Darrell Brooks' antics in his highly publicized jury trial will go down as some of the most viral, wicked clips of not only 2022, but perhaps for all of time. This man stood accused of a heinous act of plowing down several dozen innocent people, killing six (6) with the blunt-force trauma of an SUV going full-speed; and given all this context, the man's visible anger and scorn without the slightest hint of repentance...
Well, it's a study on duality of man---good and evil, the depths of humanity's grotesque penchant for abuse---while at the same time showing courage under fire, emotional intelligence, and the struggle it will always be for a community to mete out justice to someone that, in all honesty, probably would've been killed on the spot in more savage periods of American history. from everyone who had to be there for the spectacle of this trial.

Due process is the cornerstone of a free society, that we're afforded a trial of our peers in the venue where we commit the crime. In an even more bizarre strategy than Brooks' decision to defend himself, the defendant / prisoner / attorney made the argument that, "Darrell Brooks, the man before them who made rap videos with the same SUV, presumably registered to the same man, Darrell Brooks... is not, in fact, the same man who did this crime because that man is a sovereign citizen above and beyond the American legal system."

It might seem like an attempt at "Jedi mind tricks"---'I'm not the man you're looking for...'---this is actually a widespread movement spread online and utilized by people with a bare-ass understanding of the law. Their argument is that because they never formally accepted citizenship, they're not subject to society's laws. But even if that was so, you'd still have the morals and customs of wherever you're at, from now to the beginning of time, you're an outlaw with nothing come to you... if this 'sovereign citizen' defense wasn't horseshit.

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