The media has recently featured several articles relating to unspeakable acts of senseless violence. Whether it’s the mother who killed her 5-year-old daughter in London, or the man who killed his mother or the man in Ireland who fatally stabbed his wife, each of these abhorrent stories demonstrate a gradual erosion of the justice system.
The erosion relates to the presence of psychiatry in the judicial courts. Psychiatrists have embedded themselves in court proceedings, advising and encouraging the plea of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility in an effort to get an insanity plea, where the sentence is reduced, or even dismissed.
We are seeing the long and well-established tradition of psychiatrists selling themselves for a sizeable profit to the point where “the pursuit of the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth” has given way to reams of meaningless data, fearful elaborate speculation and fantastic conjecture.
Through their testimonies, psychiatrists are asserting that offenders are not responsible for what they have done, but are instead ‘victims’ of fictitious mental disorders.
As an example, Chanatorn Croghan killed his grandmother. He was charged with murder but entered a guilty plea to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. It’s the tell-tale sign that psychiatrists are involved, submitting reports on behalf of the accused in an attempt to lessen the crime.
In his book The Myth of Mental Illness, Professor of psychiatry Thomas Szasz says: “The introduction of psychiatric considerations into the administration of the criminal law – for example, the insanity plea and verdict, diagnoses of mental incompetence to stand trial, and so forth – corrupt the law and victimise the subject on whose behalf they are ostensibly employed.”
When psychiatry entered the justice system, 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.
Dr Szasz warned: “We have to restore the idea of responsibility, which is corrupted by psychiatry, by the idea that something happened to you when you were a child and therefore you are not responsible 30 years later.”
It is up to the many conscientious, hardworking and increasingly disheartened people within the system to realise it is being corrupted and to rid it of these destructive psychiatric intruders.
Further reading: Eroding Justice: Psychiatry’s Corruption of Law
