With the news that a military person has been charged story here with two counts of murder, I wonder if the defense will try to have him diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? That may be hard to prove considering that he has only one active service medal and a good conduct medal (I guess he loses that one) And further if it's true that the charges will stick congratulations to the Police for such a quick arrest, that is unless this guy just left such a great trail of clues behind that they couldn't fail to catch him.
With the news that a military person has been charged story here with two counts of murder, I wonder if the defense will try to have him diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? That may be hard to prove considering that he has only one active service medal and a good conduct medal (I guess he loses that one) And further if it's true that the charges will stick congratulations to the Police for such a quick arrest, that is unless this guy just left such a great trail of clues behind that they couldn't fail to catch him.
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He was not only charged with two first degree murders, but also with forcible confinement and sexual assault in two home invasions last fall in Tweed. CTV news is talking about it right now.
It begs the question of what kind of psychological testing is done to determine fitness for service in our military and the police.
A much more minor example is the Port Hope police officer just convicted of assault of his partner. There's way too much power tripping by some of these male authority figures and we need to weed them out of positions where their power and authority can be abused.
There, I said it. Let the tirades begin.
Maybe a "contact card" helped police identify him as a suspect by putting him in the area. God forbid!
Touche
They use standardized testing methods to screen troops going over. . .which clearly isn't working out too well for them.
Consider that girl from Brighton who killed herself. She'd been sent home from her first tour because of "mental instability", and yet they let her try for a second tour?? she'd been there for like a week, on the base, in an air conditioned officer, the she kills herself. It's so sad that it happened that way, but if the testing was different maybe she would have had help instead of being sent on.
Given the number and variety of the charges so far laid, perhaps there's more to the suicide of Michelle Mendes than first believed.
Concerning suicide, I have had close intimate experience with suicides, and I can say that the simple-minded conjectures about suicide I read here and in other posts speak of gross ignorance.
You're right, of course Wally. My own experience with suicide is pretty facile. I only got to watch as they did it. I was in the unique and priveleged position of being the last eyes they looked into.
I was a train engineer for 30-years. Whadda I know, eh?
That's right, what do you know? A close experience, but not as close and in depth as mine.
I'd tell you more, but Ben has twice already rejected my comments on suicide when others have full reign to discuss the matter. Even William Hayes who ludicrously asserted that FREE SPEECH caused some teen girl to suicide could exploit someone else's family tragedy to make a cheap political point. Of course Ben refused my reply of my knowledge of suicide, and it wasn't for a cheap shot.
So go ahead Merk, think for a moment that you have any better understanding about suicide than I have. YOU DON'T and Ben will ensure that you and everyone else here, will never know what I know.
Nevertheless, suffice to say that you are another ill informed jester who uses suicide to make a cheap political shot. Give the Stuffley shirt a medal.
How this has turned to a discussion of who's exposure to suicide is paramount annoys the heck out of me, and I suspect out of some others as well. If Mr. Keeler's whining about being unduly restricted in his commenting doesn't soon abate, I, for one, will find it a waste of time to visit this blog as frequently as I do now, if at all. Perhaps Mr. Keeler could spin off his own version of "The Keeler Report" and spare the rest of us his often rambling and vitriolic chatter.
Perhaps you could help him get set up Ben.
OK comments about, and pertaining to, suicide are now Verboten, No matter who posts them
ben
Well, let's move along to PSTD shall we? After all, it's in the header.
I have a diagnosis of PTSD. It came after watching 8 deaths in a two year period on the nose of my engine at VIA. I couldn't sleep, lost interest in many things I had enjoyed and had wonderful little movies of the events show up in my head at the most awkward of times -like during sex. Anyway, to this day, I can't help but think about the six weeks I spent with the psychiatrist and how if only I'd had more time I might have been able to help the poor man.
The gist is; PTSD isn't going to make anybody kill somebody else -atleast not somebody who did not already have the urge to kill somebody else. (Note to Wally: You might want to modify the piccies of you and all those automatic weapons on your flickr page, Bud.)
But that hasn't stopped PTSD from becoming the excuse du jour for every ultra-violent sociopath out there. The truth is it simply ain't the truth.
PTSD goes away in time. In short, time heals all wounds. It also wounds all heels. I have first hand knowlege of both eventualities.
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