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The World Mental Health Coalition is having a virtual (Zoom) signing of a statement today
(Pasted from an email)
Dear Colleagues:
Our first Zoom recording will happen tomorrow, September 21, 2020, at 12-1 p.m. EDT. Here is the link:
https://zoom.us/j/97704049673?pwd=b2EyVEdlY28yMjJRWHdtNXRKOE9qdz09
Meeting ID: 977 0404 9673
Passcode: Video
Here is what we will ask you to say:
One line statement from you, your full name, credentials, and location ("XX state" ).
Ex. "Signing this statement is the most critical thing I could be doing as a mental health professional today. I am Bandy Lee, psychiatrist and doctor of medicine from NY state."
Once you have spoken your piece, you can get off and do not need to stay on for the whole hour. Again, this is a video signing of the statement below, which we will send to major TV programs for 100+ of us eventually to appear. Please feel free to get on the call even if you have not yet signed up. We will do this again, but please get on this time if you at all can, so that we can start sending it out as soon as possible. Thank you!
Warmly,
Bandy
Our first Zoom recording will happen tomorrow, September 21, 2020, at 12-1 p.m. EDT. Here is the link:
https://zoom.us/j/97704049673?pwd=b2EyVEdlY28yMjJRWHdtNXRKOE9qdz09
Meeting ID: 977 0404 9673
Passcode: Video
Here is what we will ask you to say:
One line statement from you, your full name, credentials, and location ("XX state" ).
Ex. "Signing this statement is the most critical thing I could be doing as a mental health professional today. I am Bandy Lee, psychiatrist and doctor of medicine from NY state."
Once you have spoken your piece, you can get off and do not need to stay on for the whole hour. Again, this is a video signing of the statement below, which we will send to major TV programs for 100+ of us eventually to appear. Please feel free to get on the call even if you have not yet signed up. We will do this again, but please get on this time if you at all can, so that we can start sending it out as soon as possible. Thank you!
Warmly,
Bandy
The statement that will be signed:
THE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS DONALD TRUMP
In early 2017, an alarmed group of mental health professionals came together and warned against the psychological dangers of a Donald Trump presidency. We have since grown exponentially in number and present ourselves again with an urgent warning.
DONALD TRUMP is a severe, growing, and imminent danger to the United States and the international community and must be removed from presidency and candidacy for reelection for reasons of dangerousness and mental unfitness.
Along with many other travesties, his severe mental disturbances are largely responsible for the tragic way the government has terribly mishandled the Covid pandemic.
Such a person would ordinarily be required by employer or family to undergo a comprehensive mental health evaluation and be removed from authority. All military personnel with any responsibility for nuclear weapons are required to pass rigorous testing yearly.
For public welfare and not political reasons, we Psychiatrists and Mental Health Professionals are warning against greater dangers ahead:
We started with a Conference at Yale University in 2017
Proceedings of the Conference are found in our best-selling book THE DANGEROUS CASE OF DONALD TRUMP: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President
Then our major Interdisciplinary Conference was broadcast on C-Span from the National Press Club in Washington in March 2019
All have led to our PRESCRIPTION FOR SURVIVAL and recent REFILL at PrescriptionForSurvival.org
We conclude that the great majority of deaths and suffering from Covid-19, not to mention stoking of racial tensions and violence, are the direct result of the disturbances we have repeatedly warned against
And now the World Mental Health Coalition, an organization of thousands of mental health professionals published its full track record of letters, petitions, and conference transcripts in its 312-page book DOCUMENTS
Donald Trump should never have been allowed to so endanger the country, resulting in enormous costs of life, vast suffering, and growing social unrest. He should have been removed from office or at least influence long ago. His continuation in the Office of the Presidency threatens the wellbeing, the basic institutions, and the Constitution of the United States in ways that may have been unimaginable for the public but well-predicted within the mental health community since the beginning.
It is not too late to prevent further suffering and calamities. We urge members of the U.S. Congress and "We the People" of the United States to act to remove the dangers, as outlined in our PRESCRIPTION FOR SURVIVAL: PrescriptionForSurvival.org.
Further information is at WorldMHC.org.
In early 2017, an alarmed group of mental health professionals came together and warned against the psychological dangers of a Donald Trump presidency. We have since grown exponentially in number and present ourselves again with an urgent warning.
DONALD TRUMP is a severe, growing, and imminent danger to the United States and the international community and must be removed from presidency and candidacy for reelection for reasons of dangerousness and mental unfitness.
Along with many other travesties, his severe mental disturbances are largely responsible for the tragic way the government has terribly mishandled the Covid pandemic.
Such a person would ordinarily be required by employer or family to undergo a comprehensive mental health evaluation and be removed from authority. All military personnel with any responsibility for nuclear weapons are required to pass rigorous testing yearly.
For public welfare and not political reasons, we Psychiatrists and Mental Health Professionals are warning against greater dangers ahead:
We started with a Conference at Yale University in 2017
Proceedings of the Conference are found in our best-selling book THE DANGEROUS CASE OF DONALD TRUMP: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President
Then our major Interdisciplinary Conference was broadcast on C-Span from the National Press Club in Washington in March 2019
All have led to our PRESCRIPTION FOR SURVIVAL and recent REFILL at PrescriptionForSurvival.org
We conclude that the great majority of deaths and suffering from Covid-19, not to mention stoking of racial tensions and violence, are the direct result of the disturbances we have repeatedly warned against
And now the World Mental Health Coalition, an organization of thousands of mental health professionals published its full track record of letters, petitions, and conference transcripts in its 312-page book DOCUMENTS
Donald Trump should never have been allowed to so endanger the country, resulting in enormous costs of life, vast suffering, and growing social unrest. He should have been removed from office or at least influence long ago. His continuation in the Office of the Presidency threatens the wellbeing, the basic institutions, and the Constitution of the United States in ways that may have been unimaginable for the public but well-predicted within the mental health community since the beginning.
It is not too late to prevent further suffering and calamities. We urge members of the U.S. Congress and "We the People" of the United States to act to remove the dangers, as outlined in our PRESCRIPTION FOR SURVIVAL: PrescriptionForSurvival.org.
Further information is at WorldMHC.org.
Some amazing people are involved in this project, whose president is Bandy X. Lee. Fascism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat is also a board member:
https://worldmhc.org/board-of-directors/
Home page: https://worldmhc.org/
