Mindsets Are Ensnaring Tens of Thousands to The Streets
Treatment the Future Reality
Introduction
This is our third blog is the series, and this one is a tough one for many reasons. If you purposefully remove all options, as is being done currently for the homeless who have mental health issues, then what is left for them?
This is the picture I want you to get in your mind’s eye: a herd of cattle, all sizes, breeds, and shapes, being forced into a loading ramp and into a truck, future undetermined, but still forced. What will be the outcome? It is truly what is happening to all the homeless people when they are forced off the streets without solutions.
As we go through this study, considering the future of treatment, I want you to consider this: the facts point to seriously inadequate beds, few shelters, and an overall attitude of just getting them out of the streets. And then answer this: Is that conducive to helping them become non-homeless? At times, we will not admit that the problem is not with the homeless person, mentally ill or not, but it is with our issues, problems, and unwillingness to help.
An Opening Word
Isaiah 1: 17
Learn to do what is good, Seek justice, Correct the oppressor.[e]Defend the rights of the fatherless.
Plead the widow’s cause
Luke 1: 53 to 54
He has satisfied the hungry with good things, He has sent away the rich empty. He has helped His servant Israel, He is mindful of His mercy
Data for this Discussion
Data for this Discussion
Fact Sheet Donald J Trump
Commit individuals who are at risk
Enforce prohibitions on certain moral crimes, street people
Serious mental illness into treatment
Surrendering our cities to disorder and fear is neither compassionate to the homeless or citizens(see the distinction)
His overwhelming number for addiction related to Bidens last year only
Long-term institutional care for humane care
He did set up a good program for the Veterans to receive the care they need
The quiet statement that was tucked into the end of the Fact Sheet is this: Civil Commitment as a tool to end homelessness! This should scare everyone
205,000 homeless in jail, how many need psych care
Cicero Think Tank Policies, Criminalize Quality of Life Crimes, or is it Mental Illness?
How is the lack of insurance impacting Mentally Ill Homeless?
Many Bad Actors are on the Scene
Now, who am I calling Bad Actors? The Policy Makers who do not have and do not want to have a hands-on understanding of the factors that create a homeless crisis, with those who are struggling with the symptoms of mental illness. They are the ones who sit in offices, refuse funding, mandate street sweeps, and con government agencies into enacting policies without understanding the ramifications of those policies. They may not have started out to be Bad Actors, but they have ended up there quickly.
Sadly, our President is now on the path to becoming a Bad Actor, in this one, singular case, he is mandating Civil Commitments be used frequently and often for those with signs and symptoms of mental illness. This is a radical step where a person’s rights and liberties are stripped away with no redress and no exit date set. Now on the surface, it appears great, but how many mentally ill actually need to be committed to be treated?
Now there is another Bad Actor that is flying under the radar, because it does not do the work in its own name, but coaches the states and territories on how to legislate against the homeless. This Think Tank is 100% against street camping and demands that cities and counties get rid of street camping and put the homeless in sanctioned camps. But what is never discussed is where do the homeless go after the mandated six months; there are no answers, and nothing is stated about the mentally ill or addicted issues by these Think Tanks.
Terminology Ends Help, Maybe
As we studied in the last blog, the serious lack of treatment beds, the overflow causing backup in emergency rooms, and even jails, we are going to see that as the standard in the next five to 10 years. The lack of beds in shelters and the closure of mental health treatment facilities is about to be felt nationwide in a way we are not prepared to deal with.
We have allowed terminology to come forth and to be used to hide behind to make it easier not to feel guilt, remorse, and shame on the way that the mentally ill, addicted, at-risk homeless are treated. Words like “non-compliant,” dangerous,” “they are just vagrants,” these words strip humans of dignity and thus the need of compassionate intervention. So, if this is a sample of the terminology, we can now see why the government is sweeping out the housing first, which always benefited the mentally ill and brought stability.
The favorite way we hear of it now is the Alphabet Soup of Agencies, and it is correct. There are more agencies than anyone knows about, none are out there making things better. The use of terms, labels, titles, hashtags all lead us to think that help is being given, but it is? If it is where, for there are no beds available on a given night?
The Homeless Industrial Complex sounds as if they are a set of businesses and the like to help the homeless, but nay, they are just the alphabet soup of useless government agencies. The only reason I say useless is this, they cannot, will not and have not the heart to solve homelessness.
The Role of Cicero, Data Speaks
I am using Cicero, a Think Tank out of Texas, for the simple reason that they are the most vocal and most used policy maker against homelessness in the United States. They work with states and cities to craft anti-homeless policies and laws that are then crafted into laws and policies that criminalize and punish the homeless without providing solutions. Their overarching idea is to end housing first, force the mentally ill into treatment, and end drug addiction, but their plan only goes for six months.
Civil Commitments are now on the table, thanks to the President. Housing First programs are being weeded out, the number of needed treatment beds is critically short, shelters are not being built, housing is critically short, and the average age of the homeless person is now creeping north of 50, and our best solution is enforced encampments?
Here is my question for Cicero Based Policies that have been enacted over the past few years in many states, have they been brought to bear on the illegals, the criminals that have not been brought to justice in the Democrat-run cities? This is a critical situation that no one will publicly admit, but the homeless are no longer a singular group anymore; they have been mixed, on purpose, to create an ideal situation to get rid of the homeless. Yes, what I just stated is controversial, but it is the truth. And Cicero cannot deal with that.
Dealing with no beds, the possibility of civil commitments, and now the end of streets camping with no place to go but jail, how is this nation okay with these wicked decisions to treat this population group as if they were criminals for just being homeless, that is the Cicero effect. The diagnosis could be wrong, there are no beds, NIMBY is stronger, and yet we blame the homeless person, does that include grandma, who is not homeless for the time, or the disabled uncle, or the foster kid who has lost everything, how is it their fault?
Now Civil Commitment is Coming
I am going to start with a small but important bunny trial and the reason for this is because America, as great as she is, has a pattern of repeating bad behavior and not learning from mistakes. Why back in the 1800’s during a time when the Native Americans were still in great number and some still rode free in this nation that was theirs before it was ours, a conflict arose. The white man wanted their land, and the Native man did not want to surrender it, it was his. The American Nation, seen by many as the Great White Father, was not a good father to the native American.
The Americans tried to ignore the Native Americans, then proceeded to bargaining with them, which involved tricks and traps. The goal was to steal their land for mineral rights. They even gave blankets infected with disease. The end result the Native Americans lost everything, their lives, their property, and were trapped on reservations and told what, when and how they could do this or that.
The time frame, the goal, and the situation are all different, but the story is the very same, the homeless person may or may not be at fault for their current situation, but who are we to force them into a living situation that kills hopes and shortens their life? The government silently forced the decisions back then are they are doing it again, and yet it is immoral just as it was then. No one is brave enough to call them to account for this wickedness, because we have been trained to accept them as experts and we know nothing. Wrong and dangerous.
Hope is Fading Fast
I have often referred to hopelessness as the most fatal disease on the streets. If there is no tomorrow to look forward to, why fight for it? If it is more of the same struggle, discomfort, hunger, and fear, why continue fighting, dealing with the stuff that life is handing? This is the unspoken bad intent that you will see flowing through this set of blogs as we study the depth and breadth of AI data regarding the struggles of the homeless. And the misinformation that has been released around them and their struggles.
Say, as a child, you were told verbally by one parent that you could go to the cookie jar and take one cookie, but when you did that, the other parent slapped your hand and said, no, you can have no cookie. NO matter what you said, tried, or did you still got no cookie no matter what the one parent said, the other did not yield, confusing, frustrating and disheartening.
Now imagine the homeless stuck on a broken merry-go-round, with no answers, some struggling with mental illness, some with addiction, no treatment beds, emergency rooms full, police on high alert, and Think Tanks developing new, anti-homeless policies. You can become hopeless quickly. That ‘why fight’ mindset is deadly, and yet unrecognized. Even if you were not mentally unwell at the start, this journey alone could make you so very quickly. Mercy has left the building.
Conclusion
Treatment for both mental illness and addiction is lost in an Alphabet Soup of agencies that have no ability or backbone to resolve the issues. As we spoke of in the last installment the problem is growing, but is it growing because of true addiction or in response to the growing hopelessness? Removing housing first is the worst decision, you cannot treat any illness or addiction on the streets
The President is painting a clear picture of where he believes treatment should go. He believes in civil commitments is the most compassionate resolution, but where are the bads? And with this commitment, the person loses all their personal liberties with no one to protect them.
I am not pie in the sky and believe that none are addicted, that none are mentally ill, but the single, wide strike brush is the wrong approach, especially with no beds, and none being built. America must settle herself back down to the the old ways and traditions that made her great and respected, and find her way back to family, God and compassion for one’s neighbor. The government is not our friend.
CTA…
Please Answer This:
Let’s be brave, you have struggled with mental health for years, but thanks to medications and insurance it has been managed. No, a sudden change, insurance changed, medications threatened, what will happen…
Please Answer This:
You have a family member who struggles with addiction, and they have a hard time holding a job and cannot keep a roof over their head. Are you going to stand back in the current climate and allow the government and its agenda to be carried out, compassionate commitment to an institution for an unknow period of time, or will you step up?
Please Answer This:
You are a bible believing Chrisitan and you know that what is about to happen to a friend, neighbor, family member is wrong, morally wrong, but the experts have spoken and they are to be committed, what would you do?
MINDSETS
Manipulated Impartations
Negative Determinations
Seeking Entanglements
Targeting Souls
Why, to control outcomes, decisions, money and lives
For what, to make it easier for the homeless to disappear
How, overwhelm with numbers, anger, frustration, helplessness
Whom, those who are to govern without medaling, but have failed the American people, they created mindsets