i am really having a tough time with this one, since it's now made national news that he may have been bipolar, and that the disorder may have caused him to end up being shot. i think someone official needs to speak out regarding the fact that not all bipolar people go manic that bad and make threats (from the articles i'm still not sure what the man really said.)
My point is that there is no consensus about what the man may or may not have said.
The witnesses clearly heard the wife say that her husband was bipolar and hadn't had his medication.
A diarist at DailyKos called it death by reason of insanity. In the diary, the question is asked: Why was the first response a lethal one?
During the news last night, a spokesperson for the Air Marshalls said that in a situation where someone has indicated they might have a bomb, they're trained "to discharge the weapon to eliminate the immediate threat." I noted at once words that he didn't use: shoot, gun, kill, person. (These Anglo-Saxon words would have rung too true for we English-speaking folks; the Latinate words that were actually used are more erudite and aloof and force us to encounter the situation at a remove.)
If only the official story matched the witnesses'.
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Date: 2005-12-08 11:53 pm (UTC)thoughts?
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Date: 2005-12-09 12:54 am (UTC)The witnesses clearly heard the wife say that her husband was bipolar and hadn't had his medication.
A diarist at DailyKos called it death by reason of insanity. In the diary, the question is asked: Why was the first response a lethal one?
During the news last night, a spokesperson for the Air Marshalls said that in a situation where someone has indicated they might have a bomb, they're trained "to discharge the weapon to eliminate the immediate threat." I noted at once words that he didn't use: shoot, gun, kill, person. (These Anglo-Saxon words would have rung too true for we English-speaking folks; the Latinate words that were actually used are more erudite and aloof and force us to encounter the situation at a remove.)
If only the official story matched the witnesses'.