Freedom Includes Offending Others

[From article]
Freedom means nothing if it does not mean the freedom to do what other people don't like. Everyone was free to be a Communist under the Stalin dictatorship, and everyone is free to be a Muslim in Saudi Arabia. Yet whole generations are coming out of our colleges where only those who are politically correct are free to speak their minds. What kind of America will they create?
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Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial
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If the Democrats retain control of the Senate after this year's election, Barack Obama can load the federal courts from top to bottom with judges who will ignore the Constitution, as he does, and promote his far-left political agenda instead, long after he is gone.
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"We cannot insure to the vicious the fruits of a virtuous life; we would not invade the home of the provident in order to supply the wants of the spendthrift; we do not propose to transfer the rewards of industry to the lap of indolence." Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan said that in 1896. Today's Democrats do all those things that Bryan rejected.
Any fool can say the word "racism." In fact, quite a few fools do say it. But clever people can also say "racism," in order to get fools to vote their way.

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell052714.php3#.U5aD590--yN

Jewish World Review 

May 27, 2014 / 27 Iyar, 5774
Random Thoughts
By Thomas Sowell

Hearing Voices is Mental Illness?

One special practice of psychiatry is to believe whatever makes a person suspected of mental illness look bad; and to disregard whatever makes the suspected person look good. Thus when a person says he hears voices, he is automatically believed even if he is lying. David Rosenhan demonstrated how effective such a claim is in an experiment with graduate students. In order to get themselves admitted to a mental hospital all it took was for them to say that they heard voices. His famous experiment was published in 1973, On Being Sane In Insane Places
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/179/4070/250.abstract
http://youtu.be/j6bmZ8cVB4o

Similarly when a court psychologist, psychiatrist or judge inquires of a suspect about any psychiatric history any admission is believed without any evidence; and any claim that the person is not mentally ill is ignored. It is called self identification and is accepted by public officials across the United States.

In the case of Aaron Alexis journalists report nationally that Alexis told Rhode Island police that he heard voices. Did the officer verify that was true? Did journalists verify that it was true? Is there any evidence other than a police report that Alexis said what he is reported to have said?

Based upon that police report, national media reports that Alexis was mentally ill. The concept of privacy, which is always applied to the medical records of politicians and celebrities is never protected for persons suspected of mental illness. Is there an exception in the state and US Constitutions which deny to persons suspected of mental illness or accused of mental illness, the same legal protections as celebrities and politicians?

Psychiatrists act as if their genes have been cleansed of mendacity, greed and sadism. They claim omniscience in court knowing the future as well. Journalists, politicians, judges and police believe them.   Isn't that special? All of the above mentioned job descriptions prevent making a distinction between crime and being suspected of or being accused of mental illness. For these special workers all persons accused of mental illness are guilty of crimes.

The rational basis for this belief is non existent. Yet it is pervasive. For liberals guns cause innocent persons to be shot dead. For conservatives mental illness causes innocent persons to be shot dead. Neither belief makes sense but it is a widespread belief. But whether any of the beliefs are true what is the connection between a person telling a police officer that he hears voices, and mental illness? In Massachusetts police are trained that if a person says that the FBI and the CIA are following him that is evidence of mental illness. But for 30 years James Bulger, John Martorano, Steve Flemmi, Kevin Weeks and Boston FBI Special Agent John Connolly were employed in covering up murdering law abiding  civilians who reported Bulger to the FBI for his drug dealing, murders and extortion. Does that explain why no one acted to stop 30 years of wholesale murders in Boston, Miami and Oklahoma? The state says that a Washington DC "consultant" wrote that training module.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/not-diagnosis-voices-head-more-common-thought-4B11186594

Not a diagnosis: Voices in head more common than thought
JoNel Aleccia
NBC News
Sep. 17, 2013 at 4:51 PM ET

Sanity Test Required for Entry

How long before Cambridge control freaks require civilians to disrobe and to submit to a mental health exam, before entering Cambridge? The US government violates the Right to Travel in the name of good--preventing terrorism. Citizens innocent of any thought crimes must remove shoes to walk on dirty floors, before boarding an airplane. Mindless misguided politicians focus on smoking--a legal activity. Why not scrutinize the medical profession which kills 90,000 per year through negligence? Do spineless Cambridge politicians fear wealthy doctors who kill? If smoking is so bad why not make it illegal? Where are the spines of these fools?

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1286598

Cambridge eyes cigarette ban
Wants smokers to butt out of parks
Boston Herald
By Natalie Sherman
Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Presidential Candidates Sane?

[From article]
"almost all of the 2008 candidates appear to be truly barking mad. [. . .]
our candidates for president are emotionally volatile, extreme personalities. They spend a lot of time being enraged. They don't trust those around them. They desperately want power and want to be celebrated, but they don't know what they want to do with power beyond wield it, and they seem incapable of reflection about why they need to be admired.[. . .]
The shallowness, the lack of seriousness of modern presidential candidates is almost unbelievable. It is also a mystery: How could this be?"

http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html

MARCH 12, 2010, 6:14 P.M. ET

Road to the Nut House

You have to be crazy to run for president. Seriously, you do.