That arguement is best held with the medical community.
As far as institutionalizing the mentally disbled, after they were
de-inst by the Late John F Kennedy requires a legislative action or a
police decree of harmful to community and or self.
You are avoiding the basis of the remedy... you are catelogueing
people into herds, and labeling them...
that is not a remedy.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Vail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Alcoholics and drug addicts who panhandle and sleep on the streets
> need to make a choice to beat their addictions. Institutions that
> simply call these people "homeless" and throw food and blankets at
> them do more harm than good. Allowing addicts to feed their
> addictions rather than forcing them to use whatever money they have
> to feed their bodies allows these addicts to remain in their
hellish
> limbo. Concentrating them all in one place makes allows their anti
> social behaviors to go less noticed, at least on an individual
basis.
>
> The mentally ill who are unable to keep it together should to be
> institutionalized if no other sustainable supervised living
> arrangements can be made for them.
>
> Able bodied / able minded people who have fallen on hard times and
no
> longer have a home of their own have numerous options available to
> them through social services at the federal state and local
levels.
> Most of these people avoid shelters like the plague because they
are
> so often filled with addicts and the mentally ill.
>
> Simply calling all these people "homeless" obfuscates the real
> problems faced by people living on the streets. It is telling that
> poverty pimps in the homeless business will call you insensitive or
> worse if you referr to street people as alcoholics, addicts or
> mentally ill. However, until the real problems these people face
are
> recognized, they are simply going to remain as they are to the
> detriment of all.
>
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