justice’s posterous

"[C]ivilization requires a stable, rational, and consensual moral framework in order to survive... The medicalization of mass murder is a great moral evasion. Substituting the therapeutic worldview for morality will not work... Sick is no adequate substitute for evil." Read the article at http://www.albertmohler.com/2009/11/19/when-morality-collapses-the-therapeutic-evasion/  Consider how the therapeutic mindset, aka therapeutic jurisprudence, plays out in the family courts.

Paternate "Curtis Lee Morris Jr., 27, remains in jail on $300,000 bond... Barry Mitchell of Shelby County Juvenile Court said Morris gained custody of the child in September from the baby's mother, Erica B. Snipes, also 27, of Memphis. Police have not been able to locate the mother... Mitchell said he could not go into detail about why Morris was given custody." http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/nov/19/dad-accused-beating-his-son-had-just-gotten-custod/  Commentary at http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/2009/11/dad-gests-custody-this-fall-then-beats.html

"Audrey Mabrey, 23, is reported in critical condition". The alleged perpetrator, "Christopher Hanney, 44, is listed as stable at Tampa General Hospital... According to the Hillsborough Sheriff's Office, deputies were called to the Apollo Beach home for a report of domestic violence on October 20, but no one was arrested." http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local/story/Woman-set-on-fire-in-critical-condition/5Fulfbc2q0SeRgLxMnIDbg.cspx

Stephen P. Wolf, M.D., murderer and family man. http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=12&articleid=20091117_12_A11_TommyW35758 Apparently there first was some kind of "altercation" in the child's room in the wee hours of the morning. WTF? What was he doing in the first place in the child's room at 3 a.m.? Wolf apparently told police when they arrived that the child had "the devil in him" and tried to stab the boy with a third knife, but was restrained. http://www.newson6.com/Global/story.asp?S=11523777

"The unidentified man surrendered to Palm Bay SWAT team members at about 6 a.m. and was taken to the Palm Bay Community Hospital after appearing under the influence of an unknown substance... The woman and the children, a 14-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl, managed to escape the home during the overnight hours, police said." http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20091117/BREAKINGNEWS/91117002/1006/news01/Dad+arrested+after+hostage+situation+ends+in+Palm+Bay
          Lucky them that they are still alive. Note to defense-minded apologists: neither the woman nor the children were able under these circumstances to make the 911 call. Had this "event" somehow been managed, and then reported after the fact, perhaps in a family law case or in connection with the seeking of a restraining order, how seriously would you have taken it?
          And get this idiotic media statment: "Investigators said it began as a fight between Christopher Lynch and his estranged wife. They said Lynch had two guns on him at the time of the standoff." http://www.wesh.com/news/21636380/detail.html  (First the media unidentifies him -- in case it's yet again just some "dad" -- see the floridatoday.com URL -- accused wrongly of domestic violence. And then another news source describes barging into someone else's home armed with two guns as a "fight".)

"Teresa Beiser was asking for joint custody of her two children with Robert Beiser in what appeared from court documents to be an amicable dissolution of their marriage." Excellent commentary and links to the news stories at http://dastardlydads.blogspot.com/2009/11/mom-files-for-joint-custody-but-gets.html

"...the chain of events began when the unidentified woman went to a police station to report she was a victim of domestic abuse. Officers talked to the woman and drove her back home... went into the apartment with the woman to make sure the suspect was not there... decided to keep watch on the street... heard the woman's screams, ran into the apartment and saw a man stabbing the woman..." http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-tc-nw-briefs-1112-11130nov13,0,5064533.story

"The men arrested are father Burrell Mohler Sr., 77, of Independence, Mo.; Burrell Mohler Jr., 53, of Independence; Roland Mohler, 47, of Bates City, Mo.; Jared Mohler, 48, of Columbia, Mo.; and David Mohler, 52, of Lamoni, Iowa." http://www.kctv5.com/news/21581629/detail.html http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&cf=all&ncl=dltZZ6YhUbPcrHMYrh6YqdZMfqO-M&topic=n

According to the most recent report from the Violence Policy Center (American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States). "During the six-month period tallied in this study, there were 264 suicides -- yet the total number of deaths was 591. More people died from murders associated with the suicide than from the suicides themselves." More information can be found at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/topics/crime/intimate-partner-violence/murder-suicide.htm
        * Most murder-suicides involve a firearm
        * 94% of offenders are male
        * 74% of victims are intimate partners
        * 75% of murder-suicides occur in the home
        * Police may have higher murder-suicide rates
        * 23% of murder-suicides involved the elderly
        * Most murder-suicides with multiple victims are by male family annihilators
        * Fathers who kill children usually kill their children's mothers, but the reverse is not the case

Bryon Hilburn "was divorced and had custody of the boy and his two siblings." The child has said that the man was "punishing him". http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gZv2u8UDawH7vbUI65uG1fF7NQ8QD9BODFHO0