BBS: TELESC.NET.BR Assunto: Re: BBSING De: Utopian Galt Data: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:46:00 -0800 ----------------------------------------------------------- -=> poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Daryl Stout <=- -=> Daryl Stout wrote to fusion <=- DS> The left doesn't want accountability for their actions. They prefer DS> to do what's right in their own eyes...laws and law enforcement be DS> damned. That's also why they want to defund the police, and want DS> nothing to do with religion. In short, without laws, you have anarchy. pF> The democratic party really shit the bed on the whole "defund the pF> police" thing. The idea was to increase mental health resources for pF> homeless people instead of throwing them out on the street and having pF> law enforcement deal with them. There's no funding for mental health pF> assistance, so someone decided, maybe we could take funding from law pF> enforcement, since they'll have less to do in urban areas. We should do both, Maybe have a police officer and perhaps a community services worker that would be there for low end incidents. Places like Oakland ended up worse when law enforcement got reduced. pF> It has nothing to do with anarchy, it has more to do with having pF> appropriate resources. But the right called it "defunding the police", pF> and that's where we are. pF> I lived and worked in San Francisco and Oakland for many years. I've pF> seen people on the streets committing crimes, harassing people or pF> leremy sleeping and panhandling that belonged in mental care pF> facilities, not jail. In fact, many of them had been in institutions pF> that could no longer afford to keep them. pF> Because there's no mental health resources available, the cops get the pF> call - and they're not well equipped to handle them. I remember the Kelly Thomas incident in Fullerton where they did not know how to deal with a person that has mental issues and ended up beating him senseless where he died. Big cities are not fun when you have to deal with people with schizo type issues. I feel sorry for the bus drivers who have to transport these people at 1am. ... Think Different(TM) Call a BBS today! --- MultiMail/Mac v0.52 n mSynchronetn hgVertrauen n hHome of Synchronet n gh[vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net ----------------------------------------------------------- [Voltar]