Thread by @ShellenbergerMD

Swords up

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#SanFransicko

“You have heard it was said, ‘Love your neighbor & hate your enemy. But I tell you: love your enemies & pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven." Matthew 5:43

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It's time to treat and shelter the sick

It's time to restore civic order from mass illness

It's time to rescue human dignity from depravity

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1419300158135672833?s=20

It's time to save our civilization, which is under assault from people in the grip of a destructive religion that goes under the sign of victim

Victimology is killing our children, destroying our cities, and ruining our institutions.

We must resist it. Together.

Late Friday, Calif. Gov. @GavinNewsom vetoed a bill to allow addicts *convicted* of a crime to get drug treatment. Why? B/c @ACLU & @georgesoros don't want treatment ever mandated

Context: Drug deaths

2000: 17,000
2020: 93,000

5x death toll increase

https://twitter.com/Twolfrecovery/status/1446881349000826881?s=20

Radical victimology's opposition to mandating drug treatment to addicts is literally killing tens of thousands of our fellow humans and Americans and children every year. People are in a trance about this issue. We need to mandate treatment. There is no other way to solve this.

Treatment should only be mandated of people breaking other laws repeatedly, such as shoplifting, public defecation, public drug use, and public camping. People need to be in shelters and then offered the right therapy for them, eg rehab, psych care, residential care, and work.

What @GavinNewsom & progressive DAs, city councils, and other Calif. lawmakers have created, and are attempting to maintain, is a system where people who are mentally ill & addicted to the most intoxicating, addicting, and deadly drugs, continue to live, and die, on sidewalks.

It's not that progressive city & state governments are failing to act. It's that they are actively facilitating drug deaths by:

- giving cash, housing, and hard drug tools to addicts
-not enforcing laws
- not mandating drug treatment as alt. sentencing

Those were terrible policies for addicts long before they started killing them

But now those progressive policies are killing people directly, and indirectly

Directly: fentanyl is killing addicts

Indirectly: fentanyl is killing non-addicts by contaminating the drug supply

In both cases the White House should be raining hellfire down upon state leaders who should be raining hellfire down upon city leaders who should be raining hellfire down on DAs, police, and social service providers if they don't take aggressive action on the drug death crisis.