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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (7105)	6/20/2004 2:01:58 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 20039

Sidney > The screening would also give the government a chance to identify those who are skeptical about the direction the country is going and "label" them and get them on pacifying drugs. Or lock them up.< Nothing new. USSR did it and so does China. In fact, the US is a bit late -- but catching up fast. hrw.org >>In the Soviet Union today, whoever takes a proletarian standpoint, upholds Marxism-Leninism, and dares to speak out and resist is...arrested and imprisoned, or declared `mentally ill' and thrown into `lunatic asylums.' - People's Daily, 1964 Without a correct political standpoint, one has no soul. - Mao Zedong During the 1970s and 1980s, reports that the security authorities in the Soviet Union were incarcerating substantial numbers of dissidents in mental asylums aroused widespread concern in the West. From the early 1990s onwards, scattered reports from China began to indicate that individual dissidents and other political nonconformists were being subjected to forensic psychiatric appraisal by the police and then committed to special psychiatric hospitals on an involuntary and indefinite basis. ....a clear and unmistakable prima facie case showing the longstanding and continuing existence of political psychiatric abuse in China.<<