Since joining the Department of the Interior, Nicolas Sarkozy has continued to implement his obsession: to treat mentally ill offenders. In February 2007, under pressure from the mobilisation of professional associations of families and users of psychiatry, he withdrew this provision of the Act for Prevention of Delinquency. By promising that there would be ....
He did this in his speech, delivered December 2, 2008 at the Erasmus Hospital Antony as President of the Republic. The author of The Praise of Folly, that gave its name to the psychiatric facility, was turning in his grave."The mentally ill are, according to the President, potentially dangerous, even criminal."
Since that speech, the great confinement began. Increasing isolation rooms, stone walls, raising fences, installation of cameras in hospitals and in some services! A budget of 70 million has been immediately released only to the safety equipment.The means for professional caregivers, to improve conditions and health care are still on hold.
And who is going to decide who is "mentally ill" and who is not? So far I have not been terribly impressed by "authorities" ...
Will "psychiatrists", with a looong history of caring more for their status than their "patients", decide? Or will government officials decide?
I can easily imagine the following train of thought in government:
Most of the perspectives of hackers, activists and now hacktivists are interfering with our plans. They're undermining our "natural" authority. We could name these perspectives "unintelligent" ...
Hmmmm. I think that if we label "freethinkers" as "mentally ill", we might just clean up all of the the opposition to our continued exploitations, in a single big sweep ...
Let's work together with the psychiatrists.
Plus that we need to fill all those rooms we have just spent on making "safe" in these hospitals. Accountability is a rare thing among politicians, but we can be held accountable! See! We invest taxpayers money on important community services.
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