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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live in the area and were told the suspect has tin foil covering his windows. Apparently the house was up for sale a few years ago but he also chased off potential buyers with a knife. [/quote]

How the heck can someone’s mental health issues/danger to society be so obvious and yet we do nothing? Honestly this incident was a failure to this man as much as the surrounding neighbors. He clearly had paranoid delusions and was likely psychotic. Would have been better to stabilize him with medical treatment than deal with this fallout.[/quote]

Talk to the ACLU and their friends. It’s virtually impossible to get an adult institutionalized and these groups have opposed even minor changes to the law that would make it slightly easier. [/quote]

It’s honestly absurd. We go SO far to protect the rights of the mentally ill, drug abusers, homeless etc. to the detriment of the general public. Can you imagine what the poor neighbors must have gone through living next to this guy? And look at all the people allowed to just camp out on public grounds in prime spots of DC. Or the mentally unstable guy who kept flashing people and wasn’t arrested until he hit a preschool teacher and jerked off in front of a bunch of toddlers.

It’s like we’re all supposed to sacrifice our own feelings of safety or being able to enjoy public spaces because society instead values the rights of paranoid schizophrenics and drug users etc. to do whatever they want because it’s their “right” to crap on a sidewalk and show their junk to people and write disturbing ramblings on the internet.

And just like I ask my kids when they want to do something selfish, what would happen if everybody did that? What if everyone decided to email the FBI and tie up our courts with frivolous lawsuits? What if everyone decided they wanted to cover their windows in tinfoil and make weird online accusations about people?

Enough already with mental illness/drug use/etc. being excuses for people to do whatever they want to the detriment of others.[/quote]

You're arguing with democracy and the Constitution. Take it up with the old dead white guys. And, maybe consider the alternative which to me is just as scary. What if my neighbor decided I was weird because I didn't bring a gift to her holiday party and because I kept my window shades down all of the time? What if she called the cops on me because of these things and the cops believed her? What if my parents locked me up in a mental institution because I had an "attitude" as a teenager? I think we've swung far away from some pretty scary times (McCarthyism??) and maybe we've gone a little too far but I'm not willing to go all the way back[/quote]

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