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We Don't Have a Monopoly on Bigotry

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The solution to all the violence caused by crazy people is simple. Put all their names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and anything else useful in tracking them in an FBI database, accessible to anyone so they can't buy guns at gun shows. Or get jobs. Or rent apartments in my neighborhood. Some people suggest we preemptively round up all the crazy people and put them in jail, or camps, or just kill them. That seems pretty extreme, but how much violent crime caused by crazies do they have in Germany?

You don't think people have seriously suggested that we get rounded up and put away, or even systematically exterminated? Think again. Granted, preemptive imprisonment is a far more popular idea.

Jesus didn't have a problem with us, and got pissed off at people who did. Including his disciples. Matthew 17:14-20. That's not a particularly obscure passage. Give it a read, Mr. President, and rethink your bigotry.

Where's NAMBLA NAMI? How come they haven't posted anything about what President Obama said? Isn't fighting bigotry and stigma supposed to be their job? Oh, wait. They're totally into perpetuating the myth that mental illness = violence. No, really. Killing lots of people is just something crazy people do. They just keep using the same press release, with a different town, shooter and body count. They don't expect any better of us. We're now nothing more to them than a reason for their existence as a professional fundraising organization.

Guess us crazies has to get all uppity about our civil rights by our own selfs. Else we all gonna haf' ta pass as not crazy by not goin' to no doctors and takin' no medicines that'll git us in a big FBI list the whole wide world kin read.

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