Rhymes of Murder and Suicide (Book) - 1/19/2022 12:32:48 PM
The vast majority of the mentally ill are responsible for only a small number of acts of violence. It is rare for the mentally ill to commit unspeakable crimes. Shootings are almost always planned and committed by sane, rational people. Violence is more a matter of one's personal character than it is of illness. Numbers of violent crimes are committed by a small percentage of schizophrenics over sane people in numbers of total offenders. Mental health is a disease, and in some cases, a disability. The mentally ill are highly stigmatized.
America's Forgotten Citizens: No, Food, No Shelter and No Help (Book) - 5/31/2020 8:33:45 AM
You certainly are a prolific author with all of these books. But I think your choice of pseudonym, while hiding your true identity, makes it harder for people searching for you on the Internet who would have trouble with the spelling. Most Americans have real spelling problems, like me.
In this book you have focused on the "invisible" poor. The highly touted unemployment rate always ignores those who have given up trying to find work. It also is distorted by so many having to work two jobs, or more, just to make ends meet and put a roof over their heads rather than be on street, unseen and moved about as a nuisance.
But I can see that the tide is turning. The Republican carefully laid plans to create a dual society similar to South America with the very rich ruling all the rest as happy wage slaves, is unraveling with the unpredictable nature of the coronavirus and the last straw of the video of George Floyd being murdered for being large and probably complaining because he was being stopped for what appeared to be, funny money, but mostly because he was black.
Ron
SKIN GAME: I Hate Your Colo (Article) - 6/3/2020 11:24:53 AM
I am a white person who desperately tries to get a tan, a dark colored skin, through the summer. And, throughout my life, skin color, ethnic origin, or other crazy, cruel thought never crossed my mind as I measured everyone by their individual, "strength of character."
Ron
