Insane Asylums Could Return; Report Finds CCP Connections to US Protests
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
A new White House order could bring back mental asylums. The order aimed at “ending vagrancy and restoring order,” brings an end to consent decrees, which will allow for people deemed a threat to themselves and others to be forcibly committed to treatment centers.
And in other news, a new George Washington University report found connections between the Chinese Communist Party and pro-Gaza protests in the United States.
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| 0:00.0 | The Trump administration is bringing back asylum, that is insane asylums. |
| 0:06.0 | The new White House order, well, it gets rid of consent decrees, and this will allow authorities to forcibly commit people to treatment centers if they're deemed to be a threat to themselves and to others. |
| 0:17.0 | Meanwhile, a new report from George Washington University has outlined the Chinese Communist |
| 0:22.2 | Party's involvement in the pro-Palestine protests we've been seeing all across the United States. |
| 0:28.5 | And also foreign companies that moved their businesses to China are now finding out why that was not a good idea. |
| 0:35.0 | The CCP has now outright legalized theft of intellectual property. |
| 0:39.3 | I'll be talking about these topics and more today. I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigator |
| 0:44.3 | reporter Joshua Phillip and you're listening to Crossroads. |
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| 1:07.0 | Now look first off, the Trump administration, well, they want to bring back asylum. |
| 1:13.4 | And by asylum, I mean mental asylums, the crazy houses. |
| 1:17.7 | A new White House order gets rid of consent decrees. |
| 1:20.6 | And that can be used in a lot of ways. |
| 1:23.5 | This will allow authorities to forcibly commit people for treatment centers if they're deemed a threat to themselves and a threat to others. |
| 1:32.7 | And part of this is allegedly meant to address the problem of homelessness and drug use and people being crazy while being homeless and doing drugs. |
| 1:41.6 | But it also includes people just generally, it seems, who suffer from |
| 1:44.9 | severe mental illness. Now this executive order is called, quote, ending crime and disorder on |
| 1:51.2 | America's streets. And what it does, it basically allows cities and states to shift homeless |
| 1:57.8 | individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment through the |
| 2:04.1 | appropriate use of civil commitment and will restore public order, it states. Now, the order actually |
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