidnap people to mental institutions with shots of knock out drops hitting them from behind or in a drink, or beatings and handcuffs when they decide to bring them in. Once in the mental hospital state laws generally give the psychiatrists and psychologists about 36 hours to get the person down to court or release them.
Clearly the hospital confinement and druggings frighten normal people into states of severe agitation which mimics mental illness. Therefore once generally well composed people are not able to present themselves properly before judges associated with the psychiatrists in such swift court proceedings. There is generally no sworn in testimony and no juries at these civil mental health care court proceedings. If a jury is requested and granted it is generally made up of the hostile hospital staff where the person has already been abused.
These cases can be brought against any person in the American society by any two licensed physicians, generally a psychiatrist or psychologist and other type of medical doctor. The testimony in such cases is generally very brief. And, if a lawyer is appointed to the target of such proceedings the lawyers caseload is generally unusually large with little time to get to know each defendant. It is therefore generally impossible for the lawyers in such cases to effectively help the defendants and have the cases thrown out of court. Also, appointed lawyers in such cases work for the states and federal government and generally do not properly represent the best interests of their clients against the brutal desires of the psychiatrists, states, and federal government to cruelly take over their lives. And the appeals process for such cases is often sketchy and not explained well if at all to the defendants.
The judges who preside at such civil mental health care court proceedings generally manifest preconceived support for the doctors testifying as plaintiffs whom they generally blindly view as honorable and trustworthy members of the community. These type of judges who specialize their judicial practices in presiding over such swift mental health care court proceedings are not likely to raise legitimate questions about the scientific credibility of psychiatry and psychology let alone about the ethical conduct of the individual doctors testifying as plaintiffs in such cases.
This all equates to a system of mental health care tyranny in the United States which is little or no different than what the American public was taught existed in the Soviet Union during the Cold War era. A careful study of this accusation reveals that not only did such mental health care injustices exist in the past Soviet Union, they still exist in Russia and other countries across the world today. The problem for Americans; however, is that a careful analysis of this problem has revealed the propaganda machine of the United States and its allies has simply been more powerful all along than Russias as we discover the problem is just as serious and abusive in the United States.
Therefore a Constitutional Amendment is needed in the United States of America to guarantee trials before impartial juries with sworn in testimony for all people brought before mental health care courts. Also there must be Constitutional guarantees of the legal rights of people being apprehended with civil accusations of mental illness such as occurs with Miranda Rights protection for people being arrested and accused of crimes. Such a wide sweeping Constitutional Amendment would help to wipe out brutal medical-legal tyranny across the United States while taking power out of the hands of unscrupulous doctors and tyranical judges who have no regard for the human rights of the common citizens in the country. An even more effective remedy to help wipe out medical-legal mental health care tyranny in the United States would be a Constitutional Amendment simply refusing the rights of the states and federal government to take people to courts of law over issues dealing with their mental health.
As the problem of medical-legal tyranny has become more and more serious over the years a very serious question thus arises as to why the United States Senate and Congress and the American Presidents have ignored the need for such a Constitutional Amendment. This situation implies far too many of our elected representatives in contemporary history in the United States have been cruel elitists who work with the mainstream elitist medical and psychiatric community to preserve the power to undermine the individual democratic human rights of common people across the United States whenever they feel like doing so.
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