CURRENT EVENTS — NOVEMBER

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More on the Bolsinaro arrest. He was caught trying to cut off his ankle monitor. His son summoned a crowd to his home, and apparently his target WAS the US embassy, which is nearby. We know that last bit because Trump said "Yes I spoke to that gentleman last night and I suspect we will be meeting in the very near future." That is when reporters informed him that Bolsinaro was arrested.




 
Trump has no patience for people who suck at lying.
Indeed. Unfortunately for Donnie, anyone who is not already in the cult isn't going to be impressed with an attractive bleach blonde lady telling them that what they can see with their own eyes (and feel with their own pocketbook) isn't really happening, it's just fake news. Inflation and a faltering economy can't be covered up by just having good looking people straight up lying on camera. And I suspect that even some in the cult won't believe it, although they'll continue to follow Dear Leader like a lemming, as that's what cults do.
 
I'm sure this story was posted, but what does it take to get put into prison or a mental health facility indefinitely?

The suspect, Lawrence Reed, 50, has a history of mental illness and has been arrested 72 times since he turned 18, most recently in August, when he was charged with aggravated battery after a social worker was struck, Chicago media reported.

Woman set ablaze on Chicago transit train is identified​

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy named the 26-year-old victim and blamed "Chicago's carelessness" for the attack.

 
I'm sure this story was posted, but what does it take to get put into prison or a mental health facility indefinitely?

The suspect, Lawrence Reed, 50, has a history of mental illness and has been arrested 72 times since he turned 18, most recently in August, when he was charged with aggravated battery after a social worker was struck, Chicago media reported.

Woman set ablaze on Chicago transit train is identified​

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy named the 26-year-old victim and blamed "Chicago's carelessness" for the attack.

Our struggle to handle violent mentally ill people is real and long overdue for serious overhaul. About 30 years ago I did a legal internship representing the mentally ill at Manhattan Psych on Wards Island. Shortly before I arrived, a patient who had been granted a day pass (NY judges rotated through a makeshift court at the asylum every week to provide access to legal representation without having to move the patients, many of whom were involuntarily committed and had long and often violent criminal histories) walked onto a subway platform and pushed a random person in front of an oncoming train.

It is questionable whether our (over-crowded) mental hospitals are humane and it is clear prisons are not. It takes weeks or even months to find a bed for a suicidal or violent person in a publicly funded mental health facility. So it’s not like we have a ready-made solution if only society would use it.
 
Our struggle to handle violent mentally ill people is real and long overdue for serious overhaul. About 30 years ago I did a legal internship representing the mentally ill at Manhattan Psych on Wards Island. Shortly before I arrived, a patient who had been granted a day pass (NY judges rotated through a makeshift court at the asylum every week to provide access to legal representation without having to move the patients, many of whom were involuntarily committed and had long and often violent criminal histories) walked onto a subway platform and pushed a random person in front of an oncoming train.

It is questionable whether our (over-crowded) mental hospitals are humane and it is clear prisons are not. It takes weeks or even months to find a bed for a suicidal or violent person in a publicly funded mental health facility. So it’s not like we have a ready-made solution if only society would use it.
Great post
And it is likely at least $150,000 a year to house such folks in our medical model.That number may be 10 years back. So its expensive.
 
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