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Christian gun owners of America, be forewarned
- Doug Hagmann Friday, August 17, 2012
If
you are an outspoken Christian in America, you need to be concerned. If
you are an outspoken Christian in America who happens to be a gun
owner, you need to be very concerned. And if you are a Christian gun
owner who disagrees with the Progressive anti-Christian agenda in
America and have a platform to inform others, you better believe
that you are under intense scrutiny. Sound like paranoid propaganda?
Read on.
It’s one thing to say that there is a war against Christianity and an
active agenda to disarm Americans, but it’s another thing altogether to
watch it unfold, up close and personal. And yet another to actually
document an insidious but effective tactic that is presently being used
to silence and disarm Christians right here in America. In this report, I
will expose a new tactic being used by the atheistic communist
supporters of the Obama regime to silence Christian critics and to
disarm them at the same time.
I might have never known about this had it
not been for our nightly radio program, the Hagmann & Hagmann
Report. In fact, our show played a minor role in the events that
transpired. Jason Ergoff, a 28-year old web designer and graphics artist
from Scranton, Pennsylvania, called in to our show last week to comment
on current events, including how Christianity seems to be under attack
in America and across the globe. From the statements made by the CEO of
Chick Fil-A regarding traditional families as defined by the Bible to
the resurgence of attacks on Christians across the Middle East as a
result of the “Arab Spring,” we conversed about how Christians are in
the crosshairs now more than any other time in recent history. We talked
about Barack Hussein Obama’s role in what seems to be overt antagonism
toward Christianity and Biblical principles. Mr. Ergoff’s input to our
show was a rational and welcome discourse about the events we see
unfolding.
Mr. Ergoff called our program before and has always been articulate
and well informed. His call last week was equally articulate and without
unnecessary emotion or hype, just like his previous calls. He made his
points in a very well-reasoned, rational and non-threatening manner and
said nothing with which we could disagree.
Through our dialogue that included off air
correspondence, we were delighted to learn that Mr. Egroff himself is
hosting his own weekly radio program called Revelation News Radio, a
show that provides his analysis of current events through the prism of
the Holy Bible. As he is just getting started, he did a few shows
leading up his weekly slot, including a show on August 7, 2012, a day
after he called our program as a guest. After his call to our program,
we moved on, and our program concluded without incident. This is when
events began to get very interesting, and go very wrong for Mr. Egroff.
Monitoring the watchmen
As Mr. Egroff was seated at his computer preparing to listen to our
program that began at 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 8, 2012, he
received a telephone call from a man who identified himself as “Officer
Steve” from the city of Scranton Police Department, who told Jason that
he was calling just to check on him, to see if he was “alright.” Jason,
who never heard of “Officer Steve,” or really understood the nature of
the call, responded that he was fine and had no problems where he might
need the police. He was taken off guard by the call and became uneasy,
especially since the officer was elusive in providing a legitimate
reason for the call.
While our broadcast was playing on Jason’s computer, he received
another telephone call from a “restricted” number. It was “Officer
Steve” again, although this time he was calling from the front porch of
Mr. Ergoff’s house. The officer reintroduced himself, and asked Jason to
turn on the porch light and step outside as he wanted to speak to him.
Knowing that he had done nothing wrong, Jason complied with the
officer’s request. As he stepped onto the porch, “Officer Steve” was
there to meet him, accompanied by another law enforcement officer.
I should note that Jason Ergoff is not stupid or naive, and sensed
that had he not complied with the officer’s request, things might have
gotten ugly. “It was a matter of choosing my battles,” he told me, but
he was still not quite ready for what happened next.
The officer told Jason that the Scranton Police Department received a
telephone call from a “friend” living in New York City who claimed to
be concerned about Jason’s mental health. This friend works as a
physical therapy assistant at a large New York City hospital. It is
important to note his “friend’s” professional position is well outside
of the mental health practice.
According to the officer, Jason’s friend contacted his department,
and claimed that he was “worried” about him, citing his recent talk
about the Bible in general, Biblical prophecy in particular, and the
role of the Obama regime in the larger picture detailed by prophecy.
This “friend” has been listening to Jason’s calls to The Hagmann &
Hagmann Report as well as Jason’s own recently started BTR radio show.
Additionally, Jason’s friend knew that he owns a couple of guns, none
that are of much monetary value or the type people intent on doing harm
would possess. Despite this, his friend expressed concern that Jason
could possibly use the weapons in some nefarious manner. Based on
Jason’s own admission, he rarely uses the guns to target practice and
has little attachment to them. During my interview with Jason, he said
that he did not care if he had a gun or not, they are simply not that
important to him.
“You need to come with us”
The officer told Jason that he had to go with them based on a mental
health complaint that originated solely from his friend, the physical
therapist assistant in New York, who claimed that he was worried for
Jason’s safety. At this point, Jason was under the control of the
officers, and was not permitted to be alone as he entered his house to
shut things down for the trip he was about to take.
The officers took Jason to the local hospital psychiatric ward for
“evaluation.” For the next 18 hours, he was subjected to some of the
most humiliating searches, probes, and questions by hospital personnel.
Questions included those specific to his religious faith and what he
thought about the government and Obama. Questions that were structured
in such a manner that regardless of the answer, they would result in
portraying him as a dangerous, gun-owning Christian zealot. All as a
result of Jason expressing his non-violent, well reasoned, and
articulate views on our show as well as his own. All ostensibly from the
concern of one “friend” from another state and well over 100 miles
away.
Jason Ergoff was indeed evaluated by two medical health
professionals. Despite the manner in which Mr. Ergoff was picked-up,
detained, probed, prodded and interviewed (some might call it an
interrogation), he remained calm and did his best to comply. He believed
that the medical professionals would find him in good mental health and
realize that this was all a mistake. He could then use his experience
to help others.
Christianity: the medical diagnosis of psychosis
Jason was indeed released after about 20 hours of evaluation. He was
given his belt and shoelaces back, and all of his personal belongings
taken from him upon admission. He was released without fanfare, without
apology, and without explanation. But with little additional
interaction, Jason was now labeled with the medical diagnosis of
“psychosis” and urged to take medication that he states he does not need
and does not want. Additionally, Jason was released under the condition
that he gets rid of any and all firearms he owns and report to a crisis
counseling center upon discharge.
This gets a bit more interesting when Jason, who felt it best to
accommodate the evaluating doctors, reported to the crisis counseling
center as instructed. Mr. Ergoff furnished the handful of paperwork to
the crisis center worker who spent a few minutes looking over the
documents. After a lengthy pause, she looked at Jason and made the
following chilling observation as if it was a matter of routine: “So,
you’re here because of your religious beliefs.” As Jason tells it, this
was not a question, but a statement of fact.
As a career investigator, I’ve been exposed to people with mental
health issues, and interviewed many. I know that it’s easy to be fooled,
and that a person might appear normal, say the correct things, but then
turn out to be a complete lunatic. I’ll admit that in Jason’s case, I
expected to find just that scenario. I conducted a lengthy interview
with Jason, asked him some very personal questions, and demanded to see
documentation related to this incident. I was not about to get fooled by
Jason or anyone else. To his credit, Mr. Ergoff complied with my every
request and provided me with the hospital documentation I requested.
Watching the watchers who are watching the ‘watchmen’
After spending two days of constant research and investigation into
his case alone, I must report here that there is something very wrong
about this case, and it’s not Jason Ergoff. Despite the diagnosis of
“psychosis,” he was permitted to keep his guns, at least for now. As for
his “friend” who was so worried about his welfare, I’ve got his
“number.” You see, one thing I did not tell Mr. Ergoff is that I was
able to learn the identity of the man who turned him in as a threat to
himself and society. I’ve tracked his IP addresses and his online
activity. My investigation found that this is no ordinary case of
someone being concerned about a friend’s welfare, but part of a larger
agenda to silence the Christian conservatives and critics of this
administration. I am holding that information and documentation closely,
as I feel that Jason and perhaps others might need it when they come
for his guns or even him once again.
By the way, the concerned friend showed just where his concern
actually lies, and it certainly does not appear to be with Jason. That
was clearly illustrated in a 3:00 a.m. phone call made to Jason by his
friend, where he screamed at Jason for daring to mention the incident on
our program, sans names, of course.
Lest you think this is an isolated case, I have since heard from
five-(5) other individuals in different parts of the U.S. that this has
happened to within the last thirty-(30) days. It appears the war against
freedom of opinion, freedom of speech, openly professing one’s belief
in God and the right to bear arms is now sufficient to earn you a
medical diagnosis of “psychosis.”
Christian gun owners of America, be forewarned.
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