US Gulag Doctor Bound For Supreme Court

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Gulag Doctor bound

for Supreme Court

 

by Fintan Dunne, 02 Jan '03

Editor www.SickofDoctors.com

 

 

The US Supreme Court is to hear a case described as the Roe v. Wade of free

thought.

 

Dr. Charles Sell is incarcerated by a bizarre catch-22 which means he cannot be

tried until he agrees to take mind-altering drugs. Court doctors have judged him

insane for holding particular political views and dissenting about AIDS

causation, among other issues.

 

Dr. Sell won't take court-ordered antipsychotic medication and has been

incarcerated without trial for almost five years, often in solitary confinement.

 

His alleged delusions include unorthodox views about the government's handling

of the Waco tragedy, the nature of the Bosnia conflict, the causes of HIV/AIDS

and other issues.

 

Sell is still facing charges of health care fraud for allegedly filing numerous

false claims to Medicaid and private insurers for services that were not

provided.

 

GULAG DISSENTERS

 

Glen Boire, legal counsel for the Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (CCLE),

says: " what's happening to Dr. Sell is unconscionable. He is under no obligation

to think the way the government wants him to think, and the government should

not be permitted to drug him against his will. "

 

Without the freedom to control one's own consciousness, " continues Boire, " what

freedom remains? "

 

According to Boire, in the former Soviet Union, no equivalent to the First

Amendment existed. Prison officials could label dissident thinkers " mentally

ill " and forcibly drug them.

 

Boire notes, " If one vital objective of the Constitution is to draw lines

between freedom and totalitarianism, surely the interior processes of the mind

are protected against forcible invasion and alteration by the government. Even

the 8th Circuit Court agrees that Dr. Sell is not a danger to himself or others.

 

The CCLE argues that the freedom of thought at stake in this case is comparable

to the reproductive freedom granted to women by the Roe v. Wade decision. Just

as Roe v. Wade established fundamental bodily rights the body, " notes Boire,

this case will decide what protections a person has over his or her own mind and

thought processes.

 

SUPREME COURT HEARING

 

In March 2002, a Federal Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit made a 2 - 1

split decision which, in effect, established government power to forcibly

medicate a person with mind altering drugs even before trial.

 

Dissenting Circuit Judge Kermit Bye argued that " the charges against Dr. Sell

are not sufficiently serious to forcibly inject him with antipsychotic drugs on

the chance it will make him competent to stand trial. "

 

" It’s a shocking, inhumane decision. Now, all the government needs are

allegations and a cooperative psychiatrist to forcibly drug any citizen, " said

Andrew Schlafly, General Counsel for the Association of American Physicians and

Surgeons (AAPS) which filed the amicus brief the Supreme Court has agreed to

review.

 

 

 

 

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