Heritage Foundation Presents Perjury Proponent
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 14, 2012
Bastille Day is here, but some organizations think locking people up on the
basis of uninvestigated charges and secret trials is okay—even that our laws
don’t go far enough in doing so. On Wednesday, July 18th, the Heritage
Foundation in Washington D.C., is
hosting a talk by
E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., America's most notorious proponent of violating
psychiatric rights.
Torrey is promoting his book, The Insanity Offense: How America’s
Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens, which
advocates making it even easier to lock citizens up, label and stigmatize them
without legal justification, and forcibly drug them against their will ("forced
treatment"). In a prior book, Torrey explicitly
advocates committing perjury to accomplish these aims, noting with approval, “It
would probably be difficult to find any American psychiatrist working with the
mentally ill who has not, at a minimum, exaggerated the dangerousness of a
mentally ill person's behavior to obtain a judicial order for commitment.”
Award winning author of
Anatomy of An Epidemic, Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing
Rise of Mental Illness in America, Robert
Whitaker, recently had occasion to expose Dr. Torrey's deliberate use of
falsehoods to advance his agenda in,
E. Fuller Torrey’s Review of Anatomy of an Epidemic: What Does It Reveal About
the Rationale for Forced Treatment?
Occupy Psychiatry,
a new joint project by the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights®)
and MindFreedom, International, will be at the presentation to counter Torrey's
falsehoods. See, the
informational flyer for this event. James B.
(Jim) Gottstein, Esq., president of PsychRights, said, "The paid henchmen
of the pharmaceutical companies, such as E. Fuller Torrey, must be challenged
when they spin their web of lies." Mr. Gottstein is hoping to
attend.
People
are gathering at 11:30 a.m. at 214 Massachusetts Avenue, N.E. For more
information go to the
Occupy Torrey Tirade
Facebook Event Page.
The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights is a public interest law firm devoted to
the defense of people facing the horrors of forced psychiatric drugging and
electroshock. PsychRights is further dedicated to exposing the truth about
psychiatric interventions and the courts being misled into ordering people
subjected to these brain and body damaging drugs against their will. Extensive
information about these dangers, and about the tragic damage caused by
electroshock, is available on the PsychRights web site:
http://psychrights.org/.
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