https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217540135

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Nils Bejerot was an asshole on many fronts, one of worst of the influential Swedes.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217540135#post24

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Bejerot

Nils Johan Artur Bejerot (September 21, 1921 – November 29, 1988) was a Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist best known for his work on drug abuse and for coining the phrase Stockholm syndrome. Bejerot was one of the top drug abuse researchers in Sweden. His view that drug abuse was a criminal matter and that drug use should have severe penalties was highly influential in Sweden and in other countries. He believed that the cure for drug addiction was to make drugs unavailable and socially unacceptable. He also advocated the idea that drug abuse could transition from being a symptom to a disease in itself.

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Before Bejerot began to participate in the debate on drugs in 1965, it was the dominant view in Sweden that drug abuse was a private health problem and that law enforcement measures should be aimed at drug dealers. Before 1968, the maximum offence for a grave drug crime was one year in prison. Bejerot objected to this and stressed the importance of measures against the demand for drugs, against users, and their importance in the spread of addiction to new addicts. Bejerot did not accept unemployment and poor private economy as explanations for increased use of illegal drugs. He pointed out that alcohol abuse in the 1930s was comparatively limited in Sweden, despite high unemployment and economic depression.

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Berejot also strongly advocated for strict anti-drug laws. In 1965 Bejerot started to engage in the Swedish debate on drug abuse, encouraging tough action against the new and rapidly growing problem. He followed closely a rather clumsy experiment with legal prescription of heroin, amphetamine, etc. to drug addicts, studies that formed the basis for his thesis on the epidemic drug spread. Bejerot claimed that the program should increase the number of drug addicts and showed through counting of injection marks that the number of drug addicts in Stockholm continued to grow fast during the experiment. The program was stopped in 1968. From 1968 and onward, the difference between the epidemic type, the therapeutic type and the endemic type of drug abuse was a repeated issue in Bejerot's writing and lectures.

In 1969, Bejerot became one of the founders of the Association for a Drug-Free Society (RNS), which played - and still plays - an important role in shaping Swedish drug policies. RNS don't accept any of the state grants which are available. Bejerot warned of the consequences of an ‘epidemic addiction’, prompted by young, psychologically and socially unstable persons who, usually after direct personal initiation from another drug abuser, begin to use socially nonaccepted, intoxicating drugs to gain euphoria. In 1972, Bejerots' reports were used as one of the reasons for increasing the maximum penalty for grave drug offences in Sweden to 10 years in prison. In 1974 he was called to testify as one of 21 scientific experts on marijuana for a subcommittee of the United States Senate on the marijuana-hashish epidemic and its impact on United States security.

He advocated zero tolerance for illegal use and possession of drugs, including all drugs not covered by prescription, something that today is law in Sweden. In the early 1980s, he became one of the "Top 10 opinion molders" in Sweden for this. Bejerot is by UNODC and many others recognized as founder of the Swedish strategy against recreational use of drugs. His demand for zero tolerance as a drug policy was for a long time seen as extreme, but during the late 1970s opinion changed. He is without doubt the person most responsible for changing the Swedish drug policy in a restrictive direction something that made him a controversial person, both before and after his death. Many people considered Bejerot as a good humanist advocating a viable policy against narcotics and Robert DuPont considers him "the hero of the Swedish drug abuse story." Others view this as a reactionary hindering of new treatment practices against drug abuse.

I first heard the term regarding Patty Hearst and the Symbian Liberation Army.
I also heard a much different account of the bank robbery that the one that
Nevilledog posted. Appreciate being set straight.
Also, I'll delete my earlier reply.

That stuff's really caustic.

On a good day Trump looks like a banana slug in a suit. Why are these bleached-blond dowagers (they're too old to be cougars) slobbering over him like teen girls at a hot boy band concert? Do they squeal when he enters a room? Do they throw their parachute-sized panties at him? Secret Service would stop them from trying to grab bits of his clothing or hair, but it sure looks like they'd do it if they could, and then carry the item around in a locket or paste it in a scrapbook with a pink heart drawn around it.

I don't get it. At all.

The Alpha Kappa Bappa girls from Ole Misituckabama's graduating class of 1975.

They were probably raised believing that their only hope for survival was to attract a powerful, wealthy man. They were taught to make themselves look a certain way that is deemed attractive to powerful men. They've been told that Trump is wealthy and powerful, so they're on it.

They look at independent, successful women like Kamala Harris and there's a massive cognitive disruption in their brains.

They are not like us and it's hard for me to see a way to find common ground with them.

overcomes his inner and outer ugliness.

I would like to believe that kindness, empathy and "human looking" comes first, but it doesn't apparently.

Like you, it's pretty much impossible for me to find common ground with these people.

like paid actors. It's like Trump team called an agency and asked for 20 blonds that could act adoring. Too many look alike all in one place.

and think that someone else's power if hot?

all that bleach has destroyed their brain cells?

… because he wouldn’t give any of them a second glance.

I’m not saying it’s true in any larger sense, but I’d bet that those women (if indeed they are not paid actors) have completely bought into the idea that women are de facto attracted to men with power and success, and thus, they are attracted to Trump. It also seems to apply to men and it’s apparently been true for him for 60 years, whether anyone on our side agrees or not.

Can you imagine what the King calls that lady in red behind her back?

He exudes arrogance, and cruelty: not my kinda par-fume!