Subj : Re: Biden Receives Award!
To   : Mike Powell
From : Aaron Thomas
Date : Wed Nov 09 2022 22:54:01

 MP> > Jeff thinks that the Pelosi attacker was "radicalized by American
 MP> > conservatives," so I'm just wondering how that happened (maybe he was
 MP> > kidnapped by Trump supporters and forced to listen to Trump rhetoric?)
 MP> 
 MP> He could have easily been radicalized by Canadian conservatives, or by
 MP> exposure to Canadian leftists, like the ones that run the federal
 MP> government and freeze the bank accounts of (actual) peaceful protesters
 MP> because they make the PM sad.

But is "radicalized" the right word for it? Here's Google's preferred
definition of it:

"advocating or based on thorough or complete political or social change;
representing or supporting an extreme or progressive section of a political
party"

This Canadian goose wasn't advocating a complete political or social change,
he doesn't represent or necessarily support the Republican party either.
Mentally ill people are unpredictable, but they shouldn't be thought of as
"politically violent offenders." Unless he had plans to take over the United
States government (you know, like Trump allegedly tried to do.)

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