Doctors and courts are a poor determiner of mental stability.
It’s an eye opening experience to see the inconsistent results of people Baker Acted in Florida. Both extremes of error.
Good intentions aside, the legal process of determining the quality of a person’s mental health can be a political process with all sorts of problems. At the very best, it is a maze of bureaucratic errors and incompetency. Scary.
When I was young and naive I might have believed that the state could determine if a person was mentally competent to do many things, including owning weapons BEFORE they actually committed some offense. I do not think that now. Now, particularly with those running this country, I know that it would not be much different than in places like the USSR. Current and potential political dissidents and non PC individuals (TEA Party??) would be tagged as mentally ill and firearms confiscated. Eventually they will start incarcerating those same people, saying their potential “danger” to the state is too great for them to be left free.
Don’t doubt me on this.
“Don’t doubt me on this.”
I don’t.
CHildofthe60s had the Gubment IDing the “insane” exact.
As an example, in Tampa, Fl, my mother and step father owned a home (Note for Libtards -”owned” = no mortgage) in Old Hyde Park, five houses off Bayshore Blvd. This is the best area in Tampa.
My step father likes to walk to his broker’s office and Bayshore has a nationally recognized bayside walkway. He also likes to talk with some of the other people enjoying a walk.
One day, as was his habit, he invited someone he met there to stop in some time for coffee. BAAD Move - turns out it was a bureaucrap. That thing noticed ABe’s collection of stacks of newspapers in his room and decided he was a “hoarder”.
Said bureaucrap walked over a palace size antique oriental carpet, but was convinced Abe needed state aid and Baker Act’ed him.
Mom found out it was simpler to let the state pay for his time being examined because it would take longer to have the court free him than to let the Baker Act circus do its thing. Her lawyer said these events were common as that is how the businesses doing such “examination” made payroll/profit.
Worst part is that the social worker was told by Abe he was a chartist and used newspaper financial pages for his data source for charting prices of stocks he was interested in. Worked, too - remember where he lived?
Made no difference to a social worker or the FloriDUH gubment clowns and their “private sector partners”. Wenchie Poo drank his coffee and went back to Baker Act him.
Partners in crime would be more accurate.