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Over at the Tulsa Center for Behavioral Health, TCBH, they have State-licensed treatment Counselors. Let’s call one of them Trudy Sting, not her real name. She has one answer for everything – no matter what bad things in your life have and continue to upset you, you just have to realize and accept that You are the common denominator, and take responsibility for Your actions.
You got raped and continue to be upset whenever you hear comments that sound like the rapist? You are the common denominator. You got abused as a child and still cringe whenever you hear that tone of voice? You are the common denominator. You got assaulted and death threats and still have nightmares? You are the common denominator. You got maimed by a drinking driver and are still angry about it and the physical disabilities it caused? You are the common denominator. You poisoned by some industrial chemical, causing neurological and neuro-muscular damage and irritability? You are the common denominator. You had cancer surgery, got ready to die, and didn’t get over the depression? You are the common denominator. Your dysfunctional family had you put in TCBH because your failure to dysfunction right along with them was embarrassing? You are the common denominator.
At TCBH, this and the AA 12-step program are the only answers they need for all forms mental illness and upset. One size fits all. Never mind if you don’t think this helps, that it causes you a great deal of pain, and the constant berating drives you to considering suicide just to get away from them. What you think does not matter because, you guessed it, You are the common denominator.
Yes Ma’am, when it comes to all the people passing through your version of caring, You are the Queen of Common Denominators. Now if you could just find your King, imagine what a perfect world it would be.
- ain’t lying ‘bout that
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It’s tough that the Tulsa Police Department can’t get enough budget and manpower. But they avoid paperwork and investigation like a vampire avoids garlic and it’s hurting the rest of us. I also suspect that it’s coming back on them and affecting their murder clearance rate, because people don’t trust them to look out after the small guy if the small guy steps up to help. Or asks for help.
Say you get hit by some unlicensed, uninsured, hit and run bum. Of course you can’t get all the needed information right away. The bum hit and ran. But will the TPD help? They have a dozen excuses why not. They didn’t see it. There weren’t any witnesses. The bum and vehicle aren’t there. The city attorneys won’t prosecute. It’s not policy to investigate such minor occurrences. Or maybe it happened on private property. Even if you collect evidence, identify the vehicle and owner or driver, find a witness that heard the bum bragging that he hit someone, and find out that the bum doesn’t even have a license or insurance like you do, still no help from the TPD. And because you can’t afford the deductible on your insurance and the bum doesn’t have any, the bum gets off free and clear to do his damage over and over again. Until someone gets hurt and possibly the State Police investigate.
Say someone breaks into your home, steals just a few things and commits malicious mischief to confuse things. It works on the TPD. The responding Officer will likely find some way to blame you for the results and claim that it doesn’t look like a crime just to avoid filling out a report. Even if you call an Officer back when you get more information that shows a break-in and a likely suspect, still no help. Maybe a budding juvenile criminal gets the idea that he’s immune. Maybe he is. Nor can you get any help if you feel that your neighbors or yourself are threatened and mistreated. TPD will not investigate until there is a dead body.
Or say someone makes a false complaint about you. If the liar has more social, political or business clout than you do, you can get arrested and incarcerated without any investigation. The TPD do not feel obliged to interview your coworkers, neighbors and/or friends and determine any other circumstances besides those presented to them by the liar.
This accumulates such a feeling of contempt and distrust towards the TPD that many have given up on them. Why cooperate with the SOB that yesterday wouldn’t address your complaint, or enforced a false complaint against you? Then when the TPD does get a dead body that they feel is worth their time to investigate, they just can’t understand the “don’t snitch mentality”.
Maybe it’s not about snitching. Maybe it’s about not being able or allowed by the TPD itself to trust a law enforcement agency that doesn’t think you are worth its time to protect and serve. Maybe that’s why the murder rate is so high.
– ain’t lying ‘bout that
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Is there anyone Mr. Rall _doesn't_ hate?
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The Giffords shooting sickens people like me as much as it does you. But because of it, many of you support the passage of new laws which, after you send men and boys off to fight, and possibly get killed or maimed in defense of our way of life, will strip them of liberties under the Bill of Rights for coming back damaged.
I know because I belong to a minority that is so widely feared and loathed that every time there is a dramatic and tragic shooting, at a post office, a school, or a public meeting with Arizona Rep. Giffords, the call goes out to further deny us the Bill of Rights. Never mind that it's the same kind of bigotry that would judge all black men by the example of Willy Horton. This bigotry is politically correct, especially for liberals.
I speak of those of us who have serious mental illness. Many of you fear and loath us so much, you would and have given Doctors the unaccountable power to veto the Bill of Rights for us under the color of Medicine. Using the rather unscientific criterion, "Are you thinking of hurting yourself or anyone else". Which can be used even if we think only of defending ourselves against the kind of violence that has created and/or exacerbated our illness.
This criterion is unscientific and unconstitutionally broad because it applies to the wide majority of those with mental illness who may be as angry and upset at something as many of the rest of you, but have no history of or real propensity or intention for violence. Anyone with access to the Internet can find the scientifically valid medical criterion in the National Library of Medicine database for journal articles, www.PubMed.gov. Searching on the terms "serious mental illness" or SMI, "crime" and "violence" will show that only the tiny minority of those who are mentally ill, and don't have or take needed medications, and are involved in alcohol or illegal drugs, have any propensity or intention for violence. It will also show that the rest of us, who you tar with the same brush, are more likely than the rest of you to be victims of crime and violence.
So, after you send someone off to war, they are subject to the same realities if they go and/or come back with a mental illness, like depression or PTSD. They will be more likely to commit violence if they don't get treatment and get involved with illegal drugs or alcohol. They will be more vulnerable to crime and violence than those who sent them. After sending them off to fight, get wounded and die, you would strip them of the right to defend themselves against criminal attack when they come back a part of minority that you fear and loath. And exemptions from this fear and loathing on the basis of military service would only short those who have been abused as children and/or raped, maimed in car wrecks or plane crashes or terrorist attacks, or have endured such threats of death as cancer.
It would seem that after making racial hatred unacceptable and letting gays mostly out of the closet, even vampires, many of you still need someone to hate who can't easily fight back. Denied employment in most places and often living on disability, most of us can't afford lawyers. Lawyers aren't willing because they either can't get paid or don't believe they can win against fear and loathing or share the bigotry.
Why don't you go pick on somebody your own size?
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