Posted on 05/07/2023 5:23:52 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy
Another act to subdue an aggressive mentally ill man leads to another George Floyd media-leftist whitewash of the perpetrator and this time, I think it will not work.
Don Surber says it well:
“Democrats turned subways into hell and now give good citizens the choice between being the victim of a lunatic who kills them or a lunatic justice system that punishes anyone who stands up to the psychos.
"It’s called anarcho-tyranny.“
Let’s review the comparison. Jordan Neely had a long criminal record -- 42 arrests. He threatened passengers who made several 911 calls without a response.
His record showed he was increasingly capable of violence.
A New York City police spokesperson told Newsweek that Neely's record has 42 prior arrests, dating between 2013 and 2021. They include four for alleged assault, while others involved accusations of transit fraud and criminal trespass. At the time of his death, Neely had one active warrant for an alleged assault in connection with a 2021 incident [where he assaulted a 67-year-old woman, causing her grave injuries.]
He had two arrests in 2015, one for assaulting a 64-year-old man, another for kidnapping a seven-year old girl. In the most widely published accounts, he is portrayed as a peaceful kook who, dressed as Michael Jackson, impersonated the former entertainer. This ignored his more recent history where he was far less gentle and it surely was done deliberately to muddy the truth and scare people from engaging in self-defense.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
PS: The link to the kidnapping case in the original article did not work. The tweet did not exist (censored?). I have found another link and inserted it.
Clarice PING!
...took THEIR medications
OK, is that non-working link why the original post was taken down?
Letting crime spiral out of control and not punishing criminals is yet another weapon used by democrats in this ongoing CWII.
Add that to lawfare, antifa and blm riots, information warfare, censorship, excessive theft of wealth through taxation, and many other tools, everyone must know that we are in a civil war with the democrat party and this is what modern warfare looks like.
I don’t know. I was looking for the post, knowing that you often post Clarice’s pieces very early, but could not find anything. We’ll see if the Admin says something (or if this one will be taken down as well?).
The laws to close down mental hospitals were passed in the early 1960s. The Kennedy administration were huge proponents of “community mental health”.
But the old system (which I trained in) had a lot of momentum. By 1972, the doctors and nurses still were practicing Old Thinking and understood that the patients would suffer and die if they all hit the streets.
And, by the way - my only exposure to severe mental illness was in medical school (I didn’t become a psychiatrist) - and although public anger is rightly directed at the problem of psychotic criminals who prey on the innocent and commit terrible crimes, for every one of them there are 1000 tortured souls who suffer their delusions and who are constantly in danger of death, severe illness, rape, loss of body parts through negligence, etc and for whom there is no help.
The criminally insane are a big problem - but the lack of asylum for the poor people in the grip of mental illness who wander the streets defenseless and terrified is even worse.
All because of one stupid book and one stupid movie.
And why, pray tell, isn’t “Tish” James investigating Chirlane McCray and Warren Wilhelm Jr. (“Bill DeBlasio’s” real name) for the theft of $850 MILLION DOLLARS in NY taxpayer money? Oh that’s right, Orange Man Bad. These people are disgusting. #NewYorkStateofAnarchy…
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OK. Thanks.
All because of one stupid book and one stupid movie.
BTW I did not know that the novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was published in 1962, just as the big psychiatric deinstutionalization was being pushed through. I can just quote that wise Swedish statesman axel Oxenstierna:
"Do you not know, my son, with how very little wisdom the world is governed?"
(Count Axel Oxenstierna to his son a delegate to the negotiations that would lead to the Peace of Westphalia.)
NYC is as close to Gotham City of the Batman comics as you can imagine. A real life dystopia.
And I would imagine today’s America generates so many more mentally damaged people then the 1960s: broken families from no-fault divorce, the acceptance and prevalence of homosexuality, the sexualization of children, etc. Just a factory of mental illness.
Great comment!
Short, to the point, and 100% true.
We are all living in a mental illness factory, and just wait until its defenders show up downthread, because there are a lot of them here.
People are surprised when I say that Ken Kesey was one of the most destructive influences in America in my lifetime. The Acid Tests, alone, could earn him that title.
You and I are obviously from the Before Time, I was 18 in 1968 and every time I see a picture of that stupid bus it pisses me off remembering all the ruined lives of people I grew up with.
And now, a hard liner is someone who says "Mutilating people's bodies is OK as long as you don't do it to children".
Living in Eugene in the ‘80s. it wasn’t uncommon to see Kesey driving around town, just doing errands.
I set up a humane live trap then haul them off to a safe place where they can not find their way back to the source. It is common that three miles from the source will do the job with Raccoons but in this case, they should be transported to the "Bad Lands" of South Dakota and released.
Tried to have a family member with a history of mental health and drug abuse committed in 2018. They told me they could only hold the person for 3 days unless a Judge intervened and no judge would unless suicide was involved. That family member may be alive today had long term in patient treatment been available. Courts do not want to intervene and hospitals will only do what the State will pay them for. Which as I understand it is 72 hours of in patient care.
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