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To: ThirdEye who wrote (581115)6/7/2004 10:36:50 PM
From: mph  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
That's a hard charge.
What do you have to support the claim?

You're talking about the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act.
One of the principal purposes was to restore
due process rights to those involuntarily committed.

The ACLU in ensuing years was a big advocate of
exactly that.

Here's an article of interest:http://www.mirecc.org/education/news/lps-reform/sac-bee-2-22-99.html

While it may be true that other problems were ultimately
caused by the legislation, this doesn't mean that it was
enacted out of some mean-spiritedness.

In fact, the move to the community had been in transit
for sometime before the Act was enacted in 1967.



To: ThirdEye who wrote (581115)6/8/2004 12:13:50 AM
From: Srexley  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
"Remember, homelessness became a nationwide reality under Reagan"

Isn't that just when homlessness became the pc term? They used to be hobos and bums.


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