Mental Health Round-Ups: The Next Phase of the Government’s War on Thought Crimes
“There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is a dangerous activity.”—Hannah Arendt
Get ready for the next phase of the government’s war on thought crimes: mental health round-ups and involuntary detentions.
Under the guise of public health and safety, the government could use mental health care as a pretext for targeting and locking up dissidents, activists and anyone unfortunate enough to be placed on a government watch list.
If we don’t nip this in the bud, and soon, this will become yet another pretext by which government officials can violate the First and Fourth Amendments at will.
This is how it begins.
In communities across the nation, police are being empowered to forcibly detain individuals they believe might be mentally ill, based solely on their own judgment, even if those individuals pose no danger to others.
In New York City, for example, you could find yourself forcibly hospitalized for suspected mental illness if you carry “firmly held beliefs not congruent with cultural ideas,” exhibit a “willingness to engage in meaningful discussion,” have “excessive fears of specific stimuli,” or refuse “voluntary treatment recommendations.”
While these programs are ostensibly aimed at getting the homeless off the streets, when combined with advances in mass surveillance technologies, artificial intelligence-powered programs that can track people by their biometrics and behavior, mental health sensor data (tracked by wearable data and monitored by government agencies such as HARPA), threat assessments, behavioral sensing warnings, precrime initiatives, red flag gun laws, and mental health first-aid programs aimed at training gatekeepers to identify who might pose a threat to public safety, they could well signal a tipping point in the government’s efforts to penalize those engaging in so-called “thought crimes.”
As the AP reports, federal officials are already looking into how to add “‘identifiable patient data,’ such as mental health, substance use and behavioral health information from group homes, shelters, jails, detox facilities and schools,” to its surveillance toolkit.
Make no mistake: these are the building blocks for an American gulag no less sinister than that of the gulags of the Cold War-era Soviet Union.
The word “gulag” refers to a labor or concentration camp where prisoners (oftentimes political prisoners or so-called “enemies of the state,” real or imagined) were imprisoned as punishment for their crimes against the state.
The gulag, according to historian Anne Applebaum, used as a form of “administrative exile—which required no trial and no sentencing procedure—was an ideal punishment not only for troublemakers as such, but also for political opponents of the regime.”
Totalitarian regimes such as the Soviet Union also declared dissidents mentally ill and consigned political prisoners to prisons disguised as psychiatric hospitals, where they could be isolated from the rest of society, their ideas discredited, and subjected to electric shocks, drugs and various medical procedures to break them physically and mentally.
Let that sink in a moment.
Now consider the ramifications of giving police that kind of authority in order to preemptively neutralize a potential threat, and you’ll understand why some might view these mental health round-ups with trepidation.
No matter how well-meaning the politicians make these encroachments on our rights appear, in the right (or wrong) hands, benevolent plans can easily be put to malevolent purposes.
Even the most well-intentioned government law or program can be—and has been—perverted, corrupted and used to advance illegitimate purposes once profit and power are added to the equation.
The war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on illegal immigration, the war on COVID-19: all of these programs started out as legitimate responses to pressing concerns and have since become weapons of compliance and control in the government’s hands. For instance, the very same mass surveillance technologies that were supposedly so necessary to fight the spread of COVID-19 are now being used to stifle dissent, persecute activists, harass marginalized communities, and link people’s health information to other surveillance and law enforcement tools.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, we are moving fast down that slippery slope to an authoritarian society in which the only opinions, ideas and speech expressed are the ones permitted by the government and its corporate cohorts.
We stand at a crossroads.
As author Erich Fromm warned, “At this point in history, the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization.”
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First they came for the whistleblowers and I did not speak out,
Because I was not a whistleblower, but rather a denier of claims I labeled "conspiracy theories."
Then they came for the flag-waving patriots and I did not speak out,
Because I was not aware of what a Constitutional Republic actually means or what it takes to preserve it.
Then they came for the young people and protesters and I did not speak out,
Because I am not young, don't protest and am too lazy to get invloved.
Then they came for the adult generations before me and I did not speak out,
Because I felt it was their problem, not mine.
Then they came for me on every level and when I realized how screwed I was?
There was no one left to speak for me.
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"Only the small secrets need to be protected. The big ones are kept secret by public incredulity."
Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980)
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In our case, we've lost a couple hundred activists and whistleblowers, a few hundred witnesses... along with the questionable deaths of 80+ naturopaths, and a bunch of Targeted Individual false flag shootings which continue to be orchestrated in the present time. And no doubt, we're still counting.
When you get to the end of these links, and bother to ask yourself what on earth can you do, we have a suggestion:
Call and share these links with every single politician, military person, and police person you know... every elected official and every appointed official you know.
If our police departments, our national guard, our returning military all refuse to participate - this plan will NOT succeed.
If EVERYONE makes the calls and asks the questions - then those who had the courage to do it first, won't be quite such obvious targets. We all need to grow some - and quick.
I declare those perpetrating the utter stupidities from 'on high' we have had to put up with for far too long as being 'mentally sick' and in desperate need of therapy!!