2017年9月25日月曜日

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(右は上院議長、左は下院議長。トランプは、言うまでもなく、この2人をツイートでこきおろしている)


トランプのメンタル・イルネス疑念

トランプの言動が異常であるのは、だれの目にも明らかである。
彼は、気に入らないと、閣僚であろうが、だれかまわず、公の場(ツイートと会見、それに彼特有の選挙遊説的場)で、個人的に名をあげて激しい批判を続ける。これは彼が
大統領になってから経常的に続けられており、その結果、政権に一員になって辞任・解雇に追い込まれた数は記録的である。
 ただ、彼には1つのスタンスはある。外国の金づるにたいしてはきわめて好意的な姿勢をみせているのと、ネオ・ナチや白人優越主義者にたいしてきわめて肩入れをしていること、これは確かである。
 それ以外にたいしては、共和党の議員であろうとなかろうと、当たるを幸いに侮蔑の言葉を投げることを、まるで生きがいにしているようにふるまっている。
 最近、生じているのはフット・ボールの選手が国歌斉唱のさいに、起立をしないで、人種差別的発言と行動を続けるトランプへの抵抗の意思を示して膝をついたままの行動をとったことをやり玉にあげて、「こんな野郎は、即刻首にしろ!」的ツイートを発している。

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トランプの行動を見ていると、彼には国民にたいする愛情というようなものがまったく感じられないことに気づく。これほどステーツマンからかけ離れたアメリカ大統領はかつていなかったことであろう。アメリカ第1とか言ってはいるが、言葉に愛情がこもって使っている感じはまるでみられない。彼は自分以外はすべて蔑視しても当然だと言うような遺伝体質が組み込まれているような気がする。

 こうしたことは、すでに以前からアメリカでは相当に話題にのぼってきている問題である。アメリカの法では、大統領が精神的その他で大統領職を継続するに値しない場合に、副大統領の判断と下院での決議によって、罷免することができる。
 とくにこの点で興味深いのは、精神科医のグループがトランプの言動を観察して、精神的に深刻な問題があるから、彼を罷免する署名活動を行ってきている、というのがある。
下記がそれである。

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Petition Declaring Trump Mentally Ill Pushes for Signers
Mental health group gathers signatures calling Trump "psychologically incapable"

Posted Aug 07, 2017

The group "Duty to Warn," founded by influential psychotherapist Dr. John Gartner, has gathered nearly 60,000 signatures on a petition calling for the removal of Donald Trump from office due to "serious mental illness that renders him psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of President of the United States." The group hopes to reach its goal of 75,000 signatures before planned multi-city town hall meetings on October 14.
The petition takes place in the context of mental health organizations struggling to clarify their positions on the ethics of their members publicly commenting on the mental health of public officials.
Historically, the "Goldwater Rule," as it became known, refers to a rule from the American Psychiatric Association's Principles of Medical Ethics forbidding its members to comment on the mental health of public figures. Recently, the American Psychoanalytic Association issued a statement saying that its members should feel free to comment on public figures' mental health, but should refrain from offering official diagnosis. A news article misreported this statement as originating from the American Psychiatric Association (from which the Goldwater Rule originated), prompting the organization to issue a statement titled "APA Reaffirms Support for Goldwater Rule".
This in turn led to a statement from American Psychological Association President, Susan H. McDaniel, in which she wrote, "our ethical code states that psychologists should not offer a diagnosis in the media of a living public figure they have not examined."
Against this background of many organizations, all with the acronym "APA," drawing different lines for their members' ability to "comment on" and/or "diagnose" public figures, these same organizations have versions of rules allowing members to disclose confidential patient information when withholding this information would put people at risk. For example, the American Psychological Association Ethical Standard 4.05 writes that "Psychologists disclose confidential information without the consent of the individual only as mandated by law, or where permitted by law for a valid purpose such as to... protect the client/patient, psychologist, or others from harm."
This is a psychologist's duty to warn—most will have heard of this rule in the context of mandatory reporting of child abuse. Now the organization Duty to Warn applies this same logic to commenting on the mental health of Donald Trump, with its Facebook page writing that "Donald Trump is too seriously mentally ill to competently discharge his duties as president and must be removed according to the 25th Amendment." The group and its petition have reached the public ear in such spaces as the Daily Kos, USA Today, New York Magazine, Salon.com, and many more.
Now the group is making a push for signatures before multi-city town hall events, scheduled for October 14, 2017 in Atlanta, Chapel Hill, Charlotte, Chattanooga, Chicago, D.C., Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, and San Francisco (with additional cities possibly added).
The petition in its succinct entirety reads as follows:
We, the undersigned mental health professionals (please state your degree), believe in our professional judgment that Donald Trump manifests a serious mental illness that renders him psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of President of the United States. And we respectfully request he be removed from office, according to article 4 of the 25th amendment to the Constitution, which states that the president will be replaced if he is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.
Editor's Note: The original headline of this article, "60,000 Psychologists Say Trump Has 'Serious Mental Illness,'" has been updated.
実際グーグルでTrump is mentally ill and must be removed などで検索すると
360万件と出てくる。

次のサイトでは、この問題をめぐってパーソナリティによる
激しい発言が飛び出している。「ヤング・トルコ」という番組である。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3uhxLostrQ

Republicans Discuss Removing Trump For Mental Illness

The Young Turks
2017/08/21 に公開

Should Trump be removed from office for mental illness? Take our poll at: http://tytnetwork.com/25th Is this the right way to get Trump out of the White House? Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. http://www.tytnetwork.com/join "President Donald Trump‘s controversial decisions in the wake of the Charlottesville attack have led to renewed questions of POTUS’s mental fitness, and whether the 25th Amendment could be used to remove him from office. This certainly is not the first time that this subject has come up. Trump’s lawyers complained in a court filing last month that a lawsuit against the President was only intended to get “embarrassing” dirt on Trump, including mental health information. But is much digging necessary? The 25th Amendment allows for the removal of a President if the Vice President and a sufficient number of other officials declare in a written statement that he is unable to carry out his duties. Sure, some of the reasons people have given for why Trump is unfit have been overblown, to be sure, but the sheer volume of them is hard to ignore. If Mike Pence ever felt the need to push for Trump’s removal, here are some of the examples he could give to support the decision. Trump’s behavior has certainly been unorthodox, but are any of these truly reasons to declare him unfit? You decide.”* Read more here: https://lawnewz.com/opinion/the-full-... Hosts: Cenk Uygur Cast: Cenk Uygur