I did not read in the statement that they support a requirement to have a psych check completed prior to acquiring a firearm.
Admittedly, I’m reading between the lines of the Montana Sheriffs & Peace Officers Association’s statement and I’m predicting that a new law will be passed that will require psychiatric evaluations for gun ownership and/or all new purchases, but it isn’t a hard prediction to make.
In fact, according to the Gun Owners of America, “Tens of millions of Americans,” might lose their 2A rights because of this planned legislation.
And with the Montana Sheriffs & Peace Officers Association stating in advance that they will support the efforts of the mental health community, what is coming should be of grave concern for all American gun owners.
Simply stated, psychiatry - via mental health diagnoses electronically transmitted to the Federal databases - is one of the major paths the New World Order gun-grabbing globalists will use to abolish the Second Amendment rights of many Americans.
The reasons why I believe this is quite complicated, but I’ll spell it out for you as best as I can.
The NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 (HR 2640) places any person who has ever been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) on the Federal prohibited possessor gun ban list.
PTSD was first recognized as a diagnostic category in the 1980 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM-III, and initially was created to describe the dramatically altered functioning of severely traumatized American soldiers who had served in combat zones. Over the years psychiatrists have expanded the list of jobs likely to cause PTSD to include law enforcement officers, fire, rescue and EMS professionals; high-risk jobs in which exposure to potentially traumatizing incidents are routine.
Not unexpectedly, the list of people that might develop PTSD has been propagated to include car accident victims, burn victims, natural disaster survivors, sexual abuse victims, physical assault victims, burglary victims, even divorcees. So nowadays, if you’ve ever been robbed, in a car accident, or a natural disaster, you might very well have PTSD.
According to the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, “About 60% of men and 50% of women experience this type of event (a traumatic event likely to cause PTSD) in their lives” and “8% of men and 20% of women develop PTSD after a traumatic event” – that’s 4.8% of ALL males and 10% of ALL females.
Soldiers returning from deployment now receive a mental health evaluation immediately upon their return and every 6 months for the first 2 years thereafter (called the Montana model). Counselors probe for signs of stress, including anxieties, sleep disorders, family problems, and excessive alcohol use. It's a mandatory requirement, so it reduces the stigma of a soldier reaching out for help with an emotional or psychiatric disorder.
Ronald Manderscheid, PhD , wrote that “… as many as 40% of vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan will experience mental health or substance use conditions, and that at least half of these will have post traumatic stress disorder…” If true, 20% of all returning vets are being branded with the dreaded label of PTSD.
18 U.S.C. 922 (d) & (g) makes you a prohibited possessor if you have been “adjudicated as a mental defective.” Forty years ago the term “adjudicated” meant that one had been found not guilty by reason of insanity in a court. In other words, the only way to be “adjudicated as a mental defective” and lose your gun rights was through an adjudication by a Judge or Magistrate in a court trial where there is due process, including the right to face one's accuser.
Now, under the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007, adjudication includes a finding by “a court, commission, committee or other authorized person” such as a psychiatrist, psychologist, physician, physician’s assistant, or even a nurse practitioner.
Hence, if an “authorized person” determines you have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Alzheimer’s, Schizophrenia, Bipolar, Major Depression, or a myriad of other mental health disorders, then, under the new interpretation, you may be subject to a lifetime gun ban because the term “adjudication” now includes a diagnosis, as opposed to a court order.
Also, HR2640 has redefined the term “mental defective” to include anyone who has been determined to be “a danger to himself or to others; or who lacks the mental capacity to contract or manage his own affairs.” In a letter dated May 9th, 2007, the BATFE wrote that “danger” means “any” danger, not “imminent” or “substantial danger.”
And Section 101 (c) (1) (C) of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 makes this even clearer, and goes even further. It provides that a person can be made a prohibited possessor, based "solely on a medical finding of disability" even if that finding is based on a microscopic amount of danger or inability to manage one’s affairs.
During the last presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton proclaimed numerous times,
“I believe strongly people have the right to own and bear arms under the Second Amendment. And I also believe we can reconcile our constitutional rights with common-sense measures that will keep guns out of the hands of criminals, terrorists and people with mental health problems.”
And Obama, starting after Cho Seung-Hui shot 32 people at Virginia Tech, repeatedly stated that the laws should be strengthened to prevent the mentally ill from buying guns. Ditto for McCain. It is their stated agenda.
How will they accomplish this?
By coercing all American physicians to make their medical records electronic, using software “certified” by the government. That way carnivore surveillance systems can scan for keywords like PSTD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, etc. so that the mental health diagnoses can be easily included in the NICS system.
I know for a fact (from personal conversations) that physicians are being paid government blood money to computerize their medical records, and are being threatened with the withholding of Medicare reimbursements, etc. if they refuse to comply.
Most of HR2640’s verbiage is about Federal grants to improve the input of mental health records into the system’s databases. In other words, HR2640 not only requires accurate information on individuals prohibited from possessing firearms to be transmitted by State and local government and Federal agencies to the NICS, it actually provides financial incentives for facilitating electronic transmission of such information.
Next enter the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
In February 2009, Gun Owners of America spoke out against the legislation:
“Of particular concern to gun owners are sections 13101 through 13434 of HR 1, which would set up the infrastructure to computerize the medical records of ALL AMERICANS in a government-coordinated database.
True, the bill doesn’t mandate that the data will be in a giant computer under the Oval Office. But it does mandate that your medical records be reduced to a computerized form which is available to it in a second. This it would do by establishing a National Coordinator for Health Information Technology –- tasked with, among other things, “providing information to help guide medical decisions at the time and place of care.”
It should be scary enough that a government bureaucrat is directed by statute to try to influence your doctor’s decisions with respect to your medical care.
But of even greater concern to gun owners is the fact that a government-coordinated database (which government can freely access) will now contain all records of government-provided and private psychiatric treatment -– including, in particular, the drugs which were prescribed.
Remember last year’s “NICS Improvement Act” otherwise known as the Veterans Disarmament Act? This law codified ATF’s attempts to make you a prohibited person on the basis of a government psychiatrist’s finding that you are a “danger” –- without a finding by any court. Well, roughly 150,000 battle-scarred veterans have already been unfairly stripped of their gun rights by the government.
But people who, as kids, were diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder... or seniors with Alzheimer’s... or police with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder... or people who are now theoretically covered by the new law... these people have, generally, not suffered the consequences of its sanctions YET.
And the chief reason is that their records are not easily available to the government in a central, easily retrievable, computerized form.
The bailout bill would change all of that. It would push increasingly hard to force your private psychiatrist or government-sanctioned psychiatrist to turn over your psychiatric records to a massive database. This would be mandated immediately if your doctor does business with the government.
This would supposedly save Medicare money in connection with medical treatment. And, the sponsors insist, they would work very hard to protect your privacy. But this turns the concept of “privacy” on its head. The privacy which is MOST important is privacy from the prying eyes of government –- not privacy of government data against the prying eyes of others. After all, many government data bases have been hacked in recent years, with mountains of information stolen.
So, once the government has access to these computerized psychiatric records, the stage will be set for using that database to take away the gun rights of those with Alzheimer’s, those with ADD, and those with PTSD.”
(end of GOA quotes)
Well, the stimulus bill passed and formalized the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, and also created more financial incentives for adopting certified electronic health records. Of the nearly $900 billion stimulus package, about $20 billion went to Health and Human Services, with $6 billion going to the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Of that $6 billion, $2 billion was allocated to the Office of the National Coordinator for Information Technology.
The package authorized the Medicare Trust Fund to pay off physicians who use certified electronic health records. The incentives are in the form of a 75% increase in Medicare Part B fees. Physicians that haven’t adopted certified electronic health records by 2016, will face financial penalties starting at 1% and escalating to 3% of Medicare Part B fees. Additional bonuses for adoption and use break down to about $15,000 the first year and declining each year to about $2,000 in the fifth year, with a maximum payout of more than $40,000 per physician.
In his December 6th, 2009 radio address in which he laid out key parts of the economic recovery plan, Obama said the following:
“In addition to connecting our libraries and schools to the internet, we must also ensure that our hospitals are connected to each other through the internet. That is why the economic recovery plan I’m proposing will help modernize our health care system – and that won’t just save jobs, it will save lives. We will make sure that every doctor’s office and hospital in this country is using cutting edge technology and electronic medical records so that we can cut red tape, prevent medical mistakes, and help save billions of dollars each year.”
And expand the prohibited possessor list, I’ll add.
Next let’s look at the health care reform bills. In November 2009, WashingtonExaminer.com posted an article that read:
“The day before the Senate passed the $848 billion health bill on a party-line vote, the Virginia-based Gun Owners of America sent out a mass alert to its 300,000 members, warning them that the legislation "will most likely dump your gun-related health data into a government database. ... This includes any firearms-related information your doctor has gleaned or any determination of post traumatic stress disorder or something similar, that can preclude you from owning firearms.”
And in December 2009, Gun Owners of America wrote:
“But also remember that the ObamaCrats never really had our interests in mind and that they never really solved all the Second Amendment problems in the health care bill. Again, even with the Reid “fix,” it’s still possible that ATF agents could troll through your medical information and send that data to the FBI, who in turn, could use it to deny honest Americans their right to keep and bear arms -- similar to the 150,000 military veterans who have now lost their gun rights.”
And in January 2010 GOA wrote:
“Senators are now insisting that the current Senate health bill protects the rights of gun owners, even though this version would still allow the BATFE and FBI to troll through the ObamaCare database for gun owners who would be disqualified because of their medical information. This could result in millions of Americans -- who are suffering from PTSD and other similar conditions -- being put into the NICS system and denied the right to buy firearms.”
And also in January 2010, GOA wrote:
“… the Senate health care bill which Pelosi now seeks to fix contains the following problems:
* It will allow BATFE to troll a health/gun database in order to take away firearms from tens of millions of Americans; ”
“Tens of millions of Americans,” could lose their 2A rights because of psychiatry, according to GOA !!!
I hope you understand the magnitude of the ramifications of electronic medical records – tens of millions of us are at risk.
Back in 2002 then President George Bush Jr. established the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health by executive order in which recommended “comprehensive mental health screening” for "consumers of all ages," including preschool children. So there is already an executive order calling for recommended psychiatric evaluations of all Americans.
If the Federal Government is bold enough to mandate by law that all Americans are required to buy health insurance or be fined or jailed, mandatory mental health evaluations for all Americans - or perhaps just all gun purchasers - isn’t implausible.
Following the most recent school shooting at Arapahoe High School in Colorado, the mainstream media is screaming that something must be done to prevent mentally ill people from getting guns. Sean Hannity, Mike Huccabee, Piers Morgan, Dr. Drew, Rachael Maddow, Rush Limbaugh, and many others are all hyping it up as best as they can and the American sheeple are sucking it in wholesale.
The Columbine school shooting, the Gabrielle Gifford’s attempted assassination, the Aurora movie theater shooting rampage, the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre, the recent Navy Base shooting, The Boston bombing, and others were all false flag Manchurian candidate events, all staged by the shadow government (using mind control and psychotropic drugs) in order to bring about more oppressive gun control legislation that centers around mental illness.
It is highly likely that they will stage more of these tragedies, especially school shootings, to further their evil agenda. Once the new legislation is on the table and being discussed, the American sheeple AND THE AMERICAN POLICE, including the Montana Sheriffs & Peace Officers Association, will FULLY SUPPORT the new law – otherwise it will look like they are in favor of school children being gunned down.
Mark my words, the next false flag school shooting is being is being planned out as I write.
My suggestion is to be very careful what you tell your personal physician. Never say you are depressed and never discuss any personal issues or political views. Never take any psychoactive pharmaceutical. Be wary of questions like, "Do you feel stressed?," "Do you feel threatened?," "Do you feel like doing harm to someone?" If you answer yes to any of these questions it is required that you are reported to Homeland Security.
Looks like they are going after the vets first. Other gun people like retired law enforcement will probably be next. Then when they go after the civilians. Be forewarned and be aware. The Obama administration has gone on record as considering veterans and gun owners potential terrorists. Whether you are a gun owner, veteran or not, YOU‘VE BEEN WARNED !