Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, MD, PhD – The loaned wolf James Hodgkinson shoots Congressman Steve Scalise at a Virginia baseball game!
Unpredictable tragedy!? Doubt it!
In 1969, one of my long-term patients at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington D.C. asked me if he could leave Richardson Ward for a weekend pass. I asked him why he was hospitalized in this federal psychiatric hospital. He understood why I was asking the question. He sheepishly answered: “But I am much better now!”
“True,” I replied but added, “Why did the Secret Service bring you to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital?”
“Because I threatened to kill the President!”
“And what else?” I asked.
“I made a mistake and shot someone instead.”
“How many people did you kill?”
“ A few… not a lot..” patient replied, hesitantly.
“You shot thirteen people in cold blood.”
The patient did not respond. He eventually died on that ward from presumably natural causes. The patient’s fate was determined by his own actions and the reactions of the stalwart Secret Service who had to monitor any and all possible ‘aberrant behavior’ and ‘miscreant activities’ among the Washington DC population [and nation].
Armstrong Williams – I didn’t want to write this column. Not now. The events of today and the recent past are taking their toll. Those on the Left are rapidly becoming an intolerant political class, and it has to stop.