I couldn't even get through it. That was like a ridiculously bad high school report. I only got as far as I did because of the reactions of the guy behind her.
Svoboda lives at an assisted-living facility in Lincoln and is listed as a protected person, according to court documents. Her brother, Patrick Svoboda of Ogallala, is her conservator because she is incompetent, the documents say. He was unaware of the video's popularity, but wasn't surprised -- he knew it would be a matter of time before she got in trouble somewhere. He said he's disappointed the video garnered such attention and jokes without the whole story. "To me, it shows how little society really cares about people with mental health issues," Patrick Svoboda said. "She does have a very tender heart ... but anything she says is certifiably schizophrenic ... she's not some crazy conservative."
To me the humor isn't what she's saying, it's that the city council (or any city council, really) has absolutely no rules in place by which to stop her from doing this. Everyone in the room is clearly helpless to do anything until she has her five minutes, whether she makes sense or not.
I find it absurd that it's supposed to be entirely up to her caregivers to keep her from showing up to these things, and if they fail she can literally give this address at every city council meeting until doomsday.
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It's called schizophrenia.
As in that's what that woman suffers from.
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Svoboda lives at an assisted-living facility in Lincoln and is listed as a protected person, according to court documents. Her brother, Patrick Svoboda of Ogallala, is her conservator because she is incompetent, the documents say.
He was unaware of the video's popularity, but wasn't surprised -- he knew it would be a matter of time before she got in trouble somewhere.
He said he's disappointed the video garnered such attention and jokes without the whole story.
"To me, it shows how little society really cares about people with mental health issues," Patrick Svoboda said. "She does have a very tender heart ... but anything she says is certifiably schizophrenic ... she's not some crazy conservative."
http://journalstar.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/video-of-testifier-s-anti-gay-words-goes-viral-but/article_82ec7104-4062-5988-8e56-8effde1ff202.html
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I find it absurd that it's supposed to be entirely up to her caregivers to keep her from showing up to these things, and if they fail she can literally give this address at every city council meeting until doomsday.
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