Judge dismisses claim in Nevada County mass slaying

A federal judge has dismissed a civil rights claim filed by former workers at a Nevada County department allegedly targeted by accused gunman Scott Harlan Thorpe.

Former Behavioral Health Services employees Pamela Chase and Yvonne O'Keefe sued Nevada County, several Behavioral Health supervisors and Thorpe's psychiatrist, according to court records. Their claim was filed Jan. 9 in federal court in Sacramento.

Links: http://massmurder.dyns.net/scott_thorpe.htm

Thorpe suffered from severe and persistent mental illness, but neither his family nor the state had a legal right to force him to take medication. In the end, a judge found him mentally incompetent to stand trial.
Ever since she entered the state Legislature, Assemblywoman Helen Thomson, D-Davis, has worked tirelessly to reform the 1967 Lanterman-Petris-Short law -- well-intentioned but misguided legislation that makes it practically impossible for judges or physicians to compel a mentally ill person to accept treatment and medication. The result of that law, which veered too far on the side of protecting an individual's rights, is that anyone who is suicidal or homicidal can be helped only through repeated arrests or short hospital stays.

Source: http://www.psychlaws.org/GeneralResources/article78.htm

It was the liberals which promoted and passed the so-called 'patient's rights' legislation to begin with, which greatly contributed to the problem of the borderline mentally ill becoming homeless and victimized by those able-bodied and sane homeless-by-choice. As they say, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

** Liberal Cruelty To Homeless **

Concerning the borderline mentally-ill, who are no danger to themselves, or to others, but who can't function in society, who can be medicated, and removed from institutions, to live in half-way houses, away from the deranged, away from the insane, away from the violent, free to roam the streets, to mingle with society, and be reintegrated in the communities, such was the plan in the '60s here in California. Let go from antiquated, stifling environments, to their families, to half-way houses, but the legislature withheld the money. Few were housed, or given care, or given medication. Many became homeless.
The liberal cause of "patient's rights" provides help only through consent. If a person needs help, if a person is incapable of taking care of herself, they yet have the "right" to be irrational, while being seen as rational in the eyes of "compassionate" liberals. As long as they decline help, there is nothing one can do.
A woman needs medical help, but refuses. She is homeless, harmless, and helpless, and lives in wealthy Marin County. The welfare clerk gives her a month's worth of charity, and a bus ticket to San Francisco. Eventually, the mentally-ill get SHUFFLED into the Tenderloin district, and congregate there. There are Tenderloins in L.A., in all major cities. Rather than be reintegrated into communities, people get FUNNELED into the Tenderloins of the nation, where they are preyed upon by other homeless, by those able-bodied homeless-by-choice.
A woman walks into a downtown hotel, and asks the clerk:
"I want to see the father of my baby. I know he lives here."
"What's his name, Ma'am?"
"I don't know."
"What room does he live in?"
"Uh, room 932." (In a six-story hotel.)
"I'm sorry, Ma'am, but he's not here."
She waits in the lobby, talking gibberish. She is no danger to herself or to others, but she needs help. She needs a hospital. The clerk eventually calls the police, to come get the woman, to care, to a hospital, which she obviously needs. The black-and-white pulls up, and is greeted outside by the clerk, shutting the door so she won't hear.
"Hey, look. This woman needs help. Can you take her to Mt. Zion, or to General Hospital?"
The police respond: "I wish we could, brother."
Still, the officers go in, and are nice to her, and ask her if she'd like to be cared for. She declines. So the police, by liberal mandate, have to drive away without her. She is left alone. She is ignored. Evicted from the hotel lobby, she eventually wanders off, to be raped, or to be murdered; prey for the wolves of the streets.
And there's the ACLU, upholding her "civil liberty" to be irrational, and ignored; to need help, and be denied it; to be a victim of liberal "compassion."
It's a national scandal. They need to be sought out. They need to be separated from the homeless-by-choice. They need hygienic care. They need medication. They need a safe place. They can live without the ACLU's "compassion."

Source: http://www.geocities.com/us-we/wisdom-ages.htm#cruelty

Concerning the borderline mentally-ill, who are no danger to themselves, or to others, but who can't function in society, who can be medicated, and removed from institutions......actually many of them are not "borderline" mentally-ill, but seriously mentally-ill. However, they do show improvement with proper medications and can be "deinstutionalized" to marginally better living conditions in the community...unfortunately what often happens then is that they feel better and believe that they no longer have to take their meds, leading to deterioration in their mental condition and a downward spiral in their circumstances...often the only help they get comes when they finally break some law and are thrown into jail (that is if they're not murdered on the street or burned to death in some rickety "community living center" first)...deinstitutionalization has resulted in transinstitutionalization, and it's an outrage......

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