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Breaking: Not Guilty
The jury has returned a verdict of not guilty on all 5 remaining counts against Kyle Rittenhouse.
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I hope it works out this way:
Isn’t “pederast” a protected class yet?
We no longer live in that world. We threw it away, and now Kyle’s generaton is stuck with fixing it.
He is a hero, and I hope he never has to do it again. The government allowed civic order to collapse. So if you want to criticize somebody (other than the meritoriously departed), criticize people our age who have left this situation to the next generation.
I was checking a few sites just to satisfy my curiosity and found “live updates” on breitbart, reactions from the usual suspects and delusional fools like de Blasio, Cori Bush, Alyssa Milano. Unbelievable.
I am still trying to figure out how people get “white supremacy” from the trial of a white guy for shooting three other white guys.
Why?
I was in a small local diner and happened to look up at the silent big screen t.v. and saw the rolling caption at the bottom announcing a verdict was about to be read. Nobody was talking politics between tables of strangers, but I heard some muttering that others had noticed about then. When the words “not guilty” appeared, the whole place spontaneously broke out in applause. One of those moments to easily remember where you were, etc.
And from the footage — he *clearly* has done his homework.
The AP story is remarkably well balanced:
https://apnews.com/article/kyle-rittenhouse-business-wisconsin-homicide-kenosha-27f812ba532d65c044617483c915e4de
Wasn’t it summer and out of school? From what I understand, and I’m no expert on the facts (I tend to ignore these high profile court cases) but he had been working his summer job and then was cleaning up graffiti for someone. He had every right to be out and subsequently defend himself.
Yes he should have been home. Maybe if the police had stopped the looting and rioting as they should have, Kyle wouldn’t have felt he needed to be there. Maybe if business owners and homeowners were there and armed to defend their property and livelihoods. Maybe if rioters weren’t immediately released on bail and sent right out to riot again (if the police bothered to arrest them in the first place).
We will see over the weekend. If thugs take to the streets to burn and destroy again and are summarily dealt with, Kyle could be looked on as a hero because he stood up and said enough of this. The media and the left (including Joe Biden) used it to further their agendas.
But you are right that a 17 year old shouldn’t have to be the one to take a stand.
You know who really should have stayed home? The rioters.
OK. First and foremost, I live in a country (Ireland) where access to guns is very restricted, due to past (?) terrorist activities by the IRA, so I have a different perspective.
I get that Antifa/BLM were out of control and that the police weren’t going their job. I understand that the local populace saw the need to defend their lives and property. But the kid was 17 for God’s sake! A callow youth. He shouldn’t have been patrolling dangerous streets with a weapon. It was a disaster waiting to happen. It happened. His life will never be the same again.
If Antifa riots and attempts to burn Kenosha, or any other US city, again, may they be met by 10,000 Kyle Rittenhouses.
He was not patrolling dangerous streets. And frankly, thanks to young men like Kyle over two hundred years ago, I do *not* live in a country where access to guns is restricted.
I get what you’re saying, I think, and I agree with the agreeable parts :-)
But they were too scared of what would happen to them if they did. Maybe now they won’t be.
I’m still trying to figure out how people get “white supremacy” from nuclear family.
The amount of media malpractice on this case is astounding, and Drew Holden brings the receipts.
Here’s a thread.
You can think what you like, and claim your perspective is prescriptive, but we Americans long ago blew off the kind of tyranny you live under. And yes, blanket denial of practical means of self defense is tyranny.
It was a disaster for Kyle in that one sense, but a couple bad dudes will never threaten innocents again, and a third will be hampered in future efforts to do evil. More rioters and potential rioters were reminded that some of their would-be victims would fight back.
The kid is a hero. Callow youth my [expletive].
They’re still doing it. I’m sitting in a doctors office and the local news is on and the news anchor had the straight face to allude to white supremacy while actually having the faces of the two white guys shot on the screen. Just unfathomable.
Well, see . . . the white guy only shot and killed white guys. He should have considered desegregating his killin’.
You seem a little volatile there.
Between 1942 and the end of the Vietnam War an estimated 100,000 young men served in the US military under the age of 18. My own son joined the Marine Corps at 17.
I ain’t buying that argument for minute.
The stupid governor of my great state refused to send in the National Guard to protect Kenosha from violence. Had he done his job, then individual citizens wouldn’t have felt the need to protect their businesses as Kyle was doing.
Governor Tony Evers must shoulder some blame for this. Also the City of Kenosha. The way cities and states let their communities burn because of their fear of BLM/Antifa told citizens “You really don’t matter; your job is to suffer loss at the hands of rioters. We like them better than you.”
Hah! My keyboard is cringing beneath my stabbing fingers, so maybe. Or not.
I’m not selling an argument- I’m expressing an opinion – not a particularly popular one around here, it seems – but I have been arguing in favour of the GOP in hostile territory for decades so I can take the hits. I’m battle-hardened you might say. And combat experience leads to cooler heads. Inexperience in battle is deadly.
Nick Sandman—I got 250 million in my suit against the media.
Kyle Rittenhouse—Hold my beer….
The coverage by Legal Insurrection was fantastic !!!
Here’s how the UN Independent newspaper reported the story:
As should have most of those there that night, or at their jobs, or at home, or the movies, or their kids’ softball game .