More On Driving In Michigan And The US.

I just remembered something else from 2004. Like I said, I started researching the topic of driving rights in the mentally ill, and driving rights in general in the US, then.

I already knew that they say driving is a privilege and not a right here. I also found out then that denying people driver's licenses has been used in the past as a form of lawful discrimination and to limit certain groups' rights. For example, I read then, there was a man, in Vermont I think. And he was denied a driver's license as late as 1974. The DMV told him it was because he was a flaming homosexual. There were some openly gay people by then. But his case was different they told him because he was flaming. Also I was reading about how mental illness was used in determining if you get a driver's license in states in the US. In some states they ask you as you apply if you have a mental illness. I was relieved to read in Michigan they don't even ask. (Of course many of the police and first responders here don't think that rule applies to them because them belong to the sovereign citizen movement it seems. And so they make their own rules as they go along, I noted even back then.) But in some states if you are mentally ill and you try to get a license it goes to a board for your case to be reviewed. And they decide what they want to do from there. On the other hand, I also read, if you want a gun in some states it doesn't matter if you are mentally ill. As long as you haven't been in patient for at least ten years. Because, you know, everyone has an unlimited right to firearms there. But they don't want just anyone driving. It could be dangerous.

I was going to bring all of this up online back then. But I never did.

EDIT: And my legal guardian knew all about that car thing. How it was ploy to limit the rights and consent of the mentally ill and make it easier to put them away some place by saying they couldn't even take care of themselves that way. Of course he did. He was probably working with law enforcement with all of that. I knew about how law enforcement used that in 2004, and he was part of that as soon as my father died in 2011 and he was trying to use it against me. Some people tell me that maybe then I should just drop him as legal guardian if he does things like that. But there's not enough money in the trust. Plus I need help, not just with money, but many things. It will have to be him then. But he should be required to take good care of me and never try things like that. That, and always provide me with a car. Or face contempt of court charges.

And also, the car thing is not the only example of ways the mentally ill and the handicapped are treated differently in Michigan and Detroit. In many ways the mentally ill and the handicapped treated unequally and unfairly, harassed and observed and followed around, denied basic needs like cars and consent. All while other residents of high-crime areas in Michigan like Detroit get away with murder, but the police are more concerned about the first group. The first group often just minding their own business and doing absolutely nothing wrong. I demand that all be investigated and that will be forever more part of my case now, till the day I die, which if fate intervenes again won't be for many years.

Because that doesn't just show a special contempt for the law on the part of private citizens, but the police and other authorities too. Which I don't anyone would disagree is beyond outrageous.