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From Ace of Spades:
- American Convert To Islam Arrested For Threatening To Kill His Mother And Her Boyfriend For Feeding Him Pork
From the Smoking Gun: A Pennsylvania man allegedly threatened to kill his mother because he believed she tried to “poison” him by serving pork, “which was against his Muslim religion," investigators report. Joshua Lee Coffey, 25, confronted...
- When Autists Become Monsters
From Salon in March of 2009: The monster inside my son For years I thought of his autism as beautiful and mysterious. But when he turned unspeakably violent, I had to question everything I knew. On Feb. 14 I awaken to this headline: “Professor Beaten...
- When Mandated Equal Outcomes Attack .. Our Justice Dept
You know, the guys taking on the crotch bomber... seeking lawyers... The Civil Rights Division encourages qualified applicants with targeted disabilities to apply. Targeted disabilities are deafness, blindness, missing extremities, partial or complete...
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Texas Man Converts To Islam: Slaughters 5 Family Members... UPDATED From Weasel Zippers: A family dispute pushed Maron Thomas to go on a rampage marked by a fury so intense that he decapitated his 2-year-old niece with a machete after killing her...
- No, Really, You Can't Make This Shit Up
talk about concealed carry. . . MSNBC: Police: 500-pound inmate hid gun in his flab Three separate body searches failed to locate 9mm pistol, officials say HOUSTON - An obese inmate in Texas has been charged after officials learned he had a gun hidden...
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"I Live With A Son Who Is Mentally Ill. I Love My Son. But He Terrifies Me "
From Ace of Spades:
Here's an excerpt but really, just read the whole thing.
A few weeks ago, Michael pulled a knife and threatened to kill me and then himself after I asked him to return his overdue library books. His 7 and 9 year old siblings knew the safety plan—they ran to the car and locked the doors before I even asked them to. I managed to get the knife from Michael, then methodically collected all the sharp objects in the house into a single Tupperware container that now travels with me. Through it all, he continued to scream insults at me and threaten to kill or hurt me....
I am sharing this story because I am Adam Lanza’s mother. I am Dylan Klebold’s and Eric Harris’s mother. I am Jason Holmes’s mother. I am Jared Loughner’s mother. I am Seung-Hui Cho’s mother. And these boys—and their mothers—need help. In the wake of another horrific national tragedy, it’s easy to talk about guns. But it’s time to talk about mental illness.
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When I asked my son’s social worker about my options, he said that the only thing I could do was to get Michael charged with a crime. “If he’s back in the system, they’ll create a paper trail,” he said. “That’s the only way you’re ever going to get anything done. No one will pay attention to you unless you’ve got charges.”
I don’t believe my son belongs in jail. The chaotic environment exacerbates Michael’s sensitivity to sensory stimuli and doesn’t deal with the underlying pathology. But it seems like the United States is using prison as the solution of choice for mentally ill people.
According to Human Rights Watch, the number of mentally ill inmates in U.S. prisons quadrupled from 2000 to 2006, and it continues to rise—in fact, the rate of inmate mental illness is five times greater (56 percent) than in the non-incarcerated population.
(http://www.hrw.org/news/2006/09/05/us-number-mentally-ill-prisons-quadrupled)
With state-run treatment centers and hospitals shuttered, prison is now the last resort for the mentally ill—Rikers Island, the LA County Jail, and Cook County Jail in Illinois housed the nation’s largest treatment centers in 2011.
No one wants to send a 13-year old genius who loves Harry Potter and his snuggle animal collection to jail. But our society, with its stigma on mental illness and its broken healthcare system, does not provide us with other options. Then another tortured soul shoots up a fast food restaurant. A mall. A kindergarten classroom. And we wring our hands and say, “Something must be done.”
- American Convert To Islam Arrested For Threatening To Kill His Mother And Her Boyfriend For Feeding Him Pork
From the Smoking Gun: A Pennsylvania man allegedly threatened to kill his mother because he believed she tried to “poison” him by serving pork, “which was against his Muslim religion," investigators report. Joshua Lee Coffey, 25, confronted...
- When Autists Become Monsters
From Salon in March of 2009: The monster inside my son For years I thought of his autism as beautiful and mysterious. But when he turned unspeakably violent, I had to question everything I knew. On Feb. 14 I awaken to this headline: “Professor Beaten...
- When Mandated Equal Outcomes Attack .. Our Justice Dept
You know, the guys taking on the crotch bomber... seeking lawyers... The Civil Rights Division encourages qualified applicants with targeted disabilities to apply. Targeted disabilities are deafness, blindness, missing extremities, partial or complete...
-
Texas Man Converts To Islam: Slaughters 5 Family Members... UPDATED From Weasel Zippers: A family dispute pushed Maron Thomas to go on a rampage marked by a fury so intense that he decapitated his 2-year-old niece with a machete after killing her...
- No, Really, You Can't Make This Shit Up
talk about concealed carry. . . MSNBC: Police: 500-pound inmate hid gun in his flab Three separate body searches failed to locate 9mm pistol, officials say HOUSTON - An obese inmate in Texas has been charged after officials learned he had a gun hidden...