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~ The Paper Holds Their Folded Faces to the Floor ~
The sad thing is, the only reason we're hearing about this guy is he's famous:
The saga of Tony Rosato, in which the mentally ill comic actor from Saturday Night Live, SCTV and Night Heat spent more than 800 days in jail on a domestic harassment charge, mostly because he denies he is sick, then was transferred to a psychiatric institution in a creative legal manoeuvre that embarrassed the Crown last summer, slipped from the sublime into the ridiculous yesterday.
The vast majority of people this sick are never heard from at all. Well, until they kill themselves or others, that is.
How a constitutionally bounded free society deals with its mentally ill is probably one of the greatest unsung challenges it will ever meet. To date, not one has done so satisfactorily. They may not ever be able to, making the pathologically unreasonable the ultimate albatross to liberty.
The problem is that everyone in America saw "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" and thinks that mental institutions are medieval torture chambers.
It's like Israel. Everyone in America saw "Exodus", and now everyone in America thinks that everyone in Israel is kind and good and looks like Paul Newman.
Posted by: DensityDuck on February 25, 2008 03:44 PMPersonally, I'm just happy that Charlton Heston gave them these 1510 Commandments that somehow got extrapolated into 624 laws.
Posted by: Ron on February 25, 2008 04:08 PMdammit - my html skillz suck. forgot the strike command and got that 1510. Should've been a lame reference to "...these 15.... 10 Commandments"
Posted by: Ron on February 25, 2008 04:27 PM