French psychiatrist sentenced after patient commits murder

Reuters via Yahoo ^ | December 19, 2012 | Reuters

[I want the USA back]

If this idea comes to the USA you’ll have people being locked up for playing video games that depict violent scenes, for saying “violent words,” for having “too much” interest in guns.

The American psyche has always had a hard time understanding the meaning of “moderation.”

[LibLieSlayer]

Locking away criminally or dangerously insane people works... if you are a threat to society then you must have contact with society limited. It worked and touchy-feely liberalism leads to mass murder and violence on a grand scale.

LLS

[Brad from Tennessee]

[The people, both mentally ‘ill’ and the legitimately retarded became the homeless you see on the streets of every major city.]

The U.S. prison system is filled with these people. One rationale for closing mental institutions was the revolution in neuro “wonder drugs” of the ‘70’s and ‘80’s. These medications enable many mental health patients to function in society. The problem is if the patient isn't monitored closely he may fail to take his meds and then drop off the radar.

At the same time lawyers and judges have made it near impossible to force at risk patients into involuntary custody and treatment. Where I live a doctor must swear before a judge that the patient is an immediate threat to himself or others before he can be forcibly confined. Then the patient can turn around and sue the doctor.

As a result of all this people with serious mental or emotional disorders just stumble along until they commit some serious crimes and go to prison where they finally get some treatment.

[Del Rapier]

It is how socialism works,you find innocent people who where at the wrong placer and at the wrong time and you lock them up.It keeps the rest of the population on their toes.

If they’re looking to lockup anyone who goes to a psychiatrist to get mental counseling,which is not a crime as that person is admitting they need mental help then they are making a grave mistake.People aren’t going to look to get help if it means they can loss everything.

[exDemMom]

Oct 22, 2012 ... ROME — Seven prominent Italian earthquake experts were convicted of manslaughter on Monday and sentenced to six years in prison

There are people who actually believe that scientific advances can be made by protesting in the street. I saw some group recently patting themselves on the back for all the advances in HIV research and treatment--which they had achieved by protesting outside the White House. I think it is people like that, who think that science and magic are indistinguishable, who send scientists to prison for failing to predict the unpredictable. Or who send doctors to prison for failing to control patients who are resisting treatment.

[No One Special]

In a happier time I laughed out loud when reading about a “scientist” named Lysenko in the Soviet Union. His theory was that acquired characteristics could be heritable. He went far in the party cuz they liked his theory, something about producing a new Soviet man who would give according to his abilities, or something.