An apparent lone nut, Bart Ross, left a suicide note claiming responsibility for the murder of two family members of Chicago federal Judge Joan Lefkow before blowing his own brains out, throwing suspicion off the white supremacist World Church of the Creator (see our last blog post [2] on the case). Already, the press is using this—compounded by the recent slaying of a Georgia judge [3] by another lone nut—to raise demands for forced treatment of recalcitrant psychiatric patients (see Chicago Daily Herald [4], March 13). So expect an expansion of the power of the therapeutic state and more legislation like New York's sinister Kendra's Law [5], which Gov. George Pataki now wants to make permanent (Newsday [6], March 8)
