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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
It gets to the point where there is no humane solutions. The humane ones cost too much or postpone an even worse situation.
Best partial solution is controlling our illegal immigration.
Video from practical implementation of such a program could create unlimited ads for Trump in the 2020 election.
First up, Hunter Biden.
180 degrees:
1969: Summer of Love @ Haight-Ashbury
2019: force treatment on mentally ill drug users.
Just another democrat run liberal city that gave the homeless and drug addicts every “right” they could think of, and then are surprised when they are overrun by homeless and drug addicts, and their city is becoming an embarrassment. Leftist answer to the problem: dig a deeper hole.
I think we have to do something and find a way to strike a balance between civil rights and just plain protecting folks from dangerously crazy people. Protection of folks civil rights, it can be argued, can be a cloak for for liberals and conservatives being indifferent to the needs of crazy, dangerous folks who just cannot do for themselves.