Great moments in government: Let’s take an insane killer to the Fair!

I keep envisioning the carousel scene in Hitchcock’s Strangers On a Train.

alliebobbitt on September 19, 2009 at 11:42 AM

Almost all of the blame falls on the incompetent peons who were physically there.

That’s what government is, Drywall. Incompetent “peons” (interesting choice of words, since it comes from the Third World — where we’re headed — meaning unskilled laborer or someone forced into debt slavery), or government workers.

So, no, Hussein Hitler Indonesia has nothing to do with it.

But this is how President Government wants to remake America. Confiscatory tax policy, high unemployment, complete government takeover of industry. Car companies? Check. Banking? Check. Healthcare? Not so fast. Cap and tax? Maybe not, after all. He’s pushing. Like Hussein and Hitler and Suharto. Lots of peons will be brought on board.

I see Washington’s governor is a Democrat. If the Governor of Washington were a Republican would you be asking for his/her head on a platter?

Dave Rywall on September 19, 2009 at 7:24 PM

Do you really see a connection between Gov. Chris Gregoire and John the Baptist? You’re in dangerous territory, if you answer “yes”.

Remember how her election was fraudulent?

In Washington state, the errors by election officials have been compared to the antics of Inspector Clouseau, only clumsier. At least 1,200 more votes were counted in Seattle’s King County than the number of individual voters who can be accounted for. Other counties saw similar, albeit smaller, excess vote totals. More than 300 military personnel who were sent their absentee ballots too late to return them have signed affidavits saying they intended to vote for Mr. Rossi. Some 1 out of 20 ballots in King County that officials felt were marked unclearly were “enhanced” with Wite-Out or pens so that some had their original markings obliterated.

Most disturbing is the revelation last week by King County officials that at least 348 unverified provisional ballots were fed directly into vote-counting machines. “Did it happen? Yes. Unfortunately, that’s part of the process in King County,” elections superintendent Bill Huennekens told the Seattle Times. “It’s a very human process, and in some cases that did happen.”

There are things we’ve come to expect from Democrats. Fraudulent elections. Illegal campaign contributions. Race-baiting. Sexism. Grievance mongering. And when they get in power, soft on crime. Weakened defense. Vulnerable on national security. Higher taxes. Failed social spending. Bloated entitlements.

This idea of taking mental patients out of the hospitals where they are being treated and unleashing them on the public is something so insensitive and incomprehensibly stupid, only a liberal could come up with it.

alliebobbitt on September 19, 2009 at 8:26 PM

Yeah, but it’s interesting/annoying the the right complains more about the government when the left is in power and vice versa.

Actually, the most unpopular government policy of the past decade was amnesty — which Michelle Malkin was most notably opposed to. TARP under Bush was also a moment when the right complained about the government overstepping its bounds and taking too much power. You’re simply wrong.

It’s so ironic/annoying/sad that America can’t run a competent election on the state or federal level.

Imagine if ACORN was conducting the census.

If you think election shenanigans are exclusively perpetrated by the left, then you sir, are amazingly oblivious.

Prove me wrong then. Seems you’ve lost this argument, as well, having fallen back on a false allegation of both sides being guilty — while yours clearly is.

As soon as you come up with some credentials in the mental health field, you can certainly make that kind of statement. Until then, you’re just another couch quarterback.

Actually, the reason the mentally ill are institutionalized is because they are unable to function in society. Taking them out into society does not change that. Especially when they have murdered people.

I have no credentials

STOP RIGHT THERE THEN.

… except for the brutal experience of having an out of control schizophrenic cousin who committed suicide on his 40th birthday. The treatment, the episodes, the sheer helplessness felt by the family, etc etc – mental illness is so incredibly complex to treat I don’t think current treatments have even begun to scratch the surface.

“Out of control” sounds trite and hardly professional or even compassionate. But if your family could not help, and the doctors couldn’t help, then perhaps your cousin would have benefited from hospitalization. It’s sad that they felt their life was not worth living, but that made them a danger to themselves as opposed to other people. Either way, dangerous and dysfunctional.

And the public are ignorant and terrified of mentally ill people and they act like jacka$$es toward those who are sick.

The public are terrified of being chopped up, doused with gasoline and buried in their flower bed by their neighbor. They are terrified of their children being molested by a pedophile. Self-preservation and regard for the well-being of others makes people wary of the mentally ill. They should be terrified of any person with a violent history, like this person.

As for the mentally ill who have not harmed anyone and who are committed to becoming better, these people deserve compassion. Unfortunately, there is a stigma in our society. That by no means excuses criminal behavior by other mentally ill people who belong in a hospital or even jail.

This isn’t 1847 where mentally ill people are just thrown into a room and fed bread and water.

You’re not really elevating the conversation here, or contributing any insight.

Bottom line: the incompetent peons lost track of their patients. That’s completely unacceptable. Heads should roll and people should be fired. And obviously the outing process needs to be re-evaluated.

But to suggest this situation is a left-right thing is just ignorant.

Dave Rywall on September 19, 2009 at 8:55 PM

No, the point is that criminals should not be at the county fair. Firing these government workers is a no-brainer. But this is the second time this man has escaped. He got loose at a trip to a lake, also.

The problem is that this is “a left-wing thing”. You have even driven that point home. You have some Tinkerbell notion that hoping for the best and believing very hard will defy proven behavior patterns, predictable outcomes and basic common sense. Most importantly, as the original post points out, it validates the public’s skepticism that government can run anything well. Do you want “incompetent peons” involved in your health decisions, if this is the standard and, worse, you can’t sue?

alliebobbitt on September 20, 2009 at 12:26 AM