[Vision2020] Noble Found Not Guilty Due to Temporary Insanity

[Wayne Price]

Sunil,

You know that statistically, one in three Americans has some type of   
mental illness, so what I do is when I'm in a crowd,  I look to my  
left, and then to my right, and if those two folks look OK,
then I know it's me *S*






On May 5, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Sunil Ramalingam wrote:

> What Utter Crap.
>
> "Treatment is fine and necessary but there should also be some  
> penalty for the lack of responsibility in not seeking treatment/ 
> mitigation before the mental illness progresses so far that control  
> is lost."
>
> What personal responsibility do you expect to be exercised by a  
> person who is losing his or her mind?
>
> You think he should recognize the signs that he's losing his mind  
> WHILE HE'S LOSING HIS MIND?
>
> Maybe you come to this remarkable conclusion having spent a  
> significant amount of time working with mentally ill people. Maybe  
> you have the training and expertise to conclude that they are able  
> to exercise reason while their minds are disintegrating.
>
> Does this expertise extend to people with no prior diagnosis? With  
> no prior experience of the symptoms and conditions? Who may not even  
> realize that something is wrong?
>
> Yeah, the mentally ill have it too friggin' easy. Let's penalize  
> them for lacking the foresight to responsibly deal with terrifying  
> symptoms, while they're lost in their own heads.
>
> I just knew you were going to post something like this when I saw  
> Tom Hansen's post. Like clockwork, just like clockwork.
>
> Sunil
> From: deco at moscow.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 18:01:05 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Noble Found Not Guilty Due to Temporary  
> Insanity
>
> I agree with Tom.
>
> At what point when a person sees that not all is right does it  
> become ethical to seek help.  That's what personal responsibility is  
> about.  I hope that the insanity defense laws will be changed to  
> reflect that responsibility.
>
> Treatment is fine and necessary but there should also be some  
> penalty for the lack of responsibility in not seeking treatment/ 
> mitigation before the mental illness progresses so far that control  
> is lost.
>
> W.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tom Hansen
> To: Moscow Vision 2020
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 4:12 PM
> Subject: [Vision2020] Noble Found Not Guilty Due to Temporary Insanity
>
> Courtesy of the Daily News.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Noble found not guilty due to temporary insanity
> May 5, 2010, 3:57 pm
>
> Dan Noble was found not guilty of two counts of vehicular assault  
> and two
> counts of hit and run in Whitman County Superior Court on Wednesday.
>
> Judge David Frazier ruled that Noble was temporarily insane during the
> Dec. 9 incident, in which he ran over two Washington State University
> students with his car on the WSU campus in Pullman.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Perhaps now Mr. Noble can get the help necessary to prevent this  
> from ever
> happening again.
>
> Although Mr. Noble's temporary loss of self-control was the major
> contributing factor in this incidents, I still feel that preventive
> measures should have been taken to avoid this from happening.
>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to  
> change
> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
>
> - Unknown
>
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