12/09/2025
Are you aware of this edict put out by Trump in July of this year? Many lawyers I’ve talked to aren’t even aware of it.
It says, in summary, that any American citizen who has a prior history of psychiatric treatment or is homeless or “can’t take care of themselves” can be scooped off the street and institutionalized.
This terrifies me. Have you ever been to a state sponsored psychiatric institution? I interviewed for internship at several and let’s just say I didn’t chose to go there. The patients are the sickest in the state and are often drugged heavily there. I had a friend who worked as an art therapist at one. I remember her telling me “today was a three pen*s day.” Three different men had exposed themselves to her while she was working. Often, the patients are saner than the staff. Their emphasis is control rather than care. Ever see “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest? It is exactly that there.
This means that all the people who are capable of self reflection in this country (that’s what psychotherapy is), can be picked up an institutionalized at the will of the government. Have you ever gotten lost in a
airport or a train station? This could be you,. Unfortunately.
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and