America's Psikhushka for 9/11 Truthers

Part of the systematic crushing of dissent that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about in The Gulag Archipelago was the Psikhushka: "psychiatric hospitals" where Russian dissendents like Zhores Medvedev , Vladimir Bukovsky, and Andrei Sakharov (who was was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975, although he was not allowed to leave the Soviet Union to collect it) were sent.

Anne Applebaum has reminded us that the gulag was everywhere in the Soviet Union, not just off in a distant Siberia. ("The Gulag: What We Now Know and Why It Matters", by by Anne Applebaum, Cato´s Letter, vol. 2 no. 1, Winter 2004.)

It was in your neighborhood.

It was right next to Wal-Mart.

No, it was Wal-Mart. It was an essential part of the Soviet economy, and everyone knew someone who was a slave in the Gulag.

The Psikhushka mentality is alive in America, as Sgt. Donald Buswell can tell you. The Purple Heart recipient sent an email in which he questioned the government's 9-11 conspiracy theory.

“Who really benefited from what happened that day?” he asked rhetorically. Not “Arabs,” but “the Military Industrial Complex,” Buswell concluded. “We must demand a new, independent investigation.”

For voicing those opinions in an e-mail to 38 people on the San Antonio Army base, Buswell was stripped of his security clearance, fired from his job, demoted, and ordered to undergo a mental health exam.

http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=6022

This is not the first time that "psychiatric authorities" have prescribed examination or treatment for politically incorrect thought.

And it will not be the last -- as long as we worship the idol of "the State."