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Selling something to cure cancer that does not cure cancer is fraud and it's normal to go to jail for it - two years is not that long of a sentence for it, eith
by lucubratory 3y ago
Selling something to cure cancer that does not cure cancer is fraud and it's normal to go to jail for it - two years is not that long of a sentence for it, either. I would need to see a lot more evidence that his sentence for fraud was a pretext for political imprisonment to believe that.
To be perfectly clear, I'm familiar with multiple political prisoners in the USA and am well aware that the US does imprison people for political reasons. I'm just not convinced that this guy is one of them.
- corinroyal 3y agoYour point about fake cures is well taken. But I hope you can see there was more involved. Imagine touching clients, working on their sexual expression, and pushing radical, explicitly anti-fascist social change in the USA during the height of "Leave it to Beaver", Behaviorism, and the Red Scare. The knives were out for him with or without the box. He came to the US to escape persecution but it followed him all the way from Europe and led to his untimely death and the utter destruction of his liberatory vision for psychiatry. The ground was scorched and we are still bereft of a comparable vision.