medico-legal framework.
It's bonkers because I doubt judges will rule to repeal the Mental
Health Act, not without the public and political lobby behind it. The
politicians have made the Mental Health Act even more coercive and
immoral. The challenge is based on the right for people to exist phrased
as the integrity of people with psychosocial disabilities as seen in
Article...14 I think....of the CRPD.
The thing is change is always made by bonkers people who stand against
the present injustices and tyranny which other people accept. Gadhui,
Luther King, (Malcolm) X and anyone else who ever makes change in the
world has to be bonkers. They have to be depressed to see the world is
wrong. They have to...be schizophrenic or oppositionally defiant to have
the freedom of thinking or difference in thought from the consensus to
think differently. They need delusions of grandeur or megalomania to
think they can change the world.
The problem is many of the public and politicians are still rooted in
the old ways of thinking. It's the same for the judges and lawyers too.
Many human rights organisations also fall foul of doing little for
psychiatric rights. Many people see the mentally ill as different from
themselves and implicitly subhuman in this respect. Many cling to the
idea that it is a genuine illness. Many easily give into the harm which
can come from compassionate motives.
But it's these sort of challenges which stop lesser movements in their
tracks. No fight for freedom and equality has ever been an easy path nor
has it been a path not steeped in the inequities of lesser minded people
who would rather maintain the status quo and power structures than be
part of the movement towards humanity progressing into the amazingly
diverse race we're meant to be.
If I could quote someone smarter than I....well....Mel Gibson in the
film Braveheart playing the character of William Wallace,
"FREEEEEEEDDDOOOOOOMMMMMM!!"
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