Yesterday an intruder climbed the fence at my home and was arrested. After being released from police custody later in the day, he immediately returned to my home and was arrested again.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) October 26, 2023
My Comment:
This is interesting to me on a couple of levels. The first is obviously the continuing threat against RFK Jr. This is not the first incident involving RFK Jr. this election cycle. Back when he was still running as a Democrat he faced a potential assassin who impersonated a US Marshall at one of his events. Clearly there are people that are very upset with what RFK Jr. is saying.
What is even more bizarre is that RFK Jr. is not getting secret service protection. There is clearly a threat against him but he is having to pay for his own protection. To be fair, he's got Gavin de Becker and Associates, who are very good at what they do. But given the threat of attacks against RFK Jr. why doesn't he have secret service protection? It has to be political right?
I'm generally not a fan of RFK Jr, though he is clearly better than Joe Biden. But I do think he is a serious candidate and he deserves protection. Both of the other main candidates, Biden and Trump, have protection, and I am guessing if any of the GOP also-rans were under the same amount of threat as RFK Jr. is they would get it too. But because RFK Jr will probably take more votes from Biden than Trump he's not getting Secret Service protection.
I do actually think that RFK Jr. is at risk, given his profile and controversial beliefs. There are a lot of people that despise him for his anti-vaccine stance, which, to be fair, goes far beyond being skeptical of the Coronavirus vaccine. His family obviously has a history of assassination so I wouldn't be all that surprised if it happens again.
The other notable thing about this incident is that a man that trespassed against a presidential candidate was released so fast that he was able to do the same thing again that very day. Why was he even allowed out of jail? I am guessing it is because of California's no-bail laws that mean even violent offenders get let out.
It reminds me of a similar incident in Wisconsin involving our governor Tony Evers. In that case a man entered the State Capitol to talk to Evers about domestic violence but was armed with a handgun he was carrying openly, which is illegal to do at the Capitol. He was arrested, processed and released and then came back with a rifle. Thankfully nothing happened but it just goes to show that these people shouldn't be released.
It's absurd that people can do the things they do and are simply let out for a later court date. So many of these people commit crimes after they are let out and it's only dumb luck and the skill of RFK's protectors that nothing bad happened in this case. If threatening a presidential candidate isn't enough to get locked up these days, what is?
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