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You need to watch this: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

Once you're in custody you're in a system built to treat psychopaths and killers. The system isn't built to recognize your unique and brilliant capabilities. It's there to treat the lowest common denominator.

Reduce your surface area. Recognize that you are dealing with a system built to function by 1700s timescales.

This guy admits he screamed over and over that he wanted to see a doctor. He not only made himself a problem to be dealt with, he acted in such a way that they could defensibly put him in the psych ward. "he was screaming the same phrase over and over."

Reduce your surface area and remember the system is built to deliver eventual justice as often as possible, not immediate justice in your case.




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