A militant INDEPENDENT democratic socialist's attempt to expose the truth of our culture – in all its rich irony and absurdity.
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Monday, April 15, 2019
EVIL also is a social system that neglects the mentally ill
According to an ex-girlfriend of the shooter, Angelica, Gokmen is a psychopath, rather than a terrorist and she attempted numerous times to make the police aware of his probable mental relapse. "
When I read that a five year old was pushed to his death at the Mall of America last week I thought that the culprit - a 24 year old black male - was the essence of EVIL. Then I read that he had been banned from the mall previously for sociopathic behavior and that he had a history of mental disturbance .
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EVIL is EVIL -often seemingly Satanic . But what is also EVIL and SICK is a social system that neglects the mentally ill. What is called the " de-institutionalization " of the mentally ill is a half -century old failure and a moral catastrophe. Whole books by psychiatrists with a social conscience have been written about this miserable failure of professional " optimism " ( liberation through medication ) .
Terror in the heart of the Netherlands escalates into outburst of nationalismThe tragedy unfolded two days before the provincial...
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