Another media war on a private citizen?

An article in a major Southern newspaper said today that a private investigator described a man as "a potential danger" to the city's population.

Further down, however, the same private eye said the man "doesn't have a history of violence." A friend of the man said, "He's not a violent person. He hasn't had a history of being violent." In fact, nothing in the story suggests the man has even gotten a jaywalking ticket.

Nonetheless, the paper is asking you to call the cops on the man if you see him.

Why?

It's because the man had been involuntarily committed - not in the U.S., but in a foreign country by a foreign psychiatrist, because he enjoys dressing as a woman. From the article, he appears to be a U.S. citizen who had otherwise lived his whole life in America. He returned to America after escaping the foreign "hospital." (The only thing he did that might be a violation of the law was using his parents' credit card number to buy an airline ticket - which was necessary to escape.)

A newspaper thinks we're supposed to call the police on an American citizen with no history of violence and have him deported to a foreign mental institution? Yeah, I know what they're gonna say: It's "for his own good", right? Like you haven't heard that one before.

Was the man ever asked if it was "for his own good"? He's an adult, so I think he can judge that for himself.

The economy is in the toilet, the foreclosure crisis is out of control, and the media's biggest concern is trying to have an American citizen deported and institutionalized because he's a cross-dresser. Unbelievable.

This is a bit like how in the early '90s, one of the network newsmagazines did an "expose" about a homeless man who reportedly suffered from mental illness. Clearly, the man posed less of a danger to public safety than Mad Dog Bush did.

The media wonders why nobody trusts it.