Mental Illness: The Case of Kelly Thomas

Kelly Thomas prior to being homeless                         After Police Beating

In this Neoliberal New World Order,
Mental illness is stopped at the border.
Interrogated, jailed and criminalized,                        
Excoriated by evil police eyes.

Like in the murder of Kelly Thomas,
By Fullerton cops Cicinelli and Ramos.
Meting out their state sanctioned bounty,
Then stacking the jury in Orange County.

Ironically police and military suffer most,
Don't abandon your station, or your post!
Attitudes of no mercy by hardened brass,

Aquitted Police Officers Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli

Using media spin to save face and ass!

In this incorporated social model,
Mental illness is scorned something awful.
If you're sick they'll assume you're no good,
Society's attitude killed the dead in Fort Hood!

Media uses language to frighten the reader,
Homeless, assailant, attacker, beleaguer.
Media profit out weighs moral obligation,
Breaking News is an ethical violation!

Government is a huge part of the problem,
Mental illness, like the stereotypical Harlem,
Is given short shrift and discussed in hushed tone,
There's no leftover money for the mentally ill prone!

Will the cowardly US Justice Department,
Dole out punishment sure footed and ardent,
And lock up thugs like Cicinelli and Ramos?
Look at what they did to Kelly Thomas!

Mental illness was Kelly's only crime,
Look online, they beat his head into slime!
The defense painted him as criminal and drug crazed,
Now how would you react if your head was being tazed?

A homeless Kelly Thomas

United States Attorney General
Eric Holder