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Jun 23, 2008, 08:35 AM
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Alert!
E. Fuller Torrey is about to be on C-SPAN's Washington Journal right now (8:34 AM EDT) on the topic of the insanity defense.  
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Jun 23, 2008, 11:29 AM
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Jun 23, 2008, 01:07 PM
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you can watch it now, it's pretty interesting.
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Jun 23, 2008, 01:13 PM
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I tried to call twice but could not get connected. I also sent an e-mail comment. I watched/listened a little and thought it was the usual Torrey. I cannot stand to listen to him for very long.
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Jun 23, 2008, 01:30 PM
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</font><blockquote><div id="quote"><font class="small">Quote:</font>
2007 winning entry from an annual contest at Texas A&M University calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term: Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. </div></font></blockquote><font class="post"> Right on, Perna!!! YEZ! Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread but your siggy line is So Right On!
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Jun 23, 2008, 01:37 PM
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Haven't watched the program yet, but I intend to catch it online. However, I just heard a comment from the peanut gallery here at home; "It should be like it is in Scotland; 'Guilty, but insane.' The person is still found guilty and put away. Here, the person goes free because they are insane."
Don't know for sure if this is correct or not (in Scotland), but I completely agree with the statement above.
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Jun 23, 2008, 07:22 PM
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Well....my understanding is that if a person is found not guilty by reason of insanity they are typically remanded to a forensic psychiatric hospital and required to stay until the docs decide they are no longer a danger to self or others. That could be a short while (not standard), years, or the rest of their life. So they can be held there longer than they would have been if they were found guilty and sent to prison.
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