Rodney Yoder's Attorney Comments On Time Article

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>From: " S. Kretchmar " <Letters@...>

>CC: <

>Subject: They call him crazy (Rodney Yoder)

>Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 13:46:10 -0500

>

>To the Editor:

>

> Cloud’s article on Rodney Yoder was predictably balanced mass media.

>Sadly, the profound social issues represented by Yoder’s case were given

>short shrift or caricatured.

>

> " Figuring out the difference between being ill and being a jerk " is no

>project. Disease is a bio-physiological fact, objectively present or absent

>in a particular individual. If a person is " ill " in this sense, it can be

>proven or ruled out by medical tests applied to the body.

>

>Rude, foolish or contemptible behavior and manners are judged subjectively

>and situationally. If a person is a " jerk " it is because he or she too

>characteristically offends others in society. No objective test is

>possible,

>necessary or relevant.

>

>We have been sold the big lie, that there is no difference between a human

>brain and a human being. Now we run around like fools trying to " figure

>out "

>how to separate pharmaceutical effects from morality, how to distinguish

>genetics from legal responsibility, and how to tell treatment from prison.

> Cloud merely reflects this ridiculous waste of time and intellectual

>energy.

>

>Rodney Yoder’s case is about securing due process of law and not

>sacrificing

>our constitutional heritage and our liberty for the false protection of

>inquisitorial medicine and the racketeers of totalistic pharmacracy.

>Psychiatric " diagnoses " are epithets. The people who sling them around for

>a

>living are mean, self-interested and dishonest carpetbaggers, unworthy of

>being called doctors.

>

>A jury of his peers, relying on their own decency and common sense, will

>decide if Rodney Yoder should be locked in a terrible place forever.

>Justice

>will not come from psychiatric " experts. "

>

>Ill people can contract for healing services. Serious jerks can expect

>society to take punitive action sooner or later. Confusing the two

>situations

>courts cultural disaster.

>

>S. Randolph Kretchmar, Attorney for C. Rodney Yoder

>

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>From: " S. Kretchmar " <Letters@...>

>CC: <

>Subject: They call him crazy (Rodney Yoder)

>Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 13:46:10 -0500

>

>To the Editor:

>

> Cloud’s article on Rodney Yoder was predictably balanced mass media.

>Sadly, the profound social issues represented by Yoder’s case were given

>short shrift or caricatured.

>

> " Figuring out the difference between being ill and being a jerk " is no

>project. Disease is a bio-physiological fact, objectively present or absent

>in a particular individual. If a person is " ill " in this sense, it can be

>proven or ruled out by medical tests applied to the body.

>

>Rude, foolish or contemptible behavior and manners are judged subjectively

>and situationally. If a person is a " jerk " it is because he or she too

>characteristically offends others in society. No objective test is

>possible,

>necessary or relevant.

>

>We have been sold the big lie, that there is no difference between a human

>brain and a human being. Now we run around like fools trying to " figure

>out "

>how to separate pharmaceutical effects from morality, how to distinguish

>genetics from legal responsibility, and how to tell treatment from prison.

> Cloud merely reflects this ridiculous waste of time and intellectual

>energy.

>

>Rodney Yoder’s case is about securing due process of law and not

>sacrificing

>our constitutional heritage and our liberty for the false protection of

>inquisitorial medicine and the racketeers of totalistic pharmacracy.

>Psychiatric " diagnoses " are epithets. The people who sling them around for

>a

>living are mean, self-interested and dishonest carpetbaggers, unworthy of

>being called doctors.

>

>A jury of his peers, relying on their own decency and common sense, will

>decide if Rodney Yoder should be locked in a terrible place forever.

>Justice

>will not come from psychiatric " experts. "

>

>Ill people can contract for healing services. Serious jerks can expect

>society to take punitive action sooner or later. Confusing the two

>situations

>courts cultural disaster.

>

>S. Randolph Kretchmar, Attorney for C. Rodney Yoder

>

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>From: " S. Kretchmar " <Letters@...>

>CC: <

>Subject: They call him crazy (Rodney Yoder)

>Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 13:46:10 -0500

>

>To the Editor:

>

> Cloud’s article on Rodney Yoder was predictably balanced mass media.

>Sadly, the profound social issues represented by Yoder’s case were given

>short shrift or caricatured.

>

> " Figuring out the difference between being ill and being a jerk " is no

>project. Disease is a bio-physiological fact, objectively present or absent

>in a particular individual. If a person is " ill " in this sense, it can be

>proven or ruled out by medical tests applied to the body.

>

>Rude, foolish or contemptible behavior and manners are judged subjectively

>and situationally. If a person is a " jerk " it is because he or she too

>characteristically offends others in society. No objective test is

>possible,

>necessary or relevant.

>

>We have been sold the big lie, that there is no difference between a human

>brain and a human being. Now we run around like fools trying to " figure

>out "

>how to separate pharmaceutical effects from morality, how to distinguish

>genetics from legal responsibility, and how to tell treatment from prison.

> Cloud merely reflects this ridiculous waste of time and intellectual

>energy.

>

>Rodney Yoder’s case is about securing due process of law and not

>sacrificing

>our constitutional heritage and our liberty for the false protection of

>inquisitorial medicine and the racketeers of totalistic pharmacracy.

>Psychiatric " diagnoses " are epithets. The people who sling them around for

>a

>living are mean, self-interested and dishonest carpetbaggers, unworthy of

>being called doctors.

>

>A jury of his peers, relying on their own decency and common sense, will

>decide if Rodney Yoder should be locked in a terrible place forever.

>Justice

>will not come from psychiatric " experts. "

>

>Ill people can contract for healing services. Serious jerks can expect

>society to take punitive action sooner or later. Confusing the two

>situations

>courts cultural disaster.

>

>S. Randolph Kretchmar, Attorney for C. Rodney Yoder

>

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>From: " S. Kretchmar " <Letters@...>

>CC: <

>Subject: They call him crazy (Rodney Yoder)

>Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 13:46:10 -0500

>

>To the Editor:

>

> Cloud’s article on Rodney Yoder was predictably balanced mass media.

>Sadly, the profound social issues represented by Yoder’s case were given

>short shrift or caricatured.

>

> " Figuring out the difference between being ill and being a jerk " is no

>project. Disease is a bio-physiological fact, objectively present or absent

>in a particular individual. If a person is " ill " in this sense, it can be

>proven or ruled out by medical tests applied to the body.

>

>Rude, foolish or contemptible behavior and manners are judged subjectively

>and situationally. If a person is a " jerk " it is because he or she too

>characteristically offends others in society. No objective test is

>possible,

>necessary or relevant.

>

>We have been sold the big lie, that there is no difference between a human

>brain and a human being. Now we run around like fools trying to " figure

>out "

>how to separate pharmaceutical effects from morality, how to distinguish

>genetics from legal responsibility, and how to tell treatment from prison.

> Cloud merely reflects this ridiculous waste of time and intellectual

>energy.

>

>Rodney Yoder’s case is about securing due process of law and not

>sacrificing

>our constitutional heritage and our liberty for the false protection of

>inquisitorial medicine and the racketeers of totalistic pharmacracy.

>Psychiatric " diagnoses " are epithets. The people who sling them around for

>a

>living are mean, self-interested and dishonest carpetbaggers, unworthy of

>being called doctors.

>

>A jury of his peers, relying on their own decency and common sense, will

>decide if Rodney Yoder should be locked in a terrible place forever.

>Justice

>will not come from psychiatric " experts. "

>

>Ill people can contract for healing services. Serious jerks can expect

>society to take punitive action sooner or later. Confusing the two

>situations

>courts cultural disaster.

>

>S. Randolph Kretchmar, Attorney for C. Rodney Yoder

>

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