The Highlander group issued two documents following the meeting. The wife of Vice President Al Gore has made mental health her special issue and garnered significant publicity and attention for it. But Highlander delegates consider her views too close to those of the psychiatric industry. Gore has family members with mental illnesses. Oaks says he, too, is a relative of a person with mental disabilities and understands the pressures of concern about their safety.
People deserve more than just a court order and a bag of pills.
The outspokenness of SCI members may be having an impact on Tipper Gore's views. They agreed to recommend that Tipper and Al meet with us. They seemed to understand the civil rights aspects of these issues. But the question is when. They wanted us to wait until after the election.