Gulag: DOD-Doctors Use Psychiatric Confinement For Reprisal Against Military Whistleblowers.

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"Let us raise a standard to which the Wise and Honest can repair."  George Washington

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RICO is the Racketeer-Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act, written to control the Mafia.  A few DOD-doctors have constituted a "medical Mafia" as they colluded to imprison American whistle-blowers on military psychiatric wards, including Walter Reed, Madigan, San Diego Naval (Balboa), Shepard Air Force Base, Portsmouth Naval, and Landstuhl (Colonel Kiley commanding on one occasion) at least twice, itself a former Nazi site for training, in the vicious tradition of both Soviet-state hospitals and Nazi medicine (cf. The Nazi Doctors by Dr. Robert Jay Lifton). 
 
This web site exposes our "Yankee Gulag." It has functioned for over 30 years despite the Military Whistle-Blower Protection Act passed in the 100th Congress as Public Law 100-456, sponsored by the Honorable James McDermott M.D., a former Navy psychiatrist from Washington, and Senator (then-Representative) Barbara Boxer from California.  This month I learned of two more cases, both current.  Pogo said, "We have met the enemy and he is us."  Bad English, good advice:  "It" has happened here; the "Right of the Line" will not hold, nor should it, when we fail to distinguish ourselves from our enemies.  The Social Contract fails. 
 
I was stationed at Landstuhl 1990-1994.  A German wrote a letter to Stars and Stripes to thank the USA "for freeing us from the Nazis."  We do not want our country to become the IV Reich by adopting the methods of the III Reich:  Betrayal and cruelty wrapped in our flag are not what we are defending. Under our oath to defend the Constitution, we defend the rule of law.
 
Dr. Butler

Officers swear to defend the
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Constitution/Bill of Rights, not to imprison whistle-blowers on military psychiatric wards. Click.

Captain Kirkland and CPO
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Tufariello are on this video. Please click picture.

 
DOD psychiatrists lock up whistle-blowers on military psychiatry wards.  Physicians in all military branches have done this as well as DOD civilian psychiatrists, either to their own members or to members of another Branch, as when Navy Chief Petty Officer Michael Tufariello was confined at an Air Force Base in Oklahoma for reporting Reservist drilling-fraud at the Dallas Naval Air Station.  Senator Boxer calls such conduct "not American." 
 
Click on her picture for the videos of CPO Tufariello, USN and a separate case of reprisal psychiatric referral in the Air Force involving Dr. Denise Kirkland at the Little Rock Air Force Base after she reported substandard care.  Both cases came to the attention of Senator Boxer when she was in the House of Representatives.  She and Dr. James McDermott, himself a former Navy psychiatrist, sponsored Public Law 100-456 to try to stop the abuse of psychiatry by the DOD.  Their law has not been enforced.  If you are thinking of military service, bear this non-enforcement in mind.  Decide whether you want to risk being treated this way in the "Land of the Free." 
 
In this age of feigned respect for human rights, the Geneva Convention's Common Article 3, and the Nuremberg Doctrine, decide whether to forgive doctors who, locking up whistle-blowers, claim they are just "doing their duty--just obeying orders" as the Nazis claimed.  Read The Nazi Doctors by Dr. Robert Jay Lifton.  Decide whether our DOD doctors should have their licenses renewed upon returning to private medicine in the "Land of the Free."  Are they meeting the ethical standards of their professional society?
 
If you are a student considering a federal loan such as HPSP, do you think anything has changed since 1989 (See Senator Glenn's letter.) when hospital commanders were caught poisoning personnel files without notice of secret entries?
 
If you have a case of abuse to report, please contact any of these persons cited on this web page, or email HButler@post.Harvard.edu.  Please notify me of any errors on this web page. 

Please click here for Google search of the Nuremberg Doctrine.

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American Gulag
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1989: Tampering with credentials-
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files without due process. Today's issue is reprisal-psychiatry: American Gulag. Click picture.

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There are 10 known cases.  I have spoken with 8 of them.  The question naturally arises whether we should hold military doctors to the same ethical standard as civilian doctors, and withhold civilian licensure from military physicians who violate those standards.  The earliest known victim is Dr. Charles Clements, hospitalized on a psychiatry ward after he refused a mission in Vietnam as a matter of conscience, before he became a physician.    
 
Two cases appeared in 2009.  Neither is listed here. 
 
Warning college students and medical students is one way to reach Senator Grassley, Senator Boxer, and Representative James McDermott M.D., formerly a Navy psychiatrist himself. 
 
If you are considering a military loan such as HPSP, inform yourself about this situation.