While the USA goes around the world
expounding on the virtues of its way of life, it is obvious that those
in charge place little value on human life. They are willing to kill
thousands, even millions, for profit, for power, for money, for oil and
resources.
An inordinate amount of the national budget is put at the disposal of the military industrial complex.
The USA doesn't even value the lives of
its own citizens. Witness the numerous testing of weapons, drugs,
medications, pesticides and what have you on the population. This has
been well documented in this space.
Also, it is one of the few developed
nations that fails its citizens totally in the area of the right to
adequate health care. Those who cannot afford it, do not get it. And I
don't want to hear about the nonsense that people can go to an
emergency room for treatment and not be refused...being given 100 dollar
bandaids and then sued for medical care later on that the person was
unable to pay for.
Another problem is the state's
unwillingness to comprehensively deal with those members of society with
mental illness. All of a sudden the do-gooders (read cheap bastards)
pontificate that the mentally ill have rights.
Yes, they have the right to refuse
treatment. They have the right to refuse medication. That way no one
has to take care of them. That way they are not taking up a hospital
bed or a room in a treatment facility.
Then, without the capacity to understand
how to care for themselves, they end up homeless on the street.
Begging money. Being robbed. Being beaten. Being hungry. Committing
crimes because they have no self control.
The very few community placements they
have such as group homes evict them at the first sign of trouble. So
why are they there? It's ridiculous.
Then there are the families. Sometimes
the unfortunate families, not wanting their loved one on the street,
keep them at home, not wanting them to be vulnerable to the hazards of
the streets. But the lives of these families are pure hell. There is
violence, destruction, threats. Lack of cooperation from the mental
health system or law enforcement when the person gets out of control.
The person refuses to go to get help, the family is stuck, the police
will not do anything.
It's a good chance that the woman killed today had that sort of personal hell, that has now expanded to many other families.
The 20-year-old suspect in the
Connecticut school shootings, according to a law enforcement official,
killed his mother at their home Friday and then drove his mother's car
to the school where he went on a deadly rampage.
Adam Lanza is dead from a self-inflicted
gunshot wound. Ryan Lanza, brother of the shooter, told law
enforcement that his brother was believed to suffer from a "personality
disorder" and was "somewhat autistic" and lived with the mother in
Connecticut. She taught at the school where the shootings took place.
So meet the mentally ill of the USA and
victims of the many who go without treatment. Meet more disposable
people. The politcal pundits and politicians then start a mantra about
gun control in order to gain more control over the population. It's not
the guns, stupid! It's the lack of care for your own people.
It is suggested that the USA gets its
own house in order before dictating to the rest of the world. Use the
many blessings and resources of the land and people for your own people
and not for trotting around the globe killing others for fun and profit
while those at home suffer. The capitalist system sees people as a
disposable commodity, to be thrown out if not productive or useful in
some way. To be thrown out if blocking the wishes of the elite. That's
just not going to impress anyone to adopt the so-called "American
Dream" which in reality is the American nightmare. For its own citiznes
and for the unfortunate citizens of the world who get in their way.
Lisa Karpova
Pravda.Ru
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