Mentally Ill? You're Off to Jail!
A New Government Bill Which Would Allow Enforced Detention of People Who Are Mentally Ill
A new Government Bill which would allow the enforced detention of people who are mentally ill, even if they have not committed a crime, is on its way.
The Goverment wants to give the right to force patients who have been released into the community to take their medication, even if they do not want to do so.
The Government also wants to allow the detention of people with personality disorders who are described as untreatable, whether they have committed a crime or not!
The reason why the Government is taking a close look at changing the law was largely driven by Michael Stone's 1998 conviction for the murders of Lin and Megan Russell.
These changes and introduction of a new bill would allow between 15,000 to 500,000 people to be locked away whether they committed a crime or not.
Whilst my deepest sympathy is extended to the family, friends and associates of Lin and Megan Russell and the unmitigating abhorrant crime of murder, somewhere the scales of justice are rather lop-sided for me personally with this new legislation.
Published by f.w.
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Post a Commentwhen crazy, psychotic christian, Bush, and his herding team are gone, this country will go back to normal democracy. Be still and wait on the voting out of Bush and his robotic republican team of elitists.
I think I will leave this country since I'm bipolar and never bother anyone, yet I have paranoid, crazy normal people thinking i'm doing all these crazy things when I'm not. They think since I'm bipolar, where they somehow found this out by invading my medical records, that I should be completely controlled. I sit, by myself, inside creating websites, and articles, yet outside, people I know I feel act crazier than anyone, and because of their radical misperceptions of mental illness, and controlling ways, that are dangerous, should really be the one's to get locked up, but law enforcement often sides with them.
This can get even as bad as normal human emotion found to be going on with someone, even if they are no danger, will be a reason to detain and question the person, and completely invade their privacy. It seems, in my opinion, to be getting to a point where humans are not to act at all like humans, but robots, in order to completely be able to avoid law enforcement activity.I think the laws are becoming to corrupt.
this is utterly terrible
what has this country come to
It is sad to know that the government here in the United States and also alot of people with in society has no idea of what a mental illness is and it's so misunderstood by law enforcement. I have lived with a man that HAS paranoid schizophrenia and this and all other mentall illnesses are not curable but they are treatable. Jail is NOT where they belong. Taking the medications that are given to them does work, though sometimes it takes more than just once to find the right one. I am currently trying to get my degree so that I an advocate legally that have been placed within the jail system more times than not, when a hospital or better Dr. with medication is what they needed.
It chould be the Gov.goes to jail
They are out of control!
SUCH RUBBISH
ANYTHING FOR A BUCK
ABSOLUTELY DISGRACEFUL.
So it is now being considered to tar the mentally ill with the same brush - lepers?
I think that our society is zooming backwards at an alarming rate if this is allowed to happen.
The more I read about new bills being introduced, new ways of saving money, while our men are fighting for their lives for this "so called" democratic country - the more I want to shout.
shoot.better pack!