The person with a mental disorder is Judge Berman. He suffers from the mental disease I call surrealiberalitis. It is rising to pandemic proportions. Unfortunately, Mr. D'Souza has been the victim of a person who cannot control his liberalism. If you read his excuse, you will see that it is unintelligible gibberish.

Obviously, it is Judge Berman who has a mental disorder. He suffers from Surrealiberalitis. It is unfortunate that this malady is increasing at an alarming rate. Too bad that a rational thinker like Mr. d'Sousa has been punished by the very kind of person who needs help. Just read his excuse for punishing Mr. d'Sousa. It is unintelligible gibberish.

Obviously Judge Berman is the one who is suffering from a mental illness. He has Surrealibitis. Liberals are afflicted with this disorder in alarming numbers. It's a shame that a rational thinker such as Mr. d'Sousa . is subject to the whim of a judge who is mentally deficient. The judge's excuse is so obtuse as to render it unintelligible.

Exactly! I think read all about that in "The Gulag Archipelago" many years ago.

Outcry sometimes works. If you find a contact for him, put it out as a thread in the Gulch and see what happens. The difference between the contacts he will get from Gulchers and from most other people is that their emails/comments will be based on emotion and ours will be based on logic.

Jan

it is here now. The Soviets were a large part of it

he said in interview that going to prison would have stopped his film making. He intends to continue to film. He called the judge a hero.

welcome to the new fascist frontier....

That is a really cool thing to know. It seems a lot better than what we have now. It would eliminate victimless crimes like possessing marijuana, and I think would make would-be criminals think twice about violent behavior. Thank you for bringing this up. Maybe a good idea for a constitutional amendment actually.

Its more difficult when he only "helps" the criminals. That would be for the judge who has all the facts to decide. I suspect that this guy did more than just stand around gathering clothes, however.
Deciding these things would have to be based on some pretty sound philosophy to be fair, but I am saying that imprisonment is kind of a catch all sentence that makes little sense when we all have to pay for keeping him imprisoned, medical care, food, etc.

This is the origin of 'outlaw' - a person who was outside of the law, hence, not under its protection. In Medieval Iceland, if the Ting exiled you for (say) 3 years, then during those 3 years someone (a bounty hunter hired by your enemies) could legally kill you without it being considered murder.

Icelandic Law also had a provision for weregild. Weregild (man-gold) was a fee that you could pay in reparation for an ill deed (killing cow or kinsman). If the injured party did not choose to accept weregild, they could insist that you 'go to the island' and fight it out. (Radford, R. S. "Going to the Island: A Legal and Economic Analysis of the Medieval Icelandic Duel". Southern California Law Rev. 62 (1989) 615-44)

Some of these historic laws bear consideration in terms of whether they would be valuable in some form in today's society.

Jan

Forced psychiatric care? This is truly terrifying. Apparently, it's not enough to brainwash Americans through schools and media. Now the democrats/socialists/nazis have found a way to physically alter the minds of those who disagree with them. How much do you want to bet that he is prescribed some form of tranquilizer. Had the judge truly believed that D'Souza was not thinking reasonably, the sentence should have been therapy, NOT psychiatry (meds).
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
PS - I wonder how many liberals have violated campaign finance laws and what their 'punishments' were.

I'm doing a slow re-read of AS wherein Dagny is appearing on Scudder's radio show. She stuns him and the audience by telling the truth and not apologizing for what she and Rearden had done. Quite the opposite expressed pride in their actions. That kind of courage is as rare in fiction as it is in real life.

Yes, and the American people are going to just sit back and watch them do it. It's little different than the way returning Vietnam Veterans were treated. Why should it not be any different today.

Anyone old enough to remember Joseph McCarthy?

He is being "re-educated" to a more acceptable way of correct thinking...

How much would you wager he makes no more films critical of "Dear Leader"... under threat of involuntary commitment to a mental facility by selfsame (in)justice?

Now... non-fiction. Ain't it the truth?

If anyone needs further proof that Americans who call themselves "Progressives" are simply Stalinists hiding behind another label, they're in serious denial. We try to comfort ourselves by trying to convince ourselves that Democrats are simply European Socialists, who are authoritarian in nature, who don't care what you think, so long as they're in charge, but the truth is that they are totalitarians, who won't be satisfied until you're forced to become "believers". Psychological "counseling" was a hallmark of the Stalin era in the USSR, and it's coming here to Amerika if we don't stop it.

interesting, j. I was looking over a copy of The Source of Economic Growth and realized that your review filled the entire back cover! PM us your address so we can send you a signed copy, por favor

I saw d'Souza on the Kelly Files. He was greatly relieved with the sentence. He thought the judge was a hero in the face of the political landscape. This should alarm every American.

haha

term, so in this case, what rights should d'Souza lose?

This case reminds me of "We the Living", which could have easily been named "We the Dying".

“I’m not singling out Mr. D’Souza to pick on him,” Berman said at the hearing Monday. “A requirement for psychological counseling often comes up in my hearings in cases where I find it hard to understand why someone did what they did.”

The opposite of the rule of law is the rule of whim. As objectivity ebbs, subjectivity rises. Berman's pronouncements are those of a King's minister.

ALL of the politicians have a undiagnosed mental illness. IT has not been diagnosed yet so most fail to realize those guys are mentally ill.
My Great-grandfather loved saying, "Their minds are broken."

"Community service" is the kinder, gentler version...

Those actions are not "alleged," they have been documented. And now, by popular demand, are also presented here in the USSA.