Comment of explanation:
And
to those not familiar with our American news and events, this 21 year
old, Dylann Roof is the pathetic tragic young man, on drugs and with
mental problems, and clearly by our Orthodox Christian understanding of how the Devil works, under the direction and control of demons, who
used a gun to kill nine innocent and prominent people in an historic
black Protestant church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, while
they participated in a Bible-study session. Before he shot them he
announced his hope to thereby 'start a race war'.
This murderous and
racist mad-man unchristian act has, by this mentally ill drug addicted
young man, inflamed our nation, and is being condemned by virtually all
decent people. This terrible deed, has had the opposite effect from
what this poor immature and mixed up demonized guy wanted,-it has
strengthened the population, to work FOR better race relations, not,
'White Supremacy' that this misguided ignoble fellow professed, he being
really still a child not a mature man.
Rd. Daniel
P.S.
We learn that this person, whose eyes show a dark and dead soul, was
also the product of a divorced broken home, and we must ask, what
religious concepts and precepts, what spiritual beliefs and VALUES were
implanted in him by his parents ....or by society or ANYONE? He
certainly was not brought up with sound Christian moral values. Did the
public schools implant in him, basic right and wrong moral and ethical
values?...a FEAR of GOD? God is outlawed in our American public
schools, as He...might offend 'somebody', especially if we name Him, as
Our Lord God And Saviour JESUS CHRIST.
Charleston: Why didn't anyone help Dylann Roof?
June 19, 2015: Dylann Roof appears at a bond hearing
court in North Charleston, S.C. Roof is charged with nine counts of
murder and firearms charges in the shooting deaths Wednesday night at
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston.
(Grace Beahm/The Post and Courier via AP)
Dylann Roof, who
allegedly shot and killed nine people at the Emanuel AME Church in
Charleston, S.C., last week, showed all the signs of severe and
worsening mental illness.
We know, of course, that Roof expressed
hateful white supremacist opinion. But we also know that psychiatrically
ill people can channel their paranoia or depression or extreme
self-loathing into bizarre beliefs that sometimes lead to the
destruction of others. Those beliefs can look just like intense hatred —
of a particular person or a whole race of people.
When
an isolated 21-year-old has a history of dropping out of high school (in
the 10th grade), using drugs (reportedly including benzodiazepines and
opiates), withdrawing from friends, starting to sleep in his car and
beginning to tell people that he intends to start a race war and then
kill himself, one can reasonably conclude that he may not be well.
Yet
no one intervened in any way to prevent Roof from allegedly committing a
mass killing. His uncle didn’t — even though he noted that, at 19, Roof
was mostly staying in his room and hadn’t even gotten a driver’s
license. His roommate didn’t, even though he has been quoted as saying
that Roof was “planning something like this for six months.” His black
friend didn’t, even though Roof reportedly outlined his murderous plans
to him a week before he carried them out. Neither did a white friend who
said he was so concerned when Roof went on a drunken rampage recently
that he confiscated his gun.
Why does it always
seem that there are good and decent and intelligent people around
killers like Dylan Roof, who see clear signs of serious trouble, yet do
nothing or almost nothing?
Why not? Why does it
always seem that there are good and decent and intelligent people around
people like Dylann Roof who see clear signs of serious trouble, yet do
nothing or almost nothing?
One reason is that people wish to believe
they are safer than they are. They exercise denial. No one wants to
believe he might be living in a real-life psychological thriller. And
the reason for that may be connected to other unspeakable,
unthinkable fears we harbor: Any of us could die today, this very hour.
Any of us could be shot tomorrow. Any of us could get a headache, then
an MRI, then learn he has a brain tumor. To admit that someone close to
us could be descending into the abyss is, in some measure, to admit that
we, too, stand close to the edge of one (albeit a very different one).
Another
reason is that we, as a society, are profoundly ignorant about the real
signs of mental illness. It is as if many of us think that mentally ill
people froth at the mouth or run around screaming. The truth is that
some severely mentally ill people can, come to brood on perceived
injustices, see the world as harboring great evils they must oppose and
speak openly and dramatically about such matters. Does that sound
familiar?
There is reason to believe that if just one of the people
in Dylann Roof’s life had called 911 to report that a family member of
theirs (or a friend of theirs) who owned a gun and used drugs was
speaking about starting a race war and killing himself, that Roof would
have been picked up by police and transported to an emergency room. Once
there, he might well have voiced those very same beliefs to a
psychiatrist. After all, Roof wasn’t shy about sharing his bizarre
opinions. That could have led to him being admitted to a locked
psychiatric unit, being detoxed from street drugs and being treated with
the right psychiatric medicine. And, then, all this might not have
happened.
Dr. Keith Ablow is a psychiatrist and member of the Fox News Medical A-Team
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