description: For all those abused as children who had the ability to play removed by violence  Then when grown refused proud and productive work for the sin of not healing  Feared and treated by their society as dangerous fit only to be abused again in the Courts  An early draft of a petition to the Supreme Court of the United States, showing an arc of bigotry in common reasoning and logic, in decisions regarding slavery, forced eugenic sterilization, mental health and involuntary commitment, and the gutting of the Americans with Disabilities Act.  Meant as a resource for those who would challenge such decisions, with over 280 medical, legal, historical and sociological footnotes.  Connects Hitler’s Holocaust with the infamous Buck v. Bell Decision (1927), upholding the Virginia Sterilization Act, never overturned, sterilizing tens of thousands of poor and colored people into the 1970s. It formed the basis for modern mental health law and commitment.  Shows how later criminal decisions involving prisoners with alleged mental health issues vastly expanded psychiatric legal powers, causing widespread psychiatric hospital insurance scams, damaging hundreds of thousands of innocent and harmless people.  Ties German economic issues and shared American attitudes leading to the Holocaust with later changes and abuses in U.S. mental health systems, and with the employment of people with disabilities.  Illustrates how social, systemic and judicial prejudices against people with disabilities brought about disparate treatment in both mental hospitals and the workplace.
language: English
title: Four Principles of Oppression