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In Defense of David Sarti, the Doomsday Prepper Who Was Declared Mentally Incompetent (Guns Seized)
shtfplan.com ^ | 14 February, 2012 | Daisy Luther

Posted on 03/28/2012 8:30:43 PM PDT by marktwain

We often ask, “What would be the last straw? What would make us take up arms and defend ourselves against the Powers That Be?”

Usually, that answer is guns. For most preppers and constitutional activists, losing our weapons would be an affront that would cause us to stand up and take action.

That particular insult has happened to one of our community.

David Sarti, of Lebanon, TN, recently appeared on National Geographic’s program Doomsday Preppers.

The producers motives with this show are questionable, from a prepping perspective. They seemed to have sought out people who are real “characters” – the eccentricity is so extreme at times that it doesn’t seem to be a fair representation of what is truly going on in the prepping community. Because NG is generally more open-minded, more in line with producing documentaries than salacious reality television, I was extremely disappointed in the programs that I have seen thus far.

In the case of Mr. Sarti, he certainly does come across as extreme. He’s not a man that instantly appeals to a wide range of people. He is someone that might trigger doubters to roll their eyes and scoff at him.

This doesn’t make him crazy.

He isn’t a handsome buff wild-eyed mountain man survivalist. He doesn’t have that bad boy appeal of an action hero or the air of quiet wisdom of a person who has retreated to the woods to escape the mundanity of life in the corporate United States.

This doesn’t make him crazy either.

Days after the program aired, however, David Sarti was declared crazy…ahem…”mentally incompetent”….and his guns were seized. All of them. Mr. Sarti, who has no criminal record, is no longer allowed to own guns. He tells his story here.

The accusation of insanity came after he went to see his cardiologist for some chest pains and shortness of breath. So far, it sounds sane and rational to me. The cardiologist, Dr. Andre C. Olivier, whose name and contact information I am delighted to publish, had Mr. Sarti held at the hospital for psychiatric evaluation and broke doctor patient confidentiality by contacting the authorities.

Then it really went to hell on a greased slide. Mr. Sarti, because of his stay in the psychiatric unit, was then declared “mentally incompetent”. His very large collection of guns was then stolen removed from his possession. He is no longer allowed to own weapons.

Welcome to the America we live in today. The country has devolved to a point that being eccentric means the constitution no longer applies to you. What is next? Already, believing that the gold standard is the only way to correct our economic ills makes you a target. Bloggers and writers of alternative media are all on a list, with our computer systems under nearly constant attack. I spend as much time fending off malware and viruses as I do writing this blog. Anyone who disagrees with the government is not labelled an “extremist.”

This is a call to rally. So extremists, preppers, bloggers, readers and Americans, unite. Don’t just be glad that your guns remain untouched. Don’t breathe a sigh of relief that it wasn’t you. Galvanize yourself and others like you and let’s fight for David Sarti.

Let’s make it easy…..These links will get you started. This war will be won via the internet. Don’t let them sweep this attack on the Constitution under the rug. Don’t let them single out someone who might not come across as Joe Average and use that to continue chipping away at the country’s foundation. Whatever your personal thoughts are about Mr. Sarti and his decision to share his prepping on television, the bottom line is that injustice has occurred and it’s up to us to stop it.

First, go and sign this PETITION. The document will be sent to the governor of Tennessee, demanding that Mr. Sarti’s record of “mental defectiveness” be expunged.

For additional details that include sample letters for National Geographic and the NRA, as well as links to several organizations that maybe be able to assist Mr. Sarti, visit Inalienably Yours.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; constitution; gun; hoax; incorrect; rumors; sarti
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Video at the link. This was a long standing tactic in the former Soviet Union.
1 posted on 03/28/2012 8:30:57 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

It’s a standard socialist gangster govt tactic.


2 posted on 03/28/2012 8:44:20 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: marktwain

I heard that this was debunked soon after the story hit the internet in mid, (or so), February...that he did NOT have his weapons taken. Oh well, guess I have some research to do.


3 posted on 03/28/2012 8:51:29 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired high up in the mountains of the American Redoubt. Nothing beats that!!!)
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To: marktwain

Psychological warfare is what this administration is about.

Don’t fall for it.

They think they can scare the rest of us with this terrorism against this man.

It’s PAST time to act like a liberal in response!


4 posted on 03/28/2012 8:51:45 PM PDT by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: marktwain

David Sarti has an Honorable Discharge from the United States Air Force.


5 posted on 03/28/2012 8:54:16 PM PDT by gghd (A Pro-life Palinista & a member of the NRA)
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To: marktwain
If they find out he was a Poster on FR, he would get a one way trip to Gitmo.

Did they seize his cars too? You can run over a whole lot of people if you set your mind to it.

Did they confiscate his Baseball Bats, Knives, Garden Tools, Bricks? How about his Dog?

At what point does our God given Freedom become an illusion?

6 posted on 03/28/2012 8:56:47 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (A day without Obama is like a day without a Tsunami.)
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To: marktwain

The first rule of prepping ought to be stay off of tv shows and out of the media limelight.

Avoid your 15 minutes.


7 posted on 03/28/2012 9:01:39 PM PDT by Valpal1
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To: bobby.223
You are correct; this was debunked by the man himself.

Video at Link

8 posted on 03/28/2012 9:08:28 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (Riding the Long-Wave Economic Contraction, Baby!)
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To: marktwain

If this is true, I’d say that his biggest mistake was in ever revealing what he was doing.


9 posted on 03/28/2012 9:20:25 PM PDT by davisfh
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To: marktwain

If he’s STUPID ENOUGH to go on a TV show about his prepping, then I agree the country is better off without him owning guns.


10 posted on 03/28/2012 9:32:05 PM PDT by BobL (I don't care about his past - Santorum will BRING THE FIGHT to Obama)
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To: marktwain

He refused to have heart surgery so the FedMob declared him insane and took his guns. Wait until 0bamaCare becomes law. SCOTUS better kill it.


11 posted on 03/29/2012 12:26:10 AM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: BobL

What is there to recommend you for the privilege of owning guns? I don’t see it in your post there.


12 posted on 03/29/2012 12:27:24 AM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Travis McGee

I have learned alot over the last two years from Dave’s Youtube videos on prepping and even communicated directly with him some through “webconferencing”. I do hope he gets this ironed out.


13 posted on 03/29/2012 4:14:10 AM PDT by MachIV
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To: BobL

I’ve known Dave over the last few years. You know NOTHING about what you are saying with respect to him.


14 posted on 03/29/2012 4:14:49 AM PDT by MachIV
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To: MachIV
One thing to learn from this episode is that you dare not trust your doctor or share with him your beliefs.

He might think they are crazy, have you committed for observation, and goodbye guns.

Welcome to the USSA, comrades.

15 posted on 03/29/2012 4:29:24 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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“I’ve known Dave over the last few years. You know NOTHING about what you are saying with respect to him.”

Then tell me why he allowed the media to make him look like an IDIOT.


16 posted on 03/29/2012 5:40:15 AM PDT by BobL (I don't care about his past - Santorum will BRING THE FIGHT to Obama)
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To: TigersEye

“What is there to recommend you for the privilege of owning guns? I don’t see it in your post there.”

The FACT that I don’t let my family (other than immediate), my friends, and CERTAINLY not the entire country know what I do inside of my house.

He’s welcome to have his 15 minutes of fame, but NONE OF US should be surprised when there are consequences.


17 posted on 03/29/2012 5:42:04 AM PDT by BobL (I don't care about his past - Santorum will BRING THE FIGHT to Obama)
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To: davisfh

“If this is true, I’d say that his biggest mistake was in ever revealing what he was doing.”

It’s a TV show. Reality TV...isn’t.


18 posted on 03/29/2012 5:46:31 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
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To: marktwain
The political abuse of psychiatry and its employment as a weapon of state power was a central fact of life in the Soviet Union. If you haven't done so before, you may wish to read about the Serbsky State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry and how it was used against dissidents during the 1960s and by some accounts, right up until the collapse of the USSR.

It is particularly chilling to read of purposeful misdiagnoses of mental disorders (in particular, schizophrenia) by medical professionals, descriptions of which might remind you of words we've heard from some of Obama's "Czars" (no small irony there).

19 posted on 03/29/2012 6:06:51 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: TheWriterTX; All

What I saw at the video was that this issue arose before the TV show, not that it did not exist.

Any updates would be appreciated, especially by those who know of the situation from personal communications with Dave.


20 posted on 03/29/2012 6:41:01 AM PDT by marktwain
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