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Executive order seeks to expand involuntary commitment of homeless individuals

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33 pointsJimmc4149 comments

Were homeless much of an issue in 1936 Germany? Seems like the US is going to get more accustomed to federal agents removing people.

Has anyone bothered to read section 2? It explicitly states that anyone the government deems a threat to themselves or others can be put away.

Expand or roll back to pre Reagan normal?

https://www.kqed.org/news/11209729/did-the-emptying-of-menta...

It's really JFK's, Nixon's, and Reagan's fault.

JFK made the mistake of obliterating institutions in preparation for the residential treatment centers plan before having the latter secured. (And then he got got before finishing either.) Nixon and Reagan doubled-down on this unfinished project by making it even worse without offering anything resembling a functional, affordable, accessible, and humane mental healthcare system in America. Reagan and Trump both share the quality of obliterating anything they don't understand.

Step 1: Get rid of international trade Step 2: Deport illegal immigrants who work cheap Step 3: Criminalize free speech, being poor or mentally ill. Step 4: Produce everything in prisons using slave labor

Profit...Extra bonus if you invested heavily in prisons.

America's new tao is: being poor or brown is a crime.

I've been personally attacked and have had many friends with similar stories by homeless with drug issues in San Francisco. They belong in care.

Why should we ignore this problem and risk other's safety?

So collective punishment and for-profit involuntary detention concentration camps for all poor people because you say so?

That's exactly what white supremacists used to say about brown people btw. "I had a bad experience and others did too, so let's X, Y, and Z because it's better for them!"

new?????!

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