Hurting People for a Living
January 22, 2010
William Norman Grigg
1/21/2010
U.S. Attorney John Kacavas referred to Brown as “a dangerously defiant individual … whose conduct posed a clear and imminent threat to the public and to law enforcement officers.” While it’s true that residents of Plainfield, New Hampshire grew weary of playing host to a horde of disreputable federal trigger-pullers, there’s no evidence to support the characterization of Brown – as opposed to his armed pursuers – as a “threat to the public.”
The real “poker tell” in Kacavas’s soundbite is the use of the expression “dangerously defiant.”
Ed Brown stole nothing, defrauded nobody, and posed no threat of aggressive violence. His “crime” – the act that made him “dangerous” – was his defiance.
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