N-TV (commercial German news) had an update this AM.....from the Kongsberg, Norway killing-event of a couple of days ago (I've already mentioned this in an essay).
They say from the five victims killed by the radicalized terrorist.....one was a German who'd lived long-term in Norway. Age or details beyond that? None.
Mental illness issues are continually talked about on the 37-year old killer (he was captured alive).
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We continue to hear 'mental issues' attributed to these heinous crimes, it seems no one believes some people are just plain evil and do evil deeds.
We see it in America too, poor criminal isn't a bad guy, he's just having 'mental issues' or has mental illness, I call BS.
Of course there is mental illness out there but not the amount the authorities claim.
Some people just choose to do bad things for whatever reasons.
My dad made the observation about one particular characteristic of the 1940s Alabama. If you wrote a letter and two folks signed it....saying so-and-so relative was crazy, then sent it to the county judge...the relative would be picked up, evaluated, and possibly turned over to a state facility. Real easy was the process.
Today? Especially in European countries? Unless you go and commit the violence business, the judges and courts won't deal with you. It's figured that around 1-percent of the population is paranoid schizophrenic. Several years ago, I was talking to a Syrian who'd come to Germany...had to spend three months in a German 'compound'. He figured there were at least ten nutcases among the 500 guests, and getting out of the 'compound' was necessary to avoid interacting or triggering these people to get violent (getting alcohol/drugs in Germany didn't help their stability).
We can always use the Charles Manson case...where he was showing behavioral problems already by age 7. When the government went and put Charly into drug programs...that only speeded up his mental decline (fantastic read over at Wiki for Charlie's teenage years). From 18 on, I don't think Charlie was capable of anything except bad things, but no one was going to permanently put him away until murder got into the mix.
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