The term "Stockholm Syndrome” was first used in 1973 to describe the sick empathy that the victims of a 1973 bank robbery had for their captors. The psychobabble-ists, both professional and amateur, have had nearly a half-century to digest and analyze the cause and meaning of this sick impulse.
Any way you slice it, victims’ advocacy for their captors, rapists, robbers, muggers, and abusers is clearly a serious form of mental illness. Such sympathies are clearly misplaced, selfish, and dangerous to society.
One of the more publicized examples of this egregious display of insanity was in the matter of looney heiress Patty Hearst in 1974.
On February 4, 1974, Hearst, a seemingly white bread heiress to the Hearst fortune, was kidnapped along with her boyfriend Steven Weed, a UC Berkeley Math teacher, by the Radical black separatist "Symbionese Liberation Army", a violent criminal band masquerading as a political movement. Hearst, who before her abduction, was the quintessential carefree "Karen" with lots of zeros attached to her bank account.
The excitement of her abduction by a violent murderous black revolutionary group catapulted her from the Queen of the Karens to Eager Gal Friday supporter and sympathizer with her kidnappers. Her life as Debutante Karen became exponentially notched up when she became the poster girl bank robber for the gang. Prior to her capture, in addition to her criminal participation in the kidnapping, bank robbery, and myriad other crimes with the gang, she ardently defended their actions through her creepy correspondence to the public which conveyed her enthusiastic support for their criminality.
Hearst was finally captured on September 18, 1975.
Once captured in an effort to exonerate herself, she claimed to have been brainwashed. During her romp with the gang, however, she seemed to be having all kinds of fun. On March 20, 1976, Patty was sentenced to the maximum sentence possible of 35 years' imprisonment which was ultimately reduced to 7 years. After having less fun behind bars, she went back to her debutante ball.
As we all know, there has been a tremendous upswing in violent crime in every city in America controlled by the Democrat Party. Before the sick canonization of George Floyd by the Democrat Industrial Complex (DIC) and The American Pravda, violent crime, and in fact, almost every category of crime, had enjoyed a long trending descent. Then came George…The George Floyd killing fomented the "Progressive" i.e. Marxist defund the police movement.
The traveling companion to this sick movement, which has been forced down America's throat by The American Pravda, is the idea that crime is the result of their ubiquitous “Big R”… Racism.
Therefore, it follows that we don't punish criminals, we punish the society that is responsible for their criminality, namely every person in America not "of color".
America's blue state, big city prosecutors are no longer prosecuting crimes unless they reach the absurd thresholds as defined by them. Rapists, robbers, thieves, and killers roam the streets of NYC, Chicago, and LA with the full support of Soros-funded prosecutors, elected by foolish guilt-ridden liberal ignoramuses.
Recently, a white couple was mugged and severely beaten in the affluent, Lakefront liberal neighborhood of Chicago. When the victims were interviewed by The American Pravda, their hearts bled for their attackers and they stated that "we have really failed these people”. Rather than seeking justice through prosecution or simply keeping their mouths shut, they placed the blame exactly as instructed by the DIC and the American Pravda… right on the doorstep of the “Big Racist America".
The progressive Lakefront “Karens” of Chicago don't realize or care about the egregious toll that crime visits upon poor communities. Their feigned compassion in showing sympathy for the attackers, rapists, murderers, and thieves makes them feel all warm and fuzzy.
To my mind, anyone who opposes the vigorous prosecution of crime and criminals is a new brand of American Psycho, those who are shamefully being harbored by the mental illness of America’s 21st century “Stockholm Syndrome”.
Whatever happened to if you do the crime, you've got to do the time?
Ask the surviving families and the victims of violent crime what they think…
-Emes