Sheesh - the dude sounds like he's just making up excuses now that he was caught.<p>> Kramer defended his actions after his role was revealed by an NBC News article. "Kramer claimed he planned the fake robocall from the start as an act of civil disobedience to call attention to the dangers of AI in politics," NBC News wrote in February after talking to Kramer. "He compared himself to American Revolutionary heroes Paul Revere and Thomas Paine. He said more enforcement is necessary to stop people like him from doing what he did."<p>Translation: "I only did the crime and got a large punishment to show others that the crime is important to stop and deserves a large punishment."<p>Ideally they should throw the maximum punishment at anyone attempting to interfere with fair elections like this.