Another Diario Libre editor, Anibal de Castro, publishes today in his Page-2 editorial the following story, simply called ?Craziness.? Quoting the words of Chloe from the film Gothica, de Castro says, ?The more you try to convince them you are not crazy, the more they will believe you are.? De Castro says that political terrorism has reached the ground level. The psychiatric hospital was just relieved of its farm used for patient therapy. No matter how many explanations and excuses are given, the decision seems crazy. De Castro wants the Agrarian Reform Institute to be taken to the psychiatrist, since it appears that there are more nuts there than in the asylum. They decided to take over the 150 tareas (about 25 acres) and give them to a group of PPH members! De Castro quips, ?Not even the mentally infirm escape these electoral aberrations that even revive the Agrarian Reform, and some of the directors? insipid, clumsy and much-too-long speeches. A worthy imitation of the speech of a lunatic (la oratoria de un orate). There will be no redemption by means of work. There will be no cease-fire for the psychosis, the paranoia or the schizophrenia. The mentally ill, at least those located at the Kilometer 28 facility, don?t vote. Society has kicked them out, not the Agrarian Institute. Occupational therapy will have to wait for prudence to become the rule and not the exception in public policy decisions.?
De Castro finishes this piece with a nod to Edgar Allen Poe: ?When the crazy person seems most sane is the time to place him in a straight jacket.?