FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Connecticut Joint Committee on Public Health Issues Statement on Involuntary Electroshock
“We just don’t give a damn.”
Hartford, Conn. | April 14, 2025 – Following a curious visit from a mail-delivering clown to Connecticut’s Legislative Office Building on Friday afternoon, Senator Saud Anwar and Representative Cristin McCarthy Vahey, co-chairs of Connecticut’s Joint Committee on Public Health, issued a shockless statement on behalf of the Committee this morning:
What Mr. Flannery fails to understand is that our committee is in opposition to his goal of ending involuntary electroshock. Had he paid any attention to our work, he would have noticed that we are making every effort possible to make it easier to electroshock people like him. For example, H.B. 6837, an act that extends the period of time an individual can be involuntarily electroshocked, moved forward to public testimony almost immediately upon arrival to our committee. The fact that S.B. 1070, which aims to eliminate involuntary electroshock in Connecticut, remains untouched should speak for itself.
When pressed for additional comment as to why the Joint Committee insists on depriving innocent people of their cognitive liberty, the Committee resorted to cheap memes from a 1939 film that shall not be repeated in the body of this release for the sanctity of literary integrity.
As for Mr. Flannery’s feelings on the matter, this reporter would be more than happy to extract something from him and perhaps he can even enlighten me as to how the Joint Committee could have possibly known the identity of the mail-delivering clown who paid them a visit on Friday:
I don’t give a flying fuck about the clown. This is about S.B. 1070 and how they failed to move the bill forward. Honestly, saying they ‘failed’ is being too generous. They didn’t even try. But make sure to let the Committee know that based on the current laws regarding involuntary psychiatric interventions, if a Million Clown March showed up at their door in non-violent protest declaring that they all hear voices and expressed an untruthful intention to murder each and every member of the Joint Committee, then there would be a need for a million hospital beds in the state of Connecticut to accommodate the circus while the psychiatrists torture the clowns into submission, which they would likely succeed in doing since their tactics are insurmountable, however, it would still cost the taxpayers of the state of Connecticut a billion dollars a day.
Flannery’s comments certainly don’t suggest that he himself has any intention to kill anyone barring a statement of his own intentions to do so, though it does suggest that his hopes to see the harm perpetuated by Connecticut’s mental health system come to an end might be, shall we say, gone with the wind.
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