(Candace Owens was stalked. If she was angry at the individual man for his vile behaviors and demanded his imprisonment for his crimes, I would fully support her. But locking the guilty man up is not enough for her. Everyone who falls into his arbitrary random group must be punished on his behalf as well. This allows her to pose as compassionate, merciful and kind when she is none of the above. There is neither justice nor mercy in the psychiatric system she seems to venerate. It’s a safe guess she knows nothing about the asylum without walls that has existed for decades or seen any of the living conditions of the places for “lunatics” that remained open. Why should people like her? No skin of their noses." Lest I sound cruel and unsympathetic for all Owens and her family have been through, I am glad they are unharmed after feeling threatened. But I don’t like being threatened with imprisonment for someone else’s crimes either. They get around little hang ups like due process and not committing crimes by calling it compassion, public health and medical care. Like those Covid quarantine camps and masks and needles.)
Have you ever been diagnosed as mentally ill? According to the freedom lovers at the Daily Wire this makes you a dangerous monster who should be denied due process and locked up in a state run asylum for life. Your sanity and potential for harming others in the future will be assessed by government appointed medical experts.
The staff at the Daily Wire think this is an excellent idea. They are all for the rights of the individual, bodily autonomy in refusing experimental medical treatments with dubious benefits, the rights of due process, the right to own private property, and abolishing medical mandates. They are all for these rights when it comes to themselves. Just not the genetically/morally inferior.
The self-righteous attitude of the Right regarding “mental illness” confuses me. It is full of contradictions. As is the concept of “mental illness” itself.
On the one hand—even the most devoutly religious—embrace an ideology of materialism and bio determinism linked to social Darwinism and the eugenicist theories of the likes of Francis Galton. The notion of “mental illness” as it currently exists is that some people are just born lacking certain traits of humanity. Defectives. Criminal types. Immutably bad and dangerous.
The Right loves to lecture about the temporal benefits of virtuous living and “boot strapping” yet they embrace a philosophy that morality depends upon one’s DNA and brain chemicals. If you have a defective brain or DNA you are irredeemable—guilty of horrible crimes you never committed just because some doctor says you have the defective biology of criminal types. No such gene or brain pattern or chemical soup from a spinal tap has ever proven this. But in this case, the conservatives have decided to “follow the science” and blindly trust state appointed experts.
These experts—argue the staff of the Daily Wire—should be granted full control over the bodies and minds of people in the interest of public health. These experts should be granted absolute power over people—limited only by their own discretion—as to whether they are imprisoned or free, whether or not they have injections/procedures meant to cause neurological injury (Brain damage sometimes helps keep these people docile.) These experts have the right to monitor all social interactions of these people and take away their property to put in the hands of a conservator these experts select.
Would the staff of the Daily Wire and all the other conservatives crying to bring back state institutions want to be locked up, given crippling quantities of Haldol or Thorazine and have all their assets seized? Funny how they not only want to force this on tens of millions of others, but they consider stealing the liberty, property—or even life—of these other people who have committed no crime, an act of compassion.
No. If you wouldn’t want someone to do something to you, I refuse to believe you give a rip about the other people you want to force such actions upon. This is not following the Golden Rule Christ gave. This is not Christian compassion. You are not kind.
“They’re not like us. They don’t experience the feelings or have the basic human needs that we do.
“They are dangerous monsters and helpless children. We must get rid of them for our own protection.
“They need to be taken care of. Let’s delegate our compassion to the same overreaching government run medical bureaucracy we do not trust our own bodily health with.
“When they cry out that these lifesaving medications (we know they are safe and effective because the experts we distrust say so) are hurting them assume they are lying and laugh. When they develop multiple health problems assume it’s the original brain disease. If they twitch constantly, vomit multiple times a day, have seizures, have eyes rolling back in their heads, suffer uncontrollable bodily movements that disfigure and torment it’s not our problem. Once they are locked away forever, we won’t have to deal with such unpleasantness.
“We will never visit the asylums we demanded our overreaching nanny state build. Nor visit our ‘loved ones’ who annoyed and embarrassed us. When the state appointed medical bureaucrat writes an email stating that the relative died of natural causes we will breathe a sigh of relief and refuse to investigate.”
This is another reason I believe God’s judgment is falling on America. The Left has embraced abortion, but the Right has failed. Among other things they fully support the cruelties and premature deaths inflicted on helpless, innocent neighbors—even children—by the state as they decry the loss of their own freedoms.
They know the government hurts people but want to surrender their fellow citizens to it for the illusion of their own health and safety. Just like the lunatic left restricting others’ right to breath or not take a drug that caused blood clots.
Shame on you. Badly done, conservatives. Badly done!
yes sadly some people consider themselves humans but they are very much ignorant of what is going on in psychiatry.Basically to my humble opinion is not a right or left problem the existence of DSM disgrace manual and the complicity from the rest , not all of course of the medical practitioner makes the situation of the labelled "mental ill" an accepted genocide from our society, who do not care unless touch them in their families, and sometimes not even then... I do think that the actual state of the world has been the result of letting so many injustices and abuse in part of the population, but there is no time to think in a society that control your work time and your holidays, where there is not time for self reflexion when scientific information is hidden from the public and it seems in many cases only is good what can put money in certain people pockets! but many of us are aware, you are aware and I am aware others must be, is a matter of time for things to change for the better otherwise the destruction of humanity is a matter of time.... thank you for your post. G-d bless you ...Mental illness do no exist.. people needs real support many are misdiagnosed and for sure nothing good is coming from the psychiatric drugs only for pharma and their gangs.. If you are interested I have published an article in relation to mental illness based in the research by Dina Chris JL and John DG Johnson you can have a look in my post
Is there a specific post or series at the Daily Wire that you are responding to here? (Apologies if I am missing the obvious, while I might see an occasional piece at daily wire because it was linked elsewhere, I don't routinely read them or follow them at all.)