Here is Chicago's Church of Scientology OSA ( Office of Special Affairs) agent in his new legal guise. Randy Kretchmar gained his law degree a year or so ago and quickly piggy backed the Rodney Yoder case in Southern Illinois. He became Yoders' attorney...pro-bono. Kretchmar's wife also a Scientologist, Cheryl Berman, makes big money as head of the Creative Division in the Leo Burnett Co....an Advertising biggie. She finances Randy's OSA activities and is presumed to be financing the pro-bono in this case.( Cheryl Berman is a 'Patron Meritorius...a major financial contributor to the Church of Scientology.) At age 50 this was Randy's first case out as an attorney though he has been providing information on psychiatric cases to malpractice attorney's for some time. Information that he has gained as a spy for the Church of Scientology.

The Rodney Yoder case became a public trial, one that Kretchmar and others were touting as the 'Trial of the Century.' Psychiatry and the truth of mental illness would be exposed for all the world to see. Patch Adams, Szasz and other quacks were brought in to testify for Yoder. Randy Kretchmar lost this case and Rodney Yoder remains in the Chester Mental Health Center. Among other things Yoder had beaten up two wives and written threatening letters to State Officials and others. It is unclear as to who paid for Patch Adams, Szasz and Fred Baughman to testify for Rodney Yoder. I suggest that either the Church of Scientology paid for this through some deception or Kretchmar's wife paid for it.

It is interesting that Kretchmar carries on about deceit but never mentions his own deviousness. He never mentions the true reason that he is involved in this case...to further the Church of Scientology's bizaarre anti-psychiatry agenda.

What is amusing and disturbing in this matter is that Randy Kretchmar's knowledge of mental health and psychiatry comes from the delusional ramblings of L. Ron Hubbard, the wacko founder of the Scientology cult.

JImdbb

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Dec. 10, 2002 Op/Ed column
THE YODER INQUISITION
by Randy Kretchmar

Rodney Yoder has been incarcerated at Chester Mental Health Center for over eleven years after his sentence for battery was fully completed, while his children grew up fatherless in poverty. How much must we fear someone, to justify this?

The State of Illinois says Yoder is"dangerous." But, we are all dangerous!

Every human being can make an evil or violent choice or mistake (in an automobile for example) with terrible consequences, any day, without warning to the community.

Yoder is not a criminal being sentenced for anything he has done, yet he is massively deprived of his liberty in a maximum security prison, year after year. Why must the community be protected by such harsh means?

The proffered answer is"mental illness"- a supposed disease that affects a supposed organ of volition, the brain. Yoder is said to be vaguely brain diseased in some way that makes him more dangerous than other people. He supposedly needs drugs to change his brain and make him less dangerous. This is superstition and fraud, and it requires a theory of individuals as soulless mechanisms.

In fact, no medical research has proven that any mental disease exists. "Mental disease" is an oxymoron. There is no medical test whatsoever to diagnose Yoder's supposed brain disease. It's done by reading reports about Yoder's behavior, pretending the reports are objective measurements (which they are not), and agreeing with them to make it official.

Psychiatric disorders, by definition, are not proven diseases. As soon as a real disease is proven doctors stop calling it a "mental illness" and classify it beyond the province of psychiatry. General paresis (tertiary syphilis) and Alzheimer's are examples. Despite the symptoms, no one calls these diseases"mental illnesses" and they are not primarily treated by psychiatrists.

In the Yoder case, Assistant State's Attorney Mike Burke begged the jury to consider that Yoder might have an undiscovered brain disease. Ironically, he mentioned that 400 years ago we had no knowledge of bacteria. The idea was supposed to be that discovery of Yoder's brain disease may be just around the corner.

But the best historical comparison from 400 years ago is the Great Witch Hunt.

No one, particularly the best educated men in all Europe, seriously questioned if witches existed, if they made literal pacts with the Devil, rode through the air on broomsticks, and should be tortured and burned at the stake to save their souls. Today no one, particularly the best educated people in America, questions if mental illness exists, if Rodney Yoder"has" it, and should be imprisoned and given mind-altering drugs.

Why didn't the state's experts ever examine Mr. Yoder or explain how his stable"diagnoses" changed several times in a few years? Why weren't Yoder's experts, traveling from Texas, California and Chicago through the snow, allowed to say what they came to Chester to say?

The state's best prediction was that Yoder has a better-than-even chance of not being involved in any violence at all -- as a perpetrator or as a victim -- for seven years. The law says he must be reasonably expected to cause serious physical harm to someone in the near future to involuntarily commit him. Why then, did the jury decide as it did?

Psychiatry's relationship with the law is built on fear and deception, not science, not social utility, and certainly not justice. Illinois enacted its civil commitment law in the naEFve hope that "mental health" would be a rational medical endeavor to reduce human suffering. Who still believes in this now -- other than those paid with tax money to preach it -- when the result is endangered liberty, pharmaceutical mind control and wholesale slaughter of human dignity?

We have made the kind of bargain that Benjamin Franklin warned us against. We have sacrificed freedom for security, and we will surely be left with neither.

Randy Kretchmar

On 16 Feb 2003 07:46:56 GMT, jimdbb@aol.com (JimDBB) wrote:

(Cuts)

> What is amusing and disturbing in this matter is that Randy Kretchmar's
> knowledge of mental health and psychiatry comes from the delusional ramblings
> of L. Ron Hubbard, the wacko founder of the Scientology cult.
>
> JImdbb

> St. Louis Post-Dispatch
>
> Dec. 10, 2002 Op/Ed column
> THE YODER INQUISITION
> by Randy Kretchmar
>
> Rodney Yoder has been incarcerated at Chester Mental Health Center for over
> eleven years after his sentence for battery was fully completed, while his
> children grew up fatherless in poverty. How much must we fear someone, to
> justify this?

"Earth is flat! Heliocentrism is false! Santa Claus really does live at the North Pole! It's a USA CIA FBI NSA AMA NMHA FFA FAA NASA conspiracy!"

It's astonishing that the _Post-Dispatch_ gives these tin-foil-hat lunatics column inches. Kretchmar is sounding a hell of a lot like Yoder---- which can't be a coincidence.

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