Suppress Dissent the Soviet Way

There is positively no hackwork on the L.A. Times op-ed page, and by that I mean some gets by from time to time.

In Straitjacket Bush, columnist Rosa Brooks argues that the President and Vice President “should be treated like psychotics who need treatment.” This is edgy writing, see. She asks, “What's a constitutional democracy to do when the president and vice president lose their marbles?” Her solution is involuntary committal: “In Washington, the appropriate statutory law is already in place: If a "court or jury finds that [a] person is mentally ill and . . . is likely to injure himself or other persons if allowed to remain at liberty, the court may order his hospitalization." Yes, Comrade Stalin would get a hearty laugh out of that, would he not?