This has been one of the most disappointing presidential elections - a hobbesian
choice. I couldn't stand either one of them. And the VP part made the mess
smell even worse. Sarah Palin - a dinosaur, Joe Biden - instituted the office
of the "Drug Czar" - Your quote from Szasz's Pharmacracy, confirms Biden's
hostility towards free market drugs and freedom from forced (drug treatment)
religious conversion.
Martin



To: thomasszaszdiscussion@...: sangchenyeshe@...: Sun,
9 Nov 2008 22:39:04 +0000Subject: [ThomasSzaszDiscussion] two-party system



'I am not alone in regarding the two-party system as a false stratification, a
dumb-show concocted for the public as a means to distract attention from the
ruling elite.'--Adam Parfrey, from 'Cult Rapture''"I would hopefully be a good
role model. I'm in recovery," declares Cindy McCain, wife of Senator and former
presidential hopeful John McCain (R-Az). Mrs McCain had used controlled
substances that she had stolen while she worked as a member of a "charity she
had set up to send medical relief to the Third World."'--Thomas Szasz, from
'Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America''...American law, medicine, and
public opinion now regard not only involuntary confinement in a mental hospital,
but also involuntary participation in a so-called drug treatment program as a
bona fide medical treatment. The following statement, in 'The Handbook of Drug
Control in the United States', edited by University of Delaware Professor James
Inciardi and U.S. Senator Joseph Biden, Jr. (D-Del), is illustrative: "Civil
commitment is frequently used with addicts who are arrested for criminal
activity; with criminal charges pending, the addict can be coerced into treament
and retained long enough to receive the benefits of a treatment
program."'--Thomas Szasz, from 'A Lexicon of Lunacy: Metaphoric Malady, Moral
Responsibility, and Psychiatry'Wonder why Mrs. McCain hasn't been involuntarily
commited. Maybe that'll be Biden's first order of business!





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