That was no press conference,

Erica — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 04:19:56 +0000

In reply to The mentally ill and the security-industrial complex in schools

That was no press conference, it was an infomercial.

The only good part is that people know an infomercial when they see one.

It's too soon to conclude

Flavius — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 02:15:29 +0000

In reply to The mentally ill and the security-industrial complex in schools

It's too soon to conclude that Adam Lanza's murderous spree is connected with his Asbergers . It's possible that's as irrelevant as his weight or hair color.

It appears Lanza was nursing hostility linked to a perhaps not wholly untrue belief that he had been treated unfairly during his own stay at Sandy Hook. Maybe he had been. Most people are treated unfairly some times. And get over it. Adam didn't.

I happen to know several people with Asbergers . None seem to me to nurse a grudge altho each has had a life time full of experiences which you could imagine would cause them to. But these are the comments of a layman.The professionals might disagree. It seems to me that to now they have been strangely silent.

I'm sure there's a clinical term for the large number of people who ,like Adam, nurse a grievance . And another for the much smaller number who do something, harmful because of it.

One thing is for sure. That term is not Asbergers. But if the people who study behaviors don't speak I fear that there will be a tacit conclusion that the Newtown massacre was the result of Adam Lanza's Asbergers.. And that the proposed remedies will be measures to restrict people with Asbergers when what is needed will be remedies to help those with or with out Asbergers who are brooding over some supposed injustice.

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That was no press conference,

It's too soon to conclude