They are being treated as disposables. Could you cross post this in Occupy Underground? There is a similar thread about mental health patients being dropped off in downtown Denver. It was not as well documented as this, just remarks on it.
One of the replies had this in it, which is why I think what is being done here is so serious. I don't remember whose post it was but I saved it:
They've been brutalized by this corrupt system we call ''society,'' (as are we), and then drugged into a stupor. Thus subdued, they are let out amongst us -- the great unwashed. Where the cycle repeats.... This is ''the future'' if we don't change things..
“Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself.” ~George Orwell
“There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.” ~Aldous Huxley
'The two greatest visions of a future dystopia were George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” The debate, between those who watched our descent towards corporate totalitarianism, was who was right. Would we be, as Orwell wrote, dominated by a repressive surveillance and security state that used crude and violent forms of control? Or would we be, as Huxley envisioned, entranced by entertainment and spectacle, captivated by technology and seduced by profligate consumption to embrace our own oppression? It turns out Orwell and Huxley were both right. Huxley saw the first stage of our enslavement. Orwell saw the second.'' ~Chris Hedges
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