forcible medical attention and Dave Sarti

David Sarti Disarmed: The Prepper in the Psihuska (Psychiatric Gulag) REPUBLIC MAGAZINE | THE VOICE OF THE PATRIOT MOVEMENT:

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David Sarti, an honorably discharged Air Force veteran and retired truck driver from Lebanon, Tennessee, was declared “mentally incompetent” and had his firearms confiscated by the state government after appearing on the National Geographic Channel’s program “Doomsday Preppers.” This was done on the pretext that Sarti, who had sought treatment following what he thought might have been a heart attack in late 2011, was supposedly a suicide risk.

Sarti underwent a series of tests at a heart clinic in November 2011. It wasn’t until January 16 – after Sarti had been featured in the cable program – that he had a follow-up visit. Having ruled out a heart attack as the cause of Sarti’s chest pains and breathing difficulties, the physician, Dr. Andre C. Olivier, suggested an invasive procedure involving the insertion of a tracheal breathing tube.

“I said, `why not let me pass on if you’re thinking of putting tubes and holes in me?’” Sarti recalls. “I don’t want to do that.” The discussion turned to the subject of suicide. “I told him I can’t do suicide, because I’m a Christian,” Sarti explains.

At the time, the discussion appeared to be light-hearted – but it acquired a more ominous character when Dr. Andre said Sarti would need to go to the emergency room. Explaining that he didn’t have time, and had a farm to tend to, Sarti went home. Fifteen minutes later, sheriff’s deputies materialized on Sarti’s property and forcibly took him to the emergency room.

“The logic of sending somebody with a gun after somebody who’s going to commit suicide fails me,” Sarti pointed out during an interview with broadcaster Alex Jones. After being hauled away to the hospital by sheriff’s deputies, Sarti was detained for several hours while undergoing a lengthy and redundant series of tests. Protesting again that he had a farm to tend and animals to feed, Sarti told the hospital staff that he considered himself to be a “prisoner” and demanded to speak with an attorney. At that point he was taken to a mental health facility and held for “observation.”

“At no time did I ever say I wanted to commit suicide,” Sarti insists. “I feel that they put me in there [the mental health ward] because I made them mad by saying I was a prisoner … and I told them they were Gestapo.”

He also refused to take psychotropic drugs that had been prescribed to him, “so that was another black mark.” Significantly, the drug advisory provided by the nurse listed suicidal thoughts as a side-effect of the “anti-depressant” Sarti had refused.

Sarti spent two days in confinement before being allowed to speak with an attorney – an indifferent and ill-informed public defender named David Kennedy. Two more days passed before he was able to see Judge John Gwynne. His four-day psychiatric confinement amounted to an involuntary fast, since he had been placed on a low-carbohydrate diet and the only food available – except for one hamburger patty, one serving of scrambled eggs, and a handful of cheese squares – consisted of starchy, sugar-laden foods.

Following his release, Sarti discovered, “by accident,” that medical authorities had “terminated” his right to own firearms and seized his guns.

“You have been declared mentally defective by having been committed to a mental institution,” declares the document Sarti received.

Sarti has never been accused of a crime. He has never been declared mentally unfit by a judge, nor has he ever said that he wanted to end his life; in fact, he emphatically and repeatedly declared that he would never commit suicide — a determination underscored by his refusal to take a mind-altering drug that might lead to suicidal thoughts. Like fellow veteran Matthew Corrigan of Washington, D.C., David Sarti was imprisoned for several days, and then forcibly disarmed, after seeking medical treatment. The evidence also demonstrates that Sarti — like Gregory Girard of Salem County, Massachusetts — was declared mentally “defective” because his libertarian beliefs and preparedness-oriented lifestyle are considered politically incorrect.