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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: robnhood who wrote (8813)	2/28/1998 12:09:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Respond to of 20981

>>OFF TOPIC<< Russell, >>Is it automatic to assume that people who don't buy in to the dream need mental help? << You open a complex issue. I presume you mean "who decides who is mentally ill or needs to be put into the institution?" I sure don't pretend to have an answer to that one, and clearly involuntary incarceration is criminal if a person chooses to be a "tramp" but is self sufficient and doesn't harm himself or others. I have read that objective analysis of the "homeless" shows them to be put into several categories. Some are just criminals and drug addicts. Many if not most are severely mentally ill. There are apparently very few wholesome young couples with bright smiles who are just down on their luck, although these make the best material for TV interviews. I have no answer for what course is best, but it doesn't take a panel of psychiatrists and social workers to realize that someone needs to be institutionalized if he has lost total touch with reality and is sleeping on the sidewalk and not able to care for himself. When I had my tour through the state mental hospital in the early 60s, I don't recall seeing anyone who I thought should not be there, or who seemed capable of making it on the outside. Jack