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A few comments:
In response to advocate's comment below who stated, "I personally know two former patients that I would love to have as neighbors." Can you think of more than two current patients that you would not like to have as neighbors?

Fossil is a town so small it actually classified as "frontier" rather than rural. We do not have adequate police, emergency medical, fire and medical services to support a facility of this nature.

Although, Mr. Cutsforth characterized the opposition to this project as rather violent and renegade, not everyone who is opposed, or even the majority of the people who are opposed to the facility, fit this description. We simply wanted our questions and concerns addressed openly before the project was a done deal. Despite the suggestion that people found out about the facility before MWBH wanted us to, the first that I heard of this facility was the letter sent by MWBH themselves.

I'm also generally concerned with officials attempting to describe the patients of the proposed facility in Wheeler County in innocuous terms and repeating that they are not criminals in an attempt to minimize public concerns, while at the same time saying that they are a danger to themselves and others (which is how "civally committed" has been defined to me by MWBH officials) and that they would be sex offenders who may have committed crimes as serious as rape and child molestation (which is what MWBH representatives stated as possibilites for the "sexually inappropriate behavior" referenced in their letter to the public).

posted 3 years, 11 months ago
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