The use of the rack to discipline the practice of psychiatry?
On behalf of patients who have been racked on stretchers and hauled off in ambulances for involuntary mental evaluations at the behest of corrupt cops who conduct false arrests and fail to book proper criminal charges in pursuance of the due process of law
The use of the rack (or stretcher) as an instrument of torture might seem cruel at first thought but it it is certainly nothing unusual anywhere in America or Europe even to this day. Psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health counselors, psychiatric nurses, EMTs, and physicians’ assistants who have used the rack or stretcher professionally in an ambulance or hospital setting either as an instrument of torture for involuntary confinement in pursuit of “mental health” or “behavioral health” or related claims at civil law or as an adjunct method of pre-trial torture and drugging for interrogations at criminal law, must be held to answer for its abuse or misuse on the defendants and patients of their proceedings.
It might seem medieval, but at the same time it has never in all of recorded history been possible for the general practice of medicine to advance beyond a society’s willingness to discipline and punish doctors for medical malpractice tit for tat until their screams have matched those of their patients for volume.
Human cruelty in the practice of law and medicine knows no bounds until it is forcibly restrained and punished life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe, and any patient or defendant who loses an eye or a tooth is set free for the sake of his or her eye or tooth.
Moses knew this when he led the children of Israel out of Egypt, and brought out the hidden precepts of the law to mock Pharaoh’s magicians in court and punish the cruel midwives at the attendance of childbirth.
Constitution of the United States: Eighth Amendment
The propensity of learned individuals in positions of power for arbitrary, extreme and hideous cruelty is something that needs to be addressed head-on before it is allowed to go so far that summary executions are the only possible punishment and the only answer. This of course is the take-no-prisoners approach, but those who want peace and restoration of law and order must restrain themselves to the due process of the law and accept further restraints on their cruelty, while permitting the people at large their lawful, rightful, and free Constitutional possession and carrying of firearms and other weapons.