emies of Free Speech Lew Rockwell.com November 12, 2003 David Irving comments: ONE of the advantages of modern television coverage in real time is this: we real historians can form our own private opinions of our trusted and respected leaders, men like Tony Blair and George Bush .
As a Hitler biographer, one thing that struck me was that medical experts like Professor de Crinis , of Berlin’s Le Charité hospital, studying the movie newsreels of Hitler’s rare appearances in 1944 and 1945, were able to detect clear signs of the onset of Parkinsonism.
It was a diagnosis I was able to confirm by getting expert reports on two medications prescribed for Hitler in the last weeks of the war by his physician Theo Morell , as both his diary, which I transcribed, and Hitler’s desk-diary, which I also transcribed, showed: they were rare belladonna-extract drugs indicated only for that terrible, debilitating ailment, Parkinsonism, from which may the Lord preserve me when the time comes.
Gordon Brown, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer WHICH brings me to our own Parliamentary front bench, and particularly to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, i.e. UK Treasury Secretary, Gordon Brown . I am sure I am not the only person to have had their curiosity seized by Brown’s increasingly odd and inappropriate facial grimaces and involuntary muscle twitches. Nobody else is mentioning it, but what is the Internet for, if not to trample on unspoken taboos?
See his puzzling condition for yourself on the BBC or C-Span, the next time the television cameras linger on Blair and his accolytes in Prime Minister’s Question Time. I watched closely on .
As His Master ranted on, the Chancellor, seated on Blair’s left, presented a picture of rare medical interest: his head lolled, his mouth fell open, his lower jaw kept retracting in an odd way, his eyes rolled, he jerked his neck in a way characteristic only of clinically diagnosed schizophrenics, and his eyes drifted from side to side as though concussed, or under the influence of something smoked an hour or two before. Remember, you read it here first.
Where is today’s De Crinis who will study Gordon Brown’s next TV performance, reach his own diagnosis, and submit it — anonymously if wished — for our readers? What will one of you medical experts tell us about Gordon Brown’s condition? It does seem important. After all, the whole free world is still paying for the medical faiblesses of President Franklin D Roosevelt in February 1945.
A MEDICAL EXPERT suggests by way of response () a possible underlying cause for Gordon Brown’s facial quirks — “I would say tardive dyskinesia, but not my field: Caused by dopamine inhibitors, Thorazine( chlorpromazine), or Mellaril, etc. Symptom is often but not always permanent. Can be treated with benadryl. Good observation, just as Charles Dickens first described hyperhidrosis, aka the Uriah Heep Syndrome. Dr A.R. Mackenzie .”
ADD President? by Lew Rockwell DANIEL McAdams, foreign policy scholar, writes: “We went to the celebration at Arlington Cemetery yesterday — not knowing that the President would speak.
A trip to Arlington is always the most poignant reminder of the costs of war”Initial impressions were disturbing: President Bush was physically unable to stand still as the Colors were being presented — he kept bopping his head to the march music and talking and laughing to a very still and stiff Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Anthony Principi , who was doing his best to stand at attention and ignore the president’s repeated attempts to strike up a conversation during that solemn procession.
All of the others on the dais were utterly still and at attention as the Colors were being presented, with either a salute or a hand on heart. Only the president was acting like a kid with ADD [ abbrev., American: Attention Deficit Disorder ] during a Ritalin shortage”The president’s remarks were filled with the usual platitudes, but included a couple of notable bits: ‘Americans are a peaceful people, and this nation has always gone to war reluctantly, and always for a noble cause.
America’s war veterans have fought for the security of this nation, for the safety of our friends, and for the peace of the world. They humbled tyrants and defended the innocent, and liberated the oppressed. And across the Earth, you will find entire nations that once lived in fear, where men and women still tell of the day when Americans came and set them free.’ “An odd, and certainly not Constitutional, view of the role of America’s armed forces.
Also this canard, the repeating of which is just astonishing: ‘One young man serving in Iraq recently said this: “We in the military signed up and pledged to protect this great country of ours from enemies foreign and domestic. We’re fighting,” he said, “so that the next generation might never have to experience anything like September the 11th, 2001.’ “Mr. President: For the millionth time, Iraq had nothing to do with September 11.”