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		<title>Russell Brand &#8212;- Wrong Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2014 05:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Russell Brand, Hollywood&#8217;s favorite socialist, recently took to YouTube to deny the relevance of Islam to the Oct. 22, 2014 terrorist attack in Ottawa, Canada. See Steven Crowder&#8217;s thorough rebuttal below:</span></strong></p>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Get Serious About Mental Illness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2014 04:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An affliction that transcends politics or ideology. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/williams.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238574" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/williams-407x350.jpg" alt="williams" width="235" height="202" /></a>Robin Williams&#8217; suicide this week shook up people across the political spectrum — and for good reason. When a highly successful, incredibly popular figure from our culture decides to take his own life, it feels as though suicide could happen to anyone.</p>
<p>It can&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Robin Williams reportedly suffered from mentally illness. He stated during an interview in 2006 that he hadn&#8217;t been formally diagnosed with depression or bipolar disorder, but stated, &#8220;Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.&#8221; He added, &#8220;I get bummed, like I think a lot of us do at certain times. You look at the world and go, &#8216;Whoa.&#8217; Other moments you look and go, &#8216;Oh, things are OK.&#8217;&#8221; That same year, according to the Huffington Post, he explained the temptation of alcoholism — he had famously admitted to drug and alcohol addiction problems — to Diane Sawyer. &#8220;It&#8217;s the same voice thought that &#8230; you&#8217;re standing at a precipice and you look down, there&#8217;s a voice and it&#8217;s a little quiet voice that goes, &#8216;Jump.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>Williams&#8217; death has spurred multiple writers and celebrities to announce their own struggles with such issues; virtually every family has suffered through the horrors of mental illness. My grandfather was diagnosed with bipolar disorder decades ago, and routinely battled suicidality until his introduction to lithium.</p>
<p>Raising awareness is praiseworthy &#8211; the stigma attached to getting help for mental illness should be wiped away as soon as possible.</p>
<p>By the same token, we ought to ensure that normalizing mental illness helps no one, and damages those who truly are mentally ill. The lack of awareness surrounding mental illness comes from two directions: first, those who pretend that mental illness represents a lack of willpower or dedication; second, those who pretend that serious mental illnesses are not mental illnesses at all, but representations of free thought and behavior.</p>
<p>Forty years ago, the first group predominated; today, the second does.</p>
<p>Forty years ago, men and women feared career destruction should rumors spread that they were seeing psychologists or psychiatrists. That fear has largely dissipated. But a new threat to the well-being of those suffering from mental illness has replaced the original threat: the threat of diversity campaigners leaving those with mental illness to suffer in the name of heterogeneity.</p>
<p>This is not to suggest that all of those who are &#8220;different&#8221; are mentally ill, or vice versa. But it is meant to suggest that we ought to consider the mental health of those who are homeless, rather than labeling them, in blanket fashion, advocates for free living spaces. It is meant to suggest that those who suffer from gender dysphoria may not be suffering from societal bigotry, but from something far deeper and more dangerous, and that physical mutilation and stumping for tolerance will not solve their problems.</p>
<p>In other words, if we are to recognize the importance of mental illness as a society, the left must stop papering over mental illness with platitudes about diversity, and the right must stop treating mental illness as a moral problem rather than a medical one. Those racked with mental anguish are crying out for our help. If we don&#8217;t hear them, it may be because too busy pushing political viewpoints rather than listening.</p>
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		<title>Bill Whittle: A Brief History of Mental Illness</title>
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<p>In this searing and personal Firewall, Bill Whittle talks about his Brief History of Mental Illness, how he managed to avoid going Full Progressive, the famous author who helped bring him back to sanity, and asks the fundamental question: &#8220;What if I&#8217;m wrong?&#8221; See the video and transcript below:</p>
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<p>A BRIEF HISTORY OF MENTAL ILLNESS</p>
<p>Hi everybody. I’m Bill Whittle and this is the Firewall.</p>
<p>You know, every now and then you’ll see someone come forward and talk about some affliction they have, or addiction, or something like that, and they speak frankly about it in order to de-mystify things that are often considered shameful in order to make it easier for other people to cope or to seek treatment. So in that vein, I’d like to take a moment to discuss with you my brief history of mental illness.</p>
<p>I started to notice it right around my senior year in high school, but it wasn’t until I got to the University of Florida as a Theatre Major in 1979 that it really reached full flower. I was insane when I was in college. Looking back on it, I simply do not know how else to describe it. Let me give you a few examples.</p>
<p>In 1980, I was getting ready to go onstage – I’ve only been in two plays during my life; one was the classic comedy, “You Can’t Take It With You,” and the other one wasn’t.</p>
<p>At about five minutes to eight o’clock on the night of Tuesday, November 4th, 1980, just before we went on, the stage manager came running through the wings shouting, “It’s all over! It’s all over! We’re all going to die!”</p>
<p>“What do you mean it’s all over? What’s all over? Why are we all going to die?”</p>
<p>“Reagan! He’s won the election!!”</p>
<p>The stage manager was scared. The other actors were scared. I was scared. I was scared because I was barking-mad crazy.</p>
<p>How bad was it? Well, looking back, I can say that while I didn’t go full progressive – you should never go full progressive! – I did have some whacky ideas. I’d think and say things like:</p>
<p>If a criminal breaks into my apartment and steals my TV set in order to buy himself something to eat, then that’s okay because I’m bright and educated and I can always go get another TV set. Or:</p>
<p>This senile old fool of a President is just a talking head who is too stupid to see how he is destroying the country. Or:</p>
<p>Why do we need guns when we have the police? Or:</p>
<p>If we’d just raise taxes and give poor people money there wouldn’t be any more poverty.</p>
<p>I was mentally ill. I was mentally ill because I passionately believed in things that I knew nothing about, that’s why.</p>
<p>One night, someone did come into my student ghetto apartment to steal my TV set. I heard him come through the window, I looked up, and he was a foot from my face. He didn’t come to take my TV set to get a meal or feed his family. He broke into my pathetic apartment to steal the only thing I owned so that he could get high. And If I had walked in on him there’s a fair chance he would have killed me for the 15 dollars he could have gotten for that black and white TV.</p>
<p>And that senile old fool of a President was a man with a philosophy of freedom that he wrote out in his own hand over years of patient study and contemplation while on the road, alone, after a long national speaking tour he did for GE.</p>
<p>And the police never – almost never – actually stop a crime in progress: dashing into the room, guns drawn, seconds before someone was to be murdered or raped. That’s the movies. That doesn’t happen. The police arrive to draw the chalk line around your body, because when seconds count the police are only minutes away.</p>
<p>And the idea of giving endless fish to people who did not know how to fish not only did not teach them how to fish – it destroyed any incentive they might ever have to go fish for themselves like free people instead of seals at an aquarium.</p>
<p>There were a lot of those moments, and I’m ashamed of all of them now. But the one thing I am most ashamed of is that in 1984, I voted for… I – I actually voted for Walter Mondale, and I did it because he said he was going to raise taxes.</p>
<p>Some men go ashore at Normandy, or Iwo Jima – some men admit openly they voted for Walter Mondale. The causes are different but the thousand yard stare remains the same.</p>
<p>But there was some shred of sanity in me, even then.</p>
<p>When my girlfriend at the time – Let’s call her Kimberly because that was her name – declared that she was a communist, I just laughed. When she insisted, I said, “Kim, you’re not a communist. If you were a communist, you’d take that TV, stereo and jewlry down to a pan shop, sell it, and give the money to poor people.</p>
<p>That was the end of that relationship.</p>
<p>It was P.J. O’Rourke brought me back to sanity; P.J. O’Rourke, who, like me, was a former barking-mad long-haired slacker but who furthermore was also a bomb-throwing leftist, until he travelled the world and saw that for all of America’s injustice, stupidity and corruption, everywhere else was worse. Holidays in Hell, Parliament of Whores, Eat the Rich: PJ O’ Rourke taught me that good enough is good enough because perfect doesn’t exist, and those people that say it does will kill you if you disagree.</p>
<p>So when it comes to the big things, while I may not always be right, I am never wrong. I know that sounds arrogant: it is the exact opposite of arrogant. I’m a pilot – a rhetorical pilot – and I take people on journeys. I have an obligation to pre-flight these ideas; to kick the tires and wiggle the flaps and check the pitot tubes for obstructions, and most importantly, to know where the hell we are going. Every day – every single day – I ask myself: what if I’m wrong? What if I’m wrong? What if you can just keep printing money? What if health care really is free? What if a strangers moral comfort is more important than your right to defend yourself? What if dependency and envy are in fact good and kind things?</p>
<p>Well, they’re not. Capitalism is better than socialism – not because I say so, but because all of the rafts are going from Cuba to America and none of the rafts are going from America to Cuba. Freedom is better than tyranny because no one ever got shot trying to climb a wall to get into East Berlin. Equality of Opportunity is more fair, more humane and more fun than equality of result, because equality of result has to be enforced in places called Gulags.</p>
<p>I’m sane now, because now I actually understand the things that I believe in. And when I’m wrong – I move. I move to where the truth is, or at least where it appears to be. I’d rather be right than consistent.</p>
<p>The truth is out there – right out there in the grass, visible from behind the bars of our preconceptions and ignorance. It just takes the courage and the desire to go where the truth sits, and sit there too, rather than doing the intellectual and rhetorical somersaults needed to try to get the truth to come to you. The truth doesn’t care about where we sit. It sits where it sits. You have to go to it; it won’t come to you. And think that it will, well &#8212; that’s just nuts.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2014 04:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another leftist-enabled mentally ill person attacks society. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/elliot-rodger2.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-226457 alignleft" alt="elliot-rodger2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/elliot-rodger2-450x336.jpg" width="315" height="235" /></a>Mass murder at a sunny college campus in a beach town would normally be considered &#8220;newsy,&#8221; but Elliot Rodger&#8217;s massacre at the University of California-Santa Barbara last Friday is getting surprisingly little press.</p>
<p>This is not a good case for liberals: The killer was an immigrant, a person of color, and the majority of his casualties resulted from attacks with a car or knife. It makes as much sense to rant about the NRA as to blame the Auto Club of America or the National Knife Collectors Association.</p>
<p>Rather, what we have is yet another mass murder committed by a schizophrenic &#8212; just like those of Seung-Hui Cho, Jared Loughner, James Holmes and Adam Lanza.</p>
<p>Yes, they all used guns. Also, they were all males. They were all college-aged. They all had hair. Those are not distinctive characteristics.</p>
<p>When the last five mass murderers share something that only 1 percent of the population has, I think we&#8217;ve found the relevant common denominator.</p>
<p>Rodger had been seeing therapists since he was 8 years old. Just last year, his psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Sophy, prescribed him Risperidone, an anti-psychotic. But after looking up what Risperidone was for &#8212; schizophrenia &#8212; Rodger decided &#8220;it was the absolute wrong thing for me to take&#8221; and never did.</p>
<p>See, that&#8217;s the thing about schizophrenics &#8212; they don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re sick. They think the lava lamp that&#8217;s talking to them is sick.</p>
<p>Rodger&#8217;s &#8220;manifesto&#8221; reads like Nikolai Gogol&#8217;s &#8220;Diary of a Madman&#8221; &#8212; generally recognized as the first description of schizophrenia, except it&#8217;s a little repetitive and not well-written, no matter what that &#8220;tech guru&#8221; says.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m one of the few who have read all 141 pages. It is a tale of increasing delusions, paranoia, hallucinations and wild, grandiose self-assessments. In other words, it is a slightly less whiny version of Obama&#8217;s first inaugural address. (How many pages does your manifesto have to be before we can force you to take your medication?)</p>
<p>Rodger says of himself:</p>
<p>&#8211; &#8220;I saw myself as a highly intelligent and magnificent person who is meant for great things.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; &#8220;Becoming a multimillionaire at a young age is what I am meant for.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; &#8220;I am like a god.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; &#8220;This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and the planet began to heal.&#8221;</p>
<p>(No &#8212; wait &#8230; Last one was Obama.)</p>
<p>Rodger saw every female as a &#8220;tall, hot blonde&#8221; &#8212; and, this being California, that&#8217;s at a campus that&#8217;s only 50 percent white. He viewed all couples as his sworn enemies causing his suffering.</p>
<p>Although Rodger loved driving his car, he &#8220;soon learned the hard way&#8221; not to drive on Friday and Saturday nights, where he &#8220;frequently saw bands of teenagers roaming the streets.&#8221; They &#8220;had pretty girls beside them,&#8221; probably on their way to &#8220;get drunk and have sex and do all sorts of fun pleasurable things that I&#8217;ve never had the chance to do. Damn them all!&#8221;</p>
<p>At Santa Barbara City College, he dropped his sociology class on the first day of school &#8220;because there was this extremely hot blonde girl in the class with her brute of a boyfriend.&#8221; Rodger couldn&#8217;t even sit through the whole first class with them, merely for being a couple.</p>
<p>Santa Monica Pier was out for him, too: &#8220;I saw young couples everywhere. &#8230; Life was too unfair to me.&#8221; On a trip to England, he refused to leave his hotel room so he wouldn&#8217;t have to see men walking with their girlfriends.</p>
<p>The &#8220;cruelty&#8221; of women apparently consisted of the failure of any &#8220;tall, hot blondes&#8221; to approach Rodger and ask for sex. He would walk around for hours &#8220;in the desperate hope that I might possibly cross paths with some pretty girl who would be attracted to me.&#8221;</p>
<p>But only once, in the entire 141-page manifesto, does Rodger attempt to speak to a girl himself. She&#8217;s a total stranger walking past him on a bridge, and he musters up the courage to say &#8220;hi.&#8221; He claims she &#8220;kept on walking&#8221; and said nothing. She probably didn&#8217;t hear him. But he called her a &#8220;foul bitch&#8221; and went to a bathroom to cry for an hour.</p>
<p>Although Rodger repeatedly denounces the world and everyone in it for &#8220;cruelty and injustice,&#8221; he was the bully more often than the bullied, especially as time went on, and his rage increased.</p>
<p>He sees an Asian guy talking to a white girl at a party, decides he&#8217;d been &#8220;insulted enough,&#8221; and roughly bumped the Asian aside. &#8220;How could an ugly Asian attract the attention of a white girl, while a beautiful Eurasian like myself never had any attention from them? I thought with rage.&#8221;</p>
<p>Even after this unprovoked assault, the couple was nice to him, telling him he was drunk and should have some water. He stormed out of the party, but returned to &#8220;spitefully insult&#8221; the Asian.</p>
<p>Then he climbed up on a balcony at the party, and when some college kids joined him, he began insulting them and tried to push the girls off a 10-foot ledge.</p>
<p>He hectors his mother to marry &#8220;any wealthy man&#8221; because it would &#8220;be a way out of my miserable and insignificant life.&#8221; He tells her &#8220;she should sacrifice her well-being for the sake of my happiness.&#8221;</p>
<p>When flying first class, he says, &#8220;I took great satisfaction as I passed by all of the other people who flew economy, giving all of the younger passengers a cocky little smirk whenever they looked at me.&#8221;</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in 141 pages, the worst thing anyone ever did to him was not say &#8220;hi&#8221; back.</p>
<p>His claims that couples all over were &#8220;making out&#8221; or &#8220;passionately kissing&#8221; are probably hallucinatory. In the Starbucks line? At family dinners? They were probably holding hands and Rodger hallucinated something resembling a live sex act.</p>
<p>Thus, he writes that a couple in a Starbucks line were &#8220;kissing passionately &#8230; rubbing their bodies together and tongue kissing in front of everyone.&#8221; Livid, Rodger followed them to their car and threw his hot coffee on them. Utterly self-pitying, he says: &#8220;I cursed the world for condemning me to such suffering.&#8221; Then he spent five days alone in his room.</p>
<p>Another couple Rodger says were kissing &#8220;passionately&#8221; in the food court outside Domino&#8217;s pizza enraged him so much he followed them in his car and &#8220;splashed my iced tea all over them&#8221; &#8212; to fight &#8220;against the injustice.&#8221;</p>
<p>But the story that sounds the most like Gogol&#8217;s Poprishchin hearing two dogs talking in Russian is Rodger&#8217;s allegation that his stepmother bragged to him that his stepbrother, Jazz &#8212; her own 6-year-old son! &#8212; &#8220;would be a success with girls and probably lose his virginity early.&#8221;</p>
<p>I know Moroccan cultural mores are different, but I&#8217;m calling &#8220;auditory hallucination&#8221; on that one.</p>
<p>A family friend, Simon Astaire, described Rodger&#8217;s flat affect, common to schizophrenics, saying he &#8220;couldn&#8217;t look at you straight in the eye and looked at your feet. It was unbearable.&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s hard to feel sorry for a mass murderer, but it was cruel to Elliot Rodger to allow him to refuse medication and turn himself into a monster. It was beyond cruel to his innocent victims &#8212; as well as the other victims of psychopathic killers. But liberals are more worried about &#8220;stigmatizing&#8221; the mentally ill than the occasional mass murder.</p>
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		<title>Somalia and the Hyena Cure</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 04:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a country goes mad.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/0_1_2_3_somalia3.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-207550" alt="0_1_2_3_somalia3" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/0_1_2_3_somalia3-450x344.jpg" width="315" height="241" /></a>The World Health Organization estimates that 1 in 3 Somalis are mentally ill due to their country’s constant violence and abuse of the Khat narcotic. Somali science however came up with a surefire cure for the crazies. Lock the patient up in a room with a hyena and wait for the ugly beast to see the demons causing the madness and drive them out.</p>
<p>Somali medicine, like American medicine, however suffers from rising health care costs. A session with a trained psychiatric hyena costs 560 dollars in a country where the average national salary is 190 bucks putting a Mogadishu trained hyena on par with a Harvard trained psychiatrist.</p>
<p>Somalis who can&#8217;t afford to blow a three month salary to spend time on the couch with a hyena have a more practical solution. They tie the affected person to a tree and leave. The hyenas usually find the patient sooner or later and snack on him pro bono, while his kin head off to the welfare office in Lewiston, Maine.</p>
<p>Like the joke about the mental patient and the driver with the broken wheel, the Somalis may be nuts, but they aren&#8217;t stupid.</p>
<p>Somalia only has half the Somali population. Kenya has almost a million. The United Kingdom has over 100,000 and Canada may have as many as 150,000. The United States has quite a few and Minnesota alone has may have 80,000 to 125,000 of them.</p>
<p>American politicians, who can give any Khat-chewing Somali pirate a run for his money in the insanity department, dumped thousands of Somalis into Lewiston, Maine where they now make up a seventh of the population.</p>
<p>The average low in Lewiston in January is near zero. Meanwhile January in Mogadishu is a balmy 86 degrees with occasional flurries of machine gun fire.</p>
<p>Despite its chilly weather, Lewiston did have some warm welfare and the Somalis ignored the cold and flocked to the cold cash. The WHO may consider them crazy, but unlike the politicians who welcomed them in, they aren&#8217;t stupid.</p>
<p>The Somali gangs that tore apart their homeland have been reborn in the frigid Midwest. Ten percent of the gang members in the Minneapolis Police Department’s system are Somalis. The Somali Outlaws, the Somali Hot Boyz and the Somali Assault Unit go from welfare to crime. Like the gangs at home, Somali migrant gangs scale up from street crime, drug trafficking, robberies, sex trafficking and protection rackets to international terrorism.</p>
<p>Lewiston, Maine, a place as traditionally synonymous with gangs as Mogadishu is with snow, now has concerns about gang violence.</p>
<p>Maine has gone from having no gang members a few years ago to having 4,000 of them. Mainahs have gone from thinking of gang members as something they saw on COPS to something they see when they look out the window.</p>
<p>Vacationland now hosts the True Somali Bloods and the True Sudanese Bloods who spill each other&#8217;s blood to find out who has the truest blood of them all. In Lewiston, Somali flash mobs attack natives. In Bangor, a Somali gang is at the heart of local crime.</p>
<p>Gangs are still the closest thing to a rule of law in Somalia. There was every reason to expect the Somali migrants in the United States to fall back into that pattern, clusters of young men building families around gangs and making their own law the way they did back home. Nietzsche said that when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you. When you stare at a hyena, the hyena stares back at you. When you stare into Somalia, Somalia stares back at you.</p>
<p>The Somali migrants are not becoming Americanized. Maine and Minneapolis are becoming Somalized.</p>
<p>The American hyena became extinct as the march of civilization drove it back. Where there is civilization, carrion eaters no longer eat well unless they learn to be small and quiet. In Somalia, hyenas thrive because there isn&#8217;t civilization and so there is good eating for their kind.</p>
<p>Hyenas don&#8217;t destroy civilization. They are a symptom of its collapse. They are a sign that the city is giving way to the desert, the town to the village and the village to a handful of burnt out shacks. Carrion eaters go where civilization falls, where men no longer work shoulder to shoulder and where nothing bigger than a gang can endure. They go where there are bodies and no one to bury them.</p>
<p>In Somalia, the hyenas that aren&#8217;t in private practice carry on a battle of wits with the Islamic terrorists of Al-Shabaab responsible for the Westgate Massacre in Kenya.</p>
<p>The hyenas have been known to taste the occasional Al-Shabaab fighter who falls asleep in a Khat induced trance in the sun. And Al-Shabaab hunts and kills hyenas and sells their meat to finance terrorism. Hyenas, like most dog-like animals, are considered unclean in Islam, but Al-Shabaab overcame its Islamic scruples to sell hyena flesh and even market its consumption as effective at fighting off evil spells.</p>
<p>Al-Shabaab, which keeps killing people in order to impose Islamic law on a country that already runs on Islamic law, has to use black magic to convince people to buy the meat of an animal that eats corpses.</p>
<p>Including human corpses.</p>
<p>The Islamic terrorist group is coming rather close to cannibalism in the name of imposing Islamic law. But American liberals are coming even closer to cannibalism in the name of imposing tolerance.</p>
<p>Somalia is what happens when a country goes mad. And it would be foolish to believe that the same thing couldn’t happen here.</p>
<p>If we could lock up the advocates of open borders in a room with a hyena for three days and hope the scavenger eats the evil spirits in their minds, it would be worth the 560 dollars.</p>
<p>But lock an American politician in a room with a hyena and the laughing beast will not see evil spirits in his eyes, just a weak creature waiting to be eaten. That is the same thing that Somali thugs and terrorists see when those cheerful politicians welcome them to America.</p>
<p>The Hyena Cure doesn’t work by eating evil spirits. Being locked in a room for three days with a predator that eats human flesh is the ultimate reality check. Either you put aside whatever illness has made it impossible for you to function in civilization. Or the hyena eats you.</p>
<p>America, Canada, Europe and Australia all face the Hyena Cure. Either being locked in cities and towns with migrating predators wakes them from their madness.</p>
<p>Or the hyenas eat them.</p>
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		<title>World Health Organization: 1 in 3 Somalis are Insane</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2013 15:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Do we really need more Somali immigration? Aside from incidents like Westgate in which Somali terrorists kill non-Muslims, according to the World Health Organization, <a href="http://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2013/10/09/170000-mentally-ill-tied-to-trees-and-left-to-die-in-somalia/">most of the country is insane</a>.</p>
<p>That may explain some things.</p>
<blockquote><p>Somalia has one of the world’s highest rates of mental illness with one in three people affected, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).</p></blockquote>
<p>The cause is Somali Muslim violence. And drugs.</p>
<blockquote><p>After the war, he believes the second biggest contributor to mental health issues is the widely used stimulant khat. The plant, which is chewed for its euphoric effects, has been linked to psychosis and depression.</p></blockquote>
<p>Clearly we need more Somali immigrants to bring their brand of drug and Islam induced mental illness over here. But advanced Somali Muslim medicine has the answer. Just lock them with a hyena.</p>
<blockquote><p>In Somalia there’s a belief that a mentally ill person can be cured by shutting them in a room with a hyena</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8230;and if that doesn&#8217;t work.</p>
<blockquote><p>Mentally ill people in the war-ravaged country are often chained or locked up. Others are tied to trees and abandoned when their families are forced to flee fighting.</p>
<p>In one of the most moving radio interviews I’ve heard in a long time, psychiatric nurse Abdirahman Ali Awale, who is commonly known as Dr Habeeb, told how he was reduced to tears every day by what he sees.</p>
<p>“I have saved many, many patients who have been left to die. They have been tied to a tree and abandoned simply because they are mentally ill,” he told the BBC World Service.</p></blockquote>
<p>It must be hard to tie 1/3 of the country to a tree.</p>
<blockquote><p>Many Somalis attribute behavioural problems to bad spirits and seek help from religious leaders or traditional healers. One of the most extreme treatments involves locking a person up with a hyena.</p>
<p>“In Somalia, there’s this belief that hyenas can see everything including the thing that causes mental illnesses,” says Habeeb.</p>
<p>“Two hyenas were brought from the bushes and brought to Mogadishu. Patients were locked in a room with the hyena with the belief that when the thing that caused the mental problem sees the hyena it would leave the body of the patient and the patient would be fine after that.”</p>
<p>This treatment is not cheap – the cost can be around $560, according to Habeeb.</p></blockquote>
<p>Wow.</p>
<p>Hyenas are as expensive as psychiatrists. You would think that anyone could just grab a hyena, there must be plenty of them in Somalia, and stick it in a room with you&#8230; without a PhD.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s with the hyena health care markup? Does Somalia use its own Chargemasters or did they pass ObamaCare?</p>
<p>I&#8217;d like to see an effectiveness study on hyenas vs psychiatrists.</p>
<blockquote><p>WHO says most mentally ill people in Somalia are chained up or imprisoned.</p>
<p>Habeeb told the BBC more than 170,000 people have been “locked and … left to die”.  And no one in authority is talking about it.</p>
<p>You don’t have to look hard to find numerous images on the internet showing people chained to trees, rocks and beds.</p></blockquote>
<p>Apparently the Hyena Cure isn&#8217;t working.</p>
<p>But we shouldn&#8217;t pass judgement on cultural differences. If locking people up with hyenas or tying them to trees until they die is a culturally approved treatment for mental illness in Somalia, w<a href="http://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2013/10/09/170000-mentally-ill-tied-to-trees-and-left-to-die-in-somalia/">ho are we to pass judgement on their culture</a>?</p>
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		<title>Top Norwegian Prof: Critics of Mass Immigration Mentally Ill</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 04:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ubaydullah_1031805i.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-190155" alt="ubaydullah_1031805i" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ubaydullah_1031805i-450x350.jpg" width="270" height="210" /></a>Per Fugelli is a physician, originally from Stavanger in western Norway, who has for years been a Professor of Social Medicine at the University of Oslo. He also enjoys a high media profile. Fritt Ord, Norway’s most important and well-funded free speech organization, decided to give the Freedom of Expression Prize for 2013, their highest distinction, to Fugelli “<a href="http://www.fritt-ord.no/en/hjem/mer/fritt_ords_pris_for_2013_gar_til_per_fugelli/">for</a> having given a voice to cancer patients.” He has been open about his struggle against this horrible disease and made a positive contribution in that regard, but in many other cases he’s been more preoccupied with harassing, threatening or bullying others who dare to use their freedom of speech.</p>
<p>Another person who has previously won the same award is <a href="http://www.fritt-ord.no/no/priser/category/fritt_ords_pris/">William Nygaard</a>, the Norwegian publisher of Salman Rushdie’s novel <i>The Satanic Verses</i>, who<i> </i>on the morning of 11 October 1993 was shot three times and nearly killed outside of his own home in Oslo. The percentage of Muslims in Norway at that point probably did not much exceed 1%. It was even less in Japan, where the translator of the same novel was murdered. Merely one percent or less of Islamic culture can thus be enough to get people killed for criticizing Islam. This should serve as a reminder of just how toxic Islam truly can be to any free society.</p>
<p>After it was announced in 2013 that he would receive this prestigious award for free speech, one newspaper asked Per Fugelli about who he would like to be stuck in an elevator with. He replied the politician Christian Tybring-Gjedde, so he could “<a href="http://www.dagsavisen.no/tema/navn-i-nyhetene/fugelli-ypper-til-brak/">beat him</a> up.” A funny and tolerant guy, Professor Fugelli. Tybring-Gjedde is an MP and a notable member of the right-wing Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet). His party advocates lower taxes and is critical of certain aspects of mass immigration, although some of their voters feel that the party has gone soft over these issues after its current head Siv Jensen took over from long-time party leader Carl I. Hagen.</p>
<p>The left-wing activist Eivind Trædal published a major essay in the newspaper <i>Dagbladet </i>entitled “<a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/11/28/kultur/debatt/kronikk/innvandring/trakassering/19194014/">junk people</a>” in which he singled out a number of named individuals for attacks, among them Tybring-Gjedde, the author Bruce Bawer, and me, for spreading “hate” against Islam and thereby creating a climate of hate which allegedly fostered Breivik.</p>
<p>Tybring-Gjedde had to take sick leave for a while in <a href="http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/norge/1.7903981">late 2011</a> due to repeated death threats against him. Members of the ruling Labour Party, including Eskil Pedersen, the leader of Labour’s youth league AUF, had accused individuals from the rival Progress Party of laying the groundwork for Anders Behring Breivik’s massacre by “<a href="http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/norge/1.7886748">misusing</a>“ freedom of speech to say negative things about mass immigration or Islamization.</p>
<p>Pedersen and a few others survived the Utøya massacre by escaping the island in a ferry, originally a military landing craft, which had room for many more people. This triggered critical remarks from some of the other survivors, among them Bjørn <a href="http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/22-juli/artikkel.php?artid=10065090">Ihler</a>. Eskil Pedersen believed that the country was under attack and did <a href="http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/terrorangrepet/article1670192.ece">not trust</a> any member of the police after he had escaped. He has stated that he thought this was a coup d’état involving the police and the armed forces, and claims that other AUF members thought the same.</p>
<p>Breivik did in fact show up at Utøya wearing a fake police uniform. Nevertheless, it is somewhat odd for the leader of the country’s largest political youth organization to say openly that he thought it was a coup d’état by the police against a youth summer camp. What is most thought-provoking, though, is that the same Eskil Pedersen just a few months earlier had tried to use the police to shut up people he happened to disagree with.</p>
<p>In May 2011 he pressed criminal charges against a Member of Parliament, Christian <a href="http://politisk.tv2.no/nyheter/auf-leder-nekter-a-si-unnskyld-til-tybring-gjedde/">Tybring-Gjedde</a> from the rival Progress Party, for “racism.” The case was soon dismissed. Tybring-Gjedde had stated that in the Grorud Valley in Oslo, which has one of the densest concentrations of immigrants in the country, blond girls have to dye their hair dark to avoid harassment, children are threatened with violence if they have pig meat in their lunch box and native boys risk being physically assaulted by immigrants who think they don’t get enough time on the local football team. These are merely truthful statements. In fact, reality is often much worse than this.</p>
<p>The reaction of Eskil Pedersen and others of his ilk to hearing that the natives no longer feel safe in parts of their own country due to the immigration policies supported by the ruling elites is to try to silence political opponents who speak truthfully about this. This betrays a totalitarian impulse.</p>
<p>After Breivik, Per Fugelli was among those who were most aggressive in blaming the Progress Party and its leader <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/Bygger-fiendebilder-6665503.html">Siv Jensen</a> indirectly, if not directly, for Breivik’s massacre, since they spread totally unfounded “<a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/08/05/kultur/debatt/kronikk/fugelli/innvandring/17565158/">Islamophobia</a>” by pointing out problems related to Islamic culture and Muslim immigration. He has more than once made questionable associations with Nazi Germany against those who criticize Multiculturalism.</p>
<p>In May 2013, on the day when he was about to formally receive his Freedom of Expression Prize, Fugelli stated that people who worry about such things as crime related to Gypsy gangs or certain types of organized crime need <a href="http://www.dagsavisen.no/samfunn/ta-ansvar-ta-til-motmale/">a sedative</a> for their baseless “anxiety.” Professor Fugelli, a medical professional, recommended that politicians should take a Valium pill before they speak about issues related to immigration.</p>
<p>Obviously, once could assume that this was intended as some kind of joke on the good professor’s part. If it is, however, it’s not a terribly funny one, given that certain repressive regimes have considered those who oppose their ideology as “insane” individuals in desperate need of forced medical or psychiatric treatment. Just ask brave dissidents from the Soviet Union such as Vladimir Bukovsky.</p>
<p>It’s also not the first or only time that Mr. Fugelli has indicated, jokingly or otherwise, that individuals who disagree with his views should be treated medically for their alleged delusions, with or without their consent.</p>
<p>During the Multicultural craze of the 1990s, the Norwegian novelist Torgrim Eggen in an essay entitled “The psychotic racism” warned against the possibility of “race wars in the streets” as a result of mass immigration. This essay was available on the Internet as late as in 2007 and 2008 when I linked to it from <a href="http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3576"><i>The Brussels Journal</i></a>, but it has since then conveniently gone missing. The solution to these problems was not to limit mass immigration but to limit criticism of it. According to Eggen, xenophobia and opposition to mass immigration should be viewed as a mental illness, and the solution to xenophobia “is that you should distribute medication to those who are seriously affected. I have discussed this with a professor of Social Medicine, Dr. Per Fugelli, and he liked the idea.” Fugelli had apparently suggested putting anti-psychotic drugs in the city’s drinking water.</p>
<p>This may sound too extreme to be meant seriously, but Fugelli has continued to chastise all those who are critical of mass immigration. Eggen warned that arguments about how ordinary people are concerned over mass immigration shouldn’t be accepted, because this could lead to Fascism: “One should be on one’s guard against people, especially politicians, who invoke xenophobia on behalf of others. And if certain people begin their reasoning with phrases such as ‘ordinary people feel that,’ one shouldn’t argue at all, one should hit [them].”</p>
<p>In May 2013 Fugelli was a participant on <i>Dagsnytt Atten</i>, one of the most important daily news magazines and debate forums on the state broadcaster NRK. In addition to radio, it is also broadcasted on TV. On May 13, 2013, when he had been specifically invited to talk about his free speech award, during a conversation with Anders Heger, an influential publisher in the publishing house Cappelen Damm, Fugelli indicated that those who want to deport foreign gypsies should themselves be arrested and thrown in jail.</p>
<p>The issue was not about killing or abusing anybody, but merely whether to send back newly-arrived foreign organized beggars who cause problems. Per Fugelli thus advocated that those who disagree with his views on how to deal with foreign beggars should be thrown in jail. He said this in plain words on the country’s largest media outlet when he was there specifically to talk about freedom of speech.</p>
<p>So the person who had recently won one of the country’s most prestigious free speech awards has publicly advocated that those who use their free speech in a manner which he disagrees with should be beaten up, medicated or thrown in jail.</p>
<p>In the autumn of 2011, the author Torgrim Eggen complained in the national newspaper <a href="http://www.vg.no/nyheter/meninger/artikkel.php?artid=10039602"><i>VG</i></a> that some people make rude or threatening comments about others, whose political views they happen not to share themselves. It’s nice that he is concerned about this issue, of course, but he forgot to say anything about whether or not we should hit people who point out the negative results of mass immigration.</p>
<p>In the spring of 2013, the journalists Kjell Erik Eilertsen and Ole Asbjørn Ness from the medium-sized business paper <i>Finansavisen</i>, owned by businessman Trygve Hegnar, <a href="http://www.hegnar.no/okonomi/article727633.ece">interviewed</a> young people of ethnic Norwegian background about how it’s really like for them to grow up in the Grorud Valley in inner-city Oslo. They told a tale of constant, daily humiliations and abuse, until many native families simply move away from the area.</p>
<p>The article met with <a href="http://www.rights.no/2013/05/enorm-respons-pa-innvandringens-bakside/">a storm</a> of reactions on two of the major dissident <a href="http://www.document.no/2013/04/nederlaget/">websites</a> in Norway and was translated <a href="http://gatesofvienna.net/2013/05/everything-you-have-learned-in-school-is-wrong/">to English</a> at the website Gates of Vienna, which the weekly newspaper <i>Morgenbladet</i> has charmingly defined as the “<a href="http://morgenbladet.no/leder/2012/fellesskapets_grenser">Gates</a> of Hell.” Yet the story largely met with silence from bigger media outlets. The state broadcaster NRK was at the same time busy inventing a positive and charming Multicultural version of this area.</p>
<p>My initial thought when reading about this was the deafening silence of “nice” people like Per Fugelli, or <a href="http://www.pi-news.net/category/gutmenschen/"><i>Gutmenschen</i></a> as the Germans call them. What is their reaction to this? Virtually nothing; they just turn their backs to these problems caused by their own policies and pretend they don’t exist. I am sure these abused young natives, who tell horrifying tales of being robbed, beaten up or called “white infidel whore” on a regular basis in what once was their country, would have been delighted to receive some backing from a self-appointed brave “humanitarian” such as Mr. Fugelli. Sadly, they received none.</p>
<p>Perhaps if they asked him, Professor Fugelli would explain to them that the assaults and abuse they experience are all imaginary and can be cured with some anti-psychotic drugs. And if that didn’t work, maybe he would smear them with “Nazi” accusations or threaten to beat them up. Per Fugelli represents the dark and hypocritical face of humanitarian Norway.</p>
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		<title>When Will the GOP Pursue Policies Americans Care About?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 04:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ann-coulter/when-will-the-gop-pursue-policies-americans-care-about/6a00d8341c630a53ef01157131b584970c-500wi/" rel="attachment wp-att-180310"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-180310" title="6a00d8341c630a53ef01157131b584970c-500wi" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/6a00d8341c630a53ef01157131b584970c-500wi-450x325.jpg" alt="" width="243" height="176" /></a>Republicans don&#8217;t control the U.S. Senate and they don&#8217;t have the presidency. Instead of wasting time and energy in doomed efforts to defeat President Obama&#8217;s Cabinet nominees or sucking up to illegal aliens, why not focus on issues where Republicans can be off-the-charts popular while forcing Democrats into taking stupid positions?</p>
<p>After the slaughters at Virginia Tech, Aurora, Colo., Tucson, Ariz., and Newtown, Conn., every sentient person knows we need to do something about institutionalizing the mentally ill and &#8212; at the very least &#8212; keeping guns out of their hands.</p>
<p>That happens to be impossible right now. Involuntary commitments even for the severely psychotic went the way of vagrancy laws. Although federal law technically requires background checks to include records of mental illness, the states and mental health industry refuse to provide that information.</p>
<p>Of course, the vast majority of mentally disturbed individuals are not dangerous. But looking at it from the other end, more than half of all mass murder is committed by the mentally ill. Gun ownership doesn&#8217;t lead to random murder rampages; mental illness does.</p>
<p>And the good news for Republicans is: Democrats will only pretend to support keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous psychotics, while working frantically to gut and undermine such measures. Liberals fear &#8220;stigmatizing&#8221; the mentally ill more than they fear another mass murder.</p>
<p>Instead of proposing serious reforms, the Democrats play politics by demonizing responsible gun owners and the Republicans who defend them.</p>
<p>The Democrats&#8217; gun proposals are like the joke about the drunk looking for his keys under the lamplight:</p>
<p>&#8220;Is that where you dropped them?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;No, but the light&#8217;s better here.&#8221;</p>
<p>Preventing crazy people from buying guns is hard. The ACLU will sue and we&#8217;ll be tied up in lawsuits for a decade, at which point a Democrat-appointed judge will rule that including records of paranoid delusions in FBI background checks is unconstitutional.</p>
<p>As former federal judge H. Lee Sarokin (a Clinton appointee) might say, &#8220;We should revoke their condition, not their gun permits.&#8221;</p>
<p>The light&#8217;s better over by the sane, responsible gun owners, who wouldn&#8217;t hurt a fly &#8212; unless it&#8217;s a schizophrenic shooting up a shopping mall.</p>
<p>Since the deinstitutionalization movement got under way in the 1970s, the mentally ill remain mentally ill, but now instead of living in warm, safe institutions, they live out on the streets, in homeless shelters and in soup kitchens, or drift back to their helpless families, occasionally showing up in &#8220;gun-free zones&#8221; to commit mass murder.</p>
<p>After the Virginia Tech shooting, an ABC poll showed that while Americans remained dubious about the effect of more gun control laws, 83 percent supported requiring states to provide information on the mentally ill for gun background checks.</p>
<p>Since then, the mentally deranged have continued committing mass shootings. There is still no way to prevent them from buying guns.</p>
<p>At the risk of joining the Republicans&#8217; circular firing squad when we ought to be fighting Democrats, here&#8217;s how I think Republicans should be looking at things:</p>
<p>&#8211; Pushing amnesty for illegal aliens: 80 percent of Americans ferociously oppose you.</p>
<p>&#8211; Pointlessly opposing Obama&#8217;s Cabinet nominees: 99 percent of Americans need a constant supply of NoDoz just to listen.</p>
<p>&#8211; Staking out an Amnesty International position on a president&#8217;s hypothetical ability to use a drone against an &#8220;American citizen&#8221; (named Anwar al-Awlaki) about to launch a devastating terrorist attack on U.S. soil: 70 percent of Americans are against you.</p>
<p>&#8211; Opposing the Democrats&#8217; idiotic proposals on gun control: 60-70 percent of Americans support you, but the other 30 to 40 percent will hate you because they want to &#8220;Do Something.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; Proposing the involuntary commitment of dangerous psychotics and implementing measures to prevent them from obtaining guns: 83 percent of Americans support you and will be furious at Democrats for trying to undercut such laws.</p>
<p>Liberals can&#8217;t help themselves &#8212; they&#8217;re like Dr. Strangelove with the Nazi salute. The Democratic base will wail, &#8220;Who&#8217;s to say who is crazy? Maybe we&#8217;re the crazy ones!&#8221; and bleat about stigmatizing the mentally ill. Or, to quote Judge Sarokin, again: &#8220;[O]ne person&#8217;s hay fever is another person&#8217;s ambrosia.&#8221;</p>
<p>Your choice, Republicans: Take positions that will make you extremely popular, reduce mass murder in America and simultaneously reveal the insanity of the Democratic Party, or keep prattling about topics of interest to no one. Take all the time you need. 2014 is a whole year away.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 04:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ann-coulter/stopping-gun-violence-requires-commitment-not-all-of-it-voluntary/linton/" rel="attachment wp-att-174740"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-174740" title="linton" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/linton_wide-86c248825601e655ec57c234760e688e6daa2e2a.jpg" alt="" width="263" height="191" /></a>The good news is: Obama and the Senate Democrats have no intention of passing more idiotic gun legislation in response to the Newtown massacre. The bad news is that they also have no intention of passing any legislation about the mentally ill, which would actually do something to reduce these mass shootings.</p>
<p>Instead, the Democrats will jawbone about &#8220;assault weapons&#8221; and other meaningless gun laws for the sole purpose of scaring soccer moms into hating the National Rifle Association. Expect to hear a lot about Republicans preferring &#8220;the gun lobby&#8221; to &#8220;children.&#8221; (Which is evidently not at all like preferring the teachers lobby to children.)</p>
<p>Democrats are hoping to pick up another dozen congressional seats in 2014, so they need terrified women.</p>
<p>Just don&#8217;t expect a vote. Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid cannot afford a vote on any of these nonsense gun laws because he needs to protect the seats of Democrats who have to get re-elected in districts where voters know something about guns.</p>
<p>Even the stupidest politician has to know how utterly meaningless &#8220;assault weapon&#8221; bans are. (In fairness, New York&#8217;s Rep. Carolyn McCarthy and Gov. Andrew Cuomo may not know.) But Democrats need to gin up the most easily fooled voters.</p>
<p>&#8220;Assault weapons&#8221; are defined as &#8220;whatever politicians say they are.&#8221; The guns that are banned and the ones that aren&#8217;t are functionally identical. They&#8217;re all semi-automatics.</p>
<p>Semi-automatics shoot one bullet per trigger pull &#8212; that&#8217;s the definition. Any handgun manufactured since the Civil War is a &#8220;semi-automatic.&#8221; The most basic self-defense revolver for women is a &#8220;semi-automatic.&#8221;</p>
<p>An example of a gun that is not a semi-automatic is a musket. Also those guns where a &#8220;BANG!&#8221; flag pops out when the clown pulls the trigger.</p>
<p>An automatic firearm &#8212; what militaries and drug cartels have &#8212; continuously fires when the trigger is pulled. They have been subject to a near-total federal ban in this country since the 1930s, so they&#8217;re irrelevant to the discussion.</p>
<p>The only differences in the semi-automatics the Democrats want to ban and the ones they don&#8217;t are purely cosmetic details, such as bayonet mounts or pistol grips.</p>
<p>When is the last time anyone was killed with a bayonet in this country? Bayonets were rarely used even during the Civil War. Obama mocked the idea of bayonets during one of his debates with Romney. Now he&#8217;s terrified of them!</p>
<p>Semi-automatics with bayonets are some of the guns Democrats call &#8220;assault weapons.&#8221; It would be like defining 12-inch hunting knives with camouflage-colored handles &#8212; but not those with black handles &#8212; as &#8220;assault knives.&#8221; Assault weapons are the semi-automatics that look scary to soccer moms.</p>
<p>An example of the intentional obfuscation about semi-automatics (or &#8220;guns&#8221;) is the &#8220;Violence Policy Center&#8221; webpage, which states: &#8220;Semiautomatic assault weapons are civilian versions of automatic military assault rifles (like the AK-47 and the M-16) and automatic military assault pistols (like the UZI).&#8221;</p>
<p>This would be like saying: &#8220;Little girls&#8217; pink bedrooms are civilian versions of military prisons (like Guantanamo) and terrorist rendition prisons (like CIA Black Sites).&#8221;</p>
<p>Yes, exactly alike, except the &#8220;prison&#8221; part.</p>
<p>Since not all Democrats get to run for office in New York, congressional Democrats can&#8217;t risk taking votes on such silly laws. Your guns will be safe, but your children won&#8217;t, because we&#8217;ll still have the mentally ill showing up at movie theaters, subway stations, shopping malls and schools.</p>
<p>If soccer moms want to worry about something, they should worry more about schizophrenics than guns.</p>
<p>In the late 1980s, New York City Mayor Ed Koch tried to institutionalize Joyce Brown, a mentally ill heroin addict living on the street who went by the name &#8220;Billie Boggs&#8221; (after local television host Bill Boggs). Brown was defecating on herself, removing all her clothes, burning money, running into traffic and shouting obscenities at passers-by. In other words, she was a prototype for Occupy Wall Street.</p>
<p>Brown&#8217;s family desperately wanted to have Brown committed to Bellevue Hospital. A Columbia psychiatrist argued for her institutionalization. The neighbors supported her commitment.</p>
<p>But the New York Civil Liberties Union wanted Brown back on the street. Her NYCLU attorney, Robert Levy, boasted that &#8220;Billie Boggs&#8221; was as sane as &#8220;a member of the board of the Civil Liberties Union.&#8221;</p>
<p>A New York judge, Robert Lippman, agreed –- but not the way I do. Instead of ordering the entire NYCLU board institutionalized, he ordered the release of this poor, mentally disturbed woman. She promptly spoke at Harvard. (Princeton already had Peter Singer.) Then she was back on the street, taking heroin and getting into fights with other homeless people.</p>
<p>Schizophrenics are generally incapable of knowing they need help. Without involuntary commitment, they are abandoned to the streets, getting beaten up, sexually abused, stolen from and set on fire. They also sometimes push people onto subway tracks, murder grandmothers, slaughter firemen and enter &#8220;gun-free zones&#8221; to commit mass murder.</p>
<p>But the Democrats won&#8217;t do anything about it. Even if you do not hear voices that tell you to kill strangers, liberals say: &#8220;Either we are all mad or none of us is mad.&#8221; Then they get mouthy about banning guns with bayonets. On which they will not vote. Montana&#8217;s Sen. Max Baucus has to get re-elected.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 04:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ann-coulter/guns-dont-kill-people-the-mentally-ill-do/newtown-shooting-gunman-adam-lanza/" rel="attachment wp-att-173814"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-173814" title="Newtown shooting gunman Adam Lanza" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Newtown-shooting-gunman-A-011-450x350.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="210" /></a>Seung-Hui Cho, who committed the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, had been diagnosed with severe anxiety disorder as a child and placed under treatment.</p>
<p>But Virginia Tech was prohibited from being told about Cho&#8217;s mental health problems because of federal privacy laws.</p>
<p>At college, Cho engaged in behavior even more bizarre than the average college student. He stalked three women and, at one point, went totally silent, refusing to speak even to his roommates. He was involuntarily committed to a mental institution for one night and then unaccountably unleashed on the public, whereupon he proceeded to engage in the deadliest mass shooting by an individual in U.S. history.</p>
<p>The 2011 Tucson, Ariz., shopping mall shooter, Jared Loughner, was so obviously disturbed that if he&#8217;d stayed in Pima Community College long enough to make the yearbook, he would have been named &#8220;Most Likely to Commit Mass Murder.&#8221;</p>
<p>After Loughner got a tattoo, the artist, Carl Grace, remarked: &#8220;That&#8217;s a weird dude. That&#8217;s a Columbine candidate.&#8221;</p>
<p>One of Loughner&#8217;s teachers, Ben McGahee, filed numerous complaints against him, hoping to have him removed from class. &#8220;When I turned my back to write on the board,&#8221; McGahee said, &#8220;I would always turn back quickly &#8212; to see if he had a gun.&#8221;</p>
<p>On her first day at school, student Lynda Sorensen emailed her friends about Loughner: &#8220;We do have one student in the class who was disruptive today, I&#8217;m not certain yet if he was on drugs (as one person surmised) or disturbed. He scares me a bit. The teacher tried to throw him out and he refused to go, so I talked to the teacher afterward. Hopefully he will be out of class very soon, and not come back with an automatic weapon.&#8221;</p>
<p>The last of several emails Sorensen sent about Loughner said: &#8220;We have a mentally unstable person in the class that scares the living cr** out of me. He is one of those whose picture you see on the news, after he has come into class with an automatic weapon. Everyone interviewed would say, Yeah, he was in my math class and he was really weird.&#8221;</p>
<p>That was the summer before Loughner killed six people at the Tucson shopping mall, including a federal judge and a 9 year-old girl, and critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, among others.</p>
<p>Loughner also had run-ins with the law, including one charge for possessing drug paraphernalia &#8212; a lethal combination with mental illness. He was eventually asked to leave college on mental health grounds, released on the public without warning.</p>
<p>Perhaps if Carl Grace, Ben McGahee or Lynda Sorensen worked in the mental health field, six people wouldn&#8217;t have had to die that January morning in Tucson. But committing Loughner to a mental institution in Arizona would have required a court order stating that he was a danger to himself and others.</p>
<p>Innumerable studies have found a correlation between severe mental illness and violent behavior. Thirty-one to 61 percent of all homicides committed by disturbed individuals occur during their first psychotic episode &#8212; which is why mass murderers often have no criminal record. There&#8217;s no time to wait with the mentally ill.</p>
<p>James Holmes, the accused Aurora, Colo., shooter, was under psychiatric care at the University of Colorado long before he shot up a movie theater. According to news reports and court filings, Holmes told his psychiatrist, Dr. Lynne Fenton, that he fantasized about killing &#8220;a lot of people,&#8221; but she refused law enforcement&#8217;s offer to place Holmes under confinement for 72 hours.</p>
<p>However, Fenton did drop Holmes as a patient after he made threats against another school psychiatrist. And after Holmes made threats against a professor, he was asked to leave campus. But he wasn&#8217;t committed. People who knew he was deeply troubled just pushed him onto society to cause havoc elsewhere.</p>
<p>Little is known so far about Adam Lanza, the alleged Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooter, but anyone who could shoot a terrified child and say to himself, &#8220;That was fun &#8212; I think I&#8217;ll do it 20 more times!&#8221; is not all there.</p>
<p>It has been reported that Lanza&#8217;s mother, his first victim, was trying to have him involuntarily committed to a mental institution, triggering his rage. If true &#8212; and the media seem remarkably uninterested in finding out if it is true &#8212; Mrs. Lanza would have had to undergo a long and grueling process, unlikely to succeed.</p>
<p>As The New York Times&#8217; Joe Nocera recently wrote: &#8220;Connecticut&#8217;s laws are so restrictive in terms of the proof required to get someone committed that Adam Lanza&#8217;s mother would probably not have been able to get him help even if she had tried.&#8221;</p>
<p>Taking guns away from single women who live alone and other law-abiding citizens without mental illnesses will do nothing about the Chos, Loughners, Holmeses or Lanzas. Such people have to be separated from civil society, for the public&#8217;s sake as well as their own. But this is nearly impossible because the ACLU has decided that being psychotic is a civil right.</p>
<p>Consequently, whenever a psychopath with a million gigantic warning signs commits a shocking murder, the knee-jerk reaction is to place yet more controls on guns. By now, guns are the most heavily regulated product in America.</p>
<p>It hasn&#8217;t worked.</p>
<p>Even if it could work &#8212; and it can&#8217;t &#8212; there are still subway tracks, machetes, fists and bombs. The most deadly massacre at a school in U.S. history was at an elementary school in Michigan in 1927. It was committed with a bomb. By a mentally disturbed man.</p>
<p>How about trying something new for once?</p>
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		<title>An Old Country Doctor&#8217;s Thoughts on Guns and Maniacs in School</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a child back on the farm (in the 1930's) I attended a one-room school that taught to the 8th grade.  We hunted for food and furs, and during season you would always find guns stacked in the cloak room.  ]]></description>
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<p>The following is a letter that I received by email that I thought was worth sharing with everyone. It&#8217;s a reminder of how many of our problems come from America no longer being what it used to be.</p>
<blockquote><p>Please allow a word from an old country doc, now &#8220;retarded&#8221; because of all the government interference.</p>
<p>As a child back on the farm (in the 1930&#8242;s) I attended a one-room school that taught to the 8th grade.  We hunted for food and furs, and during season you would always find guns stacked in the cloak room.  Some of us hunted or ran trap lines on the way home.  That was no big deal, and no one worried about any of us because of gun violence.  Oh!  We did have to unload the guns before we stacked them!  Occasionally some boys might put down their guns and fight, then pick up their guns and go on hunting.  One thing you did NOT find in the school was anyone who was considered capable of such violence.  Those kids were sent off to an asylum.</p>
<p>Then came the 60&#8242;s and things began to change.  We all had to be treated &#8220;the same&#8221; and no one could be &#8220;put away&#8221; unless there was a court order for criminal insanity.  Before you had time to blink, the entire landscape changed.  There were &#8220;homeless&#8221; people everywhere and gun violence became a problem along with it.</p>
<p>Certainly there are some homeless people who are there to take advantage of folks, but many are incompetent, mindless, helpless and &#8211; all too often &#8211; dangerous.</p>
<p>I could go on, but you get the idea, I&#8217;m sure.</p>
<p>Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!</p>
<p>Wayne Smith, M.D.  Heber Springs, Arkansas</p></blockquote>
<p>Meanwhile as Ruth King reminds us, <a href="http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2012/12/15/my-say-on-the-tragedy-in-newtown-connecticut/">the facilities for treating problems like these </a>existed and were deliberately shut down.</p>
<blockquote><p>Newtown is the home of Fairfield State Hospital, which was a psychiatric hospital in Newtown, Connecticut, which operated from 1931 until 1995. At its peak the hospital housed over 4,000 patients. It is set on beautiful and rolling hills, and the patients were housed in lovely and well maintained old brick buildings which rivaled any of the famous Ivy League campuses. It was closed during the de institutionalization movement which left so many of America’s mentally ill homeless and in the streets of America.</p>
<p>Read &#8220;<a href="http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2012/12/15/my-say-on-the-tragedy-in-newtown-connecticut/">Madness in the Streets</a> : How Psychiatry and the Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill by Rael Jean Isaac and Virginia C. Armat (Aug 1, 2000).&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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