Teen charged with 'cyberstalking' in bomb hoax case An 18-year-old dual citizen of the US and Israel has been charged with making a string of online and phone threats against schools and Jewish community centers. Michael Ron David Kadar has been charged by the US Department of Justice with five counts, including cyberstalking, for allegedly threatening shootings and bombings …
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So what? Why should having a tumour be a better excuse that being born stupid or born with a criminal personality? It's out of the defendant's control in any case.
Obviously I'd be in favour of leniency for everyone rather than leniency for fewer. And obviously by "leniency" I mean looking after dangerous people nicely rather than setting them free. This guy is probably not very dangerous, so care in the community, I'd say.
I'm not a brain surgeon, but I don't see how a tumour could impair his ability to understand that what he was doing was wrong, while not impairing his ability to perform some fairly complex actions to try and hide his tracks (which, buy doing so, seems to imply that he was doing something wrong, otherwise why bother with the subterfuge?)
You have a point, BR, brain stuff IS complicated. So let's examine the rest of the comment, shall we?
"...but I don't see how a tumour could impair his ability to understand that what he was doing was wrong, while not impairing his ability to perform some fairly complex actions to try and hide his tracks (which, buy doing so, seems to imply that he was doing something wrong, otherwise why bother with the subterfuge?)"
I gather your problem with this is that a brain tumour might destroy the perp's scruples about getting innocent people killed by SWAT teams while leaving all the skills required to obfuscate his identity. Okay fine, but isn't it interesting how these conditions would also be expected in a perp who is NOT impaired, but merely homicidal? And that perps of this kind abound in the world while the specific brain damage you allege is rather uncommon, to say the least?
Thus I find your dismissive attitude toward Hans less than reasonable.
That's fine...in Whitman's case, a tumo(u)r may have triggered his hostility and anger - but they do not claim it affected his cognition...Whitman did not conceal his actions, he was a straightforward "kill until I'm killed" serial murderer.
No bearing on this kid who took NO actions of his own, but got his kicks in making other people scared. That's not some unbearable rage or anger - that's being a jerk.
I'm not a brain surgeon, but I don't see how a tumour could impair his ability to understand that what he was doing was wrong...
Unfortunately, for him right or wrong may not factor into it. For someone that is biologically cognitively impaired, this bad behavior might satisfy a hardwired emotional need in his damaged mind. It doesn't excuse his behavior, it just explains it.
He's not a danger? Okay...245 misdemeanors then, and just 1 month in jail per false alarm - he'll be out in 20 years, 5 months.
False alarms put everyone at risk...and calling SWAT on someone *is* dangerous...SWAT isn't deployed to deliver search warrants, they deploy to kill. Hopefully, just the "bad guys", but around here, SWAT weapons-safety training isn't all that great. One shot an empty closet, while his team leader was apologizing to the homeowner for the team having invaded THE WRONG HOUSE. Perhaps the closet did something threatening.
"..affects his cognitive functions..."? Seems like his thought processes worked well enough that he knew what he was doing was illegal. Otherwise, he wouldn't have even tried to cover his tracks. I suspect he has the same "cognitive" malfunction most 18-year-olds do - thinks he's smarter and better than everyone else and can get away with anything. Because he found this website about being anonymous on the web, and didn't notice the "1998" timestamp on it. These basics probably would have worked 15-20 years ago.
Brain tumors can have the effect of causing you not not to have impulse control. So while it did not make him an ass it can stop him and think hmm what I'm doing is a bad a idea. Oh and llet my press on random parts of you brain and see what happens.Tumors can destroy you perception of right and wrong. But for some reason you refuse to believe that.
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It could be that he's a victim of Progressivism, converted into a self-hater by an endless barrage of lies about how his people are evil incarnate, while the permanent Muslim refugees held prisoner against the Israeli borders by Egypt and Jordan are all innocent lambs, even the ones who strap explosives to their own children.
He wouldn't be the first self-hating Jew in history, that's for sure.
> I just can't get my head around why an Israeli with dual nationality
> would attack Jewish centres in the US from Israel.
For the same reason Israeli kids used to buy leather jackets stamped with "Nazi". I don't know if that interesting fashion statement is still trendy, but the fact remains that some teenagers like to be asses.
The Israelis might have a solution for this 18 year old's personal problems? U.S. authorities must be politically correct in their charges of this malicious adult or deal with the wrath of the technically clueless who don't see any harm in this person's emotional attack on civilians. Five years minimum in prison would do this sick puppy good and spare society.
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