At 10:09 PM -0400 8/26/00, Matt Elliott wrote:
> >Something's fishy. If you voluntarily check in, you can check out
>>any time you want. Same with a regular hospital; all the MDs do
>>is write Against Medical Orders in your file and their asses are covered.
>
>This isn't the case in Illinois. If you check in voluntarily and wish to
>leave before the Docs want you too you have to request a leave AMA and the
>doctors have 72 hours before they have to legally let you go. Don't ever
>admit your self to a Psych hospital. If they can't help you outpatient you
>don't want their help.
Ditto for California, and, I presume, many other areas. Once in their
System, departure is not at all trivial.
And, more importantly to me, once in their System, one is supposed to
forever after answer "Yes" to various questions about prosecutions,
convictions, and commitments to mental facilities. And hence one is
to be denied fundamental Constitutional rights.
(I haven't said this in a while: basic constitutional rights do not
get lost because one was once a prisoner or person in a psychiatric
prison. If one is in prison, certain rights are naturally lost by
nature of the act of imprisonment. Once out of prison, _all_, and I
do mean _all_, rights are restored. The right to vote, the right to
assemble freely, the right to be secure in one's papers, the right to
possess firearms, and so on and so forth. All of those who claim
otherwise, all 2,173,562 of them, need killing.)
--Tim May
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