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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