Comments on: K Shot: Mentally Ill

By: LooseKannon.com - Great Response to “Mentally Ill”

LooseKannon.com - Great Response to “Mentally Ill” — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:09:51 +0000

[...] Says: March 15th, 2008 at 9:00 am LK, love your points as well as the Falcon’s on this, but bring on the intelligent 13 year-old. [...]

By: LK

LK — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:13:16 +0000

excellent refinement BB. he may well be mentally ill by my layman’s standards and possibily in need of treatment by clinical standards, but that shouldn’t allow him to plead being temporarily unable to tell right from wrong. the image isn’t pretty, and may be ultra-cold, but he shouldn’t be exempt from picking up the proverbial bar of soap in the communal shower. resigning in disgrace isn’t doing penance; whatever the modern version of the stockade and lashes administered by every citizen he lied to seems appropriate.
i need to work on the forgiveness thing. LK

By: BB-gunn

BB-gunn — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:00:34 +0000

LK, love your points as well as the Falcon’s on this, but bring on the intelligent 13 year-old. Despite whatever underlying disorder or syndrome that may or may not exist, it is clearly not debilitating enough to mask the difference in Spitzer’s own mind between right and wrong. Hell, he was certainly capable of exercising that discernment in his judgment of countless others. Thus, sane enough to stand trial both in court and in public opinion, and “dopey” enough to commit the act and get caught.

By: LK

LK — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:10:44 +0000

morning Falc. i think it’s beyond “above the fray”. i think it’s a different kind of juice running through their veins. you’re dead on about the discrepancy of punishment; that’s an axiom in the geometry of today’s world. as for the Chinese, they think in much longer time frames than we do, which isn’t saying much considering the length of the national attention span, but does indicate that they’ll actively watch and wait while we’re busy digging that hole you’re talking about.

By: The Falcon

The Falcon — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:51:09 +0000

Good Morning, LK
The DSMIV will not help diagnose Mr. Spitzer, unless under the headings “Personality Disorder,” there is a syndrome called The Corruption of Power. Spitzer, like Swaggart, Clinton, et al believe they are above the fray, and therefore not covered by the laws that blanket the rest of us. We are the proletariate…Children of the Machine. Consider Ramos and Campion. Prison time for protecting our borders. Do you think Spitzer will do one day? Worry not about the Chinese, LK… we are doing ourselves in just fine.