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Suspect in Seal Beach Shooting: a Tea Party Supporter?

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jvic10/12/2011 11:20:32 pm PDT

re: #165 ggt

Are the systems in place to actually carry out the law? Would he get adequate help —are there beds available—who pays? Will he have a Court Appointed Advocate to make sure his rights are not violated?

The Mental Health system in this country sucks. The answer today is to wait untnil they commit a crime and then institutionalize them in prison. Frankly, if he had been treated at the time of the original accident —transferred to the mental health ward as part of of his rehab—this probably could have been dealt with from the beginning… .

1. Good points, ggt. I should have mentioned that my Wikipedia link is kind of legalistic. How matters actually work in CA is something I don’t know here in the other side of the country.

2. There are also the budgetary cutbacks in public services. Nevertheless, I bet that CA likely will spend much more on this person than if an intervention had occurred. I wonder if his close friends feel guilty about not being proactive. Quite possibly they should.

3. I have an 0600 flight Friday in an airport two hours away, so must log off shortly should have logged off two hours ago. Good night.