Re: Airport Shooting Part of Bush Mental Health Cuts


Sordo wrote:
> December 8, 2005
>
> Airport Shooting Part of Bush Mental Health Cuts
>
> by Scott Ott
> http://www.scrappleface.com/
>
> (2005-12-08) - Democrats in Congress today suggested that yesterday's
> Federal Air Marshall shooting of a mentally ill man, who claimed to
> have a bomb on an airplane, could be part of a larger Bush
> administration strategy to reduce federal spending on mental health
> programs.

What jailing the mentally ill is too expensive? Aren't they mostly vets
with issues?
>
> "We're not publicly saying that Bush is killing off bipolar people to
> purify the American gene pool and improve the race," said one unnamed
> Senate Democrat. "But at a time when mental health agencies are being
> told to tighten their belts, one can't help but wonder if that man in
> Miami died so that the Bush-Cheney cabal and their wealthy cronies can
> keep their tax cuts."

So that's why four marshall's wouldn't put the guy on the floor in an
instant.
>
> Democrats plan to introduce a bill next week that would require
> Federal Air Marshalls to perform a comprehensive mental health
> screening on prospective human targets. They'll also propose an
> amendment to the public school gun-free zone law that would surround
> all American airports, and planes in flight, with a 1,000-foot
> "gun-free circle of safety."

Great idea!

.

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