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the "Matrix defense".

from: Bud Zargood
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03-12-06
15:43:16

I was just reading a news article and I came across a term I have not heard before, the "Matrix defense". This is not some gamers-speak you're going to hear at your local roll-playing game convention. This is in reference to legal defense. The "Matrix defense" is being used by the attorneys for Lee Boyd Malvo, the Robin to John Allen Muhammad's Batman, in order to win an insanity plea. You, of course, remember Muhammad from the 13 shootings in the Washington, DC area last year that made him so popular. He was convicted earlier this year of two counts of capital murder and now has a possible death penalty hanging over his head. Muhammad's defense was to stare blankly into space while the prosecution nailed the lid on his coffin. Malvo is being a little more creative. He has convinced his defense attorneys that he believes (or believed) he's inside the Matrix. This, combined with a brain-washing scenario featuring Muhammad as the evil mastermind, form the platform for his insanity plea. This isn't as ridiculous as it sounds at first, if you think like a bloodless defense attorney, because the "Matrix defense" or as I like to call it, the "There is no guilt" defense, has already been used successfully several times. According to the story I read, in May 2000 a 27-year-old Swiss exchange student dismembered his landlady with a steak knife because she was emitting "evil vibes" and he was afraid of being "sucked into the Matrix". He won his insanity plea. Last year a 36-year-old Ohio woman emptied a revolver into her landlady because she thought the landlady was controlling her mind just like in the Matrix. She won her plea, too. So here is what the courts are telling us. If you're willing to spend a couple years in a state hospital you can walk up to someone you really don't like, put a gun against his head, say, "Dodge this," and empty his brains out the other side of his head. Of course, this may be a little more problematic now that the third movie is out. As we all know, the war between humans and the machines ends in the third movie. So now, soulless, murdering bastards are going to have to find another movie to pin their murders on. I predict that in a couple years we are going to start seeing the "Lord of the Rings Defense." "I decapitated my neighbor because he's on orc." "Your neighbor is an orc?" "Yes." "What are you, then?" "I'm an elf, obviously." This, clearly, makes as much sense at the "Matrix defense". But then, so few people actually saw the last Matrix movie that the "Matrix defense" will still probably have plenty of legs.

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