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2008-08-04 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by tu3031 2008-08-04 09:23|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Can't we have the moral integrity to admit that deinstitutionalization of the "nondangerous" mentally ill has been a disaster?

Ask the federal judiciary, they're the one's who came up with that. Same people who came up with forced busing that was so successful in delivering quality education to the inner cities. They still haven't given up the concept that they can impose solutions without the consent of the governed and get the results they intended. As government derives its power from the consent of the governed, so does its law. Society needs the structure of law to operate effectively but the law needs society's acceptance in order to be effective. Unfortunately, the 'profession' has misused the average American's reverence for law for submission. The profession has become a self selecting [just look at illegal quotas imposed by their certifying bodies for law schools] fraternity that has created and forced a need for their services that has evolved in a veto over the elected representative bodies of the people. They believe they can impose law without consent, for our own good of course. And they wonder why they're referred to as our aristocracy.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-08-04 10:33|| 2008-08-04 10:33|| Front Page Top

#2 San Francisco is like a roach motel. The kind intentions and cash and prizes aimed towards the homeless draw them in but the housing prices and general cost of living ensures they will always be homeless.

Until we are ready to lock up the insane to ensure treatment we are not serious about solving homelessness. The worst thing Reagan did was try to transfer the problem to the states (where it actually belongs) because the states refused the handoff.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-08-04 10:51|| 2008-08-04 10:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe SFPD needs some NY cops on the beat, so to say.

Posted by penguin 2008-08-04 11:58|| 2008-08-04 11:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Frisco knowingly did it to themselves. They WANT fags and crazies there. Lots of them, too, in all flavors and sizes; they're proud of being the land of fruits and nuts. Now they've got what they want. Peters is pissing into the wind with this article. He may not like it but Friskins do. That's why they keep electing the POS mayors they do.

Posted by Hupiling the Galactic Hero1106 2008-08-04 19:09|| 2008-08-04 19:09|| Front Page Top

#5 The kind intentions and cash and prizes aimed towards the homeless draw them in but the housing prices and general cost of living ensures they will always be homeless.

They could solve the problem by just running 'em across the bridge to Oakland, the gangs on that side of the bay would dispose of them pronto.

Posted by AzCat 2008-08-04 21:02|| 2008-08-04 21:02|| Front Page Top

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