Re: Stereotypical

Are you sure you didn't herniate yourself trying to twist yourself around the facts here?

Giving people the benefit of a doubt is a great default way to approach a new situation.

But giving our enemies the benefit of a doubt when their patterns of harm are as unvarying as they are well documented is naive bordering on suicidal.

Your claim that we have no enemies falls on deaf ears since your case is an object lesson that we do.

Enough "mental health professionals" in enough jurisdictions and under various degrees of legal compulsion have placed our people and our loved ones in harms way often enough that they should be viewed as potential traitors if not avoided outright.

I wouldn't jeopardize the safety of myself or my loved ones by confiding in a journalist either. But if the mental health profession took doctor-patient privilege as seriously as the fourth estate takes its shield laws, and was as willing to do jail-time rather than give someone up, I might be more trusting.

In police states, the psychiatrists are a division of the prison system. Right now we tend to do the opposite and fill jail cells with the mentally ill. But effectively we're shuffling the same population back and forth as if the place of internment and its justification don't matter.

One look at Nixon's enemies list or at the public figures J. Edgar Hoover was tracking tells us that building a psychopathological case against political opponents was a common tactic in the USA. But then the rules about commitment changed, and suddenly the President's enemies had a miraculous recovery of their sanity but began to engage in questionable legal activity. Funny, that.

Dante