You were already in a prison. You've been in a prison all your life. Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all. Your lover lived in the penitentiary that we are all born into, and was forced to rake the dregs of that world for his living. He knew affection and tenderness but only briefly. Eventually, one of the other inmates stabbed him with a cutlass and he drowned upon his own blood. Is that it, Evey? Is that the happiness worth more than freedom? It's not an uncommon story, Evey. Many convicts meet with miserable ends. Your mother. Your father. Your lover. One by one, taken out behind the chemical sheds... and shot. All convicts, hunched and deformed by the smallness of their cells, the weight of their chains, the unfairness of their sentences. I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.'
'You're wrong! It's just life, that's all! It's just how life is. It's what we've got to put up with. It's all we've got. What gives you the right to decide it's not good enough?'
'You're in a prison, Evey. You were born in a prison. You've been in a prison so long, you no longer believe there's a world outside. That's because you're afraid, Evey. You're afraid because you can feel freedom closing in upon you. You're afraid because freedom is terrifying. Don't back away from it, Evey. Part of you understands the truth even as part pretends not to. You were in a cell, Evey. They offered you a choice between the death of your principles and the death of your body. You said you'd rather die. You faced the fear of your own death and you were calm and still. The door of the cage is open, Evey. All that you feel is the wind from outside.
Oh, that's from the part when the protagonist kidnaps, tortures, abuses, threatens Evey with execution as a part of breaking her down, brainswashing her and turning her into a continuation of himself.
The protagonist of 'V for Vendetta' is monster and not fit for life, something which was made very clear in the old comic; funny how the movie made him a hero instead, huh?
No surprise there at all. No wonder the Main Stream Media lost their collective minds when the tapes were released to Tucker Carlson. So much for a vigorous defense that these folks were entitled to. The whole thing was a sham, orchestrated by the government instigators like the Ray Epps that were left untouched. The depravity of the Democrats and the deranged Trump haters will stop at nothing!! Thanks for shining a light on this.
the assumption that anyone who voted for Trump or liked him or even thought that not absolutely EVERYTHING he said was grotesque is somehow retarded or brain dead is just too much. i find that the opposite is more often true- the generally intelligent people lost their minds every time Trump opened his mouth even if what he said was perfectly reasonable.
and for that attorney to suggest that 4 years of propaganda addled this poor guy's brain, what about the russia gate propaganda, the covid propaganda, the lab leak propaganda, the vaccine propagande, the ukraine propaganda, the gender propaganda and the climate propaganda?
it's a wonder anyone can think straight and yet, some of us have managed to hold our wits together.
my BF would ask me "are we crazy? what if we're wrong?" and i would answer "but i haven't changed. i'm the same as i always was. these other people have abandoned their previously held convictions. they've changed."
"A time is coming when men will go mad and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us."--St. Anthony the Great
I don’t know Jacob Chansley. His outfit on January 6 is obviously a bit strange. He is apparently from the Phoenix area. I am acquainted with somebody who has told me they know him well and that he’s a very nice guy, a peaceful guy, and that he wouldn’t hurt anybody. The treatment of the January 6 protestors is another black mark on our nation. For the most part, these people were essentially trespassers at worst, protesting the corrupt election of 2020. Yes a few were violent, but nobody protesting shot or stabbed or killed anybody. And most of them had no altercation with uniformed police officers. They find themselves the victims of a Stalinist show trial complete with politically motivated long term imprisonment in the DC gulag without bail. Their lives and families are ruined because of a few hours of civil disorder. Have we not seen that before? Did the perps in those instances suffer the same abuse? Of course not. These Americans aren’t terrorists. They aren’t murders of arsonists. They aren’t even thieves. If they were Democrats, they’d be getting full time gigs on CNN and millions of dollars shoveled at them from the seemingly bottomless puddle of cash available to Fake Marxist social Justice movements from cynical billionaires and taxpayer dollars repurposed to support violent thugs who burn, kill, and destroy private property. And of course, Republican Washington mostly sits on its thumbs. Hopefully the release of the truth with these video recordings will help get these folks out of jail, but I wouldn’t count on it. The justice system is corrupt. The judges are activists, not judges. Many are bought off. The DOJ , like all Federal bureaucracies serves the interests of permanent Washington and the Dems, not the rest of us. America the beautiful, Washington DC, the shameful.
That no one in the FBI can answer the question, "was Ray Epps working for or with the FBI or Just-Us Department on January 6th" with a simple "no," pretty much answers the question in the affirmative.
Crazy how the same folks who scream about "threats to democracy" and "misinformation" are also the ones promoting demonstrably false narratives and withholding information from voters. It's almost like they don't actually mean anything they say!
I'd say "now" was about 15 minutes after the founders ratified the Constitution.
"And be it farther enacted, That if any person shall write, print, utter or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered or published, or shall knowingly and willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, uttering or publishing any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States, or the President of the United States, with intent to defame the said government, or either house of the said Congress, or the said President, or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States, or to stir up sedition within the United States, or to excite any unlawful combinations therein, for opposing or resisting any law of the United States, or any act of the President of the United States, done in pursuance of any such law, or of the powers in him vested by the constitution of the United States, or to resist, oppose, or defeat any such law or act, or to aid, encourage or abet any hostile designs of any foreign nation against United States, their people or government, then such person, being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years."
Section 2 of The Sedition Act of 1798
TLDNR version: "We were only kidding when we added the 1st Amendment to the Constitution."
The pitfalls of human nature are hard to nullify. The founders understood this, even when peering into their own souls. That's why they prescribed vigorous defense of liberty. It's necessary.
Thankfully that act and most of the 1918 version were repealed not too long after their enactments. I've always pictured John Adams as some sort of Neocon, Karl Rove/Mike Pence like figure. The Uniparty has existed for quite some time.
Now if we could get the "Patriot Act" and its hydra of nefarious agencies sent to the shredder of history we'd have things heading in the right direction.
This is such mixed bag. On one level there is some vindication for what are obviously patsies. But I can't help but feel heart broken that scores of our so called 'leaders' had seen this video and let the 'fucking' 'retards' rot in jail.
This is the greatest canundrum I struggle with and I see others struggle with. Where do these problems begin and end? Is this bottom up, or top down? Is it more important that the right thing is done for the wrong reasons, or the wrong thing results with the best of intentions?
There are forces that want nothing more than for us to hate our institutions. They would much prefer they are destroyed from the inside out, rather than have to lift a finger. There are forces inside the gates that would raid all the value in our society, and feel no compunction if it were completely razed to the ground as long at they stood above the rubble.
Who is left to rebuild it? To renew it? To restore it? I have hope that it's the people here, who care about reason. Your substack Chris has not only lifted my spirits making take a moment to laugh at insanity, as we should, from time to time, but it brings me hope that there are both levers, and stories, and actors that can turn this ship around. I think satire is a critical component of cultural processing. It's comic relief mashed with a real power to deflate self destructive ideological posession. Because the reality is as bad as it is, it is the best there is, I can't see another system that demands we recognize the value of the individual.
When I think about McCarthy I get viscerally upset, for all the things that politicians do. But for this I will give him credit, and not because he deserves praise, but because in this democratic system - the projection of our human nature - the gears are greased with credit and despite any number of alterior motives, it was the right thing to do.
This is that much more important to say about Tucker. Notwhithstanding his corporate masters, speaking truth, even in dribs and drabs, punctures the forces that are constantly raiding the value in society. And that deserves credit. There is much talk these days about limited hangouts. And I get it, narrative building can't be ignored. But the reality is everyone in a systems tows a line. Focussing too much on the top down leaves out the very real phenomena of the bottom up forces that are not ready for the entire story, I know this, people here know this when offering objective truth gets rejected by people we have known our entire lives. We experience this phenomena when, as in the last three years, our neighbors clamour for tyranny, demanding our Barabbas because it's the virtue signal du jour.
But there is one more important thing to say about these tapes, we have got to know who saw these tapes and when. If it was any meaningful length of time, they have outed themselves as the raiders, perfectly willing to burn down the institution for their bag of silver.
I am sorry the rant, but this has really got to me.
This release by Tucker is just the low hanging fruit for a single instantly recognizable J6er. Right way to play it. Give Tucker's team some time to sift thru the 11k hours and there will be many more truth bombs.
I also want to see legal consequences for these injustices. But I understand the extent of the corruption we face. I'm OK with just getting the Truth out to the public.
So many of the January 6th people who are in jail now weri railroaded. As you said, it looks like the government lied. It also looks like there will be no accountability.
The same thing is happening with the revelation of the lies the CDC told about COVID and mandates they said we needed to protect people from Covid. Again, no accountability.
You know those outtakes of Chansley at the Speaker's podium? I've seen the video those were taken from, and there was an armed Capitol Police officer virtually at his elbow from the moment he walked into the House chambers. Miraculously, the outtakes shown to the public manage to omit the police officer entirely. What a surprise.
Tucker is fine, but it seems like an agreed outlet: one that the brainwashed will just ignore. If McCarthy wanted the story told he would have done what Elon Musk did and handed the videos to known Indy journalists like Taibbi, Greenwald, and others. By telling it through Tucker, McCarthy actually protects the swamp.
The problem is that many of the people who could have broken through to the brainwashed wouldn't have touched the story. Tucker was willing to show the damn things. Would have been interesting to see what a Glenn Greenwald would do with the footage, though.
Tucker has a much larger audience and is known by more people than Greenwald. At least putting the videos on Tucker's show will ensure that many more people see and hear about the videos. A great many people know who Tucker is but have never heard of Greenwald.
The MSM have completely ignored the Twitter files. I understand many people consider Fox just another part of the MSM just with a slightly different stripe. There aren’t many people in broadcast “journalism” that I trust but Tucker is one of them. He is one of the few (only?) people willing to put stuff out there (J6, Covid, Hunter, etc.). I’m not sure what it will take to get the masses to open their eyes but perhaps as they begin to feel the pain of a criminal government’s actions they will begin to take notice. As Jimmy Dore says, Americans are the most propagandized people in the world.
Tho I would say digging into 11k hours of video takes staff, and Tucker has that. Taibbi has staff by now but they are occupied going thru Twitter files. Adding J6 video would be a big ask.
I hate the government. That said, regarding the attorneys comments, I can’t say that I know the context in which they were made, but I could see him maybe trying to get the court to pity him.
But if I were facing a long prison sentence, I would fire a lawyer who gave interviews to tell people I'm retarded. I got a sinking feeling when I saw Watkins carrying that case all the way to the end.
Dennis Prager had a J6er on his show twice, speaking from the DC jail, I’m sorry I can’t remember the guy’s name right now. Anyway, he said that he was initially assigned a public defender, and the public defender hated the J6ers, said it to his face, and thought they were all guilty. It wasn’t till several months later that outsiders fundraised on the man’s behalf to get him a lawyer who would actually DEFEND him. Possibly Chamsley was in a similar situation.
If all one thousand defendants were tried in one big trial, there might be something for the public to rally behind in support. But these guys were isolated in jail and then tried one at a time (with no media coverage and whatever legal team they could muster up). I see a parallel with covid, where each of us in isolation had to decide whether to stand up against lockdown, or decide whether to lose one’s personal livelihood by refusing the covid vaccine. We might have had more power in numbers but it was all rolled out in such a way that banding together was difficult.
My hope is that this is going to be delicious, and I’m looking forward to reading your commentary on it, Chris.
Trump failed to drain the swamp. But he showed it to me and now I can’t not see it.
You were already in a prison. You've been in a prison all your life. Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all. Your lover lived in the penitentiary that we are all born into, and was forced to rake the dregs of that world for his living. He knew affection and tenderness but only briefly. Eventually, one of the other inmates stabbed him with a cutlass and he drowned upon his own blood. Is that it, Evey? Is that the happiness worth more than freedom? It's not an uncommon story, Evey. Many convicts meet with miserable ends. Your mother. Your father. Your lover. One by one, taken out behind the chemical sheds... and shot. All convicts, hunched and deformed by the smallness of their cells, the weight of their chains, the unfairness of their sentences. I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.'
'You're wrong! It's just life, that's all! It's just how life is. It's what we've got to put up with. It's all we've got. What gives you the right to decide it's not good enough?'
'You're in a prison, Evey. You were born in a prison. You've been in a prison so long, you no longer believe there's a world outside. That's because you're afraid, Evey. You're afraid because you can feel freedom closing in upon you. You're afraid because freedom is terrifying. Don't back away from it, Evey. Part of you understands the truth even as part pretends not to. You were in a cell, Evey. They offered you a choice between the death of your principles and the death of your body. You said you'd rather die. You faced the fear of your own death and you were calm and still. The door of the cage is open, Evey. All that you feel is the wind from outside.
Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
Oh, that's from the part when the protagonist kidnaps, tortures, abuses, threatens Evey with execution as a part of breaking her down, brainswashing her and turning her into a continuation of himself.
The protagonist of 'V for Vendetta' is monster and not fit for life, something which was made very clear in the old comic; funny how the movie made him a hero instead, huh?
No surprise there at all. No wonder the Main Stream Media lost their collective minds when the tapes were released to Tucker Carlson. So much for a vigorous defense that these folks were entitled to. The whole thing was a sham, orchestrated by the government instigators like the Ray Epps that were left untouched. The depravity of the Democrats and the deranged Trump haters will stop at nothing!! Thanks for shining a light on this.
the assumption that anyone who voted for Trump or liked him or even thought that not absolutely EVERYTHING he said was grotesque is somehow retarded or brain dead is just too much. i find that the opposite is more often true- the generally intelligent people lost their minds every time Trump opened his mouth even if what he said was perfectly reasonable.
and for that attorney to suggest that 4 years of propaganda addled this poor guy's brain, what about the russia gate propaganda, the covid propaganda, the lab leak propaganda, the vaccine propagande, the ukraine propaganda, the gender propaganda and the climate propaganda?
it's a wonder anyone can think straight and yet, some of us have managed to hold our wits together.
my BF would ask me "are we crazy? what if we're wrong?" and i would answer "but i haven't changed. i'm the same as i always was. these other people have abandoned their previously held convictions. they've changed."
"A time is coming when men will go mad and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us."--St. Anthony the Great
Fake election. Fake president. Fake insurrection.
Tyranny will be real, though.
Correction re verb tense: Replace "will be" with "is".
Good Samaritans don't steal elections.
All the J6 defendants had Trump-haters as their attorneys. I could cry for how these literally peaceful protesters have been railroaded. 😥
Huh?!
I don’t know Jacob Chansley. His outfit on January 6 is obviously a bit strange. He is apparently from the Phoenix area. I am acquainted with somebody who has told me they know him well and that he’s a very nice guy, a peaceful guy, and that he wouldn’t hurt anybody. The treatment of the January 6 protestors is another black mark on our nation. For the most part, these people were essentially trespassers at worst, protesting the corrupt election of 2020. Yes a few were violent, but nobody protesting shot or stabbed or killed anybody. And most of them had no altercation with uniformed police officers. They find themselves the victims of a Stalinist show trial complete with politically motivated long term imprisonment in the DC gulag without bail. Their lives and families are ruined because of a few hours of civil disorder. Have we not seen that before? Did the perps in those instances suffer the same abuse? Of course not. These Americans aren’t terrorists. They aren’t murders of arsonists. They aren’t even thieves. If they were Democrats, they’d be getting full time gigs on CNN and millions of dollars shoveled at them from the seemingly bottomless puddle of cash available to Fake Marxist social Justice movements from cynical billionaires and taxpayer dollars repurposed to support violent thugs who burn, kill, and destroy private property. And of course, Republican Washington mostly sits on its thumbs. Hopefully the release of the truth with these video recordings will help get these folks out of jail, but I wouldn’t count on it. The justice system is corrupt. The judges are activists, not judges. Many are bought off. The DOJ , like all Federal bureaucracies serves the interests of permanent Washington and the Dems, not the rest of us. America the beautiful, Washington DC, the shameful.
Some guy from Phoenix is charged with a crime in D.C., and gets a lawyer from Missouri. Very strange.
He would have had a better chance representing himself
Similar to “Who is John Galt?”, every freedom loving person in this country needs to be saying “Who is Ray Epps?”
I feel fairly confident that I know who Ray Epps is, but I'm willing to pretend to raise it as a question for form's sake.
That no one in the FBI can answer the question, "was Ray Epps working for or with the FBI or Just-Us Department on January 6th" with a simple "no," pretty much answers the question in the affirmative.
Exactly. Anyone with half a brain and who saw some of the videos starring Ray Epps knows exactly where his paycheck came from.
Just in case some people don’t know—- https://www.revolver.news/2021/10/meet-ray-epps-the-fed-protected-provocateur-who-appears-to-have-led-the-very-first-1-6-attack-on-the-u-s-capitol/
So many of the facts are out there for anyone will to actually look.
He is definitely a fed... and now I’m on a list 😉
Crazy how the same folks who scream about "threats to democracy" and "misinformation" are also the ones promoting demonstrably false narratives and withholding information from voters. It's almost like they don't actually mean anything they say!
Our government is our enemy now.
... have been, for quite some time ...
I'd say "now" was about 15 minutes after the founders ratified the Constitution.
"And be it farther enacted, That if any person shall write, print, utter or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered or published, or shall knowingly and willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, uttering or publishing any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States, or the President of the United States, with intent to defame the said government, or either house of the said Congress, or the said President, or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States, or to stir up sedition within the United States, or to excite any unlawful combinations therein, for opposing or resisting any law of the United States, or any act of the President of the United States, done in pursuance of any such law, or of the powers in him vested by the constitution of the United States, or to resist, oppose, or defeat any such law or act, or to aid, encourage or abet any hostile designs of any foreign nation against United States, their people or government, then such person, being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years."
Section 2 of The Sedition Act of 1798
TLDNR version: "We were only kidding when we added the 1st Amendment to the Constitution."
The pitfalls of human nature are hard to nullify. The founders understood this, even when peering into their own souls. That's why they prescribed vigorous defense of liberty. It's necessary.
Thankfully that act and most of the 1918 version were repealed not too long after their enactments. I've always pictured John Adams as some sort of Neocon, Karl Rove/Mike Pence like figure. The Uniparty has existed for quite some time.
Now if we could get the "Patriot Act" and its hydra of nefarious agencies sent to the shredder of history we'd have things heading in the right direction.
If Hamilton had lived, it could have been even worse.
This is such mixed bag. On one level there is some vindication for what are obviously patsies. But I can't help but feel heart broken that scores of our so called 'leaders' had seen this video and let the 'fucking' 'retards' rot in jail.
No way around that conclusion. There are no leaders who are leaders.
This is the greatest canundrum I struggle with and I see others struggle with. Where do these problems begin and end? Is this bottom up, or top down? Is it more important that the right thing is done for the wrong reasons, or the wrong thing results with the best of intentions?
There are forces that want nothing more than for us to hate our institutions. They would much prefer they are destroyed from the inside out, rather than have to lift a finger. There are forces inside the gates that would raid all the value in our society, and feel no compunction if it were completely razed to the ground as long at they stood above the rubble.
Who is left to rebuild it? To renew it? To restore it? I have hope that it's the people here, who care about reason. Your substack Chris has not only lifted my spirits making take a moment to laugh at insanity, as we should, from time to time, but it brings me hope that there are both levers, and stories, and actors that can turn this ship around. I think satire is a critical component of cultural processing. It's comic relief mashed with a real power to deflate self destructive ideological posession. Because the reality is as bad as it is, it is the best there is, I can't see another system that demands we recognize the value of the individual.
When I think about McCarthy I get viscerally upset, for all the things that politicians do. But for this I will give him credit, and not because he deserves praise, but because in this democratic system - the projection of our human nature - the gears are greased with credit and despite any number of alterior motives, it was the right thing to do.
This is that much more important to say about Tucker. Notwhithstanding his corporate masters, speaking truth, even in dribs and drabs, punctures the forces that are constantly raiding the value in society. And that deserves credit. There is much talk these days about limited hangouts. And I get it, narrative building can't be ignored. But the reality is everyone in a systems tows a line. Focussing too much on the top down leaves out the very real phenomena of the bottom up forces that are not ready for the entire story, I know this, people here know this when offering objective truth gets rejected by people we have known our entire lives. We experience this phenomena when, as in the last three years, our neighbors clamour for tyranny, demanding our Barabbas because it's the virtue signal du jour.
But there is one more important thing to say about these tapes, we have got to know who saw these tapes and when. If it was any meaningful length of time, they have outed themselves as the raiders, perfectly willing to burn down the institution for their bag of silver.
I am sorry the rant, but this has really got to me.
There are certainly are "leaders", but very few of them are involved in government. At least in OUR government.
Inadequate council as well. But you’ll never get a fair trial in DC.
This release by Tucker is just the low hanging fruit for a single instantly recognizable J6er. Right way to play it. Give Tucker's team some time to sift thru the 11k hours and there will be many more truth bombs.
I also want to see legal consequences for these injustices. But I understand the extent of the corruption we face. I'm OK with just getting the Truth out to the public.
He said that they didn’t have access to facial recognition software. Maybe a whistleblower could help them?
So many of the January 6th people who are in jail now weri railroaded. As you said, it looks like the government lied. It also looks like there will be no accountability.
The same thing is happening with the revelation of the lies the CDC told about COVID and mandates they said we needed to protect people from Covid. Again, no accountability.
The Patriot Act in action. Some of the imprisoned J6ers have not even been charged.
You know those outtakes of Chansley at the Speaker's podium? I've seen the video those were taken from, and there was an armed Capitol Police officer virtually at his elbow from the moment he walked into the House chambers. Miraculously, the outtakes shown to the public manage to omit the police officer entirely. What a surprise.
Tucker is fine, but it seems like an agreed outlet: one that the brainwashed will just ignore. If McCarthy wanted the story told he would have done what Elon Musk did and handed the videos to known Indy journalists like Taibbi, Greenwald, and others. By telling it through Tucker, McCarthy actually protects the swamp.
The problem is that many of the people who could have broken through to the brainwashed wouldn't have touched the story. Tucker was willing to show the damn things. Would have been interesting to see what a Glenn Greenwald would do with the footage, though.
And the brainwashed have already turned on Taibbi for the Twitter files. Doubt they would have seen him as any more credible than Tucker.
Tucker has a much larger audience and is known by more people than Greenwald. At least putting the videos on Tucker's show will ensure that many more people see and hear about the videos. A great many people know who Tucker is but have never heard of Greenwald.
The MSM have completely ignored the Twitter files. I understand many people consider Fox just another part of the MSM just with a slightly different stripe. There aren’t many people in broadcast “journalism” that I trust but Tucker is one of them. He is one of the few (only?) people willing to put stuff out there (J6, Covid, Hunter, etc.). I’m not sure what it will take to get the masses to open their eyes but perhaps as they begin to feel the pain of a criminal government’s actions they will begin to take notice. As Jimmy Dore says, Americans are the most propagandized people in the world.
Great point! McCarthy is playing both sides here.
Tho I would say digging into 11k hours of video takes staff, and Tucker has that. Taibbi has staff by now but they are occupied going thru Twitter files. Adding J6 video would be a big ask.
I hate the government. That said, regarding the attorneys comments, I can’t say that I know the context in which they were made, but I could see him maybe trying to get the court to pity him.
He said later that he was doing exactly that:
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/show/st-louis-on-the-air/2022-01-06/al-watkins-on-fighting-for-the-qanon-shaman-theres-method-behind-the-madness
But if I were facing a long prison sentence, I would fire a lawyer who gave interviews to tell people I'm retarded. I got a sinking feeling when I saw Watkins carrying that case all the way to the end.
Dennis Prager had a J6er on his show twice, speaking from the DC jail, I’m sorry I can’t remember the guy’s name right now. Anyway, he said that he was initially assigned a public defender, and the public defender hated the J6ers, said it to his face, and thought they were all guilty. It wasn’t till several months later that outsiders fundraised on the man’s behalf to get him a lawyer who would actually DEFEND him. Possibly Chamsley was in a similar situation.
If all one thousand defendants were tried in one big trial, there might be something for the public to rally behind in support. But these guys were isolated in jail and then tried one at a time (with no media coverage and whatever legal team they could muster up). I see a parallel with covid, where each of us in isolation had to decide whether to stand up against lockdown, or decide whether to lose one’s personal livelihood by refusing the covid vaccine. We might have had more power in numbers but it was all rolled out in such a way that banding together was difficult.
Divide and conquer - a process as old as mankind. And, sadly, it works.