“Now, you see all these red flags? Trouble spots. Southeastern Asia. The Caribbean. The Congo. I’ll give you one guess as to who’s responsible.” – Doctor Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
I look much better after I’ve had a cup of coffee. And after I’ve found my axe.
I know that you, gentle reader, have thoughts about guns that are probably pretty similar to mine, so I’d like to take you on a short walk through history, specifically the history of politics and psychiatry. I promise, it will make more sense than the lyrics to the Manfred Mann song Blinded by the Light. What the hell is a go-cart Mozart, and why is he checking out the weather chart, anyway?
(Related: Civil War Weather Reports – Civil War II Weather Report: Spicy Time Coming, Civil War Weather Report #2, Censorship, Stalin, and a Bunch of Links, and Civil War Weather Report #3: Violence, China, and Lots of Links)
The history of psychiatry is tied directly to the political.
I have seen a person suffering from schizophrenia to such a degree that they were sure that MTV® video stars were stealing songs directly from their brain and that they were also a surgeon who regularly performed operations on world leaders and stored their organs in the freezer for safe keeping.
If no one has ever told you that there are human organs belonging to world leaders in their fridge in a completely matter-of-fact “would you like a glass of water” voice, well, all I can tell you is that my first thought was one of complete disbelief that I had heard them right. Yes, I asked for them to repeat that statement. Twice.
I walked over and checked their freezer. Thankfully the only things in it were some frozen pizzas and ancient ice cubes. I assure you I was talking to their shrink that afternoon and they were involuntarily committed by 5PM. They were helped, and after being put on some appropriately industrial levels of anti-psychotic medication, did okay enough to be released back into the wild. As long as they stayed on their meds.
I know that there are actually crazy people that really need help.
But I also know this: psychiatry is still the most politically abused medical profession.
Okay, if Depp isn’t crazy, why does he keep starring in movies like this?
Examples of political abuse of psychiatry? There are many. When I mentioned this topic to The Mrs., she immediately said, “the Soviet Union.” And that’s the example I thought of first, too. The Soviets systematically used diagnosis of psychological disorders such as “philosophical intoxication” and “sluggish schizophrenia” to put people who didn’t like Marxism into mental institutions. And, no, those diagnoses aren’t lame jokes – those were really Soviet-era diagnoses.
How many were caught up in the psychological gulags?
We really don’t know since those records are still secret, but in 1978 at least 4.5 million Soviet citizens were listed as having mental health problems. In 1988, perhaps thinking that they might face their own version of Soviet Nuremburg Trials for Crimes Against Humanity, Soviet leaders had over 800,000 thousand patients removed from the list of the mentally ill. Paperwork error, surely?
Okay, with all those red flags, how did they not see the collapse of communism coming?
Did the Soviets condemn thousands with false diagnosis? Nearly certainly. Hundreds of thousands? Very likely.
Millions?
Probably. Think of it, millions of people falsely diagnosed with a mental illness due to political beliefs and sent to asylums and work camps. Certainly some were executed.
The Soviets allowed ownership of smoothbore weapons for hunting. Except when they didn’t. Which was most of the time. Oh, and the definition of sweet summer child is: a person who doesn’t know the hardships of winter, often used when someone has no experience with a particular (stressful) thing, which may describe a generation that rhymes with perennial.
Okay, it was just the Soviet Union, right?
No. Cuba did the same thing. There is evidence that China is still doing it, and likely on scale similar to that of the Soviet Union. Thankfully the World Psychiatric Association took the lead in investigations. Oh, they didn’t? The World Psychiatric Association pretty much ignored it and said that people associated with Falun Gong are nuts and that putting them in asylums run by the state security apparatus (not the medical directorate) was perfectly normal?
One flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo’s nest . . . and if you haven’t see the movie, you should, it’s a lighthearted comedy and perfect for a first date.
Okay, that’s just China. Thankfully this would never happen in the United States.
Oh, it did?
Sure. In the 1920’s dissidents (like one who protested the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti) were put into asylums. In the 1960’s members of the American Psychological Association smeared presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in the press by diagnosing him. But that wasn’t political, right?
Thankfully it isn’t happening now.
Oh, in 2012 a whistleblower with the NYPD was railroaded on mental health? Ouch. But New York is corrupt.
It would never happen based on political motives, right?
Dinesh D’Souza, author and filmmaker on the Right was convicted of a crime based on giving too much money to a political campaign. He admitted he was wrong. The Federal Judge involved in the case sentenced D’Souza not only to prison, he sentenced D’Souza to years of mental health counselling despite a licensed psychologist saying that D’Souza was just fine mentally.
So, yes. Psychiatry is a political weapon. It’s not like the Left has sentenced political opponents to chemotherapy, but I hear that they’re working on it.
Yes, this is a common sense way to use psychiatry!
This corrupt branch of medicine is the background of the Red Flag Laws.
The idea is that we’ll create laws to remove rights from people without due process, with the presumption that individuals should lose a right guaranteed by the Constitution®. A single accuser, with no evidence can result in gun confiscation to a law-abiding citizen. Sadly this already happens – people with contested domestic restraining orders (a standard tactic in divorces nowadays) lose their rights, although I’ve heard of people fighting these orders and winning – at least there is a pretense at due process.
The claim that the ability to strip people of rights won’t be abused is laughable. In every country that’s been infected by psychiatry, it has been twisted to meet political ends. Yes, there are crazy people. I’ve seen one as I related above. And, if you did a brain scan, there is a physical basis for schizophrenia. It’s real. It is a medical condition. But remember, these are the same psychiatrists that would diagnose me as nuts if I believed I was be five years older than I really am, but are perfectly fine with children younger than the age of five claiming they are a different sex than their genetics have made them.
Po-tay-to, Po-gender reassignment surgery for children is normal-to.
Furthermore, the medical profession as a whole is maybe a bit, well, mental*. In one study it was claimed that 50% of female doctors could be diagnosed with a mental disease. I wonder again why my ex didn’t take up medicine? (*Aesop LINK excluded, unless pimp-slapping in the comments section is classified as a mental disorder.)
Oh, and psychologists have nearly the highest rates of suicide of any profession. Yes, any profession, including the people who make balloon animals in Mauschwitz Disneyland® for chubby children with hands sticky from chocolate ice cream. Perfectly stable. And this is also the same profession whose international governing body (WPA) was just fine with political repression in the name of psychiatry.
Besides being oppressive, the Red Flag laws would not have helped in latest shootings – these people lawfully and legally got their rifles. But they will form the basis for taking away guns for . . .
- Conspiracy Theories – Believing anything other than the Official Narrative® will become a basis for exclusion of lawful firearms ownership, despite the fact that throughout history, many conspiracy theories have been proven true. Google® MKULTRA. That happened. But the FBI® is now warning that you are a danger if you don’t believe the Official Narrative©.
- Antisocial Behavior – Ever not want to hang around people? You’re antisocial, and that’s dangerous, citizen. No AR for you!
- Websites Visited – Going to unapproved sites? Thinking unapproved thoughts? Glockblock™!
- Comments Made When You Were 16 – Wow, did you really say that maybe the Crusades weren’t all bad? No pew-pew for you, hater.
- Not Believing in the Easter Bunny Socialism – Well, I think I covered that above.
The irony is this will have the impact of keeping people away from mental health professionals. This will keep people from seeking help when they’re a little depressed, because the consequences of having a “health record” might prevent them from future opportunity – the only safe way to live life would be to stay away from health professionals – and not answer certain questions your M.D. might have for you with a polite BFYTW when asked why you’re not answering. Oh, but that probably puts you on the antisocial list.
Texas may or may not be your cup of tea, but they certainly got some things right once upon a time.
Psychiatry is on pretty iffy ground in many cases already. As an experiment, a group of doctors sent people to a psychiatrist with one symptom – they heard a voice. No other symptom. They were perfectly normal, mentally healthy people. In one case, the person was committed to a mental health facility (as I recall) for several weeks with zero symptoms. I tried to look it up, but, surprise, most Google® searches right now link commitment to . . . violence. Even that’s not a comfortable thought.
Soviet mental health nurse. Not shown: tenth guard, who is now an inmate.
The single scariest thing to me is watching a human mind erode – what was once a rational human disappears. It’s what makes (to me) zombies scary. They look like humans. They used to be a normal human. But that rational human being is now gone, replaced by someone who has no real tie to reality while the external form remains.
I realize that there is a time and a place for psychiatric care.
But psychiatrists are already owned by the Left. The Left sees you as crazy already. The Left views your dissent from their agenda as a mental disorder, one punishable by death, if need be.
I’ll leave the last word to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who is really pictured above while in the gulag: “I’ll take Solzhenitsyn on Gun Control for $1000, Alex. Oh, look – the Daily Double®!”
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: what would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? [They] would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If . . . if . . . we didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation . . . . We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
Psych camps are the best case scenario. At least you get to live.
Here’s what’s being promoted on the silver screen…
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/the-hunt-movie-features-liberal-elites-hunting-deplorables/
And in real life….
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2019/08/06/protester-outside-mitch-mcconnells-home-says-stab-the-motherfcker-in-the-heart-n2551245
Ricky,have you watched the whole trailer(I have and will watch flick for free later on net),really for most part shows the so called “Deplorables”handing the elites their ass!I get the folks behind this film may be Progs ect. but the trailer itself at least shows the powers that want to be literally being wiped out,thus,will withhold judgement till see it for free.
That movie is a scary one – it’s a step closer to Bad Times.
…wouldn’t call that living. Death before dishonor and the camps. If we all take out at least one of those who come to get guns then we can’t lose. We outnumber them.
Hence the closer quote.
Alea iacta est. I know, it’s a tired and worn cliché. But we have reached the tipping point and will pass it before the end of 2019. Preps and training are all that matters now. Talking and debating are a waste of precious time. And, once the “Red Flag Laws” are in place, a simple remark in the grocery line will get you a visit from the overweight Ninjas who will shoot your dogs, shoot you, and kill or incarcerate the rest of your tribe. Deal with this reality.
Yup. But I’d imagine all of the initial takings would be . . . “common sense”
” Once the red flag laws pass” anyone with a working brain had best be in the hills killing bad guys.
Or, avoiding crowds. Remus is always right.
How to beat the red flag laws:
https://ncc-1776.org/tle2019/tle1022-20190526-05.html
Paul, that is a well written article, yet if you live in the northeast…your gun purchases are held in a gun registry and any gun that you do not have that is on your list will get you into trouble as well. States like CT, MA, NY and RI will most likely show up with a list of your guns.. those that are not accountable/sold will raise a flag those that are not on the registry but in your possession may cause even more problems…how are state gun registries legal? Don’t know.. How can Due Process be eliminated? Liberals with an agenda…and complicit courts and media
Thanks for the link! Been a long time since I’ve been over to that site.
It is critical for the American people to understand our constitutional republic. Our government are the documents – the US Constitution, each state’s Constitution. The people who SERVE WITHIN them are not the government, they are paid (usually) servants of the people who decided to work within our governments at some level. They are required to take an Oath and to follow, carry out, and enforce those written documents as their duties while SERVING as a representative of the people.
The duties are split up between three separate branches within two different governments – state and federal, each having the separate branches with divided put-into-writing duties, plus named offices within a branch also with specific put-into-writing duties. The branches are the legislative, executive, and judicial and the duties of each are written down for ALL to know who is willing to read those contracts.
Dr. Edwin Vieira: “This has nothing to do with personalities or subjective ideas. It’s a matter of what the Constitution provides… The government of the United States has never violated anyone’s constitutional rights… The government of the United States will never violate anyone constitutional rights, because it cannot violate anyone’s constitutional rights. The reason for that is: The government of the United States is that set of actions by public officials that are consistent with the Constitution. Outside of its constitutional powers, the government of the United States has no legitimacy. It has no authority; and, it really even has no existence. It is what lawyers call a legal fiction.”
Given that “mental health” types are already the most unstable people in our society and even talking to one opens you up to having your firearms seized, you would have to be crazy to see a psychiatrist (what I did there, did you see it?). This whole thing is making me rethink the wisdom on eschewing anonymity on the interwebz.
Nah. The Powers That Be already know. I just don’t think we’re all that interesting to them, otherwise we would have been shut down long ago.
I used to be “James,” but I see there’s another one. I’ll slide over a bit to avoid confusion.
Apropos of nothing much: “Blinded By the Light” is, IMHO, an authentic stinker of a song. But the next line in its awful lyric explains why Go-Kart Mozart was checkin’ out the weather chart. It was to see if it was safe outside. Which, in the undemanding context of these lyrics, is relatively sensible. What I could never understand (or maybe just hear) is what happened to the narrator, subsequent to his being blinded by the light. “Repped up like a douchin’ of the runner in the night?” Now, that little gem makes the checking-out of a weather chart seem transparently obvious. If I let it, that would drive me crazy. So I won’t, because, as you point out, the psychiatric gulag awaits.
It’s in C. S. Lewis somewhere: punishment is legitimate, rehabilitation is not. Commit a crime, get sentenced to such-and-such fixed punishment which, ideally, is in proportion to your offense, and when it’s over, it’s over. Rehabilitation? It ain’t over until the Official Straighteners say it is. It has no limit. And that’s doubleplus ungood.
“The Son of Thunder” is awesome!!
But here’s what I found out . . . it’s “revved up like a deuce” which apparently references a 1932 Ford (the 2 in 32 is deuce, as in “Little Deuce Coupe”). Oddly, I found that out this year.
Nice call on C.S. Lewis. Good thought.
In 1981, while in medical school, I did my psychiatric rotation (4 weeks, at the mental hospital in Traverse City, Michigan. It is a 5000 bed facility, but in 1981, only 800 beds / patients were in the facility. During the night, a few of us medical students would wander the underground tunnels that went from building to building, and spent time in their medical records library, as the facility had been opened since the early 1800s. So many cases of being admitted for years due to political disagreements, to husbands that wanted to get riid of their wives, and thus made up stories and on and on and on. After World War 2, by the early 1950s, jobs were plentiful, and nearly everyone had a good job. Marriages were good and many children were born to parents whom said to them selves, “I grew up during the depression, I do not want my children to live like that.” And thus, these 50s children were given a life of good times and basic luxury. College was reasonable in cost and these children went to college and majored in social work. They wanted to help the world. During the 1970s, these young social workers went to the psychiatric hospitals that were across the USA, all 5000 to 10000 bed pysh hospitals and these young grads said, “Hey these people do not have mental illness, they are being kept here because they have different beliefs. And politicians played to the choir and let over 3/4ths of them loose over a 3 year period. It was a mass murder plan. These mental health patients could not take care of themselves, they had no where to go, their families did not want them and they were let loose to sleep under bridges, railroad yards, anywhere and so many of them died from exposure, The newspapers did their part, by not reporting on this catastrophy, but it is in the history books.
Back to the second amendment, firearms are the great equalizer, a wimpy 95 pound woman with the right fire arm can take on an entire motorcycle club. The second amendment is clearly about government tyranny.
Through years, society changes. Voting for a person to get into a political office has been taken over by the two political parties and we citizens really do not get a choice. We get a selection of one of two people that the elites select and own.
The solution is to have a lottery, define the political job in terms of education, experience, whatever, and then any US Citizen that meets the criteria by paying $200 vetting fee, gets their name in the hat. The vetting will assure us citizens that the person can actually do the job. Come SELECTION DAY, a name will be pulled out of the hat. This way there will probably be hundreds of people that get vetted and have the ability to do the job, and we know that on day one they are not bought and paid for. We know that term limits will not be needed, getting selected twice is statistically very low, thus it will be an act of GOD, if a person gets selected twice. Since they are not bought and paid for, the selected person will probably stick to the real business of the USA, and not worry about raising their salary or voting in lots of perks.
Yes, people do not know about this dark history of the USA when you could report someone and the “G-men” would come and black bag them in the middle of the night and never seen again.
Those days are coming back.
The ‘red flag laws’ are the penultimate Communist Ploy to Disarm the People. While their end game is to Ban Weapons Completely, they cannot do this ‘right now’, as it would trigger the Revolution, suddenly. These ‘laws’ are to act as a cover for the Disarming of people the Omnisurveillance System ‘flags’ as Dangerous and/or potential Leadership of a Rebellion.
Being politically incorrect, I’ll point out that the (((soviet))) use of ‘psychology’ is just an extension of (((psychology))) to begin with, created by the (((same people))).
Freud was an anally-obsessed homosexual, Kinsey a pedophile. The so-called ‘profession’ of psychiatry is a creation of Mentally-Defective individuals, mostly from the same inbred (((tribe))).
Careful now, starting to notice patterns like that can get you red-flagged.
It is a slow slope, but at some point in order to ban guns, you need to actually start taking them from law abiding folks. This is that step.
ALL this gun grabbing has a silver lining,IT starts a WAR, and the worse BLOODBATH in history,ALL the hero’s of america will die in this war,especially the POLICE GANGS AND MILITARY..OUR FATHER has sent his watchmen to warn them,BUT their sure they’ll win the fight over the guns,THEIR WRONG and very soon they’ll be found DEAD WRONG…..WHEN they hear the GATES OF HELL slaming shut behind them,THEY’LL know they were on the wrong side,GOD COMMANDED ALL HIS PEOPLE TO BE ARMED 24-7,.(luke 22:36-38)..THE US constitution SAYS shall NOT be infringed,YOU CAN’T HAVE THEIR WEAPONS,with out risking being sent to HELL for taking them,AND IT DOESN’T matter WHO you think you are..THE POLICE GANGS and MILITARY were given an OATH TO GOD for a reason,.IF THEY LIED..THEIR GOING TO HELL..period..weren’t our founding fathers smart to give them an Oath..knowing they would LIE TO GOD,and he would throw them into hell for lieing to him…
Americans ARE going to lose their guns, it’s only a matter of time! Those Red Flag Laws popping up all over the country are the way they are going to get it done and through your facebook, twitter or other socialist media sites, people will simply complain about your content and they will use it as justification to go after your second Amendment rights, completely WITHOUT Due Process and no real way to get them back……YOU LOSE!
Another reason why you should NEVER EVER fall for the punks and liars that want you disarmed. Really? Would you ever listen to what a PUNK and LIAR tells you to do??
Truth is essential. Unfortunately, it seems to be in short supply some days . . .
Good article. But you forgot to mention how they tried to section 8 Trump and impeach him on the [mental] incapacitated president amendment (I think 26); or how they would drag out some quack psychoprofessional to make radio and television diagnosis about his mental condition, and declare Trump mentally unfit to continue as president with some form of psychobabbling ailment.
But you hit the nail; I saw how over 80% of pschoprofessionals voted for Hillary.
Yeah, and they brought it up . . . again this week! The media and the other political party are attempting to overthrow the president. How stable a country does that make?
If Iran is so dangerous then why doesn’t the US government encourage Americans to buy guns to protect themselves?