It's more that you can't trust that the content in those videos hasn't been so heavily edited as to be deliberately misleading, because O'keefe has flagrantly done so in most of his past work. So we'd want to see the full, unedited video footage before believing it. He's cried wolf far too often.
If you "don't know", you have no business imagining things and pretending they're true.Well, this isn't obvious. We don't know the behind-the-curtains affiliations of those people. I'm sure you can admit that certain people are in contact with certain other people and messages get sent through certain backchannels even when they shouldn't be. Of course that's all speculation and so on, but honestly, some of that stuff does go on and does happen.
1> Yes, it absolutely matters if he's part of the DNC, since the claims O'Keefe is making is that the DNC is orchestrating this.Also, does it really matter whether he's a part of the DNC or not? If a force like this goes around tainting the process by inciting violence (which they did, as he admitted to it), then the process it tainted. It doesn't matter who did it. It's now a tainted process that can't be trusted to be fair, at least not so far as not having any people, and their votes, be influenced by these kinds of operations and tactics.
2> There's no process that's been "tainted" in baiting supporters.
3> The voter fraud tape is difficult to determine either way, because it sure sounds like he's describing theoreticals, how COULD they engage in voter fraud if they wanted to, not describing actual actions or plans.
What's illegal is assaulting people violently. Wearing a shirt that Trump supporters hate, and shouting anti-Trump slogans, outside of a Trump rally, that's all free speech, and isn't in any way something that should be even seen as questionable. If you can't handle people disagreeing with you, and you respond violently, you belong in prison, frankly.Yeah, I'm not sure if it's illegal. I'd hope inciting violence is illegal when it's a systematic effort like this by a large group, and not just a single person mouthing off to someone. As for it being questionable, of course it is, and on that we'll just have to disagree.
Again, we're talking about "inciting" that was at the level of "wear a Planned Parenthood t-shirt". That's literally what the 1st Amendment exists to protect. It's the equivalent of claiming you shot a guy in "self-defense" because you saw that he was legally open-carrying himself and took his ownership of a weapon as a lethal threat; that means you're a psycho murderer, not that the other guy "provoked" you.I'm not excusing the people who turn to violence, but I'm also not going to agree that inciting that violence is in any way excusable, and if it's not illegal, then your laws are wrong. As I said, we'll just have to disagree here.