Xu Lindong’s confinement in a locked mental ward was all the more notable, his brother says, for one extraordinary fact: he was not the least bit deranged. Angered by a dispute over land, he had merely filed a series of complaints against the local government. The government’s response was to draw up an order to commit him to a mental hospital — and then to forge his brother’s name on the signature line. [More]
What's the problem? His condition was adjudicated by the government and supported by certified professionals.
Hey, isn't "crazy" one of the pejoratives the antis use to describe we happy malcontents? Along with "hatriot" and "extremist" and...
Isn't that what the term "gun nut" is meant to convey--that you must be crazy to even want one?
By extension, it means us too, when we question authority. The people seem mostly ready to see us "dissidents" locked away out of sight. Who the hell do we think we are?
ReplyDeleteBut what if the people we are criticizing are like this:
The Washington Post reports that Prince George's County's County Executive Jack B. Johnson and his wife were arrested and charged with trying to hide a bribe from a local developer.
Prince George's County, Maryland, appears in these pages pretty often. I think a mayor in P.G. Co. was mailed a package containing marijuana by police and arrested when his family acccepted the package. On Johnson's watch?
You SHOULD shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater if the theater is in fact on fire, and if the Emperor wears no clothes, tell everyone.