On the web, where content is king, the types of expression that a person engages in can put them on the radar of the scores of behavioral health experts and paid agents who have taken to the internet to identify potentially problematic people under the auspices of law enforcement and violence prevention. Many times the programs that are being developed for these purposes are really providing cover for a clampdown on free speech and as a mode of silencing some of the most outspoken and effective critics of the criminal class whom have been able to undermine the institutions of government that were supposedly put into place to protect the rights of individuals. Therefore, what determines whether a person is problematic is very different in reality than what the stated goals and propaganda used to support such watchful efforts professes.
Clearly, we are operating in a realm where content is also king in terms of winning the hearts and minds of a target population that is being bombarded with deceitful propaganda, the American public. Those who are particularly expressive when it comes to the litany of corruption that exists within government, can point it out to other people in a poignant manner, and have the capacity to get people to pay attention to the true intent behind government largess and the anti-terrorist “see something, say something” paranoia that has gripped the nation, are in danger of being scrutinized and targeted by the same corruption that they speak out against. In order to win the hearts and minds of people, those who are on the corrupted side of things, and whom are behind the corrosive decline of our civil society, while they may put on the masks of social helpers, sometimes resort to dirty and underhanded tactics in order to remove people from view whom are negatively impacting their ability to win over that target population with expensive, well-timed, and well-coordinated propaganda.
The degree and manner in which this occurs would surprise even those who produced such classic films, like “The Blob” or “The Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” which were really just not so veiled attacks on the imposed conformity and the threat of totalitarianism that existed in the Cold War era, and still exists, even now. Today, someone providing such insightful social commentary might not produce such a box office hit, but instead find themselves at the receiving end of the symbolic pod people or the amorphous blob that swallows everything decent that still has a living soul because it is in its destructive and thoughtless path. In other words, these movies are no longer a theoretical warning to the public, but essentially represent the reality of the situation today. They were prescient and prophetic.
Totalitarianism is not something that is around the corner or has the potential to emerge if we do not evaluate what it is we are building and the degree to which the military industrial complex has embedded itself in our economic, medical, social, and political systems and structures, or the fourth estate that is supposed to keep a watchful eye on these things and report truth the the American people, so that they can make informed decisions about how best to politically effect change in these important areas. Nope; totalitarianism exists in the here and now; we are living it. However, at the moment, it is still operating in a realm somewhere between the “inverted totalitarianism” warned about by the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin, and the overt totalitarianism found in Nazi Germany of the former Soviet Union. The catalyst for it to fully emerge and rear its ugly head in America is looming just over the horizon.
Although American totalitarianism has yet to fully reveal its true ugly nature, one who is paying attention to patterns and has a penchant for comparative politics can clearly identify the building blocks and the steps being taken to assert full control and dominance over all aspects of the lives of citizens, including the contents of their minds. What better way is there to win hearts and minds than to use strong persuasion, intimidation, coercion, threats, and violence as a means to force people to remain silent concerning what is transpiring around them? What better way than to assert ownership over the minds of the government’s subjects? Isn’t that how authoritarian regimes always operate?
When you have the power of the state and its monopoly on violence at your disposal, then the sky is the limit. You can dominate the information landscape by removing anyone from view or by concocting some seemingly legalistic scheme by which to remove them from view, so that your views do not have to compete with theirs. Additionally, if you can assault your enemy’s minds, you can lessen the probability that problem people will engage in the kind of activism that challenges the official state view of the world. That was the very essence of Stalinism and Maoism, and it why their respective reigns of terror lasted so long and were able to contain opposition to their evil for such long periods of time.
However, not all methods of the Stalinists or the Maosists were so openly obvious and overt, despite the overt nature of the gangsterism and criminality of the political systems that they fostered, or that allowed for these philosophies to rise to the top in the first place. They understood that sometimes the most effective threats against the citizenry are those that remain unseen and are only whispered about by subjects who dare not speak too loudly when it comes to complaining about governmental abuses, for fear of being carted off to some unknown location, thrown in a hole somewhere, tortured, and never heard from again. Therefore, they devised schemes that had highly educated experts and professionals put an official stamp on their methods of removing “undesirable elements” whom they determined could not be reformed or reeducated. One such method of this type was the abuse of psychiatry.
For years in the West, professionals in the psychiatric community were scratching their heads wondering why the rates of schizophrenia in the U.S.S.R. were routinely higher than incidences of this mental illness in the “free world.” It was later discovered that psychiatric community in those countries were systematically using such diagnoses to discredit, disappear, and drug the minds of those whom were not sympathetic to the state and whom may have been acting out to undermine it in any number of ways. The doctors were using such terms of art like, “philosophical intoxication,” “sluggish schizophrenia,” and “delusions of reformism” within their professional circles and as part of official records in order to do away with those who would not swallow the official dogma of the totalitarian state. Belief in God and adhering to religious views was also seen as a mental illness. The stories of the people who were victimized by political psychiatric abuse are horrific in nature, and in some cases, are reminiscent of similar stories by those who were abused by the Nazi doctors.
Often, people in the West think that there is no possibility that such things can happen in the U.S. or Western Europe, that we are different by virtue of our belief in democratic principles, and our dedication to human rights makes us immune from such atrocities. However, that thinking is erroneous, especially when one considers the degree to which similar horrors have been committed by doctors in the West. The injection of pregnant women with radioactive materials, the experiments that have been done on our own troops, the dusting of civilians that were using public transportation systems in major cities with biological agents, and the Tuskegee syphilis experiment should all put these notions of moral superiority to rest. All one has to do is the appropriate research.
Furthermore, an extensive look at the history of psychiatric abuse in the United States and Europe also should alert an intelligent public to the danger that such things can happen here. The MK-Ultra program regularly experimented on those who were in psychiatric facilities in order to perfect mind control techniques, while COINTELPRO was often used to paint the targets of counter-intelligence operations as crazy, with the hope of having someone who had made the FBI’s hit list civilly committed, their lives destroyed, and their ability to engage in activism neutralized. Thus, the danger existed then, just as it exists now. What is extremely troubling is the degree to which it appears that those who are operating within the medical and psychiatric communities in the West are willing to participate and help provide cover for such operations that are currently ongoing within the U.S.
Cass Sunstein’s tactics and techniques to discredit people of the opposition political persuasion as him have been widely used in the blogosphere, and leaks have also detailed the used of “cyber-magicians” and government trolls who are operating in ways that are consistent with earlier COINTELPRO efforts, except they applied to the the virtual world of the internet, although not confined to that realm.
In the wake of the numerous mass killings that have taken place in the last several years, which are all used to push the need for more online agents and closer evaluation of what is being said by people online, the government is taking very real steps in terms of legislating away the free speech rights the American framers thought were so important to the functioning of a healthy republic. Basically, speech is being tied to potential future action in order to justify the kind of thought crime divisions warned about by Orwell or Zamyatin.
Every time someone like Eliot Rodger, James Holmes, Adam Lanza, Seung-Hui Cho, Jerad and Amanda Miller, or the Tsarnaev brothers commit a violent act, or someone commits a violent act and blames it on people like them, we hear much about the need for gun control legislation. Operating in the background are efforts to restructure the psychiatric laws in the U.S. in such a way that will allow for the widespread abuse of psychiatry to punish people who are speaking out against the government, because they are also using such incidents as an excuse to put these tools into place. Therefore, one might wonder if the gun control issue that seems to permeate the public discourse after such events acts as more of a red-herring for the real issue, a distraction, while the pieces are put into place that follow in the footsteps of other totalitarian governments that used psychiatric imprisonment as a way to handle dissent in the past. No doubt, psychiatric labels are also being used to deprive certain citizens of the gun rights as well. Psychiatry is also one way in which gun control can be put into place in light of recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions as well.
Those who have been selling us a bill of goods and have been able to manipulate the public are now having serious issues with thinking people taking to the most powerful medium ever developed and employed by man in order to throw a wrench in the advancement of an encroaching tyranny, which most sane members of the American public would agree has gotten out of hand. The outspoken and talented voices out there are having an affect in persuading people of the dangers, and are therefore, damaging the work that years of exposure to controlled media and public school indoctrination has had on many people in the West. Thus, it is impeding the hearts and minds campaign of the people that are waging war against our way of life and our freedoms. Hence, they need a tool by which to remove the rabble-rousers and leaders of popular movements that are pushing back against their corruption. The template for such a tool was created by the control freaks of yesteryear, and it is being put into place in the West now.
In many jurisdictions, in order to get an involuntary hold (a 5150 in California code), where the police or some other state agent with power forcibly takes a person to a psychiatric facility for observation and diagnosis against one’s will, there must be a reason to believe that a person is a danger to one’s self or others. This means that, so long as a person does not do something stupid that puts themselves or other people at risk, they should theoretically be safe from the prospect of being committed to a psychiatric institution. The initial hold is used so that an “expert” can determine whether or not civil commitment is necessary. If someone with appropriate credentials decides that a person’s condition warrants treatment on these grounds, then they can start the civil commitment process against them and put them away indefinitely, or they can just chemically lobotomize them with powerful drugs and issue a community treatment order to force feed them powerful psychotropic drugs.
Imagine having your freedom and the sanctity of your mind riding upon what may or may not be an illegal arrest by officers with qualified immunity, and an evaluation by a single individual that is using subjective pseudo-science and whose expert testimony holds serious weight in a court that relies upon procedures where the due process requirements are significantly less than that of the criminal law. This is a very terrifying prospect for many, especially for those whom may be engaged in unpopular speech that has the tendency to make them powerful enemies.
Money talks in this society and there are so many people who are willing to compromise their ethics when a bribe is placed in front of them, or when a powerful state agency is threatening their livelihood and professional licenses. These professionals are not immune. In fact, history has demonstrated otherwise. They will gladly act on behalf of the state and play God in making life and death decisions for individuals whom they feel are inferior to them by virtual of their race, class, religion, ethnicity, or political philosophy, especially if they are following orders and doing their supposed duty for the state.
It is interesting that the framers of this nation mentioned various abuses and usurpations by tyrannical government, yet the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights do not mention political psychiatric abuse, neither as one of their complaints, nor as a problem that the newly formed government was trying to address. This is largely due to the fact that modern psychiatry was in its infancy prior to the American Revolution, and although many different methods were used to violate the God-given rights of the colonists that leaned towards independence, King George III had simply not thought of political psychiatry as a means by which to target the pamphleteers that were causing his agents in America so much distress. Had it been a viable option for him in that time period, I am sure that the abuse of psychiatry is one of those areas that the revolutionaries would have sought to specifically address in our founding documents.
Those who are now using this method to encroach on the rights of citizens view this as a loophole and an excuse to use it at this present juncture. Therefore, they use this system because this area of law has developed under a philosophy that contains lesser due process requirements. Psychiatry and the legal system have developed an unholy marriage and state actors sometimes resort to psychiatry as a method of targeting that is similar, yet arguably worse than what we are seeing in terms of the current IRS scandal that has been coming to light before Congress.
It’s pretty telling that many within the legal and psychiatric communities refer to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) as “the Bible,” while the list of mental disorders and illnesses that can be diagnosed with it have become so exhaustive to virtually allow for anyone to be deemed mentally ill or disordered under one of its criteria. If this is not put into check, the ultimate system of social control will be developed in the U.S. and other Western nations, as it’s too perfect of a method for generating fear, attaching stigma, and destroying lives. There is no doubt that those who lust for power are in the process of making this system easier to abuse.
Waving the insanity charge around while speaking about people who are engaged in politically protected speech is meant to have a chilling effect, while the actual calculated use and abuse of political psychiatry can have the very real result of silencing voices of dissent that should be heard by the people. Those who care about the rights of citizens should take a close look at this issue, for it is operating as a Trojan Horse, which has been sneaked in under radar and has the very real potential to undermine the values that many people hold dear. In other words, I would pay attention to this warning, if I were you, especially if you are operating in the blogosphere in a political manner and don’t happen to be a bought and paid for shill or government troll that promotes this maneuver or attempts to discredit others in order to abuse people with this system.
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