Pick A Side...Victim or Perpetrator

[PoliticalChic]

Kennedy proposed community mental health centers instead of state institutions
Jimmy Carter signed the law enacting the same.

Ronald Reagan undid the law.

One of the characteristics of your sort is the inability to recognize that I just wiped up the floor with you.


Readers will, I am certain, note that Kennedy,the Democrat, for family reasons, closed the mental institutions.


Reagan, years later, attempted to pull the bacon out of the fire your party created....


It was Democrat JFK's plan
Carter continued it.
The plan was a failure....so Reagan turned it over to the states.



1963

President John F. Kennedy signs the Community Mental Health Act to provide federal funding for the construction of community-based preventive care and treatment facilities. Between the Vietnam War and an economic crisis, the program was never adequately funded.

1980

President Jimmy Carter signs the Mental Health Systems Act, which aims to restructure the community mental-health-center program and improve services for people with chronic mental illness.


1981

Under President Ronald Reagan, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act repeals Carter’s community health legislation and establishes block grants for the states, ending the federal government’s role in providing services to the mentally ill. Federal mental-health spending decreases by 30 percent.

TIMELINE: Deinstitutionalization And Its Consequences

 

[Robert W]

Wikipedia: Ronald Reagan, who had made major efforts during his governorship to reduce funding and enlistment for California mental institutions,

What happens after Governor Pat Brown signed into law that the state run mental hospitals that he saw as prisons be shut down? Was Reagan supposed to pretend the law was not there? I expect modern Democrats see them as hospitals but at the time they operated as prisons. Why do you want that done to the mentally ill?

 

[Robert W]

One of the characteristics of your sort is the inability to recognize that I just wiped up the floor with you.


Readers will, I am certain, note that Kennedy,the Democrat, for family reasons, closed the mental institutions.


Reagan, years later, attempted to pull the bacon out of the fire your party created....


It was Democrat JFK's plan
Carter continued it.
The plan was a failure....so Reagan turned it over to the states.



1963

President John F. Kennedy signs the Community Mental Health Act to provide federal funding for the construction of community-based preventive care and treatment facilities. Between the Vietnam War and an economic crisis, the program was never adequately funded.

1980

President Jimmy Carter signs the Mental Health Systems Act, which aims to restructure the community mental-health-center program and improve services for people with chronic mental illness.


1981

Under President Ronald Reagan, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act repeals Carter’s community health legislation and establishes block grants for the states, ending the federal government’s role in providing services to the mentally ill. Federal mental-health spending decreases by 30 percent.

TIMELINE: Deinstitutionalization And Its Consequences

They can read this as well.

The Republican who emptied the asylums - Capitol Weekly

Frank Lanterman won an assembly seat in 1950 with one goal: securing a steady water supply for his family’s land holdings and subdivisions in the Verdugo hills community of La Cañada outside Los Angeles, a task he completed in his first year in office. In the years to come, his influence would...

capitolweekly.net

 

[Robert W]

so where did they go Rob?

or did they figure those patients would just blend in with the rest of Californians?

~S~

They were freed. Congress creates acts that even puzzles you.

 

[sparky]

They were freed.

Any word on how many were elected Rob?........~S~

 

[PoliticalChic]

Democrat voters have been well trained never to question, or to think.

They march lock-step like iron filing in a magnetic field.

So see Democrat "thinking" in microcosm, read the essay bt PhD candidagd ag George Mason, who endorses murdering those who disagree. This is the hallmark of their ideology.....censorship wasn't enough.

"George Mason PhD Student Asks ‘When Must We Kill’ Trump.​

You've probably already read about Nicholas Decker's April 16 Substack essay titled "When Must We Kill Them?" so I won't go into all that again. Suffice it to say that anyone urging violence "as part of a coordinated strategy" against "the rot of the present administration [that] runs deeper than one man," then they've cast themselves far beyond the pale of civilized discourse."

George Mason PhD Student Asks ‘When Must We Kill’ Trump. Hilarity Ensues.

pjmedia.com

Read it and you will understand the barbarity of the Democrats.


"...the questions of the day can be settled not with legislation, but with blood and iron. In short, we must decide when we must kill them. None of us wish for war, but if the present administration wishes to destroy the nation I would accept war rather than see it perish. I hope that you would choose the same.
But what to do? The rot of the present administration runs deeper than one man. The sacrifice of a hero is insufficient to save our nation, and a gust of wind on a summer day would not have saved us. For let us make no mistake; the problem is not one man, but a whole class of people. If one head is cut off, another would take its place.

Violence only makes sense as part of coordinated strategy. This is why protests are important – not as a way of changing the present administration’s actions, but as a way to coordinate a group. There may come a time when we shall have no guarantee of freedom but the one which we make for ourselves. If it comes, I tell you that there is no greater honor than he who lays down his life for his friends. Until then, we must wait."

When Must We Kill Them?

Evil has come to America.

nicholasdecker.substack.com

 

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[Robert W]

Any word on how many were elected Rob?........~S~

Read up on this event.

The Republican who emptied the asylums - Capitol Weekly

Frank Lanterman won an assembly seat in 1950 with one goal: securing a steady water supply for his family’s land holdings and subdivisions in the Verdugo hills community of La Cañada outside Los Angeles, a task he completed in his first year in office. In the years to come, his influence would...

capitolweekly.net

Frank Lanterman won an assembly seat in 1950 with one goal: securing a steady water supply for his family’s land holdings and subdivisions in the Verdugo hills community of La Cañada outside Los Angeles, a task he completed in his first year in office.

In the years to come, his influence would expand far beyond his hometown and its parochial needs. He became one of the most consequential legislators of his time by leading the effort to transform how California cares for people with severe mental illness.




In the public’s collective imagination, Ronald Reagan is most often credited or blamed for emptying state mental hospitals, and subsequently failing to provide adequate care for former patients or people who in years past would have been patients. In reality, Gov. Reagan took his cue from Lanterman.

 

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[sparky]

Read up on this event.

The Republican who emptied the asylums - Capitol Weekly

Frank Lanterman won an assembly seat in 1950 with one goal: securing a steady water supply for his family’s land holdings and subdivisions in the Verdugo hills community of La Cañada outside Los Angeles, a task he completed in his first year in office. In the years to come, his influence would...

capitolweekly.net

Frank Lanterman won an assembly seat in 1950 with one goal: securing a steady water supply for his family’s land holdings and subdivisions in the Verdugo hills community of La Cañada outside Los Angeles, a task he completed in his first year in office.

In the years to come, his influence would expand far beyond his hometown and its parochial needs. He became one of the most consequential legislators of his time by leading the effort to transform how California cares for people with severe mental illness.




In the public’s collective imagination, Ronald Reagan is most often credited or blamed for emptying state mental hospitals, and subsequently failing to provide adequate care for former patients or people who in years past would have been patients. In reality, Gov. Reagan took his cue from Lanterman.

That need has not subsided. As of August, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reported that 38.2 percent of the state’s 92,000 prison inmates are diagnosed with a mental illness.

The number of inmates –35,157– roughly equals the state hospital patient census at its height in the late 1950s and, as a percentage, the number is rising. In 2019, 29.1 percent of the 124,000 inmates had such a diagnosis.

Separately, the California Department of State Hospitals reports that virtually all 5,800 patients in five state hospitals and another 3,800 people housed in other facilities under the department’s supervision have committed crimes. They’ve been adjudged to be incompetent to stand trial, not guilty by reason of insanity, or are deemed to be offenders with mental disorders or sexually violent predators.

interesting diagnostics here Rob
~S~

 

[Robert W]

That need has not subsided. As of August, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reported that 38.2 percent of the state’s 92,000 prison inmates are diagnosed with a mental illness.

The number of inmates –35,157– roughly equals the state hospital patient census at its height in the late 1950s and, as a percentage, the number is rising. In 2019, 29.1 percent of the 124,000 inmates had such a diagnosis.

Separately, the California Department of State Hospitals reports that virtually all 5,800 patients in five state hospitals and another 3,800 people housed in other facilities under the department’s supervision have committed crimes. They’ve been adjudged to be incompetent to stand trial, not guilty by reason of insanity, or are deemed to be offenders with mental disorders or sexually violent predators.

interesting diagnostics here Rob
~S~

My brother was in Napa State mental hospital due to the Psychiatrist wanting him there for low cost treatment. They did nothing at all to help him. Finally after non productive time there, my parents pulled him out.

My Brother said it was really a prison.

 

[PoliticalChic]

My brother was in Napa State mental hospital due to the Psychiatrist wanting him there for low cost treatment. They did nothing at all to help him. Finally after non productive time there, my parents pulled him out.

My Brother said it was really a prison.

So sorry. I don't know enough about the condition to know what the proper procedure is.

I'm trying hard to resist pointing out how the condition applies to Democrat voters.

 

[Robert W]

So sorry. I don't know enough about the condition to know what the proper procedure is.

I'm trying hard to resist pointing out how the condition applies to Democrat voters.

For example. The patients were locked up. The grounds of the alleged hospital were gated with steel fences. Mom was a Democrat and I think so was my Stepfather. They believed the Napa State mental hospital could cure my Brothers problem.

 

[PoliticalChic]

For example. The patients were locked up. The grounds of the alleged hospital were gated with steel fences. Mom was a Democrat and I think so was my Stepfather. They believed the Napa State mental hospital could cure my Brothers problem.

I keep hearing about Lithium drugs being used today by psychiatrists.

 

[Robert W]

I keep hearing about Lithium drugs being used today by psychiatrists.

This that happened to my Brother was around 1956 or so.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Democrats....they're not on our side.

The reality is that Democrats/Progressives/the woke, don't want to make the country better.....they actually want to increase crime and chaos.
View their actions through this prism: reality is defined by actions, not words.

Democrats do not want criminals punished.....but they won't say that exactly. Instead they find every way to encourage crimials.
Restorative Justice. The movement not to punish criminals with incarceration. This, of course, has led to thousands of murdered Americans, most of them minorities.




Thomas Sowell, in “The Vision of the Anointed,” explained that the old view was to put criminals in prison; the new view, held by, for example, Lyndon Johnson’s attorney-general Ramsey Clark, Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, DC circuit judge David Bazelon, was to avoid sending criminals to prison and instead spend all our resources focusing on the “root causes” of crime.

1. In the words of Judge Bazelon, “poverty is the root cause of crime.” Thomas Sowell, “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy,” p. 158.

The basic idea that liberal judges and politicians were pushing was that society should be nice to criminals, so they would re-pay us with law-abiding behavior.
Ramsey Clark: “" The theory of rehabilitation is based on the belief that healthy, rational people will not injure others, that they will understand that the individual and his society are best served by conduct that does not inflict injury, that a just society has the ability to provide health and purpose and opportunity for all its citizens. Rehabilitated, an individual will not have the capacity - cannot bring himself - to injure another or take or destroy property. "

1. Of course, if that were true, he wouldn’t have committed crimes in the first place.

Did I mention that Democrats are not on our side?
Well, it bears mentioning again: Democrats are not on our side

 

[Robert W]

Democrats....they're not on our side.

The reality is that Democrats/Progressives/the woke, don't want to make the country better.....they actually want to increase crime and chaos.
View their actions through this prism: reality is defined by actions, not words.

Democrats do not want criminals punished.....but they won't say that exactly. Instead they find every way to encourage crimials.
Restorative Justice. The movement not to punish criminals with incarceration. This, of course, has led to thousands of murdered Americans, most of them minorities.




Thomas Sowell, in “The Vision of the Anointed,” explained that the old view was to put criminals in prison; the new view, held by, for example, Lyndon Johnson’s attorney-general Ramsey Clark, Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, DC circuit judge David Bazelon, was to avoid sending criminals to prison and instead spend all our resources focusing on the “root causes” of crime.

1. In the words of Judge Bazelon, “poverty is the root cause of crime.” Thomas Sowell, “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy,” p. 158.

The basic idea that liberal judges and politicians were pushing was that society should be nice to criminals, so they would re-pay us with law-abiding behavior.
Ramsey Clark: “" The theory of rehabilitation is based on the belief that healthy, rational people will not injure others, that they will understand that the individual and his society are best served by conduct that does not inflict injury, that a just society has the ability to provide health and purpose and opportunity for all its citizens. Rehabilitated, an individual will not have the capacity - cannot bring himself - to injure another or take or destroy property. "

1. Of course, if that were true, he wouldn’t have committed crimes in the first place.

Did I mention that Democrats are not on our side?
Well, it bears mentioning again: Democrats are not on our side

Outstanding work totally accurate.
Shortly TX will execute a convict who murdered a young woman. Look him up. Moises Mendoza.

Texas man convicted of killing ex-classmate set to be executed​

Moises Mendoza was convicted of murder in 2005 for killing a Farmersville woman and later burning her body.

By Ayden Runnels
April 23, 2025Updated: 3 hours ago

 

[PoliticalChic]

Did I mention that Democrats favor criminals, perpetrators, over innocent citizens?


Democrat judge has criminal gang member living with him.....true story.

"Dem Judge Joel Cano banned by New Mexico Supreme Court after alleged Tren de Aragua gang member arrested in his home​

A Democratic New Mexico judge who had an alleged Tren de Aragua gang member living in his home has been permanently banned from the bench by his colleagues, according to state Supreme Court documents.

Jose “Joel” Cano resigned in March after agents from the US Department of Homeland Security arrested suspected TdA gang member Cristhian Ortega-Lopez at Cano’s home in February.

MSN

Democrats have picked a side......and it isn't ours.