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He's white so that automatically makes him ill BULLSHIT!!! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/19/laura-curtis-paul-kevin-curtis_n_3114596.html
cali
(114,904 posts)er, smarts.
This guy is clearly mentally ill. for fuck's sake.
cali
(114,904 posts)Curtis also posted similar language on his Facebook page. The documents indicate Curtis had been distrustful of the government for years. In 2007, Curtis' ex-wife called police to report that her husband was extremely delusional and felt the government was spying on him with drones.
Tupelo attorney David Daniels said Curtis was in a show he helped organize about 10 years ago. Daniels said he was sitting in his vehicle one night after rehearsal when Curtis walked up.
"He started beating on the windows and screaming and hollering," Daniels said. "I thought he was kidding, but he was serious. He was throwing a fit like I've never seen a grown man throw before."
Daniels said Curtis was holding a beer bottle and threatening him with it. Daniels said he pointed the pistol he kept in his car: "I told him, `If you try to hit me with that bottle, Kevin, I'm going to shoot you.'"
freeridemro
(9 posts)He's white so that automatically makes him not mentally ill?
Seems pretty loony to me
cali
(114,904 posts)he's obviously mentally ill. There's a fucking record of it going back years.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)... When someone's claiming there's an international conspiracy to suppress their music career specifically, there are flags going up in the DSM.
msongs
(67,193 posts)Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)He's suppose to be taking medication for his problems. The problem is he's had his delusions fed by media and society in general. It's what we all expected and feared was happening. It's another case of a Glenn Beck/Alex Jones/Rush Limbaugh/Michael Savage/FOX News - induced psychotic episode. Crazy people are listening to these shameless gasbags and flipping out.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic." http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/249/47/case.html
People have died when others have falsely shouted "Fire" in crowded places to cause panic. As noted by Wikipedia, one such event caused the deaths of 73 people:
The Italian Hall Disaster (sometimes referred to as the 1913 Massacre) is a tragedy that occurred on December 24, 1913 in Calumet, Michigan. Seventy-three men, women, and children, mostly striking mine workers and their families, were crushed to death in a stampede when someone falsely yelled "fire" at a crowded Christmas party.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Hall_disaster
In a similar event in 1856, seven were killed and several injured when someone falsely shouted "Fire!" in the Royal Surrey Gardens in London.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Surrey_Gardens
One of the hallmarks of a liberal is to respond in rational ways.
Just as it would be irrational to allow people to falsely shout "Fire!" in crowded places to cause panic, and do so on the presumed grounds that the First Amendment protects all speech (it doesn't, except in the isolated view of one former Supreme Court Justice, Justice Black), it is irrational to never try to control the hate mongering of the financially-motivated "newscasters."
Some have tried to control Limbaugh with boycotts. But there have been governmental funds which have been used to enable the hate-mongers like Glenn Beck/Alex Jones/Rush Limbaugh/Michael Savage and others at FOX News to spread their hate.
Solutions? At a minimum, there could be a withdrawal of governmental support for the hate-mongers and their financial backers. The government, for example, could withdraw all copyright protection for whatever is broadcast on such shows. It could also withdraw trademark and trade-name protection for whatever sponsors support such shows. It could also withdraw tax breaks, for example, by disallowing deductions for expenses related to the commercial promotion of such hate.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,787 posts)What part of the article did you not understand?
What part of this statement did you not understand?
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)bigtree
(85,917 posts). . . not bullshit. Nothing to do with the fact that he has light skin.