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2014-12-16 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Can Identifying Mental Illness Stop Terror Attacks?

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-12-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Islam must be very attractive to the mentally ill.

Posted by Super Hose 2014-12-16 00:27|| 2014-12-16 00:27|| Front Page Top

#2 a meme dreamed up by a psycho with seizures? I can see the attraction to the mentally ill.

Posted by 3dc 2014-12-16 01:24|| 2014-12-16 01:24|| Front Page Top

#3 If you recognize that modern "Liberalism" is a mental illness, then the answer is yes.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-12-16 04:42|| 2014-12-16 04:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Denial appears to be a major mental illness that afflicts the apparatchik class.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-12-16 07:40|| 2014-12-16 07:40|| Front Page Top

#5 "Can Identifying Mental Illness Stop Terror Attacks?"
Only if treated with lead pellet therapy.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-12-16 07:41|| 2014-12-16 07:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Ever the same denial about the possibility of an ideology no matter if political or religious being evil. The ideal nazi, the one the regime tried to build was the mmember of the Einsategruppen or of the SS Totenkopf Verbande not the guy who after having voted for Hitler in 19933 ended saving KJews. The ideal Communist was ready to kill his own mother if ordered by the Party (Lenin's words: "We must steal, lie and kill even our own mothers if needed") not the guy that sincerely tries to helmp the poor (help not convert). And the ideal Muslim, the one Muhammad would favour if he were alive is not the so-called moderate Muslim but the Jihadist and the suicide bomber. His own writings and sayungs are full of imprecations against the hypocrites, that is those who don't go to jihad and don't supoort it financially. Moderate Muslims, like moderate Nazis or moderate Communists are failures in the manufacturing process.

Posted by JFM 2014-12-16 08:45|| 2014-12-16 08:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Always the same thing, a protracted political lecture about what is ostensibly a practical dilemma and all by yet another individual who lacks the basic initiative to actually read their book.

Posted by Cesare 2014-12-16 08:52|| 2014-12-16 08:52|| Front Page Top

#8 The lone wolf theory will probably satisfy many people and allow them to go about their business. Certainly it explains why the other dude blew himself up in the bathroom. Still, Richard Reid didn't pack his own shoes with semetex nor did he design his own matyrdom scenario.
This guy seems an unlikely candidate for a lone wolf attack in that he had accomplices in some of his other crimes and had thousands of Twitter followers. Parlaying this incident as a lone wolf attack seems as unlikely as finding a quarter behind a kid's ear. Sure this is a handy time for this guy to trot out his discertation, but it is probably a non sequitur. Investigate his bimbo sidekick and all his buddies before they comete whatever he had originally planned before he detoured into the coffee shop.

Posted by Super Hose 2014-12-16 10:44|| 2014-12-16 10:44|| Front Page Top

#9 I doubt our CiC would accede to such an evaluation.

Posted by Floluling Ebboluck7929 2014-12-16 12:00|| 2014-12-16 12:00|| Front Page Top

#10 Mentally Ill, That covers a lot of legal ground, Expensive (Profitable) too.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-12-16 12:08|| 2014-12-16 12:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Seems I recall that the Soviets were very good at "treating the mentally ill" who were deemed a risk to the social order.

Posted by Pappy 2014-12-16 12:49|| 2014-12-16 12:49|| Front Page Top

#12 Predicting the future is always difficult, because it hasn't happened yet.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-12-16 15:39|| 2014-12-16 15:39|| Front Page Top

#13 I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with the Surgeon General or HHS Secretary determining what is or is not mental illness, as what Pappy said. You know that will spiral out - (email pops up) The Director of EPA has determined coal advocates contribute to global warming which is contrary to their health and you must report to such and such place for screening and sensitivity training and tracking device implantation within 48 hours. Failure to report will be cause for suspician of conspiracy to commit a crime and you will be contacted by your local DHS representative.

I'm not sure how much of a straw man that is. The non-partisan IRS would never be used to punish political opponents, right? Our new surgeon general kinda says that only loons would want a firearm. Sebelius is a straight party hack.

It wouldn't work anyways without political machinations because we no longer have equal application of law.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-12-16 18:23|| 2014-12-16 18:23|| Front Page Top

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