[Updated January 20, 2013 11:15 PM ET]
Disability commissions funded by taxpayers remain silent when journalists and politicians attack persons accused of mental illness as the cause of mass murder. The President and the Governor of New York are emotional about wanting to control guns. Almost as strident are the demands for more psychiatry to stop mass murder. As if either of those misguided policies will solve or even reduce the problem.
Scientific studies show that when there are concealed guns among the population there is less gun violence. See e.g., John Lott's book, More Guns, Less Violence. Reducing the number of legal guns will increase criminal gun use. But since when have politicians ever acted or spoken rationally? Misleading people is a high priority under the current occupants of the White House who use spin doctors as alcoholics use beer.
Journalists are as emotional as politicians. Both of these irresponsible groups of professionals are ignorant or refuse to help educate the voters about the history of guns and psychiatry. Hitler and Stalin the two greatest government mass murderers in history took guns from citizens and used psychiatry to silence criticism. Why do so few educated people have any comprehension of these two dangerous practices and policies? Have journalists and politicians given up on freedom under the constitution? Has totalitarianism become the preferred form of government?
The current President promoted many irrational and counterproductive policies. It makes some people wonder what his goals are and if he is a supporter of the Constitution. But this is just backwards. In the name of reducing gun violence the President promotes conditions to increase gun violence.
Knowing how dysfunctional politicians are these days it is no surprise that this is how they operate regarding mass murder. They promote policies which increase control over citizens, who they fear and do not trust. Taking guns from ordinary citizens who have a Constitutional Right to have guns gives the politicians more control over citizens' lives. Psychiatry is another way to control ordinary citizens. Psychiatry is a means of social control without due process. There is a reason why the Bill of Rights was included in the Constitution. It was because of abuses by government historically taking a person's freedom without good cause. The politicians who followed them were paid to put into law taxpayer funding of psychiatry allowing the so called physicians to take freedom without due process protections. Why do so few conservative political observers understand how dangerous psychiatry is, at least as dangerous as removing guns from citizens?
Another matter of concern is in almost every city and town across the nation. Taxpayer funded commissions on disabilities. There are taxpayer funded state and US boards and non profit commissions and corporations and committees allegedly paid to protect the rights of persons with disabilities. The proposals being promoted by the totalitarians include denying to persons with disabilities many of the rights and privileges enjoyed by others. Why are all of these taxpayer funded men and women who are paid to protect persons with disabilities so loudly silent when the population that they are supposed to protect are under attack from government, journalists and politicians? Is it possible that all of them are unconcerned with the denigration of persons with disabilities? Many of these agencies and corporations are run by persons who do not have disabilities. Their priorities differ from protecting disability rights.
But also many of these same boards, commission and corporations are dominated by corporate interests. Some persons with disabilities promote the corporate interests over their own due to being easily corrupted by the money and power of the corporate interests. They invite them to dinners and give them access to parties and to films and other events. It is easy to corrupt humans, whether they have a disability or not. But there is total silence about this current effort to demonize all persons accused of mental illness as dangerous. It is despicable and no one answers the slander. Gun owners have a strong advocate in the NRA and other gun rights organizations. But persons with disabilities have no local, state or national voice which speaks for them and not for the corporations which provide goods andservices to them.
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