{"id":4572,"date":"2012-07-19T09:32:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T23:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=4572"},"modified":"2024-07-08T02:03:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T16:03:34","slug":"what-is-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=4572","title":{"rendered":"You’re Not Average? Then We’ll Have To Drug You or Kill You"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"What<\/a>
\nYou are not “normal”.
\nYou are different. You know that.
\nSo am I.
\nIn fact, we are all unique.
\nThe bits that are different to everyone else, or even most people, don’t mean we deserve to be drugged into a zombie-like state.
\nThe only people who all have the same characteristics are dead ones.
\nThey are all alike.
\nIn fact they are dead similar.
\nDon’y buy the fact that you or your kids need drugs because you are different or because your kids loses attention in a boring classroom because the teacher does not know how to teach or because they are given the impossible task of 1 person teaching up to 35 kids, each of whom has a different learning speed.
\nDrugs are NOT the answer.
\nMore teachers, better teachers, better teacher training, better teaching methods, smaller class sizes are less costly and don’t have 70 negative side effects like the average drug. Including death.
\nAnd they don’t destroy lives.
\nDead bored is just a saying.
\nMurder and drug induced suicides are a fact.
\nBut changing the system because it is broken would tread on too many toes.
\nSo let’s keep doing what we have been doing.
\nEven though it doesn’t work.
\nAnother solution currently being employed is to kill people whose differences fit a certain pattern. Regradless of whether or not they have committed a crime. Needless to say, being different is reason enough alone for me to be particularly unenthusiastic about this practice, let alone me being anti-dictatorships and the practice being unlawful and unconstitutional.
\nIf you do not think a leader should be able to kill anyone he pleases, just because they fit certain criteria, might be a good idea to sign this petition.
\nHe was 16 years old and an American citizen. He had committed no crime and was charged with no wrongdoing, but he was killed without trial or due process \u2014 by our military and the CIA.
\nAbdulrahman Al-Aulaqi was the innocent victim of an out-of-control CIA and Pentagon “targeted killing” program. This shadowy program started by targeting those on secret “kill lists.” Then, it was expanded to target those who fit a specific “pattern of behavior” \u2014 even if their identities were unknown.
\nAnd now, outrageously, the CIA is counting “all military-age males” in specific areas as targets unless intelligence proves them innocent \u2014 after they’re dead.
\nHelp stop this unlawful, un-American program. Tell the top lawyers at the CIA and the Pentagon to do the right thing: End illegal targeted killings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You are not “normal”. You are different. You know that. So am I. In fact, we are all unique. The bits that are different to everyone else, or even most people, don’t mean we deserve to be drugged into a zombie-like state. The only people who all have the same characteristics are dead ones. They … <\/p>\n

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