9.22.26 – Substack
“Lindsay Clancy’s Devil’s Bargain”
By Cherie Zaslawsky
EXCERPTS FROM THIS ARTICLE:
…The Lindsay Clancy murder trial has proven to be a litmus test for our society, and the results are not encouraging.
Before the onset of the victim/oppressor paradigm, transgenderism, DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion), and other mind-bending perversions of normalcy, this case would have simply aroused shock and horror over a mother murdering her young children.
That she would be found guilty would have been a foregone conclusion.
Not so in our contemporary cultural morass, where Lindsay Clancy has become an icon revered by thousands of women on social media.
This phenomenon may stem in part from our penchant for celebrity worship.
SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS
Almost anyone who becomes an “influencer” on social media — along with big name actors, athletes, and politicians — can boast social media followings and fan clubs.
Unfortunately, this extends to virulent antisemites [anti-Jews] like Nick Fuentes, not to mention Socialist/Communist New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Worse yet, the halo of celebrity gleams upon the head of Luigi Mangione, coldblooded murderer of Brian Thompson, CEO of United Healthcare.
Mangione, in the manner of despicable cowards, shot Thompson multiple times in the back — because, um, not all of his numerous insurance claims were paid.
Per Wikipedia, Mangione’s murder of Thompson due to anger over his denied claims seems entirely reasonable to many young people:
On social media, reactions to the killing included widespread contempt and mockery toward Thompson and UnitedHealth Group, sympathy and praise for Mangione, and broader criticism of the American healthcare system and health insurance industry.
THE LINDSAY CLANCY CASE
For better or worse, the public has had livestream and video access to the Clancy trial and thousands of women have taken to social media to endlessly discuss it with the common denominator being “support” for Lindsay.
While we can all feel sympathy for her struggles with postpartum depression and insomnia, where’s the sympathy for the three young lives she snuffed out?
If we consider just the raw facts of this case, it looks like this:
The mother of an infant and two young children, ages 3 and 5, systematically strangled all three of them, using strength-resistance cords wrapped around their necks.
She began with one child, tightened the cord, pulling on it while that child in typical response to strangulation (i.e., first feeling terror, then pain as the hyoid bone and laryngeal cartilage are crushed, then asphyxia and the body thrashing for breath) began to turn blue and finally stopped moving.)
Then Lindsay did the same to the next child and to the 8-month infant -- one at a time.
Once three little corpses were strewn on the basement floor, Lindsay jumped out a second story window in a suicide attempt but survived.
Is this an act we want to condone? Is this a woman we want to revere?
Says Victor Davis Hanson:
At least in the medieval period, they knew that the murderer had done something wrong and was being punished.
In the post-medieval period, we are glorifying that murderer…
I won’t even get into Lindsay Clancy, who strangled her three children and became “everywoman” to the feminist left.
THE DEADLOCKED JURY
And now we’ve learned that the jury was deadlocked because only one juror believed Clancy’s crime merited a verdict of guilty.
We used to celebrate heroes and excoriate villains, but that practice has been turned on its head — one of many instances of satanic inversion plaguing our society.
CASE IN POINT: BROADWAY MUSICAL “WICKED”
A case in point: The Broadway musical “Wicked” portrays green-skinned Elphaba — the future Wicked Witch of the West (who terrifies Dorothy in the movie The Wizard of Oz) -- as the heroine. The young woman, who becomes Glinda the Good Witch, is the evil one.
Our country has raised a couple of generations on similar “inverted” messages, and now we wonder why our society sees a murderess as a heroine.
And like the switcheroo in “Wicked,” satanists (who believe God and Satan both exist) view God as the villain and Satan as the hero.
We’d do well to recall the biblical response: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness…” Isaiah 5:20
THE CLANCY FAN CLUB
In a recent podcast, political commentator Matt Walsh maintains that “Not guilty by reason of insanity” shouldn’t even exist as a legal category, and he lambasts the Clancy groupies.
Here’s a powerful comment posted beneath the video:
As a mother to 3, if I came out of a psychotic state and realized I viciously murdered my 3 babies, I would walk myself into the jail myself and beg for the death penalty.
Walsh observes:
A lot of these videos don’t even talk about the case at all; they just straight-up worship Lindsay Clancy BECAUSE she killed her kids.
SOMETHING TO PONDER
Let’s suppose that “Nurse Clancy” brought three of her exercise bands with her to the hospital where she works as a labor and delivery nurse; and while she is alone, she wraps the cords around the tiny necks of three newborns, quietly strangling them to death.
Would the TikTok crowd have rushed to support her?
Would 11 members of the jury have called for a “Not Guilty” verdict by reason of temporary insanity?
There’s only one difference between this scenario and what actually transpired: THE THREE VICTIMS IN LINDSAY’S CASE WERE HER OWN CHILDREN!
So it appears Matt Walsh is right. What has been on trial in Massachusetts is a “mother’s right to kill her children.”
In fact, shortly before the Clancy trial began, a new law was passed in the state of Massachusetts allowing for abortion up to the moment of birth.
But you can only “abort” a process, not a human being.
The argument was always about the abortion of a pregnancy — the process of fetal development.
Suddenly the ground beneath our feet shifted into new territory, whereby a PERSON can be “aborted.”
If a woman can kill her full-term baby at the moment of birth, why not a day or two later? A month later? Or five years later, perhaps?
The argument is whether a woman owns her children like pieces of property that she may dispense with as she wishes.
Note also that “fathers” rate no place in this discussion, apparently having no claim on children they rightly view as theirs, too.
I also agree with Walsh that this case should not be controversial. If Clancy is not found guilty, imagine the cases that may follow.
In fact, there’s already been what appears to be a copycat murder:
An Illinois mother had become “very invested” in the high-profile Lindsay Clancy murder trial before prosecutors say she killed her 2-year-old son on Tuesday, according to witnesses cited in court documents.
THE UNEXPLAINED, MYSTERIOUS VOICE COMMANDING MURDER
I’d never intended to write about this case. But when I read a quotation of what Lindsay claims to have heard from a voice inside her head, I was riveted.
I proceeded to examine the evidence from Lindsay herself.
Here’s a quote from Yahoo News:
Lindsay described hearing “a loud, demanding, repetitious” male voice telling her, “This is your last chance. Kill the children so you can kill yourself,” and said she “felt a force come over her.”
Could it have been an “auditory hallucination” brought on by the cocktail of psychotropic drugs she’d been given to “help” with her postpartum depression?
Let’s reexamine the commands themselves.
She described the voice as saying:
“This is your last chance. Kill the children so you can kill yourself.”
These two claims immediately struck me as patently false:
(a) Lindsay would have countless other “chances” to murder her children if such were her aim.
(b) And there is no logical explanation for why she’d have to kill them before committing suicide.
The statement “This is your last chance” is reminiscent of the well-known sales pitch used to pressure customers to make a quick decision by creating “a false sense of urgency.”
In Lindsay’s case, she apparently felt that pressure as if her life depended on it — or, more accurately, as if her “wished-for death” depended on it.
Next, even if Lindsay had decided to kill herself, why would she need to kill her three innocent children?
HAD A GOOD LIFE
Lindsay had a husband, and they lived in a nice home. If she died, their father would take care of the children.
Wouldn’t their future be her main concern as she contemplated suicide?
Wouldn’t she write a suicide note asking her husband and her children to forgive her?
Oddly, none of that happened.
THE POWERFUL MALE VOICE
There is something else, however, that might explain her heinous acts: The powerful male voice issuing obscenely horrific commands that she felt powerless to disobey may have signaled demonic influence.
And before you accuse me of resorting to superstitious religious balderdash to explain a simple case of overdosing on dicey pharmaceuticals, I suggest you read the Bible….
AUDITORY HALLUCINATION ANOMALIES
During the court case, forensic psychiatrist Gregory Saathoff, called by the prosecutors, made a particularly telling observation. As quoted in NewsNationNow:
Saathoff said aspects of Clancy’s description of the alleged command hallucination were “unusual,” including that she reported never hearing a voice before the day of the killings or afterward.
He said it was also atypical for a command voice to just cease once the killings were over, saying, “committing the act is not curative of the voice, I’ve not ever seen that.”
But could it be that the auditory “hallucination” was not “unusual” because Clancy made it up to excuse her actions because it was not a hallucination at all?
HALLUCINATION OR THE REAL THING?
Award-winning journalist and Catholic author Michael H. Brown, whose bio you can read here, posted a short video on TikTok that I’d encourage you to watch.
Here’s a transcribed excerpt:
Everyone is arguing about the psychiatric aspects of it, but she was possessed!
I mean, she heard a deep, commanding insistent voice telling her she had to kill her children and herself ... This wasn’t psychiatry …
Psychiatrists try to call it something like “command delusion” or “bipolar disorder,” “postpartum psychosis” and maybe they can play a role, but again, spirits do this, too.
Here’s what Pastor Mark Driscoll had to say:
If in fact she did hear these voices, I’ll tell you this, these are demons.
This is demonic.
It doesn’t mean that she is therefore not morally responsible for her decisions.
Demons can say things to us, BUT WE’RE RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR RESPONSE.
I also came across a book on Amazon by Christian author Glenda Solomon described as follows:
In “The ‘Demonic Possession’ of Lindsay Clancy,” Christian author Glenda Solomon presents a direct biblical case that the deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan Clancy bear the recognizable marks of demonic influence: deception disguised as mercy, a commanding voice, innocent blood, self-destruction, secrecy, and the complete devastation of a family.
A TRAGEDY WITH NO CATHARSIS
In a weakened state physiologically and psychologically — almost literally “beside herself” — Lindsay Clancy may have become fertile ground for demonic interference.
If so, once she’d done the bidding of Satan’s minion by strangling her children, the insistent male voice ceased. Mission accomplished.
And what would that mission have been?
To deceive Lindsay into committing child sacrifice and to damn her.
WHAT IF SHE IS LYING ABOUT THE VOICE?
Of course, if Clancy lied about hearing a voice, that would mean that the triple murder was her own premeditated plan.
After all, she had been fantasizing about killing her children for months, confiding this to her husband and parents, but steadfastly avoiding letting medical professionals know — even lying about it when asked directly.
And that is the definitive tell:
By intentionally refusing to admit to her doctors that her “horrific intrusive thoughts” were of killing her children, Lindsay cast the die — she locked out the possibility of receiving exactly the kind of help she needed.
After months of mental rehearsals of murdering her young, she performed the acts — seeming to be “watching herself” as in her fantasies.
As much as we MAY WANT to blame the psychotropic drugs, the pharmaceutical companies that make them, and the psychiatrists who over-prescribed them and failed to grasp how desperate she felt, Lindsay stole three precious lives and must pay the price.
It is heartbreaking, because she was a loving mother. But what she did cannot be undone.
By yielding to evil in those moments, she sacrificed everything she loved.
Perhaps that’s why the Bible cautions us to:
“Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” Ephesians, 6:11
MANKIND IS IMPERFECT
The Lindsay Clancy story is a cautionary tale that goes beyond the manifest dangers of psychotropic drugs.
It touches on our universal dilemma — that, as imperfect as we are, we attempt to discern right from wrong, moral from immoral, and to choose wisely — in Biblical terms, to “choose life.” Deuteronomy, 30:19
Solzhenitsyn put it this way: “The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.”
THERE ARE SOME LINES YOU NEVER WANT TO CROSS!
Cherie Zaslawsky is a writer, freelance editor, and private teacher/writing coach for high school students, as well as a confirmed Constitutionalist who nevertheless lives in California. Her work appears in American Thinker, News with Views, Renew America, Lew Rockwell, The Post & Email, and more.
https://cheriezaslawsky.substack.com/
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