How Trump could use "The Wire" defense to get off all charges against him

 By Hal Brown

I consider "The Wire" to have been one of the best  crime themed television series of all time:

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Law and Crime is the website run by Dan Abrams. The site was referenced here in an article in Raw Story.  I'd seen Law and Crime referenced previously so I thought I look at the website. This is the story that caught my eye:

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"The Wire" ran from 2002 to 2008. The man arrested for murder is accused of committing the crime in 2011. There is evidence he was a such a big fan of "The Wire" that he identified with one of the major criminals depicted on the show and that he used a method of silencing a gun shot from the show.

According to a report from Boston ABC affiliate WCVB-TV, prosecutors said that investigators at the residence found a phone which was “attached to” the name Marlo Stanfield. Marlo Stanfield is the name of a fictional character in “The Wire,” who headed up the most ruthless and feared drug ring in Baltimore.

In another nod to “The Wire,” authorities also reportedly said that they recovered a sweet potato from the scene of the fatal shooting. In season four of the HBO show, one of the fictional police investigators solves a murder in which the shooter used a potato as a makeshift silencer when fatally shooting his victim.

Here's a third similarity:

According to a 2011 report from Cape Wide News, Lampley was inside of his home at night when he was shot by someone standing outside of his bedroom window, a possible third link to “The Wire.” In season one of the show, a fictitious woman who is cooperating with police is killed when the shooter stands outside of her window at night, taps the glass to get her attention, waits for her to approach the window, and then fires a fatal shot into the home.

Hampton and Lampley also had a previous connection, with Hampton testifying in court that Lampley was involved in the July 2007 murder of Jacques Sellers in the same neighborhood, CWN reported. Sellers was also reportedly shot inside his home by someone shooting through a window from outside.

This seems to have nothing to do with politics, or so it would seem. 

The defense this accused murderer could use is that he was brainwashed into being a killer by identifying with the criminals on "The Wire". Notably, the show tried to depict criminals in a way that showed them in a somewhat sympathetic manner.

His lawyers would introduced the case of an actress who played a ruthless hit woman on The Wire who was convicted of second degree murder:

Felicia Pearson (born May 18, 1980) is an American television actress, rapper, published author and convicted murderer. She played Felicia "Snoop" Pearson on The Wire and wrote a 2007 memoir, Grace After Midnight, detailing her troubled childhood and time in prison for second-degree murder. Wikipedia profile

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I don't know whether Felicia Pearson used her playing a murderer in a TV show as part of her defense, but she could have. 

Donald Trump could use the defense that he also was brainwashed from identifying with characters depicted heroically on television as breaking the law for the greater good or to render justice on shows like "24" where Jack Bauer used torture literally to save the entire world, and on "Dexter" where Dexter Morgan was a serial killer who killed serial killers, a surefire way to stop their killing sprees.

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Morning Joe, please don't call Marjorie Taylor Green a freak or weirdo

 By Hal Brown

These guys were freaks:

The Mothers of Invention touring Europe in 1968. Back row: Roy Estrada, Frank Zappa, Don Preston. Front row: Jimmy Carl Black, Bunk Gardner. 
Ron Kroon for Anefo - Nationaal Archief CC0

This woman may be freakish, but she's not a freak like members of The Mothers, Alice Cooper,  and Iggy Pop.

Neither is her former BFF:

 Of course her new BFF is Kevin McCarthy.

This morning Joe Scarborough repeated at least two times that the GOP is being run by freaks, weirdos, and insurrectionists.

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GOP will 'suffer' because it's led by 'freaks' like Marjorie Taylor Greene'.

I take exception to his describing people like Marjorie Taylor Greene as a freak. He is not only being too kind but is using a term which could be, if not complementary, at least not derogatory. 

In my younger days when I was a student at Michigan State (see photos) in the 1960 through the early 70's the word described people who were unabashedly and proudly nonconformists.

The freak scene was originally a component of the bohemian subculture which began in California in the mid-1960s, associated with (or part of) the hippie movement. The term is also used to refer to the post-hippie and pre-punk period of the early to mid-1970s. It can be viewed as encompassing a range of disparate groups including hippies, pacifists, politicized radicals, as well as psychedelic and progressive rock fans. Those connected with the subculture often attended rock festivals, free festivals, happenings, and alternative society gatherings of various kinds. (Wikipedia)

As for calling these people weirdos, the weirdos of the world ought to be offended. Children sometimes call other kids who march to the beat of their own drummers weirdos. They may bully them just because they are different or eccentric. There's even an anti-bullying web series called Weirdos.

Children today who the conforming kids may call weirdos include lots of youngsters who will grow up to be more successful than those who were the popular kids. 

History is replete with examples of  celebrities, innovators, and world leaders who were unpopular when they were children. Here's a list of celebrities who were bullied as children. "Bill Clinton As a junior high schooler was picked on relentlessly for being a 'fat band boy' with bad taste in clothes. Their taunting culminated in an incident at a junior high dance: one older student teased Clinton about his carpenter’s jeans, and even hit Clinton in the jaw." (Reference) Love him or hate him, Elon Muck was bullied as a child. 

What then would I call the current leadership of the GOP? This is a cop-out, but don't get me started. I'll just leave it with what Joe Scarborough called them and quit the nitpicking. In current parlance we might as well call them freaks, weirdos, and insurrectionists.

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