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Didn’t the Soviet government use the “mental illness” routine against its dissidents?

They did. Political opposition was considered a mental illness (let's face it, you had to be crazy to speak out against the old soviet regime, right?) and off to the gulags it was.
It is a very slipper slope indeed, exactly what mental conditions are serious enough to deprive you of your rights? It's a subjective and sliding scale.
Anything that would deem you "dangerous", including making posts on FR, could be used as an excuse.

Opposition to the Obama agenda is a form of mental illness & those who hold to that view are a menace to society & themselves. The forces of public safety will act in accordance with this directive.

Bottom line, end of discussion. Accept it, comrade.

They did. Political opposition was considered a mental illness (let's face it, you had to be crazy to speak out against the old soviet regime, right?) and off to the gulags it was. It is a very slipper slope indeed, exactly what mental conditions are serious enough to deprive you of your rights? It's a subjective and sliding scale. Anything that would deem you "dangerous", including making posts on FR, could be used as an excuse.

This is indeed an extremely slippery, and dangerous slope. Note how the left is already starting to imply that anyone who is at all bothered by, or opposed to, the policies of Obamao and the left in general, are "extremists", or part of some "lunatic fringe". And if you believe in the 2nd Amendment, well then, you're flat out crazy in their eyes. And yes, this is exactly how it was done in the good 'ol Soviet Union. No surprise that our own homegrown Marxists and would-be communists (excepting Obamao himself, of course, who is anything BUT homegrown) would seek to use this same tactic.

Several years ago, as part of a divorce settlement (my wife's divorce from her abusive first husband), I was required to participate in an "evaluation" of the interaction between me, my wife, and her two young children, which was done by two separate psychologists (her husband refused to use the same one, so we all got to go through it twice).

Having experienced, first hand, what the psychological "profession" is all about, I can tell you that there is no way that ANY of them should have ANY say in your life, whatsoever. These were among the most clueless and useless "professionals" I have ever encountered. Their "analysis", such as it was, was superficial, extremely biased towards whomever was paying them, and absolutely useless. The whole profession, the whole industry, is a joke. No one needs a degree in psychology to know that Adam Lanza was completely screwed in the head. But one does need a degree in psychology to fabricate a bunch of pseudo-scientific crapola to peg a perfectly normal person as some sort of "danger" to themselves or others, on the basis of nothing more than the fact that they don't agree with some arbitrary notion of "normality".

The kicker is how much these two psychologists robbed us for: around $7,000 EACH, for no more than 3 hours of actual time in their presence. What a joke...

Oh, wait... Is that a knock at the door? My critical opinion of psychology must mean I am not mentally "stable"...

Farewell, comrades!