Rael Jean Isaac is the author of Madness in The Streets. I don’t agree with her on everything. She’s actually an apologist for lobotomies and electroshock therapy. I don’t agree with that, but she makes some other good points, and explains some of the cultural influences, such as popular books and movies that helped get us to this point. She believes its basically part if the legacy of the 60s.
Well, the victim in the hatchet attack in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle a few years ago died. The ironic thing in this one is that both guys were mental patients. But the victim was taking his meds, minding his business and behaving himself and the other guy wasn’t. Most hatchets I know of are the kind of thing people take camping and stuff and you could do some damage, especially if its sharp, but even if it isn’t. They’re fairly heavy, for one thing.