Huuummm..Why sad? I think this candidate is flexing some humor? BTW,
Dr. Michael runs a program I believe based in the S.F. Tenderloin
that, although non-partisan, seems to come close to a libertarian-type
of help. The program takes volunteers.
Marcy
Dear Rob;
In California it's called : 5150 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_5150
I do not know what it's called in New Yawk.
But tell me did I remember to take my medication today?
Those heavy metal lithium pills are sooooooo goooood!!!!! I
sometimes can't remember if I took them or not so sometimes I double
dose. But then there are times I make like I forgot so I can double
dose those little beauties - whooooo hooooo!!!!!!!!!
Ron Getty - SF Libertarian
Hostis res Publica
Morte ai Tiranni
Dum Spiro, Pugno
From: Rob Power <chair@...>
To: lpsf-discuss@yahoogroups.com
Cc: OutrightUSAExCom@...m
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 10:40:57 AM
Subject: [lpsf-discuss] How do we deal with the mentally unstable in
a Libertarian manner? [Fwd: PRESS RELEASE - Hon Michael R. Bloombergs
Decision - Finan-Bloomberg 2008-12 VERY URGENT - PLEASE FORWARD
IMMEDIATELY]
This is so sad. I think we should set up a charity for Libertarian
Party members who lose their minds. Since we oppose using
government to
force people like this into taking meds or entering treatment
facilities, we ought to have a Libertarian alternative available --
perhaps something with a cash incentive to convince people to
voluntarily commit themselves for treatment once our team of doctors
have recognized a need for that. I don't know. But there has got
to be
a solution. The LP doesn't make people crazy, but it tends to draw
those who are already unstable, especially those with severe paranoia,
into our Party due to our common distrust of government. This probably
constitutes an "attractive nuisance," and since I don't see us changing
our healthy distrust of government, I think we have a moral (though of
course not legal) duty to have a mechanism to deal with those with
unhealthy paranoia about government and other disorders who join our
Party.
And if the program we came up with were successful, imagine the
press it
would get. It could also be a pilot for other programs (such as
here in