Innocent until proven guilty

I always thought this was the fundamental tenet of justice. A very
expensive forensic science system was developed to provide evidence and
a costly legal system was established to ensure this principle was
adhered to.

The medico-legal framework of mental healthcare sidestepped this
fundamental tenet. No evidence-based diagnosis was required. No judge
nor jury. No legal team and no protections. The punishment of the use of
the legal implements of the Mental Health Act could be used without any
due process or protected system.

Historically this loop hole allowed all manner of nefarious things to be
done to people who psychiatry and the state wanted suppressed.
Communists in the West or Capitalists on the other side of the Iron
Curtain. Unmarried mothers. Black-skinned people.

Nothing much has changed to day. Human types are suppressed. People who
have committed no serious crime lose their liberty without any system of
justice other than the arbitrary judgement of a psychiatrist.

And no one gives a flying fuck because of the bending of the truth about
the human condition, that difference and types are an illness, which was
a pill the populous, politicians and, I think, psychiatrists readily
swallowed. The stigma of madness allowed all manner of harms and
injustices to be wrought on the mad. Few protections were offered
because of the privilege of medicine: doctors only do good things right?
The Hippocratic Oath guarantees it .