Apparently no one's said it yet, but Bradley Manning, this generation's Daniel Ellsberg, may well be on the road to psychiatric character assasination, and possibly even quietly (?) labeled "ODD" (that's "Oppositional Defiant Disordered" folks). Soviet-style psychiatry rears its head openly, now (instead of merely quite secretly)? Join me in a shortish review of how character assasination and out-of-context innuendo can set the stage for blocking humanity (and how you may respond!).

One group of humans get to decide, another is supposed to just follow orders, and trust that the other group will make the right decisions. One group gets heavily funded and carried aloft on the shoulders of the Status Quo and heralded everywhere as heroes, the other gets to remain passive, waiting in silenced trust to be served. One group gets to engage in "reputable" dialogue with each other, the other group gets to  "rant" and "rave" and can only be viewed in a very narrow, paternalistic way. All of these ways have a lot of bigoted assumptions within them and end up tooling all the otherwise beautiful human beings involved.