there's a dude with a bomb strapped to his chest in downtown slc

[Julie Greengiant]

Brian David Mitchell is mentally ill?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_David_Mitchell#Mitchell_2010_federal_court_trial



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How can one serve a life sentence in a federal prison if one is declared mentally ill? Remember now, lets rely on facts and not just your opinion.

Did you just skim that article?

It says he was found incompetent by several mental health professionals. The one who found him competent to stand trial, Dr. Michael Welner, is quoted as saying: "Brian David Mitchell is someone who had severe personality disorders, narcissistic and anti-social....there is no questioning that he was bright and thought that he might have a better future...and as someone who had psychopathic qualities ...he stumbled into the structure of the LDS and that was good for him and it was healthy for him, it gave him an opportunity to rise and gave him an opportunity to have structure. But we are who we are, and he reached the place where he could only go so far and the way he was could not be boxed in that LDS place. The natural graduation, for him,...who had his pedophilic demons, was through that fundamentalist LDS schism track...and he went along a path that could accommodate him. Somewhere along that line, where he could express himself in a grand way....that path....intersected with his pedophilia, which was part of his life at some points and not part of his life at others. And it's when that path intersected with his pedophilia that [has] brought us to the point where we all meet here today."

So that sounds pretty unhealthy.

As for this guy the other night in Salt Lake, he has quite a record with law enforcement over the past decade and was committed to mental health facilities three times because of voices he heard in his head. There are systemic issues with our prisons and treatment for the mentally ill.

 

[TheSilencer1313]

Oh heavens! I'm absolutely not a proponent of the free market! I don't believe many people even on this board are truly proponents of a true free market. I would estimate that 99.9 % of all Americans would hate the free market if we truly had one. Yikes!

Most folks advocating a "free market" are either completely ignorant of what that would entail and/or demand government intervention in another aspect of life.

Repubs demand less government and free market while at the same time demand oil and ag subsidies, student vouchers, and nanny states defining marriage and sex edu.

Utah is a perfect example of this. While on one hand they "bash" and "hate" the federal government they on the other hand are always demanding more federal handouts.

Ever seen how much fed money we take in to build our roads? Ever heard of Hill Air Force Base? Utah Congressmen have hired lobbyists to keep that place open! LOL! The very same congressmen who hate on the federal government and campaign on smaller less expensive government! HAHA!

Mia Love is the latest to fall for this. Her campaign is predicated on less government intervention. Meanwhile, she is demanding federal dollars to help rebuild her city.

You cannot have it both ways. Again, if she were truly for less government in our lives, she'd demand her own citizens take responsibility and rebuild via insurance, investment, their own hard work. Why demand the government to steal from another city or state to rebuild Saratoga Springs?

Ok, that was a lot of **** to skim over while at work.

As for free markets, yes.... most Americans would bitch about a truely free market because they all want to have their cake and eat it too.
I myself, want nothing from the federal government other than strong defense and sound money, in which they provide neither.

If you're going to start talking Republican and Democrat, then you might as well start listing the differences between white and purple onions.

 

[Marty McFly]

I was in the basement of a building downtown right next to where this was happening. Basically had no idea about it until I left at 2:00 am and saw bomb squads/cops everywhere. I had no idea I was that close to being blown up!

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

There's a man on the wing of this plane!!!

 

[bigb]

I was in the basement of a building downtown right next to where this was happening. Basically had no idea about it until I left at 2:00 am and saw bomb squads/cops everywhere. I had no idea I was that close to being blown up!

Hmmm, let's see. You're living in your mother's basement. You must be a Ute fan.