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Far Left Groups Defeated Connecticut Mental Health Protection Laws Just Months Before Shooting
by Jim Hoft
December 15, 2012
Months before the Newtown massacre far left groups defeated a Connecticut mental health protections law.
Counter Contempt reported:
Heres a fact you might not know Connecticut is one of only SIX states in the U.S. that doesnt have a type of assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) law (sometimes referred to as involuntary outpatient treatment). Theres no one standard for these types of laws, but (roughly speaking) these are laws that allow for people with mental illness to be forcibly treated BEFORE they commit a serious crime. Whereas previous legal standards held that the mentally ill cannot be institutionalized or medicated until they harm someone or themselves, or until they express an immediate intent to do so, AOT laws (again, roughly speaking) allow for preventativeinstitutionalization or forced medication (I highly recommend reading the data cited in the link I provided in this paragraph, especially regarding what is known as first episode psychosis).
Earlier this year, Connecticut considered passing an AOT law (and a weak one, at that), and it failed, due to protests from civil liberties groups.
Read more:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/12/far-left-groups-defeated-connecticut-mental-health-protection-laws-just-months-before-shooting/