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Fascinating article!

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Thanks for laying this out! I'm now updating my list of 'junk sciences' to include ballistics! Also, thanks for mentioning Steve Bright's book. I somehow missed it when it came out. Looks like the paperback is coming out in April this year, so the timing is good. Maybe something you want to lift up again in the coming months.

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Amazing! For someone whose husband watches all police and legal procedurals, this is a revelation. We've been almost indoctrinated to believe in "ballistic experts." You have enabled me to look at this accepted truth from another angle and simultaneously see the legal effect of these two opposing views. If we overturned that practice, it would result in an unbelievable flood of appeals (rightfully so). Thank you for explaining what has been put forth as truth. We need this sort of information to make sense of our world.

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The opinions of judges are the toilet paper I wipe my ass with after the system shits on me. Goddamn whoever came up with subservient culture.

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I live in suburban Chicago, Oak Lawn, IL. I am an investigative journalist with evidence on what I think are censored Twitter accounts (@davidvognar and @davidvognar3) and a Wget Huffington Post article from 2017. I have a very high IQ too, which the government has used to Shanghai me for wars and espionage. When the Ukraine war was about to start, I was vociferously against it, protesting on my front stoop and online. In January 2021, after being triggered by the New York Times in a psychological mind game, I was beaten with excessive force and subject to false arrest as my sister called the police and filed a false report. I was calm when the 11 officers dragged me off the couch, pulled down my pants and wrestled me to the ground. Then they dropped me off the gurney on the front stoop. The second time my sister filed a false report on me, she claimed I hit her, when the bruises on her body were from rough sex with a Chicago political scion, as evidenced by the mental health hospital she stayed at before her lie. That was September 18, 2022, the same date the Saudis’ LIV golf tournament was taking place in Sugar Grove, IL. Over the past 5 years, DOD contractors have driven at high speeds around my house, making grating, caustic noises that have resulted in hearing damage. When Ukraine was about to start its counteroffensive in March, 2023, the DOD contractor cars were so blaring and loud I was driven psychotic. I don’t remember much of those days before I was taken to a so-called mental health ward at Cook County Jail. My Dad said I had taken bottles of pills, but the OLPD showed deliberate indifference to serious medical needs (overdose) and would have let me die, a substantial risk of harm to a person in custody.

I am now in a Cook County mental health diversion program that is corrupt up the wazoo. I remember back in 2001/02 reading that John Allen Muhammad Lee Malvo were convicted on ballistic testing. So much about the justice system is wrong, from its politicization, to the collusion between prosecutors, police and prisons. The OLPD wanted me dead for a long time, because of my knowledge of the 9/11 conspiracy, which had roots in this town. So the DOD and police sympathizers send rolling thunder cars to give me headaches and drive me psychotic.

It’s been tough.

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This is the kind of content that prompted me to subscribe, please keep it coming

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