response
to questions posed at part 5.1 of The Australian Human Rights Commission Consultation
Paper on the Convention Against Torture (optional Protocol)
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Ms
Initially NO
21.07.17
5.1 DISCUSSION
1. Inspection framework
Crucial gaps
The exploitation of citizens for invasive, cruel, forced
human research, that is done by psychiatrists, hand-in-hand with government
legislation, such as the Victorian Mental Health Act, is not just wide-spread
legislated torture, but systematic torture in the guise of medicine. This
deliberate inflicting of torture under the guise of medicine, for the purpose
of lucrative human experimentation, cannot be seen as rogue psychiatrists, or
facilities, given that the Australian Government profits from pharmaceutical
donations into human research in psychiatry, as do psychiatrists and coterie.
Staffing without vested interests
In investigating Psychiatric Facilities where people are
being tortured 24/7 indefinitely and arbitrarily detained without charge, there
must not
be Mental Health Professionals included on visiting teams, as this might mean
that the status quo of psychiatrists’ world-wide exploitative practices
continue in Australia, despite signing and ratifying the Optional Protocol of
the United Nations Convention Against Torture (OPCAT), in December 2017.
Conflicts of interest, vested interests are well-known to be prohibitive to
exposure of exploitation and torture. Should investigations cover-up, rather
than expose what is horrendous systematic exploitative torture in Psychiatric
Facilities, that means Australia would continue to frustrate OPCAT, and bring
the UN into a very challenging position, as to whether countries that sign
conventions and have inspections actually make any kinds of real changes to the
most disgustingly widespread exploitation of the millennium, which is forced
human experimentation, in the guise of care/ medicine, when it is neither care,
assistance or medicine, it is torture.
Government Legislation needs to be repealed for OPCAT compliance
·
Australia needs to repeal all State/ Territory
Mental Health Acts, so that people are not discriminated against on the basis
of perceived disability, subjected to arbitrary detention on that basis, and
subjected to the psychiatrists’ intentional escalation of painful, disabling,
abusive, murderous treatments, until that person agrees to the psychiatrist’s
labelling of them and agrees to take the treatment the psychiatrists
prescribes.
·
Australia needs to also look at the laws that
guard against human research being forced upon a person by medical
practitioners. There must not be any more Research Without Consent, Exception
From Informed Consent Research, Emergency Research… or any other terms that
subject a person to human experimentation against their will. The sale of
hospital information gathered from forced psychiatry must also be
retrospectively held in question, and there must be no more perpetrators profiting
from this.
·
Victims of Psychiatrists, subjected to forced
treatments, who were/ are being broken-down under the pain-thresholds of
arbitrary detention, painful chemicals injectiond, fettering of limbs,
isolation, electrocution, interrogation, dehumanisation and indoctrination…
must be given some sort of reparations for their grief and assurance that no
more torture, exploitation of people for the purposes of forced human
experimentation, arbitrary detention on the basis of ‘mental illness’ that is
perceived disability, hearsay and conjecture from third-parties, cognitive and
social diversity, will occur.
·
The medical perpetrators must be charged under
the Crimes Act for the torture offense inflicted, and/or government officials
must be held accountable. There must be future disincentive for similar
torturous exploitation to occur. At the moment medicos cannot be charged for
conducting medical experimentation. This loophole in the Medical Treatments Act
that allow for Forced Psychiatry must be repealed.
2. Implementation & Documentation
Victim-blame & silencing
The silencing of people who are/have suffered forced
psychiatry is widespread in Australia. To speak out against torture under this
government-psychiatry exploitation racket section via the Mental Health Acts,
means ostracization, denial, condemnation, job loss… and threats of future
violations should the person be financially and/or socially disenfranchised
again. This silencing of those who have experienced Australian Government
Legislated torture under State/Territory Mental Health Acts must not continue.
Consulting
with Victims of Psychiatrists
(NOT consumers/
users even though the Australian government terms all people sectioned under
the Victorian Mental Health Act ‘consumers’ or ‘users’.)
At what point are victims of State Legislated torture
consulted, such as victims of psychiatrists who are or have been tortured 24/7
for a number of days, weeks, years, or nearly their whole life without
reprieve? At what point do inspectors look at the torture going on in the
Community, under Treatment Orders, that threaten further arbitrary detention if
the person does not appear for the appointment the psychiatrist demands and the
fortnightly injection, or blood test?
Deprivations
Do inspectors of psychiatric facilities have any means to
ensure people that are interviewed won’t
be subjected to an escalation of pain-thresholds in the guise of ‘treatment’ or
‘management’ should the person being tortured tell the inspectors that they do
not agree with the physical torture inflicted on them, or the verbal abuse the psychiatrist
subjects them to in demanding they adhere to mentally-illing terms, or the
isolation, deprivation of their liberty, personal autonomy, and removal of
items such as: shoe-laces, phone, belt, pens, paper, books, computer, visitors,
food (usually for fasting bloods, but also specific food that people need).
Humiliation/ Sterilisation/ Dehumanisation/ abuse of women
Inspectors need to think about how-to ask women if the
chemicals they were forcibly injected with caused their body to immediately lose
their uterus-lining, and how long the drugs they were forced on suspended their
menstrual cycle for? This is a considerably cruel, sterilising effect of
neuroleptics and humiliating. Humiliating, when the women aren’t even able to
stand up straight on these drugs, let alone try, be able to find a way to stop
the blood flow after being injected; when nurses are too busy to even supply
sanitary napkins, then write up complaints about the women bleeding, in her
file, as if she were somehow immoral, or incapable of hygiene before they
injected her and arbitrarily detained her.
Inspectors need to think about
ways of asking if women have been assaulted while forced into psychiatric
detention and placed on major tranquilisers in mixed wards. Lewd violence has been
recently reported to have been inflicted on 75% of Australian women in mixed
psychiatric wards. The per cent may be higher, as psychiatrists and nursing
staff readily deny the women in psychiatric facilities the validity as a human
beings and so cannot be trusted to be confided in. Besides, women are used to
not being believed by psychiatrists and nursing staff, even when they talk
about effects of the drugs that are very obviously effects of the drug and
indicated as effects of the drug on the drug company’s documentation. Women
subjected to forced psychiatry are used to not being believed by psychiatrists
about anything and many women who do report assault, are dismissed as deluded.
This means that women become even more vulnerable to perpetrators, not only
psychiatrists.
Chemical Sensitivity, medical emergencies ignored and aggravated by psychiatric
facilities
Hospitals are very toxic environments for people who
suffer from petroleum-based chemical sensitivities. This is totally ignored,
even when a person forced into the hospital setting tells the psychiatrists, and the Assessment Team. In fact, it seems
that psychiatrists are diagnosing a person who is sensitive to toxins in the
environment as ‘mentally-ill’. This is a huge oversight given that 38% of the
population react to petroleum-based substances in foods, medicines,
toothpastes, cleaning products, as well as second-hand tobacco, perfumes,
deodorants, and hospital air-conditioners that sterilise the air with propylene
glycol. Psychiatrists knowingly increase a person’s suffering by dismissing the
person when they tell psychiatrists they have a chemical sensitivity, and psychiatrists
intentionally increasing the dose of the chemicals that the person says is
harmful, to force the person to comply with what they tell the psychiatrist
they do not want; what is hurting the victim, horrendously disabling the victim,
and increasing their sensitivity permanently to these substances.
Both Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
and Electrical Sensitivity are undeniable environment sensitivities, that
psychiatrists ignore, do not prepare hospital spaces in any way to accommodate
people suffering this (when they arbitrarily detain), and make a person further
disabled through their interventions. Psychiatrists also ignore other important
medical emergencies such as blood disorders, cancer, hernia, physical brain
injury and people who have been victims-of-crime that need to find someone they
can trust to report these crimes.
3. Urgent Issues
Specific places of detention that are of immediate concern
Psychiatric hospitals/ facilities/ clinics where people
are forced into human research servitude. In particular: Alfred Burnet Viral
Load Laboratory (Alfred Health) ABN: 27 318 956. (From 1st hand
experience of 14 years of forced psychiatry under the VMHA, as well as
conversations with other victims of Alfred Hospital Psychiatric Unit (Prahran,
Victoria) who were tortured while in those facilities and forced to comply with
Community Treatment Orders, under the threat of more arbitrary detention.)
Broader issues
Under State/ Territory Mental Health Acts –
·
Arbitrary Detention of persons who have not been
charged with a crime, in psychiatric and aged care facilities, and 24/7
indefinite torture, is systematic and government legislated.
·
The use of police force to arbitrarily detain
persons who have not been charged with a crime (often not even read the Section
under the VMHA) when they refuse to go with the medical staff, is systematic.
·
The forcing of torturous drugs and procedures on
people, that harm the person, do not help, increase sensitivity to
petroleum-based chemicals, cause brain-damage… and all those effects listed on
the drug company’s website is systematic.
·
The profiteering of government, psychiatrists
and biopharmaceutical research companies from the use of people by force, under
government legislation, for human research and the acquired Medical Information,
the sale of this research/ information is systematic and has a well-oiled
propaganda machine that victim-blames and oppresses those who are subjected to
torturous forced psychiatry.
·
Less than 20% legal representation for persons
subjected to arbitrary detention and forced psychiatry on the basis of
perceived disability under the Victorian Mental Health Act is horrendous, yet
other States/Territories in Australia are not much better. It seems criminals
in this country have more rights than victims do.
·
The threat of being put in a forensic
psychiatric facility, without charge, for people who physical defend themselves
against forced psychiatry.
·
The Mental Health Tribunals decision-making
slanted towards a person needing to adhere to the psychiatrist’s treatment and
labelling before Treatment Orders are revoked, or the person is allowed out of
arbitrary detention, means the person has to agree to be compliant with
appointments and treatments they do not want or need, because the threat of
further arbitrary detention will occur. This slant of the Tribunals also means
that a person who is being subjected to forced psychiatry dare not tell the
truth of how they feel about the treatment, lest they are subjected to more arbitrary
detention and higher doses all over again. If a person does tell the truth of
disagreeing with the psychiatrist, they are not given freedom from detention
and State Legislated invasive, cruel, degrading, inhuman, maiming murderous
treatments. Mental Health Tribunals are a farce to rival Nazi Courts.
Current practices of seclusion & escalation of torture to extract
compliance
Current psychiatric practices under the VMHA of
escalating seclusion, isolation, fettering, increasing doses and number of
chemicals injected, electrocution, abusive/ dehumanising forced interviews
designed to break a person down and press upon them the need to be in agreement
with the psychiatrists labelling or treatment, even goes as far as to put a
person in a forensic psychiatric facility, potentially forever, with people
charged with a crime, if the victim physically tries to defend themselves
against forced psychiatry. This intentional torture of breaking a person down
into compliance is systematic, as it is cruel. Once a psychiatrist has gained a
forced agreement/ pretence/ indoctrination with their treatment, the
psychiatrist can say that they are no longer forcing treatment, that the person
has ‘stabilised’ and this means the data gathered can be more easily utilised in
research and sales from that Medical Information research, given the verbal
‘compliance’ that was got through via intentional physical torturous duress
being imposed.
4. National Preventative Measures engaging with civil society
representatives
Consultation and liaison
Consulting with all the people who have attended Mental
Health Tribunals to try and stop arbitrary detention and the torture of forced
psychiatry is necessary. At the moment consultations are only with those people
who have suffered coerced/ forced psychiatry and are willing or indoctrinated into
reinforcing the imposed status quo of maintaining forced psychiatry. It is
important to actively engage with the people who have suffered forced
psychiatry that know it was torture, why it was torture, and that it was
inflicted on them deliberately, with intent.
Given that ‘intentionally’
means, ‘without accident’, and it is no accident that a person is held down and
injected with substances that cause Tardive Dyskinesia, Akathisia, Dystonia…
that psychiatrists can easily see, easily hear the victim complain of, and also
easily recognise are documented in medical journals to be torturous for the
person, there should be no argument that forced psychiatry is torture, and that
drugs that temporarily mask this suffering, are documented to increase
torturous effects of forced psychiatry rather than decrease and make the
injury, such as Tardive Dyskinesia permanent.
There are over a million
Australians alive who have been or are being tortured 24/7 indefinitely by
psychiatrists. This Government Legislated interference in human lives must
stop. And those who wish to speak out against the perpetrators must be allowed
without any fear of the torture being increased, of being arbitrarily detained,
or held longer, or being vilified for doing so.
The risk for Victims of Psychiatrists
that gain freedom, of being tortured again by psychiatrists is high, this
government legislated torture via psychiatrists is systematic and silencing in
its fear inducing cruelties. People are very afraid to speak out against
psychiatric treatments, so when they do, they need to be listened to.
Problems in places of detention
When people are not even charged with a crime, because
they have not committed one, to have forced psychiatry and arbitrary detention
forced on them, in increasing pain-thresholds to gain adherence to what a
psychiatrists wants, is a huge human rights breach under OPCAT and the CRPD OP.
This is torture done for lucrative exploitation of human research and it must
be stopped. Mental Health Acts are nebulous arbitrary legislation, laws that
are not about enforcing any kind of legal sanctions… because what is the crime
a person is sectioned under in the Victorian Mental Health Act? Human traits of
cognitive and social diversity? That’s not a crime. And though the lay person
thinks that a person sectioned under the VMHA has to be ‘a harm to self or
others’ that is not how that law is written at all, the person need only,
‘appear to be mentally-ill’ (according to the psychiatrist) and ‘in need of
immediate treatment’ (according to the psychiatrist). This is all very
nebulous, all very discriminatory, all very violent and exploitative, this
VMHA; especially when you consider the suffering inflicted on the people Sectioned
by psychiatrists under this violent government legislation, and the profits
that industries make out of the people that are subjected to forced psychiatry
through sales of Medical Information gather from the forced human
experimentation.
The VMHA clearly needs to be
repealed, reparations for those tortured under this government legislation need
to replace the exploitation that is the Mental Health System in Australia.
Problems in places of
detention are most easily solved by communicating with the people who are being
subjected to torture in these places, rather than 2nd and 3rd
parties, or the perpetrating psychiatrists. Communicating with Victims of Psychiatrists
will be the only way to stop 200 years of torturous, exploitative forced human research
under the guise of psychiatric medicine.
5. Working with key government stakeholders
Address the needs of vulnerable groups of people in detention
All people subjected to forced psychiatry are vulnerable.
These forced treatments must be stopped, it is iatrogenic killing, it is
horrendously cruel maiming, this Government Legislated abuse of human lives.
People with Multiple Chemical
Sensitivity must have their Advanced Directives recognised (as should all
people who make Advance Directives), they must be listened to. This should be
the same for people with Electrical Sensitivity. These people with MCS and ES
must not be mentally-illed for attempting to communicate what is happening to
them. They should not need an intrusive, painful, potentially dangerous,
medical test either.
The cruelty of arbitrary
detention and forced psychiatry must be replaced with reparations, for those in
need, choice-based services only. Psychiatry must not continue to be an arm of
the law, discriminating against perceived disability, detaining and torturing
whistle-blowers and victims of crime all too easily, under the guise of
‘medicine’. This is not a democracy for those who are shut-up and shut-down by
psychiatrists and government legislation which allows psychiatrists to torture
people 24/7 indefinitely, and sell the information they gather from this
torturous experiments.
When perpetrating
psychiatrists torture and then are given a status of ‘expert’ in courts of law
over their victims, this is how exploitation for human experimentation has been
allowed to thrive in Australia for over 200 years too long, while victims are
murdered, maimed, disfigured, dehumanised and silenced – as if they were the
violators.
6. the role of the United Nations Subcommittee on the Prevention of
Torture
It is likely that over quarter of the population has
suffered arbitrary detention and torture under the Australian government-psychiatrist
exploitation of humans for research. There are people from the 1960s that are
still alive that suffered forced Insulin Shock, forced LSD in psychiatric
hospitals… and other forced human experiments that cannot be denied to be
torture, yet they’ve neither received adequate apology or reparations, or
assurances that persons will not be subjected to the new array of experiments
that government-psychiatry inflicts upon a person against their will, under the
‘in good faith rule’ and the idea that it was a reasonable thing for government-psychiatry
to inflicts upon a person against their will in that era. ‘In good faith’, it
seems, is a phrase allowing for psychiatrists to get away will serial killing
and maiming.
Please press upon the SPT that
there is a need for Victims of Psychiatrists to be experts, in regards to this
widespread arbitrary detention, forced 24/7 indefinite torture in the guise of
medical treatment, care, management. It is time to stop ignoring the people who
are being harmed, because it is profitable exploitation to continue. Stopping
this horrendous crime is necessary and difficult, and what must be done.
Victims of Psychiatrists will be the best people to assist in this (just please
don’t expect VOPs to volunteer their services without remuneration, as is often
the case. Victims of Psychiatrists are people that have to earn a living to
survive just like everyone else, and they are so marginalised and oppressed
that all too often if they get paid it is in Gift Cards. Some respect please.)
7. More detailed decisions to be made on how to apply OPCAT in
Australia
Australia must repeal all laws that allow forced
medicine, research without consent, and arbitrary detention on the basis of
perceived disability, most especially the Victorian Mental Health Act, as well
as all Mental Health Acts in states/ territories. To allow medicine to be
forced is to allow torture in the guise of medicine to continue.
Australia still does frustrate
the UN CRPD, though it was signed and ratified in 2008 by continuing to have
forced psychiatry in 2017. Forced
psychiatry must be stopped, all MHAs must be repealed.
Australia, in the last 200
years has had a history of covering up exploitation that is done through
Government Legislation, rarely compensates victims, and official apologies
generally occur some 50 years after the exploitation is stopped, or really doesn’t
occur at all. This is not okay. Government Legislated torture under Mental
Health Acts, needs to stop now, reparations need to happen now, or Australia is
not honouring the conventions it has signed and ratified and therefore cannot
be trusted on Government word or signature.
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