http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70C6JQ20110113
Broadening the involuntary psychiatric commitment laws to the leniency of Arizona's terrifies me. I don't want some random stranger in the street deciding my eccentric behavior was "persistently or acutely disabled." Especially when "disabled" isn't defined specifically as "psychiatric disability", as most other states do.
The last sentence of this article is the most chilling of al.