Reports of Hawai’i-based troops being sent to Bosnia in April of 2002 surfaced in the Oahu and Kaua’i press (12/4/00). My hope is that elements of the 25th Infantry Division are able to do what other military units have failed
Reports of Hawai’i-based troops being sent to Bosnia in April of 2002 surfaced in the Oahu and Kaua’i press (12/4/00). My hope is that elements of the 25th Infantry Division are able to do what other military units have failed to do so far. That would be the capture of Radovan Karadzic continues to live the good life in Bosnia and Serbia.
Who is Radovan Karadzic? Karadzic is a psychiatrist. Between 1992 and 1995, the Serbs under Dr. Karadzic’s command killed as many as 200,000 Bosnians and uprooted over a million people in the name of “ethnic cleansing.” Dr. Karadzic was indicted for crimes against humanity by the International Tribunal of the U.N. in the Hague, Netherlands.
Shrinks always give me an eerie feeling, and history, as we know, just keeps repeating itself. Shrinks like Radovan Karadzic put the holocaust together for Adolf Hitler. Psychiatrists and their social workers did not go to the front lines to fight with honor as the German soldier did in World War II. These mental health professionals had other more dirty tasks to do within Germany and its captive territories. For these medical behaviorists killing became healing.
Nearly all psychiatrists in Germany emptied their hospitals, clinics and infirmaries of their patients and sent these patients to extermination camps in the 1930s and 1940s. Historians estimate that as many as 350,000 innocent persons were murdered by this means alone. Shrinks were not forced by anyone to kill their patients. They acted upon their own policy. Many were card-carrying Nazis. Through their efforts Germany solved its “mental health problems.” T4 Tiergartenstrasse was where leading psychiatrists Dr.
Ernst Rudin and Dr. Werner Villinger began to organize the mass murder of medical killing in Germany. The T4 Tiergartenstrasse unit was located within Hitler’s Chancellory. The T4 unit first ran the euthanasia “mercy-killing” centers for the Nazi regime. Virtually the entire German psychiatric community was involved in this mass murder. Costly patients, the elderly, and those born with birth defects were killed. Shrinks aborted children and put to death soldiers with serious head wounds.
The psychiatrist-led T4 unit played a central role in organizing murder at death camps such as Treblinka, Sodobor, Belzec and Chelmo. Psychiatrists also initiated the policy of “race betterment.” They wrote the policy and showed Hitler how it could be worked.
Murder to these shrinks meant improving Germany’s national health. It was a matter of getting rid of “useless eaters,” those having “life not worthy of life,” and those for whom coping with life’s problems was difficult.
The idea of “life not worthy of life” comes from a shrink named Dr. Alfred Hoche, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Freiburg. It was first used in Hoche’s work, “Die Freigabe der Vernichtung Lebensunwerten Leben, ” which means “The Permission to Destroy Life Unworthy of life.” The phrase “Life Unworther of Life” was later used by Hitler.
In the midst of the 1930s psychiatry became heartless beyond belief. Psychiatrist Dr. Herman Pfannuller spoke of a policy of consigning “asocial drinkers, grumblers, refractory parasites and work-shy psychopaths” to concentration camps.
In 1935, writing in Psychiatrisch-Neurologische Wochenschrift, four years before the euthanasia program was formally set in motion, Psychiatrist Dr. Karl Knab polemicized against the “spiritual ruins” (humans) in those asylums where “incurables” were kept, stressing that “in addition to idiots on the lowest level,” there was also “patient eradicated by being killed in a painless fashion…” The psychiatrist who wrote Hitler’s race laws, Dr. Ernst Rudin, was elected president of the International Federation of Eugenic Organizations in 1932. He ran murder at T4 Tiergartenstrasse and was hung after World War II by the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal for crimes against humanity. Psychiatrist Dr.
Werner Villinger, another leader at the T4 unit, went on quietly organizing “mental health professions.” Years later the German Federal Republic caught up with him and began to bring him to justice. Dr. Villinger was never tried. He threw himself off a mountain top near Innsbruck.
Out of the USA and in Canada during the 1960s, Psychiatrist Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron led a team of shrinks in running a torture and murder clinic at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal. This shrink atrocity was funded by the U.S. Government as was known as the CIA’s M-K-Ultra project.
Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron was one of the most eminent psychiatrist to ever commit crimes against humanity. Dr.
Cameron was president of the American and Canadian Psychiatric Associations. He was also president of the World Association of Psychiatrists. He set up the Canadian Mental Health Association. Cameron’s experiments destroyed innocent patients in a horrifying manner. On October 5, 1988, the CIA, represented by the U.S. Department of Justice, settled a suit brought by a few surviving patients. The patients got $750,000.00 with the understanding they would never discuss the atrocity in public again. Dr. Cameron was never brought to justice.
He died of a heart attack in 1968.
There is no shortage of books in good libraries exposing shrink crime. Sad to say, most teachers and students do too little serious reading. If more serious reading was required in schools, a profound change in attitude would occur toward the shrink business. Each semester, fewer students would do a blind rush to get into the useless and discredited field of psychology. Psychiatric perversity is obvious to people with a moral sense and common intelligence, but psychiatric crimes go unknown to those who do not read.
The business of psychiatry and “mental health” is neither science or medicine. It is an art form. Like the art of making chicken soup, chicken victims are its main ingredient.
Douglas E. Rapozo is a resident of California who returns to his native Kapa’a during the winter months.
