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| Lane Davis |
Courtesy of the
Daily Beast:
Lane had spent that Friday morning as he did most mornings, on the internet. This day, like the others, Lane read and retweeted posts celebrating the Second Amendment, bemoaning diversity, and spreading conspiracy theories that alleged Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta was involved in a child sex ring and DNC staffer Seth Rich had been murdered. It was the end of a busy week during which he contributed to the Donald Trump subreddit, and over on The Ralph Retort, a fringe blog where he worked as a political editor, (unpaid, according to the site’s owner), he had celebrated the idea of a Kid Rock Senate run, claimed America was under threat of Sharia law, and wondered whether CNN was “literally ISIS.”
Lane’s parents, Catherine and Charles Davis—Charles was known as Chuck to his friends—were used to their 33-year-old son’s outbursts. They had become so frequent that Charles had started recording the tirades on his phone. But that afternoon, they were tired of Lane’s screaming, wanted him to leave, and told him as much. Instead, Lane chased his parents around their home, spitting in his father’s face while screaming that he wasn’t threatening to kill them, but “pedophiles who were taking over the country.”
The Daily Beast has a copy of the 911 call and on it Lane Davis can be heard becoming increasingly upset that his mother called the police, calling them Leftists and pedophiles, and then he makes this chilling remark:
“OK well, so here’s the deal. If I am going to go to prison for threatening to kill somebody, I mean...”
“Leave the knife alone,” Charles says while his mother tries to reassure him: No one wants to send him to prison, they just want some help.
Lane doesn’t seem to hear or believe his mother. “So, you are going to send me to prison?” he asks. “My life is over.”
Minutes later the mother can be heard shouting "He stabbed him," and "He's dead, he's dead, he's dead."
For his part Lane Davis just stood outside with his hands in the air and waited for the police to arrive, while his 73 year old father was lying dead on the back deck.
You know we often talk about how Donald Trump empowers the racists in this country.
But there are other folks who feel that he gives them a voice as well.
The mentally ill for instance.
You see the problem with having somebody who clearly suffers from a mental illness in the White House is that it empowers and excites other mentally ill people into thinking that their time has finally come, and that there cannot be anything wrong with them since someone with similarly erratic and anti-social behaviors as their own is now sitting in the most powerful position in the country.
This is not just finding a like minded group on the internet who support the idea of going off of your psychotropic medications, or think that homicidal or suicidal thoughts are perfectly normal.
No this is much, much bigger.
Clearly this kid was sick, and he desperately needed a mental health evaluation.
But with his current mindset how could he ever accept that there was anything wrong with the way he thinks?
How do you convince an individual with serious mental health problems to seek help, when they see Donald Trump on TV every day walking around freely while seemingly well adjusted people run around doing damage control for him and working to keep him in power?
