Texas
Related: About this forum"He put a gun to my head"
He said, Help me! Help me! and he stuck his hand inside his coat. When I tried to help him, he pulls out a gun. Thats when he told me to get on the ground.
Mark Anthony Aguirre, a vigilante vote-fraud hunter, ran an air-conditioning repair truck off the road. Then Aguirre put a gun to the repairmans headand demanded the driver, David Zuniga, open up the back of his truck. Aguirre believed that Zuniga was smuggling 750,000 forged absentee ballots, all voting for Biden, enough to win Texas.
Zuniga, rightly frightened for his life, opened the back of his A/C repair truck to reveal
A/C ducts and pipes. No forged ballots.
The gunman was not some lone crazy: In October 2020, he was paid a stunning $266,400 by a right-wing Texas billionaire, Steven Hotze, who had hired dozens of vigilantes in the hope of proving that Joe Biden was trying to steal the election by stuffing ballot boxes with forged ballots.
In Houston, I met with the man who supposedly forged these 750,000 ballots, Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis. Harris County is better known as Houston, Texas.
https://www.gregpalast.com/he-put-a-gun-to-my-head/
Irish_Dem
(60,686 posts)Their obsessive greed is pathological and dangerous.
2naSalit
(94,035 posts)There should be no such thing as a billionaire.
Irish_Dem
(60,686 posts)They will destroy everything to get more money than they can ever spend in a lifetime.
Lonestarblue
(12,050 posts)That said, many do good things with their money, people like Soros or Gates. People like the Kochs, the Mercers, the Uileins, Theil, Norquist, etc., simply want a government that serves only them and they use their excessive wealth yo buy power, not to help people.
Irish_Dem
(60,686 posts)And how the money is spent should be decided by voters and elected officials.
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,628 posts)Irish_Dem
(60,686 posts)Scrivener7
(53,439 posts)as those people with rat infested junk they will never use piled to the ceiling.
Irish_Dem
(60,686 posts)No amount of money is enough for them.
They can never fill the holes in their soul.
PatSeg
(49,755 posts)The lengths they will go to have more money when they already have more than they could ever spend in a hundred lifetimes. It is most definitely a psychological disorder.
Irish_Dem
(60,686 posts)And like most addicts they will do anything to get their fix.
The sad part is that we let them do it.
Because Americans love money too.
PatSeg
(49,755 posts)people tend to applaud them for their success, as if it is a good thing, not an addiction.
Irish_Dem
(60,686 posts)PatSeg
(49,755 posts)pursuit of wealth was started by the wealthy and the downtrodden bought it.
Irish_Dem
(60,686 posts)who are addicted to ruthless pursuit of wealth.
PatSeg
(49,755 posts)JT45242
(3,018 posts)That sure seems like a conspiracy to commit kidnapping or false imprisonment or something.
I hope some legal minds here can tell me what charges (would need to be federal, cause Texas you know)
He is also being sued in civil court by the victim
Still pending from what I can tell
Orrex
(64,417 posts)and he'll make payment 10 or 20 years after that.
SunSeeker
(54,198 posts)But you're not.
Still, it is pretty clear the billionaire approved of the kidnapping/assault:
OldBaldy1701E
(6,802 posts)ColinC
(11,061 posts)If the group could not set up a fund like that, they would likely have had more difficulty funneling it the way they did.
ColinC
(11,061 posts)This is clearly one example of the latter
Delphinus
(12,168 posts)is truly frightening!
róisín_dubh
(11,930 posts)but I'm recalling something from France, oh about 1789 or so...that might help with these problematic billionaires.
Stargazer99
(3,059 posts)Joinfortmill
(16,778 posts)'GOP megadonor Steven Hotze charged after a bogus election fraud scheme led a former cop to threaten a repairman
The charges stem from Hotzes hiring of more than a dozen private investigators to look for voter fraud in Harris County ahead of the 2020 presidential election.'