Shut Up or You'll Be 5150'd

5150 of course is code for involuntary commitment used to help protect people from harming themselves or others. Of course, it happens that 5150 is used for other nefarious purposes. I've received no shortage of complaints about how this law has been used to deprive people of their human and civil rights.

Why, I just got another complaint about a certain educational facility of higher learning that has its own police using the 5150 to shut someone up. And once in the psych facility this person couldn't get released (discharged) until he/she agreed to not pursue the investigation.

Cover up? Not here in San Jose! No!

I've received other complaints about attorneys who use the 5150 to set their wife up as a crazy person so when divorce court comes along, the wife is labelled a complete loon and gets no custody of the children, receives no community property and ends up also having to pay child support to the husband who makes all the money!

Not to mention a certain Deputy DA in the East Bay who used the 5150 law to get an elderly neighbor locked up for about a week because she complained about his security light being too bright at night.

Of course, once these people got in the hands of the Psycho Iatrists, they were forcefully drugged against their will and or put in restraints.