05.10.06
Is Pellicano Really Gonna Try to Kill Somebody?
It’s impossible not to come away with the feeling that the Pelican has truely lost his bearings after reading the latest news in the Anthony Pellicano debacle today from the New York Times. Not only does it appear that Tony conspired with known mobsters in Chicago to put a prison “hit” out on Alexander Proctor, the man he hired to threaten reporter Anita Busch, but he seems to have also made a series of violent threats against government investigators and just about anyone else who stood in the way of his regaining his former glory days. Pellicano had a particularly gruesome wish for the FBI agents who were investigating him and that was to:
“douse ‘them’ with gasoline and set them on fire and after they were burning, he would pour more gasoline on them.”
Although I’ve had experience working as a shrink in prisons I’m never quite certain if I have the right notion about the emotional stuff that really goes down when men are locked behind bars. I’ve always had the key to get out at night and I am female, that does change one’s perspective a tad, so I sought out the opinion of a few guys who had spent time in the “Big House” and a police officer famous for the arrest of a big Mafioso who wound up committing suicide when faced with an indeterminable federal sentence.
What these men, from very disparate backgrounds, all agreed unanimously about was truly fascinating. Everyone corroborated each other’s assessment that Pellicano was really going nuts at this point in prison, though the probable reasons for the mental deterioration varied from the lack of a sufficient audience for Tony’s infinite grandiosity or whatever, to having to be someone else’s er…bitch too much of the time. However, the fact that Tony could really not be in our commonly accepted reality anymore didn’t make his violent mouthing any less important in these experienced men’s eyes, in fact it actually made Tony more lethal and his threats more to be feared.
When the guys tried to explain this concept to me I finally had to throw away several academic studies which I tenaciously had clung to, that professed the mentally ill are actually less likely to commit violence than normal individuals, and let myself just listen to the much more pragmatic street wisdom that was being offered up gratis.
The distillation of what these gentlemen said was that Pellicano, right now, is far more dangerous than a poor dog with rabies. His actions are totally unpredictable because he’s beginning to feel that he has no avenue of escape and therefore nothing to loose…so what the hell, take everyone down with him and go out in grand style. If you’re having problems grasping this very wise assessment, please try considering that Pellicano has the mentality of a suicide bomber after being so long in prison with no hope of release anytime soon. Suicide bombers are known to do really horrific things. They don’t just idly threaten now, do they?
