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Petty infractions for public intoxiation, sleeping in public, trespassing etc the kind of stuff you'd expect from homeless people.
Yes -- I don't know why anyone is trying to make this about the homeless needing to be locked up because the victim was the homeless guy and he isn't guilty of anything here. He was doing nothing more than sleeping and got attacked for no reason.
Now if the cannibal had been locked up for his previous marijuana drug convictions, then this could have been prevented. His ex-wife divorced him because he was on the paranoid side, but that could have easily come from his heavy pot use.
First of all there is no evidence that the cannibal was ever mentally ill, he worked, he had a girlfriend, he had a car and his friends say he was a nice guy. This case has nothing to do with mental illness.
The ONLY thing verified so far about the cannibal is that he used marijuana.
I am not contending he was. Read the other posts in this thread. EdwardA said the thought the guy sounded like he was mentally ill and wondered why he had not been hospitalized prior to the incident. I am simply responding to WHY indigent folks are not hospitalized in mental institutions these days.
No need to jump on someone's post you don't like without knowing what precipitated the post.
What do you mean the "leaders of that social movement" have not admitted defeat? Who were/are they? Where do they claim success?
Again, why don't you conservatives pick up the ball and do something about the many, many mentally ill people who have to live out on the streets with basically little to no medical care? That would be much more positive and effective than just blaming liberals. Those mentally ill people can and are sometimes quite dangerous. Our prison system is not adequate to take care of them, although many are warehoused there because of committing crimes.
Do you know anything about those state insane asylums and the conditions in most of them? Did you support their continued operations?
You're getting way off track and into a complicated subject. The criminal here was not the homeless man, he was the victim.
Okay. I'm not sure what's relevant to the quoted post after the first sentence.
Clearly, bath salts are a most dangerous recreational drug, and should be tightly regulated.
The toxicology reports may take a couple weeks, we don't know what this person had in his system.
What was the conservative "solution" and why did/does it matter to you what liberals want or wanted regarding this matter?
I want conservatives to have a backbone and do what they think is right. YOU asked why the man hadn't been committed to a mental hospital, so clearly you think that would have been better than having him out on the street. What are you guys waiting for? Do something, don't just whine that you did nothing because the "progressives" didn't want it.
If this homeless person hadn't been available, somebody else would have been targeted. This is not about homeless people or even mentally ill people, because the cannibal was fully functional until this day.
You're getting way off track and into a complicated subject. The criminal here was not the homeless man, he was the victim.
I know who the "criminal" was. It would be easier to understand what people are talking about if you read the preceeding posts. EdwardA brought up the subject that it sounded like the "criminal" was mentally ill and wondered why he had not been hospitalized. I was simply responding to why indigent people who are mentally ill are not hospitalized in a public mental hospital....because there are not any of those out there these days.
If this homeless person hadn't been available, somebody else would have been targeted. This is not about homeless people or even mentally ill people, because the cannibal was fully functional until this day.
I know the homeless man was the victim. I know it appears that the "criminal" was not mentally ill. However, the fact of the matter is that there are many indigent mentally ill people living with the homeless on the streets, and eventually end up in jail or prison because they break laws and our justice system has to take care of them.
Please read the other posts in this thread so you can catch up. Thanks.
I'm sorry, I saw your user name after reading the story and seeing some of the replies that were funny and just busted out laughing. Come on...I know it's wrong but dang, man, your user name in THIS thread?! lol
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