Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search
12 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight: NoneDon't highlight anything 5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
 

cali

(114,904 posts)
1. your post is fucking ridiculous and not exactly a shining example of
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 06:09 AM
Apr 2013

er, smarts.

This guy is clearly mentally ill. for fuck's sake.

 

cali

(114,904 posts)
2. because this is just model rational behavior, right?
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 06:12 AM
Apr 2013

Curtis also posted similar language on his Facebook page. The documents indicate Curtis had been distrustful of the government for years. In 2007, Curtis' ex-wife called police to report that her husband was extremely delusional and felt the government was spying on him with drones.

Tupelo attorney David Daniels said Curtis was in a show he helped organize about 10 years ago. Daniels said he was sitting in his vehicle one night after rehearsal when Curtis walked up.

"He started beating on the windows and screaming and hollering," Daniels said. "I thought he was kidding, but he was serious. He was throwing a fit like I've never seen a grown man throw before."

Daniels said Curtis was holding a beer bottle and threatening him with it. Daniels said he pointed the pistol he kept in his car: "I told him, `If you try to hit me with that bottle, Kevin, I'm going to shoot you.'"

 

cali

(114,904 posts)
5. It is loony. It doesn't matter a whit what color he is with his history
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 06:16 AM
Apr 2013

he's obviously mentally ill. There's a fucking record of it going back years.

Posteritatis

(18,807 posts)
4. While I normally hate people throwing that term around, especially here...
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 06:15 AM
Apr 2013

... When someone's claiming there's an international conspiracy to suppress their music career specifically, there are flags going up in the DSM.

Ganja Ninja

(15,953 posts)
7. What this looks to be is a case where the guy is a paranoid schizophrenic.
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 06:26 AM
Apr 2013

He's suppose to be taking medication for his problems. The problem is he's had his delusions fed by media and society in general. It's what we all expected and feared was happening. It's another case of a Glenn Beck/Alex Jones/Rush Limbaugh/Michael Savage/FOX News - induced psychotic episode. Crazy people are listening to these shameless gasbags and flipping out.

 

AnotherMcIntosh

(11,064 posts)
11. SC Justice Holmes (one of the most famous liberals ever) wrote in the Schenck case,
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 08:00 AM
Apr 2013

"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic." http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/249/47/case.html

People have died when others have falsely shouted "Fire" in crowded places to cause panic. As noted by Wikipedia, one such event caused the deaths of 73 people:

The Italian Hall Disaster (sometimes referred to as the 1913 Massacre) is a tragedy that occurred on December 24, 1913 in Calumet, Michigan. Seventy-three men, women, and children, mostly striking mine workers and their families, were crushed to death in a stampede when someone falsely yelled "fire" at a crowded Christmas party.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Hall_disaster

In a similar event in 1856, seven were killed and several injured when someone falsely shouted "Fire!" in the Royal Surrey Gardens in London.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Surrey_Gardens

One of the hallmarks of a liberal is to respond in rational ways.

Just as it would be irrational to allow people to falsely shout "Fire!" in crowded places to cause panic, and do so on the presumed grounds that the First Amendment protects all speech (it doesn't, except in the isolated view of one former Supreme Court Justice, Justice Black), it is irrational to never try to control the hate mongering of the financially-motivated "newscasters."

Some have tried to control Limbaugh with boycotts. But there have been governmental funds which have been used to enable the hate-mongers like Glenn Beck/Alex Jones/Rush Limbaugh/Michael Savage and others at FOX News to spread their hate.

Solutions? At a minimum, there could be a withdrawal of governmental support for the hate-mongers and their financial backers. The government, for example, could withdraw all copyright protection for whatever is broadcast on such shows. It could also withdraw trademark and trade-name protection for whatever sponsors support such shows. It could also withdraw tax breaks, for example, by disallowing deductions for expenses related to the commercial promotion of such hate.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,787 posts)
8. You are abusing people who suffer from mental illness by discounting all of them.
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 06:27 AM
Apr 2013

What part of the article did you not understand?

What part of this statement did you not understand?

"He is bipolar, and the only thing I can say is he wasn't on his medicine," his ex-wife, Laura Curtis, told The Associated Press.
Latest Discussions»General Discussion»Here we go with the menta...