cc completely missed the point and wrote:
> "John W." <worthj1970@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> > Some cities here in the US use either convicts or the mentally
> > handicapped to sort recycling, eliminating the need for folks to
> > separate things out. Probably someone realized that a convict or
> > mentally handicapped person is better capable of this task than the
> > average consumer.... I think Chattanooga Tennessee is one of those
> > cities, and IIRC it's doing quite well (killing two birds with one
> > stone sort of thing).
>
> You mean they consider mentally different people as convicted
criminals,
> except they have no trial  ?
>
> CC

Ummm... mentally different? Where did you dig that up? I'd say
convicted criminals are mentally different from non-convicted
criminals.

But I don't consider mentally HANDICAPPED people to be on a par with
convicts, and didn't say that. 

John W.