"John Conroy ... lists nine typical rejoinders by democratic 
societies to accusations that they have committed torture:

flatly denying it;
admitting it but minimizing the abuse;
disparaging the victims as criminals or terrorists;
justifying it through appeal to emergency circumstances;;
condemning as corrupt, untrustworthy, or foreign those organizations 
exposing the abuse;
insisting that violations are being dealt with or are a matter of the past;
shifting the blame to a 'a few bad apples';
mitigating the torture by comparing it to even more extreme torture elsewhere;
and finally dismissing it by claiming that those tortured will soon 
'get over it'."

p 10

James Dawes.  That the world may know: bearing witness to 
atrocity.  Harvard.  2007

(There seems to me parallels to unconsented psychiatric 
interventions.   Sylvia)


"People Who experience mood swings, fear, voices and visions"