It is time to make an example
Lashaun Harris should be made an extreme example in the case "It Isn't Right to Kill Your Children"
This woman told police that there were voices that told her to strip naked and throw off a bridge her 16 month, 2 year and 6 year old children. Ah, gotta love the old "The voice told me to do it" routine.
Friends and relatives knew this woman was metally ill and knew she would stop taking her medication when not around her doctors. Great job at the intervention people.
It is really time for the courts to dismiss the psychobabble bullshit of postpardom depression as an excuse for women to kill their children.
So why are these fucking head cases allowed to keep their children? Shouldn't htey be put under observation or something? I understnad that this condition can be treated with medication, but when a person has a history of not taking the meds something should be done. For the love of God, how many more kids are going to have to die before someone wises up and takes some drastic measures?
Andrea Yates, Susan Smith, and now this pathetic fuckhead all have special places in Hell waiting for them involving, at best, an ass fucking with a pineapple.
This woman told police that there were voices that told her to strip naked and throw off a bridge her 16 month, 2 year and 6 year old children. Ah, gotta love the old "The voice told me to do it" routine.
Friends and relatives knew this woman was metally ill and knew she would stop taking her medication when not around her doctors. Great job at the intervention people.
It is really time for the courts to dismiss the psychobabble bullshit of postpardom depression as an excuse for women to kill their children.
"It's a mental illness, chemical imbalance... that's their world and that's what they believe," says Psychologist Cristy Lopez. "They end up having delusional thoughts and think they're doing something good or helping their children or helping the situation."
So why are these fucking head cases allowed to keep their children? Shouldn't htey be put under observation or something? I understnad that this condition can be treated with medication, but when a person has a history of not taking the meds something should be done. For the love of God, how many more kids are going to have to die before someone wises up and takes some drastic measures?
Andrea Yates, Susan Smith, and now this pathetic fuckhead all have special places in Hell waiting for them involving, at best, an ass fucking with a pineapple.
But you're talking about medical and psychological support for a population that includes 45 million uninsured people, who are disproportionately women, children and underserved minorities: precisely the demographics at play in this unfortunate circumstance. Millions of people just don't have access to the kind of care that would prevent this.
ReplyDeleteThere might be 45 million people that fall under the umbrella of not having adequate health care but the target here are the people who are mentally ill that are allowed to keep their children who have a history of not taking medication.
ReplyDeleteWhat good is a health care system that DOES give medication to those who can afford it which is then not taken by the patient?
My argument is not "Every swinging dick in this country, regardless of social status or income, should have access to health care"; my argument is that people with mental instability who kill their kids should be killed- swift and sure. It is more of a captial punishment argument than a jab at our health care system.
This dives in to a realm of abnormal psychology which few of us can even comprehend let alone defend. If someone has to take medicine to keep from killing their kids then maybe we should get the kids away from that person. Is this such a terrible concept to grasp?
But then again, I guess we are trampling on their civil rights. We have to wiat until they actually kill their kids to do something about it.
It should be noted that the *mother* (and I use that term loosely) had actually been on medication before she killed her children, but she had recently decided to stop taking it - on her own- because she was afraid the courts would take her children away for not being a "good parent".
ReplyDelete(an unfounded fear, and as far as I can tell from the articles I've read about it, there hadn't actually been anyone threatening to take the kids away from her).
No, she's a much better parent for having tossed them over a bridge, instead of letting the courts put the kids into a safe home.
Holy crap, I think this is the longest string of comments my blog has ever recieved! I can always rely on Saucy to bring some perspective to an issue of mine.
ReplyDeleteAlthough my entry was intended as a vent I forget that I do have friends that are more knowledgable in the area that I am venting on.
Saucy says:
85% of the entire United States population does not take their medication as prescribed by a doctor. This goes for anything from antibiotics to antipsychotic drugs
This is probably a true statemtn but someone who isn't taking their kidney stone medication isn't on the same level as someone who is mentally ill and needs this medication to keep from hurting themselves or anyone else. At worst, the kidney stone dud passes another 4-5mm stone and moves on. When SOME mentally ill people do not take their medication they throw their children off bridges, drown them, etc.
I totally agree with Saucy in that not all mentally ill people (which are in a different psychological status than mentally 'handicapped' people) are harmful to others. To quote There's Something About Mary, "I love the little bastards." Depression medications, and meds along those lines, are used by 'normal' functioning people in society. Again, my issue is when these 'normal' people need this medication to keep from harming themselves or others. I got alittle off topic here but I wanted to point out that although the meds might be a "crap shoot" in their effectiveness, shouldn't we do something before a kid gets thrown naked off a bridge?
But there-in lies the problem. What can we do? Our hands are tied by this democratic society we live in. It gives us the freedom to do what we want and to protect us against the unfairness and neglicgence of others but at the same time dangles those qualities like a carrot from a string in front of a mule that isn't hungry.