Aspergers used to try reduce sentence of convicted terrorist
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From Newsday Pay site
"A former psychologist in the Babylon school district testified Tuesday she believes convicted terrorist Justin Kaliebe had Asperger’s syndrome or some related condition on the autism spectrum when he was a student"
"In February 2013, Kaliebe, then 18, who has lived in Babylon and Brentwood, pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to terrorists and a foreign terrorist organization by trying unsuccessfully to get to Yemen to join al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula."
"Kaliebe’s attorney, Anthony La Pinta of Hauppauge, is attempting to convince U.S. District Judge Denis Hurley his client should get a drastically reduced sentence because of a diminished capacity to make judgments."
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He is sentenced to 13 years
Judge gives light sentence to autistic wannabe terrorist
Long Island federal court Judge Denis Hurley agreed that Kaliebe was “radicalized to the nth degree” but said he has a “malady” and “probably falls somewhere on the autistic scale.”
“I am very sympathetic to this defendant,” said Hurley during the hours-long sentencing proceeding in Central Islip. “Besides from the havoc he intended to cause, he is a very nice young man.”
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While I agree in principle, I don't think the judge was necessarily wrong in taking this particular individual's autism into account.
Autistic people being used by NTs who prey on their need for friendship is a real issue. The degree to which that might mitigate guilt in a thing like this would have to have something to do with the person's level of function. But it's not hard to imagine that the judge saw someone who was ripe for exploitation because of his neurology. Judges should be able to exercise that judgment.
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Is he a terrorist or a wannabe? People who are truly radicalized don't renounce but long for martyrdom. This guy doesn't seem like one of them.
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It is a great irony that everyone condemns someone who may have been an «impressionable youth» who was «easily brain-washed» by a cult-leader who led the boy into believing that his actions were righteous & justified;
Yet, everyone simultaneously themselves supports and funds their own terrorist-organisations, for everyone has been «impression-ably» led and «brain-washed» by their own cult-leader(s) into believing that their actions are righteous & justified & even necessary for the order and maintenance of society (even though it does the exact opposite).
Yes, the State of [what-ever-state-it-is-called-here] is indeed a gigantic net-work of terrorist-organisations, the cult-leader is no particular man or women or living & breathing entity that one can talk to but mere words and texts that have been written down onto various pieces of paper that have become the autocratic DICTATORS over how everyone must live or be forced to DIE, and via fines and taxation and various other punitive fees does everybody support such a BEAST.
People think that they are adults, solely due to having reached the age of 18 but, from what I see, the world is still full of immaturity, such that at least 98% of the entire world still does NOT know the difference between right and wrong, moral and immoral, ethical and unethical, fact versus truth versus opinion, etc. I have taught enough «problem students» (i.e.: bullies) to know that their wrongful-behaviours were not seen by them as being wrongful behaviours, not until I pointed them out to these students/bullies and, because they always looked up to me with a very great deal and high degree of respect, I found that I could always «rehabilitate» them from behaving in such an anti-social/anti-peace manner.
Many times, I have found, that a lot of these «problem» children come out of very abusive home-environments. For the ones that come from perfectly normal or supportive environments, although most of the Western-culture still rejects these realities, I have uncovered plenty of evidence amongst well-documented cases of para-normal research conducted on abnormal-psychology which supports the idea/theory/hypothesis that «unexplained» negative-behaviours are just about always due to a phenomenon that can be accurately termed as spirit-possession.
I now quote an excerpt from an author who had studied and investigated such a phenomenon during his life...
...essentially, Ann had described to Ian what had happened to her, how she was spirit-possessed.
This possession experience was of a particular type – brief, violent, and hateful. But as we will see, there are many, many other kinds.
It wasn’t easy for me to take the hypothesis of possession seriously. How can anyone in the late twentieth century truly believe that “spirits” can influence the bodies and the lives of the living? It wasn’t an idea in which I wanted to believe. It was frightening, irrational, crazy. And when I looked into it, I found out what others before me had also discovered – that it was true.
The world needs to be rehabilitated otherwise these back-and-forth crimes will continue in perpetuity.
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