Reopening Asylums to Restore Justice

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But on the other hand, Republicans pick judges who are preoccupied with preserving the image of the court as nonpartisan, even though Democrats don't remotely care They're going to pack the Supreme Court and destroy the judicial branch the next chance they get withith a handful of notable exceptions, partularly Dobs The allegedly conservative justices on the court have proven to be unreliable and far too timid And on this issue, that's especially disgraceful It's impossible to overstate this. Today's ruling will directly lead to tens of millions more foreigners Fooding into this country, most of whom will have multiple children who will be entitled to a slice of your paycheck Most of them will not even attempt to assimilate, which is why large portions of California now resemble Mexico, why thirty percent of New Yorkers spepeak English. Why Somalis run entire neighborhoods in Minneapolis None of this is lawful The fourteenth Amendment states that all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside Now during debates on the amendment in the Senate in May of eighteen sixty six Senator Lyman Trumble declared that quote, the provision is that all persons born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens. That means subject to the complete jurisdiction thereof, what do we mean by subject to the jurisdiction of the United States not owing allegiance to anybody else That is what it means. Meanwhile, Senator Jacob Howard, a framer of the amendment stated that he concurred entirely with Trump So he added that the fourourteenth Amendment would not, quote, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States. very clearly As Michael Anon has pointed out, Howard was listing three categories of people who would not be covered by the amendment, including foreigners and aliens No sane person alive at the time would have ever contemplated the idea that if a Chinese woman flew into Miami, while nine months pregnant and then gave birth to a child. then that child must automatically become a United States citizen They certainly wouldn't have contemplated the idea that tens of millions of Mexicans and Haitians and Guatemalans could colonize entire states simply by invading the country and having a very large number of children That's not what they had in mind, obviously, but that's exactly what has transpired. And the conservatives on the Supreme Court, given once in a lifetime opportunity to lawfully preserve the future existence of the United States of America, decided instead at least one of the Alleged conservatives Amy Connyarret decided to protect her own image as non partisan I mean, catastrophic does not begin to describe this ruling It's yet another way in which our laws are being bastardized and distorted beyond recognition as a way of transforming this country into something Unrecognizable But rather than generally lamenting this horrible decision, this catastrophic decision We will go through the decision piece by piece and dismantle it and talk about also where we can go from here I mean, there are some things we can do in light of this moment to at least mitigate The damage. And we're going to get into all of that. we're going to talk about all that in great detail tomorrow. So stay tuned for that Today though. We're going to talk about another way, also disastrous, that the legal system has been manipulated in this country. And this is a separate topic, but at the same time As you'll see, it is related in more ways than you might think And maybe the most egregious example of what I'm talking about, which often flies under the radar It isn't discussed very much. concerns the rise of the so called insanity defense Now if you ask the experts, they'll tell you that the insanity defense is rarely invoked And they'll claim that in the vast majority of cases, the insanity defense is unsuccessful. And even when the insanity defense works, you're told the perpetrators donon't get off easy. They supposedly have to endure a very unpleasant stint in a mental hospital where they'll probably spend the rest of their lives And you're supposed to sort of take their word for all of this Now all these claims are false, as we'll discuss at length in a moment In reality, the Inanity defense is one of the most overused and most effective legal defenses that criminals can employ. But before we get into that data And what kind of brings all this up is a case that I want to highlight, which has to be one of the most disturbing examples of this issue So in August of twenty twenty one in Miami, Dade Cy, Florida, a woman named Precious Band That's her name drrowned her fifteen month old daughter in a bathtub killing her then stabbed her husband in the head and neck when he tried to intervene. And then she also stabbed her teenage daughter for good measure It's one of the most gruesome crimes is imaginable. Precious Band was just a few days ago. this happened late last week found not guilty by reason of insanity, And she will not spend a single day in a mental institution She is a free woman after she just murdered her fifteen month old child Why? Well, because according to the judge and the defense attorneys COVID made her do it COVID compelled her to commit murder and attempted murder And therefore, she's free to go Now watch this news report where the anchors for some reason, or on the beach. I don't know, but Um hear they talk about the case. watch A mother here in Miami was found not guilty of killing her one year old daughter after she claimed a medical crisis brought on by COVID Made her do it. So today she told NBC Sakes how she is trying to rebuild her life. Despite the tragedy that changed her family forever, NBC six's Christian Colong joins us with the story Satan is a deceiver You guys, he's coming back except Jesus Christ as your Lord is Savior pleing. These were some of the things precious Band shouted to police on an August night in twenty twenty one. Shortly after investigators say she drowned her one year old daughter, stabbed her husband and teenage daughter. I would not was this upon anyone to have to go through Something so tragic. After nearly five years facing murder related charges for killing her infant, Blland is now a free woman. This week, a judge found her not guilty by reason of insanity after a bench trial where she waived her right to a jury. I was my child as a mother. I'm here to to protect Chren And to love them, it's a give them the best in That's what I did all my life with my children. COVID too that away from me in that moment. Blan's attorney argued the Navy veterans suffered a psychotic episode triggered by COVID, causing hallucinations and voices that told her to baptize her family members who were also infected with the virus. This was COVID. This is a woman who served our country five years combat duty As a mother, I'm here to protect my children and love them. That's what I did all my life. COVID took that away from me in that moment Now we're going to finish the news report in a moment because somehow it gets even more outrageous. but Already, just think about the implications of what she's saying and what the judge agreed with They're saying a viral infection, a respiratory illness that affected more than one hundred million Americans and more than seventy percent of adults somehow compelled this particular woman to murder her own child and then stab her husband and daughter When mean tens of millions of people contracted COVID without murdering anybody. But this one person had no other choice but to start executing her own children and therefore We can conclude that COVID makes you commit murder CoVven made her believe that Satan was coming and that she needed to baptize her child by committing murder What's the evidence for this There is none. There's not a single person on the planet who can explain how COVID might force somebody to commit murder. There's no scientific paper anywhere that even a TemSle line, a biological explanation for any of this They'll just say that in rare cases, the brain can become inflamed So their whole argument is that out of a hundred million people who contracted COVID Some of them eventually went crazy. but Okay, that doesn't tell us anything because one hundred million people is an enormous sample size In a group of one hundred million people every day, some of them are going to act crazy They might experience some stressful life event like the death of a family member, they might do drugs, they might have a stroke, they might simimply have bad luck in the genetic lottery Whatever it is, blaming COVID makes about as much sense as blaming whatever brand of cereal they ate for breakfast that morning. It's complete nonsense. It's not totally unexpected. I mean, this is a natural extension of the fraudulent long COVID narrative, and it's why we need to push back on those claims as well, to be clear There's no physical tests, no blood test, no scan, nothing that a doctor can use to diagnose long COVID, much less COVID psychosis These are fake disorders two fake disorders of many That exist entirely in the mind of the person who claims to suffer from it is a reason long COVID patients are eighty percent women, forty percent of whom had a preree existing mental health condition You have a lot of people who are naturally prone to hysteria and panic and they're blaming a respiratory illness for all of their problems because they don't know what else to do, and doctors are happy to go along with it because they get to buildill more therapy sessions and prescribe more medications. So that's what's happening there. But I interrupted. That news report, which we should finish let's continontue here Judge Mien de Lao ruled that Blland did not understand the nature of her actions at the time and acquitted her. Her attorneys say they believe it's the first successful COVID related insanity defense in the country. But the decision has drawn sharp criticism from Florida atttorney General James Uhmeyer, who is calling for the judge's impeachment. You have somebody that's drowning a baby and then a judge is, you know at a bench trial letting her off for insanity and then she's going to go right back out into the public. This is wrong For Blan, she's now focused on her family who continues to support her despite everything that has happened, when asked how she wants people to see her today. I Loving Mother. wife F, sister Daughter. So Christian, in a nutshell, COVID made her do it. The judge agreed Even the news anchors on the beach don't seem to believe what they're hearing. First of all, as best I can tell, this judge whose name is Miguel de Laa ran unoposed in the last few elections. voters didn't have another choice Obviously, that needs to change. If the impeachment isn't successful, which it should be thenen somebody needs to run against him And really he should be arrested. I mean, this person is dangerous. He's deliberately allowing murderers to get away with the most heinous crimes you can conceive of whichich is something as we've seen that's become all too common in recent years Ronald EXantis entered a random house If you remember and brutally murdered a six year old boy before trying to execute the rest of the family, And he got out of prison in nine years And now we have a child killer getting zero prison time, period She's not even going to an institution She's free to do whatever she wants She has a license from the judge to finish off the rest of her children or her husband, which There's a very good chance she will Now for the record, prosecutors did establish a motive during the trial They made the case that precious bland was upset about the fact that her husband was cheating on her and she snapped and she became violent And in her hysterical and homicidal state of mind, she killed her child to punish her husband before trying to kill him as well, which is a very common motive in these kinds of crimes Uh, watch Tears filled the courtroom as the mother who admitted to killing her baby daughter was found not guilty by reason of insanity following a two day bench trial As to count one aggravated manslaughter, the defendant is not guilty by reason of insanity Count two, attempted murder in the first degree, the defendant is not guilty by reason of insanity And as to count three attempted murder in the first degree, the defendant is not guilty by reason of insanity. State prosecutors tried to prove that this mother of six killed her fifteen month old because she told investigators her husband cheating. The voices and the COVID psychosis is a fabrication and an unllish story The judge didn't buy it. That theory, it doesn't make sense to me that she decided to do all of the things that she did calling her family members, putting the kids in the water. all She was angry due to some perceived infidelity. Her lawyers argued Blland was overcome by the voices in her head and had a COVID induced psychotic break. San is a deceiver. There's so much that we don't know about COVID. And this was you know, one of the first cases in the country to go to trial on COVID BlA spent three and a half years behind bars before being released about a year ago Now after a judge cleared her of criminal responsibility in her daughter's death, she says she's focused on moving forward. I'm just ready to get my life back together my husband and my children and just move forward she wants to move forward, Isn't that nice withith her husband and her children, att least the ones she hasn't killed yet And J just on the basis of these interviews, all by themselves, this woman deserves life in prison. She's obviously detached from reality right now in the present But in the eyes of the legal system, she was just temporarily insane When she tried to annihilate her entire family and murdered her daughter in a bloody bathtub We're supposed to believe that she's completely fine now which Even if that were true, shouldn't matter But it's obviously not true tell you can't just Be so crazy that you kill your own child and then a couple of years later, you're fine, like you got over the flu or something And you can listen to her for ten seconds and come to that conclusion. Now the lawyers here are obviously scum as well, no surprise there. H attorney is a guy named Larry Handfield, who told reporters, quote, This was COVID. It's a woman who served our country for five years living the American dream until COVID came. She didn't ask for COVID Yeah, Well, her daughter didn't ask for a homicidal psychotic mother either. So just totally shameless. But I want to highlight what this judge, Judge Dla O said when he rendered his decision in this case, he said that he simply doesn't buy the idea that this woman would go through all this trouble if she was simply angry at her husband for cheating on her. He thinks there's no way that a scorned woman would posossibly go to the neighbors, call her family, drown her daughter, all because she felt that her husband was unfaithful It put another the way in Miami Dade County If you want to get away scot free with murdering your family, It's actually very simple. you just have to Bother the neighbors for a bit. callall your family members beforehand Say a few words about Satan and baptism when the body cams show up and you're golden. The judge will conclude that you're obviously suffering from a bad case of COVID and therefore you can M murder whoever you want to murder Now of course, all these mental health questions are entirely irrelevant Whether this woman was truly psychotic or not whether she had long COVID or not, doesnn't matter The fact that she killed her own child by itself is grounds for removing her from society permanently If a person is so mentally deranged that they allegedly cannot be held responsible for as in this case drowning their own child in the bathtub That is all the more reason why such a person should be removed from society permanently And if you don't want to think of it as a punishment, don't. You know if it hurt makes your tummy hurt to think that we're punishing a mentally ill person, which like Okay, why can't we punish mentally ill people? 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There was the infamous Slender Man stabbing in twenty fourteen, for example, in which Anisa Weare and Morgan Geyser lured a friend into a wooded area that attempted to kill her as a sacrifice to Slenderman, a fictional character. h they stabbed their victim nineteen times. someomehow she survived. Both defendants were found not guilty by reason of insanity. Whare was sentenced to twenty five years. Geyser was sentenced to forty Both sentences to be served in a mental institution, and guess what They were both released. in just a few years. They're already out of prison. Wh was released in twenty twenty one to live with her father. Geiser was released last year to live in a group home. which she promptly escaped before being recaptured These are criminals who should have been spending the rest of their lives in prison at a minimum becausecause they were found to be insane They were never sent to prison They went to mental institutions that specialize in releasing criminals as early as possible In another case, twenty one year old Cora Vitz Lorered a former classmate to her home and then stabbed her repeatedly in the neck. It was a premeditated attempt to murder She told her classmate to lie on the bed so that she could teach her a meditation technique before she'd nearly decapitated her guess what? The jury found that she was depressed at the time of the stabbing, so therefore It's not her fault Her sentence for doing this Six months in a hospital And normally, this s is as far as any discussion of the insanity defense goes You'll hear about a series of outrageous cases where the law is clearly being abused. but you're not able to draw any larger conclusions because it's all anecdota Well, as it turns out, this is a deliberate quirk of the system There is no database, national, state by state or anything that tracks how often the insanity defense is used or how often it's successful Outside of random studies by researchers No one is tracking any important statistics on this subject on the insanity defense and On top of that, even in states where the insanity defense has technically been abolished It's still being used in practice. Take Montana for for instance. It's true that defendants can no longer plead not guilty by reason of insanity But they are able to claim as part of a regular not guilty plea that they lack the state of mind necessary to commit the crime due to sub mental illness justust kind of a roundabout way of arguing the same thing. That said, if you get clever with the data You'll be able to find some proxies for this information. A few years ago, the Department of Health and Human Services in Virginia put out a study a closeer look at state psychiatric facilities, the places where criminals typically go when they're found not guilty by reason of insanity In the absence of asylums, this is where we're sending these people This was a long running study from nineteen ninety nine to twenty sixteen. and during that period, the researchers tracked the number of so called forensic patients in state mental hospitals. over the years. A forensic patient is basically a patient who was ordered to go to the facility part of a sentence or for an evaluation in a criminal trial or because they're considered potentially incompetent to stand trial. And here's what they found. quote States that are experiencing dramatic pressures accommodating forensic patients describe operating at full capacity. Overall national trend lines show a seventy six percent increase in the number of forensic patients in state hospitals from nineteen ninety nine to twenty fourteen though the trend is not consistent across all states So this is a massive jump, obviously. The number of forensic patients in psychiatric facilities has increased dramatically in just fifteen years And this state is only current as of twenty fourteen. We can assume that based on this trend line as well as all the stories we're talking about That number has only continued to increase But it's important to point out as this chart demonstrates. that much of the growth is occurring in one state, which is California It's actually hard to interterpret this graph because California skews the results so much beginning at the turn of the century without ever holding any kind of vote or referendum on the topic California vastly expanded the use of the insanity defense as well as rulings where criminals were deemed incompetent to stand trial instead of sending criminals to prison they began putting them in hospitals. But this was not only happening in California. This chart helps to see that that other states increased their use of psychiatric facilities quite a bit as well. Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, Texas, Wisconsin allw very large increases in their forensic populations at state hospitals during this period In general, the states with the highest percentage of forensic patients, as you expect were left wing. Qote, seven states had an emission rate of forensic patients that exceeded fifteen per one hundred thousand. District of Columbia, Hawaii, Virginia, California, Washington, Colorado, and Ohio And keep in mind this massive increase in forensic patients is taking place while the overall patient population at these hospitals is declining It used to be that older patients, particularly patients with dementia would receive care at these facilities, but increasingly they're getting care at home or in a specialized assisted living center They've moved out of the state hospitals and they've been replaced in large number criminals from nineteen ninety nine to two thousand five as for patients who were not guilty reason of insanity, quote The total percent change calculations suggests there was a nine percent increase between nineteen ninety nine and two thousand five a three percent decrease between two thousand five and twenty fourteen And a six percent increase between nineteen ninety nine and twenty fourteen This is not a perfect statistic since it doesn't count states that abolish the insanity defense, although they still have it in practice as we discussed. Additionally, as the report finds from nineteen ninety nine to twenty fourteen across all twenty seven states There was a seventy two percent increase in the number of IST or incompetent to stand trial patients receiving competency restoration services on a given census day. Now What's important to understand here is that as a matter of policy, many of these hospitals simply can't keep these so called IST or incompetent to stand trial patients in their custody for very long for thaturpose, quote nineteen states indicated they cannot hold an IST patient for competency restoration services. for longer than two years. eleven of these nineteen states. cannot hold an ISD patient for longer than one year Six states reported that an ISTD patient could be committed for competency restoration services for up to three years or more. fourour states indicated that the maximum length of time that an IST patient can be committed can vary depending on the sentence length or the case itself nine states reported having no specific limit on the length of time that an ISD patient could be committed for competency restoration services at a state psychiatric hospital Now after this period has expired, only patients who are deemed unrestorable can continue to remain in the hospital indefinitely, but there's a massive problem here because the hospitals are out of room Stateental facilities in thirty five and forty six states are experiencing shortages. of psychiatric hospital beds, according to this report. and twenty six states reported a shortage beds for forensic status patients committed by the courts for evaluation or long term stays Now this is not simply a matter of logistics, state run hospitals that run out of room can't handle patients the court sends to them are held in contempt of court. They have to pay fines. Administrators can lose their jobs. in fact As this HHS report notes, twenty out of thirty seven states that participated in the survey reported that they had been threatened with or held in contempt And eleven of those states specifically said that the length of time the patients were waiting for admission to the hospital was a major factor in their contempt charges. So you see how this works. A criminal will stab someone They'll say that he's mentally ill A judge will send him to a hospital, which has to determine whether he's competent to stand trial and whether he was insane when he committed the crime All this is totally arbitrary But the hospital doesn't have the capacity to make that determination because they don't have hospital beds. And also the whole process for determining whether someone was insane when they did something is totally fake I mean, it's all just completely fake U And even if they do eventually determine that this person is crazy, they can't keep them in the hospital because they have no room So guess what happens next? Well, you guessed it, the state hospital is held in contempt and the criminals are freed That's what just happened in Oregon. This is a report from just a few weeks ago In Oregon, a person charged with a crime but considered too mentally ill to aid with their own defense is often sent to the Oregon State Hospital for treatment. a new order from a federal judge will limit that option to the most serious cases Felonies like assault, murder, and rape. It means defendants facing less severe charges now have fewer options. and they could be released from custody before getting treatment. If there's somebody who is mentally unstable and needs the help and the assistance of the state hospital We should be giving that to them. Kevin Cameron is a Marion County commissioner The state hospital is in his district He's one of multiple county leaders who are critical of the judge's ruling. causes a public safety problem And it also is a challenge for those people. I mean, we shouldn't be it's inhumane to be sending people out on the street that that don't belong out there The order also restricts extensions of a patient's stay at the state hospital meaning violent offenders could be released after six months. The goal Get Oregon back in compliance with the federal order requiring mentally ill defendants to move from a jail to the state hospital withithin seven days We know that every day a person with mental illness that is so severe they can't help their lawyer in their case spnds in jail is a day when they're at risk of suicide. They're at risk of harm from others They decompensate? It's been a decades long problem in Oregon. The state was found in contempt last year Oregon has since racked up more than three point seven million dollars in fines due to nonc comppliance. The judge wrote Defendants, the Oregon Health Authority are likely to achieve compliance considerably sooner with these remedial measures in effect So it really has everything. You've got the black left wing judge who's letting everybody out of prison. You got the white leftist woman with the glasses who said it's the humane thing to do You've got the old white guy trying desperately in vain to convince everybody that it's a bad idea to spring violent lunatics on the public In Oregon, he is outvoted rather than throw these criminals in prison, which is supposedly the worst case scenario a human rights violation Oregon has decided to release them Oo the streets Because who cares about the human rights of the you know law abiding members of your community? Who cares about them? So the crazyun the murderous lunatics have a human right to be free U But the law abiding citizens of the community have no right to be free from being brutalized and killed by those very same lunatics. Okay Now what's interesting is that not too long ago when we had asylums, prison was considered the humane option Bellevue was notorious. They'd cut your brain up if you were too disorderly. Meanwhile, the Penhurst Asylum in Pennsylvania was so creepy and disturbing that they've turned it into a haunted house in the present day, Um Now, if patients weren't insane when they walked into the asylum, they often lost their minds before they left And they certainly would have a tough time in there. But towards the end of the twentieth century in our quest to be more humane, We shut down this asylum and every other asylum like it As New York Times wrote in nineteen eighty four, quote The first lawsuit in the nation to argue that the mentally retarded have a constitutional right to live in quarters and education in their home communities has been settled after ten years with state officials agreeing to shut down the Penhurst Center for the mentally retarded This makes possible a new life for retarded people across eastern Pennsylvania, across the Commonwealth and across the country, said Thomas. K Gilhel, an attorney. for the State Chapter of the Association for Retarded Citizens, an organization that was instrumental in the negotiations They freed all the retarded people and one of them is now the Sureme Court, Katj Brown Jackson. so that's K of an inspiring story. but it seemed like a good idea to people at the time. You know, we gave the retarded people a better quality of life. One of the many second order effects of this decision is that without the horror of asylums looming in the back of their minds, criminals gained a brand new incentive to make phony insanity, please I mean, it used to be that no sane person would plead not guilty by reason of insanity because being sent to an asylum was effectively tortured. It was worse than prison. But now that asylums are gone and state hospitals are full, We've created a very obvious reason for criminals to pretend to be insane. I mean, why not? The existence of asylums guarantee that insanity pleas were mostly legitimate becausecause by definition, no sane person would want to go there The absence of asylums ensured that most insanity pleas are fraudulent. That's also ironic because at one point, prisons were considered the progressive option. You know, they were certainly more progressive than simply hanging criminals on the spot. which is what we used to do and in many ways was a better system. Now prisons are seen as the worst case scenario in the eyes of the social justice activists They'll always complain about any deterrent to criminal behavior. And as of twenty twenty six Their complaints have Ineffective Society has bowed to their demands consistently That's why we're all conditioned to think that these insanity pleas and this insane seventy six percent increase in the number of forensic patients. are all totally normal They're not or they shouldn't be I mean, that's reality. Insanity is a distinct medical category actually is a very new concept. It certainly is not Uh, you know, is some concept that's as old as civilization, you know, which is a which is a ridiculous claim that I've seen circulating online. Yes, people have behaved in bizarre and evil ways throughout all of history. Roaming legal codes address people who are mentally incompetent. That's true But the idea that these people have a mental illness or that they just need to take a few pills and spend a few nights in a hospital. is indeed very new. I mean, the rules that our courts use to determine insanity were established around eighteen forty less than two centuries ago. before that, we were capable of identifying demons when we saw them we also understood that evil people exist too Evil people do things that seem insane to people who are not evil. We could identify evil people without pretending that COVID was controlling their minds and we could dispense with them accordingly One of the major lessons of the latest Supremeourt ruling is that we have drifted very far from the legal system that our founders envision We've treated illegal aliens as well as the allegedly insane in ways that don't remotely align with the fundamental principles of the Constitution These are all new inventions despite what you may be hearing today, They don't derive you know, any legitimacy from precedent or from Supreme Court rulings We are a weaker and more dangerous country for having allowed this madness to continue for so long But we can reverse a significant amount of this decline just as quickly as it began with one three word policy that's long overdue reopen the asylums Give the criminals something to fear that's infinitely worse than prison And at that point, the most evil among us will have no more incentive to lie They can finally admit what they are turn while ignoring all the inevitable wailing from the Social justice ladies with the big glasses We can deal with them I'll do it for the S today. 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