Alex Pretti Kicking Video: The Sign in the Window?

 

On the one hand, you see the video and you say, "Believe your Eyes."

On the other hand, you have seen AI generated videos going back to the video Obama made to warn of the dangers of being deceived by AI.

Putting ICE Agents At Risk

You know, if it's just one video it well could be fake. When you see six different videos from 6 different sources, you believe your eyes and your brain saying, it would be nigh on impossible to fake all that, especially after the sources have been interrogated.

And, of course, there's the So What? factor.

Even if Alex Pretti was shown to have been angry at ICE 11 days before he was shot in the back, that only provides a motive for his being on the scene when he was murdered. The day he was murdered, he was trying to cover a woman attacked by ICE and he was shot in the back, surrounded by 6 ICE agents. For that you've got plenty of confirmation, both video and eyewitness.

Now, of course, the Trump hyenas are trying to build the "He Deserved It," story, with everyone from Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) to a Republican US Senator from Ohio taking up the howl that Pretti (and other demonstrators) interfere with agents in the "performance of their duty" never mind we can see ICE seeing their duty as throwing a woman to the ground--the Bovino defense that it was the agents who were the real victims of Pretti's murder.

There are ways of detecting AI tampering, but they take time and real expertise, and Mad Dog would like to see this analysis, not because it would change his mind about Pretti's murder and its significance, but because it would confirm what we know about this event--Noem and Miller and Bovino were doing more than taking up the howl, they were ordered to howl by the man who released this fake AI video, if it is.

It has been widely reported that Mr. Pretti's family confirmed he had been in a confrontation with ICE some time before he was murdered by ICE, so the video, conceivably, may be authentic and not fabricated. And Mr. Pretti's family would have confirmed that if they thought it true, knowing the video of that confrontation would be immaterial. We all knew Pretti was on the scene because he opposed ICE. We all know now, he was murdered for that opinion.

Like Havel's greengrocer, those who claimed Pretti posed a threat to ICE the day he was murdered knew it was a lie, but they put that sign in the window because tyrannies depend on everyone embracing the lie.

And, of course, we should not forget, we do not have any videos of Epstein hanging himself.