Posted on 06/04/2019 10:47:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai
San Francisco officials decided Tuesday to force some people with serious mental illness and drug addiction into treatment, even if it goes against the spirit of a city known for its fierce protection of civil rights.
Several members of the Board of Supervisors voiced deep concerns Tuesday about the possibility of taking away a person’s civil liberties, but the proposal for a pilot program passed 10-1.
Mayor London Breed and other supporters say the move — known as conservatorship — is necessary to help people who are often homeless, addicted to drugs and have a mental illness, making them a danger to themselves.
“Allowing people to continue to suffer on our streets is not acceptable or humane, and I am glad the Board of Supervisors supported our approach to finally make a change,” Breed said in a statement after the vote.
The measure would apply to a handful of people, the city’s department of public health estimated, although the number would grow under legislation pending at the state level. …
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And there you have it - communists following their playbook to a T.
Give us the power to give you everything you want without working for it.
Give us the power to let you do everything you want without responsibility.
Gah - you people are irresponsible - i will make you submit to my perfect utopia by force.
New York State used to keep their mentally ill convicts in prison beyond their release dates. That was many years ago. Then one or more inmates sued the State, and the court ordered the State to release them, because "being mentally ill isn't a crime."
So how does San Francisco plan on legally forcing mentally ill drug users to undergo treatment, when it still isn't against the law to be mentally ill.
But will Gavin pee in a cup?
Okay to crap on street and sidewalks.
Okay to terrorize people you don’t agree with.
Okay to terrorize businesses.
How is SF going to identify who is mentally ill?
Build a city wall.
“Mayor London Breed and other supporters say the move — known as conservatorship — is necessary to help people who are often homeless, addicted to drugs and have a mental illness, making them a danger to themselves.”
Translation: We have to exert control over homeless because our tax base is moving out of the city, our tourism is suffering and we are tired of stepping in crap.
It sounds like to me that a line was crossed, and the general public is ready to fire a bunch of city council folks. The questions here: (1) are judges prepared to lock guys up, (2) will any of the mentally ill agree to drug treatment, and (3) who gets the bill for 2,000 folks locked up on permanent holding facilities?
I’ll suggest this....it won’t take more than 30 days and maybe 100 people being grabbed off the streets for the mandatory program....to scare 3,000 of these mental nutcases into leaving San Francisco. My guess is that they will board buses and head off to Seattle. Maybe that’s the whole intention of this....scare them away.
Force treatment on SF’s mentally ill drug users? Ha. You’d need space for about 200,000 people.
Remember the liberals of yesteryear imploring the virtues of FREEDOM!! in every thing? Today’s liberals want to ban and force behavior on everyone. They don’t even notice the irony. They’ve become their parents.
So, they a going back to having the insane civilly committed. Back to the future.
Needles are not the same as drugs. It's a cheap precaution to minimize a chance of extremely costly disease outbreaks from groups of people sharing needles in the streets. Eventually those diseases would pass to non drug users
Right out of *The True Believer*.
Next up, we will force treatment on you for not supporting socialism/communism.
Create problem to gain power, Proposed solution to consolidate it.
Where is the ACLU *this* time?
Deinstitutionalization to the extreme planted the seeds of this problem 50 years ago—IIRC it started in CA, too.
So this is just the beginning of swinging the pendulum back to where it unfortunately belongs and needs to be.
First thing I thought of, Cali has a history in that area.
So how long are the RAT civil servants going to be imprisoned?
This is so funny.
It has taken liberals 60 years to realize that the laws we had before the courts ruled them “unconstitutional” were designed to prevent the conditions that now are “normal” in every big city.
In the name of compassion they (the liberals) have sentence millions to a life of poverty and suffering.
Now they want to solve the problem. But how, they have used the courts to block any law that would help resolve the problem.
(Hint - money is not the answer)
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