Just read the script into that camera there, sir. Think of the galactic overlord Xenu and Obama's conspiracy to steal Texas away from Jesus.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott is well-known schmuck. He counts on equally feeble-minded narcissists like child-bride enthusiast
Ted Nugent for support. It wasn't long ago that he donned his tin-foil hat to order the Texas military to
watch out for the Jade Helm invasion. Luckily, Texas escaped Obama's plans to invade Texas, steal their guns, and make them all have gay abortions. Unfortunately, a nefarious plan was afoot. The blindingly liberal policy makers in Texas agreed to a mental health law called
Senate Bill 359.
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of a peace officer to apprehend a person for emergency detention and the authority of certain facilities to temporarily detain a person with mental illness.
The bill would allow hospital officials to hold someone for no more than four hours if they felt that that person was a threat to themselves or others. The bill was a no-brainer by all accounts. But there are some people who already know that lizard people from the core of the earth are controlling our media and those
people also hate psychiatry.
After a Church of Scientology-backed group helped organize a campaign against it, Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed legislation that would have given Texas doctors more power to detain mentally ill and potentially dangerous patients, according to records obtained by The Texas Tribune.
The governor's early June veto of Senate Bill 359 caught many of the measure’s proponents off-guard. The legislation had sailed through the House and Senate with little debate and only a handful of negative votes — and during committee hearings in both chambers, a range of mental health advocates, medical groups and law enforcement officials showed up to testify in its favor.
Abbott, as with the coalition against the bill, cited the possibility of civil liberties being infringed upon as their main reason for opposition.
Among groups signing on to the letter was the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, which had opposed the bill from the start. The anti-psychiatry group was founded by the Church of Scientology in 1969 to serve as a “mental health watchdog” dedicated to taking a stance against "the biological/drug model of 'disease' that is continually promoted by the psychiatric/pharmaceutical industry as a way to sell drugs," according to the group’s website.
You can make a civil liberties argument, kinda. But the way this unfolded was surprising and dubious to everyone involved. Oh yeah, it
wasn't just scientology that was involved.
Also behind the veto push were the League of United Latin American Citizens, the Texas Home School Coalition, the anti-vaccine group Parents Requesting Open Vaccine Education and Texas for Accountable Government, which the Tribune calls a libertarian organization currently campaigning to stop water fluoridation in Austin.
Holy cow, that's some fringe lobbying. In Governor Greg Abbott's defense, he's not a good governor.