Purge against armed ex-service-members accelerates.
A US Navy veteran had his guns confiscated by police following a forced “psychiatric evaluation” in another example of how the Veterans Administration is accelerating a purge of armed ex-service-members in accordance with a federal government demonization campaign that has labeled vets domestic terrorists.
50-year-old David A Schmecker is an honorably discharged
disabled US Navy veteran from Connecticut with no criminal record and
no psychiatric history.
On February 5, Schmecker’s hospital primary care doctor
called and heard a message on Schmecker’s answer machine that “sounded
peculiar,” prompting him to contact the local police and urge them to
visit Schmecker to perform a “wellness check”.
“The police came to my home, and, without any
justification whatsoever, hauled me away for a psychiatric evaluation at
a local hospital. I submitted to their forceful insistence under duress
and fear of arrest or worse. I wasn’t arrested, no crime was committed
nor any threats were made to myself or others,” Schmecker told Survive and Thrive’s George Hemminger.
“They confiscated my guns and pistol permit. I was
released two days later from the evaluation on my on recognizance. I
have since attempted to use the courts and attorneys to fight the
revocation of my pistol permit. Then on top of everything else, the
bills from the short stay at the hospital and EMS bills that they billed
me, along with what I had to pay the attorney adds up to a large amount
of money,” he adds.
Schmecker warns that the harassment he suffered is part
of “a campaign orchestrated to disarm law abiding citizens,” adding that
he is “concerned about where this country is headed.”
As with all contemporary authoritarian governments, the
psychiatric system is being used to circumvent courts and bypass normal
legal due process.
In August 2012, we reported on how a veteran in Ohio had his guns taken because
he was adjudged to be mentally incompetent, despite the fact that his
previous VA psychiatric evaluations were all clear, he was not on
medication, and he had no criminal record.
As we reported last year, David Sarti, one of the stars of National Geographic’s Doomsday Preppers show,
visited his doctor complaining of chest pains, only to have the doctor
later commit him to a psychiatric ward and alert authorities, before
Sarti was declared “mentally defective” and put on an FBI list that
strips him of his second amendment rights.
Veterans are increasingly being targeted by authorities
as part of a broader move to demonize them as domestic extremists and
even potential terrorists.
The FBI has repeatedly characterized returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan as a major domestic terrorist threat. In addition, Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano said she stood by an April 2009 DHS intelligence assessment that listed returning vets as likely domestic terrorists.
Just a month later, the New York Times reported on how Boy Scout Explorers were being trained by the DHS to kill “disgruntled Iraq war veterans” as part of anti-terror drills.
Back in February, constitutional attorney Michael Connelly warned that
the government is now moving to strip veterans it determines to be
mentally incompetent of their Second Amendment right to own a firearm.
Connelly cites a letter “sent by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
to hundreds, perhaps thousands, of America’s heroes.”
“A determination of incompetency will prohibit you from
purchasing, possessing, receiving, or transporting a firearm or
ammunition,” the VA letter states. “If you knowingly violate any of
these prohibitions, you may be fined, imprisoned, or both pursuant to
the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, Pub.L.No. 103-159, as
implemented at 18, United States Code 924(a)(2).”
“This must be Barack Obama’s way of thanking our
veterans for serving,” writes the Gateway Pundit. “US veterans are
receiving letters from the government informing them that they are
disabled and not allowed to own, purchase or possess a firearm. If the
veteran does decide to purchase a firearm he will by fined, imprisoned
or both… This comes on page 2 of the VA letter.”
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