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Report Comment
"At the end of “Good Night and Good Luck”, a George Clooney film about the battle between CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow and U.S. Senator McCarthy, when McCarthy is going down, Dwight David Eisenhower appears in a TV clip to say what he thinks about it. He says:
“Why are we proud? We are proud first of all because from the beginning of this Nation - a man can walk upright. No matter who he is. Or who she is. He can walk upright and meet his friends, or his enemies. And he does not fear, because that enemy may be a position in great power. That he can be suddenly thrown in jail. To rot there without charges and no recourse to justice. We have the Habeus Corpus Act and we respect it.”
In the State of Oklahoma, that is not true for those of us with mental illness, and perhaps others. Summary arrest and detention can be accomplished merely on the false allegations of an accuser - without charges or investigation, without access to evidence, without examination of one’s accusers or a trial by jury, without access even to one’s own Doctors or Psychiatrists of long standing. Once guilt of wrong thinking has been decided by the Police and Community Outreach Psychiatric Emergency Services, one can be picked up and taken straight to the local loony bin. Where guilt is presumed merely because one is there. “If you didn’t do anything, then why are you here?” they say. After those same psychiatrists and counselors at that facility have ginned up the worst possible mental health evaluation to justify the false charges and involuntary commitment.
When a Federal Court refuses to hear such a case, with prejudice, without even considering the legal arguments advanced, it puts the lie to President Eisenhower’s statement at an even higher level. "
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