tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528377935446865958.post8950139124870480465..comments2024-03-18T14:46:50.335-04:00Comments on Jim Fisher True Crime: Mass Murderers Are Evil, Not InsaneJim Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03640110709472034191noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528377935446865958.post-41432053159189317132015-07-01T15:22:13.931-04:002015-07-01T15:22:13.931-04:00Malingering is possible to detect much more easily...Malingering is possible to detect much more easily than insanity is proven to be a justified defense... I'd like to hear people like collaborate groups of Paul Ekman working with microexpressions weigh in based on the footage. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528377935446865958.post-82598716006908354632015-05-27T16:30:13.254-04:002015-05-27T16:30:13.254-04:00I agree that Holmes is malingering as evidenced by...I agree that Holmes is malingering as evidenced by externalized incentive to avoid the death penaltyAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03711985671861407513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528377935446865958.post-1772025610593920802014-09-12T14:47:47.356-04:002014-09-12T14:47:47.356-04:00For entertainment purposes only here are some poss...For entertainment purposes only here are some possibilities since I have no first hand evidence or interaction with people who really know what went on: <br />He is schizophrenic and actually listened to command voices. Somehow he fought the difficulty in planning when under severe psychosis to buy a gun, carefully set up a trap in his apartment and then sneak into a theatre. As a student with schizoaffective I highly doubt he could be as good of a student as he was with that level of psychosis. I think they need to bring an accommodations person into the court room. <br />Here is the other scenario: <br />He is a psychopath or fighting this personality disorder. He is highly intelligent and annoyed by idiots. In a moment of anger he starts making plans for revenge against the ignorant masses. He sets it up, tells his psychiatrist of his symptoms to look like he asked for help and carefully plans this out. He knows it is wrong, but also believes he can fake insanity. So he starts practicing how to look insane and suddenly he gets good at it. <br />The government setup of the mentally ill:<br />The government has successfully marked the mentally ill, between health care, free housing benefits and social security. The next phase of getting rid of them needs a boost, so they talk to a few kids about the idea. James Holmes sees the amount of money, agrees with the cause and is told he will basically get away with it. They tell him how to fake insanity, set him up with a doctor and give him the plans. He can feel the knots in his stomach, but the money is more than any career can give him in a lifetime. So what if society hates him, it is for a cause he agrees with; even if the information they gave him is all propaganda. Being a brain expert, he knows most of the mentally ill cannot be cured. He hates that people have to die, so he tells the doctor in a way that doesn't reveal the government's motives. Of course the police aren't getting involved, because they are paid off too. So the whole thing goes find without anyone suspecting a thing. Society starts fearing the mentally ill, so the whole thing is successful. James has some time to think in his jail cell and starts to feel a heavy weight on his conscious. What if the government is wrong? All those people, the looks on their faces, it just keeps playing over and over. He heard of PTSD, but after what happened to him in childhood he didn't think it would be this bad. Of course this theory could be Holmes imagining the government needs him to do this. I suppose if a person didn't fear or dismiss demand based delusions it could happen. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528377935446865958.post-50611458641007377492012-11-13T17:30:49.087-05:002012-11-13T17:30:49.087-05:00I think it will turn out to be Bi-Polar or a varia...I think it will turn out to be Bi-Polar or a variant of it. I don't believe James Holmes was 'malingering' in his first court appearance as there was a definite emotional response at one point. He looked like he was about to burst into tears.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528377935446865958.post-68760509774678971192012-08-02T16:38:49.362-04:002012-08-02T16:38:49.362-04:00A paranoid schizophrenic is delusional and can suf...A paranoid schizophrenic is delusional and can suffer from hallucianations and be very cunning as well and can preplan events. They are one of the most dangerous because they can be violent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528377935446865958.post-26526573243150991822012-08-01T19:12:39.188-04:002012-08-01T19:12:39.188-04:00James Holmes is not a mystery. He's just anot...James Holmes is not a mystery. He's just another very embarrassing example of what happens when an entire society rewards its most violent males and treats its least violent males with contempt.Fowl Ideashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528377935446865958.post-26138568641447550592012-07-25T04:48:56.462-04:002012-07-25T04:48:56.462-04:00Just because a defendant is found guilty by reason...Just because a defendant is found guilty by reason of insanity by a jury doesn't mean that person was medically insane to the point of not knowing right from wrong. Juries occasionally apply the insanity defense in cases where, because the defendant was mentally lil, they do not that person to go to prison. This is why, in many states we have the guilty but mentally ill defense where defendants go to prison, but receive mental health care.Jim Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03640110709472034191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528377935446865958.post-19984670329183941792012-07-24T21:53:00.899-04:002012-07-24T21:53:00.899-04:00RE "...there is no such thing as a mental sic...RE "...there is no such thing as a mental sickness that produces a state of mind that meets the legal definition of mental illness..."<br /><br />Except that many people have been found not guilty by reason of insanity. Your assertion is therefore shown to be false. Such mental sicknesses do exist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528377935446865958.post-58574860521420394922012-07-24T16:32:49.934-04:002012-07-24T16:32:49.934-04:00Doug, it's nice hearing from you. I agree with...Doug, it's nice hearing from you. I agree with your analysis. Thank you for the excellent comment.Jim Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03640110709472034191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528377935446865958.post-75756928597813584972012-07-24T14:49:41.120-04:002012-07-24T14:49:41.120-04:00Hello Mr Fisher- former CJ student of yours here- ...Hello Mr Fisher- former CJ student of yours here- I watched with great interest Holmes' court appearance. The first word that came to my mind when observing his lethargic and odd behavior was "malingering". When I was at Edinboro I enjoyed studying cases like David Berkowitz, Charles Manson, and Bruno Hauptmann, and came away convinced they knew what they were doing regardless of any diagnosis made or speculated. While its true we are early in the details of this case but it seems quite planned and thought out- meticulously in fact- when you consider the booby traps in his apartment, intended not only to take out responders coming in the door, but also to draw responders away from the theater while he barged in to kill.<br />Doug Widmer, PittsburghAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528377935446865958.post-78985109033557553382012-07-23T22:53:35.603-04:002012-07-23T22:53:35.603-04:00I feel the utmost sympathy for all of the victims ...I feel the utmost sympathy for all of the victims and their families of this horrible tragedy. But I also feel empathy for Holmes' parents. The hatred and contempt will be directed toward them at some point too. How would any parent feel if their son/daughter committed such a heinous crime? It must be devastating to them as well. Should they bear some of the guilt? Did they suspect something was wrong with their son, but lived in denial? If he is a true sociopath, then no amount of therapy or meds would help him. How do we know who is a sociopath and who isn't? What do we do with people like that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com