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(MIAMI (AP) — On what is likely the last clear day in Florida before Hurricane Irma’s monster wind and rain, social workers and police officers are giving Miami’s estimated 1,100 homeless people a stark choice: Come willingly to a storm shelter, or be held against their will for a mental health evaluation.
........“We’re going out and every single homeless person who is unwilling to come off the street, we are likely going to involuntarily Baker Act them,” said Ron Book, chairman of the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust
Invoking the “Baker Act” — a law that enables authorities to institutionalize patients who present a danger to themselves or others — is not something law enforcement does lightly, but officers detained at least six people by Friday afternoon. Under the law, they can be held up to 72 hours before the state would have to go to court to prolong their detention.
originally posted by: chadderson
Just goes to show one is not "free" at all.
A man should be able to make decisions such as these, life and death included.
This mindset of "saving" the homeless for their own sake is the same one enabling the leeching from our welfare system.
originally posted by: chadderson
a reply to: TerryDon79
I believe in freedom. If someone wants to kill themselves it is hard to say whether I would use my freedom to stop them.
originally posted by: chadderson
Just goes to show one is not "free" at all.
A man should be able to make decisions such as these, life and death included.
This mindset of "saving" the homeless for their own sake is the same one enabling the leeching from our welfare system.