Citizens Commission On Human Rights
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) is a nonprofit organization whose stated mission is to "eradicate abuses committed under the guise of mental health and enact patient and consumer protections." It has been described by critics as a Scientology front group that campaigns against psychiatry and psychiatrists. It was established in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
The organization holds that mental illness is not a medical disease, and that the use of psychiatric medication is a destructive and fraudulent practice. CCHR follows the Scientology doctrine that psychiatrists ('psychs') are the primary cause of evil in society:
In a 1969 article, "Today’s Terrorism," published in a Scientology journal, Hubbard claimed that "the psychiatrist and his front groups operate straight out of the terrorist textbooks. The Mafia looks like a convention of Sunday school teachers compared to these terrorist groups." The psychiatrist, Hubbard went on, "kidnaps, tortures and murders without any slightest police interference or action by western security forces." Later, Hubbard wrote that, in society, "there’s only one remedy for crime — get rid of the psychs! They are causing it!"
CCHR also blames psychiatry for school shootings, the 9/11 attacks on America, the German Holocaust, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and the Jonestown massacre.
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