Protesters tried to storm their way into one of China's top universities yesterday to confront a professor who said nearly all petitioners - people who come to Beijing to ask the central government for help - are mentally ill and should be put away. [More]I'm having a hard time deciding if he's right or not--perhaps anyone who thinks the government has any interest in honoring a right to petition is nuts.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Now There's a Man Who Knows His Government!
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mentally ill, yes. should be put away, no.
The US beat them to it a long time ago;
> "In August 2003, the National Institute of Mental Health and the National
Science Foundation announced the results of their $1.2 million, taxpayer-funded
study. It stated, essentially, that traditionalists are mentally
disturbed.Scholars from the Universities of Maryland, California at Berkeley,
and Stanford had determined that social conservatives, in particular, suffer
from “mental rigidity,” “dogmatism,” and “uncertainty avoidance,” together with
associated indicators for mental illness.Some conservatives and political
pundits chortled over the so-called study, but the fact remains that nothing
marginalizes a person faster today than a suggestion of being mentally
unbalanced. The 20-year-long practice of psychographic (emotional-attitudinal)
profiling under the cover of academic testing in schools is already intimidating
conservative and Christian students and their parents into silence."
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> http://www.beverlye.com/200410131912.html
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The original;
http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~hannahk/bulletin.pdf
Yet I am about the only person I know of who rejects the idea that the "mentally ill" should have their right to own and to carry weapons violated.
Anyone who thinks government will help them, or at least won't make the problem any WORSE... yeah, I'd say they're a few french-fries short of a Happy Meal.
"I never said government couldn't hurt you, I said government couldn't help you." -Police Chief Wiggum, The Simpsons
perhaps anyone who thinks the government has any interest in honoring a right to petition is nutsThen why does the focus in this bunch seem to be on "restoring the constitutional republic", rather than "not repeating past mistakes which have attempted to enslave us, including priests, kings, socialism, and constitutional republics"? If you have discovered that a certain medical treatment causes more harm than good, stop doing it now. It makes no sense to keep doing harm just because a replacement treatment hasn't been developed yet.
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