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A unique defense strategy involving right-wing conspiracy theories challenges the outcome of a case involving an attempted kidnapping of a US official, leading to potential legal and legislative implications.
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Insights into the potential impact of the case on conspiracy theory promotion and legal defense strategies.
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Well, howdy there, internet people, it's Bo again.
So today we are going to talk about a case
that I don't think anybody expected
to really be watching closely,
but the very opening definitely has raised some eyebrows
and I feel like this is probably gonna get
way more attention than people initially thought
because a unique, a very unique defense is apparently going to be presented and
as I go through it please understand it's not as wild as some of the theories
that you're gonna hear. Okay so I think most people will remember not too long
ago a man showed up and the plan was to I think kidnap Pelosi and
in the process the man assaulted Pelosi's husband. This person was
charged federally with the attempted kidnapping of a US official and the
assault on the immediate family member of a US official in retaliation for the
performance of their job. Okay, the defense in their opening statement just
kind of threw it out there of like, oh yeah, he totally did this, but Tom Hanks
does evil things and started recounting the wildest of all of the theories out
there dealing with a certain letter of the alphabet because according to the
defense, this person was not there because of the performance of her
duties. This person was there because they believed a bunch of right-wing
conspiracy theories. And they threw some of them out there. I'm not going to
repeat them, but I mean, I want you to picture like the one thing you
you wouldn't picture somebody like Tom Hanks doing that's just absolutely horrible.
That's the theory. It's just all bad.
They're presenting it as, sure, this is the right person, but since the intent was not
in retaliation for the performance of her duties you don't have a case. That's
not as as wild as it sounds because there are elements that have to be met.
I think that at the end of this I don't think it's actually going to matter to
the outcome, but this being presented as a defense in this way, it's probably going
to lead to a whole lot of extra scrutiny on people who promote those theories, especially
if they can show a direct connection, which the defense might inadvertently do this, if
they can show a direct connection between the promotion of these theories
and acting as if they're true, especially if in some cases the people promoting
them know they're not, and the attempted kidnapping of a federal official, I mean
that that's the kind of thing that leads to legislative changes. So what started
as a case that I don't think anybody was going to pay attention to because the outcome was,
I mean it seemed kind of predetermined what with the video and all, has gone to one that people
are probably going to pay more attention to and then on top of that if this defense is even remotely
successful, you're probably gonna see laws change. This is, it's interesting
to say the least and definitely unexpected. So this person, the person
behind all of this, the person who is alleged to have done this, yeah they were
were basically just consumed by a lot of theories and they believed them.
That's the defense.
And having followed a lot of those theories to kind of keep tabs on where everything is,
The ones that were laid out in the defense so far, yeah, that's a cohesive one.
The defense may not be just trying to manufacture defense.
This may actually be his intent.
It may be why he was there, not just partially motivated by it, not just a contributing factor.
It may have nothing to do with the actual functioning of the government and everything
to do with what amounts to fiction.
Something that is untrue, but he believed it.
And because part of the crime in this case requires it to be in retaliation for the performance
of the job, I mean, that may actually be a legal defense.
It's definitely going to be way more interesting to watch and read about than I had initially
anticipated.
So I would be ready to hear a lot more about the case involving the person who went after
Anyway, it's just a thought, y'all have a good day.
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