EXCITED DELIRIUM

Words can confuse communication.  An example is the phrase “excited delirium” that may be used in pace of “bad attitude”.

\housands of inmates could be denied a chance at shorter sentences after Supreme Court rulingend 

The provision in question lays out a list of criteria for handing down sentences that are lower than the mandatory minimums. The court ruled that Pulsifer had to meet all the conditions, rejecting his argument that he could meet some of them and still obtain relief. The decision centered in part on the court’s interpretation of the word “and.

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Founder and Owner of Pharmaceutical Company Insys Arrested and Charged with Racketeerin

It’s easier to suppress one’s bad attitude if one has immunity..  The bad actors demanding and receiving immunity may be the scum that rises to the top, and based on greed and moral decay.—

Sackler family wins immunity from opioid lawsuits

 – In 2021, there were more than 100,000 overdose deaths in the US, with opioids involved in 75% of those according to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

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NYS Senator Backtracks On Pro-Slave Labor Tweet — ”I Don’t Support Slavery”

In it, Blevins, bearded and heavyset, held a tiki torch on the University of Virginia campus, on the eve of Unite the Right, a 2017 coming-together of the nation’s neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups. 

Connie Vickers had found the photo online along with others showing Blevins marching alongside an angry mob — a crowd of men recorded throughout the night spitting and shouting “Jews will not replace us!” Vickers had it enlarged at a local print and copy shop. On a January night in 2023, she and Nancy Presnall, best friends, retirees and rare Democrats in a deeply red Oklahoma county, brought it to a sparsely attended forum where Blevins, a candidate running to represent Ward 1 on Enid’s six-seat City Council, was making his case.-end of Oklahoma info–

White Nationalists/patriarchy/authoritarianism, in the imagination of some people.  – Fred Akshar’s relationship spurs Broome DA candidate to call for new policies

– The letter continues by asking the legislature to present any guidelines to local police agencies for consideration of adopting them into each department’s standards of conduct for police officers.

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Most law enforcement have a mission of protecting and serving the public.  One wonders about the hierarchy that relies on Citizens United for purchase into positions of power.  

In particular one is interested in “bad attitude” laws that seem to stifle Free Speech and liberty that constitute (small C) the freedom of a democratic Constitutional Republic (as compared, for example, to the People’s Republic of of China that leans communistic.  Why in the USA are hierarchy expanding possession of immunity while citizens in the general public are suspiciously “cracked down” upon.  Should we ask these questions, while applying the concepts to the actions of such watch-dog groups as law enforcement?  Or is this insinuation too much Free Speech into the process for the comfort of the powerful?

From AOL today—

Excited delirium is a four-decade-old diagnostic theory that has been used to explain how a person experiencing severe agitation can suddenly die while being restrained. Last year, the American College of Emergency Physicians withdrew a 2009 report that had been the last remaining official medical pillar of support for the theory used increasingly over the prior 15 years to explain away police culpability for many in-custody deaths.–end of aol info  —

One was interested in the views on C-Span this morning.–   Washington Journal: Nick Troiano Discusses Overhauling

 Political Primaries in the U.S.——–

MARCH 16, 2024 | PART OF WASHINGTON JOURNAL 03/16/2024

Washington Journal

Nick Troiano on Overhauling Political Primaries in the U.S.

Unite America Executive Director Nick Troiano discussed his ideas to overhaul political primaries in the U.S. which he said is fueling political extremism and dysfunction.

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One is curious for traditional non-involvement by young people in politics, that is the process that will shape their futures.  I hear great ideas coming from the limited number of young people who do speak up.  One does wish youngsters in general would be as exercised over American politics as they seem over Tik Tok.  

Nick Troiano was an excellent example of the possibilities.