He’ll Feel Right at Home
Former Texas Republican Congressman Steve Stockman is spending the next ten years in federal prison.
Now known as inmate 23502-479, Stockman has been transferred to Forth Worth Federal Medical Center, a low security facility for male prisoners with mental health issues.
I kept telling y’all that he is crazy.
Hey, it just increases his chance of spending the next ten years as Donald Trump’s roommate.
Thanks to Alfredo for the heads up.
1 down, 50 million to go…
Happy Holidays y’all. Just got back in here, some dang good recent threads and comments.
Think somebody here wrote “25th the 45th!”, Hell Yes! A very good, succinct slogan, suitable for a bumpersticker.
The secret is out. ‘Maxi-Patriot’ Cadet Bonespur’s daddy Fred leaned on one (or more) of his MD tenants and got little Donnei J his well-earned 4F medical deferment back during the Vietnam War era; thereby producing yet another effen Rethuglican Chickenhawk.
1“Low security … with mental health issues” in the case of Steve Stockman is polite for drooling on himself st00pid, but nothing medical indicated. Medical research is too busy dealing with cancers, other diseases, real mental health issues and addictive behavior to waste time and money on Republicanism for which there are already two known cures: burial or cremation.
2My dad was an administrator there years ago when it was the U. S. Public Service Hospital. “Residents” were mentally ill and/or drug offenders and addicts. Employees had special stickers on their windshields that were checked when driving in through the guard stations. Buildings were connected by underground hallways which had metal gates at intervals. As a child I thought it was cool to walk with my dad in the “tunnels” on our way to the lunchroom. At that time I didn’t realize what the facility really was, as it was just called a hospital.
3How did Stockman get sent there instead of a standard prison?
“Donald Trump’s roommate.”
I can’t wait for the movie sequel JJ, “Republicans Fly Into The Cuckoo’s Nest.”
Cameo appearance by President Elizabeth Warren, with Stockman, Trump, et al. humming, mumbling, singing “Hail to (the) Chief” as she arrives.
4Bone spurs are fixable with minor surgery. I had one and I had the surgery so I could keep teaching elementary school music, which had me on my feet all day and frequently involved folk dancing. So even if Dump had them, which by all accounts he did not, he could have had them corrected lickety split.
5Just like n every other facet of his life, he cheated his way out of the draft.
The 25th amendment is looking even more relevant after his moves in Syria. We may not need Mueller to impeach and/or indict this SOB.
Stockman probably got a doctor to give him a MH diagnosis of some sort to make sure he got sent to a minimum security facility.
Now, he could have mental health issues. I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV. That said, sounds like a convenient case of “bone spurs on the brain.”
YMMV
6I would generally agree with you, Ranger, but Alfredo says this is a former real prison with cells, high fences topped with wire, slamming doors, the whole deal. It’s not like one of those federal prisons that resemble a college campus.
7Linda at #3: my father was a Navy corpsman in WW II, and ended up working there right after the war. At the time it was a War Department or VA hospital for “battle fatigue”, the not-so-post traumatic stress victims. Plus veterans that had wigged out without stress – you can’t put 10 million people into uniform without some of them having mental illness already.
After that, I think it was one of the 2-3 federal hospitals for treating heroin addiction – which was/is an actual federal crime (being addicted to heroin, not just its use). It then transitioned to a medical prison evaluation institution, around the late 60s or early 70s. The current building is relatively new, and I think the old tunnels are gone.
Alfredo is right: it’s still a federal slammer. Think of it this way: the state prison at Huntsville is now called “The Diagnostic Unit”, but it’s the same old Walls (and death row) it always was. [The “diagnosis” carried out there is generally “pack ’em off to Sugarland and let’s get some farm work outta them”]
Now with Stockman stocked there, it looks like the Fort Worth Federal Sneezer is keeping up its tradition of housing nut cases (my father’s non-PC description of the generations of inmates the place has had).
As for how it has lingered on, that’s thanks to Sam Rayburn and later on Jim Wright keeping Texas happy with federal funds.
8One of his employees Thomas Dodd was sentenced to 18 months in prison this month. Jason Posey will be sentenced next month.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Ex-congressional-aide-faces-sentencing-in-13459367.php
9Not just Stockman but his compadres as well? Now that is what I call a good scrubbing by Lady Justice!
10Back in the day — Watergate days, remember them? — descriptions of these minimum security “prisons” were published in numerous newspapers. Fascinating reading.
1] The ‘cells’ were studio apartments with wooden and screen doors. And TV’s. Today, I’m betting, they’ve got computers.
2] And, in place of walls, they’ve got flower gardens along the roads. The ‘prisoners’ tend the gardens and they’re honor bound [yep, that’s the term the prison officials use] not to stray past those gardens.
Now, I’m betting this guy will pull whatever rank he can to get garden duty and, one fine day, will weed his way right up to the edge of the garden border, straighten up and just . . . keep walking. Thereby earning himself a bed in a medium security prison [where they have walls and things] where he’ll be able to bunk in with one of the Donald’s and/or Jared — who will have pulled the same stunt long before he ever thought of it hisownself.
Just sayin.
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