lurker@ottoman.net wrote:
ROBY, Illinois (CNN) -- Shirley A. Allen, a mentally disturbed woman who held police off for 39 days with a shotgun and entertained herself by listening to public radio, was captured Thursday and taken to a hospital. ... Others questioned the expense of the standoff. Gainer tackled that one head-on at a news conference Thursday, saying it was about $15,000 a day. He estimated the total cost of the operation at $750,000 to $1 million. ... "...said John Powers, a neighbor and one of the protesters. "We don't know if they'll treat her as a person who is sane or as a person who tried to shoot their dog."
What are the chances of her being found 'sane' if it might result in a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the same government who assaulted her out of Choatian expediency instead of investing some 'quality time' in sharing a few cups of coffee with her in order to avert such a ludicrous scenarios? My guess is that whoever is chosen to declare her 'batty' has a bright, successful career ahead of them. (But I would love to be pleasantly surprised.) TruthMonger