and yet, when corporations and people who had a beef with a flawed, weird, but innocent man went to the court of public opinion, not to the police, because the goal was to destroy his reputation, making things up and twisting his words to fit libelous narratives. the police would have laughed at it, sure, but the untrained populace did not laugh at the lies, but swallowed the bait, became a raging mob and went for the victim's jugular. and some are still at it, pretending it's about values and good faith and justice rather than very obviously interested lies to promote the very opposite of justice and even of the values they pretend to uphold. shame on them!