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The American Behavioral Pandemic in the Classroom,
the Workplace, the Body Politic, the Culture, and
Private Life, Which the Medical and Psychiatric
Profession Obstinately REFUSES to Acknowledge...
...and that makes me a bitch?
Pathetic Labels Contrived by Psychiatry to
Conceal the Stark Reality of Consumerism
 “Attention Defi¢it Hypera¢tivity Di$order”
 Or whatever they’re calling it this week
 “Anxiety Di$order” and “Pani¢ Di$order”
 “Bipolar Di$order”
 A diagnosis de jour that demonizes many emotional states
 “¢ondu¢t Di$order”
 Fortunately not recognized in Tennessee…yet
 “Depre$$ion”
 Oftentimes the consequences of anesthetization
 “Ob$e$$ive ¢ompul$ive Di$order”
 “Oppo$itional Defiant Di$order”
 A politically motivated label used against progressives and liberals
 “$¢hizophrenia”
 Cover-up of infant molestation
 Fraudulent genetic claims regarding alcoholism and all other substance abuse
 They haven’t cloned and sequenced a goddamn thing
 And that makes me and nonviolent therapists bitches?
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Chances Are the Same Industrialist
Wrote Both of These Scripts
 A petty dictator in the Middle
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East is accused of having
WMD that do not actually
exist
The media buys the lie
The U.S. invades the country,
brazenly defying major
worldwide opposition
Millions of civilians and U.S.
soldiers die
And that makes me and
geopolitical pacifists
bitches?
 Children are accused of
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having a disease (AD/HD)
that does not actually exist
The media buys the lie
The medical profession
invades the children’s bodies
with drugs, brazenly defying
major worldwide opposition
Trillions of neurons die
And that makes me and
concerned parents bitches?
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Actual Disabilities vs.
Social and Environmental Disasters
Actual Disabilities
Social Disasters
 Well-known before 20th
 Rare or unheard of before 20th
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century
Low incidence (rare)
Manifested in appearance,
speech, blood test,
optometry, audiology, and/or
brain scan
Static
Irreversible
Already cloned and
sequenced if genetic
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century
High incidence (epidemic)
Invisible, inaudible, no blood
test or brain scan
Reversible by remedial
education
Reversible by alternative
medicine
No clone or sequence
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Actual Disabilities vs.
Social Disasters cont’d
Actual Disabilities
Social Disasters
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 Emotional disturbances, e.g.
Cystic fibrosis
Hemophilia
“Type I” diabetes
Cerebral palsy
Spina bifida
Down and fragile X
Sensory disabilities
Speech disorders
Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Neuromuscular disease
Sickle cell disease
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“depre$$ion,” “bipolar,” and
“$¢hizophrenia”
“AD/HD”
“Type II” diabetes
“Auti$m $pe¢trum”
“Learning di$abilities”
“Language di$orders”
“¢ondu¢t di$order”
Mild retardation
AID$
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Original Intent of Disability
Legislation and Litigation
 To rescue the following from incarceration in “mental hospitals”:
 Intellectually disabled, a.k.a. mentally retarded
 Emotionally disturbed
 Untreated autism spectrum
 Demented
 Sexual minorities
 Undiagnosed deaf
 Undiagnosed speech disorders
 To rescue the following from incarceration in institutions for the mentally retarded:
 Intellectually disabled
 Untreated autism spectrum
 Undiagnosed deaf
 Undiagnosed speech disorders
 To rescue the following from incarceration in nursing homes:
 Physically disabled
 Health impaired
 Demented
 Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
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Original Intent of Disability Legislation
and Litigation, cont’d
 Ruling and managerial classes originally fought like dogs
to stop these bills and lawsuits
 Proponents of legislation and litigants never meant to
ram psychiatric drugs down the throats of tens of millions
of innocent people; rather, they often sought the
diametric opposite
 Now that the laws exist, they are being abused on a
massive scale by the power-hungry ruling and managerial
classes to push psychiatric drugs
 FMLA, originally vehemently opposed by corporations, is now
also being abused by them on an equally massive scale to
evade ever having to pay sick leave
 And that makes me a bitch?
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Two Pandemics of Brain Damage
Medieval Europe
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Poverty
Hunger
Family abuse
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Alcohol
War
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Chronic noncaloric malnutrition
Family abuse
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Including during pregnancy
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Enforced by Inquisition, pogroms, and Witch Hunts,
a.k.a. Women’s Holocaust
No knowledge of antibiotics
The modern medical profession’s real claim to fame
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Discovery had been a complete accident
Jousting injuries
Lack of education
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Interference in childbirth
General anesthesia
Prescription drugs
Psychiatric
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Drugs
Shock
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Pollution
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Education often reduced to warehousing
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Vehicular accidents
Other recreational drugs
Sports injuries
Violent crime
Bathing more than once a year strictly prohibited
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Somatic
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Church and state
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Including during pregnancy
Alcohol
Iatrogenesis (medically induced)
Crusades and local wars
Violent crime
Equestrian accidents
Infectious diseases
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Torture
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Industrial U.S.
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Air, water, soil, and radiation
Racism, casteism, and underfunding
Education required for optimal brain development
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This progressive term is a much better explanation of these
social and environmental disasters than fad diagnoses,
especially as multiple symptoms often coincide in the same
person, leading to a geometric progression of overlapping fad
labels caused by the same dietary and environmental insults
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Demographics of Consumerism
 Consumerism is pandemic among native-born U.S. citizens
 Crosses gender, racial, and socioeconomic lines
 Prevalence and severity inexorably worsening with each
successive generation of Americans
 Virtually unheard of among immigrants, regardless of
country of origin or generation
 Roman Empire had disintegrated under similar
circumstances, likely because of pandemic lead poisoning
from the plumbing having been lined with lead
 And that makes me a bitch?
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Causes of Consumerism: Media
 Pernici0us addictiveness of television
 Scripted programming
 Modeling of restrictive roles
 Gender, race/religion, class, generational
 Industry indoctrination
 Product placement
 News
 Loss of fairness doctrine
 Crime and terror coverage are racist propaganda
 Beholden to advertisers or underwriters
 Medical indoctrination
 The official state religion of the Western world
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Grew out of Roman Catholicism in the 13th century
Sports
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Competitive capitalist indoctrination
Conditions the population for war
Promotes atrocious diet, substance use, and gambling
Telecasts undermine the family
 Sports widows and orphans
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Causes: Media, cont’d
 Objectification of women
 Intentional manufacture of epidemic homosexuality
 Co-conspiracy with the fashion and cosmetic industries
 Union-busting technique
 Coalition-busting technique
 Family-busting technique
 Progressives and liberals honest enough to act on induced impulses
 Faith-busting technique
 Pandemic latent and occult homosexuality among conservatives
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Makes men want to be transsexuals
 Makes them want to wear that shit
Makes women want to be with other women
Minimizes and trivializes women
Most traditional societies cover women from head to toe
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Proven in published study in J. Abnormal Psych. in 2007
Probably overkill
Moses and Mohammed were right about prohibiting representational imagery
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Jesus Christ never countermanded this doctrine
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Causes: Media, cont’d
 Violence
 Effect on children incontrovertible
 Advances racist stereotypes and incarceration
 Encourages violence against women
 Modeling of substance use, including the three legal substances and
performance-enhancing drugs
 Modeling of atrocious eating habits
 Advertising
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The most marketed products are the most dangerous
Induces addictions on a massive scale
 Pornography and erotica
 Subpornographic erotica as damaging as porn itself
 Abusive and misogynist language
 Rap and heavy metal lyrics
 Labels never sign rappers with a social conscience
 Shock jocks and talk radio
 And that makes me and independent media bitches?
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Causes of Consumerism: Atrocious Diet
 Chronic noncaloric malnutrition
 Heart disease, SIDS are really beriberi
 Thiamine deficiency
 Multiple sclerosis is really rickets
 Vitamin D deficiency
 Excessive processed sugar and salt
 Refined sugar causes insulin-resistant (type II) diabetes and hyperactivity
 Hidden salt causes high blood pressure
 Excessive carnivory, inadequate herbivory
 Trans fat and artificial sweetener poisoning
 Artificial sweeteners cause internal organ damage
 Trans fats poison cellular membranes
 Melting point of membrane phospholipids elevated
 Membrane-bound proteins can no longer change conformation
 Unlike animal fats (cis fats), trans fats do not fit lipid catabolic enzymes
 Loss of lipid turnover in cellular membranes
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Long-term accumulation of trans fats in cellular membranes
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Cause insulin-resistant (type II) diabetes and depression
 Other neurotoxic and carcinogenic additives
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Causes: Diet, cont’d
 Contamination with toxic substances of agribusiness
 Pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and algaecides
 These don’t know when to stop killing
 Manufactured from carcinogenic petrochemicals
 Toxic fertilizers
 Excessive antibiotics in filthy factory farms
 Foodborne diseases
 Antibiotic-resistant diseases
 My brother’s best friend’s fiancée died of an antibiotic-resistant disease
 Growth hormones
 Genetically engineered “frankenfoods”
 Epidemic food allergies
 Agribusiness waste disposed of in water supply as “fluoridation”
 Known carcinogen and neurotoxin
 Generates free radicals
 Ironically, the U.S. diet was once the best in the world
 And that makes me and organic farmers bitches?
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Causes of Consumerism:
Environmental and Substance Use
 Environmental insults
 Air and water pollution
 Soil contamination
 Lead poisoning from paint chips and lead plumbing
 Environmental racism
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Polluting plants invariably in people-of-color neighborhoods
 Pesticides in schools, workplaces, and institutions
 Radiation exposure, including during pregnancy
 Occupational exposure, including during pregnancy
 Substance abuse
 Starts with caffeine
 Caffeine leads to alcohol, tobacco, and all other drugs
 And that makes me and environmentalists bitches?
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Causes of Consumerism:
Iatrogenesis (Medically Induced)
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Somatic iatrogenesis
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Chemo
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Causes chemo brain
Victims often don’t live to tell about how deadly these drugs are
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Hubert H. Humphrey’s dying breath was that chemo killed him and not the cancer!
Statins (cholesterol drugs)
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Cause Alzheimer
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Brain requires cholesterol to function
Cause liver damage
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Part of the liver’s job is to manufacture the cholesterol neuronal membranes need to function
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Cholesterol does not even cause heart disease
Painkillers
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Statins “work” by literally disabling the liver from this important function
Addictive
Cause Alzheimer and Parkinson
Vaccines containing mercury, formaldehyde, and ethylene glycol
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Vaccine preservatives are the real cause of Gulf War Syndrome
When a cat ingests ethylene glycol, it is a veterinary emergency!
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Fatal without treatment
Mercury causes autism
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Autism does not exist in nature
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Exacerbated by dental amalgams, Hg-contaminated fish, and Hg emissions from coal-fired power plants
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Incomprehensibly astronomical conspiracy involving federal government, Big Pharma, medical profession,
and media
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Causes: Iatrogenesis, cont’d
 Somatic iatrogenesis, cont’d
 Antiretrovirals (AIDS drugs)
 Rebranding and remarketing of failed chemo drugs
 Chemo brain still the same
 Destroy the immune system
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What is wrong with this picture?
HIV probably does not even cause AIDS
 Discoverer was censured by the Office of Scientific Integrity in 1993
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Substance abuse
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Extreme poverty
Chemo
Organ anti-rejection drugs
The AIDS drugs themselves
Maybe a different virus
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An inconvenient truth to the Left
According to one dissident investigator
Stealth genocide of Blacks, both domestic and foreign
 Global outcry over Nazi Holocaust had forced white supremacism underground
 Fraudulent claim of “promiscuity” had been the original excuse for colonialism in the
first place!
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Causes: Iatrogenesis, cont’d
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Somatic iatrogenesis, cont’d
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General anesthesia
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Addictive
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Modern age of addiction had begun with anesthetics in the 1850s
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Discoverer had become addicted and committed violent crime and suicide under its influence
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Detroiter wrote an anonymous letter to his doctor describing his horrifying addiction to chloroform
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Worse than cocaine and opium
Brain-damaging
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Both men who had first popularized it eventually died from bizarre neurological symptoms
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One had been demented for 7 years prior to death
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Elderly and undereducated are at high risk of frank brain damage
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Don McLean’s “American Pie” is really about postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD)
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Finally admitted in published studies in Anesthesiology in Jan. 2008
“The day the music died”
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The day that one was poisoned into a coma
Simon and Garfunkel’s “Sound of Silence” is really about POCD
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Accumulation of POCD in the population
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Social climate change
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All That Jazz is about Bob Fosse’s ill-advised bypass
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Suppressed Italian surreal film The Andronechron Incident depicted world gone mad from POCD
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“I had no special cares to drown, but it became my tyrannical pleasure to draw over my senses the veil of oblivion. I loved the valley of the
shadow of death. I knew there was danger that one night I should pass over the line, into a sleep from which there would be no waking,
but death held no terrors for me. Nay, to bring all of my faculties and powers and ambitions into the sweet oblivion of transient death was
the one pleasure for which I cared to live.”
19th century pioneer on drug abuse identified ether and chloroform as the world’s most addictive substances
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Widow characterized invention as “an unspeakable evil”
Recreational abuse of anesthetics common in the 19th century
The death of “Gideon” at the end indicates that a part of Fosse never woke up
Movie’s producer became inexplicably “insolvent” 3 weeks after its release, despite critical success
Biggest iatrogenic conspiracy of all
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Fuels consumption on an international scale
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Causes: Iatrogenesis, cont’d
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Psychiatric iatrogenesis
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Stimulants
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Antidepressants
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Addictive
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Cause suicide at any age
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Abbie Hoffman, Del Shannon, and a tenor at the Met were old men when they committed suicide under the
influence of antidepressants
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Cause violence
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Cause breast and prostate cancer
Cause heart disease and other ischemic events
“Work” by helping people to avoid their feelings
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Caused Columbine and other school shootings
Especially guilt, shame, and conscience
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Del Shannon’s widow is now an antipsychiatry activist
My cousin was 48 years old when he committed suicide under the influence of an antidepressant
Avoidance of these emotions manufactures consumerism, militarism, colonialism
School drugs
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Addictive
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Stunt growth
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Cause heart disease and other ischemic events
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Cause breast and prostate cancer
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Impair creativity and imagination
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Neutralize entire generations from becoming dissidents
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Help keep Nordic ruling class in power
• Ancestors had deposed the Roman Empire and have reigned unchallenged as its successors ever since
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Causes: Iatrogenesis, cont’d
 Psychiatric iatrogenesis, cont’d
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Depressants
 Anxiety and bipolar drugs
 Addictive
 Cause Alzheimer and Parkinson
 Cause suicide
 Cause a paradoxical reaction of violence
 Sleeping pills
 Addictive
 Cause Alzheimer
 Cause suicide
 Cause a paradoxical reaction of violence
 Neuroleptics (antipsychotics, “major tranquilizers”)
 Brain disablers
 Neutralize victims of family abuse and racism
 Cause tardive diseases
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Tardive dyskinesia, akathisia, and dystonia
Do not exist in nature
Tardive diseases are untreatable and incurable
Cause brain shrinkage and dementia
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Iatrogenesis fraudulently passed off as genetic claims
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Causes: Iatrogenesis, cont’d
 Psychiatric iatrogenesis, cont’d
 All drugs cause chemical imbalances
 Iatrogenesis fraudulently passed off as genetic claims
 All drugs produce side effects
 Typically create a positive feedback loop (vicious circle) of additional psychiatric labels
and more and more drugs
 Never quit cold turkey
 Rebound/withdrawal could lead to suicide or violence
 Addiction to the drug(s) often causes quitting cold turkey to fail
 Always taper off slowly, one drug at a time
 Even when tapering off slowly, withdrawal symptoms are very painful
 Shock
 No, it is not banned!
 Hundreds of thousands shocked in the U.S. every year
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Berkeley’s 1973 anti-shock city ordinance was nixed by a judge after only six weeks!
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Mostly women
True numbers covered up
Imagine the bribery and conspiracy!
Victims are now anesthetized, which makes brain damage even worse
 And that makes me and providers of alternative medicine bitches?
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Causes of Consumerism:
Other Anti-intellectual Forces
 Sexual misconduct
 Child molestation and sexual slavery
 Premature sex with peers
 Sex industry
 Addictive
 Gambling
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 Regressive tax that unjustly burdens the poor
 Historical myopia and ignorance
 “Dismembered history”
 Suppression of the long history of dissent
 Cultural poverty
 Literary, performing, and visual arts poverty
 Systematic destruction of authentic European culture, as well as that of African,
Latin, Indigenous, and Asian cultures
 And that makes me and alternative historians bitches?
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Symptoms of Consumerism
 Educational
 Poor academic performance
 Chronic underachievement
 Significant academic delays
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Written language
Mathematics
Applied subjects
 Academic apathy, frank anti-intellectualism
 Open hostility towards anyone daring to have intellectual life
 Chronic talking and cutting up in the classroom
 Cannot remain on task, refusal to do homework
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Symptoms, cont’d
 Educational, cont’d
 Teachers disdained as “party-poopers,” “squares,” etc.
 High-functioning peers disdained and teased
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“Geeks,” “health nuts,” “tree-huggers,” “nerds,” etc.
In African American communities, “acting white”
 Parents often similarly dysfunctional (not always)
 High-functioning parents disdained as “health nuts,”
“Bible-thumpers,” “tree-huggers,” “squares,” etc.
 Can only get along with peers who are similarly
dysfunctional
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Symptoms, cont’d
 Educational and transitional
 Impaired attention span
 Impaired prefrontal function
 Abusive language in the classroom and the workplace
 Morally delayed or dysfunctional
 Cultural apathy and ignorance
 Impaired creativity and imagination
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Utter contempt for that of others
 Narcissism, self-abs0rption, and egocentricism
 Persists indefinitely into adulthood
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Symptoms, cont’d
 Vocational
 Vocational apathy
 No work ethic
 Excessive absences in the workplace when there is no
actual illness or injury
 Frequently “written up” in the workplace for goofing off
 Irresponsibility and impatience
 Frequent job quitting and firing
 Political and ideological apathy
 Lack of sympathy, sensitivity, and compassion
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Symptoms, cont’d
 Temporal myopia
 Utter lack of interest or concern about the future
 Historical myopia and ignorance
 Absolutely living in the moment
 Preoccupation with visual appearances
 Objectification of women
 Sexual fetishes transmitted through visual channel
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Racial, war, violence, undersized feet, and other baroque fetishes
 Civilization is in imminent danger of collapse because image
is continually trumping substance
 Minimal to moderate sensorineural hearing loss from
excessively loud media, usually undiagnosed
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Symptoms, cont’d
 Anosognosia
 Obstinate denial of one’s own mental dysfunction
 Sexual misconduct
 Infidelity
 Sexual harassment
 Promiscuity
 Baroque fetishes
 Indulgence in sex industry
 Pursuit of immediate and continual hedonism
supersedes all other considerations
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Symptoms, cont’d
 Life revolves around addictions and hedonism
 Caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, and other substances
 Fast food, junk food, sweets, salt, and fat
 Fashion and compulsive shopping
 Television, sports, video games, hyperkinetic mass media,
erotica, and pornography
 Sex and trophy mates
 Partying, gambling
 Trophy vehicles and reckless driving
 Trophy homes and compulsive overscheduling
 No interests or hobbies other than addictions
 And that makes me a bitch?
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Robert Bly’s Descriptions
 “Swimming with the half-adults”
 “Living in the nafs” [the id]
 “The sibling society”
 Taken from his book by this title
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And that makes me and him bitches?
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Somatic Risks of Consumerism
 Cardiovascular disease and other ischemic events
 Cancer
 High blood pressure
 Insulin-resistant (“type II”) diabetes
 Arthritis
 Osteoporosis
 Gallstones
 PMS
 Hot flashes
 Seasonal allergies
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Psychiatric Risks of Consumerism
 Insomnia
 Substance abuse
 Compulsive gambling
 Eating disorders
 Alzheimer and multi-infarct dementia
 Hoarding, compulsive shopping, compulsive sports watching,
and compulsive overscheduling
 Violence, including family abuse, bullying, sexual assault,
hate crimes, and domestic terrorism
 Suicide
 And that makes me and alternative providers bitches?
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Global Epidemiology
 Consumerism is a national pandemic that is inexorably
pushing the U.S. towards becoming a failed state
 The problem is less prevalent and severe in European
countries, especially in East Europe
 Consumerism is rare in Pacific Basin countries, especially
in mainland China
 The Chinese Communist Party is the unwitting and
undeserving beneficiary of Oriental medicine
 Consumerism is unheard of among tropical peasants
 No industrialized diet, no iatrogenesis, no exposure to media,
and no substance usage
 And that makes me a bitch?
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Additional Observations
 Epidemics, let alone pandemics, can never be genetic
 When confronted about their dysfunction, consumerists
often commit violence or sabotage
 Persons in recovery programs will characterize
consumerism as a synonym for addiction
 They’re absolutely right
 Consumerism is polyaddiction
 “The American way of life” and “the American dream”
touted by many politicians and the military are actually
coded language for consumerism
 And that makes me a bitch?
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Consequences of Consumerism: Extant
 War in the Middle East
 Global climate change and deforestation
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Deadly hurricanes
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Devastating drought and floods
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Rising sea levels
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Chilling of upper atmosphere destabilizing climate
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Spread of tropical diseases
 Unprecedented pollution and mass extinction
 Unprecedented extreme poverty in tropical countries
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Peasants forced to grow caffeine crops for the Western caffeine addiction instead of food
 Millions subjected to preventable brain damage and disabilities and deprived of decades of
life because of iatrogenesis
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People should live to be 130, as they had in the Old Testament
Mortgage and 401 (k) meltdowns
Energy crisis
Domestic poverty, especially among women, children, people of color, and the elderly
Rigged elections block all possibility of real reform
Loss of basic human rights and civil liberties
Chinese Communist Party accumulating power
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Consequences of Consumerism: Future
 Insolvency of entitlements
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Medicare
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Social Security
 Financial meltdown spreads
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Credit cards
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Auto loans
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Student loans
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Other unsecured loans
 Default on national debt
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U.S.
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Other Western countries
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Former Soviet empire
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Dozens of tropical countries
 Global climate change becomes irreversible
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Deadly epidemics of tropical diseases
 Acceleration of domestic and tropical poverty, mass extinction
 Life expectancy crashes because of iatrogenesis
 People’s Republic of China conquers world
 And that makes me and Chinese dissidents bitches?
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Another World is Still Possible
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High-functioning Youth
 Usually come from high-functioning parents, but not always
 Dissent tends to run in the family
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Parental example and health consciousness rather than genetics
 The most positive, constructive, and desirable form of teenage
rebellion against society
 College-bound or already in college
 The 4-year college student is the archetypical radical
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Seeks or has taken advanced placement courses
Resolutely health and environmentally conscious
Politically and ideologically active
Deeply troubled and worried about the future
Prefer obscure genres of “alternative music” over mass media drivel as a
point of honor
 And this makes them bitches?
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What Real Socialism Looks Like
(Diametric Opposite of USSR)
 Another world is possible
 World capitol in Jerusalem
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Each province represented in world parliament
Federal system; each province has its own capitol, legislature, and
courts
Location of capitol promotes ecumenical harmony
 “Institutional death penalty”
 Abolition of:
 Nation-states, corporations, papacy, and nobility
 Metropolitan social clubs and Astroturf organizations
 Chinese Communist Party
 Medical and psychiatric profession and television
 Replaced by midwives, alternative medicine, and emergency
surgery performed by entities of artificial intelligence
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A Safe, Sane, Sensible, and
Sustainable Alternative
 “It takes a village (not a city) to raise a child”
 Cities razed except for world and provincial capitols
 Village life reinstated
 Villages connected to each other and to capitols by
monorails, magnetic levitation, and the internet
 No papers required for interprovincial travel
 Swaths of wilderness connected to each other by
corridors through which animals can migrate
 Pacific and Caribbean islands connected by ferries
 Aircraft only used for transoceanic travel
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Political Problems Never Have
Medical Solutions
 Live simply so that others can simply live
 90% of population on organic family farms
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Supplemented by renewable energy equipment
 Balance are village artisans, public servants, artists, and clergy
 All the above endeavors sustain life
 All other “endeavors” destroy life
 Biblical attire habitually worn by both sexes
 Prevents breast and cervical cancer, homosexuality, and pedophilia
 Climate-appropriate, reduces or eliminates air conditioning
 Little Ice Age ended 150 years ago
 Maximum comfort and efficient use of resources
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Political Problems Only Have
Political Solutions
 Speak truth to the people
 8th grade education restored to be the equivalent of today’s
college degree, as it was in the 19th century
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I have an 8th grade final exam from a one-horse town in the Great
Plains at the end of the 19th century to prove it
 Adolescents age 14-21 engaged in worldwide collective
scientific research
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Cultural and gender bias, profit motive bias eliminated
 The purpose of an education is neither to find a suitable
husband nor a suitable job
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Both of those are forms of prostitution, even for boys
 The primary purpose of an education is to have an
intellectual life
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PROSTITUTION
This Includes Men, Too
And this makes me a bitch?
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Compelling Reasons to be an Organic
Farmer or a Village Artisan
 No boss
 No terminations
 No arbitrary rules
 Better housing
 No job interviews
 Access to healthy food
 No commute
 No job discrimination
 No dress code
 No retaliation
 No downsizing
 Health freedom
 No offshoring
 Self-management of
 No meetings
 More free time
occupational and
environmental hazards
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The War between the States was actually the final showdown
between agrarian feudalism and industrial capitalism. This is
why Sherman burned the Deep South with impunity, so that
industrialization could proceed unchallenged. Only a small,
close-knit community of bloomer-wearing, teetotaling radicals
was ever genuinely concerned about the welfare of African
Americans; the megamaniacal industrialists merely co-opted
the issue of colonial slavery late in the war to rationalize their
bloodlust for power. Consequently, the benefit of the conflict to
African Americans was only temporary.
And this makes me and her bitches?
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Since the triumph of industrial capitalism during the War
between the States, the Western world, particularly the U.S., has
been built on blood for jobs. Geopolitical militarism and
“blood for oil” is just the tip of the tip of the iceberg. Roman
imperialism, medieval papacy, and colonialism were all
precursors to blood for employment, but making a living
doing things that one should not be doing came to full fruition
once agrarian feudalism had been vanquished.
And that makes me a bitch?
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The Information Revolution
Industries Destroyed
Replacements
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Military-industrial complex
Mass media and sports
Medical-industrial complex
Agribusiness and processed food
Fashion and cosmetics
Beverage and tobacco
Fossil fuel and nuclear
Gaming and sex
Vehicular
War on the poor thinly disguised
as war on drugs
Renewable energy
High-tech transit
Education and basic research
Alternative medicine
IT and robotics
Family farms and workshops
Communication
Resumption of moon shots,
possible lunar mining
 Past crimes against humanity
enforcement
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The Ruling and Managerial Classes Are
the Real Luddites and Lysenkoists
 Renewable energy is more technologically advanced than fossil fuels and
nuclear fission
 Nerve blocks are more technologically advanced than general anesthesia
 Information technology is more technologically advanced than television
 Alternative medicine is more biochemically advanced than pharmacology and
surgery
 Recognition of man-made climate change is more scientific than its denial
 Recognition of post-anesthesia cognitive dysfunction and its accumulation in
the population is more scientific than flagrant disrespect for human
consciousness
 Monorails and magnetic levitation trains are more technologically advanced
than automobiles
 Abstinence from caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, psychiatric drugs, and other drugs
is more scientific than usage of any of these
 Environmental justice is more scientific than environmental racism
 Socialism is more scientific than capitalism
 Environmentalism is more scientific than industrialism
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Chances Are the Same Industrialist
Wrote Both of These Scripts, Too:
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The U.S. staged a fraudulent naval “attack” in
the Gulf of Tonkin to claim that an already
decrepit and unseaworthy ship had been
destroyed by Soviet-sponsored forces from
northern Vietnam
This tiny country on the opposite shore of the
Pacific Ocean was invaded for no other reason
than to stimulate the economy, create jobs,
and make some already overprivileged people
rich
Millions of Vietnamese and U.S. soldiers were
killed
Millions of Vietnamese and U.S. soldiers, as
well as the Vietnamese environment, were
seriously and permanently harmed by napalm
and Agent Orange
Some Vietnamese women and children were
sexually abused by U.S. soldiers or forced into
prostitution by poverty
Fornication between white men and Oriental
women became a major sexual fetish, a fetish
which did not exist in the 1940s
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Over 100 million people a year are told that
they have something defective that must be
surgically “corrected.” The minority with a real
problem, such as appendicitis or orthopedic
injury, are denied nerve blocks, which
would've been much safer, less traumatic, and
more cost effective.
These victims are anesthetized for no other
reason than to stimulate the economy, create
jobs, and make some already overprivileged
people rich
Thousands of these each year die either
intraoperatively, over the following year, or
commit suicide over the following year or so
All of the victims at best are permanently
deprived of their creativity, imagination, and
some of their personality, and at worst suffer
outright Alzheimer
Some victims are sexually abused and then
mislead that they were abducted and molested
by aliens for scientifically impossible “genetic
experiments”
Anesthetized patients became a major sexual
fetish, a fetish which did not exist in the 1940s
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Most controversies are really about privileged whites keeping
their cushy jobs which destroy life for as long as possible.
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There are Two Types of Interventions
 Abolition: liberation of the population from
unwanted, suicidal practices imposed by laws, dogma,
business rules, mass media propaganda, disease
mongering, and other forms of ruling and managerial
class coercion and intimidation. Elimination of forced
and coerced consumption allows violent, militaristic
practices to become extinct.
 Prohibition: enactment of laws and/or dogma
against risky but common behaviors, which millions
risk significant criminal sanctions to continue.
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Examples of Interventions
Abolition
Prohibition
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 Human carnivory
 Sugar
 Caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, and
Dress reform
Trans fats
Toxic additives
Fossil and nuclear fuels
Coronary and valve surgery
Chemo and radiation
Anesthesia reform
Psychiatry reform
Prescription drugs
Free trade agreements
Corporations
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other drugs
Gambling
Pornography
Sex outside marriage
Abortion
Homosexuality
Assisted suicide
Vulgar language
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The yielding of ‘90s dot-com hype to neoconservatism has
shown that the information revolution will be much harder and
bloodier than the industrial revolution had been. None of the
warmongers, industrialists, capitalists, corporatists, or diseasemongers are ever going to walk away from evasion of real work,
pipeline of addictions, and access to sexual prey, no matter how
good anyone’s thinking, oration, writing, poetic, artistic,
singing, songwriting, or filmmaking skills are. Unfortunately,
the physical survival of the biosphere is going to require
carefully organized cohesive force coupled with divine
intervention.
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Reforms to Capital Punishment
Requirements
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Exemptions
Automatic if criterion is met; no execution if no criterion met
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Entire human species reaches consensus online during
webcast of trial
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Genocide or autocide
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Including organized slavery
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Gynecide
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Other crimes against humanity
Ecocide
Torture
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Including sexual violence or slavery
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Including medical and/or psychiatric torture
Organized conspiracy
Seizure or maintenance of power
Public and webcast live
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Must be 18+ to attend or login
Executioners chosen from spectators in a random drawing
Criteria and practice systematically and specifically engineered
to annihilate the ruling and managerial classes while sparing the
working classes and the poor
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Including titled royalty and nobility
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Including fascists and nationalists
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Including Warsaw Pact and Chinese Communists
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Including corporate functionaries
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Including clerics of misogynist and/or racist religions
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Including the disease cartel
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Including organized crime
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Crime committed before 18th birthday
Crime committed under the influence of or during
withdrawal/rebound/hangover from any psychoactive substance
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Including psychiatric drugs
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Including painkillers
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Including anesthetics
Acted alone
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No conspiracy or coverup by profession, political party,
media, or religion
Exempt if all of these criteria are met:
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No political, racist, or evangelical agenda
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No organized crime involvement
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No sexual violence
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No torture
Disability groups automatically exempted:
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Intellectually disabled, a.k.a. mentally retarded
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Untreated autism spectrum
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Demented
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Brain injury
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Birth defect
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Hereditary disease
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Emotionally disturbed
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Legally deaf before 18th birthday
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Legally blind before 18th birthday
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“LET MY PEOPLE GO!”
And that makes God a bitch?
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A Sampling of People the Real Bitches
Have Murdered in Cold Blood
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Jeremiah
Socrates
John Baptist
Jesus Christ
Stephen
Agnes (12 years old)
John Hus
William Tyndale
Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Becket
Joan of Arc
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Abraham Lincoln
Huey “Kingfish” Long
Mahatma Gandhi
John F. Kennedy
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy
Salvador Allende
Oscar Romero
Benazir Bhutto
My uncle Melvin
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Underscore:
 Fauré Requiem
 Duruflé Requiem
 Sadly, this recording is out of print
 My former church choir at St. Mary’s Cathedral
 Pavel Cheshnokov, “Salvation is Created”
 This CD, Christmas at St. Mary’s, can be ordered at
http://www.stmarysmemphis.org by sending an email to
Ty Legge in the music department.
 The Cathedral’s mailing address is 692 Poplar Ave.
Memphis, TN 38105.
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