This is a story so lurid, I hesitated to mention it on the blog. But because “insanity” has been invoked to deny any connection between the assassination of Officers Lin and Ramos by Ismaaiyl Brinsley and the political agitation and hate-mongering directed at police, it is worth noting that a jury in liberal Canada, where they don’t even have the death penalty, has rejected the insanity defense in the case of an obviously very disturbed individual and convicted Luka Rocco Magnotta, birth name Eric Clinton Kirk Newman of murder. Magnotta was a gay porn actor and escort in Canada with a criminal history who turned to sadistically killing kittens and posting videos before he finally killed, dismembered, and ate parts of engineering student Jun Lin, all captured on video. The UK Daily Mail covered the crime in all its lurid details, including sickening pictures, if you have the stomach for them. Canadian 'cannibal' Luka Magnotta left behind an angle...(Read Full Post)