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It is puzzling to see such a lack of progress in accepting certain activities in society that generate large sums of money simply because there are people who disapprove of things like escort services and erotic massage on superficial moral grounds although many of them go to restaurants and bars with adult entertainment or use sexual services regularly. Politicians are especially notorious for being revealed in the media as hypocrites who are caught in scandals involving high-priced call girls or infidelities of various types.

In 1969 at the age of eighteen I was a young soldier stationed at a NATO base in what was then West Germany during the Cold War. When I arrived I immediately got the feeling that I had been transported to the future; everything was ultra-modern compared to the quaint town of London Ontario from which I came. Things were low-cost, efficient, and convenient. I was soon informed that this was also the case with quick visits to the local fun house where women would entertain a man for about thirty deutschmarks, about six dollars at that time. This was a perfect opportunity to learn about sex, which I had never had before. I found out that the activity was completely legal in Germany, and de-criminalized in Holland and Denmark. There weren’t many North American-style clubs where men would watch nude dancers and waste hours getting drunk: efficiency is paramount in Europe and everybody is in a hurry. The most impressive thing to me was that the ladies of the night were licensed, inspected for health violations, and were required to report their income and pay taxes in this occupation.

The Canadian government is not known for radical acceptance of change but they should follow the example of more enlightened countries when dealing with popular vices like erotic massage parlours that are not going to disappear anytime soon no matter how stringently laws are enforced against them. The first lesson came during prohibition when the U.S. and Canada found that people were going to drink alcohol or die trying. The consumption of liquor was banned for Canadians at one point, but Canadian alcohol products were legal for export, a moral hypocrisy that fed more money to criminal organizations in America.

The same situation exists in the oldest trade in the world, prostitution. Without regulation, it is another cash-rich industry left to be run by whoever happens to take control. The streets are rife with danger for sex-trade workers and they need security; very often they are exploited and there is a movement afoot to legitimize the activity as a human right in order to give more power to the women (or men) involved. The bawdy house laws offer no protection on issues of health and safety and so three former and current sex-trade workers have brought forward an action to have those laws declared unconstitutional. Sections of the Criminal Code that deal with living off the avails of prostitution, keeping a bawdy house, and communicating for the purpose of prostitution have been challenged by the women’s lawyer Alan Young.

To counter this 2009 action, three anti-prostitution groups are seeking to intervene: the Christian Legal Fellowship, Real Women of Canada, and the Catholic Civil Rights League. These religious groups are not content living a sin-free life as laid out in the Bible but must impose their moral position on everyone with a close-minded ignorance of the inner workings of biker gangs looking for sources of revenue and victimizing those who can’t go to the police for fear of retaliation. Pimping is something that exploits women who have found themselves with only one way to exist and others that need short-term relief coming from situations of extreme poverty and trying to get established in society the only way they know how.

The dominance of financially ruthless white collar bootleggers like Joseph Kennedy Sr. who was also a power broker on Wall Street and later a U.S. Senator saw to it that once liquor was legalized again after the repeal of prohibition, no other intoxicating substance could become legal. This applied especially to marijuana. Propaganda linked cannabis to insanity and criminal behavior, with movies like “Reefer Madness” proclaiming that once a person smoked it, he would become an instant maniac and rapist. This effectively caused a serious stigma on the product, with serious fines and jail sentences being handed out for the smallest quantity. The competition was thus eliminated from encroaching on the territory of the liquor corporations. The selling of marijuana wasn’t stopped; it was taken over by the criminal element who then found that more addictive drugs like cocaine and heroin had a higher profit margin and fewer packaging problems.

If there were some organized efforts to help human beings get themselves together, the problem of government debt could be solved by legalizing prostitution and collecting taxes. Not only would it be a large source of government income but it would also eliminate the costs of law enforcement, court prosecution, and imprisonment costs. The government currently lives off a cash cow in the form of cigarettes – the most addictive and available deadly drug that is for some reason still allowed to be sold although tobacco causes thousands of deaths. Alcohol is misery for those who can’t control their drinking. It’s time for victimless torts like erotic massage and escort services to become accepted into the mainstream of economic life.

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Nidal Hasan needs to be thoroughly investigated and prosecuted for this despicable crime at Fort Hood but it is important not to use him as yet another excuse for the incredible incompetence of the mental health industry. The most important information from the Generals and mental health professionals about the Fort Hood shooting will not be revealed until the media asks better questions and demands hard evidence in regard to these questions. Four important questions were completely missed.

1) What in your opinion causes some to suffer PTSD and why are others not affected. In other words what in your opinion brings about a human emotion and behavior? (One cannot fix it if one does not know how it works and one does not know how it works if one cannot clearly answer this question)

2) What do you measure when treating PTSD and is this measurement used to measure possible transference issues with psychiatrists, psychologists and counselors? (If ones emotional state is not measured and monitored there is no baseline by which to accurately assess patients or doctors)

3) Is there hard data you can show us that indicates what you are doing is working in regard to PTSD?

4) Can you give us an overview of the process of screening and treatment for all mental health issues?

While everyone gives their best guess as to what happened at Fort Hood no one is asking these four simple questions in regard to the core issues of mental health in the military. General Casey states there is a “Comprehensive Soldier Fitness” program and a program for “Master Resilience Trainers” with 122 million dollars spent on the program but no one is asking in essence “Where’s the Beef?” In other words, where is the science that indicates they are actually producing results?

Transference is a well known term in mental health. It is used to describe what happens to psychiatrists and psychologists who begin to take on the issues of their clients. This is one of the many reasons it is important to move away from talk therapy and to begin to use a program process that resolves the core issue of how each person processes information. This can be done by teaching the client how to restructure the subconscious processes causing the trauma. This ultimately puts them in control of their emotional state and behavior.

Early 2009 when the only evidence-based program process in mental health was submitted to fix the PTSD and suicide issue in the Army it was withdrawn from scientific review. When asked why it was withdrawn NIMH stated in regard to suicide and depression “It is not what we would call a strong risk factor.” The answer to this question is indicative of how broken the mental health industry is. If the mental health industry is not required to ever produce any real evidence they will simply stay mired down in hypothetical, observational, subjective treatments without anyone held accountable for the disastrous results.

General Loree Sutton who is the Director of the Defense Center of Excellence takes the same approach at every interview. There is nothing substantive ever offered in regard to any hard evidence that what they are doing is working. The reason for this in large part is no one requires hard science from the mental health community. When DCoE was presented with the only proven process for the primary symptom of PTSD it was rejected because there was not any data specific to the military demographic. It did not matter it was the only program process with any data at all.

Kelly Burris, PhD is the author of nine books on human behavior & the developer of Subconscious Restructuring. SR is the only evidence-based program process in coaching & mental health. Dr. Burris offers <a rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank” href=” http://www.SRLifeCoach.com/counseling “>counseling & a Life Coach Certification based on this process.Article Source:http://www.articlesbase.com/politics-articles/was-fort-hood-shooting-about-jihad-or-indicative-of-how-broken-our-mental-health-system-is-1655089.html