Word: personals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Civil Disorders [March missed one important point: We should not condemn all of white America for riots in the cities. As I have said: ' I do not think it is fair to accuse all whites of racism with one big broad stroke. I think any fair-minded person would admit very readily that there has been discrimination in our country and that it reached the point where the Negroes were very angry-even Negroes who were well off were angry. I think that their anger was justified because of the long discrimination against them." I also feel that emerging...
...reading of the Constitution does not permit such indulgences. Black has refused to stand against electronic eavesdropping because he concludes that since the framers of the Constitution said nothing about privacy, they did not mean to protect it. "Even though I like my privacy as well as the next person, I am nevertheless compelled to admit that the states have a right to invade it unless prohibited by some specific constitutional provision...
State legislatures have failed to make policy decisions specifying who shall be detained and why. Nor have they specified the necessary degree of likelihood for a person to commit a harm. In other words, it doesn't matter whether a person might commit a harm, is likely to commit a harm, or is more than likely to commit a harm. In practice, all a psychiatrist must say is that a person is "likely to be dangerous to himself or to others" to effect his incarceration...
Over the past century, these civil commitment procedures have deprived millions of "mentally ill" people of their liberty. And once a person has been committed to a mental institution, he stands a good chance of remaining there for the rest of his life...
...Blomberg, writing in the American Journal of Psychiatry in 1960, claimed that 40 per cent of patients in state mental hospitals have been hospitalized for ten years or more. He said, "Once a person has remained in a large mental hospital for two years or more, he is quite unlikely to leave except by death...