Comments about ‘Expert calls Brian David Mitchell delusional’

I don't really care if our million dollar professional can't figure out if this person is competent or not, just make sure he never sees the outside of a guarded building again.

So because Mitchell has a belief that God answers prayers he is delusional and is unfit to stand trial. Wow, i guess all us Mormons should be safe to do whatever the heck we want, no worries at least down hear where we will be deemed incompetent.

Just because someone is delusional about what they think is right does not mean that they are not competent. Otherwise, we could say that Hitler was incompetent to have stood trial. Hitler sincerely believed everything he said and that everything he did was for the greater good. He was definitely dilusional. The reason we as a society do not put incompetent persons on trial is the humane view that that an incompetent person does not have the mental capacity to understand what they are doing. Mr. Mitchell understood everything he was doing. He is not incompetent.

You can pay a man to say anything. Mitchell is crazy like a fox.

From the article:
"As part of Golding's analysis, he said Mitchell uses "referential thinking," meaning he ascribes special significance to ordinary experiences"

That pretty much describes every religious person I know ('God helped me find the car keys', etc.) and we don't consider them incompetent or delusional.

Golding is a bleeding-heart liberal who is now a criminal. For Golding to say that mitchell is not competent shows how little he understands about the human mind. mitchell has yanked his chain! How is it that the rest of society understands what this animal is up to and someone so educated can be so confused?

To all of the Smart family - I am sorry that you have to be subjected to this. There is no excuse for this level of incompetence in our (in)justice system. My hat is off to Ed. I am afraid that I would have found a way to administer justice long before now.

It has now become more official, had it not been declared so after the O.J. trial and the Michael Jackson trial. Now with the the Brian David Mitchell trial, I think it's official that our justice system and truly screwed up.

Mitchell is as clever as a fox. He has been putting on a manipulative show for the judge, singing LDS hymns in an attempt to appear delusional. He has clearly fooled this psychologist, but hopefully will not fool the judge.

If he is as psychotic as the forensic psychologist claims he is, (and I believe this psychologist is wrong), then he should be forced to take medication as Barzee was, and then Mitchell should stand trial.

Whatever is decided, Mr. Mitchell should be tried ASAP and be sent to prison, where he belongs. He is a monster who has manipulated the legal system for far too long.

Mitchell with either rot in a mental hospital for the rest of his life, or (probably) get killed in prison. Either way he will not be a threat to society. If he is found incompetent to stand trial he will just go to the state mental hospital until he either dies, or becomes competent. If he becomes competent the state will prosecute him and send him to prison for the rest of his life (which will probably be shorter than if he stayed in the hospital). I think the hospital is cheaper than prison - but I'm not sure.

"Mitchell was constantly struggling with what he thought God wanted him to do compared to what he wanted to do."

That's called concience! he knew what he was doing was wrong but still did it regardless his concience told him not to.

And if he wants to be a martyr, please, let him be! put him in jail for life and make him sing to his cellmates every day.

He wants to be martyred???

Let's oblige him.

I see dead people

Under this evaluation, all acts related to professed belief in God can be considered delusional. PUT HIM IN JAIL, THROW AWAY THE KEY.

i didnt know that foxes were actually crazy (or even smart).

"judge not lest ye be judged"

if an expert were to tell you that someone is crazy or delusional you would want too actually see that person in order to believe it and not just listen to the expert's opinion of the person or see the persons photo either on tv or in your newspaper in order to judge them. "he looks crazy from the picture i see and from the article in the newspaper he sounds crazy too". but then if that same expert telling you all this called you yourself crazy or delusional and labeled you certain things then you would just discount them and tell them that they dont know you or that they themselves are crazy for even having such thoughts about you.

now, you can come at me with all the disagreements and rebuttals you'd like to but in the end what i'm saying is true and you wont ever admit it. you wont admit that its because of what you're reading about mitchell and also the photo that is published is why you are judging him.

Looks like Mitchell was able to use his manipulative powers on Mr. Golding. It's ironic that Mitchell was able to play on Mr. Golding's ego, making him believe he was the only worthy psychiatrist evaluating Mitchell, thereby obtaining the evaluation Mitchell needed to get away with "murder." Who needs a good lawyer these days, just get a high dollar psychiatrist to represent you.

So, according to this "expert", Mitchell just wants this to be over so that he can be "martyred"?

If that is the case, why does he try his darndest to disrupt the court proceedings so that they have continually been postponed/delayed?

I would think that if he were resigned to his "martyrdom" he would just sit quietly and let the process play out....

Of course, I am not an "expert"

So seeing signs from God makes one "Incompetent"?

I guess we're going to see a lot of us who belive God can communicate with us, being committed to a mental institution soon.

Honestly, I think there is a difference, but I don't know if a psychologist who doesn't believe in God could objectively measure it.

The psychologists are often loonier than their subjects.

I know Dr. Golding. He has an absolute disdain for organized religion and considers those who believe in God silly and irrational. It doesn't surprise me in the slightest that he would consider Mitchell's beliefs concrete proof that he is delusional.