Posted on 07/21/2012 2:10:29 PM PDT by Mount Athos
Remorseless mass-murder suspect James Holmes was locked up alone Saturday over fears that the self-proclaimed Joker would become a target for other inmates.
The man accused in the Colorado movie theater massacre was still behaving erratically on the day after his rampage at a midnight screening of “The Dark Night Rises” — the last film in the Batman trilogy.
“Let’s just say he hasn’t shown any remorse,” a jail employee told the Daily News. “He thinks he’s acting in a movie.”
A released inmate said Holmes’ behavior behind bars was increasingly irrational.
“He was spitting at the door and spitting at the guards,” the inmate told The News. “He's spitting at everything. Dude was acting crazy.”
Holmes, 24, was also placed on suicide watch in solitary confinement before eating a jailhouse breakfast of grits and sausage, according to a cafeteria worker.
Two other just-released inmates said the concerns of Arapahoe Detention Center officials over Holmes’ life were well-founded.
“All the inmates were talking about killing him,” Wayne Medley, 24, said as he left the facility. “Everyone was looking for an opportunity. It’s all they could talk about.”
Freed inmate Dima Danilov, 22, said the suspect’s face was covered with a red towel when he arrived at the jail about two hours after 12 people were killed and 58 wounded inside an Aurora, Colo., multiplex.
Holmes — who had dyed his hair red — was also wearing red clothing beneath the black body armor that terrified moviegoers saw when he opened fire early Friday morning, Danilov said.
Jail guards “blacked out his windows with duct tape so no one could see him,” said Danilov. “He was cuffed in the back and had leg shackles. Six officers were walking him.”
The deranged suspected killer, a former honors student and Ph.D. candidate, said nothing and walked slowly to his cell.
Danilov said that if Holmes was released into the general jail population, “he won’t live to see Monday’s court appearance.”
Holmes is due for his first court appearance on Monday morning. He could face the death penalty, if found mentally competent and convicted in the murder spree.
Cops returned Saturday for a second day to Holmes’ suburban Denver apartment, which was rigged with chemical and explosive booby-traps by its jailed tenant before his rampage.
Eleven of the victims shot during the midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” remained in critical condition Saturday at Colorado hospitals.
According to NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly, the mass killer declared that “he was the Joker, enemy of Batman” after the massacre ended.
Holmes, who came to Colorado from California to continue his education, was armed with an AR-15 assault rifle, a Remington 870 shotgun and two .40-caliber Glock handguns.
Never happen. The meticulous planning including booby trapping his apartment will negate insanity. He was fully cognizant of his actions.
He wasn’t acting crazy, he IS crazy. His mother knew immediately that he was the shooter, and I’m sure a lot of other people weren’t surprised.
Virtually all of our recent mass murderers have been under treatment for mental illness, or were known by their families to be mentally ill, and in many cases the families had tried to get help and it was refused.
This all dates back to the 1960s and the Langian (radical left wing) theory that only the mad were truly sane, because they recognized the horrors of capitalism. We need a new mental health paradigm.
Always said we outsourced the wrong jobs to China! We should contract with Chinatotend our prisoners under contract in Chinese Prisons! If You are thrown into a Chinese Prison, You will not live longer than one month, two at the most unless You have Family and Friends bribing the Guards and bringing You FOOD daily!Bet after a couple on monnths and the word drifting back to our urban Cesspools, Crimes would drop off dramatically!
That’s not the standard. It’s whether you knew and acknowledged that what you were doing was wrong,and he clearly didn’t. Of course, neither do Muslims, which makes me think we should define Islam as mental illness...
I hope you're kidding. If you really have to think about whether inmates should go around killing people because they hold different political beliefs than you (even if those political beliefs are vile and idiotic), that's sickening.
Probably find cash and checks directly sent to him by Obama, Soros, Pelosi and Reid and of course Eric Holder!
For them, he provides the perfect reason to confiscate all of Our Firearms! This is better for them than “FAST & FURIOUS!”
And the guards will sell your organs on the Internet!
WIN/WIN!
The rock group RUSH just came out with a new album a few weeks ago - a song called “The Anarchist” is on it. Sounds like the lyrics might capture this anarchist attitude pretty well.
The Anarchist, RUSH - Clockwork Angels Album, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on3lLcAz4YU
Will there be world enough and time for me to sing that song?
A voice so silent for so long
For all those years I had to get along,
They told me I was wrong
I never wanted to belong - I was so strong
I lack their smiles and diamonds; I lack their happiness and love
I envy them for all those things, I never got my fair share of
The lenses inside of me that paint the world black
The pools of poison, the scarlet mist, that spill over into rage
The things I’ve always been denied
An early promise that somehow died
A missing part of me that grows around me like a cage
In all your science of the mind, seeking blind through flesh and bone
Find the blood inside this stone
What I know, I’ve never shown; what I feel, I’ve always known
I plan my vengeance on my own - and I was always alone
Oh - They tried to get me
Oh - they’ll never forget me.
Is there a difference in being insane and just plain evil and hated filled?
At some point, Holmes will discover that he’s not the real Joker. What a rude awakening that will be.
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BINGO! Even if Holmes gets the death sentence, it's likely it won't be carried out. He could live the rest of his natural life in prison.
Another inmate can carry out the sentence at little to no cost to the taxpayers. Sounds like a winner to me.
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BINGO! Even if Holmes gets the death sentence, it's likely it won't be carried out. He could live the rest of his natural life in prison.
Another inmate can carry out the sentence at little to no cost to the taxpayers. Sounds like a winner to me.
I don't have to think about it, it happens every day in prison. Think about it, it happens whether your a pedophile, a muslim or a racist. Happens every day...I know, I'm being redundant.
Yes, it is sickening.
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AMEN! And the Chinese will not hesitate to Execute the Dirtbags either! In China, if one is found guilty of stealing so little as a tourist camera, they are found guilty of a capital crime by a single Judge and Executed the NEXT DAY! by a Firing Squad of ONE with ONE BULLET! if one doesn’t die immediately, thats okay, they just let one lie there wreathing in agony until they finally expire!!!
One of the Great Facets of Chinese Communism and Chairman Mao, who Valerie Jarrett treasures as her most favorite Philosopher!
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Lighten up and quit squealing like a liberal.
sheesh.
Or to paraphrase Sam Kinison, if he’s crazy, when you strap him in the chair, just tell him it’s a ride.
All of this took a lot of planning and time and yet nobody around him noticed him acting different
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