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One of the mental means people use to feel safe in face of danger is to find differences between themselves and those bad things happen to, and to find mistakes the people bad things happen to which can be said to have led to those bad things happening to them. These mechanisms break identification with people who are victimized, and leave a person feeling since they are not that sort of person, who will not make that kind of mistake, the bad thing that happened to someone else will never be a danger to them: they are not trouble-makers, not criminals, they are not lay-abouts, they are not nosy press people trying to make up a story to make police look bad. They view what happens as a proper response to such wrong and mistaken people, not as any revocation or denial of the rights of U.S. citizens; they are quite sure these remain entirely intact and available to all good and decent folk in the great country of ours.
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