CO Passes Law To Give Psychiatric Arrest Powers to Secret Service

Here's is one more example of how psychiatry can be used to abuse the powers of police to silence criticism and dissent, as was done in Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia. There are no Due Process protections under the civil commitment laws. Giving state arrest powers to the Secret Service violates the Tenth Amendment.

Also mentioned herein is a proposed Texas law which would make it a crime to not enforce laws. That is a good one. In  Massachusetts the Cambridge Police Commissioner and the City police, and many other officials could be arrested if that was a Massachusetts law.


[From article]
Republican lawmakers say that when they asked why the bill was needed they were given a series of conflicting answers.
Sen. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, said he was told the purpose of the bill was to make it easier to hold a person for mental health reasons.
“When I asked in committee why they need this I was told it was so we can exercise 72-hour mental holds on our own citizens,” Lundberg said.
“I found it curious that this was the big reason they thought they needed it. Currently a police officer, doctor, psychiatrists, registered nurses and other professionals just on the strength of their word can say they want a person taken against their will and put in a mental institution for up to three business days, meaning it could be even longer if it was over the weekend, for an evaluation as to whether they are mentally sane or a danger to themselves or others.”
Sen. Vicki Marble, R-Fort Collins, said despite the bill being sponsored by a fellow Republican, the 72-hour mental hold caught the attention of several Republicans in the Senate.
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“No federal authority should have the ability to detain somebody for 72 hours,” she said. “If there is a legitimate reason for doing so for someone who is mentally ill, that should come at the local level where people in the community know one another.”
Marble said the mental hold was the reason the bill slipped under the radar.
“The mental health hold was what they testified to in committee, and that was the big thing they didn’t want to get out, but it does give them the authority to put that hold on people.”
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In Texas, a Democrat in the state legislature has proposed a bill that would allow the state to remove an elected sheriff for refusing to enforce the law. The bill defines law as including any rule, regulation, executive order, court order, statute or constitutional provision.

http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/state-grants-secret-service-vast-new-powers/

WND EXCLUSIVE
STATE GRANTS SECRET SERVICE VAST NEW POWERS
Soon will be able to enforce Obama gun laws without sheriffs' help
Jack Minor
March 29, 2013