Funniest/Most Insightul Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Bruce C. with a reply to a comment that attempted to downplay the recent behavior of federal agents:

Even plain clothes officers are required to carry their badge.

If they were undercover officers they shouldn’t be presenting themselves as officers to civilians unless they desire to blow their cover.

In second place, it’s Strawb with another comment about that same incident in Texas:

What is it law enforcement is fond of saying? If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear?

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we’ve got a pair of comments about the arrest of a Wisconsin judge by the FBI. First, it’s That One Guy with thoughts on why she did what she did:

The party of law and order yet again encourages people to break the law

Ah yes, what possible reason could a judge have for not wanting federal agents to use their courtroom as an easy way to score arrests on people that willingly showed up to court, incentivizing those people to instead pull a republican and just start ignoring the law and legal orders…

Next, it’s Tanner Andrews on why it was not strange of her to do so:

Historically, we as a people have decided that we want people to show up for court, whether as witnesses, parties, or otherwise. As a result, we have frequently held that service of process cannot be effected against someone coming or going to court.

What the judge did is, essentially, uphold a couple hundred years of tradition and common law whose justification is still sound today. Sane people may commend her, and magats will of course celebrate the arrest.

Over on the funny side, our first place winner is Stephen T. Stone on our post about Donald Trump’s ChatGPT-like hallucinations:

So what you’re saying is that the lizard people did a shit job of programming Trump.