I called Senator Inhofe’s office again and asked his secretary to ask Inhofe to mention impeaching Trump to Steve Russell, my congressman, if he runs into him. I told the man answering the phone, feeling grateful there was someone who was answering the phone, I was aware Russell had to file impeachment in the House first. “Would you like Steve Russell’s phone number?” he asked. “No, I already called him. Just please tell Inhofe that if he runs into him some place - to just put the thought in his head.” Now, Trump’s mental illness is also a reason to have him removed from office; yet, there seems to be some question as to whether or not it’s ethical for a psychologist in weigh in on the president’s mental condition. I’d like to remind everyone of something:
These techniques from the military’s Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape program (SERE) had been lifted from a mock-torture prison camp exercise used to inoculate U.S. prisoners against the effects of torture. Two military psychologists hired as contractors for the CIA allegedly helped form the CIA’s controversial “enhanced interrogation” program.
Psychologists “allegedly helped form the CIA’s controversial ‘enhanced interrogation’ program.” What questions would they’ve asked themselves on how to torture human beings more successfully?
“Maybe if we shock ‘em more they’ll falsely confess to ‘Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction’.”
“No, that didn’t work. Let’s try something else.”
I say that every psychologist who never lifted a finger to oppose SERE and knew about it has the ethical obligation to “break the rules” now. Trump’s mental illness is a reason to have him removed from office, and breaking the rules needs to be in expertise language. As for Inhofe, there won’t be anyone benefiting from ‘dat-dere climate change denial after Trump pushes the button, will there? Impeach.