This diary should NOT be construed as a perp defense. Only an explanation and a look as to why. Now, details are sketchy, but we all know at this point the man had mental issues. He took hostage and committed a crime that terrified and affected is victims' lives forever. Why the sympathy just because he had "issues". So what? Well, the man had flares, it doesn't look like he had a bomb, and he wanted to speak to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. That much we DO know. What did he desperately want to convey to her?
But there is speculation that is supported by hearsay and circumstatial eveidence, that his mental issues were NOT being properly cared for by "the system", meaning, THE GOVERNMENT. Of course this is all just speculation and I could be totally wrong and he could just be a guy that wanted publicity for "kicks".
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