Guest Post by John Wilder
“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.”
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I know there are others, but here is one they’ll tag with … “Oppositional Defiant Disorder”
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I thought I was just a bit odd…
Thought crime – they are making it a crime to think thoughts that they disagree with. First, hate speech is a crime. Now hate thought. With no actual crime committed they will strip you of your Constitutional rights.
This will end poorly.
You have been warned.
This is real …
I once had a supervisor; called me in for a ‘disciplinary’ meeting. Literally the first words out of his mouth were “no one is trying to tell you what you can think.” I responded that the 1st Amendment didn’t say anything about thinking, but it did protect my Speech and unless he could demonstrate that I was threatening or proposing violence there was no issue. He said that “people were afraid of you.” LOL. I said, ‘that is their problem, I can’t control what people think and caon’t be accountable for it … I’ve threatened no one and if I have, then bring the action.’
Good Little Nazi and there are hundreds of thousands/millions of them.
While using the Soviet techniques, this is also the equivalent of a Chinese style social credit scoring system for gun owners.
One more time. They have just given you fair warning, if you are listening. If you sit back, fat, dumb and happy now, and do nothing, I will say I told you so when you get covered in shit.
Because the shit has hit the fan, boys and girls.
Some of us have our slickers and galoshes on and snapped.
Others? Waiting for the hero to ride in on his white horse.
The horse, of course, is Trojan.
Ed,slickers and galoshes great,but,have you finished your ark?!
a Trojan with no reservoir tip and pre-lubed, multipack, no doubt.
(Funny name there, E.D.)
Beginning to look more and more like Australia, huh Mate!
Not even close. Way better here, and I kid you not.
I’ll try an visit someday.
The hysteria meter is breaking the needle, supposedly over racism and “gun violence” which they don’t care about most of the time and especially if it is “only” minorities.
I saw Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com interviewed this morning on FBN. He was there to talk about cryptocurrency but some how got sidetracked into his involvement with a Russian spy, that Butarina, Bukarina(?) woman. Anyway, he says he got caught up in the middle of the whole Russia spy deal, was an FBI informant AGAINST Comey, McCabe etc in an investigation carried out by FBI people under Comey without his knowledge. He says Barr is about to arrest Comey, Clapper etc and it will be a shit storm and the biggest scandal in US history.
He further stated while we have only heard about spying on Trump, they were also spying on Hillary, Rubio and Cruz. He said the Deep State is in Deep Shit. As always, we hurry up and wait.
“He says Barr is about to arrest Comey, Clapper etc ”
Always pie in the sky tomorrow, but never pie today…
Agree. Know them by their words . . .
What exactly is the point?
Genuine whistleblowers don’t get book deals and a decade of airtime.
They get dead.
Daniel Ellsberg was the original fake limited-hangout whistleblower (discredited Pentagon Papers) and Snowden is the modern day fake limited-hangout whistleblower (an obvious limited-hangout).
Bonus: Chelsea Manning was a fake to discredit further discredit the U.S. military.
BTW what do government agent provocateurs get?
Funding $$$ and the inside scoop!
Epstein’s leftovers?
It will take a shitload of attorneys and eventually firepower economics will take over.
Whoever installs Chancellor Warren and Commander-in-kneepads Harris would be pleased to MAEA.
Make America Europe Again
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The Trumpster will shepherd this coffin nail through congress into ‘law’. He knows he has enough assholes bamboozled-including plenty here at TBP-to get away with it (but at least he isn’t hillary). BTW isn’t it crazy to say “I could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue and not lose voters”?
I spent my life in the medical field and without a doubt the psychologists and psychiatrists were the odd bunch. I had this realization that they got into these fields to diagnose themselves.
Poppy Bush coined the voodoo economics term. Voodoo science is applicable to psychology .
And they really don’t like intelligent people that see through their bullshit and ask the simple questions that those quacks can’t possibly answer without proving how full of shit they are.
You’re exactly right! Every single one is trying to figure out themselves. So then they end up trying to “help” the rest of us.
Every majorly fucked up person I met in college was majoring in psychology because they wanted to understand themselves better.
I guess many will start believing in evil when they come knocking on their door in the middle of the night all dressed up like a Nazi death squad and ask for guns you have owned all your life without any problems.
And like smart jews, they will be handed one, so they can say they complied, since the others of record were sold lost or destroyed….
Bush said years ago, “The constitution is just a god damn piece of paper”. The Clinton administration before him aggreed. The Obama administration was a continuation of the Bush administration, the Trump administration is a continuation of the Obama administration. All are really communists. They are all un-American AmeriKans. The Sovietization of AmeriKa is just about complete.
It’s called an AGENDA. Vote all you want. You can not overcome an agenda by voting. Something else must be done.
When communication became a commodity tied to advertising, the distribution and control of that information became an industry tied to profit. Since “educating and informing” lost the race to “entertain and distract” the fleecing of the flock became much easier.
The flock will stampede to the camps for safety and for feeding purposes. The research into HOW to set the agenda began with Bernays, was refined by followers of Freud and was successfully entrenched in academia post WWII.
The invention of the mass communication and mass media conglomerate didn’t make communication better; it made it convenient and easily distributed.
Like anything that floods the market with worthless imitation, TRUE communication becomes priceless. Like Gold.
TBP used to provide that sort of information.
An enormous amount of money from many “media” corporations has made sure that agenda setting is a fine science and the mass public are the voluntary lab rats.
The AGENDA only exists here in the conspiracy of the information highway. In the real world, here in 3D world where the air is still clear, there is me, my neighbor and my Creator, whose plan dictates my will.
True. And Bernays mentor was non other than Joseph Geobells, the propaganda minister in Nazi Germany.
True. And, Monsanto and Bayer Aspirin Company both track back to the same company that made the gas.
And, now…they make our food and medicine.
Where is UYB?
And, when, by the way, is Olivander gonna reappear?
Other way around. Goebbels was an admirer of Bernays’ work and had his book about propaganda as a permanent fixture on his desk, supposedly. Bernays was Freud’s nephew, a Prog and likely a Fabian Socialist. One of the many Progs and Fabians who took over the profoundly stupid, racist academic T Woodrow Wilson and guided the shit show which gave us the 16th and 17th amendments, the Federal Reserve, segregation of the military and Civil Service and WW1.
Bernays and Progs in general have been responsible for wars and genocides for over 100 years now and have a firm grip on the Democrat Party and the seething evil oozing out all around it.
What else did Freud and Friends have in common?
“However it is true that Jews have been instrumental in the development of psychology and psychiatry. Probably the most famous psychologist in history and the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, was Jewish, as were many of his early associates in the field, including Erich Fromm, Alfred Adler and Bruno Bettelheim. Most of the major theorists of Gestalt psychology were Jewish…..”
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Huh.
I wonder if they had any common connections with the Bolsheviks?
— https://radicalcapitalist.org/2018/05/15/the-jewish-origins-of-communism/
Weird coincidence, right?
Blinded by the Light: Springsteen trying to re-do Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues.
The news showed that Missouri wall mart guy being arrested and said he claimed he was testing the second amendment. I wonder if he is still sitting in jail?
which missouri walmart guy… there’s a pack I hear…
Asking in all seriousness: if parents believe that their 24 year old son is profoundly mentally ill (with psychosis), is known to have one or more guns and has been exhibiting threatening or stalking behavior, what can/should be done – under current law or under any proposed legal structure that would comport with the constitution?
I believe YOU ARE profoundly mentally ill and should not have children. You are abusive.
LOL. I gave you a thumbs up for that.
Red Flag Laws, thought crimes are the point of no return. Llpoh is very seldom wrong when he makes conclusions about the facts of life. He is scaring the hell out of me.
you mean………..
FALSE FLAG LAWS
We used to buy firearms in the mail until Hollywood made their most famous pitch against mail order rifles.
The Bolshevist don’t care how many times they get caught.
They want you dead.
Hard to do when you own.
Play gun-bingo at home with MSNBC or CNN cranked up:
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The Constitution means what the Supremes say it means. Do you trust those people?
They galx
Hey phone is causing me problems
Jews
High Fructose Corn Syrup
Last time had a hey phone a goat ate it.
Shrinks are the most laughable folks on the planet . They’ll tell someone that yes you are a woman trapped in a man’s body. Let’s get you some hormones,fake tits and cut your dick off an viola…..you’re a woman..kinda’ sorta’ . Never mind that your suicide rate is huge.
When you ask a shrink why would you say that a person is actually the opposite gender when it is nothing of the sort . Would you take a patient that truly believes he is Napoleon and try to do everything possible for him to be that historical figure ?
Once the “Red Flag Laws ” begin in earnest and the shootings become common place the fun will begin . Let’s hope the cops come for someone with two mini-guns .
Yet, when a parent declares their child trans at age 3 is deemed ‘normal ‘ . If you question it , you are declared “ mentally unfit “ to be a parent.
“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.”
If you can ever find a cite, I would love to read about this. It’s not really well explained when you say that a patient with one symptom was committed with zero symptoms.
Will do. I did some looking for about 10 minutes and couldn’t find it, and, gotta publish! Send me an email and I’ll keep looking. It was pretty scary. And I’ll fix my logic error.
Red Flag laws:
Step one – remove guns from anyone that’s crazy.
Step two – anyone that wants a gun or owns a gun is crazy.
Step three – see step one.
FBI statistics factually state more deaths occurred by blunt objects like golf clubs than “assault rifles” in 2017. Over 1,000% more deaths occurred by vehicle than guns as a whole. More deaths occurred by sharp objects like forks and knives than all gun death. But some how the only thing protected by a Constitution for nearly 3 centuries and restated in a Bill of Rights is under fire and should be removed as a right. Because govt do not fear golf clubs or forks but tyrannical bullies surely fear a gun in the hands of a pissed off nothing to lose patriot now don’t they.
Shhhh.
No logic when they’re busy emoting.