Wolfdeck's journal

Several years ago I was a newbie in as many as a dozen internet support groups at a time, of which three were suicide groups. I do nothing in moderation!
I discovered that the most informative groups were peopled by those not looking for a quick “fix” to their problems in living (psychiatrically labeled mental illness) - out of recognition for the cultural deficits impacting against their capacity to cope. These groups were peopled by those who were actively seeking recovery from the disability forced upon them by the mental health industry itself. They were seeking to create systems change, a prerequisite being an illusive respectful dialogue between providers and consumers of services.

When Colleges Go On Suicide Watch
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1194020,00.html
Letter to the TIMES Editor
My personal response to the current issue of TIME Magazine

Julie Raw and Kathleen Kingsbury have written a PhRMA infomercial

Attention: PSR Program Co-ordinator Christine Gayler, Mohawk College
cc: PSR Instructor - Sabrina Andrews, Mohawk College
cc: Mary Brown, Chair, Health Sciences & Human Services, Mohawk College www.mohawkc.on.ca info@mohawkcollege.ca
cc: Laura Imhoff, Ontario-Learn.com, Northern College imhoffl@northern.on.ca
cc: Judy Rantala, Director School of Health Sciences, Human Services & Emergency Services, Northern College rantalaj@northern.on.ca
cc: Cathy Whelan, Director RPN Program, Northern College whelanc@northern.on.ca
cc: Fred Gibbons, Executive Regional Director (North)/Directrice régionale exécutif (Nord)
gibbonsf@northern.on.ca
cc: Lynn Berthiaume, Registrar, Northern College berthiaumel@northern.on.ca

RE: Biopsychiatric Course Falsely Labelled - Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR-01)
PSR-01 Course - Dropped – Winter Session 2006

I am writing to bring to your attention the knowledge that the above-named course that you (Christine Gayler) suggested that I drop – without penalty – and a fee of $60 to be paid for the administrative costs of my registry …
1) has been paid for (in full) out of my OSAP funding without my knowledge
2) has been added to my transcript as an F received rather than a WP
Please make the following corrections:
1) Credit my OSAP for the cost of the PSR course minus the $60 that we agreed upon
2) Remove the F from my transcript

According to York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada AND (by concensus) International Consumer-Survivor Associations (U.N.-NGOs) active in mental health reform –

“Psychosocial Rehabilitation is the application of environmental, sociological and ecological perspectives on (individual/community) psychological well-being, which differentiates it from biopsychiatric modelling of human distress as medical disease. The study of Psychosocial Rehabilitation mechanisms of community support therefore involve topics including stress and coping, prevention, self-help, social support and culture.”

Clearly Psychosocial Rehabilitation stands on its own merit as a non-medical support system of positive reinforcement based in community inclusion. It is therefore a corruption of PSR perspectives and practices to warp it into being abused as the rewarding carrot acting as an inducement at best, hence used as a weapon of coercion by self-serving mental health industry providers in promotion of biopsychiatric medical modelling of human distress. PSR used in this manner can only impact against the health and well-being of the recipients of scientifically never proven beneficial, enforced medical practices purporting to “fix” never discovered diseases and in profitable maintenance of same. Validating PSR to be used in this fashion in any academic course qualifying itself by name as Psychosocial Rehabilitation is therefore an indoctrination of students into corporate disease mongering as valid practice of community support.

We discussed this issue at length when you suggested that I drop out of the aforementioned course – without penalty – and a fee of $60 to be paid for the administrative costs of my registry.

FYI RECAP: After the introductory class in Psychosocial Rehabilitation – Part I, I began receiving materials for weekly class assignments while (initially) attending a weekly (chat) class. After several classes/weeks it became clear that the only authors of written materials that would be accessed for the PSR course were biopsychiatrists, i.e. psychiatrists whose financial interest is dependent upon their agency in promotion of corporate PhRMA and ECT medical device manufacturers’ profits - regardless of harm. Assigned reading materials were steeped in and therefore expounded upon organic i.e. medical conceptualizations, but without recognition (as one would expect from a PSR program) of their interventions further impacting negatively against human distress and in consequence frequently nullifying recovery. On the contrary, one would expect a PSR course to analyze the false belief systems outlined in the aforesaid materials strictly with a qualifier pertinent to their proven, direct association with increasing numbers of (proven by objective science) medical disability, as well as leading to ever-expanding mortality figures iatrogenically induced by self-same agents of the mental health industry. Invariably the reading assignments spoke with condescension toward enhancement of social well-being of disabled consumers, but without reference to their having been driven into a deeper dys-functionality (at best) by medical interference. The reading materials defined aforesaid dys-functionality as a product of the consumers’ inherent diseased biology, while bemoaning their iatrogenic problems as those which medicine is as yet unable to “fix”. Clearly medical modelling and psychosocial understanding of human responses to oppression are irreconcilable as witnessed by the expressive language used by consumer/providers of each perspective.

An RN (psychiatry) kindly posted a listing of medical jargon in the PSR Discuss Forum in support of those students who were becoming lost in the profusion of biopsychiatric conceptualizations basic to the (?psychosocial?) reading assignments. I naturally responded by kindly posting a translations listing of medical jargon in OUR PSR Discuss Forum in support of those students who believed themselves to have registered into a Psychosocial course. My posting listed the common parlance of the user/survivor movement in deference to the wholesale misuse of medical jargon re-defining, hence re-characterising humanity\'s natural reaction to oppression as an inherent, biological/genetic weakness innate to the individual suffering incident-induced distress through trajedy by human agency (community re-traumatisation) or “problems in living” (Szasz). These translations are representational of common language used in the trauma-informed field by those who work tirelessly to promote, rather than to repress the unselfish liberties of human rights. Because the language of PSR is the language of the repressed speaking directly to the oppression that hurt us the most, PSR language is therefore unapologetic in its use of every day, household words and thereby understandable to anyone with an elementary school education, i.e. literate. Although the RN’s Psychiatric Industry propaganda terminology was left hanging in the Psychosocial Rehabilitation Discuss Forum – the Psychosocial translations of medical jargon was censored i.e. immediately removed.

My instructor (Sabrina Andrews) stated that the common language of psychosocial rehabilitation was offensive to the students in the psychosocial rehabilitation course and therefore had to be immediately removed. She specifically asked me NOT to post any further offensive material in the Discuss Forum out of respect for other student’s sensibilities, whom she did not name. She reiterated (as she had previously in grading assignments) that biopsychiatry (which she erroneously referred to as PSR) was not up for debate usually in reference to her inability to understand the PSR material. Perhaps she failed to learn the appropriate language pertinent to the course she was teaching and in lieu of Mohawk College censorship practices may never recover from her programmed naiveté, which is the desired result of such censorship.

It was at this time that I fully realized how impossible it would be for me to sufficiently adapt to denigration of academics in an effort to complete the aforesaid course. It was also at this time that we decided that it would be most amenable to all concerned for me to drop the course. I reiterate: You suggested that I drop out of the aforementioned course – without penalty – and a fee of $60 to be paid for the administrative costs of my registry. Unfortunately, you failed to forward the needful paperwork assurance to the appropriate department and Mohawk College (according to Laura Imhoff, Northern College) has taken full reimbursement out of my OSAP loan for the course and placed an F on my transcript.

Please make the following corrections:
3) Credit my OSAP for the cost of the PSR course minus the $60 that was agreed upon by both of us
4) Remove the F from my transcript

In the spirit of “(E)stablishing partnerships with students who contribute to the overall growth of Northern College” sincerely,

Kathleen M. Hill
211-29 Miller Avenue
Cobalt, Ontario, Canada. P0J 1C0

P.S. Censored Material referenced above is available upon request.

Psychiatry’s Unholy Alliance w/Corporate PhRMA: News Update: Wednesday, May 10, 2006: Windows on State Government @ www.window.state.tx.us
\"Based on the data I have received:
• $39 million was the total cost of all prescriptions for foster children in fiscal year 2004;
• Of that, more than $29 million were for powerful, mind-altering psychotropic drugs;
• Of the 12,000 foster children who received psychotropic drugs in fiscal year 2004, each child averaged 21 psychotropic drug prescriptions during the year.
“According to the Food and Drug Administration, many of these drugs are not labelled for use in children and have serious side effects, such as suicidal tendencies, diabetes, and cardiac arrhythmia.” (Carole Keeton Strayhorn, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts)

Notes for Bill 118 - Accessibility Standards Regulatory Committee

I would like my constitutional rights realized as being in existence by Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Departments of the Government. This has not been the case since December 2001, when I was accepted into OW. It is for this reason that I have a Human Rights Case. The last letter from OW is written such that it is their first recognition that I possess human/civil rights other than that of slave status to Ontario government sovereignty.

In my experience, OW behaviour has always been that of a tunnel-visioned, corporate industry seeking to wrestle financial profitability, with the means they possess (specifically control-over survival needs), to enforce their nullifying power-over individual/group humanity as substrate for profit pursuant to self-aggrandisement. A penny saved is a penny earned! A direct result of the lack of peripheral vision is the cost cutting in this program, which equates to human psychosocial/spiritual disintegration. I have successfully maintained my human right of personhood at great personal cost to the integrity of my physiological health and psychological stability, while processing a case for Disability Support Program, which clearly does not exist due to the aforementioned aberrancy of governance.

Assimilates give up their self-empowerment in acquiescence to fear, thereby becoming the hopeless. They require the commanding directive of authority, best symbolized by a \"ring in their nose\", because learned helplessness is non-protective of myself and of selfhood. The Assimilate is without self-direction in lieu of the fact that they are incapable of self-determination. For the Assimilate - \"All is for sale.\" Widow of Bath, Chaucer, 14thC

The Assimilate is overwhelmed by shame and guilt, forever locked into an infantile personhood regardless of age and gender. They cannot grasp the spiritual vision of power, respect and influence generating consensual community. They have become the self-serving embodiment of their lessons in oppression - suppression. Regardless of their position of conflict in the vertical hierarchy, they function as individual vassals in distress, who either wield power-over or submit to power-over. The sum of their needs, wants and desires is that of a consumerist, self-pleasuring in the moment. When unleashed their appetite is boundless, hence genocidal. Please see for examples in a single domain spanning ~3 weeks.

The pathology of civilization is a vertical hierarchy of materialistic power, wherein the Assimilate may readily excel. Because the Assimilate both rules and is ruled over to the ultimate exclusion of all else, extinction of Homo Sapien is a given. The primary outrage to the Assimilate egoism is that the Traditionalists keep forestalling the inevitable.

\"A new Accessibility Standards Advisory Council will advise the minister on the progress made by standards development committees, public information programs and other matters. Like the existing Accessibility Advisory Council of Ontario, a majority of the members of the new body will be persons with disabilities.\" David Lepofsky, Bill 118

It is not good enough that the Disability Advisory Council be a majority of disabled people. It is imperative that they be a majority of Traditionalist-minded Disabled People. The Disability Advisory Council must represent wisdom and not attainment of dominant, mono-cultural credentials. As Dr. David Suzuki pointed out in his speech Air, Water & Soil-We ARE the Earth
accept for the rare individual, they don\'t necessarily equate, one to the other.

It requires wisdom to budget in accordance with an understanding that, \"The real bottom line is not economics; it is determined by our biological, social and spiritual needs.\" (Dr. D. Suzuki) For example, Psychiatry is wholly a dominant, mono-culture profession stemming from its educational systemic programming into a social, domination belief system, which would NOT necessarily possess respect amongst many of the Canadian peoples and might even be considered an affrontery (at best) by a majority of the population. It is for this reason that I use the Szasz quote with my signature \"No behavior or misbehavior is a disease or can be a disease: There is no mental disease. Period.\" Many people I know would consider this to be a true statement, even though they know nothing else about the \"mental health\" industry and are barely literate. i.e. It don\'t take a whole lot of education to figure it out, but it does take a lot of education NOT to figure it out. Dr. Breeding made note of this in his Necessity of Madness & Unproductivity book, Chipmunka Publishing, U.K.

Unfortunately, the dominant culture professes to be multi-cultural, while implanting a rule-book oblivious of anyone\'s cultural affiliations accept its\' own, a by-product of its\' presumed biological, hence cultural superiority via self-mandated ownership by sovereign rule. For example, to obtain membership in the Disability Support Program (Ontario) one must be assessed by a Psychiatrist (public-pay professionals who adhere to biopsychiatry, 2 centuries old fraud) or a Psychologist (private-pay professionals who overwhelmingly adhere to Behaviourism, Pavlov/Descartes). This results in one\'s being duly labelled with any number of dominant cultural efforts to hide from itself, while perpetrating itself i.e. shift the blame for its\' failings onto the individual (victim-blaming) member of a group as a biological inferior (scape-goating) and even without further purposefully intended destructiveness of the individual\'s integrity, thereby severely damage their/and associates human potential. This in itself is not good enough! In accordance with the systemic requirements of its peoples, in this case specifically for disability subsidy, that being to submit to commodification of our humanity, one then needs to submit to regular visits to their institutions (incarceration) during episodes of nonfunctionality, directly due to oppressive situations in one\'s present life (in turn a result of being subject to an oppressive, dominant mono-culture) and partake of their alternative mechanisms for promoting a deepening nonfunctionality (electroshock, PhRMA) and so on. Eventually, after sufficient professionals have fed financially on one\'s life energies, such that recovery is virtually impossible, they will move on to other humanity to exploit, much as we do after clear-cutting or flooding or strip-mining the environ leaving desolation (natural and social) behind, as witness to our power-over, i.e. presumption of sovereignty over all.

We need to be aware of the facts! The \"mental health\" industry was never a supportive arm of our dominant culture, but a suppressive arm of our culture of dominance used against those already most oppressed, hence a system of social control. The system has not changed, but only branched out into an overall for-profit industry, encasing the old with the new forms of suppression. The propaganda of supportive \"help\" evolved directly out of PhRMA\'s corporate recognition of the greater population\'s soul/spirit/consciousness as profitable substrate.

En masse, experimental drugging of our children for behavioural attributes, in submission to the will of PhRMA industry is not a childish behaviour: It is infantile!

Assimilates would put their kids on drugs and pressure their neighbour or anyone they exercised power-over (e.x.professional) to do the same. Naturally, the blame always lies outside of themselves, as the Assimilates can be only the fodder upon which others graze. Usually, so long as they play the game appropriately - it is not they who are harmed. Not always, but quite often, are parents not complaining because having done what was expected and culturally appropriate (upheld the \'isms, in this case adultism), they nevertheless got hurt? A harm that is little recognized in this scenario is that: Now that the child is \"diagnosed\" as having a biological brainsick or \"mental illness\" (which does not exist as it is defined), parents may exercise power-over throughout their child\'s life, which includes forced incarceration, forced electroshock and forced drugging, without any systemic effort to validate not-for-profit options (multiculturalism) and make them accessible. The lamb is sacrificed in promotion of the bottom line.

Assimilates do not possess respect for their soul/spirit/consciousness nor that of their offspring. For example, they will intuitively understand that to electrocute someone\'s genitalia is torture, but cannot grasp (even when it is explained to them) that to electrocute (or drug) someone\'s soul/spirit/consciousness (the brain) is torture. They place tremendous value on their genitalia (pleasure, reproduction), but no value on their cognition (soul/spirit/consciousness).

Clearly, Assimilates have accepted that - Humanity ain\'t worth dick!

What does this say about the dynamics of our respective dominant mono-cultures, in which it is accepted that people are \"born full of evil\" and must be made to behave appropriately, how it - through us - rears and educates children, such that the only thing about humanity that has any value is the capacity to self-pleasure and to reproduce?

This behaviour is not a self-injurious lack of self-respect: It is a punishing lack of honouring personhood!

Perhaps in time, we will begin to better appreciate the aberrancy of our domination-centred cultures, a vice that is systemically enforced via its various self-supportive agencies such as \"education/social services/criminal justice/mental health\" and actively seek, as a culture, to eliminate the exercise of power-over by creating legislation that supports self-governance (self-empowerment or responsibility), a necessary requirement for the exercise of self-determination (choice in decisions or accountability) and the maintenance and creation of multi-cultural options (presently understood to be devalued alternatives), thereby providing the population with option-full cultures, which point out the many avenues of healing and recovery, that is culturally specific albeit accessible to all that apply, that is holistically supportive i.e. empowering of individual, familial and community psychosocial/spiritual integrity.

Clearly, abusive parents and abusive governance (abusive being the dominant mono-culture\'s systemic word for assaultive) will prefer the various National Institutes of \"Mental Health\" and learn solely from their agents and apologists, regardless of the potential options available, as they provide the legal weaponry to assault the child and those they exercise authority over, based upon an intransigent presumption of sovereignty/ownership, thereby failing to accord the Canadian Peoples the honourable treatment that - governance is constitutionally obligated to provide and that parents are obligated to provide (See U.N. Charter for the Rights of the Child, of which Canada is a signatory).

Psychosocial/spiritual issues of integrity, individual, familial and community have at their core - government\'s presumption of sovereignty and its\' commodification of all that it has been/is presently/will be able to exert power-over.

Education, Healthcare and Welfare are Provincial matters and legislated
provincially. This frightens me, in the sense that the smaller the unit
the less power to resist big moneyed interests. (For example, no sooner was the welfare de-regulated by Federal, when B.C. and Ontario (mid-90s) brought in the American 2-tiered system or Work First.) On the other hand, the dominant cultural power structure at the Provincial level is more subject to the power of the people, which is respectfully culturally diverse, although the power structure itself is overwhelmingly dominant adhering to mono-culture, hence inherently disrespectful of and consistently persistent in its devaluing of the holistic integrity of our cultural diversity (individual, familial, community). In the case of welfare this power was used to incite divisions based in prejudice, itself based in fear and shame, a direct result of dominant mono-culture\'s willful ignorance of the multi-cultural issues, to the detriment of everyone\'s quality of life, while directly strengthening corporate finances and power-over.

For example, Psychiatry is wholly a dominant, mono-culture profession stemming
from its educational systemic programming into a social, domination belief
system, which would NOT necessarily possess respect amongst many of the
Canadian peoples and might even be considered an affrontery (at best) by a majority of the population. It is for this reason that I use the Szasz quote with my signature i.e. many people I know would consider this to be a true statement, even though they know nothing else about the \"mental health\" industry and are barely literate. i.e. It don\'t take a whole lot of education to figure it out, but it does take a lot of education NOT to figure it out. Dr. Breeding made note of this in his Necessity of Madness & Unproductivity book, Chipmunka Publishing, U.K.

\"No behavior or misbehavior is a disease or can be a disease: There is no mental disease. Period.\" -Szasz

Unfortunately, the dominant culture professes to be multi-cultural, while
implanting a rule-book oblivious of anyone\'s cultural affiliations accept
its\' own, a by-product of its\' presumed sovereignty. For example, to obtain membership in the Disability Support Program (Ontario) one must be assessed by a Psychiatrist (public-pay) or a Psychologist (private-pay). This results in one\'s being duly labelled with any number of dominant cultural efforts to hide from itself, while perpetrating itself i.e. shift the blame for its\' failings onto the individual (victim-blaming) member of a group as a biological inferior (scape-goating) and even without further destructiveness of the individual\'s integrity, thereby severely damage their/and associates human potential.

This itself is not good enough! One then needs to submit to regular visits to their institutions (incarceration) during episodes of nonfunctionality, directly due to oppressive situations in one\'s present (in turn a result of being subject to an oppressive, dominant mono-culture) and partake of their alternative mechanisms for promoting a deepening nonfunctionality (electroshock, PhRMA) and so on. Eventually, after sufficient professionals have fed on one\'s life energies, such that recovery is virtually impossible, they will move on to other humanity to exploit, much as we do after clear-cutting or flooding or strip-mining the environ leaving desolation (natural and social) behind, as witness to our power-over, i.e. presumption of sovereignty over all.

Individuals and their respective communities (the various \'isms\') need to reach out to other minority communities who are being overwhelmed by the dominant culture that is still/has been literally enforcing itself into all aspects of life and living and human endeavour. For example, even in Northern Ontario - if one looks up spirituality on the Internet - one gets a list of churches, which is only suitable from a dominant mono-cultural attitude, and misses the point entirely. No wonder people don\'t understand that by clear-cutting First Nations land we threaten their existence (and eventually our own) - not just their livelihood.

Most people would tend to stay away from it (\"established mental health\" i.e. the dominant mono-cultural alternative) unless they are being coerced into it via the oppressive arms of the system, e.x. \"Criminal Justice\" and \"Social Service\" Industries. Unfortunately, we get a lot of American TV here via Cable and so we are falling prey to the advertisements AND now we got quasi-direct to consumer adverts legal in Canada. Our Canadian culture is under threat to absorb the American, dominant mono-culture (corporate led/owned), which the dominant culture here (largely professional) has a greater affinity for. Because academics is a stronghold of dominant culture (repelling other than European cultural influences), it functions like an organismal \"mono-culture\" within the governing body of the Canadian multi-culture. Theory is weighted in support of dominant needs, which is centred on individualism, consumerism and conflict - rather than on community, consensual and spiritual/philosophical.

One little talked about aspect of the \"mental health\" and \"human service\" industry is its capacity to disintegrate individual psychosocial/spiritual integrity (hence family, hence community), i.e. to enhance individualism and conflict, in turn an enhancement to consumerism/addictions (to fill the spiritual void).

Canadians have paid lip-service to multi-culturalism long enough. We need to be accessing the multi-culturalism that we are always giving lip-service to as a country, by providing many ideas as to what the difficulty is and how to go about problem-solving, i.e. “We appreciate our differences, because our diversity is our strength, so we can not tolerate...” Some of the mechanisms for problem-solving might be found within the dominant culture as options to the \"mental health\" industry. I am thinking in terms of the interview that Annie Armen had with Fred Baughman, John Breeding and Ron Davis (who had severe dyslexia growing up). I agree with him that there are NO Learning Disabilities, just differences in learning. He has a methodology that worked for him and therefore will work for others like himself. John Breeding outlined in Necessity of Madness & Unproductivity several aspects as to how the epidemic of Learning Disabilities was systemically created and it was clarified in the interview (with Annie Armen) by Fred Baughman.
http://www.worldtalkradio.com/category.asp?cid=188

Mostly, these would be considered as alternatives to Psychiatry/Behaviourism, BUT they are our options and would be considered as culturally affiliated, community-oriented resources and informationally accessible to everyone, while personally accessible to anyone in the community in which they reside. i.e. Psychosocial/spiritual resources that promote the integrity of our humanity are not actually alternatives for people affiliated within the specific communities: they are the way, hence option of choice. CMHA would be the alternative and a suppressive one at that, which is why oppressed people are coerced into its use. Culture-specific methodology are only the alternatives for people affiliated within the dominant culture who, for the most part, are unaware of their existence, which in turn (via cultural ignorance) is resulting in an expansion of a mono-culture of domination being implanted overall, thereby reducing our ability to perform problem-solving, i.e. we are following in the U.S. footsteps - becoming option-less rather than option-full.

I listened (twice) to Annie Armen\'s interview with Szasz, who I agreed
with wholeheartedly. I also agree with Dr. John Breeding who explained in
his The Necessity of Madness & Unproductivity book about the educational system\'s programming/indoctrinating/brainwashing of our minds (into submission to mono-cultural dictates), thereby usurping individual self-empowerment and therefore nullifying our capacity for self-determination which results in our learned helplessness in fulfillment of authoritarian needs, wants and desires. http://www.anniearmenlive.org/psychiatric_drugs.htm

My personal experience of American Institutionalization (I was never in a
Canadian institution) is that people (with obvious psychosocial/spiritual difficulties) \"hang out waiting for the drugs to take effect\" because they don\'t know they have options, as they are not a part of/disregarded by their (dominant) culture, i.e. everyone that I met was \"white,\" regardless of micro-cultural affiliation. Everybody else got sense enough to stay away, which is why the coercion is necessary in the systemic arms of \"education/criminal justice/social services\". (Myself, I was running away from home and NOT into Social Services, only to find that although the tools had changed (within the “mental health” industry) the weaponry remained the same).

People need to become aware of the facts! The “mental health” industry was never a supportive arm of our culture, but a suppressive arm used against those already most oppressed, hence a system of social control. The system has not changed, but only branched out into an overall for-profit industry, encasing the old with the new forms of suppression. The propaganda of supportive “help” evolved out of PhRMA\'s corporate recognition of the greater population as profitable substrate.

Because people have learned helplessness (a natural by-product of assimilation into the dominant mono-culture) they are unaware of their inherent self-determination. The final product of power-over is to produce individual (hence group) learned powerlessness to do as one is told by anyone in an authority position and to do so without thought to oneself AND to anyone else. As a result of fear, people cannot think/do, because they can\'t bring themselves to trust themselves to agree/disagree, +/or make a decision. As Dr. Szasz pointed out to Annie, they give away the responsibility to themselves to someone else, having accepted personal powerlessness. They can therefore never be held accountable, while reaping personal benefit! Please note: First Nations elders teach from personal experience of subjection to power-over as Traditionalists vs Assimilates, the result of self-serving, systemic oppression, that was purposefully conducted to nullify individual/group functionality.

En masse drugging of our children via unadaptable behaviour within the school system is not a childish behaviour: It is infantile! Such people would put
their kids on drugs and pressure their neighbour or anyone they exercised
power-over (professional) to do the same. Naturally, the blame always lies
outside of themselves, as the Assimilates can be only the fodder upon which others graze. Usually, so long as they play the game appropriately - it is not
they who are harmed. Not always, but quite often, are these parents not
complaining because having done what was expected and culturally appropriate (upheld the \'isms, in this case adultism), they nevertheless got hurt? Is their anger not the self-righteous anger of betrayal?

An example, true story - October 2004, Hamilton, Ontario: a woman has a
child and a live-in boyfriend. While she is at work, he straps the child.
The child screams and after a few nights the neighbour complains to the
woman. She immediately kicks the boyfriend out of the house and takes the
kid to the Doctor. The child is not accepted as having behaviour in
keeping with having been terrorized and appropriate options considered, she is instead \"diagnosed\" as being biologically brainsick with ADHD and fed Ritalin, the dominant mono-culture alternative to - in this case - traditional parental love. The woman was also recognized as such (history of abuse/assaults) and had been, therefore, \"diagnosed\" as having adult ADHD and takes Ritalin. Mom is pleased to know that she is ADHD and therefore naturally so is her daughter. Apparently, it is a genetic disease.

!She never questions any of it! In the Womens\' Shelter we all know that both she and her daughter are ADHD, as we are told this several times, lest we forget. We know the daughter\'s \"meds\" schedule, because we are told of this, daily. The child is extremely calm considering she is homeless and subject to such a self-serving mom. Mom doesn\'t spend any time with her daughter, as the endless games of Crazy 8s with others in her age group is far more amusing. I agree with Szasz, the child is being victimized/drugged for parental self-serving reasons. Clearly, such parents/guardians have no right to complain when their child has an adverse reaction, let alone to sue in civil court for damages.

A harm that is little recognized in the above scenario is that: Now that the child is “diagnosed” as having a biological brainsick or “mental illness” (which does not exist as it is defined), mom may exercise parental authority throughout her child\'s life, which includes forced incarceration, forced electroshock and forced drugging, without any effort to validate not-for-profit options and make them accessible.

Such people, as aforementioned examples, do not possess respect for their soul/spirit/consciousness nor that of their offspring. An aspect of the Assimilate is learned helplessness or learned powerlessness. For example, they will intuitively understand that to electrocute someone\'s genitalia is torture, but cannot grasp (even when it is explained to them) that to electrocute (or drug) someone\'s soul/spirit/consciousness (the brain) is torture. They place tremendous value on their genitalia (pleasure, reproduction), but no value on their cognition (soul/spirit/consciousness).

Clearly, Assimilates have accepted that - Humanity ain\'t worth dick!

What does this say about the dynamics of our respective dominant mono-cultures, in which it is accepted that people are \"born full of evil\" and must be made to behave appropriately, how it - through us - rears and educates children, such that the only thing about humanity that has any value is the capacity to self-pleasure and to reproduce?

This behaviour is not a lack of self-respect: It is a lack of honouring personhood!

I think that Szasz was trying to relay that these people are usually correct in this behaviour as it, generally-speaking, achieves painless self-advancement, in superficial ways, within the dominant mono-culture - only
in this case they and/or their offspring got hurt. Szasz would like us to
go to the next level down and to appreciate our participation in the
dominant culture of power-over and to make systemic change within our
personal selves, rather than to get lost on the blame game. He stated that
sites like AbleChild and CCHR was the reverse of PhRMA and much the same
thing - because they are. It is a job that needs doing!

It\'s important to note that nothing I said to that woman in the shelter had any affect on her. She was in disdainful disagreement with me, my being a nobody and all. She was a member of CHADD, which backs up her self-serving needs, wants and desires against the child. BUT the one thing that she did make note of was, that I considered it to be a very real possibility that, with any luck at all, her daughter 15 years down the road will charge her with the crime of child abuse, on account of the brain/body damage that long-term use of a serotonin destabilizer (serotonin being found in every organ system of the body, as well as the brain) may well result in. Her child\'s case will have the strength to do this (thanks to sites like AbleChild.org and CCHR), because the information is out there (so thick one has to wade through it) and she really ought to know better.

A caring parent would, once suckered in by the dominant cultural alternative, (the “mental health” industry - corporate, institutional, professional), feel sufficient internalized discomfort to seek out all the information, rather than to be satisfied with the information that supports their selfish, self-centred, egocentric, single-mindedly self-involved needs, wants and desires. i.e. the caring parent would not be so well assimilated to the dominant culture\'s authority exerting power-over them, that they would sacrifice their child to dominant culture\'s spiritual suppression for profit. Dr. Szasz alluded to sacrifice via a biblical example in his chat with Annie.

As far as the taxpayer is concerned, why not make known what the present/projected costs might be for public healthcare to cover the medical costs of the damaged survivors who partake of the mono-cultural alternative (electroshock/PhRMA/behaviourism) backed up with their future need for welfare/disability. What are the present health costs and pharmacare costs versus perfectly valid options? It\'s worth noting that the tax-payer is still paying for electroshock, thousands in Ontario per year. (Electroshocking Elderly People: Another Psychiatric Abuse by Don Weitz; http://capa.oise.utoronto.ca/electroshock.html )

Perhaps in time, we will begin to better appreciate the aberrancy of our domination-centred cultures, a vice that is systemically enforced via its various self-supportive agencies such as “education/social services/criminal justice/mental health” and actively seek, as a culture, to eliminate the exercise of power-over by creating legislation that supports self-governance (self-empowerment), a necessary requirement for the exercise of self-determination (choice in decisions) and the maintenance and creation of multi-cultural options (presently understood to be devalued alternatives), thereby providing the population with option-full cultures, which point out
the many avenues of healing and recovery, that is culturally specific albeit accessible to all that apply, that is holistically supportive i.e. empowering of individual, familial and community psychosocial/spiritual integrity.

Clearly, an abusive parent will prefer the National Institutes of “Mental Health” regardless of the options available, as they provide the legal weaponry to assault the child with.

Kathleen (Katie) M. Hill
AbleChild.org/AbleChild Cda: Parents for a Label and Drug Free Education;
“No behavior or misbehavior is a disease or can be a disease. There is no
mental disease. Period.” Thomas Szasz

oda@odacommittee.net
RE: Legislative Assembly of Ontario
http://www.ontla.on.ca/
Standing Committee on Social Policy; Bill 118, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2004

I am feeling bitter, sad and not a little vitriolic! This is because I understand that when people think of people with disability, they think of physiological illness and physically damaged people. As a result their bigotry is not intense, mostly just subject to misunderstandings or stereotyping based upon misinformation, i.e. without mensre, unlike the \"stigma\" pertaining to the \"mental illness\" label, wherein peoples\' irrational fear, hate and denial is at times little more than a shunning and at other times akin to a biblical stoning.

Both of these reactionary behaviours are frequently found within our loving families, administrated by professionals and profited by institutional \"mental health\" and corporate pharma. The constant nay-saying of the government to ODAC amendments was clearly not the voice of the people, but of the professionals in service to moneyed interests. Nothing changes so much as it stays the same!

Rosario Marchese is right - the government oughtta be ashamed! Only somehow their action (actually lack thereof) shames us all! Cam Jackson is right - their refusal to accept explicitness in the writing of core principle amendments is of great concern, especially as these changes only specify the empowerment model that has been propagandized as the purpose of the whole (tax expensive) exercise AND agreed to verbally by the government (including in their negative responses to the amendments) BUT only so long as it is not written with clarity. This is obviously hypocritical and lacking in integrity!

The government response to ODAC amendments shows again that even in the highest levels of Canadian government there is an endemic lack of moral safety. It is this very element lacking in interpersonal interactions in the public domain that triggers my dysfunctionality, thereby driving me nonfunctional. It is the lack of moral safety that was amply demonstrated today that forces me to live in penury while applying for disability (3 years and counting), which in turn represents the hope of creating through personal work effort a productive niche of psychosocial/spiritual stability, hence to gain financial independence for myself.

Apparently, the government expects the people with disability to accept/respect - their word of honour, out of our legislature\'s professed goodness of heart to work on our behalf, perhaps sealed with a \"gentleman\'s\" handshake! Well! Maybe if they traded some glass beads, eh! I think that this is called \"breaking their pact with the people\' which is a pact invariably to be spoken rather than contractually written. Or is this a bribe to maintain the Liberals in power, i.e. the terror of the very real possibility that the Conservatives could get into power?

I am certain that corporate pharma \"got to\" government to slash the educational amendment. The last thing pharma wants is an informed public with opinions, as this will invariably lead to diversity of options and a socially righteous reduction in pharma profits, which I believe last year rivaled the Canadian GNP or is it 50 world GNPs. The bigotted ignorance of professionals who are providers is both appalling in its holism and horrific in its maiming of our humanity.

Speaking of humanity - Rosario Marchesa is dynamic! Clearly, An NDP! His precision pointedness delivered with appropriate satire was a pleasure to view. He courageously tried to raise up (in order to appeal to) the government reps\' soul/spirit/consciousness. Time and again the government had no objection to the amendment - that they could speak of in a public forum - thereby clarifying for us in one vacuous excuse after another the need for transparency. I expect that this is due to the \"contentiousness\" of the already \"verbally agreed-upon\" issues on the table to be specified into clarity for posterity through the symbolism of the contractually-written format. I feel very sorry for the people with physical disability! As for those of us who have psychosocial/psychospiritual issues (\"mental health\" industry-named \"mental illness\") - well - maybe next generation when there\'s many millions more of us, a direct result of all that racketeering, greed and power-mongering.

As for the government\'s insistence that \"minutes of the meetings\" being good enough! Being well-informed is absolutely necessary for a participatory democracy BUT it does not replace the participation. My! The Liberals are in a terrible hurry! Why? This bill is to be put into action over a 20 year period. Many of the people who will be directly impacted by its action are either not yet born or will be dead by then.

In summary: It\'s hard to place a finger on what hurts the most! Clearly this bill has undergone regression - government choosing who sits at the table behind closed doors in accordance with their socio/political/financial needs of the moment. There is no need to include more than 5% - 20% of people with disability and there is no need to reference working class interest groups whose memberships are those subject to becoming disabled while on the job (unlike the professionals who supervise them).

So who is left to sit at the table? Those who stand to gain financially by stone-walling positive social change in the maintenance of the status quo and those professionals (e.x. psychiatrists, behaviourists and social workers - in my experience) who regularly cannibalize us for profit and the pleasure that it affords them.

Without the ODAC amendments they will continue to do so and without compunction on account of all that accidental, on purpose, well-maintained, state-sponsored, corporate-propagandized, educationally indoctrinated ignorance.

The price of trinkets is soul!

Webcast of 15 minute presentation of charges against the Ontario Government by Mr. David Thomason, Ottawa, February 8, 2005.

Bill 118, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005/Loi de 2005 sur l\'accessibilité pour les personnes handicapées de l\'Ontario. Ordered referred to the Standing Committee on Social Policy, Hon. Mrs. Bountrogianni (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration).

Bill 118: An Act respecting the development, implementation and enforcement of standards relating to accessibility with respect to goods, services, facilities, employment, accommodation, buildings and all other things specified in the act for persons with disabilities.

Legislative Assembly website at www.ontla.on.ca
http://www.ontla.on.ca/documents/Bills/38_Parliament/Session1/index.htm
Considered January 31; February 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 28; March 29; public meetings in Ontario
Amendments to Bill 118 in debate: April 4, 2005, April 5, 2005, Ongoing...
Webcast http://www.insinc.com/ontla/socialpolicy/player_high_20050210.html
http://www.ontla.on.ca/documents/Bills/38_Parliament/Session1/index.htm

Mr. David Thomasson
Ottawa
February 8, 2005

David is the very first person with disability to give a presentation at the debate in Ottawa on February 8, 2005 and his presentation lasts 15 minutes including question period. Mr. Thomasson\'s scholarly presentation is pertinent to clause 41(r) of the (ODA) Ontarians with Disabilities Act, as it is presently written. David Thomasson, who self-identifies as bipolar and psychiatrically disabled is a recipient of ODSP (Ontario Disability Support Program).

In a systematically refined, well-structured and concrete presentation, Mr. David Thomasson contends that:
-- Clause 41(r), as it is presently written in ODA Bill 118, enables the Ontario Government to exempt Ministry of Community & Social Services and in consequence - exclude the Ontario Disability Support Program Act from ODA enforcement - by allowing the exemption of organizations from the ODA.
-- The Government of Ontario via the ODSP Act is the single largest source of discrimination against persons with disability in Ontario.

Mr. Thomasson presents written proofs in his debate from his MPP, Premier McGuinty, Minister Sandra Pupatello and Minister Bountrogionni in support of his contention that the Ontario Government has acknowledged acceptance that the ODSP falls under the jurisdiction of Ministry for Community, Family and Social Services AND that it is effectively already excluded from ODA enforcement.

The Ministry of Community, Family and Social Services via ODSP Act does NOT comply with, hence functions outside both the Ontario Human Rights Code and Charter of Rights and Freedoms, based on eligibility criteria for disabled people for ODSP. Applicants for ODSP must certify their disability as being “medically disabled” with financial need (capacity to function in the public domain of employment) being a flexible secondary criteria.

The quasi-judicial, informal administrative processing of ODSP Act applicants by government beauurocrats, equal in force of law to that of the Ontario Supreme Court, thereby exercising the force of law but without obeying the rule of law.

In Summary:
The McGuinty government (Liberals) continues to actively enforce discrimination against people with disability (that was legislated by the Harris government, Conservatives) by excluding the ODSP from ODA enforcement via discrimination based upon prescriptive criteria for ODSP application being a medical disability. The ODSP Act is therefore in and of itself, the single largest source of discrimination against people with disability. The ODSP Act and its quasi-judicial processing does not comply with Ontario Human Rights Code and Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Mr. Cam Jackson, PC Burlington asked Mr. Thomasson whether a re-introduction of the Ontario Human Rights code into the ODA (Bill 118) would satisfy the need for a test for accessibility standards and the test that the Government must therefore meet. To which Mr. Thomasson agreed while acknowledging his personal inability to lodge the Human Rights Code against the Ontario Government and thereby make them accountable.

Mr. Khalil Ramal (London-Fanshawe L) openly (and clearly foolishly) insultingly disparaged Mr. David Thomasson\'s presentation on the illegalities and constitutional issues with ODSP Act and ODA Bill 118, by referring to his presentation as a personal “story.” Worse, Ramal clarified his thoughts, that David\'s “personal problem” should have been satisfied by the answers he received from the various ministries, who nevertheless did not appear to have addressed Mr. Thomasson\'s “technical problem” with Bill 118 dealing with “illegible criteria”.

The Chair (President Mr. Mario G. Racco) in thanking David for his learned and expertly presented charges of discrimination lodged against the Ontario Government, noted that there have been two readings of the ODA and that all the honourable members supported it as written. Further that he appreciated David Thomason\'s well-informed, erudite presentation stating, “Thank you for your comments.”

The ”Health & Human Service” industry is sorely under reported in the mainstream media. Issues involving psychosocial/spiritual integrity (systemically referred to as ”mental health”) are usually misunderstood by the public, as they are invariably medicalized into a nonexistent format and (within the dominant culture) have historically been so for about 2 centuries.

I used to place an Ayn Rand quote with my signature, \"That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call your \'free will\' is your mind\'s freedom to think or not.\" I am not an intellectual and have never read her books nor seen the American movies. I didn\'t know about her philosophy until I googled a site about her. I used the quote because it expresses humanity that is not our biological being, which when dysfunctional in the public domain creates for us societal medicalized issues (See Szasz Warnings: Therapeutic State). Our psychosocial/spiritual consciousness expresses the integrity of our state-of-being, but obviously does not exist in the physical domain and can therefore never be quantified, which is why consciousness can never be appropriately medicalized by organic “treatments” or biological fixes, i.e. our soul/spirit/consciousness is unnameable, undefinable and uncharacterizeable in any reproducible sense of the word.

According to the Ayn Rand site “...the major elements of her challenging new philosophy of \'reason, individualism, and capitalism,\' which she called \'Objectivism\'” is personally disagreeable to me. It\'s amazing that a person of her intellectual capacity and her personal history didn\'t grasp that her socio-political insight, which if followed to its\' ultimate conclusion would eventually become the very instigator of the impoverished, socio-political state that caused her so much misery in her youth. (a rose by any other name)

“The wolf is a totem symbol of the nurturant power of communal integrity and maternal care (ecological and consensual). Its ongoing decimation is a colonialist symbol of the bigoted destruction against self-empowerment (self-centered within \'other\' nurturing self), that is manifest destiny and a symptom of the fear that is patrilineal. Patriarchy equates to a vertical, differential of power wherein the \'strong dominate the weak\', an enhancement to individualism, consumerism and conflict, patrilineally self-defined as \'democratic\', maintained by the individual, hence community belief in biological superiority. Avaricious refusal to respect the environment is indicative of cowardice to awaken a nightmare, safeguarding the dominant culture\'s ethic based in punishment and reward, a corrupt egocentricity. Fear to recognize self in groups - exemplified in the individual as indivisible - prevents one from analyzing the cannibalistic aberrancy in the cultural expression of self-empowerment (the self-centered within \'I\' feeding off self), safeguarding Social/Cultural Darwinism. When the past is an unacknowledged template for our growth in the present, there can be no maturation into the future. As a result, today is a shadow of yesterday imprisoning tomorrow.” Katie Hill (RANTing OUt the Devil: Community Traumatization & Human Transformation; Chipmunka Publishing)

The site http://www.ayn-rand.com (notice the .com) should have used the term \'logic\' in place of \'reason\', as they mean two very different ways of understanding the universe that we live in and are an integral part of, with each being valid when applied to the appropriate substrate.

Logic is the basis for scientific understanding of known objects in the physical domain (which is all that we can truly know about), which is likely why it is called objective science. Logic is a tool for superficial understanding, which lends itself to cause and effect in a stream-lined cascade within and impacting against the physical domain. In a logical system - Truth is always reproducible.

The imperative in any patriarchy is to apply logic to everything, to forcibly, i.e. to objectively bring order and structure to that which exists in the physical domain. Because so much of who and what we are does not exist in the physical domain, we are unwittingly participating in a simple looping cause and effect based in perpetual conflict, both internalized against one\'s self and externalized against self, considered to be “other”.

In a patrilineal culture the need for individual safety and security is a hallmark of societal interactions. There can be no doubt, the knowns are securely understood and the unknowns will be safely understood at some indeterminate time into the future. Because insecurity breeds doubt, in turn the substrate for fear, the more patriarchal the culture, the more reactionary it becomes - the greater its adherents\' need to possess freedom from fear and the greater its\' reliance on coersion to enforce adaptation into compliance to objectification of that which does not exist in the physical domain.

Reason involves feeling-thought with inference and intuition as a by-product of empathy. Thought processing is both a product of and is applied to that which has no physical presence, albeit intricately associated within the physical domain. Depth of reason lends itself to cause and affect in a highly complex network of cascade effects. Truth exists: It just isn\'t reproducible. The knowns can never be completely understood and the unknowns may never be identified as such.

http://www.co-intelligence.org/ (Tom Atlee) “Co-intelligence is intelligence that\'s grounded in wholeness, interconnectedness and co-creativity. It is collective, collaborative, synergistic, wise, resonant, heartful, and connected to greater sources of intelligence. We find co-intelligence -- and its opposite, co-stupidity -- in individuals, groups, organizations, communities, societies, processes, systems and institutions. Each of these can be co-intelligent whenever it calls forth collective wisdom (applied appreciation of the wholeness of life) in and around it -- usually by using diversity (difference) creatively.”

Truth is the truth to oneself and found in one\'s experience! We need to learn to accept it - regardless of the degree to which we disagree with its\' source!

Kathleen (Katie) M. Hill