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2016 Postmortem

The Velveteen Ocelot

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

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2015, 04:15 PM

Mar 2015

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?

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Well we’re here! Total Fucking Insanity.. [View all] busterbrown Mar 2015 OP

Isn't that what they sometimes did in the old USSR? The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2015 #1

It is! Arthur_Frain Mar 2015 #3

Yea, where are the Fed on this situation? busterbrown Mar 2015 #4

Where are the freaking Feds in this? n/t busterbrown Mar 2015 #7

Sounds like he's Projecting fredamae Mar 2015 #2

Climate change in Florida is like the insane relative kept in the attic (back valerief Mar 2015 #5

The employee should sue on the basis of defamation. Baitball Blogger Mar 2015 #6

covered here, but needs all the exposure it can get! niyad Mar 2015 #8

Also covered here earlier packman Mar 2015 #10

Goosestepping right into fascism. blkmusclmachine Mar 2015 #9

Ironically, more like the communism that baggers claim to be so scared of nxylas Mar 2015 #11

+1'Sluggish schizophrenia' hazy, vague diagnosis applied to undesirables & dissidents in the USSR. appalachiablue Mar 2015 #15

The political spectrum.... paleotn Mar 2015 #12

Ironically Florida will be eroded and damaged more than any other state from global warming. Kablooie Mar 2015 #13

When does the gov get examined? world wide wally Mar 2015 #14

Watch for my 'toon on this subject... gregcrawford Mar 2015 #16

Chairman Mao would have been proud of Scott. Hoppy Mar 2015 #17

I think that we need a lawsuit on this one. An employee Darb Mar 2015 #18

Sort of ironic that we were always taught to fear LEFT-WING totalitarianism Proud Liberal Dem Mar 2015 #19