Citizens Commission on Human Rights

From AnonHouston

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights is a known Scilon front group. Their activities are well documented across the Internet. This page's purpose is to try to gather information on the group's activities in and around the Houston area for counterprotest purposes.

[edit] What is the CCHR?

see main Wikipedia article here CCHR
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR; also sometimes known as the Citizens Committee on Human Rights) is an advocacy group established in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. Its stated goal is to fight what it describes as "human rights crimes" by mental health professionals, stating that electroconvulsive therapy, racism, psychosurgery, involuntary commitment and child medication are all practices which are rife in psychiatry.

CCHR's views on psychiatry are a straightforward reflection of the position put forward by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, whose writings express a very strong anti-psychiatry viewpoint. The practice of psychiatry is considered by Scientologists to be a form of extortion based upon both secular antipsychiatrists and Scientology doctrine, stating there is no biological evidence to support psychiatric theories of mental disorders. However, unlike secular antipsychiatrists, according to Hubbard all psychiatrists are criminals: "There is not one institutional psychiatrist alive who, by ordinary criminal law, could not be arraigned and convicted of extortion, mayhem and murder. Our files are full of evidence on them."

CCHR follows this line very closely, for instance describing psychiatrists and psychologists as "Professional Rapists, Perverts and Pedophiles". It has developed Psych Crime, a database of criminal convictions of people working in the mental health sector (psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, mental health executives, social workers, clerks and aides) to which it invites members of the public to contribute.

Although CCHR states its purpose publicly as being "to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights and to clean up the field of mental healing," in its own fund-raising publications — issued primarily to Scientologists — it espouses a goal of eliminating psychiatry altogether and invites contributors to sign up to that goal: "Be part of the team that is taking out psychiatry!"; "The time to put an end to psychiatry and it's criminal practices is NOW!"; "Get rid of the psychs! That is just what CCHR is doing."

[edit] Possible Target Events

According to this post on Enturb, the CCHR intends to have demonstrations in various cities in Texas during June, but without a specific event. Their modus operandi seems to center around mental health conventions. Therefore, I'm working on compiling a list of conferences they may decide to grace with their presence.

[edit] CCHR in the News in Houston

Texas FedCourt Tosses Scientology crime syndicate's CCHR Lunacy - The CCHR tried to file a lawsuit against Ritalin, and lost.
Scientology linked to legal battle over schizophrenia medicine in Texas