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Reprisal-Psychiatry
Is "Not America"
Americans Serve
To Support Their Constitution
Not
Gulags/Police-States At Home or Abroad
Stop this abuse:
Identify perpetrators on Facebook.
Click to Video: Navy Chief Michael Tufariello, Air Force Major Denise Kirkland, Representative Barbara Boxer on ABC's "Nightline."
"Let us raise
a standard to which the Wise and Honest can repair." George Washington
Problems Shock Dover Mortuary Whistleblowers: Will They Face Reprisal?
History of Military Whistleblower Protection Act and Statute Prohibiting the Use of Mental Health Evaluations in Reprisal
There are 10 cases
listed here. I have spoken with 7 of the victims. The earliest known victim to date is Dr. Charles Clements, hospitalized
on a psychiatry ward after he refused a mission in Vietnam as a matter of conscience. Two cases appeared in 2009. One is listed below.
The question naturally arises
whether we hold military doctors to the same ethical standard as civilian doctors, as the military doctors return home. Isn't
confining a whistle-blower unethical imprisonment of a prisoner of conscience, and what about complicity in torture?
The AMA forbids it. Should we allow the DOD to lock up doctors reporting complicity in torture?
Students vote. Warning
them is one way to reach officials. Those who are concerned about these issues include Senator Grassley, Senator
Boxer, and Representative James McDermott M.D., formerly a Navy psychiatrist.
If you are considering a military
loan such as HPSP (1) , inform yourself about this situation.
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(1) HPSP, Health Professions
Scholarship Program, is not a scholarship: Scholarships
do not have to be repaid. HPSP is a misnomer, because it is not a scholarship: HPSP is a generous loan to be repaid
with work, year for year.
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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
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Feres Doctrine: http://www.youtube.com/user/CarlMollnow
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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The Stars and Stripes Tuesday, March 24, 1992
Whistle-blowers still fielding flak
Reprisals continue
despite protection law
By Pete Yost
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON--The Army tries to fire a civilian scientist
after
he
criticizes the Pentagon's "Star Wars" program.
A senior technician
Are you kidding?
I
am a subspecialty surgeon, practice in a remote area. I love what I
do, I believe that I do it quite well. Great patients,
nice varied
case load.
HOWEVER, I wouldn't do it again for all the tea in Tetley. No way. I
unknowingly made
my family - my KIDS - pay far too high a price in my
absence and chronic fatigue during too many years of training.
Nothing
is worth taking out this level of debt before you even have a
real job (about 165k; the debt, that is). The debt has forced
me to
be more concerned about money than I ever thought I would be.
I do not advise anyone to go into medicine
currently. The liability
is too high, the expense is rapidly outpacing the remuneration,
lawyers and Medicare view
us as a potential revenue stream and
nothing more.
DALLAS (AP) -- Some military whistle-blowers have been
forced
to
undergo psychiatric evaluations and been sent to mental wards
as
intimidation or reprisal, a newspaper
said Sunday, quoting
current
and former service members. The Pentagon denied the
allegations.
The Dallas Morning
News investigated 27 psychiatric cases
involving
the military and found most of the service members involved
had
spotless records until they challenged the system. It didn't
say how
the cases were chosen.
The newspaper
examined nine cases in detail in its three-
month
project.
In one, Capt. Denise Kirkland, an Air Force surgeon
who
complained about shoddy practices at the Little Rock AFB
hospital,
was told by her supervisor that she had
suicidal tendencies
and was
ordered to have a psychiatric evaluation in San Antonio.
Another involved Army Staff
Sgt. William T. Murphy, who
complained in 1988 about how a friend had been treated by a
superior
at the Aberdeen
Proving Ground, Md.
A series or reprimands followed, along with a 30-minute
psychiatric examination that reached a
"diagnostic
impression" Murphy
had passive-aggressive traits. He asked for his record to be
cleared.
The newspaper
interviewed Kirkland and Murphy, and examined
court documents in Murphy"s case.
The House Armed Services Committee
has held hearings on
psychiatric abuses since 1987 and continues to prod the
Pentagon for
reforms.
"It is
intolerable that military whistle-blowers should be
intimidated by such an insidious tactic and that those
responsible
should go unpunished," said Rep. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.
Chester Paul Beach Jr., the Defense Department"s acting
general
counsel, said the Pentagon is strengthening its policies at
Congress"
urging to ensure that psychiatric evaluations
are not used
against
the whistle-blowers."
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