Hello Again, PJ Media

I am proudly pleased to announce my return to writing columns for PJ Media.
My writings for them can be found HERE.

Meanwhile, life here at BitsBlog will continue as it has been for 24 years.

Yes, In know… I’m writing rather a lot on this topic. Let’s just say I’ve been thinking rather heavily on the topic, and I want to capture these thoughts.

Think;

The very reason Charlie’s murder is of that same weight as the other events-such as 9/11, the JFK murder, etc….  is because Charlie himself was also of that weight. I doubt any of us consciously understood that he carried that weight, that level of attachment in the society at large, until it happened. (Was it just a few days ago?) We knew it, we understood it as a subconscious thing… but didn’t give it much fore-brained thought.

I suggest the passing of Limbaugh was pretty much the same way and for the same important reasons. They both gave voice to our values and our ideas and ideals. The sheer weight of their personalities and their devotion to America, those ideas were something that most of us carried around inside ourselves….which is precisely why they were and are so popular, so loved even now.

Both their passing, therefore, was a huge loss because of the shared values they gave voice to. OUR values… expressed in a way that far exceeded our own abilities for the most part.

The difference, of course was in the way they left us. Rush’s passing was a sad event, but beyond human control and thereby (sorry, but this is not as disrespectful as it sounds…) somewhat easier to bear. We knew for a year he was on the way out. We were not happy about it, but we were prepared. When we lost Rush it was simply a matter of God calling him home.

OTOH, Charlie’s murder is harder to deal with because of how he left us… suddenly and violently…. and therefore, his murder was felt to be a violent attack on US, as well… in much the same was a 9/11 was a violent attack on all of us, on our shared values.

And that accounts for the sadness and anger we’re feeling ourselves, and seeing in others.

We promised we’d not forget 9/11. Problem is around half the people alive here in the states now, were not even born as yet when the planes took out the towers. With that in mind, the serious question before us is “What can we do to not forget, this time?”

I’m going over my usual news feeds this morning, and I observe that the left is apparenly unaware of the size of the dog end they’ve stepped in with both the killing of Charlie Kirk, and their celebratory reaction to it.

This is decidedly larger than just those who like myself hvae been active online for years, but also te average Joe and Jane, that never really pay much attention to the news of the day, and instead spend their days taking pics of their lunch, and their cats. We’re not talking for the most part about folks who center their conversations about congressional Democrats, or whatever, but who usually center their discussions on football, their car, their favorite vacation spots.

These folks have woken up and are now furious. They’re logging on, and calling into talk shows, etc, by the millions…. (Remember, I write for this website, contribute to others, and still have friends in the broadcast business) These folks are letting their voices be heard in numbers that are truly staggering.

Oh, and lest I forget, let’s remember the beautiful 23 year old Ukrainian woman,Iryna Zarutska, getting stabbed to death by a career criminal with 14 arrests on his record. She came to America to escape the war torn Ukraine. The perception that she was safer facing Russian military incursions, than she was coming to an America where as a result of leftist policy, the criminals get the kid glove treatment, is not only understandable, but alarmingly accurate. Many have noted that the dearth of coverage of that horrible event, gives the appearence of a press intent on protecting the leftist policy directly responsible for the woman’s death.

Then before that news cycle dies, Charlie Kirk gets killed, by a sexually confused hard leftist who (among other things) did not understand that if you’re using a gun in a debate, you’ve already lost that debate…. and unwittingly became yet another example of the trans-sexual terrorism I’ve written about here previously.

I suggest that those two events in the quick succession that they were. is part of why there is such a rise of anger. These are events the right has been saying for many years now are preventable, and largely happened, because of Democrat policies.

With two glaring examples of Democrat driven policies causing death and mayhem to innocent people, their anger is growing by leaps and bounds.  Charlie Kirk’s following on X grew from 1.4 million followers to over 10 million. That’s just for openers.

That, to my way of thinking is the positive aspect of all of this. Charlie’s message isn’t being restricted, as his killer clearly figured…. it’s growing faster than anyone could have imagined. Rather than discouraging the movement Charlie started, his actions have manifestly caused the movement to grow at a rate that I confess, amazes even me.

Haven’t done on of these in a few days. No shock, given what’s been happening, incidental to Charlie’s murder. Some collected thoughts on that subject:

• Just because YOU hate what’s being said, does NOT make it “Hate Speech”.
• The left hated Charlie Kirk because, they say he was homophobic and transphobic. Yet, they love Hamas, who gladly toss homosexuals and transsexuals off the tallest building they can find.
• The leftist reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder is causing a spike in unemployment rates, as people reveal their true nature in response to that murder, and (Quite properly) get outed and fired. . I’ll guarantee you that Trump will be blamed for those job losses.
• A large portion of those people are K-12 “educators”. Repulsive people, hiding behind tenure.Just another reason we need to remove government from the business of education. This is what you’re sending your kids into?
• The situation with the mental midget who shot Charlie Kirk bears out everything I’ve ever written on the issue of mass killings and transgenderism. I’ll be accused, as I have so often in the past, of hate speech, particularly on this topic. As points came out about Robinson and his “partner”. all one could do is quietly nod and say “Yeah, that adds up.”. It’s becoming alarmingly cliche’. I do wonder, though, if even this will be enough to waken the sleeping giant.
• We’re already seeing such calls for “unity” and comments that he really isn’t “radical left” . The Bleating on his is getting louder, even as I type this out…..”Turn the Temps down”. “we’re all Americans”, “We should unify” But, I say, hell no. What exactly is it we’re supposed to unify with? If we hold, and I think properly, that this is a grotesque EVIL, then of what advantage is it to America and it’s people to unify with it? If we unify with what they’ve been doing… that killing those who oppose us is not only forgivable, but a moral act, within 6 weeks. there will be no more leftists remaining. Not just “No”, but “Hell, no.”  I will not unify with anyone espousing those ideas, or embracing those actions.
• I’m quite sure some further bombshell revelations will be coming out, particularly as the case as this thing moves to trial, particularly the discovery phase. For example, what of the message posted on Tiktok the day before the event… and then removed… by whom, we aren’t sure… but it re-appeard on X… apparently put there by someone who caught the note before it got removed.
• When George Floyd killed himself, OD’d on the Fentanyl he carried, and was trying to sell, businesses were looted, cities were burned and they erected statues to a career criminal. When Charlie was brutally murdered, we held prayer vigils. No, we are NOT the same.
• Alas, the Democrats are bringing a whirlwind on themselves…. At the very least, and the voting both in the midterms. I hope that’s the extent of it…. that they not attain any serious power for the next decade at least. It may go father than that. I don’t approve of that, but if it happens it wont surprise me.
• The closeness on the calendar between Charlie’s murder and 9/11 seems worth noting. We are now at war because the left can’t argue their positions logically, much the same as the Islamic nutjobs back in the day. Like any war, it’s not one I personally wanted, but again like any war, it’s been thrust upon us.(My God… 24 years ago, to the day!) …that I could no longer be a bystander. I had to speak out, against the people who were attempting to bring America down by means of massive violence.. That was the day BitsBlog was founded. My first BitsBlog post addresses those issues and that need. .. a need which has not diminished in the 24 years since that day. And yes, it’s still up. As it was written, we were still in shock and watching the rescue efforts and the early stage investigations…. and the feeling, frankly, is exactly the same, today. That similarity of feeling makes me feel more than a little uneasy.

This from Robert Spencer:

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My liberal friends are completely oblivious about how radicalizing the last week has been for tens of millions of normal Americans. Zero clue.

I’m not talking about people who are “online”; I mean regular, everyday Americans. “Normies.” People who scroll through Facebook posts and Instagram reels from the Dutch Bros drive thru line. Political moderates who have water cooler chats about Mahomes touchdowns and Bon Jovi concerts, not Twitter threads or Rachel Maddow monologues.

Millions of them. Tens of millions. They’re logging on, they’re engaging, and they’re furious.

And I’ll be candid: They blame you guys. They blame the left.

Regardless of whether you believe it to be justified, they think you’re the bad guys here. And they are reacting accordingly.

I can already hear some of you racing toward the comments to start screeching in moral indignation, so I’m going to be blunt: Shut up and listen to what I’m telling you. Your movement will lose any semblance of relevance if you don’t develop some small measure of self-awareness, and—absent someone force-feeding you bitter medicine—you guys collectively lack the humility to do this on your own.

Here are the facts:

Fact 1. Tens of millions of Americans started the week seeing a 23-year-old blonde woman—a young woman in whom virtually every parent watching pictured their own daughter—stabbed in the neck by a career criminal. These people then found out the murderer had been released from jail 14 times over.

Fact 2. Two days later, tens of millions of Americans watched a video of Charlie Kirk get murdered speaking to college students. Millions of these people knew who Charlie was; millions of them didn’t. Upon seeing the video, however, these normal Americans from across the land and across the political spectrum agreed that he was the victim of a terrible, fundamentally unjustifiable crime, and their hearts broke in sympathy for his family. Good people who had never even heard the name Charlie Kirk before wept.

Fact 3. Immediately after seeing the footage of a peaceful young man get shot in the neck, these same people logged onto Facebook and Instagram (remember, we are talking about regular Americans, not perpetually online Twitter or Bluesky users) and saw some of their local nurses, school teachers, college administrators, and retail workers celebrating this horrific crime. Not just defending it, but cheering it.

These are all facts. You may not like the implications of these facts, and we can certainly debate the underlying causes thereof, but, indisputably, they are nevertheless factual statements.

Here’s what it means for you, the Democrats reading this:

These normal, middle-of-the-road, non-political citizens just become politically active. They realized that politics cares about them, even if they don’t particularly care about politics. After watching Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk both bleed out from the neck, they think their lives and the physical safety of their families—the bedrock of human society, the foundation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs—depend on political activation, whether they desire it or not.

These people are now sprinting—not jogging, not walking, but racing—to the right. Because they blame you guys for everything that just happened.

When they see footage of Decarlos Brown stabbing a Ukrainian refugee to death, they don’t see just one demon-possessed man. They picture every university administrator, HR bureaucrat, and DEI apparatchik that ever lectured them about systemic racism, the “carceral state,” or the need to release violent crime suspects without bail in the name of social justice.

They then think back to conversations they’ve had with their cop friends—their buddy from high school who quit the force after getting tired of being called a racist, their friend at the local YMCA who vents about having to release career criminals because Soros-funded prosecutors aren’t willing to file charges—and they realize everything the left has told them over the last five years has been utter bullshit.

And they blame you. Because, even if you count yourself as a moderate Democrat, your party supported the district attorneys, city council members, and mayors that let fictitious concerns about mental health and racial justice supersede very real concerns for their family’s safety.

When these Americans see blood erupt from the side of Charlie Kirk’s neck, they don’t see just a martyred political activist. They think of every extreme leftist they’ve ever met who (1) calls anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton a fascist and (2) constantly jokes—“jokes”—about punching Nazis and “bashing the fash.”

They realize that there really do exist people who wish to see them dead for their moderately conservative political beliefs, their Christian faith, and even the color of their skin. They ask themselves if the violence visited upon Charlie might one day show up on their own doorstep.

And they blame you. Because, even if you’re just a center-of-the-road liberal, you lacked the courage to police your own ranks. You let modern-day Maoist red guards run loose across every facet of society, and what started with social-media struggle sessions has now turned to 30-06 bullet holes.

When these Americans log onto social media and see their neighbors justifying, celebrating, glorifying murder, they realize that some who walk among them are soulless ghouls at best, literally demon-possessed at worst. These people—whether they faithfully attend church every Sunday or only attend with relatives once a year, on Christmas Eve—start talking about things like spiritual warfare. They implicitly understand that no normal human casually celebrates the mortal demise of a peaceful person.

And they blame you. Because, even if you condemned Charlie Kirk’s murder, they probably haven’t seen you condemn those in your own movement who cheered it on. They view you as complicit in allowing heartless fellow travelers to celebrate death, and it repulses them.

For all of these situations, what has your response been? Nothing but bullshit.

In response to Iryna Zarutska bleeding out on the floor of a train, you post bullshit statistics about reductions in reported crime, when everyone who’s ever been to a major urban center in the last decade knows that actual crime has skyrocketed, only for victims not to waste their time reporting it to cops that don’t have the manpower to respond and prosecutors that seek to downgrade as many felonies as possible to misdemeanor citations.

In response to a 31-year-old man taking a bullet to the neck in front of his family, you post nothing but bullshit whataboutism.

“What about January 6th?” (Honest answer: After you let Liz Cheney spend two years operating a star chamber in the House, combined with countless other failed attempts at “lawfare” against Trump, no one cares anymore.)

“What about Mike Lee making a dumb joke on Twitter about some guy in a mask in Minnesota?” (No one outside of Utah, DC, or Twitter knows who Mike Lee even is.)

“What about Paul Pelosi?” (That’s not comparable to Charlie Kirk getting shot, and we all know it. And, again, Paul who?)

“What about regulations on assault rifles?” (That’s not going to get you very far when one of these killers used a knife and the other one used a common hunting rifle.)

In response to teachers, healthcare workers, and thousands of other liberals cheering on Charlie’s murder, it’s nothing but more bullshit and misdirection.

“It’s not THAT many people celebrating!” (Yes, it is. Everyone has seen it on their Facebook and Instagram feeds.)

“I thought you guys didn’t support cancel culture.” (We don’t cancel people over their opinions; we’re more than happy to see people lose their jobs—especially their taxpayer-funded jobs—for actively cheering on murder, though. If you can’t see the difference, that’s your own shortcoming.)

All bullshit. Not even smart bullshit, but stale, mid-grade, low-IQ bullshit. Ordinary Americans see right through it, and they don’t like how it smells.

You probably don’t like hearing this. But you need to hear it.

Because I’m right, and, as you reflect on this, you know I’m right. The ranks of my political movement gained millions of righteously angry new members this week. We have a mandate to ensure these crimes never happen again, and that’s exactly what we are now going to do.

If you want to keep a seat at the table as we do so, you’d better clean house and start policing your own.

This story just keeps getting stranger. We find out now that not only was transgender at the heart of this murder but now the roommate is not only trying to transition to a female but is what they call in the vernacular a furry. In other words he thinks he’s an animal.

The left has been awfully quiet, today. I expect that will continue as the truth continues to come out. (Did you see what I did, there?)

Keep in mind… this is all verified.

Now, how did I know this would come up?

WASHINGTON — Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin Tyler Robinson was living with a transgender partner who was in the process of transitioning from male to female, a law enforcement source confirmed to The Post Saturday.That individual, who has yet to be publicly identified by the authorities, is now fully cooperating with the FBI on its investigation into the fatal shooting of the conservative activist, the source added. The relationship was first reported by Fox News’ Brooke Singman. According to public records, Lance Twiggs, 22, resided at the same address where Robinson lived. A relative of Twiggs confirmed to The Post Saturday that “yes, they were roommates.”

(Sigh….) This proves out everything I’ve been saying for years on the topic of “Transgender” and shootings. Ironically, what Charlie has been saying for years as well. Indeed, it was his last topic.

“Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?” an audience member asked. “Too many,” Kirk responded to applause from the crowd.

The attendee informed him that the total was five and continued: “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?”

“Counting or not counting gang violence?” Kirk replied before, just seconds later, he was struck by the bullet and fell from his chair, prompting the panicked crowd to disperse in terror.

This is almost cliche’. I suggest we start using the terms “Trans-sexual terrorism” and “mental instability’. I do wonder, though, if even these events will be enough to awaken the sleeping giant.

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A 22-year-old wannabe professional gamer who lived with Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin gave cops incriminating text messages leading to his arrest.

Lance Twiggs turned over Tyler Robinson, who lived with him in a three-bedroom apartment in Saint George, Utah, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Twiggs showed police texts from Robinson about stashing a gun linked to Wednesday’s shooting of the prominent conservative activist at Utah Valley University (UVU), a law enforcement affidavit said.

His identity was revealed as separate reports emerged from Fox and the New York Post which stated that Robinson was living with a ‘transgender partner’ who is co-operating with the investigation.

No, Democrats… we don’t need a conversation… a discussion.

We don’t need to “Turn down the temperature of our words.”.

You already killed the guy trying to do just that.

You understand, don’t you, what’s driving this call for quieting things down, now? They realized shortly after Charlie Kirk’s death at the hands of one of their own, that there would be consequences, not personally, but to their movement. That they were going to lose power because of it. That they’d poked the lion once too often. Every time in history that there’s been a political assassination, it has not served to silence those killed… it actually made them stronger. MLK, Biko, Lincoln, are a few examples. Charlie Kirk will, alas, be one more.

If there’s a positive outcome in all of this, it is that Charlie’s message now has a megaphone that it could never have had when Charlie was alive. I note that for example, while his followers on X was at around 1.4 million… it is well over 10 million today.

Bwfore I dive into the negative, let’s point out some positives….I’m seeing reports of Candle light vigils across the country… even in the unlikely location of deep blue Madison Wisconsin. Ann Althouse, whom I quote all too infrequently here…. far less than she deserves… has details. Ann says Charlie’s wife, Erika spoke there. Tommy Robinson has vid of a gathering in London for Charlie.

OK, now to the meat of this thing.

The reactions from the left over Charlie’s murder vary between “He had it coming” to outright lying about the event… to utter silence, Most, however can’t seem to help themselves.

.A couple examples: , Claiming the killer is a Trump supporter. One small problem…. They circulated the wrong voter record of the wrong guy to reinforce their bogus claims. Simple math would tell you that the record was forged…. he would have been 15 years old in one case. Come on, man…. to coin a phrase.

In a particularly disgusting move, they photoshopped a Trump shirt on the shooter. It’s one thing to post the wrong picture, it’s quite another to manipulate an already distributed photo that anyone can get their hands on, to reinforce a lie.

While it’s true, his FAMILY is Trump supporters, but after only about a month in one of the finer examples of higher indoctrination centers he went hard left,,, spewing left wing hate at family dinners with him being the only leftist… and a hard case, at that. (I have reason to think he was hard left long before that, as you will see…. )He was also a regular on ANTIFA Discord servers.When the left gets this bold in their manipulation and their easily disproved lies, what you’re seeing is a reaction of FEAR. And by the way, most of his is confirmed on The Guardian… hardly a bastion of right wing thought.

And there’s this, from Anna Betts of the New York Times, from what seems to be her personal account on X. (Looks like she didn’t want to try to publish this info in the notoriously leftist NYT, huh?)

Oh, speaking of shirts this is a pic of our intrepid socialist, wearing a T shirt from the Salt Lake Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. The pic is a few years old, which explains why he looks a lot younger in this shot. I’m guessing this is from his high school years. That is why, I’m guessing, I couldn’t quite get the logo until I ran a photo comparison online. Took a while but I got it. See for yourself and draw your own conclusion. Apparently, the group is small enough that they print these shirts up in smallish batches, with slight changes on each generation. No mistaking that they’re the same basic logo, however. So, if we factor in Anna Betts comments, this guy was tilting hard left in his sophomore year in High school.

This showed up in my feed this morning from Nick Freitas… and says it well…. With apologies to Nick, I’m posting this here in full because it needs all the exposure we can get.,

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I am told that as a state representative this is the moment where I’m supposed to express my heartfelt condolences and then stand in solidarity with those on the other side of the aisle as we condemn political violence and stand unified as one people.

But we aren’t “one people” are we?

The truth is we haven’t been for some time now, and there is really no point in pretending anymore, if there ever was.

We are two very different peoples. We may occupy the same piece of geography, but that is where the similarities seem to abruptly end.

I convinced myself for a long time that whenever the left called me a racist, a bigot, a sexist, a fascist, a “threat to democracy” for even the most innocent of disagreements, that it was simply hyperbolic rhetoric done for effect.

And now the “effect” is a widow and two orphaned children, because the left couldn’t bear the thought of a peaceful man debating them and winning.

I don’t think they realize it yet, but murdering Charlie is going to be remembered as the day where we finally woke up to what this fight really is.

It’s not a civil dispute among fellow countrymen. It’s a war between diametrically opposed worldviews which cannot peacefully coexist with one another. One side will win, and one side will lose.

Charlie tried to win that fight through argumentation, through discussion, through peaceful resolution of differences.

And the other side murdered him.

Not because he was “extreme” or “inciting violence” or any other hyperbolic slur they hurled at him. They murdered him because he was effective. Because he was unafraid. Because he inspired others and made them feel like they had a voice, that they were not alone. And he did it at the very institutions which have fomented so much hatred toward conservatives.

I don’t want to “stand in solidarity” with the other side of the aisle. I want to defeat you. I want to defeat the godless ideology that kills babies in the womb, sterilizes confused children, turns our cities into cesspools of degeneracy and lawlessness…and that murdered Charlie Kirk.

Social media is aflame right now with leftist celebration of Charlie’s death.

I wonder if any among them understand what has just happened. If there is a Yamamoto somewhere in their midst warning, that all they have done is awoken a sleeping giant.

I doubt it. I think they gave up such introspection and self-awareness long ago.

I don’t know exactly what will happen next. I just know that it won’t be the same as what has happened in the past.

There will be thoughts and prayers…Charlie would have wanted prayers. Not for himself but for those left behind and for the country that he loved.

But then there will be a reckoning.

My Christian faith requires me to love my enemies and pray for those who curse me. It does not require me to stand idly by in the midst of savagery and barbarism…quite the opposite.

So every time I feel tired, every time I feel discouraged or overwhelmed, I am going to watch the video of a good man being murdered in Utah…I will force myself to watch it…and then I will return to the work of destroying the evil ideology responsible for that and so much more.

Rest with God Charlie, your fight is over.

Ours is just beginning.

Just getting word…. from several sources that the Killer of Charlie Kirk is in custody…. and in an interesting twist, he was turned in by his father. I confess, that’s a twist I didn’t expect.  So, while I’ve been hearing this for several hours, I was waiting for more solid confirmation. Here it is.

According to the reports, the guy’s name is Tyler Robinson… a Utah resident. From what I’m hearing they knew who it was a while ago, but withheld that info strategically. The idea being, wait until they have a positive ID that can be presented in court. Apparently, the confirmation they were waiting on eventually came from his father. Given the high profle nature of this thing, one can easily understand the desire to make sure they got it right.

This….

Numerous clips of Hassan Piker calling on his viewers to kill right-wingers are going viral after the slaying of Charlie Kirk, with calls for his immediate arrest for fomenting violence as Twitch refuses to take action.

And yes, this is the same Hassan Piker that I mentioned as being with NYC Mayor candidate Zohran Mamdani, this morning.  New Yorkers, are you REALLY sure about this?

Listen to Phoenix Air Traffic Control radio after Charlie Kirk’s casket landed on Air Force Two: “Welcome home, Charlie. You didn’t deserve it. May God bless your family.”

https://twitter.com/i/status/1966316687789043775

Downright despicable…. but hardly surprising. This is today’s Democrat party.

A reader passes this one on…

Ever wonder why there were so few mass killings before the 1970s? I remember three mass murderers between 1949 and 1970. all crazies.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/…/story-first-mass…

Howard Unruh, 1949. Considered the first mass murderer, So dangerous he died in a mental hospital in 2009.

Richard Speck, 1966. Murdered eight student nurses with a knife. Died in prison.

Charles Whitman, 1966. killed many from the Texas Tower. Had a tumor on the brain, killed on site.

Then in the 1970s, the mental hospitals were closed down, the crazies declared “sane” enough to walk the streets and murder rates took off like a rocket.

Here is partial list of people who would have been in a MENTAL WARD before many of the ASYLUMS were shut down, crazies declared “sane” and dumped on the streets.

ALL CRAZIES allowed to roam the streets…

Mark David Chapman who murdered John Lennon

John Hinckley Jr. who shot President Reagan

Robert John Bardo who shot Rebecca Schaeffer

David Berkowitz, the .44 Cailber Killer.

Jared Laugher who shot Gabby Giffords.

Pat Purdy, released from a mental hospital, allowed to buy guns, then shot up the Stockton School Yard.

Patrick Sherrill who shot up the Edmond Post office.

James Oliver Huberty who shot so many at MacDonalds

This is just a SHORT LIST of people who were crazy enough who would have been in a mental hospital before they were closed down in the 1970s.

When you add the MASS MURDERERS and CHURCH and SCHOOL SHOOTERS who would have been shown to be insane but allowed to roam freely you will begin to understand why it is…

LONG PAST TIME TO REOPEN THE MENTAL WARDS AGAIN!

Now we can add another name, DeCarlos Brown Jr. who knifed Iryna Zarutska.

Here is an early crazy one.

Richard Lawrence attempted to shoot President Andrew Jackson outside the United States Capitol on January 30, 1835, however both of his pistols misfired and he was taken into custody. At trial, Lawrence was found not guilty by reason of insanity and spent the remainder of his life in insane asylums. Today he would be walking the streets a free man.