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To: pissant
Did that controversial Homeland Security report on right-wing extremists (pdf) get it right?

No, it didn't.

What this shows yet again is the 30+ year liberal policy of letting insane people wander the streets instead of being committed to an insane asylum is itself nuts.

7 posted on 06/11/2009 9:46:42 AM PDT by colorado tanker ("Lastly, I'd like to apologize for America's disproportionate response to Pearl Harbor . . . ")
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“With the “deinstitutionalization” effort that began in the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of mentally ill men and women were released from state institutions. These people escaped grim conditions and sometimes brutal treatment. They largely did not, however, obtain proper care after their release. Rather than receiving continuing mental health treatment, mentally ill people were released to communities that had made little or no accommodation for their care.

While states cut funding for mental hospitals, they did not make commensurate increases in the budgets for community-based mental health services. Chronically underfunded, the country’s mental health system does not reach anywhere near the number of people who need it.”

http://www.counterpunch.org/mariner11052003.html


17 posted on 06/11/2009 9:56:00 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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