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‘There’s a Killer on the Road’
“There’s a killer on the road
His brain is squirmin’ like a toad”
— The Doors
The assault on Paul Pelosi is bringing out all the armchair detectives and grifters that are trying to use the attack to satisfy and reinforce their own political narratives. The attacker alone and no one else is responsible for his behavior.
As a former police officer, I found that the majority of mentally ill individuals I dealt with were receiving auditory messages rather than hallucinations. Drug users might be an exception depending upon the drug they were ingesting. Not all auditory input is disembodied voices. The internet provides any number of theories that can reinforce the delusions of the mentally ill.
Mentally ill individuals live in a world that is structured and has its own set rules. Their perceptions are delusional, but according to them, everyone else is delusional, not them. Some will never act out, others will. Some are careful planners, some are not. Some will be attracted to political beliefs; some will be attracted to celebrities. Some will kill and some will not.
I have met individuals that were on the verge of acting on their delusions, and I arrested one that had stabbed his roommate to death. He told me his roommate was a KGB agent and the CIA ordered him to kill his roommate.
I’m not going to delve into the depths of all those who seek some advantage into the assault of Paul Pelosi. I see the world as it is, not as I would like it to be.
Published in Policing
A Canadian I follow on Twitter I follow is Sasklass. A day or so ago I said to her roughly “what’s with sending us Canadian riffraff like Pelosi’s assailant? What will you send us next, your frat boy PM Trudeau? She replied “your welcome to him.” I responded “he could probably replace California’s governor.”
We probably wouldn’t notice until Justin stated playing dress-up again.
Hasn’t Newsom been caught in blackface before too, or was that only the Virginia creeps?
And maybe Beto?
Not Newsom, at least not that I’m aware of. He thinks he’s already perfect so wouldn’t mess with that.
Beto is too busy pretending to be a Latino to don blackface.
LOL.