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And flourishing in Virginia Beach, VA. That’s where Pat Robertson’s Regent University is located. And that’s where charming Soviet-era practices like slapping dissidents with psychiatric illness diagnoses are still practiced (as University policy):

A Regent University law student who posted an unflattering photo of Regent President Pat Robertson on his Facebook page has been indefinitely suspended pending a psychiatric evaluation.
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The picture … shows Robertson making what appears to be an obscene hand gesture. Key copied it from a YouTube video in which Robertson scratches his face with the middle finger of his right hand.

To be fair, the law school’s associate dean for student affairs has provided a justification for the psychiatric evaluation. It sounds a little thin to me, personally; the dean said that students had said that Key had said …. You would expect, wouldn’t you, that a law school dean would understand about hearsay evidence and stuff like that?

Adam M. Key was told by a dean in an e-mail Friday that he was concerned about Key’s “emotional well-being” and that several students have recently expressed concern about Key’s “interpersonal behavior.”

The students “have reported, among other things, that you said that you brought a gun on campus, which is a violation of University policy,” said the e-mail, signed by L.O. Natt Gantt, the law school’s associate dean for student affairs.

Gantt said Key was being suspended until he could be evaluated by a university-approved mental health provider.

“Given the security situations that school campuses face today,” Gantt wrote, “the University must pursue a course of action that diligently responds to these concerns.”

Key said he has never brought a gun on campus or told fellow students that he had. “I’ve never owned or carried a gun,” he said.

Key, incidentally, isn’t exactly your typical Regent U student. Here’s what he looks like:

And here’s what he had to say later, in an instant-messenger interview with Above The Law:

(Key) However, as I have repeatedly emphasized, I will undergo this psychiatric exam after Regent forces Pat Robertson to undergo one. Truly, what’s crazier… disagreeing with the administration, or hearing voices that tell you about hurricanes that don’t happen, and the impending apocalypse?

(ATL) Ha, excellent line (re: Robertson).

(Key) Yeah, I can’t believe Pat thinks I’m crazy.