[Jonah Johansen]

If you ever needed proof that liberalism is a mental illness, look no further. [Note: 1.If you read the end of the story it is clear that the schizophrenic who killed his mother appears to be saner and more in touch with reality than the "patient advocates" 2. The liberals take no responsibility, show no guilt or show any concern for the murdered woman, it is as if the woman's death is just a minor speed bump, as they speed along on their "holy" crusade..

[mgc1122]

Any “advocate” should be in a position of having to put up these dangerous people in their own home for a year.

[NonValueAdded]

Ah, one of the advocates is a lawyer. Since her advice and advocacy has resulted in (according to the experts if the reporting is accurate) a murder and a highly likely conviction, is she not guilty of malpractice? The evidence seems clear that she did not act in the best interests of her client, removing him from the medical care he so desperately appeared to need. Just askin!

[Brilliant]

Sick, twisted “advocates.”

[livius]

Years ago, when mental patients were being “released” from California mental hospitals (I hate to say it, but it was at the instance of Ronald Reagan, who felt that taxpayers shouldn’t pay for their care), one of them begged the doctors not to release him. He said he felt like a “puppy on the freeway,” and he was going to kill again.

He did - he killed a young woman who was a stranger to him, and then he killed his own grandmother, barbecued parts of her on the backyard grill and ate them.

The release of the mentally ill was the result of a bizarre conjunction between loony leftist interpretation of mental illness as harmless self-expression, and short-sighted conservative thrift (but how much more was spent in health care, police services, and lost wages of dead or injured victims of the mentally ill?).

I think conservatives now realize that society is much better off with the mentally ill in institutions, but the liberals are still out there regarding mental illness as a social phenomenon caused by the evil Dick Cheney.

[phatus maximus]

Am I wrong in saying these advocates could and should be considered accomplices in this poor woman's murder?

[RobinOfKingston]

The PAIMI program, operated by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration with a 2008 budget of $34.8 million a year, funds protection-and-advocacy agencies in each state. Typically nonprofits, these groups sometimes receive supplemental funding from states. According to a 2007 SAMHSA report, the agencies served 19,000 people in 2006.

These organizations are not really "nonprofits." The people who work for them take home a salary, just like the phone company or department store employee. Rent gets paid, per diem, mileage, etc, just like with the phone company or department store. Typically they have only one, or at most, two "customers" who must be satisfied. Government agencies.

To call them "nonprofits" imparts a sense of being above reproach.

[FormerACLUmember]

I watched the video. The lisping liberals take absolutely no responsibilty for the endless evil they commit.

[beandog]

There comes a point that parents have to look out for their best interests and realize they have done all they can. They needed to simply refuse to allow him back into their home. It is an extremelly difficult decision to make but sometimes it has to be made.

[reaganaut1]

The story was previously discussed at
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062906/posts .