DURANCE VILE*

Both San Jose and Oakland are pulling people off the streets and holding them in detention centers built for drug addicts. Addicts, like everyone else, prefer to go to therapy in a support group scenario.

The best way to get over trauma, is to have a support group who will listen to your every word with kindness and sympathy, even if you are telling the same stupid story again and again. Sworn to secrecy, these support groups, based on the model of AA, are amazingly effective. To the rest of us, this is boring and sounds like whining, but it is the only thing that works.

Consequently, all of the really nice facilities we were using for drug clinics are going out of business. (They are perfect as homeless shelters for street kids, as long as we unlock the outside doors and let the kids lock their room doors.)

Instead of looking for a new use for their facilities, two clinics in San Jose and Oakland seem to prefer trolling the streets for anyone they can say can not care for themselves. Note that the criteria for not being able to take care of yourself is to have not have a home or a way to reach that home. Taxi money home should bring IMMEDIATE release.

I understand that this scam has expanded to include technical people who rent rooms while doing business in the Valley.

The law is pretty clear. You have to be a danger to yourself or others, or you have to be unable to care for yourself. The decision is made based on the person in front of the judge, on or off medication.

In my Oakland case, the defense asked if my ongoing rental of both a room with bath and an office had been verified. The court was assured that the information had been verified. I insured that the judge knew I had $300 in my purse and $2000 immediately available. She ordered me held as unable to care for myself.

These clinics use Kaiser referrals. I believe that they can be paid to target certain individuals. Trust me, if they were paid to keep me in durance vile for a total of almost three weeks, someone is right now following the money. When I left, they were in the middle of multiple Kaiser audits.

This could not have worked without the collusion of police, courts, and people at Kaiser. Have I ever mentioned the Federal False Claim Act to you? You NEED an attorney, but courts and hospitals keep records of EVERYTHING.

And, of course, you all are too busy putting nice working people out of business to pay attention to the governments of the cities and counties around you.

Why are there people still on the streets in this wealthy and innovative place?

Have I ever mention that not paying a decent wage to government workers would lead to BAD THINGS?

TRUMP GOT ELECTED BECAUSE THE INTERNET COMMUNITY DECIDED TO VALUE THINGS OVER PEOPLE!

* How old novels and poems spoke of the horrors of imprisonment.