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Reason First: Owed No Mercy- Michael McDermott

Office space murderer used ruse. It failed.

By Skyler SaundersPublished 4 years ago 3 min read
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Michael McDermott opened fire on his workplace on the day after Christmas in 2000 in Wakefield, Massachusetts. He claimed that he was instructed to kill Hitler and six Nazi generals by the Archangel Michael. This, of course, was all bunk. Upon further investigation, authorities found that McDermott had drawn up websites directing people on how to mimic mental illness. His whole idea to mow down people has to do with the conceptual scapegoat: money.

Supposedly, McDermott could not emotionally handle the fact that he owed the IRS in back pay and that the company that he worked for would garnish his wages. So he gunned down those worked along with him.

Nevertheless, it took 16 hours of deliberation to convict McDermott on seven counts of first-degree murder. Judge R. Malcolm Graham sentenced him to the maximum punishment of seven consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.

So, is all of this just the makings of a disgruntled worker who wanted to keep his money that he did not pay? Now, the IRS should be abolished, that’s for sure. However, that fact does not mean that a person should walk into their place of business with an AK-47 styled weapon, a 12 gauge shotgun, and a .32 caliber handgun and start mowing down co-workers. McDermott represents the lunatic that should have been helped a long time ago. For him to place his feelings ahead of his reason led to his downfall. Money or the love of it is not the root to all evil. The ideation that one can obtain money by murdering seven people is vicious and horrific.

The fact that McDermott couldn’t handle his $55,000 salary being docked ny his company is a piss poor and completely irrational idea to blast away at those he saw day in and day out on a regular basis.

McDermott tried to make a defense that would stick. He wanted everyone to think that he was “crazy” at the time of the murders. He is no such thing. He had complete control over his mental faculties and knew exactly what he was doing.

So, all of the talk about how he was mentally disturbed died down rapidly with the discovery of his Internet browser. All of the ideation to murder those who he knew best contributed to a wicked scene of bloodshed.

McDermott stands as the lonely, despicable human being who at the time of the crime, could not differentiate between fact and fiction. This is not a mark of madness but a clear ideation of evil. His brazen way of indiscriminate killings displayed a male hell-bent on destroying others and himself.

He has no self-esteem. This means that whatever selfishness he possessed, he lost when he let his guns blaze. Selfishness is a virtue which says that an individual owns his life and respects the lives and property of others. But he brutally exploited these “others” who happened to be his fellow employees.

His selflessness, or inability to recognize the self as an indivisible sum, drove his ideas to commit atrocities. His push to say that he was governed by the unknown and unknowable would be laughable if it had not been so murderous. The story drips with unreason that leads one to consider just how ideas can turn toxic.

Ideation can cause the movement of spaceships and the discovery of vaccines. Ideation can also lead to the destruction of lives. McDermott must now remain behind bars for the rest of his miserable life. And it is miserable. Is there any Archangel that can save him from the onslaught of the penal code? What Nazis are he killing during his permanent stint behind the wall? He’s now suffering his fate and rightfully so.

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