well there's insane and there's insane
and there's folk locked in asylums for what they said on the internet
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 12:35,
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Well given the amount of problems ex marines have if one were to post the following I would hope somebody has the sense to check him out
"The Revolution is here. And I will lead it."
"I know many of you think I'm going crazy, and are wondering just why I have been posting the things I have been posting. I don't have the energy to explain. Just know that a new beginning is coming."
"If you are unaware of the great amount of evil perpetrated by the American Government I suggest you take … your head out of the sand. The day of reckoning is almost at hand."
"I am standing against a great evil. I will do it all by myself if I have to."
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 13:39,
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^This
and it's the sort of thing pointed out after a massacre that should have been spotted by the authorities as a loose fuse about to blow
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Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 13:44,
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i think there are too many people threatening revolution online and not carrying it out
for that to be a symptom of mental health problems themselves sufficient to be detained at a psychiatric hospital. Those posts are all crazy sounding but there are no direct threats against any individuals or organisations. if you think everyone who says stuff like this should be detained then you have to accept further encroachment on people's liberties regarding mental health legislation and the attendant cost of building lots and lots and lots more hospitals. cos as it stand in the uk people have to be a lot madder than that to be detained.
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tickle I was away, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 14:51,
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He's a former marine, a veteren from Iraq and Afghanistan.
I would expect the govenment watch out for their well being given the amount of PTSD.
Also someone made a complaint.
Who knows what happened in that police station to make them want to section him?
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www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2012/aug/20/tdmet01-veteran-has-hearing-today-mother-says-ar-2142038/
Looks like it was his old platoon leader that shopped him.
""Knowing the man that he is, I believe that he fully intended to act on the threats he was posting," "
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 15:04,
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fair do's.
you're absolutely right. he could have been all kinds of psychotic when they got him to the station. then he may well have said or done something that would mean he should be detained. my point was only that he didn't meet criteria just for what he said online. we would need a whole other government agency for investigated wild internet claims if everyone who posted something a bit mental online had to be interviewed to see if they were crazy.
[edit] ""Sharpen up my axe; I'm here to sever heads," he posted Aug. 13." yeah. see that's much more worrying for starters...
although it has to be said that just having extreme politics or being very focused on conspiracy theories (which is aparently what worried his old commander) isn't indicative of mental ill health. i'm not disagreeing with what you're saying, i just think it's pretty weird that the fbi had the police take this dude to hospital. if he was very clearly going to do something illegal then taking him to the cop shop would be the better bet. the soviets took a lot of anti-government people to mental hospitals. they are a very good way to detain someone without evidence of a crime.
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tickle I was away, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 15:11,
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