The flood gates have opened.
My faxes to the hospital and the public defender's office have provided a whole new level of attention being paid to Ameri's case.
The public defender, a gracious young attorney, called this morning to say that he agreed whole heartedly that the past tack of release to the community was wrong. He is now advocating for treatment and release from confinement as is indicated by Ameri's willingness to participate.
We have not heard directly from the hospital but Ameri reports a new level of interest in her from staff that she has never seen before.
I am relieved for Ameri. I have no relief for the twenty other lost souls confined in that ward and those in the twenty other wards in our city, and the twenties of wards in the state, and the twenties of twenties of wards throughout the country where the mentally ill are being warehoused and shuffled around in a de facto Gulag of indifference. Where are the faith based agent of relief? Where are the Christians? Who will visit the sick, the dying, the homeless, the despised immigrant. Where is the Christ in you? The sin of indifference is worthy of the knotted cord.
Go and sin no more.
