From a young child I grew up with the terror of developing a Mental Illness.  I felt sad for my mother who appeared to have lost all Dignity and slept most of the time.  She was New Zealand's Shirley Temple and apparently had a beautiful voice and sang on Radio + in the Chorus in Carmen as a younger woman.  She married into a family that looked down their noses at people with Mental Illness. She didn't stand a chance to reach her Potential.  I was determined to try and Succeed in some small fashion but the TERROR + STIGMA has overwhelmed me.  I simply exist to Complain + Bitch about the Hopelessness of the situation for people with Mental Illness.  We have no Rights.  The abuses can be subtle or very unsubtle but they are relentless and never ending.  Once we are adjudged all Hope is all but gone.  A few people survive and thrive against the odds but most of Us hide away in cupboards developing huge emotional and Mental and physical problems.  I am non-violent but it is, unfortunately, if I'm to be honest all too easy to understand why people like David Gray react with Rage against their fellow citizens.  I am one of the many disenfranchised citizens that become a Danger to Society because we resent being Judged + Shunned.  The only way to heal such a Society is to offer the kids Hope and that should not entail focusing on Psychiatric medicine as the way to treat the Victim.  That is Barbaric and Cruel.  Only in a Society where the Powers that be can be seen to actively accepting and offering Work to Beneficiaries, drug addicts, ex-prisoners, etc will we beat the Stigma of having a Mental Illness.  The Law needs to Protect the Mentally Ill against Society.  At the moment I believe that the Law is not Without Prejudice when it comes to the Mentally Ill.  We are seen as somehow not deserving of Protection.  I beg to differ and say we are much more in need of PROTECTION.  One does not get accused of sexually abusing one's own child because you have a Mental Illness without immediately loosing all trust.  What I have observed is the horrific ABUSE of human beings because and for no other reason that they have a Mental Illness.  I implore every Political Party in Our Modern World that we owe it to Our Victims of Crime and the Mentally Ill to provide Safe Haven in the Community for the Mentally Ill.  We have battled every other Discrimination in History but actually protecting the Mentally Ill is still, very much, an uncharted Objective that Humanity needs to achieve.  And we must financially support EVERYONE with decent benefits.  Not slashed Benefits that encourage crime.  I would like to see that every single citizen would be promised a Living Wage for life  
and anything they earn above that should be their Reward.  Our present Welfare is Punitive to the nth Degree and degrades the Citizen.  I am tired of being HATED simply because I am a Beneficiary.  We simply have to raise the minimum Wage by at least $5.  I don't have all the Answers and unfortunately I don't even have a Bright Mind.  It is John Key and David Cameron and President Putin that have the Breadth and Intelligence to Implement my dream…………………PLEASE Give the Mentally Ill Hope and Rights……………….GOD SPEED