(By
Michael Connelly, Constitutional Attorney) -- I have written extensively about
the horrendous and ongoing efforts by the Veterans Administration to disarm
American military veterans by declaring them incompetent to handle their
financial affairs due to physical or mental disabilities. Once declared incompetent
the veterans are arbitrarily stripped of their Second Amendment right to
purchase, own, or possess a firearm.
This
is all being done by broadening the definition of mental illness to the point
of absurdity. Often with the VA there is no psychiatrist or psychologist
involved in the determination of incompetence. Instead, some untrained
bureaucrat reviews the file of the veteran and if they find any mention of PTSD
or the use of the word depression they seize on that and make the declaration
of incompetence. There is no legal adjudication process involved in this; the
veterans have no right to due process as required by the Fifth Amendment to the
Constitution. It is tyranny in its purest form.
Unfortunately,
what the VA is doing is not new. The use of phony psychiatry has been a weapon
of tyranny for decades. In dictatorships like Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union,
Cuba, and China people who opposed the regime would be declared mentally ill
and placed in psychiatric hospitals or internment camps. That way no charges
had to be filed and no evidence offered that an individual had committed a
crime.
For
the Nazis it was initially a perfect way to deal with the Jews and other groups
that they considered sub human. If you were Jewish you had to be mentally
defective and therefore you could be put in a hospital and experimented on. It
was the beginning of the holocaust. In
the Soviet Union anyone who was not a devout supporter of Communism was held in
an institution and then often sent on to the Gulag where they could be worked
and starved to death.
We
have certainly not reached that point in the United States, but we have reached
the point where the basic premise is the same. The VA is using declarations of
mental illness to disarm veterans and there have been reports of states like
California doing the same. If it’s happening to veterans now how long will it
be before it starts happening to other American citizens?
Consider
this; soon those stalwarts of integrity who run the IRS will have access to the
medical records of every American. They will be able to review them to see if
you have ever told a doctor that you were depressed, ever suffered from PTSD
after the loss of a loved one or from being in an accident, or even suffered
from some minor memory loss. Based on the criteria being used by the VA the IRS
could declare you mentally defective and put you on the list of people that
can’t legally purchase or own firearms.
You
also have to consider the fact that one of the 23 so called executive actions
on gun control Obama recently signed called for doctors to ask their patients
if they owned a firearm. This is not just directed at psychiatrists, but at all
physicians including pediatricians. In other words, if your child confesses
that Mommy and Daddy have a gun in the house that could conceivably be
considered the actions of mentally defective individuals and you could be
disarmed. Once we are disarmed we cease to be citizens and become subjects.
Written
by Michael Connelly, Constitutional Attorney
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The following from National Review Online
‘We’re All Becoming Border States Now.’Hundreds of illegal immigrant children reach . . . Massachusetts?
DARTMOUTH, Mass. Bristol County Sheriff Tom Hodgson said Monday that he’s dealing with a problem in Dartmouth that shouldn’t be his responsibility.
It’s not a new theme for him. He’s sounded the alarm about illegal immigrants before, but now he says it’s getting closer and closer to home.
Illegal immigrants come across the border in the American Southwest. When they are detained, the wave of humanity has overwhelmed local capacity. The illegal immigrants are being sent all over the country, including Massachusetts.
“We’re all becoming border states now. We want to know, what are the trends? What’s happening? What can we expect? We know there are going to be more coming here from Texas. We’ve already got two groups coming off the planes here,” Hodgson said.
It’s not just Bristol County; north of Boston in Essex County:
Lynn is a municipality on the brink. Key department officials say a recent influx of illegal immigrant children and families in the city is stressing almost every service from trash collection to healthcare.
“We have been aware of the unaccompanied children issue for quite a while, and we were able to absorb a lot of these children early on,” said Lynn Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy. “But now it’s gotten to the point where the school system is overwhelmed, our health department is overwhelmed, the city’s budget is being sustainably altered in order of accommodate all of these admissions in the school department.”
Flanagan Kennedy says the first contact for immigrant arrivals in the city is the school system.
The amount of new foreign born student admissions has nearly doubled in the last two years. This school year alone saw more than 600 new admissions. Among those students, 248 were from Guatemala. Flanagan Kennedy says of those 248 children, 126 were illegal, undocumented minors.
And apparently not all of them are actually under 18:
“Some of them have had gray hair and they’re telling you that they’re 17 years old and they have no documentation,” Jamie Cerulli, the Lynn mayor’s chief of staff, tells NRO. “If my children went to the public schools, I’d be very uncomfortable with all of these unaccompanied minors [that] are placed in the ninth grade.”
We have a lawless administration that is ignoring state governments:
Nebraskans are anxious to learn what Gov. Dave Heineman finds out about the approximately 200 children from Central America illegally being housed in the state.
Heineman tells Nebraska Radio Network affiliate KFAB in Omaha that this issue came as a surprise to him. Heineman says he immediately started making calls and learned that once the children leave the Department of Homeland Security they are handed over to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Heineman says he spoke with a key policy advisor with that department and asked who they were, where they were staying and who is paying their bill. He was told they have no intention of sharing any information with him.
“I can’t believe in America that we have a federal government who is essentially secretly transporting them to Nebraska, they are illegal immigrants, and they won’t tell us who they are,” Heineman tells KFAB.
Look, citizens of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. We thought our president would send this message to you, but apparently he’s too busy with his fundraisers, issuing statements on LeBron James signing with the Cavaliers, golfing with sportswriter Michael Wilbon Saturday, and looking forward to his Martha’s Vineyard vacation.So somebody has to say this: You have to take care of your own kids. You may have heard us complaining that our federal government is becoming a nanny state, but we didn’t mean that our government is actually running a nanny service.
We understand that gang violence, drug cartels, and other criminals are making your countries terrible places to live. We’re really sorry to hear that. We’ve also given your government quite a bit of money to make life better down there. Honduras, we gave you $83 million in foreign aid in 2013. El Salvador, $46.8 million. Guatemala, $106 million. If the money wasn’t spent well, take it up with your government. Some of you might say that’s not enough, but we’re not obligated to give you anything. There are a hell of a lot of Americans who think that money could be better spent back here.
You have to fight to make your country a better place to live so that your fellow countrymen will want to stay there. We can’t fight your battles for you. In fact, this is a particularly bad time to ask. You may have heard, twice in the past 13 years we went into far-off countries with unstable governments and warlords and drugs, determined to give the oppressed locals a better future, we spent way too much in blood and treasure, the populace turned out to be a bunch of ingrates, and the local leadership ran the place into the ground.
Alternately, we can try the Semisonic “Closing Time” approach: You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here. There are 202,000 square miles in Central America.
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"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms." Thomas Jefferson to James Madison
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