Judge Richard M. Berman

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One of the looming problems facing the country is the number of psychotic loons on the bench. These are fanatics who spent their lives trying to get on the bench so they could spend the remainder of their lives inflicting damage on the culture.

John Sununu talks about this in his recent book with regards to Judge Souter, who became a raging nutter once he got on the Supreme Court. We’re seeing it with John Roberts who should probably be removed for psychological reasons. His increasingly deranged opinions strongly suggest he is suffering from mental illness.

An example down stream is Richard Berman who is tormenting Dinesh D’Souza right now.

At a hearing Monday in Manhattan in which he ruled filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza must continue community service for four more years, U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman said he considers D’Souza’s violation of federal campaign-finance laws to be evidence of a psychological problem and ordered further counseling.

D’Souza’s defense counsel Benjamin Brafman provided evidence to the court that the psychiatrist D’Souza was ordered to see found no indication of depression or reason for medication. In addition, the psychologist D’Souza subsequently consulted provided a written statement concluding there was no need to continue the consultation, because D’Souza was psychologically normal and well adjusted.

But Judge Berman, who was appointed by Bill Clinton, disagreed, effectively overruling the judgment of the two licensed psychological counselors the U.S. probation department had approved as part of D’Souza’s criminal sentence.

“I only insisted on psychological counseling as part of Mr. D’Souza’s sentence because I wanted to be helpful,” the judge explained. “I am requiring Mr. D’Souza to see a new psychological counselor and to continue the weekly psychological consultation not as part of his punishment or to be retributive.

It’s tempting to recall that the Soviets liked sending dissenters off to an asylum so that way they could not only claim the person was nuts, but that saying what he said was nuts. Maybe that’s all there is here and Judge Berman is just an fascist hot head. It’s also possible that he has slipped a gear and this erratic behavior is a sign of a mental health problem.

His words about trying to help someone who clearly is in no need of help are just plain weird. Normal, well balanced people don’t talk like that in a professional setting. It’s possible he is trying to couch is malign intent to make a political enemy suffer in therapeutic terms, but that’s  worse. Having sadists on the court is not something a free people can tolerate either.

 

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gunther #5791 July 15, 2015 10:53 am 1
“What I’m reading in the psychological case notes is compatible with my own impressions,” Berman continued. “The psychological case notes indicate that while Mr. D’Souza is highly intelligent, he has remarkably little insight into his own motivations, that he is not introspective or insightful, but that he tends to see his own actions in an overly positive manner.” Pot calling kettle black? Berman sounds like the text book example of a guy who always knows what’s best for other people. And his stated motivation is only that he wants to help.
bud #5804 July 16, 2015 4:21 pm 0
By calling him insane, you give Berman too much credit. He’s a political hack who is using a web of words to camouflage a partisan mugging of someone on the “other side”.
1432FPCHERO #5799 July 15, 2015 10:21 pm 0
Judge Berman is not a psychiatrist or a psychologist…BUT HE DID STAY AT A HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS LAST NIGHT
insurrectionist #5798 July 15, 2015 9:36 pm 0
I am so over it. “Dinesh D’Sousa”..? It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. There are countless nobody’s that get fucked over every single day in the courts of the former US of A. He’s getting off easy. A quality jurist would send him straight to the wall without a cigarette.
thezman #5801 July 16, 2015 6:24 am 0
People forget that D’Souza was a PC hitman who went after Sam Francis. Francis brought much of his troubles on himself, but D’Souza volunteered to take him out.
John the River #5803 July 16, 2015 8:44 am 0
Well, 1995, so forgetting is understandable. Unless we are talking about a different “Crazy Uncle in The Attic”.
bill #5796 July 15, 2015 4:24 pm 0
The left believes that anyone who doesn’t hold their opinion to be clinically insane. It’s mass delusion that they cleave to irrational blather and call it “normal” and “truth”Men sodomizing each other and rolling the dice on HIV and Gay Bowel Syndrome are noble and pure in left think.D’Souza made the heinous error of not being entranced with the Boy Leader, the Water Walker, Barack the Magic Negro. By pointing out he was a cheap, spiteful little Chicago ward heeler, with a sub-par intellect and narcissistic personality disorder, D’Souza guaranteed he was psychologically unfit to walk among us.
james wilson #5794 July 15, 2015 1:37 pm 0
Berman’s not unhinged, his opinions are unhinged. Place him smack dab middle of Jewish intellectual thinking. The difference is that he has both power and immunity. That is a brew that will degrade a decent ideology and metastasize a bad one.
Dutch #5792 July 15, 2015 11:32 am 0
“I am doing this for your own good…” Creepy
JimmyDeeOC #5790 July 15, 2015 10:51 am 0
I may be overplaying it a bit, but one of the scariest things I have ever read. “Guilty of holding positions in conflict with those of the Authorities!”. I’m 55, and throughout my lifetime such thinking was solely comedic fodder, going back to high school and Monty Python’s Spanish Inquisition. Our modern world is sooooooo over that, we all nodded.Then came the laughable jailing of the “Innocence of Muslims” filmmaker for parole violations. (Laughable to everyone except Mr Nakoula.)Lately I have been thinking that, given my health, family history and whatnot, I have about three decades left, the last one to be spent mostly in a Lil’ Rascal, of course. And boy am I glad. I figure that should just about coincide with the witching hour, when things completely fall apart. I just hope everyone goes into Dean Smith stall mode until then. After that? As the preacher says to Bart early in Blazing Saddles”: “Son……..you’re on your own.” (Obviously I do not have kids. For those of you who do – I’ll be with you every step of the way. But one man can only do so much.)Meanwhile, somewhat ironically, I see that at this very moment MSNBC has a panel of legal talking heads earnestly debating the Colorado Theater shooters’ sanity, which is for modern legals scholars the equivalent of midieval Papal courts debating angels on a pinhead.
ErisGuy #5787 July 15, 2015 6:50 am 0
“Looming” is a strange synonym for “fifty years of crackpot judges.”
The Z Blog #5789 July 15, 2015 7:17 am 0
We seem to be hitting a critical mass. For all of my lifetime, there were enough sane judges on the bench to keep things under control. Nuts like Berman were left in the state courts where they could do less harm. We’re at or maybe past the tipping point where the nuts are in control and the sane have to keep their heads down.
UKer #5786 July 15, 2015 6:47 am 0
The Soviets wanted people to be seen as insane because they often disagreed with Communism, or rather, disliked the dictatorial style of the Soviets. It was obvious to all the defendants were insane: they couldn’t see the perfection of Communism and didn’t worship the elite so they had to be nuts.


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