Mark Crispin Miller: USA Becomes USSR, Brutally Crushes Dissent, As Doctors On Pharma Payroll Enlisted To Declare Those Who Dare Speak Of Vaccine Injury Clinically Insane

A brilliant, must-read and must-share essay

“Having called severe reactions to the COVID jabs extremely “rare” (although they’re not), and deemed inflammatory heart disease among young athletes “normal” (although it’s not), doctors in Big Pharma’s pocket are now telling us that many, if not all, of those reporting—and, often, displaying—grievous harm post-“vaccination” are deluded—i.e., nuts—due to Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), which has been on the books for years, but has now been specifically deployed to make all those horrific “vaccine” injuries seem like a pathological delusion: “Vaccine Effect or Functional Neurological Disorder?” asked MedPage in late August. (This gambit was recently the subject of a segment on Stew Peters’ show:

https://www.brighteon.com/d68b1f37-fb03-4abd-bdc7-54b1cf19ae76)

Such psychiatric gaslighting has long been used, worldwide, to silence voices countering the Big Narrative, whatever it may be. It was, of course, a common Soviet practice, from Stalin’s late reign up to the early Eighties, to keep dissidents in psychiatric hospitals (psikhushkas), diagnosing them with “sluggish schizophrenia” and other ad hoc mental illnesses. Such faux-medical detention was widespread in China under Mao, especially during the Cultural Revolution; and, in the Seventies and Eighties, it was used to squelch dissent in Cuba.

And yet such punishment had arguably been deployed way back in 1865, in not-the-least-bit-communist Vienna, when the heroic doctor Ignaz Semmelweis—who outraged his peers (and saved the lives of countless mothers, then and later) by urging them to sterilize their hands before delivering babies—was lured into a madhouse, where he was beaten and straitjacketed, dying of a gangrenous cut just two weeks later (an early martyr to the lethal “medical consensus” of his gory peers).

Nor (despite the jokey title of this article) do we Americans have any right to crow about our perfect innocence of such “communist” repression, since it has happened here, though nowhere near as often, or for such long stretches, as under Mao or Brezhnev (at least not yet). In 1927, an anarchist named Aurora D'Angelo was involuntarily committed to a mental hospital for evaluation, after helping organize a rally on behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti. In 1958, four years before James Meredith’s historic enrollment at the University of Mississippi, one Clennon Washington King, Jr., a fiery civil rights activist, showed up on campus to apply to the school’s graduate program in history—only to be seized by state police, led by Gov. J.B. Coleman, and hustled off to a psychiatric ward, where he spent almost two weeks. (Some psychiatric mischief may have figured also in the silencing of James Forrestal— first US Secretary of Defense, who, in 1949, leapt, or was thrown, from the window of his 16th-floor room at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md—and of Frank Olson, the Army scientist who, in 1953, was thrown from—or, rather, through—the window of his 10th-floor room in New York’s Statler Hilton Hotel.)”

Read the whole piece here.