Double Jeopardy

The discrimination faced by those, who suffer, with mental illness.

Don't understand

Why society feels

This need to

Stigmatize people

Due to

Mental illness.

Politicians

Of all stripes

Promise increase funding

And yet

It's the first area

To be chopped.

As the bean counters figure

No one will notice this

Until the police execute

An mentally ill person

In a hail of bullets.

Even than

More promises are made

With little concrete action

For some future date

Nothing more than

A small bandage

Over a gaping chest wound.

Else

Treated like

A criminal

At the Canada-US border

By denying us.

Entry

Into the United States

Because someone dialed "911".

As a first responder

Police write up

A report

Stating the nature

Of the call.

Responding to

A suicide attempt.

Who forward it

To the RCMP

In Ottawa

Before sharing it

With Homelands Security.

Turning

a medical matter

Into a criminal issues

Which need not be.

http://globalnews.ca/news/1147336/suicide-profiling-at-us-border-investigated/

Author's Note

Written January 4, 2015.

Reviews

[ANTO]

jaysus Therisa this is a real eye-opener . my jaw literally dropped after reading this. Aside for the deft way you handled this write I think 'shock' comes to mind. What are they thinking?
Will this scaremongering madness never end. And of course it'll become policy in the whole of the Western world before long too. Another step to Orwellian society.
well highlighted T :)

[therisa]

Sadly, Anto, this policy has been operation, for more than 40 years, between Canada and the United States. I think other countries are more reasonable, when it comes to mental health issues. Least, I hope so.

[ANTO]

OMG I did not know that! What happened to the 'Land of the Free et al'
Dunno what the policy is here in Ireland :/

[therisa]

Grrr, darn link is highlighted. Anto, just copy and paste the link, at the bottom, it will give you, all the background info, you need to know.