PBS, shame on you. Post the legal filing PDF. You read it, but you won't share it.
this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2025
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I’m pretty sure he did it, but the way this whole thing was handled has been atrocious and incredibly stupid.
At this point yes, they’ve fucked his whole right to a fair trial beyond repair.
I'm legitimately unconvinced that they got the right guy. There are issues with all of the evidence against him, and I fully believe that the federal government would, in the absence of an actual suspect, frame the first convenient loner. Like there's probably a list of "questionable" individuals in a file at the FBI that they can pull up when they need a scapegoat. "How about this Luigi guy? He's in the general vicinity, and he doesn't have an alibi. Grab the gun and one of those manifestos from the pile, we gotta go pick him up."
It's also possible he's guilty, but the prosecution still has to follow the rule of law. If he cannot get a fair trial, he must go free. That's the only way we can be certain that the government won't throw us in prison without a fair trial.
The only reason I'm not sure they framed him is the wealthy family; why didn't they pick some poor fucker?
You just pick someone that has some unstable ramblings you can use as the main base of your evidence that you didn't fabricate. It's not like his family is fuck you wealthy.
I'm legitimately unconvinced that they got the right guy.
To me, it doesnt matter either way what I think about his guilt. Its on the prosecution to prove it, and until then he is not guilty. As it should be.
I’ve read his online last blog entry and that’s what convinced me.
I think they caught him using illegal means, and I think they fabricated evidence. The political pressure to catch him was insane and none of the evidence makes any sense.
If he was as smart as I assume he is they probably couldn’t get parallel construction of evidence to add up, so they had to go further. Or they couldn’t disclose the illegal methods used to find and track him.
The McDonald’s employee noticing him from the masked photos also is bizarre.
Ultimately the government needs to prove he did it, and the blog post alone is circumstantial.
Literally the first time a mcdicks employee gave a single flying fuck about anything was this? Sus.
The political pressure to catch him was insane
Specifically because Brian Thompson was a member of The Big Club.
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I was never big on George Carlin the comedian. He was pretty average at being funny in my opinion. George Carlin the philosopher is pretty fucking great.
I agree; it took him a while to find his niche.
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can you link the blog post? i’ll look for it but i wanna see.
edit: ahh it’s the manifesto post, gotcha. just read it. never had yet. i support him even more now.
Circumstantial != Inadmissible
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