•	I have been asked why I am coming all the way across the country from Anchorage, Alaska to Philadelphia to participate in the Occupy the American Psychiatric Association Protest May 5th.  
•	I feel a moral obligation to do what I can to stop the carnage caused by current psychiatric practices.
•	It is absolutely essential for the public to understand that current psychiatric practices are causing a massive amount of harm.  
•	I hope the protest will bring attention to this doctor caused catastrophe that dwarfs the Thalidomide debacle.  
•	Literally millions of people's lives are being shortened by 25 years on average.  Many are being killed outright.  
•	Current psychiatric practices have increased the disability rate of people diagnosed with mental illness by six times.  
•	Children under the age of 1 are given the most powerful and harmful drugs.
•	The American Psychiatric Association is lying when they say psychiatric drugs correct a chemical imbalance.
•	The American Psychiatric Association lies when they say electroshock is safe and effective.
•	Psychiatrists label people crazy and then use that label to force people to endure psychiatric drugs and electroshock against their will.  Drugs that kill.  Electroshock that destroys memories.
•	Now the American Psychiatric Association is planning on increasing the numbers of people to be labeled with a mental illness with its unscientific Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual, already known as DSM5, and cause even greater harm to even more people.
•	Psychiatry's unholy alliance with corrupt pharmaceutical companies is preying on the young and the elderly, our most vulnerable citizens.
•	America and the World need to wake up to what is going on.  
•	I hope the Occupy the APA Protest May 5th in Philadelphia will help do that.
•	Tom Machia just sent the following quote from Arundhati Roy, the great social writer from India: "The trouble is, once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet and saying nothing becomes as political an act as speaking out. There is no innocence. Either way, you're accountable."
•	We are all accountable for what psychiatry is doing; the harm to children and the elderly, the destructive labels, psychiatric force.
•	I want to be accountable in a positive way.  That's why I'm coming to Philadelphia May 5th to help Occupy the American Psychiatric Association.