Slab organization
Bad moon on the rise for slabbers. People that took over Salvation Mountain trying to organize Slab City community, form a charitable organizations and take slabs off state's hands. Not sure any good...
Forum Discussion
drsteve wrote:Beentherefixedthat wrote:
But there are many serious problems that should not be overlooked or glossed over here under the false notion of freedom
That definition of freedom approves of "allowing" the mentally ill to live under a bridge in a cardboard box because they don't like the mental institution.
I am not sure how the mentally ill living under bridges relates to the slabs???
I am also not sure quite how to understand your comment. Maybe you can expand on it?
As a historical fact many thousand of people in this country from the beginning of the 20th century (and before) were wrongly committed to mental institutions. The cases of Wyatt v. Stickney (1972) and Wyatt v. Aderholt (1974) challenged the conditions of hospitalization for those with mental illness and developmental disabilities, leading to significant reductions in the institutions' populations this was the basis of all further laws to move to "deinstitutionalization" an already growing movement in the US and abroad.
I think the treatment of the mentally ill has much more to do with the lack of funding by congress than it has anything to do with freedom.
My comments on the slabs here and in previous threads are meant to bring a balance to those that write about it as if it is some kind of utopia of freedom and carefree life which I think is a huge disservice to those that know nothing about it and is frankly a complete whitewash of a place with serious problems.
Happy New Year.
