The tyranny of the common man (example 876,348)

On Saturday a Mr. J Arthur Curtiss wrote a letter to the Lincoln Journal Star that was both malicious and terribly naive. . so let's do a little deconstructing.

Curtiss pines for a time when most metally challenged, physically frail, or those otherwise unable to take care of themselves were usally institutionalized.

"In those early days, we did not have such a public proliferation of the homeless, the indigent, the vagrants, the alcoholics and the addicts. (People with developmental disabilitites.)"

Hey genius, just because you don't understand a phrase doesn't make it a euphemism. "People with developmental disabilities" means exactly that. If it sounds vague it is because there are lots of different kinds of developmental disabilities. Very few of them lead to drug addiction and criminal activity. If you're wondering why the homeless, addicts, and drunks have more of a "physical proliferation" than they used to, well, a court recently ruled that Lincoln's homeless are entitled to bag for cash under the first amendment. Mostly though, activist judges have spent the last 200 years forcing us to come up with more elaborate excuses to throw poor people into prison, so now they're more likely to be out in the open where God and everybody can see them. Sorry if you've been forcefully reminded of their existance.


And they will recall when metally retarded people were not free to enter a schoolhouse bathroom or a children's playground.

Ah yes, you refer to the molestation incident at Arnold Elementary last year. the incident that dominated the television news and the first two pages of the next days Journal-star. (A case involving the murder of an illegal immigrant that was resolved around the same time got a few blurbs in the back of the local section, but I digress.)

The main problem is that you assume that the retarded are more likely to be "that way" this is of course total nonsense. The man who commited the crime at Arnold Elementary is not retarded. He is clearly disturbed, but this is not the same thing. and of course "normal" people are just as likely to be child molestors as those who are "different". Look up the stats if you like. Disbelieve the stats and blame them on the liberal media if you like.

Finally, "you may recall" a time when their were no child molestors, or at least certainly none in schools. because 'we knew what to do to those types back than' but you would be recalling a lie.
There most certainly was sexual child abuse going on back than, some of it done by teachers, respected community members and, well, I'm sure you've heard about the priests. But sexual abuse simply wasn't reported or talked about than.

So why is it reported and talked about a lot these days? Well, there are a few reasons. Police need a lot of money so that they can buy cool toys and pretend to be soldiers. Prisons need a lot of money to hide away the poor people you fret about. Prosecutors and and other politicians need to win elections. gaining funds and winning elections gets a lot easier when people are scared. Make the people afraid of criminals (easily identifible since of course only the "different" types are criminals.) so that they elect tough-on crime politicians. These tough-on-crime politcians than proceed to give the police industry and the prison industry as much money as they want.

But they've been playing this game for a long time now, and the people are starting to get a little jaded. Communists, hippies, loadies, and even terrorists just don't terrify people like they used to. So expect to hear more, and more, and more, about child molestors.

But I've just been wasting my time telling you all of this, haven't I? You will continue to assume that the "different" are dangerous and hunt down the evidence to support your conclusions.