The Sinister Tactics of The Left

In the Soviet Union during the 1960s and 1970s, the communist party used the tactic of questioning the mental health of political dissidents. The infamous, made-up diagnosis "Progressively Sluggish Schizophrenia" was used to justify the detaining of political rebels and dissidents in mental facilities.        

In 1959, Nikita Khrushchev said of political dissidents, "clearly their mental state is not normal." 

Fast forward to democratic Australia in 2012. Where prime minister Julia Gillard has called into question the sanity of anyone who dares to question her on her shadowy past involvement with former AWU secretary Bruce Wilson, and the slush fund she helped him set up. A slush fund, it is claimed, was used to illegal obtain funds and defraud union members. Gillard has likened those who question her past to the birther movement in America. She has called her critics "nutjobs of the Internet."  

The birther movement: American citizens with a concern that the president, contrary to article two of the US Constitution, was not a natural born citizen. 

The response from the liberal media and other Obama barrackers? To call the birther movement "lunatics." 

Indeed, just the tactics used by the scaremongers who preach the fiction of man-made warming. 

Anyone who calls into question the past lives of the political Left, must expect to have their mental state cruelly questioned. 

Deputy prime minister of Australia, Wayne Swan inflamed the firestorm of attack when he called Republicans cranks and crazies. He was talking of their economic politics; but still, there were the mental illness references again. 

Earlier tonight on ABC's (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) shamelessly partisan political panel show "The Drum", author and ethicist (yeah, one of those) Leslie Cannold wondered why the Right of the Republican Party - Tea Party, birthers - had not already been marginalised by the political mainstream. 

Questioning the mental state of conservatives; calling for them to be marginalised. It's all a very sinister attempt to freeze free speech. And we should be alarmed.