It just occurred to me that a mysterious event which occurred last
October may have had some connection with something I said. Yes, I'm
kinda slow sometimes...
Opinions? Whaddaya think?
About 4:30 one Sunday morning, four .38 or 9mm bullets were fired at
our old car. Two went through the car, two entered the house. Had the
car not been there, the two bullets it absorbed would likely have hit
people in the house, from the looks of the ricochet marks.
I have no enemies to speak of, I work for slightly better than
subsistence wages and have none of the interpersonal treachery going
on that's normally associated with affluence. This neighborhood is
pretty blue-collar, some gang activity but generally the little thugs
keep a low profile, preferring to do most of their shit in the north
end of town.
The only thing I can think of is a letter I had written to a local
weekly rag a few weeks before. The letter was a response to an article
about a woman who'd suffered psychiatric malpractice at the hands of
bible-thumping shrinks:
To the Editor:
After reading the initial description of Jennifer Fultz's condition in
Maureen O'Hagan's Sep. 25 piece, "How she beat the devil," I wasn't even
slightly surprised when it came out that her two shrinks had (please excuse
the oxymoron) religious education. The article showed what can happen
when the care of the mentally ill is entrusted to "professionals" who
themselves have a belt slipping. This is just the tip of the nutty
iceberg, though.
Every Sunday (every day, in parochial schools) trusting, impressionable
kids get their subconscious minds pumped full of sadomasochistic
mythology by well-meaning adults who are preoccupied with the same demons
as Ms. Fultz's "therapists." They're told that if they don't submit to the
whims of a capricious, irrational deity or worship a curiously British-
looking imaginary superfriend, they'll spend eternity in some giant
stir-fry with Gene Simmons. In a culture largely made up of people who are
thus indoctrinated, is it really any wonder that so many of us have
squirrels running around where there should have been gray matter?
The article didn't say where Jennifer's head is at now; I hope she came
to understand that religion is a form of mental illness and it can be
conquered by simply recognizing the Christian cult or what it is.
--- edmilz@juno.com
Well? Am I just being paranoid, or should I be sleeping with my pants
on and a round in the chamber?
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Sun 16 Feb 97 22:11
By: Ed Mills
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