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"Oh Janet, stop me from Killing Again
I was doing some Internet research to see if Oklahoma newspapers had as much to say about psychiatric hospitals as the Houston Chronicle and the Baltimore Sun:
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1991_808229/profitable-addictions-law-targets-psychiatric-care.html
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1991_808783/profitable-addictions-they-are-totally-ruthless-do.html
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1991_810311/profitable-addictions-no-quick-fix-solutions.html
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1991_811418/profitable-addictions-state-s-legal-battle-against.html
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1991_812417/profitable-addictions-patients-from-canada-dumped.html
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1991_814690/profitable-addictions-state-to-expand-probe-of-hos.html
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1991_819833/profitable-addictions-ex-workers-say-hospitals-fak.html
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1992_1052024/profitable-addictions-abuses-in-mental-health-prog.html
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1992-04-29/news/1992120043_1_psychiatric-hospitals-mental-health-military-hospitals
Instead, I ran across an article written by Tulsa World Editor Janet Pearson last year, “Is Tulsa's safety net in jeopardy?” As I recall the tenor of the article bewailed the State cuts in budgets and beds for psychiatric hospitals and services here, like involuntary commitment. But expressed relief that at least there was something to keep those mentally ill people from killing again. The first part reminds me of the society woman in “The Help” who got the law passed that required everyone to have a toilet for the help.
The second part reminds of those who used to say, “Why if we don’t keep them under control, they’ll rise up and kill us in our beds!” Of course, that was Southern plantation owners talking about their slaves before the War of Northern Aggression, as some of them still like to call it. But hey, if something is too chauvinistic, bigoted, racist, insensitive or patronizing to say about black people, you don’t have to throw a good line away. Just recycle it for people with mental illnesses. There won’t be a single yellow journalist or lawyer who will stand up for them. "
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