Posted on 03/13/2013 7:48:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I agree with you.
And what about the Left classifying heterosexuality as a mental illness? Don’t think it’ll happen? Just watch.
Think of video productions as another form of storytelling but in a much more powerful way. You don’t have to use subliminal messages to indoctrinate a nation into doing evil.
Remember that old saying, “Monkey see, monkey do”?
I have come to a different take on what the legal response to the discoveries about this individual should have led to. In my view it should not be his “criminal conviction” but legally enforced institutionalization in a mental hospital.
He most likely did not commit a criminal offense, but I would take his self-admitted mental problem as a public risk if not under institutionalized observation. I do not personally believe that such an individual obsesesses on the cannibalistic fanatasies he does and never, ever, ever hopes to realize them in reality.
I am all opposed to mere “hate crimes”, but a mere “hate crime” is an entirely different area of “thought” than insanity.
His case, like recent mass shooting cases, reflect, in my view, our modern social unwillingness to error on the side of public safety over the Liberty of the insane. I recognize that we can cause grave error either way. That if we swing the pendelum back to error more on the side of public safety, there may develop, down the rode, a slippery slope over the definition of “criminally insane”. I realize it is an error without perfect solutions and only vigilence can trim our excesses, though I acknowledge our excesses must usually incur some harm to someone before we realize we have gone to far. It’s not a perfect world; nor ever will be.
Thanks, thats what I get for not following the story closer.
I agree that is the law, and it should be. It seems to me this guy was either a little over or under the "concrete steps" line. I guess its up to the appellate courts to give us the answer now that the jury has spoken.
There's some pretty sick stuff on the Internet.
Illegally obtaining the home addresses of his chosen targets by accessing a national law enforcement database for personal purposes is both a crime and a concrete step over the line.
You don’t need the home address of a fantasy, you do if you intend to act out a plan.
oh, I think that is a distinct possibility
“You don’t get life in prison for unauthorized computer access. That sentence is for the conspiracy conviction.”
I wasn’t discussing ‘conviction’. I was approaching only ‘guilt’ or ‘innocence’.
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