Psychics Should Be Arrested

I don't usually publish MEMES. I barely glance at them. But this one...

OK, it's mostly aimed at the easy target of faith healers. But I've never seen a faith healer. They seem to be a rural phenomenon. Maybe there are Baptist versions. But what I've seen are PSYCHICS. There isn't a neighborhood that isn't infested with them. Walk a few blocks, and you'll see a sign for Tarot readings and palm readings and other hokum.

Some of these desperate scum actually set up a card table on the street, to be more visible. Why expect somebody to go down to a scary basement when...ah, right HERE, an amusing PSYCHIC giving a magical session for a mere ten bucks??

In some parts of town, psychics are viewed as entertainment. Idiot chicks and smug Yuppie scum go "for a laugh," and pay more and MORE to be "entertained."Huh? You light a candle and my luck changes? That's an extra fifty? OK. You take hundreds of dollars from me for a potion? Hmm....sure." That initial ten dollars escalates into a fortune.

In fact, if you google the subject, you'll find many a "psychic" arrested for swindling some old person or some superstitious immmigrant out of their life savings. And yet...being a "psychic" is not considered the same as being a con-artist!

The logical question, as the MEME points out, is why these people don't win the lottery. Aren't at the race track. Don't simply wander around finding lost wallets. Why are these "psychics" always living in some basement? In some creepy walk-up apartment?

Why is it that they are so sociopathic and aggressive in what they do? In some neighborhoods, they are such out-and-out criminals, they hide in an apartment and just chain a sign to the curb...a sign with a phone number and nothing more. If you call up and seem like a fool, they'll give you the address where you can be fleeced. If you seem like law enforcement (especially someone who will issue a summons or fine for an illegal sign) you get told to fuck off. Of course, many a "psychic" hangs up on a willing stooge, and accidentally gives the location to law enforcement!

There is no such thing as a PSYCHIC and what's going on is just a carny trick, a con-job. These gypsy bastards know how to size up a mark, how to do the standard magician-patter and use certain phrases that make them "seem" to be all-knowing and so smart. They notice a wedding band on some asshole's hand: "Let's talk about your marriage." "Duh! Wow! Woo hoo! HOW did you know I was married? YOU IZ A SIDEKICK!" "That's...PSYCHIC..."

In a civilized and modern world, psychics should be arrested. At best, they should be forced to have warning labels on their signs: "For entertainment only. There is no such thing as a PSYCHIC. Palm-reading is BULLSHIT."

But no, nobody wants to trample on "freedom of speech, man," or to question "belief" in psychics or imaginary friends or genocidal Gods. What a better world we'd have if people who rave about Tarot cards, palms or some fairy-tale book were treated with doubt instead of looked at with awe. "Gee, maybe that person IS psychic....Gee, maybe Jesus WILL come back...Gosh, maybe Jews really should be exterminated because some idiot thinks that's what Mohamed wants..."