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Now they're aiming to lock people away under the Mental Health Act.

 

"The government is trying to amend the act, with a controversial bill introduced in November, to bring in a wider definition of mental disorder in order to give doctors more power to detain people."

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article1847697.ece

 

Guess I'd better shut up about Tony Blair then :o

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This is a throwback to the days of 'Soviet Psychiatry' when if you were against the Government, ipso facto you were insane.

 

I wonder whether the furore about the 'Stop and Question' laws is being stoked up to slip this one through without question, or whether there's something else that they're going to sneak through whilst we're all indignant about this change and the stop and question laws.

theyve always done it

 

the old classic crusty punk band amebix did a song called largactyl about the drummer in (another band ??? memories a bit rusty) who got locked up and fed largactyl for the crime of being..............different

even then, back in about 1981 they were doing it

Well it ties in nicely with another 'secret' plan the govt have to recruit workers in health and social services etc. as police informers...

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1816772.ece

 

...if in an ungaurded moment you admit to feeling like kicking the crap out of some govt. minister who's made your life a misery, you could find yourself locked up for a minimum of six months in a secure psychiatric unit.

 

Eventually of course, just expressing disagreement with govt. policy could have the same result. It depends just how far down the totalitarian road New Labour takes us.

Now they're aiming to lock people away under the Mental Health Act.

 

"The government is trying to amend the act, with a controversial bill introduced in November, to bring in a wider definition of mental disorder in order to give doctors more power to detain people."

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article1847697.ece

 

Guess I'd better shut up about Tony Blair then :o

 

 

Figures show that the number of disturbed people on the streets is caused by the closing of the mental hospitals by previous governments. Look around your own town and see where the places where the disturbed patients were are now posh housing estates.

Some ones pocket has a silver lining

prioryx, I agree that closing so many of the old mental hospitals wasn't entirely a good thing, but the measure featured in the article suggests it is designed to protect only "prominent people" - not the general public.

 

I should be pretty safe having a violent rant about you :) , but if I went off the deep end about TB or John Reid I could easily be locked away for six months.:suspect:

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