Minister shows restraint

Recently there’s been a lot of concern about the use of force in psychiatric wards here in Denmark. Many stories of patients being restrained to their beds for weeks on end have rolled over the headlines, and the Council of Europe have expressed concern that there seems to be an overuse of patient restraints in [...]

No Thanks, America

I’m all for receiving exports from you in terms of science, inventions, good books, music and actors. That’s cool. But there’s one thing I would’ve appreciated you’d have kept for yourselves:
40 Days For Life
This despicable anti-abortion propaganda group has now begun their first serious campaign. On the road leading to Holbæk hospital they have placed [...]

Self-defense, murderous rage, same difference

On Sunday night the news broke that a 13 year old girl had died after having a fight with her father. Not long after the media started speculating that she must have been mentally ill. Surprise! An article in English has this to tell:
Odense man charged with murder says he was only trying to knock [...]

Police humiliates trans woman

I wish I could be surprised. I really do. But I’m not.
I haven’t been able to find this piece of news in the English news sources from Denmark, so you’ll just have to make do with a link to a Danish news source and my post here.
A trans woman was arrested, the news story doesn’t [...]

Freedom of Speech no longer

In Ireland legislation to ban blasphemy has been passed. This is a huge step backwards for the Catholic nation in the Atlantic. The law not only makes blasphemy illegal and punishable by a considerable fine, it also grants the police the right to enter and ransack premises, where blasphemous material is suspected to be kept, [...]

Rape wasn’t really rape, but was rape, anyway

From the Copenhagen Post:
A Jutland couple who made money from allowing men to have sex with two foreign teens living with them had their sentence extended
The Western High Court in Århus today upheld the guilty sentence of a man and woman sentenced to prison for keeping two teenage Slovakian girls in their house as sex [...]

One wonders…

…what’s the matter with our justice system when two young men get 1½ year in jail each for a shooting in the streets, where no one was hurt (thankfully), and two parents get one year each for having abused their daughter consistently over the course of four years with beatings, broken bones, hard labour and [...]

Psychiatry and power

As I’ve previously shared on here, I’ve been in touch with the public health care system for over a year now. I’ve been diagnosed with depression – and no one ever thought to find out if possibly there might be something more that might have caused the depression. Not until I found out myself, at [...]

They got him in the end…

George Tiller, a doctor running a clinic handling abortions and especially what he’s become famous (and sometimes reviled) for: late-term abortions, has been shot. He’s been shot before, but has continued his work, but yesterday they got him. They shot him, and shot him dead this time. I’m a day late, I know this, I [...]

Islamophobia in the name of Freedom

There’s a Danish group called Women for Freedom. Sounds like a good thing, but alas, they are as bigoted as they are active. Their chairwoman wrote (and I’ll translate from the Danish):
I have previously written about a hotel where one of the cleaning assistants were scarf-imprisoned.
Yes, that is what she calls it: Scarf-imprisoned. Because in [...]