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Atty: Fort Hood suspect may use insanity defense

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Posted by gorb 2009-11-24 01:22|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 It's such a pity that he didn't know where to turn to for help with psychological issues, nor that he could have possibly ever have recognized the onset of potential mental illness. Clearly this is a lack of proper training provided by the Army.

(BTW, good luck with that Hail Mary pass there, Galligan.)

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-11-24 02:09|| 2009-11-24 02:09|| Front Page Top

#2 A psych major using an insanity defense. Novel concept.

Posted by crosspatch 2009-11-24 02:18|| 2009-11-24 02:18|| Front Page Top

#3 You can't fool me! There's no such thing as a Sanity Clause!

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-11-24 04:35|| 2009-11-24 04:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Mooslim insanity, who knew?

Posted by Besoeker 2009-11-24 06:59|| 2009-11-24 06:59|| Front Page Top

#5 OOOH, a Muslim Sanity Clause?

Posted by Matty_J">Matty_J 2009-11-24 07:29|| 2009-11-24 07:29|| Front Page Top

#6 How about an incontinence defense?

Posted by Raj 2009-11-24 08:10|| 2009-11-24 08:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, I'm not sure. Isn't belief in Islam prima facie evidence for insanity?

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2009-11-24 08:49|| 2009-11-24 08:49|| Front Page Top

#8 There is no Muslim social stigma attached to using a fake insanity defense to "get over" when caught by infidels. It is used frequently all over the world. Too frequently.

On the plus side, the insanity defense was so abused in the US in the 1960s, that the rules have been tightened up so much, that you would be insane to use it, because even if you win, you will be worse off than if you are sent to prison.

If Hasan truly is paralyzed, all he has left is his brain. And if he gets his insanity plea, he will spend the rest of his crappy life both paralyzed and so drugged that drooling will be a major effort.

After just a week of that, he will pray to die.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-11-24 08:54|| 2009-11-24 08:54|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't want Mr. ~~Jihad~~ in a nice comfy hospital. Hasan I'd rather have the paralyzed and lucid Mr. Hasan jailed with other maximum security population at Leavenworth. Given frequent sponge baths by guys named Butch.

Posted by ed 2009-11-24 09:01|| 2009-11-24 09:01|| Front Page Top

#10 He knows he is up for the death penalty, but I bet if he gets life in the brigg's hospital, he better be afraid of these guys.

Posted by Chunky Phaving7818 2009-11-24 09:20|| 2009-11-24 09:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Any reason that image is displayed bigger than original size?

Posted by ed 2009-11-24 09:22|| 2009-11-24 09:22|| Front Page Top

#12 Image deleted; way too big for the Burg. Don't do that.

AoS.

Posted by Steve White 2009-11-24 09:36|| 2009-11-24 09:36|| Front Page Top

#13 I expect the next tactic for his defense will be a variant of "D-W-B" - Driving While Black. Only this will be "S-W-I" - Shooting While Islamic. (Hey, I tried it as Shooting While Muslim, and that comes out as S-W-M, which is almost as inadvertently comic an acronym as the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.)

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2009-11-24 10:43|| http://www.celiahayes.com]">[http://www.celiahayes.com] 2009-11-24 10:43|| Front Page Top

#14 The defense department review of the Hasan situation just got more interesting:

"How could you have missed this? Even he says he's crazy."

Posted by DoDo 2009-11-24 11:09|| 2009-11-24 11:09|| Front Page Top

#15 I remember some years back a "Prince assassanated the king (Forget, maybe Saudi)

He pled insanity, the judge said, "Yup he's crazy, Execution's Wednesday.

I remember because the sentence was Beheading, they had to get a sword out of the Museum, and when they Chopped Him it Took three whacks.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-11-24 12:59|| 2009-11-24 12:59|| Front Page Top

#16 Any reason that image is displayed bigger than original size?

Probably because your browser downsized it to fit your window.

Posted by gorb 2009-11-24 13:15|| 2009-11-24 13:15|| Front Page Top

#17 "I'm CRAZY about Mohammad, yer Honor!"

Posted by mojo 2009-11-24 19:01|| 2009-11-24 19:01|| Front Page Top

#18 My only regret here is that nice young police woman did not get taught the triple tap method, body, body, head. Then there would be no,"Is he crazy?" questions, only,"He's dead Jim."

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2009-11-24 19:50|| 2009-11-24 19:50|| Front Page Top

#19 49 Pan, she was shot through both legs after all. In fact, there is some evidence that it was the other guard who actually brought the scumbag down.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia 2009-11-24 20:56|| 2009-11-24 20:56|| Front Page Top

#20 Let me get this straight. Hasan is a Psychiatric PROFESSIONAL but he cant see his own symptoms as abnormal and he doesnt recognize his own insanity even tho' that's his field.? Yeah?

But his Lawyers are recommending ( Hell, they have to try SOMEthing cause pleading PMS wont cut it)so Insanity is the douche of choice.

Still. Leavenworth in the showers is not something he will want while the alternative to THAT is being goofballed and drooling in a straitjacket ...which isnt exactly hey hey happy either.

Isnt there someone who can slip something in his IV? Go get the PDR and look up Poisons...there must be something! How about a big air-bubble in his right ventricle. (here , get a good grip on him and hold him down) Make the injection in his crotch femoral and use a bicycle pump.

Posted by Angleton9 2009-11-24 21:00|| 2009-11-24 21:00|| Front Page Top

#21 the injection in his crotch femoral and use a bicycle pump

He wouldn't feel it.

Posted by gorb 2009-11-24 21:57|| 2009-11-24 21:57|| Front Page Top

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