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Dear Alex, @RealAlexJones If one were a gentleman with basic manners and understood the history of the suppression of freedom of speech and the mechanisms of slavery, one simply would not act in the way that you and others seem to be acting. You are far from alone in such actions. There is a particular moment when a free voice stops being argued with and starts being diagnosed. It is an unmistakable tell. The facts are no longer confronted, the reasoning is no longer challenged, and debate gives way to insinuation. "Something must be wrong with her", they say. "He is unstable." "She needs help." The Old Trick, Reheated: Psychiatry as a Political Weapon When you suggests that Candace Owens @RealCandaceO has mental-health issues, we are not witnessing a medical opinion. We are watching an ancient political reflex try to reassert itself. It is the reflex of capture. This is not disagreement. It is attempted character liquidation. And worse than that, it is not the behaviour of a gentleman. From Argument to Asylum - Historically, psychiatry has been the velvet glove over the iron fist of power. When states encounter voices that will not bend, psychiatry is mobilised to do what censorship alone cannot: to delegitimise the speaker, rather than the speech. The Soviet Union perfected this technique. Dissidents were not refuted, they were diagnosed with “sluggish schizophrenia,” a convenient condition whose principal symptom appeared to be disagreement with the state. The asylum replaced the courtroom. The white coat replaced the black robe. One could be locked away not for being wrong, but for being dangerously correct. This was not an anomaly. It was method. Elsewhere, political non-conformity was routinely reframed as psychological deviance. Psychiatry became a bureaucratic solvent, dissolving inconvenient truths into supposed disorders. The pattern is consistent and deeply instructive: when truth threatens power, diagnosis is cheaper than rebuttal. Western democracies flatter themselves that such crudities belong to history. They do not. They have merely been rebranded. The modern rebranding - Today, the asylum has been replaced by the smear, the section order by the insinuation, the padded cell by the social-media whisper. The language is softer, the intentions unchanged. “Concern for wellbeing” now does the work once done by iron bars. To suggest that Candace Owens has mental-health problems is not concern. It is an attempted rhetorical kill-shot. It signals to the audience that her arguments need not be examined. One may dismiss the ideas by discrediting the mind that holds them. This is the language of institutions, not of honourable debate. It is a trick usually reserved for committees, compliance departments, and state-adjacent NGOs. When it appears in supposedly anti-establishment circles, something has gone badly awry. Capture Is Revealed by Conduct - Capture rarely announces itself. It reveals itself in tone. In habits. In the sudden adoption of the very methods one once claimed to oppose. There was a time when questioning a woman’s sanity in public argument was recognised as coarse and unbecoming. One might call her mistaken, reckless, even dangerous, but to imply mental instability was understood to be a breach of basic standards of conduct. A gentleman does not behave this way. Gentlemanly conduct is not about class or affectation. It is about restraint, proportion, and the refusal to reach for dishonourable weapons when losing an argument. To accuse an opponent of mental illness is to concede that reason has failed. It is not courageous. It is mentally lazy. Psychiatry and Power: A Brief Reminder Psychiatry’s entanglement with power is not accidental. From its earliest institutional forms, it acquired the authority to define what is “normal,” “acceptable,” and “safe.” That authority has always been tempting to those who govern. Once such a framework exists, it becomes irresistible. Criminality can be reframed as illness. Dissent as imbalance. Conviction as pathology. The dissenter is no longer wrong, he is unwell. This manoeuvre is seductive precisely because it bypasses debate. One cannot argue with a diagnosis. One can only submit to it. Why This Matters Now - Candace Owens represents something profoundly irritating to the managerial class: a coherent, articulate voice that refuses to be managed. She speaks plainly. She does not ask permission. She does not accept the approved vocabulary. Such people have always attracted psychiatric suspicion from those who cannot defeat them intellectually. When figures who claim to oppose authoritarianism begin deploying the same diagnostic language as the authorities, we should take notice. Capture does not always involve money. Sometimes it involves the erosion of standards, the abandonment of good conduct, and the quiet decision that expedience matters more than principle. The line that must not be crossed - There is a line in civilised discourse. On one side lies disagreement, however fierce. On the other lies dehumanisation. Psychiatry used as insult sits firmly on the wrong side of that line. To cross it is to admit defeat. It is also to reveal one’s manners. A gentleman reaches for facts, logic, wit, or silence. He does not reach for the asylum. He understands that sanity is demonstrated, not proclaimed, and never weaponised. Final Word - The suggestion that Candace Owens suffers from mental-health issues tells us nothing about her and a great deal about the climate in which such remarks are now made. It is the old authoritarian reflex, lightly polished, deployed by those who ought to know better. History is unforgiving to those who mistake diagnosis for debate. And public discourse is poorer for it. I hope this helps you Alex. There is so much good work left for you to do. It is a shame to sully your name in this way. Warmest Regards and a Very Happy Christmas to you and may you receive, all the blessings of the season. John and Irina Mappin. @ImMappin P.S. For those reading this letter who would appreciate simplicity in this matter. Candace is simply seeking clarity over who killed her friend Charlie Kirk, what happened that day and why. She has some valid questions. If you can help her get them answered please do so. You can watch her entire investigation on her U tube Channel. If you can help her debunk any of the information that is coming to light, please do so. She would appreciate it. Just do so politely and with grace, with honesty and with accuracy and we are sure that any disruption that naturally occurs when someone is publicly executed and such a crime is investigated for the truth of what happened, will be kept to a minimum. N.B. Dont lie. N.N.B. Don't cover up the lies of others. I hope this communication is received in the spirit with which it was written. There are one or two others that might do well to understand this so perhaps you might share it with them too. Thank You.