The undeclared war by the police against vulnerable individuals continues.

This time it was a quiet evening stroll and a simple quest for a slice of pizza that to their eyes merited a death sentence.

These are all subjective, pejorative labels that attempt to describe in medical terms various states of acting or being, visible emotional turmoil or ways of perceiving the world that do not fit into the arbitrary mold of 'normalcy'.

After I was raped by three Middle Eastern men I had to listen to a lot of people blame Middle Eastern men, me or both. So the horrible things being said about what happened to Lara Logan are not only not shocking to me, but I expected them. As soon as I heard the news I imagined all the crap people would say about how Egyptians are savages or about how she should have known it would happen since she put herself in that dangerous situation. If you don't want to get raped, you should wear a full-body Burka and sit in the closet all day praying that the Lord make you a clean thing.

'Childhood schizophrenia'.

Pinned to me in 1964, at age six. The drugs soon followed - as did the 'special-ed' classes, outpatient 'treatment' at several different hospitals and finally at age sixteen, admission to a 'group home'.

It's strange that governments don't call it 'violence' when daily they send people to their deaths by deporting them.

It's strange that governments don't call it 'violence' when they send thousands of poor people to kill (or be killed by) other poor people in one senseless war after another.

Once again the Province of Ontario is contemplating a revamp of how it delivers mental health 'services'.

The sidewalks in my own neighborhood have been strewn all summer with the victims of our city 'democracy' - those souls who have literally nowhere else to lay their heads except for the concrete passageways of our 'fair city'.