More On The Car Issue.

I also wanted to add about the car issue, and what I started reading when I researched the topic around 2005. It's far easy to deny someone a driver's license in the US. It's considered a privilege, when it really is a right. Like I said, that seems to have always been the case in the US. Back in 1974 Rhode Island denied a man a license for being a flaming homosexual, I read in 2005. Also I read something back then that actually made me feel at least a little better. Michigan is one state that doesn't ask you if you have a mental illness when you apply for a driver's license. Because it's ridiculous. It has nothing to do with your driving, anymore than asking you if you were a Presbyterian would. But in some states that's not the case, I read. If you answer yes, it goes to a board to be reviewed. And they debate it for a while, whether you should be allowed to drive, when you are mentally ill. However, I also read around that time that if you haven't been involuntarily hospitalized for ten years in some states, you can legally own a gun. That might have been changed by the Brady Bill. But that was the case in some states at one time. Because you know, owning a gun is an absolute right. But they don't want just anyone driving, it could be dangerous. Then around 1995 people, who really should have just been minding their own business, said I looked too mentally disabled to them to be driving. (I don't know. Because that man who used to work for me said I don't look like a dangerous mental patient to him, even though some people have said or implied I do.) And showing them my license and the fact I had a good driving record made no difference, it seemed. Then around 2001 when I got almost arrested by the police for pouring coffee into my mug on a deserted street in Dearborn late at night, the police started saying this. That perhaps I should be driving. Even though I was a good driver, and again it was none of their business. And again as I've said recently, that is the kind of thing they'd never do to a criminal. Not even if he were driving on a suspended license with warrants for his arrest. They'd leave him alone and respect this rights. But not mine, as I've said. Actually though, I did find out. Mentally and physically disabled people in the US can drive. They can do all things other people can do, unless the opposite has been proven. But of course the police don't think that rule applies to them, because they think they are the law sometimes I guess.

But that was all the ridiculous stuff I started seeing and reading about in 2005.