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...federal court's finding last week that John Warnock Hinckley Jr. was not gurity by reason of insanity of gunning down the president and three other 16 months ago must kindle the same questions. Imagine what the Soviets must think of us in the wake of the Hinckley acquittal. The same society that unceasingly berates them for external aggression itself refuses to punish a crime-attempted murder of the President-that almost anywhere else would be grounds for invocation of the death penalty...
That's one way looking at the Hinckley verdict...
...other way is to forget entirely about how the outside world is reacting. The Hinckley jury plainly did that. Unlike many celebrated murder trials, a not-guilty finding appealed to no constituency. There were none of the Southern racists who might have applauded the acquittal of James Earl Ray, none of the Rhode Island jet setters who would have loved to see Claus von Bulow go free...
...weak, incoherent minds, the yearning antiself rises up and breaks through a wall into actuality. That seems to have happened with John W. Hinckley Jr., the young man who shot Ronald Reagan last year. Since no strong self disciplined his vagrant aches and needs, it was his antiself that pulled the trigger. It was his nonentity. The antiself is a monster sometimes, a cancer, a gnawing hypothesis...
...amazed that the prosecutor in John Hinckley's trial is trying to prove that Hinckley is sane. The only question is, did he commit a crime? A person's state of mind should not determine his guilt or innocence...