Well we’re here! Total Fucking Insanity..

[busterbrown]

Rick Scott demands Environmental Protection employee to seek mental healthy guidance for mentioning the word climate change in one of his reports..He will need clearance from the mental health professional in order to return to work..

A Fucking Gov.. In a state that has serious immediate problems with intrusion of salt water in the southern part of the state, which has scientist extremely concerned..

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/19/florida-employee-forced-on-leave-climate-change

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Isn't that what they sometimes did in the old USSR?

If they didn't send you to a gulag for expressing an opinion they didn't like, they'd treat political dissent as a psychiatric problem and pack you off to a mental hospital. This guy in FL has been deemed to have mental issues because he acknowledged the reality of climate change in a report, and now he can't go back to work unless he gets "clearance" from a "mental health professional" - who, no doubt, has been told not to clear anyone who insists climate change is real. Kinda sounds like the NKVD's "psychiatrists." Rick Scott is using Soviet-style tactics to suppress any acknowledgment of climate change; how can that possibly be legal?

[Arthur_Frain]

3. It is!

Right out of Koestler's "Darkness at Noon".

[busterbrown]

4. Yea, where are the Fed on this situation?

[busterbrown]

7. Where are the freaking Feds in this? n/t

[fredamae]

2. Sounds like he's Projecting

He's the one who has a guilty conscience, even If he refuses to acknowledge it...and when one ignores "it" long enough, egregiously enough - oneself needs to seek mental health guidance....
all just my humble opinion, of course

[valerief]

5. Climate change in Florida is like the insane relative kept in the attic (back

in the olden days). It's there but can't be talked about. Except this insane relative is a fuckin' governor.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. The employee should sue on the basis of defamation.

[niyad]

8. covered here, but needs all the exposure it can get!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026388829

[packman]

10. Also covered here earlier

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026390622

[blkmusclmachine]

9. Goosestepping right into fascism.

[nxylas]

11. Ironically, more like the communism that baggers claim to be so scared of

Branding those who dissented from the party line as insane and sending them for psychiatric treatment was a favourite method for removing troublemakers in the old USSR.

[appalachiablue]

15. +1'Sluggish schizophrenia' hazy, vague diagnosis applied to undesirables & dissidents in the USSR.

[paleotn]

12. The political spectrum....

....is really a circle and like Pinochet, Franco, Mussolini and the Austrian corporal who will remain nameless, Rick Scott has gone so far he's about to bump into Joe Stalin and Mao Zedong.

[Kablooie]

13. Ironically Florida will be eroded and damaged more than any other state from global warming.

Or not ironically.
That's probably why Florida created such a draconian policy.
They know it is a very serious matter within Florida so the only way to suppress discussion is to make it illegal. very

[world wide wally]

14. When does the gov get examined?

[gregcrawford]

16. Watch for my 'toon on this subject...

... later in "Good Reads"

[Hoppy]

17. Chairman Mao would have been proud of Scott.

[Darb]

18. I think that we need a lawsuit on this one. An employee

needs to push this issue and then sue the state.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

19. Sort of ironic that we were always taught to fear LEFT-WING totalitarianism

while right-wing totalitarianism has ACTUALLY creeped up on us in right-wing/Republican-dominated states.