ACLU Victory! Homeless and Mentally Ill Can Continue to Sleep on Streets Untreated
Posted on October 11, 2007
Thank goodness for the ACLU! It is now legal for homeless to sleep on the streets in L.A.!
Another example of how the ACLU works vigorously to advance the march of chaos. The majority of these “Urban Campers†are drug/alcohol addicted, mentally ill or have chosen to live their lives on the streets. Many of these people are dangerous to the community for these reasons and should not be left to wander until the next 12 year-old girl gets a brick to the head. Community leadership has an obligation to protect its citizens and to keep the streets free of urine, feces, broken glass, used neeedles and the general filth associated with large “homeless†populations. How exactly is the ACLU “helping†people who, for their own safety and that of the people in the community, would be better taken care of in institutions, drug rehab or jail?
Is it truly in the best interest of a person who suffers from mental illness and substance abuse to be given the “freedom” to do harm to himself/others or to live among people who want to do harm to them?
Patterico sums things up nicely:
It’s incredibly frustrating to watch groups like the ACLU fight for the “right†of mostly mentally ill people to sleep on the streets — since it is groups like the ACLU that are largely responsible for their plight to begin with. A tremendous percentage of the homeless population consists of mentally ill people who have no business being on their own. They need to be institutionalized and receive proper treatment for their mental diseases. But thanks in large part to the ACLU and related groups, the homeless were deinstitutionalized and tossed into the streets years ago.
Now they get to sleep there. What a tremendous step forward for them as people.
Congratulations, ACLU. You should be proud.
Perhaps if the police could give the homeless a free ride to sleep on the sidewalk in front of some of the ACLU lawyer’s houses. Let them rummage their garbage for food, constantly beg them for booze money when they leave for work each morning, and deficate on their doorsteps, they might develop a different view.
I have written extensively on the ACLU and homeless before. For a deeper look into the issue and discussion of possible solutions to the problem, see my post: ACLU and the homeless.
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The sadness of de-institutionalized mentally ill people is aggravating, but not near as aggravating as watching groups like the ACLU put normal sane people at risk of attack by the mentally unstable because of some misguided idea that these mentally unstable people have a right to wander loose in public endangering themselves and innocent people.
Mentally unstable people need to be locked up for their well being and ours. Maybe ACLU lawyers can let the mentally unstable live with them….then again, I personally think most ACLU lawyers must be mentally unstable too, so that idea may not work.
This is really sad, but hardly unexpected. They just don’t get it. Unfortunately, our court system grants these nutjobs the power to keep innocent, sick people out on the street.
Nancy Pelosi was complaining about the demonstrators around her home. She made a comment to the effect that if they were homeless she could have them removed. They really feel for homeless.
“mentally unstable people have a right to wander” thats right. It’s called freedom Kender. If you are not commiting a criminal act (wandering), you can’t be jailed.
Why can’t there be free will entry(of the homeless) into Government run centers? Why must you jail the law abiding? Affordable housing/Government run centers DON’T EXIST.
If you put anyone on the street with no bed/sleep, no shower, and no food how long would it take for them to become ” mentally unstable”.
Now go watch “Survivor” on TV.