http://tampa.cbslocal.com/2012/08/03/man-committed-for-mental-evaluation-after-obama-threat/
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WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man has been committed for a mental evaluation after he made threats on the same day that President Obama and former President Clinton visited the Orlando area.
Orange County Sheriff’s officials say the unidentified man made the threats Thursday, the same day Obama addressed a campaign crowd at Rollins College and Clinton attended a fundraiser for U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson.
Deputies arrested the man at a Winter Park apartment complex and transported him to a facility for mental evaluation.
The case was then turned over to the U.S. Secret Service.
Officials wouldn’t say if the threats were directed at Obama or Clinton."
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I do believe this is false reporting. I do not believe he can legally be forcibly institutionalized for FREE SPEECH. I do believe what he said has already been found to not be a crime.
If he was forcibly put into a nuthouse, I do believe the legal standard is "harm to himself" and I dont see any evidence of that here.
This article sounds like politically motivated bias.
I researched OH law a few years ago and found it is not possible to forcibly lock someone up unless they are a proven danger to themselves.
This smells of political bias in attempting to brand anyone who despises the despicable Poser in Chief as crazy, it smells of the typical Left wing ad hominem attack and the same one conveniently timed to the radical Left wing push to attempt to circumvent US law in re denying firearms sales due to mental incapacity.
The Main Sleaze Media right now are fabricating a narrative that goes something like 'anyone who fails a mental screening in college can be denied a NICS background check. the Bleeding Heart anti gun left cant right now gain any traction in their attempts to resurrect the AWB, so they need something to run with and they are inventing this false narrative that is ILLEGAL. US LAW states that only someone who has been found mentally incompetent by a COURT can be denied right to buy a firearm. The radical Left doesnt think thats enough and in the wake of the CO shooting are trotting out false narratives as fast and furiously as they can. This sounds like one of them, played on the pretend connection between "allegedly threatening Obama" and "taken for psych evaluation"
The Straw argument being floated is that one shooting where 12 people died in a Yuppie enclave in CO (ignoring the fact that FAR more violence than that occurs in cities like Chicago, DC, Atlanta, LA...) is somehow justification to invent laws that dont exist, or to demand new ones be passed, to deny gun sales on a more restrictive and arbitrary basis than law allows now. (see "pre-emption laws" in several States)
This charade of general psych evaluations at college is not new, theyve dusted it off and trotted it out in this recent anti gun campaign. They want to invent the idea that somehow a general and inaccurate psych evaluation for a new Student can somehow be extrapolated (falsely) out to predicting someone will go on a shooting rampage.
Whats wrong with that is too much to go into here.
But not too much to go into on 2A Blog...
1. its illegal, LAW says that a NICS background check can only be denied if a COURT finds someone truly mentally OR PHYSICALLY incapacitated. PROOF (notice the AP never has any):
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=qa&iid=428
2. a general psych evaluation at a school or business is WORTHLESS. Usually the test that employers use is the MMA and its old, inaccurate and can not be used more than three times, tells me someone who helped create it.. its easy to defeat if you realize its a trick to re-ask the same questions several times to see if you respond the same way each time.
If its not the MMA, then the question is what un-educated low level Institutional employees are running the test. They SURELY are not trained degreed psychologists or psychiatrists.
thats why we have (or used to have) DUE PROCESS OF LAW so that peoples rights are not violated.
Notice in this story by the lying hyenas at AP, they said he was taken for mental evaluation, but that apparently has NOT been the case with other idiots (that in itself is not basis for declaration of mental incompetence else all Liberals would be in the nut house) who have done the same thing.
What it appears as is that the cops observed something that did meet the standard of taking him for a mental eval ASIDE from his statement about O'Liar.
Notice the article DID NOT STATE OR PROVE ANY LINK BETWEEN THEIR SUPPOSED CAUSE AND EFFECT. IMO, someones lying or at best, piss poor writing.
