European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes August 1977 Anthony Lewis psychiatrists to protest i s 3 several thousand psychiatrists will meet in Honolulu next week at the sixth Congress of psychiatric the event sounds like one of professional interest in it will be a testing ground on an Issue of profound Public involving human rights and International politics As Well As medi Cal the Issue is the soviet practice of Confin ing sane people in mental hospitals be cause they Are it is a barbarous device even by the standards of the con temporary totalitarian some groups that ought to be especially concerned have turned a Blind Eye to at the last world psychiatric held six years ago in Mexico Dele Gates tried to raise the but soviet representatives protested that there was nothing to it but cold War and association officials ruled the subject out of order this time political abuse of psychiatry is a major item on the Agenda of the con and the russians Are evidently con they have obtained thirty visas for the Honolulu including two for the guess is that they will try to Block the scheduled lobby against critical resolutions and if All else tails threaten to quit the Assoc a that psychiatry is sometimes used in the soviet Union As a Kab instrument cannot be doubted by any remotely fair minded the evidence is Over it has been produced Over the last with incredible by victims of the perverted doctors Vladimir Zhores Leonid ply Shch and the evidence is compellingly summarized in a Book just London russian political by Sidney an Oxford and Peter a London school of economics specialist on soviet their Book is the More powerful because it eschews any speculation or sticking to documented cases and describing them in an almost Mattero fact on the theory that disagreement with any aspect of the soviet system is a symptom of certain psychiatrists have regularly found dissenters to be in need of treatment and committed the diag unique to soviet include such things As sluggish schizophrenia susceptibility to Delu the victims Best known in the West were picked up the Kab and brought to its lame psychiatrists because they expressed critical political views including criticism of the but the bloc Reddaway Book makes Clear that political dissent is not the Only kind subjected to medical Alexander a member of the orthodox took part in an unofficial seminar on religious philosophy in the summer of the Kab broke up the and Argentos was put in a mental a Yazikov told Well beat your religion out of a commission found him mentally but he was released after a protest for a sane person to be confined with seriously disturbed people is horrifying enough As an but Many of the soviet victims have been put in special hospitals in fact More prison than Hospital and subjected there 1 the affix common my beat the patients arid extort clothes or other things from for the right to go out to the toilet privilege that is limited to a tormenting one used for patients who quarrel with the doctors or refuse their Medicine is to strap them into their Beds Tor three Days or without bed disabling drugs Are administered to break the resistance of can the outside world have any effect on these horrors the Clear answer is the soviet psychiatric establishment is sensitive to outside criticism and especially from the before the 1971 world Congress the leading figure in russian political Andrei cautioned against commit Ting Zhores Medvedev because How it would make our o in Royal College of9 psychiatry and the australian psychiatric society will condemning soviet the american psychiatric association Mil propose a committee to to Vest Gate abuse of the profession generally of Reg but at this Point enough other delegates May be worried about offending the Sovi ets to make it Uncertain whether any act Ion will be in the area of human private and professional organizations can often exert More effective leverage against abuse than governments Western scientists have begun to act on that for pressing their russian colleagues on mistreatment of soviet physicists who Are or jews wishing to the Honolulu con Gress will test whether the worlds psychiatrists Are As sensitive of  John Roche liberalism stands for rational the major conservative complaint about liberals is that our theory of the state and society leaves everything up for totally lacking fundamental according to the conservatives we liberals believe in letting it All hang condone antisocial and in general undermine american what fuels this assault is the unfortunate fact that authentic american liberalism has been so occupied in the nitty Gritty work of building a decent society mat it has neglected Public a vacuum was created into which rushed a Crew of self anointed prophets of Radical whose new making Talent is in fact one might for that All certified liberals Are laying awake nights worrying about the future of our Liberty be cause Hustler Magazine got busted in Cin after if they can get How Long will it take to ban Winnie the i doubt if anybody lost much sleep Over Larry flints sad at the time of his 1 looked at a copy of Hustler and thought it should be burned by the Hangman As demeaning to the human women in it richly merited sup the additional Mickey mouse conspiracy rap they tied on Flynt and his associates struck me As bad news it surely will be thrown out on but if a jury can decide whether somebody is guilty of arson or i see no reason Why it cant too Send somebody to the can for peddling ii Guys like Flynt want to play tag with the criminal making a Fortune in the they cant expect never to be in As an old common Law 1 believe the Public has the right to Abate providing due process of Law is when sociologists come raging in to note that incest was habitual in ancient cannibalism Standard form in Atlantis and homosexuality the Norm among the i am this is the a Community built around certain Jude Christian enlightenment which we have the right to As an exponent of i dont want harmless deviants but when the Gay libbers come out demanding my patience gets a bit whether they like the heterosexual Norm or not is irrelevant it is the Only Legal game in town by All its going to remain that we have moved a Long Way from the Savage tyranny of the majority Tocque Ville but the various deviant outfits should quietly appreciate Tolera the Dade county referendum was a dear indication of the Public attitude dont push your lets turn to another Sponey scenario the american nazis plan to March in uni form through an Illinois with a substantial population of jews who survived the death the Illinois Branch of the american civil liberties Union is Busy trying to pro Mote this while the City is desperately fending it the position is that the City is unconstitutionally limiting the nazis Freedom of speech and Assem swastikas Are just symbolic speech Are is if the nazis were going to hire a Hall in Skokie to peddle their political i would defend their right to do so As i have the privilege of certain Odd types to sit around their Homes getting kicks from dirty but a provocative Parade is in a differ ent category it is an incitement to Vio Lence and an offence to Public the Acle should go Back to its last big caper getting War and poverty declared in constr what is most ironic about a situation like this is the Standard defense its Only maybe some intellectuals have become so disjointed from reality they refuse to believe words which is quintessential  but the average citizen grasps difference Between a speech and an incite if an orangemen turned up in Souto Boston Saloon on Patricks Day to cuss the evils of Papish not a jury in Suffolk however Toby would convict the lad who decked the american liberalism and has always for rational h we oppose shooting kids for looting to i snot because we Lack be Lieve in or Are it is be cause such marksmanship be we Lack the Bland certainty of the conservatives and Are constantly ing our yet we have built the greatest mass society in history by fierce dedication to truths dimly never confuse us with prophets of Radical they talk and write because no one trusts them to do anything tin a How to it w my now in motion n Tarn to m in Rinn to Sun Karl Umof us in Lam sum