DISCRIMINATION against some is OK, right? Lyrics, images & a cry for help

[Jeffersons Ghost]

Come on people, Republican legislators will not gain the two-thirds majority needed to pass ANY anti-gay rights legislation because gays can unite and fight. All the banter about gay marriage is simply an age-old attempt to divide and conquer the Democratic Party. If it is not broken don't fix it, is obviously their approach.

If you want to join a REAL fight for equality, however, there is still a very helpless group that needs your assistance but I doubt anyone here cares. After all, in our land of "freedom" this group of social untouchables has no voice or rallying cry. We have no unity, no flags and no symbols but we're a damn BIG group.

Many claim, Leonardo da Vinci, Jimi Hendrix, Vincent van Gogh and Thomas Edison were in this group of social untouchables, so it appears we have an ability to contribute to society in some way, if given a chance. I know for sure Hendrix and van Gogh were in the group, because they took their own lives.

More often than anyone knows, it is being marginalized and openly discriminated against, not a mental condition that brings people in this group to suicide.

Years ago, as I was attepting to talk a fellow bipolar off the ledge of suicide, he asked me; Why did God create bipolar condition and shackle us with it's many horrors. All I could answer was, "I guess it's so that people would have electric lights," but many with mental conditions live in cardboard boxes and don't have electric light, unless street lights count. We are not discriminated against, when it comes to handing out punishment in court, though and many of us have police records.

On May 20, 2006, the president of the National Alliance on Mental Illness warned Congress that President Bush's proposed $9 million cut in the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) budget will erode progress in finding new treatments for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression -- condemning millions of Americans to chronic disability. Dr. Suzanne Vogel-Scibilia, NAMI board president, a practicing psychiatrist, and a person living with bipolar disorder, told a Senate appropriations subcommittee that she herself has had periods of severe illness, including catatonic episodes and three suicide attempts. http://www.schizophrenia.com/sznews/archives/003407.html

How many people have a mental disability and what are their conditions and symptoms?

In a Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) people who answered that they have specific mental conditions and symptoms were classified as having a mental disability. In 1997, 14.3 million people age 15 and over (6.9%) had a mental disability. An estimated 3.9 million people had only a mental disability, 727,000 people had both mental and communication disabilities, 5.3 million people had both mental and physical disabilities, and 4.3 million people had mental, physical, and communication disabilities.

Furthermore, 8.1 million people (3.9% of the population) reported one or more mental conditions (learning disability; mental retardation; Alzheimer’s, senility, or dementia; and other mental/emotional condition). Another 6.9 million (3.3%) reported one or more mental symptoms that seriously interfered with their ability to manage day-to-day activities (frequently anxious or depressed; trouble coping with stress; trouble concentrating; trouble getting along with others). Finally, 4.6 million (2.2%) reported difficulty keeping track of money and bills.

We don't want your sympathy. All we ask is equality in society and the work place. We don't want to be discriminated against because we've had three different jobs every year for the past ten years. And the next time you hand that crazy old man on the corner a dollar for his bottle of self-medication, please try not to tell him to cheer up. He can't simply decide to change his mind, if he is depressed. If he could change his mind he'd change it to normal.

Before viewing the art, let me apologize to my regular readers for not finding more pictures. I can't see very well, with tears in my eyes. This next graphic music study might easily ba called "Fade to Black." Watch how these van Gogh paintings slide into the darkness of isolation and eventual death.



The Trial (Waters, Bob Ezrin) 5:16

Good morning, Worm your honor.
The crown will plainly show
The prisoner who now stands before you
Was caught red-handed showing feelings
Showing feelings of an almost human nature;
This will not do.
Call the schoolmaster!


I always said he'd come to no good
In the end your honor.
If they'd let me have my way I could
Have flayed him into shape.
But my hands were tied,
The bleeding hearts and artists
Let him get away with murder.
Let me hammer him today?


Crazy,
Toys in the attic I am crazy,
Truly gone fishing.
They must have taken my marbles away.
Crazy, toys in the attic he is crazy.

You little shit you're in it now,
I hope they throw away the key.
You should have talked to me more often
Than you did, but no! You had to go
Your own way, have you broken any
Homes up lately?
Just five minutes, Worm your honor,
Him and Me, alone.

Baaaaaaaaaabe!
Come to mother baby, let me hold you
In my arms.
M'lud I never wanted him to
Get in any trouble.
Why'd he ever have to leave me?
Worm, your honor, let me take him home.

Crazy,
Over the rainbow, I am crazy,
Bars in the window.
There must have been a door there in the wall
When I came in.
Crazy, over the rainbow, he is crazy.

The evidence before the court is
Incontrivertable, there's no need for
The jury to retire.
In all my years of judging
I have never heard before
Of someone more deserving
Of the full penaltie of law.
The way you made them suffer,
Your exquisite wife and mother,
Fills me with the urge to defecate!

"Hey Judge! Shit on him!"

Since, my friend, you have revealed your
Deepest fear,
I sentence you to be exposed before
Your peers.

Tear down the wall!

Vincent van Gogh once said, "An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men." Van Gogh might be better known for his bloody ear than his warm heart, but you gotta love the sentiment.

Vincent van Gogh spent much of his life in and out of hospitals, until his brother finally convinced him to enter an asylum. The treatment rendered him soggy, but not appreciably more sane. The asylum allowed him to paint, and within its walls he created perhaps his most powerful work, "Starry Night." He once wrote to his brother, "I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day," a sentiment amply reflected in his most famous work.

Unfortunately for his art, he tried eat his paints in an apparent suicide attempt, which was the end of his painting privileges for a while. The pattern of recovery and relapse continued for almost two years, in and out of the asylum, and eventually in Paris, where he traveled to stay with his brother. Painting at every opportunity he didn't feel compelled to poison himself, van Gogh continued to struggle with bouts of paranoia and delusions, with a continuing impact on his physical health.

On July 27, 1890, van Gogh finally figured out that a tube of oil paints wasn't going to do the trick. While out painting in a wheat field, he shot himself in the chest with a revolver. Once again, he failed to do himself in, and he managed to walk home to the inn where he had been staying, before collapsing into bed without telling anyone what had happened. When the innkeeper found him in a pool of his own blood, he called a doctor and van Gogh's brother, Theo.

The bullet was too close to his heart to be removed, and van Gogh suffered another seizure. With his wounds, the impact was too much. After telling his brother, "the sadness will last forever," he finally died, two days after launching the attempt. He was denied a funeral because he had committed suicide. http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/artists/vincent-van-gogh/

[Jeffersons Ghost]

1. TEAR DOWN THE WALL!

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2. TEAR DOWN THE WALL!

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3. TEAR DOWN THE WALL!

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4. I knew I'd have to stand alone on this issue but I DON'T CARE...

because today I stand up for many who can't defend themselves. Many with mental issues are alone, despised and hurting in unimaginable ways.

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5. why don't my many critics jump on this OP and attack? why push it down?

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6. OK FINE! NO KICKS, NO COMMENTS & NO TIME FOR ISSUES THAT DON'T AFFECT YOU

PERSONALLY but I'm not done. This is only the beginning and I will never resign! never.