Criminal Deeds

[kandrathe]

What level of deep surveillance would be required to separate the sociopaths from the "already law abiding and peaceful"? What freedoms would that "remove"? How do we "intervene" as a society of laws, to stop a crime that hasn't even been committed, and may never be?

In hindsight, for many of these cases of mass homicide, even the militant ones like McVeigh, they alerted their family, friends, the public, and sometimes even government officials. They often gave big red glowing neon clues that something was wrong and dangerous. These sociopaths are not always the stereo typed silent loners who one day decide to go strike back at someone or the society. They alarm and creep out everyone around them who are seemingly powerless or maybe just clueless to do anything about the impending social train wreck.

In this case, allegedly the parents were committing him. In the Colorado theater case, James Holmes freaked out his college and was getting mental health care -- the same person who tried to report him to campus security. The Portland Mall case, with Jacob Tyler Roberts. was a little less obvious. The One L. Goh case in Oakland was another hard luck case of a man seeking revenge against a society that tormented him. There is a common "going postal" revenge theme, where the killer goes after someone and ends up killing many more.

I've seen this up close and personal. My parents insisted to the court officials for the kid that tried to kill my family member that he needed psychiatric help -- instead he was sent off to juvenile corrections -- only to be released (without any help) a year later -- only to be returned back to the same abusive family that made him, to the same school, and it was not shocking that he attempted to kill again. Then, as an adult (18) he served time in a criminal psychiatric hospital for attempted murder. But, I heard he still got into more similar trouble after that obsessing over some other person.