Day 110 – The Naive Horizon
- mainemoviepirate
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Original Entry: Sunday, 10/10/21
Morning:Â Slept well. Up at 7:30. HLR drink, Meds. Standard Sunday routine.
The Appeal: Thinking about Steve’s performance. Maybe he missed the mark at trial, but we can fix it on the appeal. Still hopeful the "Fair Use" argument holds weight.
Reflections: Looking at the case files again. There are pieces here I’m not seeing yet.
Lunch:Â Baked Chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans. (Standard Sunday "Feast").
Evening:Â Watched the sunset with H.L. The turkeys were late hitting the trees tonight.
Media:Â The Fugitive, Seven.
Four Years Later: The Retrospective
Looking back at Day 110, I can see how naive I was. I was still operating under the assumption that the system was a machine that had simply malfunctioned, and that an appeal would "fix" the error. I didn't realize yet that the machine was working exactly as intended.
I had the pieces of the conflict of interest right in front of me, but I wouldn't connect them for another year. Now, years later, I’ve moved past the Fair Use/Orphan Works strategy—that’s for the Reddit debates. The real fight is Ineffective Assistance of Counsel and Pretextual Prosecution.
The red flags were everywhere: The total lack of real victims. The four years of relentless pressure to plead guilty. And the most glaring one—Steve "volunteering" to handle a complex federal copyright case he clearly wasn't equipped for (or was intentionally fumbling). These weren't just "errors"; they were due process violations so severe they made a fair trial impossible. I learned the hard way that sometimes, the person "helping" you is just there to make sure the door stays locked.
