Three Clowns One Clownmaster A Plea to Make Fort Hood Proper My name is Jim Flannery, and I was put on this Earth to do one thing and one thing only: execute psychiatrist Dr. Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood on December 3, 2026. I brush my teeth twice a day. I wipe my own…
At long last, an article on forced drugging in Connecticut. Don’t expect a six-part series like the investigation into forced electroshock in Connecticut turned out to be… because I am officially done with this investigation. Last month I received a letter from the State of Connecticut Office of the Probate Court Administrator where they shared…
12 Things We Learned from Flannery’s Clownery It feels like we are long overdue for a “wrap up” essay of sorts following the conclusion to Flannery’s Clownery. To that end, here is a cliché clickbait “top ten list” of lessons learned for mass consumption: The Office of the President of the United States is…
I shan’t apologize for this iteration of Connecticut’s Forced Electroshock Problem following so soon after last weekend’s Connecticut Shock Awards where we presented the district-by-district data for 2025 (read Part 5) since it appears that today’s offering from the State of Connecticut Office of the Probate Court Administrator clears up the long-standing confusion on the…
Since I’m as tired of writing them as you likely are of reading them, this installment of Connecticut’s Forced Electroshock Problem is a choose-your-own-adventure. Choose wisely: LAUGH or CRY The 2026 Connecticut Shock Awards At long last, the 2026 Connecticut Shock Awards have arrived to celebrate excellence in human torture across the state of…
The previous part in this series on forced electroshock in Connecticut concluded with the anticipation of documents from a FOIA request I filed with the Veteran’s Affairs Office. The purpose of the request was to obtain any and all patient records demonstrating patient harm from electroshock treatment occurring at the West Haven VA as well…
In all of my writing about the data on involuntary electroshock treatment requests filed to probate courts throughout the state of Connecticut, I’ve disciplined myself as best I can to resist writing about their data on involuntary drugging requests. Since logic would imply that the use of electroshock treatment against people’s will is most likely…
At this point, it appears that I may never receive an answer to my additional requests for data from the State of Connecticut Office of the Probate Court Administrator’s records on forced electroshock treatment. Unfortunately, amidst all the confusion created by my learning about the faults in their Biennial Reports regarding patient conservatorship status, missing…
Last year, I wrote to the State of Connecticut Office of the Probate Court Administrator requesting data on forced electroshock requests filed throughout the state. They provided data going back to 2012, which not only included the totals for each calendar year, but also broke the data down by probate district as well. Letter…
FOLLOW-UP 3/16/2026: Connecticut’s Forced Electroshock Problem – Part 2 UPDATE 12/6/2025: story and analysis now available at Mad in America: Connecticut’s Forced Electroshock Problem. Please click the image below for the full PDF including the raw data obtained from the State of Connecticut Office of the Probate Court Administrator: