Disclaimer: Note to the reader, these are my opinions based on all the facts, evidence and the history. These are observations of the many connections that cannot be denied.
What do all the roles listed in the title have in common? We often feel compelled to choose just one label to define a person—criminal, whistleblower, witness, or patsy. But what if the truth is more complicated? What if the answer is not one of the above, but all of them?
Recent courtroom proceedings have raised an unsettling possibility: could it be that a crime was committed not merely for its own sake, but to expose a larger, more significant wrongdoing? If so, how should we judge the individual at the center of it all?
Individually, many will point to a simple label: convicted criminal. Yet, more than a year after his trial, Anthony Becker continues to appear regularly at city council meetings, refusing to fade from public view. His persistence raises difficult questions that were never fully answered in court. Was he truly a calculating and devious criminal? Or was Becker acting as a whistleblower—or even a witness—attempting to bring larger issues to light? Alternatively, was he positioned as a patsy, taking the fall while more powerful figures, such as Mayor Lisa Gillmor or potential future Mayor Kathy Watanabe and the POA escaped scrutiny?
Our justice system and public opinion alike tend to favor clear categories—guilty or innocent, right or wrong. Yet reality does not always fit neatly into...
Jeon Han-gil, a political YouTuber and former Korean history lecturer, who spread false information about President Lee Jae Myung and Reform Party leader Lee Jun-seok, and advocated the "1980 Gwan...