The Life You Save Could Be Your Own

Again and again we read stories, where the authorities, in charge, think that expelling a so called trouble maker is the answer.  The latest example unfolded yesterday in California, where a veteran, according to unofficial sources, was kicked out of a PTSD program, that obviously he desperately needed.  Once a story comes from official sources, the truth, is usually, laundered and bleached, before the release, and becomes often times a fiction, to hide behind.  The end result was, three hostages, and the gunman dead.

When do we finally learn that abnormal aggressive behavior is, more often than not, a signal that a human being is psychologically in trouble.  The last thing he or she needs, is confirmation that nobody cares.  OK, it may be just his, or her perception, but perception is everything, especially, for troubled minds.

Here he was, in a program to help him to get back to a normal life.  One must assume that he dealt with trained professionals, at least one hopes so.  The question begs, what are these professionals learning, when the solution is simply to kick out their patient.  It appears to me, their private fears and interests superseded the interest of their charge.  If they were unable to deal with him, their fiduciary duty is to get help for him, from more qualified people, in a non-confrontational way.

When we send young people into a killing war, what do we expect?  The person comes back, whether or not he or she realizes it, as damaged goods.  It may never become a problem for the outside world, but it most certainly is now a problem for their individual soul.  A damaged soul is always a problem to be taken seriously.  In normal people, before deployment, killing and abusing other people is not their norm, it goes against the grain of every human fiber, in their body.  War makes people do what they used to abhor; is it so surprising that their psyche/soul is damaged, tormenting them without end?

Many military people coming back from war zones have come to the conclusion, by experience, that their, often times, ugly actions were not to protect the homeland, but to protect the business interest of the elite, who sent them in harms way, in the first place.  As a result, many come back very angry; many pointed to the demand for oil.