From the Washington Post:
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner is mentally unfit to stand trial for the Jan. 8 rampage in Tucson that wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six, citing expert testimony that Loughner is schizophrenic and shows a paranoid distrust of his own defense attorneys…
The man developed a desire to kill, obtained the means to kill, and then killed. This requires a high level of competence…his desire to do what he did is obviously insane. Loughner is crazy as a loon – in fact, anyone who sets out to kill except in self defense is entirely ’round the bend. Doesn’t matter if you’re killing for money or because the voices in your head told you to…its crazy. But that doesn’t mean you don’t know what you’re doing. Anyone incompetent to stand trial is someone who is also incompetent to kill except by accident. Naturally, none of the assembled experts are willing to apply a bit of common sense – not even to the point of thinking that maybe Loughner’s paranoid fears of his defense attorneys is something cooked up between him and his defense attorneys.
For crying out loud, we’ve got this man cold – he’s going to fry unless he can get off on a technicality. Presto!, here comes the technicality – he’s too crazy for us to kill him as punishment for his insane shooting spree. I would really like to pinpoint the time in American history when we decided to stop thinking – when we decided to accept a plausible lie rather than burden ourselves with the truth. Welcome to modern America where up is down and black is white.
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