IMPORTANT FACTS

1. Psychiatry’s involvement in the justice system is a colossal failure that has come at great cost to society.

2. Psychiatric influence must be removed from our courts in order to restore effective justice.

3. The rehabilitation of criminals into useful members of society cannot occur if psychiatrists and psychologists continue to undermine the concept of personal responsibility.

4. Because of the complete lack of scientific validity, legal and medical experts recommend eliminating psychiatric and psychological testimony from the courts.

CHAPTER FIVE The Return of Justice

When psychiatry entered the justice and penal systems, it did so under the subterfuge that it understood man, that it knew not only what made man act as he did, but that it knew how to improve his lot. This was a lie.

Psychiatry has had the opportunity to prove itself but has instead proven to be a colossal failure. The cost to society has been catastrophic, not only in terms of money.

Psychiatry was posed as a solution and became a problem.

The first step is to remove psychiatric influence from the courts, police departments, prisons and schools.

Compassion decrees that the criminal must be given the opportunity to face up to what he has done and reform himself to become a productive member of the group. In this way justice benefits the individual and society.

Psychiatry’s attempt to eradicate the concept of right and wrong and thereby destroy personal responsibility by inventing excuses for the most flagrant misconduct, undermines the justice system.

Thomas Szasz warned: “We have to restore the idea of responsibility, which is corrupted and confused by psychiatry, by the idea that something happened to you when you were a child and therefore you are not responsible 30 years later.”

Contrary to psychiatric ideology, man is not just another helpless creature, without will or conscience, to be manipulated according to someone else’s design. Underneath whatever confusions he may have, he knows he has the courage to confront and solve his problems, and he knows he has the ability to discern between what is right and what is wrong. And underneath it all, he knows it is the ultimate betrayal to try and persuade him otherwise. Dr. Margaret Hagen, Ph.D., a Boston University lecturer in psychology and law says: “Judges and juries, the people alone, must decide questions of insanity, competence, rehabilitation, custody, injury and disability without the fraudulent interference of so-called psychological and psychiatric experts.

“A democratic society imposes exactly these burdens on the average man and woman and on our judges and legislators. It is time that we give up our attempts to hand off the weight onto the shoulders of professional decision makers. It is past time that we throw out the whores and take back the courts and the justice system.”

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