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Thursday, 4 August 2016

When is a terrorist not a terrorist?





When he is mentally ill of course and they are all almost always he! After all the hard work of Time to Change and Mental Health Charities to challenge the stigma around Mental Health, the all powerful Media, they that effectively run this country come in with their size 11s and intermingle the words terrorist and mentally ill. If he's not one, he must be the other. I mean you must be a bit 'doollaly tap' mun to go and do something like that. As a loon myself I have often been very angry. My anger spills over into verbal outbursts but not violence. I am too much of a coward to be violent. That sounds like a strange thing to say but even in my chagrin and rage I am aware of the consequences of any violent act. Some people maybe are not! As all Muslims are fed up at being associated with Islamic State, all Mentally Ill are now fed up at being associated with violent attacks. The Black and White thinking that very often leads to episodes of Mental Illness is actually exacerbated by a Media that sees everything in terms of Good & Bad! 
White Man: Good 
Black Man: Bad
Christian:Good 
Muslim:Bad 
Western Democracy:Good
Middle Eastern Dictatorship:Bad  
Goodness knows what this has done to our minds over the years but alienation is growing in the West. Alienation against an un-caring and un-nurturing Capitalism. It is a system that kills thousands quietly every year. You will have to contact the Department of Work and Pensions for the statistics. The fact that it is Islamic State or those no good mentally ill terrorists that are determined to bring it down allows easy scapegoating by a Media who see what they want to see and report what they want to report.   

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