PSYCHIATRY AS A WEAPON OF
TYRANNY
By Michael Connelly
MichaelConnelly.Jigsy.com
I have
written extensively about the horrendous and ongoing
efforts by the Veterans Administration to disarm
American military veterans by declaring them
incompetent to handle their financial affairs due to
physical or mental disabilities. Once declared
incompetent the veterans are arbitrarily stripped of
their Second Amendment right to purchase, own, or
possess a firearm.
This is all being done
by broadening the definition of mental illness to
the point of absurdity. Often with the VA there is
no psychiatrist or psychologist involved in the
determination of incompetence. Instead, some
untrained bureaucrat reviews the file of the veteran
and if they find any mention of PTSD or the use of
the word depression they seize on that and make the
declaration of incompetence. There is no legal
adjudication process involved in this; the veterans
have no right to due process as required by the
Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. It is tyranny
in its purest form.
Unfortunately, what the
VA is doing is not new. The use of phony psychiatry
has been a weapon of tyranny for decades. In
dictatorships like Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union,
Cuba, and China people who opposed the regime would
be declared mentally ill and placed in psychiatric
hospitals or internment camps. That way no charges
had to be filed and no evidence offered that an
individual had committed a crime.
For the Nazis it was
initially a perfect way to deal with the Jews and
other groups that they considered sub human. If you
were Jewish you had to mentally defective and
therefor you could be put in a hospital and
experimented on. It was the beginning of the
holocaust. In the Soviet Union anyone who was not a
devout supporter of Communism was held in an
institution and then often sent on to the Gulag
where they could be worked and starved to death.
We have certainly not
reached that point in the United States, but we have
reached the point where the basic premise is the
same. The VA is using declarations of mental illness
to disarm veterans and there have been reports of
states like California doing the same. If it
happening to veterans now how long will it be before
it starts happening to other American citizens?
Consider this; soon
those stalwarts of integrity who run the IRS will
have access to the medical records of every
American. They will be able to review them to see if
you have ever told a doctor that you were depressed,
ever suffered from PTSD after the loss of a loved
one or from being in an accident, or even suffered
from some minor memory loss. Based on the criteria
being used by the VA the IRS could declare you
mentally defective and put you on the list of people
that can’t legally purchase or own firearms.
You also have to
consider the fact that one of the 23 so called
executive actions on gun control Obama recently
signed called for doctors to ask their patients if
they owned a firearm. This is not just directed at
psychiatrists, but at all physicians including
pediatricians. In other words, if your child
confesses that Mommy and Daddy have a gun in the
house that could conceivably be considered the
actions of mentally defective individuals and you
could be disarmed. Once we are disarmed we cease to
be citizens and become subjects.
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