San Francisco v. Sheehan: Psychiatry, police and your rights

WanderedTheWrongRoad wrote:What we are experiencing is a police state in America. Local stations are given military grade equipment through the federal government in order to maintain control over inevitable riots.

I have to agree

More and more people seem upset and I think its beginning to spill over. That creates an excuse to militarize police.

American police and soldiers are nothing more than Nazi's. The tragedy of 9/11 is eclipsed by the deaths of innocents overseas. American's hands are stained with red. Ignorance is not a viable reason for forgiveness. We are all the guilty party that do not speak up and relent.

I agree. Ignorance is not an excuse. The tragedies of 9/11, Boston, Sandy Hook ect are being used as an excuse to pass unconstitutional laws which punish law abiding citizens stripping them of human rights. Those laws give authority the right to harass and prosecute its own citizens without reasonable evidence. Media tells people to live in unreasonable fear, telling them to put up with such for their own benefit. If people peacefully protested these laws, including people within our own government doing the same, we will see major change. The most unequal thing of all is equal treatment of unequal people. By that I mean we can NOT treat law abiding citizens like hardened criminals.

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This is off topic somewhat, but just adding my 2 cents as always.

As bad as the dictators were in the middle east taking them down and then destabilizing the region did not help at all. The result from gave rise to the very extremist groups the US was trying to stop. The whole middle east invasion back fired. We have more violent extremism today overseas then before or right after 9/11 thanks to the war.

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Police kill all minorities because this is still a nation controlled by white figureheads. Anyone who doesn't submit is destroyed. That is not to say that it is an issue of race, it is an issue of class.

Many things play a role imo, including class. And there is evidence. After the Ferguson investigation it was discovered that law enforcement were being told to pile tickets onto minority groups. The bigger concern for me: who is giving those orders and why no one is stopping them?

The mentally ill are subjected to poverty. They cannot work and cannot afford health insurance even under Obamacare. Therefore they are extinguished because they cannot serve as another slave to the American institution.

A horrible reality for many. The mentally ill fall victim to poverty and become homeless without anything helping them back up. Countless people wind up in prison with no way out.

Most jobs in America are part-time service jobs. The norm will be to work two to three jobs in the corporate market or become a government employee with false security for retirement.

The mentally ill could not withstand these working conditions. The amount of time and effort it takes to juggle two to three jobs is staggering even to the most healthy individual.

The key for the mentally ill is entrepreneurship, though many won't see the light of day and will become consumed by the system that sought to "fix them".

Well said. The system isn't working as it gets bigger doing more harm. Change need to happen. Every person with a disability deserves a system that brings out the best in them. If society as a whole spoke up human suffering would cease to exist.