Fighting to Protect Children
Sixty years after the psychiatric atrocities that robbed the life of Elvira Manthey’s sister, human rights advocates are working to protect and uphold human rights for children in an entirely different setting.
Patti Johnson, a member of the Colorado State Board of Education, presented the CCHR Human Rights Award by Golden Globe Award-winning actress Jenna Elfman, has effectively fought against widespread psychiatric drugging of school children in her state.
The U.S. educational system has long been influenced by psychiatry. But the problem became even more acute in 1968 when the American Psychiatric Association added a category entitled “Behavior Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence” to its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. These arbitrary “disorders” were unsubstantiated by scientific testing. Thus psychiatrists and psychologists usurped the integrity of the educational system by redefining academic problems as “mental disorders” and replacing workable teaching methods with invasive psychological questionnaires, behavior modification programs and mind altering drugs.
As a mother, Patti Johnson saw the halls of learning turned into mental health clinics—and she made a decision to fight back. Becoming a member of the Colorado State Board of Education in January 1995, she fought tirelessly for parents’ rights to informed consent concerning their children being subjected to invasive psychological curriculums, assessments and psychotropic drugs.
The dangers of such “treatments” hit home in April 1999, when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold turned Columbine High School into a killing ground. Harris had been prescribed an antidepressant which is known to cause mania—including violent urges.
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