| Should a psychologist who is on trial for murder, be | | | | caused by an Army psychologist, where he shot up a |
| allowed to plead insanity? Now, we know it is true that | | | | number of soldiers on an Army base. This psychologist |
| many psychologists are completely crazy, and many | | | | had worked with cases of post traumatic stress |
| of them go into the field because they want to | | | | disorder, and he was afraid to be shipped over to the |
| understand their own mind better. Nevertheless, | | | | Middle East to fight in Afghanistan. But his |
| eventually they come to an understanding of who they | | | | pre-traumatic stress syndrome, and his ability as a |
| are, why they are this way, and how they think. Of | | | | psychologist to understand his own mind, should |
| course, someone trained in clinical psychology, would | | | | preclude him from pleading insanity, or that he wasn't in |
| know exactly how to act to fool other psychologists | | | | his right mind when he planned and carried out that |
| into thinking they were insane. | | | | crime of mass murder. |
| This is why I believe, that no psychologist which has | | | | Now, some would say that because this individual was |
| been trained or well studied in the topic should be | | | | a Muslim psychologist, and because he might have felt |
| allowed to plead insanity in a murder case. They should | | | | bullied by others because of his religion, he also was |
| stand trial, and be totally prohibited from entering an | | | | engaged in a hate crime against anyone who was of |
| "insanity" plea. After all, there is absolutely no excuse, | | | | non-Muslim faith. We should not allow political |
| for what they have done, and our society should not | | | | correctness or reverse hate crimes, or allow |
| be burdened, with very advanced acting efforts to try | | | | psychologists to plead insanity, or try to get off on a |
| to get off after committing such a heinous crime. | | | | technicality, so that they do not get the death penalty. I |
| Not long ago, there was an incredible horrific act | | | | hope you will please consider this. |