Posted on 07/22/2012 6:15:04 PM PDT by Selene
James Holmes addressed his peers at Miramar College in San Diego when he was 18, discussing 'subjective experience.' He said his dream was to own a slurpee machine.
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don’t really want to know what makes this kind tick.
The newscast actually shows only the tiniest snippet of the kid’s presentation to his peers at camp, but it does manage to get in a plug for the President’s visit to the families of the victims. Priorities, priorities.
“He said his dream was to own a slurpee machine.”
When I was his age, my dream was to have my own beer keg machine. It wasn’t until much later that I set out to learn how to make a perfect martini.
Not related to this video, I suspect that in addition to his other issues, it may be determined that this murdering scum was abusing head meds to help him cram and deal with the rigors of learning his field. Everyone has a breaking point, he hit his and never came back.
“The newscast actually shows only the tiniest snippet of the kid’s presentation”
It’s an ABC “Exclusive”. They will control all you see and hear.
Perhaps a list of Holmes’s university professors would be enlightening.
Isn’t Ward Churchill in Colorado?
YIKES....when I was a kid...12 or 13 years old, my dream was to have a slurpee (icee machine) as well. My brother and I would walk to the corner store almost daily, getting my dad’s cigarettes, and get an icee as a treat. Almost seems like child abuse now...lol.
My brother and I wanted to buy that icee machine before they closed, but never got the chance.
Anyone starts talking about “lucid dreaming” or “illusions changing the past”, pull their damned guns. This is the same thing 2 times now. Loughner and now this dude.
“Anyone starts talking about “lucid dreaming” or “illusions changing the past”, pull their damned guns. This is the same thing 2 times now. Loughner and now this dude.”
And to assist in this task let’s have a national registry, and an annual monitoring fee to pay for the administrative overhead - It’s not a tax, mind you - and then we can have a central warehouse to keep all the guns.....and then....
No. The problem here is the same. Parents/family who wish little junior (even when he is all grown up) was “normal” and pretend that he’s not really crazy.
This is three times for high-profile cases, actually. Virginia Tech has to be included too - though the perp there did not apparently have dreams, rather was just “normal” crazy.
Never mentioned about a registry. Never actually thought about how it would be implemented. I guess the way it could happen, is kinda a quasi-Baker-Act deal. Concerned relatives could petition the court for a (rapid) hearing for declaration of insanity, backed by a true examination by a real and unbiased psychological doctorate, and of course the 1968 GCA would then apply.
“Never mentioned about a registry.”
No, you didn’t, but you well understand how government likes to be helpful that way.....
We don’t like to call crazy people crazy anymore, and parents will always hope that somehow the “grow out of it”.
I’m not busting your chops, friend, I’m agreeing with you, but we gotta recognize that the problem really isn’t guns, it’s the crazy folks getting guns that is the problem. If relatives won’t step up then for the real over-the-top nutjobs, we find out for the first time when this happens.
A truly HELPFUL government might broadcast some PSA’s with the warning that if your kid is getting TRULY crazy, they might need to step in, or ... and give this and the Loughner examples.
My feeling after seeing these brief excerpts is that he was an “impostor”. That is, he was not a “smartkid”, but knew how to act like one, for example with his cute remark that his dream was to own a slurpee machine. He goes wrong with his ambition to “make scientific discoveries”, though. This is supposed to be cute also, but the act has already worn thin in the few seconds we see of this presentation. We need not doubt that he could act his way to good grades with the kind of soft topic that we see here, but I think he went off the rails when it all fell apart for him at the graduate level.
The Joker persona was a very obvious recourse in his case: “I’ll show you who’s smart.” - very much like Syndrome in The Incredibles, as well. He wouldn’t have had nearly the draw of Heath Ledger’s Joker, of course, and my feeling is that that portrayal was a major influence on him.
Yes, similar to the guy that slaughtered 6 at a school in Oakland in April.
Hey, why weren’t flags flow at half mast for that?
It all started with PONG.
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