The do-gooders who coddle wannabe presidential assassin John Hinckley have been maneuvering for years to get him released. The next step is looming, and President Reagan's daughter Patti Davis has this pathetic loser's number.
Hinckley’s attorneys have said that giving him more freedom is “a critical component” of his treatment. My response to that is: Who cares? The man plotted carefully, calculating his moves, in an attempt to go down in history as the man who killed President Reagan. He forever changed the lives of the Brady family when he left Jim Brady lying in a pool of blood, his brain irreversibly damaged. Two other men, a secret service agent and a Washington police officer, were shot and injured. Justice was not served when he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. He is certainly insane; he is just as certainly guilty.Posted by Alan at August 28, 2003 09:25 PMI don’t believe for a second that John Hinckley is no longer mentally ill. Neither do the attorneys for the government who have collided with Hinckley and his attorney for many years now. I also don’t believe that mental illness means a person is not also extremely smart, deceptive and calculating.
If on Sept. 2 John Hinckley is granted the right to walk off hospital grounds with no supervision, we should all ask some very serious questions about our legal system. A methodical, narcissistic man who sought fame through murder knows the value of tenacity, patience, and deception. His ultimate fame might come from his ability to work the system.
via MSNBC