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Attitudes to mental health

"Bonkers" was the measured and compassionate response of the Home Secretary to
the release of a man driven mad by imprisonment.  With characteristic New
Labour doubletalk, Blunkett mocked the released man, giggling on national
television when he used his childish schoolboy abuse, he said "other people"
would think this was bonkers.  

Imprisonment without trial. Imprisonment without knowing when or whether you
will be released. Imprisonment without any reason being given. These are
circumstances actually calculated to induce trauma, depression and mental
illness. It would be interesting to see how long in solitary confinement
would cause Blunkett to cease giggling about mental illness.

The pretext of opposing terrorism is a complete fake. The real targets of
anti-terrorist legislation were revealed when at a meeting with the American
governors on February 23, George W. Bush's Secretary of Education Rod Paige
called the National Education Association, which is a teachers' and educators
union,a "terrorist organization."  Paige reflects the Bush Administration's
contempt for workers, viewing any resisitance to their anti-union agenda as
unpatriotic.

In particular the campaign of trade union teachers in America to oppose the
persecution of muslim pupils or pupils from muslim countries on the pretext
of terrorism has angered Bush.

If trade unions do not oppose imprisonment without trial for "suspects" today,
the same weapons will be used against us tomorrow.



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