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...Ethics Committee about his shady book deals and that they have allowed their lobbyists to stand on the edge of the House floor, writing the very text of the bills to be voted upon. The Watergate comparison is inevitable. But while I consider the actions of the paranoid and plotting Richard Nixon to be evil, I think of Clinton's alleged actions as just plain stupid. He seems to have allowed his large personal flaw to get in the way of his job. Nixon condoned his flunkies' breaking into the office of the Democratic National Committee. And that was just...
Grove believes "only the paranoid survive." My dictionary defines paranoia as a chronic mental disorder characterized by delusions of persecution and of one's own greatness. Poor Grove. He would have us believe that our competitive free-enterprise system works only if one is emotionally sick. ROBERT ROSS Hendersonville...
...this deal differ than Kaczynski's December offer, which government prosecutors rejected? The Bureau of Prisons psychiatrist who examined Kaczynski last week gave federal prosecutors the "out" they needed: she found that although Kaczynski was competent to stand trial, he was also a paranoid schizophrenic. At that point, prosecutors realized that a death sentence finding by a jury was probably out of reach...
...insisted that the defendant's mental state was considered but added, "Any serial killer is nuts. Does that mean they should all be spared the death penalty?" Prosecutors say Kaczynski has continually refused to be examined by their psychiatrists--and that such behavior is typical not so much of paranoid schizophrenics but of malingerers...
Although his lawyers have not claimed that Kaczynski is incompetent to stand trial, they still believe, despite their shift in strategy, that he is psychotic. But the particular illness he has poses problems for them. People with paranoid schizophrenia are often able to function relatively normally. Indeed, no one watching the neatly dressed former Berkeley professor scribbling notes and conferring with his attorneys would say he looks insane. Insanity, the most obvious defense, was never an option because it would have required Kaczynski's lawyers to argue that he either did not know what he was doing...