Nuts in the Crosshairs

HumanEvents.com ^ | 04/25/2007 | Ann Coulter

[Mind-numbed Robot]

There is a precedent for this. During the years of totalitarian rule in the USSR, political prisoners were often put away on grounds that they were mentally ill.

Sometimes in the military senior officers would get rid of junior rivals by referring them for mental evaluation. Just that fact on their record spelled doom for their careers, usually. As you pointed out, this ruse has been used throughout history.

Liberal ploys for control:

National Healthcare will allow them to control individuals by telling them how much to eat, exercise, smoke, etc., or else. As the new rulings on eminent domain have shown, what ever the state decides is to its advantage it can do. If an obese person is costing the state money through healthcare costs then the state has the right to control him. Eventually old people could be euthanized to save costs.

Global Warming and environmentalism in general does to business what Healthcare does to the individual, controls it.

This mental impairment issue will be more of the same government control.

Smoking bans aren't about health, they are about accepting government control on individual behavior. Same with affirmative action and other discriminating nondiscrimination laws. As we grow more accustomed to these restraints it ios easy to add more.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I thought this was going to be an article about squirrel hunting.

[ClaireSolt]

Schumer has a bill to create a national data base of mentally defectives for reference in gun background checks. How long before it is abused the way credit reports are? Obviously, that will disincent people from seeking psychiatric care, which is hardly an exact science, anyhow.

[thulldud]

And that reminds me of a Jonathan Winters quip about how he hunted squirrels: “I just aim for their little nuts!”

[Publius6961]

This small measure would have taken Dan "What's the Frequency, Kenneth" Rather off the airwaves years ago, preventing him from presenting doctored National Guard documents to the American people to try to throw a presidential election. A mental illness bar would deal a quick blow to Air America and both its remaining listeners. It would also free up about 90% of the Internet.

LOL!

Wait.
That's not funny.

I been saying that for years: The inmates are running the asylum, both elected and not.

The way things have been going, before long sane people will need mandatory jail time for being deviants...

[Publius6961]

Schumer has a bill to create a national data base of mentally defectives for reference in gun background checks. How long before it is abused the way credit reports are?

Never mind that!

What's he gonna do when most members of Congress pop up on the list?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm??

[Mind-numbed Robot]

In a discussion of violence on TV, etc., I recently heard that John McCain said that the government owned the airwaves. That is the general consensus.

However, the government owns nothing! It controls by force that which the people allow it to control. As we allow the government to assume more and more power to do what we ourselves should be doing, we will soon find it controlling everything.

What we are discussing are the various ways they seduce us into ceding power to them until they will finally have enough to not have to ask our permission.

I recently read that it is being suggested that the internet be completely re-engineered, that its original architecture did not anticipate the rapid advances in technology and popularity we now see. That may be true but this could also be an opportunity for the power grabbers to control this medium which they find so threatening. The Fairness Doctrine is their attempt to control information over radio and TV. If they can control the internet and the airwaves then they have effective control of all information available to the general public. Knowledge is power, so they say, and the free flow of information is necessary for the people to maintain power.

[ClaireSolt]

Somehow, I am comforted when I see bozos like Ted Stevens talking about tubes on the internet. My dad taught me that one way to preserve liberty is to keep the lawmakers in the dark.

Their assertion that they own the land and can lock it uup in wilderness preserves frosts me.

[econjack]

And I add, we don't see any "moderate" muslims lining up at the Marine Corps recruiters' offices. Nor do we see and/or hear of the "moderate" muslims "taking out their own trash!"

Exactly!