CLUES

 I will start by admitting that I am well aware that two things which are not the same are different.

Now that that’s out of the way and there is no need to tell me one is not the other, take a look at the reich-wing response to their murder of Alex Pretti.  Note how they decided what had happened prior to watching the video or getting all the facts.  Note how they manufactured reasons that he caused the problem that had no basis in reality.  Note how him being disarmed did not stop them from shooting him.  Note how him being facedown on the ground being assaulted by multiple individuals did not stop them from shooting him in the back 10 times.

Think about the fact that in this day and age when most everyone has a camera close at hand at all times.  Think about them knowing there was video and stills from multiple angles that most anyone on the interwebs could access and that several tens of millions had accessed.  With all the direct, independent recordings of the murder seen by all those citizens, the (mis)administration and their reich-wing supporters focused on doing two things.  

They lied.  They lied about what actually happened.  They lied about the actions Pretti took.  They lied about Pretti’s intentions.  They lied about what we actually saw.  They lied.

They refused to release any bodycam footage they had (and as of 1/31/26, still haven’t).  

Those two things are what they led with, lies and obfuscation. Does that feel familiar?

While they are not the same by any stretch, if you take that mindset and behaviour pattern referenced above and apply it to the attacks on small fishing craft owned and operated by citizens of other nations, it should not be comforting.  If they are willing to lie so boldly and obviously when there are multiple video and still recordings freely available, what might they tell us when we have no access to information about the events?

Hollywood movies have conditioned us to expect a grand reveal whenever there is a criminal conspiracy.  In the real world, tenuously connected clues do a lot of the heavy lifting. In investigative circles, the Good and Pretti murders, though they are definitely crimes in their own right, would be considered a clue when looking at other actions and declarations of the criminal cabal associated with Felon47.