00:00:57.720Well, the Supreme Court just issued the ruling on birthright citizenship that we all expected.
00:01:02.720This is a decision that could have been a historic victory for this country if Republicans were anywhere near as effective and ruthless as the left when it comes to selecting Supreme Court justices.
00:01:13.940Democrats pick judges who return victories for their side in every case without exception.
00:01:21.440And on the other hand, Republicans pick judges who are preoccupied with preserving the image of the court as nonpartisan, even though Democrats don't remotely care.
00:01:30.380They're going to pack the Supreme Court and destroy the judicial branch the next chance they get.
00:01:34.500With a handful of notable exceptions, particularly Dobbs, the allegedly conservative justices on the court have proven to be unreliable and far too timid.
00:01:43.820And on this issue, that's especially disgraceful.
00:01:47.240It's impossible to overstate this.1.00
00:01:49.200today's ruling will directly lead to tens of millions more foreigners flooding into this0.94
00:01:55.400country, most of whom will have multiple children who will be entitled to a slice of your paycheck.1.00
00:02:01.200Most of them will not even attempt to assimilate, which is why large portions of California now0.99
00:02:05.700resemble Mexico, why 30 percent of New Yorkers can't speak English, why Somalis run entire0.98
00:02:11.300neighborhoods in Minneapolis. None of this is lawful. The 14th Amendment states that all persons1.00
00:02:17.460born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens
00:02:23.000of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. Now, during debates on the amendment
00:02:28.760in the Senate in May of 1866, Senator Lyman Trumbull declared that, quote, the provision is
00:02:35.980that all persons born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens.
00:02:41.100That means subject to the complete jurisdiction thereof. What do we mean by subject to the
00:02:46.240jurisdiction of the United States, not owing allegiance to anybody else. That is what it
00:02:51.220means. Meanwhile, Senator Jacob Howard, a free framer of the amendment, stated that he concurred
00:02:58.300entirely with Trump. So he added that the 14th amendment would not quote include persons born
00:03:05.100in the United States who are foreigners, aliens who belong to the families of ambassadors or
00:03:10.500foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States. Very clearly, as Michael
00:03:14.900Landon has pointed out, Howard was listing three categories of people who would not be covered by
00:03:19.840the amendment, including foreigners and aliens. No sane person alive at the time would have ever
00:03:26.900contemplated the idea that if a Chinese woman flew into Miami while nine months pregnant and
00:03:32.900then gave birth to a child, then that child must automatically become a United States citizen.
00:03:39.040They certainly would have contemplated the idea that tens of millions of Mexicans and Haitians0.75
00:03:43.860and Guatemalans could colonize entire states simply by invading the country and having a0.64
00:03:49.980very large number of children. That's not what they had in mind, obviously, but that's exactly0.93
00:03:54.360what has transpired. And the conservatives on the Supreme Court, given a once-in-a-lifetime
00:03:58.720opportunity to lawfully preserve the future existence of the United States of America,
00:04:03.920decided instead, at least one of the alleged conservatives, Amy Coney Barrett, decided to1.00
00:04:09.720protect her own image as nonpartisan. I mean, catastrophic does not begin to describe this
00:04:17.300ruling. It's yet another way in which our laws are being bastardized and distorted beyond
00:04:22.660recognition as a way of transforming this country into something unrecognizable.
00:04:28.160But rather than generally lamenting this horrible decision, this catastrophic decision,
00:04:34.080We will go through the decision piece by piece and dismantle it and talk about also where we can go from here.
00:04:42.440I mean, there are some things we can do in light of this moment to at least mitigate the damage.
00:04:49.540And we're going to get into all that. We're going to talk about all that in great detail tomorrow.
00:04:56.360Today, though, we're going to talk about another way, also disastrous, that the legal system has been manipulated in this country.
00:05:04.900And this is a separate topic, but at the same time, as you'll see, it is related in more ways than you might think.
00:05:11.660And maybe the most egregious example of what I'm talking about, which often flies under the radar, it isn't discussed very much, concerns the rise of the so-called insanity defense.
00:05:23.040Now, if you ask the experts, they'll tell you that the insanity defense is rarely invoked.
00:05:28.600And they'll claim that in the vast majority of cases, the insanity defense is unsuccessful.
00:05:33.320And even when the insanity defense works, you're told, the perpetrators don't get off easy.
00:05:38.280They supposedly have to endure a very unpleasant stint in a mental hospital where they'll probably spend the rest of their lives.
00:05:44.120And you're just supposed to sort of take their word for all of this.
00:05:47.220Now, all of these claims are false, as we'll discuss at length in a moment.
00:05:50.940In reality, the insanity defense is one of the most overused and most effective legal defenses that criminals can employ.
00:05:59.120But before we get into that data and what kind of brings all this up is a case that I want to highlight, which which has to be one of the most disturbing examples of this issue.
00:06:10.220So in August of 2021 in Miami-Dade County, Florida, a woman named Precious Bland, that's her name, drowned her 15-month-old daughter in a bathtub, killing her, then stabbed her husband in the head and neck when he tried to intervene.
00:06:26.820And then she also stabbed her teenage daughter, for good measure.
00:06:30.100It's one of the most gruesome crimes that is imaginable.
00:06:35.040But Precious Bland was, just a few days ago, this happened late last week.
00:06:40.220found not guilty by reason of insanity, and she will not spend a single day in a mental institution.
00:06:48.340She is a free woman after she just murdered her 15-month-old child.
00:06:55.700Why? Well, because according to the judge and the defense attorneys, COVID made her do it.
00:07:02.260Yes, COVID compelled her to commit murder and attempted murder, and therefore she's free to go.
00:07:07.460Now, watch this news report where the anchors, for some reason, are on the beach.
00:07:12.860I don't know, but here they talk about the case. Watch.
00:07:17.760A mother here in Miami was found not guilty of killing her one-year-old daughter
00:07:22.580after she claimed a medical crisis brought on by COVID made her do it.
00:07:27.960So today, she told NBC6 how she is trying to rebuild her life
00:07:32.120despite the tragedy that changed her family forever.
00:07:35.380NBC6's Christian Kulong joins us with a story.
00:07:43.340Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, please.
00:07:46.680These were some of the things Precious Bland shouted to police on an August night in 2021.
00:07:52.600Shortly after, investigators say she drowned her one-year-old daughter,
00:07:56.480stabbed her husband and teenage daughter.
00:07:58.500I would not wish this upon anyone to have to go through.0.65
00:08:04.780something so tragic. After nearly five years facing murder-related charges for killing her
00:08:11.020infant, Bland is now a free woman. This week, a judge found her not guilty by reason of insanity
00:08:17.240after a bench trial where she waived her right to a jury. That was my child. As a mother,
00:08:22.940I'm here to to protect children and to love them and to give them the best.
00:08:33.860And that's what I did all my life with my children.
00:08:45.920COVID took that away from me in that moment.
00:08:50.000Bland's attorney argued the Navy veteran suffered a psychotic episode triggered by COVID,
00:08:55.700causing hallucinations and voices that told her to baptize her family members who were also infected with the virus.
00:09:02.580This was COVID. It's a woman who served our country for five years, combat duty.
00:09:09.800As a mother, I'm here to protect my children and love them. That's what I did all my life.
00:09:13.800COVID took that away from me in that moment.
00:09:16.460Now, we're going to finish the news report in a moment because somehow it gets even more
00:09:20.500outrageous. But already, just think about the implications of what she's saying and what the
00:09:25.160judge agreed with. They're saying a viral infection, a respiratory illness that affected
00:09:30.760more than 100 million Americans and more than 70 percent of adults, somehow compelled this
00:09:35.940particular woman to murder her own child and then stab her husband and her daughter.
00:09:39.920I mean, tens of millions of people contracted COVID without murdering anybody, but this one person had no other choice but to start executing her own children.
00:09:50.400And therefore, we can conclude that COVID makes you commit murder.
00:09:55.260COVID made her believe that Satan was coming and that she needed to baptize her child by committing murder.
00:13:11.140He's deliberately allowing murderers to get away with the most heinous crimes you can conceive of,
00:13:15.920which is something, as we've seen, that's become all too common in recent years.
00:13:21.440Ronald Exantis entered a random house, if you remember, and brutally murdered a six-year-old
00:13:27.000boy before trying to execute the rest of the family. And he got out of prison in nine years.
00:13:33.340And now we have a child killer getting zero prison time, period. She's not even going to0.84
00:13:38.800an institution. She's free to do whatever she wants. She has a license from the judge to finish
00:13:45.720off the rest of her children or her husband, which there's a very good chance she will.
00:13:51.260Now, for the record, prosecutors did establish a motive during the trial.
00:13:55.520They made the case that Precious Bland was upset about the fact that her husband was cheating on
00:14:00.980her and she snapped and she became violent. And in her hysterical and homicidal state of mind,
00:14:05.700she killed her child to punish her husband before trying to kill him as well, which is a very common
00:14:10.760motive in these kinds of crimes. Watch. Tears filled the courtroom as the mother who admitted
00:14:18.460to killing her baby daughter was found not guilty by reason of insanity following a two-day bench
00:14:25.040trial. As to count one, aggravated manslaughter. The defendant is not guilty by reason of insanity.
00:14:30.820As to count two, attempted murder in the first degree. The defendant is not guilty by reason of
00:14:34.960insanity. And as to count three attempted murder in the first degree, the defendant is not guilty
00:14:40.040by reason of insanity. State prosecutors tried to prove that this mother of six killed her 15
00:14:45.900month old because she told investigators her husband was cheating. The voices and the COVID
00:14:52.200psychosis is a fabrication and an embellished story. The judge didn't buy it. That theory,
00:14:58.500it doesn't make sense to me that she decided to do all the things that she did, going to all the
00:15:04.380neighbors, calling her family members, putting the kids in the water, all of it because she was
00:15:09.260angry due to some perceived infidelity. Her lawyers argued Bland was overcome by the voices
00:15:14.920in her head and had a COVID-induced psychotic break. Satan is a deceiver. There's so much that0.88
00:15:20.800we don't know about COVID. And this was, you know, one of the first cases in the country to go to
00:15:27.060trial on COVID-ing the defense to murder. Bland spent three and a half years behind bars before
00:15:33.700being released about a year ago now after a judge cleared her of criminal responsibility in her
00:15:39.480daughter's death she says she's focused on moving forward just ready to get my life back together
00:15:45.940my husband and my children just move forward
00:15:50.480she wants to move forward isn't that nice with her husband and her children uh at least the one0.75
00:15:58.480she hasn't killed yet and just on the basis of these interviews all by themselves this woman1.00
00:16:03.520deserves life in prison. She's obviously detached from reality right now in the present.
00:16:08.600But in the eyes of the legal system, she was just temporarily insane when she tried to annihilate1.00
00:16:13.800her entire family and murdered her daughter in a bloody bathtub. We're supposed to believe that0.91
00:16:18.900she's completely fine now, which even if that were true, shouldn't matter, but it's obviously not0.97
00:16:27.600true okay you can't just be so crazy that you kill your own child and then a couple years later
00:16:33.740you're fine like you got over the flu or something and you can listen to her for 10 seconds and come1.00
00:16:39.800to that conclusion now the the lawyers here are obviously scum as well no surprise there her0.99
00:16:45.680attorney is a guy named larry handfield who told reporters quote this was covid it's a woman who0.97
00:16:50.940served our country for five years living the american dream until covid came she didn't ask
00:16:55.800for COVID. Yeah, well, her daughter didn't ask for a homicidal, psychotic mother either.0.99
00:17:04.040So just totally shameless. But I want to highlight what this judge, Judge De La Oh,0.50
00:17:09.640said when he rendered his decision in this case. He said that he simply doesn't buy the idea that
00:17:15.020this woman would go through all this trouble if she was simply angry at her husband for cheating
00:17:18.960on her. He thinks there's no way that a scorned woman would possibly go to the neighbors, call
00:17:24.640her family, drown her daughter, all because she felt that her husband was unfaithful.
00:17:29.620So put it another way, in Miami-Dade County, if you want to get away scot-free with murdering
00:17:34.640your family, it's actually very simple. You just have to bother the neighbors for a bit,
00:17:39.500call your family members beforehand, say a few words about Satan and baptism when the body cams
00:17:44.740show up, and you're golden. The judge will conclude that you're obviously suffering from
00:17:49.340a bad case of COVID, and therefore you can murder whoever you want to murder.0.88
00:17:53.120Now, of course, all these mental health questions are entirely irrelevant.
00:18:00.020Whether this woman was truly psychotic or not, whether she had long COVID or not, it doesn't matter.0.92
00:18:07.460The fact that she killed her own child by itself is grounds for removing her from society permanently.
00:18:14.780If a person is so mentally deranged that they allegedly cannot be held responsible for, as in this case, drowning their own child in the bathtub, that is all the more reason why such a person should be removed from society permanently.
00:18:30.920And if you don't want to think of it as a punishment, don't.
00:18:33.060You know, if it makes your tummy hurt0.96
00:18:35.520to think that we're punishing a mentally ill person,0.98
00:18:38.620which like, okay, why can't we punish mentally ill people?0.96
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00:21:44.220case, along with the Ronald Exantis trial that I mentioned earlier, got me interested in doing a
00:21:49.860deep dive on the insanity defense, which we've talked about a little bit on the show, and how
00:21:55.120it's become a cancer in our legal system. And my sense, although it's only anecdotal, is that we're
00:21:59.980seeing a lot more of these criminals claim to be not guilty by reason of insanity, and we're seeing
00:22:05.900the insanity defense work, even in cases where it clearly shouldn't. There was the infamous
00:22:12.100Slenderman stabbing in 2014, for example, in which Anissa Ware and Morgan Geyser lured a friend into
00:22:18.880a wooded area and attempted to kill her as a sacrifice to Slenderman, a fictional character.
00:22:24.340They stabbed their victim 19 times. Somehow she survived. Both defendants were found not guilty
00:22:29.680by reason of insanity. Ware was sentenced to 25 years. Geyser was sentenced to 40,
00:22:34.340with both sentences to be served in a mental institution.
00:23:34.460And normally this is as far as any discussion of the insanity defense goes.
00:23:38.640You'll hear about a series of outrageous cases where the law is clearly being abused,
00:23:42.880but you're not able to draw any larger conclusions because it's all anecdotal.
00:23:48.160Well, as it turns out, this is a deliberate quirk of the system.
00:23:51.420There is no database, national, state-by-state, or anything,
00:23:55.200that tracks how often the insanity defense is used or how often it's successful. Outside of
00:24:01.840random studies by researchers, no one is tracking any important statistics on this subject, on the
00:24:08.160insanity defense. And on top of that, even in states where the insanity defense has technically
00:24:12.620been abolished, it's still being used in practice. Take Montana, for instance. It's true the defendants
00:24:18.240can no longer plead not guilty by reason of insanity, but they are able to claim as part of
00:24:23.560a regular not guilty plea that they lack the state of mind necessary to commit the crime
00:24:28.720due to some mental illness. So just kind of a roundabout way of arguing the same thing.
00:24:33.820And that said, if you get clever with the data, you'll be able to find some proxies for this
00:24:38.460information. A few years ago, the Department of Health and Human Services in Virginia put out a
00:24:41.980study that took a close look at state psychiatric facilities, the places where criminals typically
00:24:47.020go when they're found not guilty by reason of insanity. In the absence of asylums, this is where
00:24:52.120we're sending these people. This was a long-running study from 1999 to 2016, and during that period,0.99
00:24:57.640the researchers tracked the number of so-called forensic patients in state mental hospitals
00:25:01.980over the years. A forensic patient is basically a patient who was ordered to go to the facility
00:25:06.320as part of a sentence, or for an evaluation in a criminal trial, or because they're considered
00:25:11.220potentially incompetent to stand trial. And here's what they found, quote,
00:25:16.240states that are experiencing dramatic pressures accommodating forensic patients describe operating
00:25:20.440at full capacity. Overall national trend lines show a 76% increase in the number of forensic
00:25:26.060patients in state hospitals from 1999 to 2014, though the trend is not consistent across all
00:25:31.880states. So this is a massive jump, obviously. The number of forensic patients in psychiatric
00:25:37.480facilities has increased dramatically in just 15 years, and this data is only current as of 2014.
00:25:43.300We can assume that, based on this trend line, as well as all the stories we're talking about,
00:25:47.800that number has only continued to increase. But it's important to point out, as this chart
00:25:53.060demonstrates, that much of the growth is occurring in one state, which is California. It's actually
00:25:59.500hard to interpret this graph because California skews the results so much. Beginning at the turn
00:26:05.160of the century, without ever holding any kind of vote or referendum on the topic, California vastly
00:26:10.260expanded the use of the insanity defense, as well as rulings where criminals were deemed incompetent
00:26:14.840to stand trial. Instead of sending criminals to prison, they began putting them in hospitals.
00:26:21.240But this was not only happening in California. This chart helps to see that other states
00:26:26.760increased their use of psychiatric facilities quite a bit as well. Florida, Georgia, Minnesota,
00:26:32.900Nebraska, Nevada, Texas, Wisconsin all saw very large increases in their forensic populations at
00:26:38.600state hospitals during this period. In general, the states with the highest percentage of forensic
00:26:43.120patients, as you expect, were left-wing. Quote, seven states had an emission rate of forensic
00:26:48.600patients that exceeded 15 per 100,000. District of Columbia, Hawaii, Virginia, California,
00:26:55.120Washington, Colorado, and Ohio. And keep in mind, this massive increase in forensic patients is
00:27:02.000taking place while the overall patient population at these hospitals is declining. Now, it used to
00:27:07.100be that older patients, particularly patients with dementia, would receive care at these facilities,
00:27:11.460but increasingly they're getting care at home or in a specialized assisted living center.
00:27:16.620They've moved out of the state hospitals and they've been replaced in large number
00:27:20.500by criminals. From 1999 to 2005, as for patients who were not guilty by reason of insanity,
00:27:27.520quote, the total percent change calculations suggest there was a 9% increase between 1999
00:27:32.940and 2005, a 3% decrease between 2005 and 2014, and a 6% increase between 1999 and 2014.
00:27:43.640This is not a perfect statistic since it doesn't count states that abolish the insanity
00:27:47.640defense, although they still have it in practice, as we discussed.
00:27:51.420Additionally, as the report finds, from 1999 to 2014 across all 27 states, there was a
00:27:56.38072% increase in the number of IST, or Incompetent to Stand Trial, patients receiving competency
00:28:01.760restoration services on a given census day. Now, what's important to understand here is that as a
00:28:10.640matter of policy, many of these hospitals simply can't keep these so-called IST or incompetent
00:28:16.900to stand trial patients in their custody for very long for that purpose. Quote, 19 states indicated
00:28:22.880they cannot hold an IST patient for competency restoration services for longer than two years.
00:28:27.48011 of these 19 states cannot hold an ISD patient for longer than one year.
00:28:31.940Six states reported that an ISD patient could be committed for competency restoration services for up to three years or more.
00:28:37.560Four states indicated that the maximum length of time that an ISD patient can be committed can vary depending on the sentence length or the case itself.
00:28:44.340Nine states reported having no specific limit on the length of time that an ISD patient could be committed for competency restoration services at a state psychiatric hospital.
00:28:53.880Now, after this period has expired, only patients who are deemed unrestorable can continue to remain in the hospital indefinitely.
00:29:01.480But there's a massive problem here because the hospitals are out of room.
00:29:05.520State mental facilities in 35 of 46 states are experiencing shortages of psychiatric hospital beds, according to this report.
00:29:12.660And 26 states reported a shortage of beds for forensic status patients committed by the courts for evaluation or long-term stays.
00:29:20.620Now, this is not simply a matter of logistics. State-run hospitals that run out of room
00:29:26.000that can't handle patients the court sends to them are held in contempt of court. They have
00:29:32.260to pay fines. Administrators can lose their jobs. In fact, as this HHS report notes, 20 out of 37
00:29:38.280states that participated in the survey reported that they had been threatened with or held in
00:29:43.020contempt. And 11 of those states specifically said that the length of time the patients were
00:29:47.960waiting for admission to the hospital was a major factor in their contempt charges. So you see how
00:29:53.800this works. A criminal will stab someone. He'll say that he's mentally ill. A judge will send him
00:29:59.920to a hospital, which has to determine whether he's competent to stand trial and whether he was insane
00:30:04.520when he committed the crime. All this is totally arbitrary. But the hospital doesn't have the
00:30:10.220capacity to make that determination because they don't have hospital beds. And also the whole
00:30:16.080process for determining whether someone was insane when they did something is totally fake.
00:30:20.120I mean, it's all just completely fake. And even if they do eventually determine that this person
00:30:25.140is crazy, they can't keep them in the hospital because they have no room. So guess what happens
00:30:30.320next? Well, you guessed it. The state hospital is held in contempt and the criminals are freed.
00:30:35.220That's what just happened in Oregon. This is a report from just a few weeks ago. Watch.
00:30:41.240In Oregon, a person charged with a crime but considered too mentally ill to aid with their own defense
00:30:47.100is often sent to the Oregon State Hospital for treatment.
00:30:51.180A new order from a federal judge will limit that option to the most serious cases,
00:30:56.780felonies like assault, murder and rape.
00:30:58.660It means defendants facing less severe charges now have fewer options
00:31:03.580and they could be released from custody before getting treatment.
00:31:07.200If there's somebody who is mentally unstable and needs the help and the assistance of the state hospital, we should be giving that to them.
00:31:16.760Kevin Cameron is a Marion County commissioner. The state hospital is in his district.
00:31:21.740He's one of multiple county leaders who are critical of the judge's ruling.
00:31:25.860That causes a public safety problem, and it also is a challenge for those people.
00:31:32.240I mean, we shouldn't be, it's inhumane to be sending people out on the street that don't belong out there.
00:31:39.760The order also restricts extensions of a patient's stay at the state hospital,
00:31:44.420meaning violent offenders could be released after six months.
00:31:48.040The goal, get Oregon back in compliance with the federal order0.77
00:31:51.620requiring mentally ill defendants to move from a jail to the state hospital within seven days.
00:31:57.300We know that every day a person with mental illness that is so severe they can't help their lawyer in their case
00:32:03.680spends in jail is a day when they're at risk of suicide, they're at risk of harm from others, they decompensate.
00:32:11.500It's been a decades-long problem in Oregon.
00:32:14.480The state was found in contempt last year.
00:32:17.540Oregon has since racked up more than $3.7 million in fines due to noncompliance.
00:32:23.360the judge wrote, defendants, the Oregon Health Authority, are likely to achieve compliance
00:32:28.680considerably sooner with these remedial measures in effect. So it really has everything. You've
00:32:33.960got the black left-wing judge who's letting everybody out of prison. You've got the white0.96
00:32:38.020leftist woman with the glasses who said it's the humane thing to do. You've got the old white guy0.71
00:32:42.880trying desperately in vain to convince everybody that it's a bad idea to spring violent lunatics0.99
00:32:47.300on the public. But in Oregon, he is outvoted. Rather than throw these criminals in prison,
00:32:53.060which is supposedly the worst-case scenario, a human rights violation, Oregon has decided to
00:32:59.540release them onto the streets. Because who cares about the human rights of the law-abiding members
00:33:06.860of your community? Who cares about them? So the murderous lunatics have a human right to
00:33:13.260be free, but the law-abiding citizens of the community have no right to be free from0.93
00:33:19.780being brutalized and killed by those very same lunatics. Okay. Now, what's interesting is that0.87
00:33:26.080not too long ago when we had asylums, prison was considered the humane option. Bellevue was0.95
00:33:32.560notorious. They'd cut your brain up if you were too disorderly. Meanwhile, the Pennhurst Asylum0.94
00:33:37.280in Pennsylvania was so creepy and disturbing that they've turned it into a haunted house
00:33:41.580in the present day. Now, if patients weren't insane when they walked into the asylum,
00:33:48.500they often lost their minds before they left, and they certainly would have a tough time in there.
00:33:53.160But towards the end of the 20th century, in our quest to be more humane, we shut down this asylum
00:33:58.540and every other asylum like it. As the New York Times wrote in 1984, quote, the first lawsuit in
00:34:04.120the nation to argue that the mentally retarded have a constitutional right to living quarters
00:34:07.880and education in their home communities has been settled after 10 years with state officials
00:34:12.020agreeing to shut down the Penhurst Center for the Mentally Retarded. This makes possible a new life0.99
00:34:16.660for retarded people across eastern Pennsylvania, across the Commonwealth, and across the country,0.85
00:34:21.000said Thomas K. Gilhoul, an attorney for the state chapter of the Association for Retarded Citizens,
00:34:27.680an organization that was instrumental in the negotiations. They freed all the retarded people,1.00
00:34:32.240and one of them is now on the Supreme Court, Katonja Brown Jackson. So that's kind of an1.00
00:34:36.600inspiring story, but it seemed like a good idea to people at the time. We gave the retarded people1.00
00:34:41.240a better quality of life. But one of the many second order effects of this decision is that0.98
00:34:46.720without the horror of asylums looming in the back of their minds, criminals gained a brand new
00:34:51.960incentive to make phony insanity pleas. I mean, it used to be that no sane person would plead
00:34:59.340not guilty by reason of insanity because being sent to an asylum was effectively torture. It
00:35:04.800was worse than prison. But now that asylums are gone and state hospitals are full, we've created1.00
00:35:10.800a very obvious reason for criminals to pretend to be insane. I mean, why not? The existence of
00:35:16.200asylums guaranteed that insanity pleas were mostly legitimate, because by definition, no sane person
00:35:22.900would want to go there. The absence of asylums ensured that most insanity pleas are fraudulent.
00:35:30.680That's also ironic, because at one point, prisons were considered the progressive option. You know,
00:35:35.600they were certainly more progressive than simply hanging criminals on the spot,
00:35:38.660which is what we used to do and in many ways was a better system. Now prisons are seen as the worst
00:35:45.020case scenario in the eyes of the social justice activists. They'll always complain about any
00:35:49.060deterrent to criminal behavior. And as of 2026, their complaints have been effective. Society has
00:35:55.780bowed to their demands consistently. That's why we're all conditioned to think that these insanity
00:36:01.200pleas and this insane 76% increase in the number of forensic patients are all totally normal.
00:36:07.360They're not, or they shouldn't be. I mean, that's the reality. Insanity as a distinct medical
00:36:13.060category, actually, is a very new concept. It certainly is not some concept that's as old as
00:36:22.300civilization, which is a ridiculous claim that I've seen circulating online. Yes, people have
00:36:27.760behaved in bizarre and evil ways throughout all of history. Roman legal codes address people who
00:36:33.300are mentally incompetent. That's true. But the idea that these people have a mental illness1.00
00:36:37.480or that they just need to take a few pills and spend a few nights in a hospital
00:36:41.580is indeed very new. I mean, the rules that our courts use to determine insanity were established
00:36:47.900around 1840, less than two centuries ago. Before that, we were capable of identifying
00:36:53.200demons when we saw them. We also understood that evil people exist too.
00:37:00.260Evil people do things that seem insane to people who are not evil.
00:37:05.960We could identify evil people without pretending that COVID was controlling their minds,
00:37:10.120and we could dispense with them accordingly.
00:37:12.920One of the major lessons of the latest Supreme Court ruling
00:37:15.860is that we have drifted very far from the legal system that our founders envisioned.0.93
00:37:22.920We've treated illegal aliens, as well as the allegedly insane,
00:37:26.660in ways that don't remotely align with the fundamental principles of the Constitution.0.99