Subject: Re: Today's letters to the editor about mental health screening, Illinois Reader

Sue M. wrote in <tr62h0dlsiu8qpto0em0vbmlj7865bp4u2@4ax.com> ... > Found at:
>
> http://www.illinoisleader.com/letters/lettersview.asp?c=18224

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> In the July 19 article on compulsory mental health screening, your
> paper should have pointed out that the one "authority" quoted in
> opposition to the measure, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR),
> is a Scientology front group.
>
> Notice first that the initial statement of their public relations
> officer, Larry Trainor, is not relevant to the immediate issue but is
> a general condemnation of psychiatry -- Scientology's Public Enemy #1.
> He states, "Since psychiatric involvement in education, SAT scores
> have gone down for the past few decades." So what? What about the
> quality of teaching, funding, and changes in the SAT itself? And is
> his statement even true? How many decades are "a few"?
>
> Then, "Evaluating mental conditions is not based on scientific
> evidence, it's subjective." Where's the scientific evidence for that
> statement? This is the pot calling the kettle black, except the kettle
> isn't even black; it's more of a dull grey. It would be hard to find
> anything less scientific than CCHR's blanket hatred of all things
> psychological and psychiatric, unless it was the claims of the
> pseudoscientific cult it fronts for, Scientology.
>
> I oppose compulsory mental health screening as an unjustifiable
> invasion of privacy, but Scientology's messiah, L. Ron Hubbard, didn't
> believe in anyone's right to privacy (except his own). Thanks, Larry,
> for your opposition to this one bill and your outspokenness, but next
> time try a little credibility.
>
> Dan Garvin
> Niles, Michigan

Good one, Dan!

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