I don't know what's so dangerous about this advice, when medicating people
not only helps them but it also benefits the people around them too.  I'm
not suggesting that we should start putting crazy people in comas since
they're a danger to themselves and others, but we can medicate them somewhat
to allow them to live happier and more functionable lives.  I think that you
don't want to go to Mcdonald's and be helped by a person with a mental
illness who wasn't taking their medicine because they could be hiding a gun
under the counter and make you their subjuct.

Anthony
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Betty B
  To: [log in to unmask]
  Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 8:47 AM
  Subject: Re: Attendant Woes


  But however, can you get on some
  medication to help control your thinking and behaviors.

  This is dangerous advice.

  I don''t know what country the author of this advice hails from, but Kathy
is
  a United States citizen, and entitled to a life of self determination.  I
can
  elaborate further, if you do not understand her constitutional liberties.
  People died so that she could have those freedoms, so I am behooved to
  explain to you how Kathy was denied hers.

  Kathy was not feeling well that day, as she stated in the beginning.
Despite
  the fact that she expressed wishes to the contrary, she was taken from her
  home.

  She was taken from her home against her will.  Do you understand that she
was
  taken hostage to a place that she didn't want to go, and then to another
  place?

  Did she even know when she was going to get back to her own home that day?

  I know we've been brainwashed into thinking that home invasions are
  acceptable when they happen to disabled people, but we have to start
looking
  at these things for the crimes that they are.

  Or maybe I'm wrong.  Do this to Ted Kennedy, and see if you don't get your
  head blown off.  Maybe, just maybe though, you'll get to live through that
  experience to see the rest of your life in prison, or as much of prison
you
  can handle before you kill yourself from that one experience where you
  stupidly bent over in the shower to pick up the soap (which will then help
  you better understand what happened to Kathy).

  I'm not an advocate of violence, but any thing that happens as a result of
a
  kidnapping is the fault of the kidnapper.

  I'm sorry Kathy, that you were forcibly removed from your home against
your
  will.  The person who did that to you should be in prison.

  Kathy is a kidnapping victim, not a criminal.  Let's get that straight
right
  now.