News from Crazyworld: Laws shouldn't protect the public from mentally ill

Some British politicians believe that it is wrong to protect the general public from dangerous mental patients:

MPs and peers today condemned government proposals to protect the public from dangerous mental patients.

In a scathing report, a cross-party committee urged ministers to abandon measures which they claim would breach the civil rights of the mentally ill.

The committee said that the Government's draft Mental Health Bill "places too great an emphasis on protecting the public from a small minority of dangerous mentally-ill people".

It said the main aim of new laws should be to improve services, strengthen safeguards for patients and "reduce the stigma of mental disorder" - not to protect the public.

It seems that the British parliament has quite a few dangerous mentally-ill people of its own.