I have a diagnosed mental illness.

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46. And it is important to reflect on the fact that

One) Few police departments carefully screen their gun carrying officers. When you realize how many cops out their are guilty of beating their wives, or even killing them, the lack of screening of police should become mandatory. But it will take the citizens to demand this accountability. Peterson of the Chicago area, Bolingbrook police force, who killed two of his wives, comes to mind as I post this. I encountered Peterson back in early eighties, when he refused to take a complaint against my neighbor wh beat his daughter, once even inflicting a broken arm on the eight year old. "Children need discipline - it is a parents' right," Peterson told me.)

Two) In many places in the USA, even here in "liberal" California, being mentally ill means that should some one of your neighbors ask the cops to do a "welfare check" on you, you can be killed as a result of that fellow citizen asking for help on your behalf.

So it is a fact that mentally ill people are more likely to be gunned down by cops, who are "helping us" by doing that. (One DU'er told me that cops have the right to shoot a mentally ill person causing a disturbance but only inside their own home, because otherwise, should they sit around waiting for the person to calm down,their schedule would get messed up!)

Three) In this society, the FBI and DEA are targeting our young people who have noticeable mental challenges such as Aspergers'. Rolling Stone did an article on the family in Riverside area, where their son finally thought he was getting a friend. One of his first friends ever! All this teen had to do to keep the friendship alive was procure about $ 20 worth of pot. Imagine how terrified this teenager must have been, when he was busted several months later for that entrapment!

Not only does the DEa and DOJ do such nefarious shit, but the FBI entraps bi-polar young people by asking for their help in a "shopping trip." Too bad if the mentally challenged young adult doesn't realize that the stuff they are being asked to buy at Home Depot could be used in a bomb. too bad, and the headlines let us all know that once again, our FBI has kept us safe from another terrorist plot!