Judge lets Rotenberg use shock therapy

We all know that a lot of administrators in regular schools enjoy torturing students. I've known it for 40 years. But it's also true in schools, institutions, and "treatment" centers for disabled children.

You can't carry on a conversation with the sociopaths and narcissists who support this garbage - so I don't even try. Sometimes they'll try to force you to argue with them, because they like being argumentative (the same thing they accuse everyone else of being). But they can't win on a level playing field, so they wait until they have some numbers or leverage.

Judge Rotenberg Educational Center is a program for developmentally disabled children in Canton, Massachusetts. The facility has been known for years for using electric shock therapy - a form of torture. The UN even called it torture.

Last year, the FDA finally banned electric shock devices in places like Rotenberg. But the facility promptly sued, and now some Republican federal judge has ruled in Rotenberg's favor. The judge said the FDA has no power to ban this kind of torture.

So what's the purpose of the FDA?

The ruling said the FDA can't regulate medicine. Uh, yes it can. It's in the name: Food and Drug Administration! Medicine falls under "drug."

I'd like to be able to say we have a right to expect the Democrats to rein in Republican judges like this, but the Democrats today support torturing kids, so I'm not counting on it. They like closing schools so much that they should have started with Rotenberg.