With all the ruckus around PACE and Dr Coyne stirring up trouble re Creepy Crawley and her experiments on kids, maybe this the right time to start a patient-funded legal defense fund to keep patients out of locked wards. I recall an UK lawyer with ME and a blog, but I can't remember their name. Perhaps they know a solicitor who would take this on for reasonable fees.
A few successes would build confidence and support towards the goal of more wide-reaching lawsuits. At least that would be my goal. I want to see all the psychobabblers held to account in a court of law, preferably both criminal and civil.
Amnesty International and those other groups won't be interested as we are not "charismatic" enough, unless the request for a campaign came with a big donation. So we will have to do it ourselves, somehow, like everything else.
If I only have a little money to give and I give it to some multi-million dollar research fund, it will simply be swallowed up with little effect, even if the charity is doing excellent work, like the Open Medicine Foundation. But if I give a small amount of money to a fund that will use it to spring a patient from psychiatric prison, that will have a profound and immediate impact on a patient's life, especially a young patient.
Letters and petitions have their place, but I don't think these psycho psychiatrists will notice. A court order backed by constables should get their attention.
