Re: [Vo]:Pantone may be subjected to forced medication

[Jed Rothwell]

To clarify, I think it is an outrage to force a patient to take 
medication in order to make him fit for a trial, except in extreme 
cases such as a murder trial. I think this is a violation of 
patient's rights. It is inhuman. If he is truly insane, he should not 
be subjected to a trial even if he can be made temporarily lucid with 
drugs. What is the point, anyway? What can they do to him that would 
be any worse than what nature has done? There is no dungeon as dark 
as mental illness, and no punishment as cruel. I suppose they can 
take his money away, but I doubt he has any.

I know nothing about Pantone but judging by the description in the 
article I suppose he is mentally ill. That is terrible shame.

Gene Mallove thought that Pantone was on to something. I was not 
interested and I never learned enough to judge.

What is even worse that this is that in a few cases, prisoners 
condemned to death have been treated for mental illness so they 
become sane enough to execute! Apparently it is against the law to 
kill delusional people, even in Texas. "Orwellian Catch-22" hardly 
begins to describe it.

- Jed