We are the Brain Police

I read with growing horror that the Health Secretary believes that the proposed new mental health legislation has the right balance between safeguarding the public and safeguarding patients rights. This is rather scary as it has considerable opposition from groups of mental health service users, civil rights groups, mental health charities, the Royal College of Nursing and the psychiatrists - groups which do not normally agree, and it's already been flung out by the House of Lords. The fact that so many believe that it is fatally flawed should surely suggest to the minister that there may just be the tiniest reason to reconsider the legislation.
My main objection to it is that it allows for the compulsory detention of people because of how they think - which strikes me is one of the tools of oppression used by totalitarian regimes, especially when you consider that mental illness is a socially constructed phenomena and the criteria for diagnosis are set by the so-called "sane" majority - now just think what would happen if the lunatics had taken over the asylum and are defining what is normal...Oh hold on a minute that's what's happening right now isn't it?