Gutenberg wrote:
I got a visit at my office yesterday from a woman with a similar illness. She says she was gang-raped by the government because she is psychic. The government found out and raped her to keep her quiet. She is psychic because she is Greek. Most Greeks are psychic but she is more psychic than even most Greeks. The government found out about this and they are systematically raping women in Greektown. They can't keep her quiet and she is going to tell all the women.

Anyhow, she sounded very much like Sodini's diary. Her conversation was very disjointed, like his. I do not mean that I expect this woman to come back and shoot up my office. What I mean is, Sodini did not shoot up that aerobics class because he was a right-winger; he shot up the class because he was mentally ill and had a fixation on young women.

People with this illness sound perfectly reasonable, except that their reasoning is perfectly wack. But they don't shout, they don't drool, they don't do any of the things you would see from a mentally ill character on TV or in the movies. They seem normal but they are desperately sick.

I think it's a mistake to characterize this tragedy as political. I do not think it is like the bigot who shot up the Holocaust Museum at all.

swampy wrote:
Well put, Gutenberg.