Anti-Christian Anti-Trump lunatic captured before he could target churches

[koshergrl]

"My wife worked for the chief of the psychiatric department at the Brentwood VA in California during the early 80s. From the mid-70s to mid-80s there was a strong 'patients rights' movement generated by the mental health advocate community. Although there were many facets to this movement, one of the primary elements was a re-examination of the criteria for institutionalizing patients.

The point of contention revolved around interpretations of what it meant for a patient to be able to 'take care of himself.' Prior to this the interpretation was rather strict; if a patient could not earn an income and provide shelter and food for himself (and if there were no family members able to care for him), then he would normally be institutionalized.

Begining in the late 70s, the advocacy groups began to demand a lower standard. As long as a patient could merely wash and dress himself, and could perform the mechanical tasks of shovelling food into his mouth, then every effort was made to force the institutions to release them. My wife's boss spent many months both in court and testifying before the state assembly trying to stop this lowering of standards. Unsuccessfully.

Predictably, most of the newly discharged patients were unable to take care of themselves in any meaningful sense of the word, and became the homeless people on the street. It's no coincidence that the decline in California's mental health insitution population closely matched the sharp increase of homeless (in California, at least) during the same period. In fact, for about two years, my wife literally was on a first name basis with every homeless person we ran across in the Westwood/Santa Monica area. They were all former patients who had been 'sprung' from the VA by well meaning advocate groups who then simply walked away and left these guys hanging.

Reagan was not involved in this movement, nor was he a symptom or symbolic of it. Quite the contrary. The people who 'liberated' the inmates tended to be on the opposite end of the political spectum. In fact, it was the ACLU who provided legal representation to force the VA to release these patients."
Crazy lefturds.

snopes.com: Reagan kicked people out of institutions

That is a comment by a member on a forum for snopes ...It is someones opinion not a fact..




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and a shitload more credible than the retarded comments you are spouting about tree hatred.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

The guy is obviously mentally ill.... which we will keep seeing more of because the Republicans love to cut away at mental health funds ... especially for the Vets.

Yeah. It's the Republican's fault when Dems go nuts.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Reagan closed the mental institutions at the behest of leftist politicians and insane progressive Yale "psychiatrists".

Ok since I brought up Reagan...I went up to the beautiful Redwood forests some years back and saw a sign dedicated to Reagan when he was governor...lol

He cut down 3/4ths of the forest...he said once you have seen one tree you have seen them all..He hated trees.

That is how the republicans view mentally ill people..

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We hate clean air and water too. Also, we want to see the elderly eating dog food.

 

[koshergrl]

Reagan closed the mental institutions at the behest of leftist politicians and insane progressive Yale "psychiatrists".

Ok since I brought up Reagan...I went up to the beautiful Redwood forests some years back and saw a sign dedicated to Reagan when he was governor...lol

He cut down 3/4ths of the forest...he said once you have seen one tree you have seen them all..He hated trees.

That is how the republicans view mentally ill people..

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We hate clean air and water too. Also, we want to see the elderly eating dog food.

And we love tripping over crazy ppl every time we step out our front doors.

 

[JimBowie1958]

Had a friend who got committed back in the late 70s so he wouldnt harm himself. They let him out and he tried to kill himself again, then they put him back in. Dont know what happened to him.

Another guy was living in an alleyway behind a building in Ft Worth. His parents were worried about him and tried to get the cops to pick him up, but he refused to cooperate, and the cops couldnt do anything. They found him dead a couple of years later from hypothermia.

I agree that the criteria to put someone in a looney bin should be tight, but one thing that should get them put in is whether or not they are a risk to themselves or others.