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Kaci Lenise-Charlie Sloan. Photo courtesy of Maricopa County Jail.

It was just another day for two teenage girls attending class at Arizona State University.

One of the girls was black and overweight. Her name is Kaci Lenise-Charlie Sloan. Hey, don’t kill the messenger—I didn’t name her, I’m only reporting her name. I have no idea why the “Lenise” part is joined to “Charlie” with a hyphen. And why “Charlie”?

She was reportedly sitting in class, when who should walk in but a pretty, rosy-cheeked white girl named Mara Daffron, only for Ms. Lenise-Charlie to leap up from her seat and begin stabbing her.

One female eyewitness described the scene as “just agonizing screams of pain and clearly you can tell that it was someone who was fearing for their life.” A male student said that after Sloan stabbed Daffron a couple of times, “I was able to grab her wrists and apprehend her before further damage could be done.”

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Mara Daffron was whisked away to Banner Thunderbird Hospital and treated for injuries to her tricep and spleen. She reportedly told onlookers, “I’m just scared because I don’t know why the fuck she would stab me.”

According to a TV news report, it’s because a thin white girl is an “easier target”:

Prosecutors claim that Sloan came to class to hurt someone and had been planning the attack the night before. Prosecutors say she described what she was about to do in a letter to her family and that she struggled with self-worth issues. Prosecutors also claim that she considered attacking two people, including a veteran, but decided on her victim because, quote, she was an easier target and that she knew the victim’s first name, but nothing else. Prosecutors are calling the attack unprovoked, saying Sloan likely suffers from mental health issues, but also calling her a danger.

In charging Sloan with attempted murder in the first degree, a judge called the event “analogous to a school shooting.”

Be careful out there, all you easy targets.

UK Judge Refuses to Deport Convicted Murderer to Uganda, Agreeing With His Defense Lawyers That it Would Be “Inhumane”

I’ve never been to Uganda. I’ve never even been to Africa. But from what I’ve heard on my radio and seen on my TV set about African countries, I think it would be inhumane to send anyone there.

Therefore, I agree with a judge who recently allowed Ugandan national Zak Mayanja to stay in England rather than face the indignity of being shlepped back to his savage and inhospitable homeland.

Mr. Mayanja was part of a gang of ruffians who in 2005 chased down a man named Eugen Breahna and beat him to death with golf clubs and baseball bats even after Breahna had crawled into the back of an ambulance for safety. Mayanja was sentenced to life in 2006 but was released after serving a minimum of 16 years.

At a court hearing, Mayanja’s lawyers said that their client had a psychiatric malady that imbued him with a “pervasive distrust and suspiciousness” that caused him to obsessively nurse unending grudges against those whom he believed had wronged him. Being sent back to Uganda, they argued, would be a “traumatic event” that would only exacerbate his suspiciousness.

Senior immigration judge Christopher John Hanson agreed:

I find that if [he] was removed to Uganda there would be serious, rapid and irreversible decline in their state of health resulting in intense suffering or significant reduction in life expectancy.

Oh, the inhumanity!

Feds Arrest Would-Be Trump Assassin’s Son on Child-Porn Charges

Ryan Wesley Routh enjoyed a fleeting moment under the media’s withering heat lamp a couple weeks ago after he purportedly aimed an AK-47 at Donald Trump while the indomitable presidential candidate puttered his way around his golf club in West Palm Beach, FL. At the time, his son Oran Routh claimed that his father hated Trump just as “all reasonable people” do.

Very well, then. Do “all reasonable people” also love child pornography? Like so many before him, has Routh the Younger been a passenger on the hating-Trump-to-loving-kiddie-porn pipeline?

Feds raided young Oran’s two-bedroom apartment in Greensboro, NC on September 21 and reportedly found “hundreds” of kiddie porn images on his digital devices. According to a criminal complaint filed on September 23 in the Middle District of North Carolina, among those items were:

“A video depicting an adult male engaged in vaginal intercourse with a prepubescent minor female between approximately 12-14 years of age.”

“A video depicting a nude prepubescent minor female approximately 6-8 years of age sitting on the chest of an adult female as the adult uses her tongue to penetrate the minor’s vagina.”

Just as with his father’s alleged attempt on Trump’s life, I have no idea what to make of this or whom to believe. Is it all a setup? Is the jig up? Is the fix in? Are the feds putting the kibosh on someone?

American Woman Kills Herself in “Sarco Suicide Pod” That Critics Call a “Glorified Gas Chamber”

The last person I remember who gained adulation as a noble medical warrior for the right to kill yourself was the late, great Jack Kevorkian, whose pseudonym was “Dr. Death.”

But Dr. Kevorkian is gone, and now the world’s most prominent self-styled enabler of those who want to snuff it is Dr. Philip Nitschke. Just like Kevorkian, he has made it his lifelong mission to enable those who want to kill themselves to get the job done. Nitschke is also widely known as “Dr. Death.” Some refer to these types as right-to-die activists. Others call them “suicide predators.”

Since the 1990s, Nitschke has been tirelessly developing contraptions whereby anyone who wishes to depart this vale of tears can commit the final action that kills them. In 1996, the Australia-born Nitschke developed something he called the “Deliverance Machine,” wherein a patient could self-administer a lethal injection by pressing a key on a laptop.

Since 2012, Nitschke’s pet suicide-machine project has been the “Sarco Pod,” which Wikipedia describes thusly:

The Sarco pod (also known as Pegasos and has been referred to as a “suicide pod”) is a euthanasia device or machine consisting of a 3D-printed detachable capsule mounted on a stand that contains a canister of liquid nitrogen to die by suicide through inert gas asphyxiation. “Sarco” is short for “sarcophagus“. It is used in conjunction with an inert gas (nitrogen) which decreases oxygen levels rapidly which prevents panic, sense of suffocation and struggling before unconsciousness, known as the hypercapnic alarm response caused by the presence of high carbon dioxide concentrations in the blood.

At the Amsterdam Funeral Fair in 2017, Nitschke seemed morbidly eager to talk about his invention:

Well, I’m very fortunate to be able to display at the Amsterdam Funeral Fair this new idea of ours of mine, the Sarco, which is a device to provide people with a death when they wish to die, which is peaceful and reliable, but also elegant and stylish.

I’m not so sure about the “elegant and stylish” part. To me, the Sarco looks like a tacky designer sneaker that Kanye West designed for Godzilla. Emblazoned across the bottom of most Sarcos I’ve seen, or at least the purple ones trotted out at trade shows, is a quote from celeb astronomer Carl Sagan: “We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

Nitschke continues:

It’s not just some medical privilege for the very sick. It’s a fundamental human right. If you’ve got the precious gift of life, you should be able to give that gift away at the time of your choosing.

I would think that you’re actually throwing away that gift rather than giving it to someone else, but I’m not one to quibble.

In a promotional video slapped together by Sarco’s makers, a quartet of British-accented adults go ga-ga over the very idea of this high-tech gas chamber/coffin:

“It’s beautiful in design, it’s functional in purpose, and the simplicity of its innovative technology is a wonder to behold.”

“It’s utopian. It’s Brave New World stuff, previously unthought of.”

“When I first heard about the Sarco, I got very excited because it seems such a wacky idea. But then I thought about it, and I thought, you know, this is actually what I’ve been thinking about a lot.”

“What could be better than having your family and close friends over for lunch, a glass of champagne, wines, and hop into the Sarco and off you go on a peaceful, quick, and safe imaginary flight to heaven.”

Heaven help these people.

Florian Willet is the CEO of The Last Resort, which describes itself as a “small international collective of human rights advocates…who want to diversify (and improve) the assisted dying process in Switzerland.” At an unveiling of the Sarco Pod in Zurich over the summer, Willet spoke with unusually wide eyes and a creepily humorless mien about the Sarco:

I have indeed compared all kinds of available options to die self-determined, and there is no better way in my eyes, for me, than just breathing air without oxygen, until you lose consciousness and you fall in a never-ending sleep. I pretty much believe that it’s like falling asleep at night in your own bed when you are seeking your dreams.ç

Last Monday in Switzerland, an unnamed 64-year-old American woman became the first person to prove that the Sarco actually works. The woman, who claims to have been in “extreme pain” from an immune disorder and had desired to die for at least two years, is shown here from behind only moments before crawling into the Sarco, closing the lid, and pressing a button out of this universe.

Florian Willet was there at the scene as the woman “sought her dreams.” The Last Resort subsequently released a statement, quoting Willet as saying that the woman’s death had been “peaceful, fast, and dignified” and transpired “under a canopy of trees, at a private forest retreat in the Canton Schaffhausen close to the Swiss-German border.”

Although the statement said Willet was the only witness, Swiss authorities disagreed. Some allege that there was a photographer or two at the scene snapping pictures of this historic event. According to the Daily Mail:

Police, including forensics teams, swooped on the scene after being notified by a legal firm that an assisted suicide with the device had taken place….Cops seized the Sarco capsule and a number of people in the Merishausen area were taken into police custody…. Police in northern Switzerland said that several people were detained on Monday, and that prosecutors had opened an investigation on suspicion of incitement and accessory to suicide.

In Switzerland for the time being, it appears you’re still not allowed to enable an individual’s suicide.

Enabling Europe’s suicide is mandatory for all European individuals, but that’s a matter for another day.