Texas Ex-Cop Assaults Alleged Election-Fraud "Mastermind".

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Another trigger-happy cowboy cop from Texas...

A quarter-million dollars in exchange for 20+ years in prison.  I have to ask that Aguirre fellow, "Was it worth it?"

Probably not...

I am about to "Godwin" this thread I started, so you need not inform me of that fact.

Mark Anthony Aguirre, was working for a pro-Trump group called the "Liberty Center for God and Country," which had paid him more than $260,000 to investigate alleged ballot schemes in the Houston area.  He thought the repairman was the "mastermind" of a grand election fraud operation and was carrying 750,000 fraudulent ballots in his truck, when he was nothing more than an air-conditioning repairman.

Aguirre was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.  If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison.  He posted $30,000 bond that afternoon and is out of jail.  Of course, his attorney maintains he's the target of a "political prosecution", yet Aguirre found no fake ballots.  In fact, no one has found any evidence of an election conspiracy other than one led by President Donald Trump to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election, despite scores of lawsuits and a vicious intimidation campaign against election officials.

History is replete with examples of just how destructive grand lies can become, regardless of whether they have any basis in fact.  The theories may anger believers, but they also help interpret reality in a way that is somehow soothing, more consistent with their wishes and ideologies, often with calamitous results.

In the Middle Ages, before medicine understood viruses and bacteria, whenever the plague -- the "Black Death" -- devastated communities, the claim that Jews were responsible routinely resulted in their massacre.  Jews were a favorite target of conspiracy theorists across the centuries.

Potentially more relevant to our situation is a conspiracy theory that arose a hundred years ago.  After Germany lost World War I, far-right antisemitic groups started a rumor that German Jews had plotted to betray their country and it was because of them that Germany suffered a humiliating loss.  German Jews had fought and died alongside the rest of their countrymen in the war, but facts, as we can all see now, can prove irrelevant to those who listen to the siren song of conspiracies telling them what they want to hear.

Among those listening to the WWI "stab in the back" myth was one Cpl. Adolf Hitler, who used the fabrication to help fuel his political rise on the strength of the need to extract vengeance.  We know how that ended.

When Trump became President, he benefited from the world's most powerful megaphone, even before he took office.  The "Pizzagate" fabrication -- a preposterous claim that Hillary Clinton and her allies were operating a child sex-trafficking ring with a Washington pizzeria as a front -- led one man to drive hours to the location and fire an assault rifle in an effort to "free the children", when there were no such children in need of being freed.

Pizzagate has since exploded into the madness of QAnon, whose members are still obsessed with pedophilia, with the Clintons, and with antisemitic ideologies.  QAnon, all but endorsed by Trump, will have a presence in the next Congress, with one candidate who has promoted the theory, Marjorie Taylor Greene, elected to the House.

So hang on tight, folks; this ride ain't over yet!

It's a shame when the mentally ill client hires a mentally ill lawyer who reinforces their guano.

Well at least this didn't turn into another police killing...

That is really the most you can hope for in an encounter with police is that they don't kill you, assault you or violate your rights some other way. Sure that is more likely to happen to some groups than others but it can happen to anyone.

There are decent cops....

We are not discussing whether cops are "decent" or not, Kortie.  We're discussing the fact that one of Trump's fanboys was hired for a quarter-million dollars to use a deadly weapon to assault an innocent air-conditioner technician.  The fanboy had convinced himself (and others) that the technician was the "Mastermind" behind an alleged voter-fraud conspiracy that simply did not exist.

It's obvious that Q-Anon and that ilk base their notions on delusions or on purposely spreading what they know is now true.

Typo: I meant "not true."

Why would I ever think that Q-Anon's delusions are "true"? I would be certifiably insane if I ever thought that......