The Acquittal of the Michigan Kidnap Plotters Reveals a Deeper Issue
It is clear, especially from the War on Misinformation waged by the White House and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, that the federal government wants to censor speech and create its own monopolistic narratives in order to have control over what information is disseminated and to pacify the populace. This is evident by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) bulletin outlining how certain narratives and “misinformation” (as arbitrarily determined by the federal government, of course), as well as beliefs that pandemic restrictions were unconstitutional or detrimental and that President Biden did not really win the 2020 election, lead to acts of terrorism and need to be stopped.
There is no doubt that our founding fathers fought a war, while being classified by the British Crown as terrorists and traitors, to preserve their rights as Englishmen, and yet, in our modern era, and particularly in the wake of the recent pandemic, we think nothing of handing over the ability of the government to lock us in our homes, shut down small businesses, prohibit free assembly, and force us to show identification to participate in society. Of course, the Tories of the American Revolutionary period would have preferred keeping the peace and considered protests that shook the established order to be disgusting and unwarranted, but radicals, such as Samuel Adams, would not have tolerated the policies forced upon us by state governors (and not even the legislatures) during the COVID-19 fiasco.
We think of ourselves as sophisticated citizens of the American Empire, but in reality, the only way to preserve freedom is to fight for what we believe is right. Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. showed us a better way to display our anger at governments, but in the case of the alleged kidnapping of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), attempted to entrap a group of protesters into committing an act of terrorism, all in an attempt to push the narrative that the far-Right is out to get the whole country (most of the country is still unaware that entrapment occurred because the corporate media already convinced people that the alleged plotters were guilty).
Well, it seems like the Department of Justice (DOJ) needs to hang its head in disgrace after it lost two cases against the defendants of the kidnapping plot, and of course, the informants, such as Dan Chappel, who was paid $50,000 to trick his former allies into participating, will never be charged for “attempting” to kidnap the governor themselves (if you work for the government, you are allowed to commit crimes when acting on behalf of law enforcement, and agents get to be above the law when they are on official duties). The informants in the plot “encouraged, coordinated, assisted, or funded various acts that the government cited as evidence of a conspiracy,” and Chappel even tried to get the group motivated again when it started to look like they were losing interest in continuing with the plan (the informant even suggested committing other crimes). It is disgusting, but not surprising, to think that the federal government would orchestrate a heinous plot and ruin the lives of young men who were frustrated with the political climate to further an agenda against the Right. The informants who participated for their own self-interests should also be ashamed of themselves.
It is a good thing that the jurors saw through the government manipulation and acquitted Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta, because if they had not, these men would have been made an example of, just like the January 6th protesters. Adam Fox and Barry Croft received a mistrial after the jury could not reach a verdict.
Not only were the men stoned and incompetent to even be able to pull off a stunt like what they were accused of committing, but the plot was not even thoroughly planned. In fact, Fox was about to abandon the mission, and the others considered delaying it. Sinking flustered men who were discussing attacks against the Michigan government (speech does not equal action) and were going to leave the governor stranded out on a lake is not justification to persecute all those who believe in freedom, and even Governor Whitmer had the audacity to say that divisive speech and false narratives are what led to her “near doom.”
She is so worried about extremism spreading and not holding her alleged kidnappers accountable for a crime that the government helped orchestrate in the first place. Why is she not upset with the FBI? Why does she not examine her own authoritarian policies that caused those who value freedom of expression, travel, assembly, and conducting business to become angry and oppose her executive orders? Why did she not get approval through the legislature to shut down businesses? After all, did Thomas Jefferson (or if this was not him, he would have agreed with it) not say, “When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
Thank you for reading, and please check out my book, The Global Bully, and website.
There is no doubt that our founding fathers fought a war, while being classified by the British Crown as terrorists and traitors, to preserve their rights as Englishmen, and yet, in our modern era, and particularly in the wake of the recent pandemic, we think nothing of handing over the ability of the government to lock us in our homes, shut down small businesses, prohibit free assembly, and force us to show identification to participate in society. Of course, the Tories of the American Revolutionary period would have preferred keeping the peace and considered protests that shook the established order to be disgusting and unwarranted, but radicals, such as Samuel Adams, would not have tolerated the policies forced upon us by state governors (and not even the legislatures) during the COVID-19 fiasco.
We think of ourselves as sophisticated citizens of the American Empire, but in reality, the only way to preserve freedom is to fight for what we believe is right. Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. showed us a better way to display our anger at governments, but in the case of the alleged kidnapping of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), attempted to entrap a group of protesters into committing an act of terrorism, all in an attempt to push the narrative that the far-Right is out to get the whole country (most of the country is still unaware that entrapment occurred because the corporate media already convinced people that the alleged plotters were guilty).
Well, it seems like the Department of Justice (DOJ) needs to hang its head in disgrace after it lost two cases against the defendants of the kidnapping plot, and of course, the informants, such as Dan Chappel, who was paid $50,000 to trick his former allies into participating, will never be charged for “attempting” to kidnap the governor themselves (if you work for the government, you are allowed to commit crimes when acting on behalf of law enforcement, and agents get to be above the law when they are on official duties). The informants in the plot “encouraged, coordinated, assisted, or funded various acts that the government cited as evidence of a conspiracy,” and Chappel even tried to get the group motivated again when it started to look like they were losing interest in continuing with the plan (the informant even suggested committing other crimes). It is disgusting, but not surprising, to think that the federal government would orchestrate a heinous plot and ruin the lives of young men who were frustrated with the political climate to further an agenda against the Right. The informants who participated for their own self-interests should also be ashamed of themselves.
It is a good thing that the jurors saw through the government manipulation and acquitted Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta, because if they had not, these men would have been made an example of, just like the January 6th protesters. Adam Fox and Barry Croft received a mistrial after the jury could not reach a verdict.
Not only were the men stoned and incompetent to even be able to pull off a stunt like what they were accused of committing, but the plot was not even thoroughly planned. In fact, Fox was about to abandon the mission, and the others considered delaying it. Sinking flustered men who were discussing attacks against the Michigan government (speech does not equal action) and were going to leave the governor stranded out on a lake is not justification to persecute all those who believe in freedom, and even Governor Whitmer had the audacity to say that divisive speech and false narratives are what led to her “near doom.”
She is so worried about extremism spreading and not holding her alleged kidnappers accountable for a crime that the government helped orchestrate in the first place. Why is she not upset with the FBI? Why does she not examine her own authoritarian policies that caused those who value freedom of expression, travel, assembly, and conducting business to become angry and oppose her executive orders? Why did she not get approval through the legislature to shut down businesses? After all, did Thomas Jefferson (or if this was not him, he would have agreed with it) not say, “When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
Thank you for reading, and please check out my book, The Global Bully, and website.
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