Cambridge, MA City Councilors Explain Orlando Terrorism

Cambridge City Councilor Denise Simmons said, “We must learn to live together as brothers and sisters, or parish (sic) together as fools.” Cambridge politicians ignore people with disabilities and encourage police abusing them. Is that what she means by living together? She added, "We know people are evil in this world. Some of them may even be running for president ... It is up to us as a society to make it as difficult as possible for them to be successful.” Is that what she means by constructive? Who decides who is evil and who is not? Politicians? [. . .] Vice Mayor Marc McGovern [. . .] said “I’m tired of people in Washington who [. . .] say how horrible they feel [. . .] then turn around and bow at the altar of the NRA.” Did the shooter say he was an NRA supporter? Who was the admitted ISIS supporter targeting? He is said to be homosexual by several patrons of Pulse and his first wife. Was this an attack on the NRA? [. . .] "Rev. Dr. Christian Brocato [. . .] said he will not tolerate" recent rhetoric from media and politicians. "The rhetoric goes against everything we stand for, not just as Americans and human beings, but as people who value diversity.'" Does he speak for all Americans, all human beings? How does he know what we all think? Are people with disabilities included in his idea of diversity?

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/news/20160615/an-attack-on-all-cambridge-community-gathers-to-honor-orlando-victims

'An attack on all:' Cambridge community gathers to honor Orlando victims
By Natalie Handy
nhandy (at) wickedlocal.com
Posted Jun. 15, 2016 at 8:01 AM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

NRA More Popular Than The White House Psychiatry More Popular Than Both

Asked by John McLaughlin on January 8, 2016  why Obama's poll numbers are 46 percent while the NRA has a 58 percent approval. Clarence Page answered:



"Probably because a large percentage of people don't know a lot about the NRA. It's an organization that's got gun owners as members. It's largely funded by the gun industry."



Do the same claims apply to the American Psychiatric Association? It is made up of psychiatrists, and largely funded by the psychiatric industry. The question is: Why do people believe what psychiatrists say?

Sarah Palin Cancels Appearance At NRA Convention

Governor Sarah Palin

[From article]
Palin, the outspoken, controversial former governor of Alaska, had been among the biggest names of more than a dozen Republicans scheduled to speak at the NRA's Leadership forum on Friday.
But Palin canceled her visit on Wednesday, Jennifer Baker, director of public affairs for the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action, confirmed.
Baker did not provide a reason for Palin's cancellation.

http://www.tennessean.com/story/insession/2015/04/08/sarah-palin-cancels-nra-convention-appearance/25490191/

Sarah Palin cancels NRA convention appearance
Joey Garrison, jgarrison (at) tennessean.com

6:20 p.m. CDT April 8, 2015

Virginia Democrat Wishes Ebola Virus On NRA

[From article]
Mike Dickinson, the unhinged Virginia Democrat who once sought the House seat formerly held by Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., issued a tweet Sunday asking God to kill everyone in the NRA with the Ebola virus. The tweet was sent after he issued another message saying he would lead a prayer asking God to murder everyone in the NRA during the debut of his alleged radio program.
"Dear god (sic)," he began. "Please use Ebola to infect the @NRA and it's various members. For they are A (sic) true virus and true terrorists in America."

http://www.examiner.com/article/va-dem-asks-god-to-murder-everyone-nra-with-deadly-ebola-virus

Va. Dem. asks God to murder everyone in NRA with deadly Ebola virus
September 1, 2014
Joe Newby

Mayors Against Guns Arrested

[From article]
After listing the offending Mayors, Carr says, "Now ask yourself this question: Who’d you rather have baby-sit your child, a member of the NRA, or a member of MAIG?"

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2013/12/carr_anti_gun_mayors_are_big_on_crime

Carr: Anti-gun mayors are big on crime
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
By: Howie Carr
Boston Herald

Delusions Are Dependent on Who Is Delusional

[From article]
When Aaron Alexis called the Rhode Island police a month ago to tell them that enemies were harassing him with a microwave machine, it was clear that he was suffering paranoid delusions and needed help. But the authorities let him go his merry way, evidently to sink deeper into the madness he mistook for reality.
Liberals blame shooting deaths on guns. Conservatives including the NRA blame shooting deaths on mental illness. Both are nonsensical. In addition Lowry accepts the FBI denial that microwave, electromagnetic radiation weapons exist. If that is so the North Koreans have exceeded the development of the United States in new technology. Perhaps the North Koreans were attacking Alexis. It certainly was not the CIA who huffed and puffed, tried and tried for 60 years spending millions if not billions on developing electromagnetic radiation weapons, but failed to do so.  

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0913/lowry092613.php3#.UlEERN00i6Y

Jewish World Review
Sept. 26, 2013/ 22 Tishrei, 5774
The impossibility of gun control
By Rich Lowry

NRA Blames Mental Illness For Gun Violence. No Different Than Liberal Nonsense That Guns Cause Violence.

Wayne Lapierre, Executive Vice President and CEO of the NRA



[From article]
The nation's mental health system is "in complete breakdown," resulting in not enough of the mentally ill being committed to psychiatric hospitals, National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre told NBC's "Meet the Press."
"If we leave these homicidal maniacs on the street ... they're going to kill," he said. "They need to be committed is what they need to be. If they are committed, they're not at the Naval Yard."
[. . .]
Doctors who treated Alexis should have carried out "a complete mental health status exam," Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., told CBS' "Face the Nation."

So if the mental health industrial complex is "in complete breakdown" the answer is to round up the people accused of mental illness? Is that like putting all people with broken legs into jail; because the hospitals are not working properly? Liberal misguided policy is to blame guns for deaths of innocent people. The NRA blames mental illness. Neither makes sense. They might as well blame the devil. Human beings are evil and can do the most depraved things. The high priests of the psychiatric industry claim they have superior knowledge of which humans that might be. But they have been making  predictions in and out of court for 100 years and they are not getting better. Unless the government control freaks are willing to put all non police in jail to prevent murders by civilians there is no way to stop the meaningless killings. Compared with the annual deaths from  medical negligence this is nothing. 90,000 to 100,000 patients die each year due to medical negligence, which can be overcome by human diligence. Only God can change the nature of man.  This article is filed under "politics" on Fox news. Politics is another word for bull crap. Where are the facts to support any of this rubbish promoted by the NRA? 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/22/nra-get-homicidal-maniacs-off-streets/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fmost-popular+%28Internal+-+Most+Popular+Content%29
NRA: Get 'homicidal maniacs' off streets
Published September 22, 2013

CO Senate President Ousted In Recall Vote

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/358190/famous-victory-colorado-charles-c-w-cooke?splash=

September 11, 2013 4:00 AM

A Famous Victory in Colorado
A grassroots effort delivered an unprecedented blow to gun-control advocates.

By Charles C. W. Cooke

Eighth Grader Charged With Obstruction For Wearing T-Shirt

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/351276/eighth-grader-who-refused-remove-nra-shirt-could-face-year-prison-ian-tuttle

Eighth-Grader Who Refused to Remove NRA Shirt Could Face Year in Prison
By  Ian Tuttle
June 17, 2013 3:37 PM

NRA More Popular Than Entertainment Industry

NY Senator Chuck "You" Schumer says the NRA is a fringe group. But according to this poll the NRA is more popular than the entertainment industry.  If the NRA is a fringe group what does that make Hollywood? 

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/19/sen-chuck-schumer-says-the-nra-is-an-extreme-fringe-group/

SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER SAYS THE NRA IS AN EXTREME ‘FRINGE GROUP’
Jan. 19, 2013 7:20pm
Erica Ritz

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http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/17/16567367-nbcwsj-poll-nra-more-popular-than-entertainment-industry?lite

NBC/WSJ poll: NRA more popular than entertainment industry
By NBC's Mark Murray
NBC News
January 18, 2013

Support Freedom, Protect Your Rights

Support Freedom, Liberty, Protect Your Rights



https://membership.nrahq.org/forms/signup.asp?campaignid=bonusgiftwy&EK=Y3ARPPBD&pubID=148.30&hid=20928059

NRA Letter to the President, and My Reply

The below ABC News story has a link to the PDF file of the NRA letter to the President dated March 14, 2011. There is another letter dated March 15, 2011 on the NRA web site. Here is my letter to the NRA.

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March 15, 2011
Wayne La Pierre
Executive Vice President
NRA

Chris W. Cox
Executive Director
NRA-ILA

National Rifle Association of America
11250 Waples Mill Road
Fairfax VA 22030

In your letter to the President dated March 14, 2011 you say,
"In the case of Tucson, a man clearly bent on violence was not reported to the proper authorities by those who had good reason to believe he had serious mental problems. That's not a deficiency in our gun laws, it's a deficiency in our mental health system -- and should be treated as such.
[. . .]
We welcome any serious discussion on policies that focus on prosecuting criminals and fixing deficiencies in the mental health system. Any proposals to the contrary are not a legitimate approach to the issue."

I support your efforts defending the Second Amendment. I know about the research in John R. Lott Jr.'s book More Guns, Less Crime.

Your general statement regarding the mental health system is problematic. Psychiatry is personal opinion masquerading as science. It is a large and growing boondoggle. Mental illnesses are created by consensus, not science. There are no pathologies for mental illnesses. Only psychiatrists can see mental illnesses. They diagnose symptoms, i.e., speech and behavior that are protected by the First Amendment to US Constitution. Speech and behavior that psychiatrists do not like or do not understand is declared mental illness. Psychiatry is a means of social control with no due process protections.

The Constitution protects citizens from arbitrary abuses of government power. Stalinist and Nazi psychiatrists made good use of the arbitrary nature of psychiatry. Yet many believe the genes of American psychiatrists have been cleansed of mendacity, greed and sadism.

Why do psychiatrists have an exception to the protections? Why do courts allow psychiatrists to predict the future? American jurisprudence defines crime as an act accompanied by the knowledge that the act is wrong. Taking freedom based upon personal opinion (psychiatry) is government abuse.

Your refer to "those who had good reason to believe [Loughner] had serious mental problems," without explaining who "those" are. Journalists regularly cite "a history of mental illness," when reporting crime. They suggest and share the fantasy with prosecutors that mental illness causes crime. Politicians believe that guns cause crime. It is just as nonsensical to blame mental illness for violence as it is to blame guns. But that is what your letter appears to do.

The psychiatric industry and the drug companies use their enormous influence promoting psychiatry and drug treatment. They control legislation and most editorial positions regarding mental illness and taking freedom based upon personal opinion and irrational fear.

The current focus is turning prisoners into mental patients, which is good for the drug companies and the psychiatric industry but bad for citizens. There is no appeal from a medical diagnosis. It was the Nazis who medicalized social problems. Research shows that fatherless children are much more likely to have problems with the criminal justice system than those with fathers. That is the source of much of the problems in the US today. But there is little focus on solving that problem. Instead fatherless homes are celebrated.

Why does the NRA divert attention from one scapegoat to another? People do bad things. It is impossible to identify violent civilians. Everyone is a potential criminal.

I hope you will reconsider your stated assumption regarding psychiatry.

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http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/03/nra-to-president-obama-the-problem-isnt-guns-its-law-enforcement-media-and-the-mental-health-system.html

NRA to President Obama: The Problem Isn’t Guns, it’s Law Enforcement, Media and the Mental Health System
ABC News
March 14, 2011 8:27 PM

Guns Kill People; People Don't

Guns Kill People; People Don't

Spector's defense team argues that the gun did it not the record mogul.
(David Li, and Todd Venzia, "SPECTOR TEAM'S SUICIDE 'PROOF,'" NYPost, April
27, 2007, page 15) This is a fresh spin on the NRA's argument that guns don't
kill people, people do.
These lawyers will prove that the gun did it, and that it was an accident.
And if the gun didn't do it by itself, the devil made Spector do it.

Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM

SPECTOR TEAM'S SUICIDE 'PROOF'
New York Post
By DAVID K. LI in Los Angeles and TODD VENEZIA in N.Y.

April 27, 2007 -- Phil Spector's defense raised the volume yesterday on his
claims of innocence, claiming to have evidence that the gun that killed Lana
Clarkson was loaded by the B-movie actress herself - and not by the mad music
mogul.

In opening statements in L.A. criminal court, Spector's lawyers said Clarkson's
DNA was found on the bullets left inside the .38-caliber Colt revolver that blew
her head off in the songwriter's castle-like mansion four years ago.

"They found only Lana Clarkson's DNA and [that of] some other unknown person,"
said attorney Linda Kenney Baden.

She added that none of Spector's DNA was found on the bullets - boosting defense
claims that Clarkson loaded the gun herself and committed suicide.

The foppish pop has-been - the musical mind behind '60s hits like "Be My Baby"
and "Da Doo Ron Ron" - is on trial for murder. Prosecutors say he shot Clarkson
to death in his Alhambra, Calif., home on Feb. 3, 2003.
[...]

david.li@nypost.com