not all the tea in the land can excuse it

[threeplusfire]

I am utterly disgusted by the people popping up with fan clubs and hero worship for the psychopath who flew his private plane into an office building today. (And I refuse to link to them, because I'm not giving them any traffic.) This isn't some principled stand for ideals, some noble heroic gesture. It was attempted murder and destruction. It was a violent threat. It was pretty unmitigated cruelty to his family.

There are lots of reasons to be mad with our government, with our cracked out and failing financial institutions, with how hard it is to get a good job and feel secure. But absolutely none of that excuses or condones what happened today. What Stack did today was selfish and evil.

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[brienze.livejournal.com]

And the mark of clear mental instability - that one is key.

This is the one that really gets me. At the beginning of his statement he mentioned that writing out how he feels was part of therapy... so somewhere there's a therapist who knew this guy was deeply disturbed, and yet didn't take him seriously enough to diagnose him as willing to harm himself and others.

I kind of hate myself for liking Perry's statement about not turning Texas into DFW or Houston International, that we can't secure and don't want to secure everyday life to that extent. Airport security wouldn't have prevented this; better mental health care might have. And hey, better mental health care would also solve a lot of the homelessness problem, but no, let's pour more money and hysteria into security instead. Grrr.