On the sixteenth of December 1960 a twelve-year-old boy was put on a table in a San Jose hospital, given electric shocks until he was unconscious, and had an ice pick hammered through the thin bone above each eye and swept from side to side through the front of his brain, because his stepmother had told the doctor he was defiant. The doctor's fee was two hundred dollars.
Howard Dully was a big, clumsy, daydreaming boy whose mother had died when he was five, and his father had married a woman called Lou who could not stand him. She took him to six psychiatrists. All six told her the problem was not the boy. The seventh was Walter Freeman, who had performed more lobotomies than any man alive, who drove between state hospitals in a van he called the lobotomobile doing them by the dozen in an afternoon, with no gloves and no surgical training, and who had once done twenty-five in a day. Freeman's notes on Howard, which Howard did not read for forty-four years, record the symptoms. He objects to going to bed. He turns the lights on when there is broad daylight. He does not react to love or to punishment. He has a savage streak. On that evidence, and Lou's signature, and two hundred dollars, Freeman wrote that the boy would benefit from a transorbital lobotomy and did it four days later.
Howard remembers the table. He remembers waking with two black eyes and a fever and no idea what had been done to him, because nobody told him, then or ever. His father never spoke of it. Lou put him into a state institution the following year, and the boy with the holes in his brain spent the next forty years in and out of asylums, juvenile halls, a jail, halfway houses and the street, drinking, drifting, never quite able to say why he was the way he was, with a photograph that existed somewhere of a doctor in a suit standing over a child with a steel spike in each eye socket.
At fifty-six, driving a school bus, he went to find out. He found his file in Freeman's archive at a university in Washington, in the doctor's own handwriting, and read for the first time what his stepmother had said and what the doctor had agreed to. He went to see his father, who was eighty, and asked him why he had let it happen, and his father said he had been bullied into it. Howard told the story on the radio in 2005 and five million people listened to a man weep over a piece of paper.
Walter Freeman was not a quack. He was a professor of neurology, the man who had brought the lobotomy to America, and the operation had won its inventor the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949. The journals published him. The hospitals booked him. The newspapers called it a miracle. He did it to three and a half thousand people, nineteen of them children, and he kept doing it until 1967, when a patient died on the table and the hospital took his privileges away, and he spent his last years driving the country in the van looking up his old patients to prove it had worked.
That is what settled science looked like from inside, to a twelve-year-old. A mother's complaint, an expert's confidence, a procedure with a prize behind it, two hundred dollars, and a lifetime nobody could give back.
The same institutions now tell you what your child should eat, in the same voice, with the same certainty, and the leaflet has a logo on it. Howard Dully is in his seventies and still cannot say what was taken. Nobody ever apologised.
@Rothmus Those who are opposed to corporations and favor government do not realize that government is simply the largest, most monopolistic corporation of all and it has a monopoly on violence.
To know why Democrats are planning to overthrow the government after the midterms, is partly because not a single person ever went to jail for the rigged 2020 election, orchestrating J6, Crossfire Hurricane, or the other Seditious Conspiracy crimes!
Secondly, President Trump and Elon Musk ended the years of the Democrat Party's USAID money grift and theft of BILLIONS from the American people to enrich themselves!
Democrats are NOW openly saying how they will proceed if they win the midterms, including a Coup on removing President Trump and create a new government and a new Constitution!
Not a single person who targeted him, his family, conservatives, or anyone MAGA, has ever been held accountable. Nobody's went to jail for anything!
If these communists win the midterms the weaponized lawfare will be a hundred times worse than it ever was under Biden. They are coming after everyone!
With a corrupt Congress, corrupt judges, corrupt courts, nobody stands a chance!!
This "Color Revolution" threat is real and being planned by those from within our own government who specialized in "Color Revolutions" of foreign countries for decades!
CIA, national security people, current and former military, former USAID, Governors, people in government, the FBI, it's so deep, it's impossible to fathom! They are professionals!
It can be stopped by cutting off the funding and by showing up in mass to VOTE straight ticket Republican up and down the ballot!
YOU MUST GO VOTE!
The Republic is at stake!
It's your duty and responsibility to VOTE! VOTE RED!🔴
We're on to you Pritzker.
We are fully aware of your involvement in the plot to create a Color Revolution in America.
The plot consists of your party's useful idiots tearing the country apart after the midterms, such that Trump faces a "crisis in legitimacy" only to have you and other Democrat governors declare yourselves to be the lawful government of the USA.
We know who you have been coordinating with. We know you have agreed to be a part of this via your involvement with thousands of disgruntled, seditionist ex-military/CIA/USAID/State types.
We know the lying propaganda you are peddling below is designed to condition the public to believe non-existent misdeeds are afoot.
Your Color Revolution will fail. The Constitution will endure.
And YOU, you bloviating mass of cancerous traitor cells, will learn the same lessons that traitors of all kinds always learn.
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30+ years in office. Federally indicted.
Prosecutors allege Sen. Louise Lucas used her position to shield a 5-year marijuana enterprise involving her family—nearly $5M involved.
Thanks to @AGToddBlanche, @TheJusticeDept, FBI agents & partners.
No one is above the law.
-DKP🇺🇸