"In America, you can get someone locked up as insane. He doesn't need a trial. It is a serious problem."

That is flat out wrong. From the part of the law you quoted:

"a mental health professional can decide to issue a temporary detention order"

Notice the word TEMPORARY. If you read further in the link you posted it says:

"H. The duration of temporary detention shall be sufficient to allow for completion of the examination required [...] but shall not exceed 48 hours prior to a hearing."

How is that a serious problem?

Is it time for the admins of Slashdot to realize their moderation system doesn't really work all that well anymore? The fact that this completely incorect post is rated at 5 shows that it doesn't.

The article seems a little alarmist. For instance, this line: "The 2008 outages hit local economies hard and a stronger quake could plausibly bring Mediterranean economies to their knees, by denying them access to crucial global markets for days or weeks. A 2005 study at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich calculated that a nationwide internet blackout would cost Switzerland 1% of its GDP per week." But of course a cut in the Mediterranean will not be a "nationwide internet blackout" for Switzerland much at all. In fact, if India and the mid-east gets cut off from the rest of the Internet, the rest of the world won't care all that much.