This new standard of prevention, redefines the notion of crime under American jurisprudence. One must commit an act (actus reus) to be guilty of a crime. Protected speech is not a criminal act. This is the essential problem with psychiatry which makes it a practice to predict the future. There are no consequences for bad predictions in or out of court. For psychiatrists, protected speech and behavior which they do not understand or do not like is mental illness. This misguided standard allows criminals to call police to report an eccentric person, or a person who complains about crime, to have him or her evaluated. One more step toward the therapeutic state where psychiatrists determine morality, law and punishment without Due Process. Say hello to a police psychiatrist state.
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“Every single incident, whether it’s Newtown, that movie theater, or the guy who spouts off at work and then goes home and kills his wife and two kids — in every single case, there were people who said they knew ahead of time that there was a problem,” Bradshaw said. “If the neighbor of the mom in Newtown had called somebody, this might have saved 25 kids’ lives.”
Bradshaw is readying a hotline and is planning public service announcements to encourage local citizens to report their neighbors, friends or family members if they fear they could harm themselves or others.
http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/bradshaw-gets-1-million-for-violence-prevention-un/nXbs4/
Palm Beach County sheriff gets $1 million for violence prevention unit amid questions about civil liberties, care for mentally ill
Posted: 7:23 p.m. Monday, April 29, 2013
BY DARA KAM AND STACEY SINGER
PALM BEACH POST STAFF WRITERS
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