Friday, January 15, 2021

Lawyer Up

 I saw today the mugshot of a an area woman who was arrested for welfare fraud, submitting false information in her recertification  application for Childcare Assistance. The Public Defender assigned to her case will hopefully  keep her from too harsh a prison sentence.

   I saw that the man who identifies as a Q-Anon Shaman has procured a high-profile and expensive lawyer who claims that his client was acting in a religious capacity. Shamans act as intermediaries between the real and spiritual world, often by invoking trance-like states. He has done nothing wrong, entered a building with no violence, was unarmed, though brandishing a 6-foot spear, and appearing at a riot which involved several deaths including murder. He was invited to enter the Capitol by the President of the U.S. who has open access to any Federal Building and can invite anyone he wants. He is asking for a Presidential pardon. 

   The man who carried off the House Lectern is represented by a pair of high-powered and expensive lawyers who are defending their client, saying he has 5 children, a wife who is a doctor, and no criminal record. Some lawyers crave both money and celebrity so public defenders probably need not apply in these cases.

   It was suggested his wife's position as a doctor allows him the best legal representation. Or maybe it was due to foreign Bitcoin transfers to right wing groups that fund the travel and organizational expenses which allow huge gatherings of single-minded dissidents.

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