Rampant Mental Illness

During hearings to investigate the level of care patients receive for mental illness, a delegation of U.S. Senators was visiting a mental institution (asylum) in southeast Maryland. During the obligatory “dog and pony show,” commonly staged for visiting dignitaries, Senator John McCain asked the Director what the criteria was that defined whether or not a patient should be institutionalized.

"Well," said the Director, "We conduct a number of tests, each intended to confirm the validity of the diagnosis. For example, one of the most reliable tests involves offering a patient the choice of a teaspoon, a teacup, or a bucket and asking him or her to empty the bathtub."

“Oh, I understand," said Senator McCain. "A normal person would use the bucket because it's bigger than the spoon or the teacup?”

"No." said the Director, "Actually a normal person would pull the plug. I could have asked the same question using illegal immigration as your reference. For example, the choices from minimum impact to maximum effect might have been:

“(1) Open borders and blanket amnesty giving citizenship to all regardless of nationality, education, criminal record, or when they arrived or will arrive. If I’m not mistaken, I believe this to be your unstated preference.

“(2) A possible second choice might be a gradual attrition resulting from a reduction of social benefits, and denial of any forms of identification obtained in the United States. Also some have proposed that we require illegal aliens to obtain their guest worker status from an American Embassy in a foreign country within 6 months which would cause them to have to leave, if only temporarily.

“The most stringent choice would of course be:

“(3) Militarize the border for national defense; erect an impenetrable border wall from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico; eliminate eligibility of any and all illegal aliens for all taxpayer funded social benefits in the United States, including education; void NAFTA and CAFTA legislation; insure that felony crimes committed by illegal aliens would carry 5 times the punishment as any American citizen, without appeal; eliminate anything but emergency (life threatening) medical care; bill the Mexican government for any indigent care rendered. Surely they would be willing to divert some of their oil revenues to provide medical care to Mexican citizens; eliminate eligibility for any bank loan, car loan, revolving credit, vehicle registration, and mortgage loan, ownership of property or employment of any kind. Any illegal alien currently in the United States would be required to obtain United States-sanctioned alien guest worker identification only at a foreign American Embassy and provide DNA, fingerprints and photographs for law enforcement and national security purposes. 200,000 will be readmitted annually from a pool of applicants from those who (a) register before they leave the United States, and (b) have no United States or foreign criminal record when they attempt to return. Citizenship of offspring born in the United States will only be granted to those who obtain United States citizenship before the date of their child’s birth, retroactive to 1950.

“The “pull the plug” response, Senator, would require you to vigourously enforce existing immigration law, to the letter of the law, without pardoning millions of felons, in one fashion or another, who have been victimizing American citizens for more than a generation. Any contemplated immigration reform legislation out of Congress should only have be used to correct obvious flaws in the current immigration law, many of which were enumerated in response (3).

“So, tell me Senator, do you prefer a bed by the wall or near a window? We’ve been expecting you for some time. Do you think Senator Jon Kyl will be along soon?”

Red State Patriot

Posted June 17, 2006 06:25 PM
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