Antioch, Illinois, where Rittenhouse lived, is fifteen miles as the crow flies from Kenosha. You can drive it in less than thirty minutes by car in light traffic. I have often driven that route myself. State lines are meaningless between communities that are that close. Of course the whole mendacious exercise was meant to attempt to turn a good kid, Rittenhouse, into a bad guy thrill seeking vigilante. The media covered itself in excrement in their coverage of this story, the facts of which were clear from the start.
Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald slams the media for spinning a false narrative about Kyle Rittenhouse that misled the world pic.twitter.com/afRyq9mYdS
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) November 20, 2021
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary….
Some days God uses a number 2 pencil and softly applies the lead to the paper. Other times He writes with an extra-wide Sharpie.
Glory be to God, and honor to His Angels and His Saints.
Thanks for adding Michael Voris’
observation. I would of missed it otherwise.
I’ve hunted with rifle or shotgun in VT, RI, MA and NH. Shot on competitive small bore rifle winter league in MA and RI for years.
My license is in MA. These are states with strict gun laws.
The job of the media is not to inform.
(But to smear and misinform.)
It’s another obfuscatory trope. In other cases, you see troublesome and violent people (Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown) referred to as ‘unarmed’ when they in fact had two arms they were putting to vigorous use.
Looking at what arrives via social media &c, we get a sampling of how committed street-level Democrats process this. Most of them, I think, are in a state of embarrassed silence. As for the more voluble, there’s this:
What if Kyle Rittenhouse had been a young Muslim-American or African-American running around a large group of people with an illegally obtained weapon of war he was too young to legally possess? Would he still be found innocent? Would the police have allowed him to walk away from the scene alive? Would those who sacrificed themselves to stop him, to the point of using a skateboard against an automatic weapon, be heroes? We know the answer to that. I wonder if Mr. Rittenhouse know it.
And this:
However many tines I watch this scene of uncontrollable subbing taking command of his entire body, I CAN NOT SEE A SINGLE TEAR. Its that physiologically possible?
And this:
Between the incompetent prosecution and the defendant-friendly, victim-blaming judge, justice doesn’t stand much of a chance, does it?
and
Women rotting in prison who killed their abusers would like a word. [This is a recycling of someone else’s thoughts].
The Rittenhouse verdict is heart-wrenching – not in the surprise and shock but – in the lack of it. Imagine this case on repeat in smaller ways 100s of times over, but without the cameras showing the country slanted our justice system is, and you start to realize how permanently slanted justice is between people of different skin colors in this country. Slanted just like it was designed to be. This is the system working.
As people who put our faith in more just-filled days for every child created by God, it’s good to remember that our hope is not in the current system, nor is the salvation we seek. We continue our work in the shadows and light for the people this system slants away from, noting more than ever how they are responding and hurting in the middle of the news of the day.
I’m fascinated that the natural reaction of white people yearning for justice can so easily be to embrace their own anger and/or shock. What would it mean for people with skin color like mine to see past our own emotions and take the time to become listeners and students to the people of color who are both in more pain over verdicts like today, and more experienced in the necessary work (and coping mechanisms) we’ll need in the days following the ink splashed headlines?
There’s another who seems to fancy that Kyle Rittenhouse ‘provoked’ a confrontation. I’ve lost track of her precise words.
Three of the individuals who made these remarks were born between 1945 and 1958. At least one (I believe two) have post-baccalaureate degrees, at least two have the free time to actually look at primary sources and the utterances of specialists. (The third may be pressed for time, but it doesn’t inhibit her from commenting about everything under the sun). Another set of remarks was made by a man of about forty (which a post-baccalaureate degree). Another was made by a woman of 25 who isn’t college material, endorsed by her aunt (who has a post-baccalaureate degree). Among the institutions on the vitae of this crew are the University of Virginia, Columbia University, and Bowdoin College. Which leads me to this rather arresting video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O9FFrLpinQ
Well educated stupidity is ever with us, but doubtless not in the high percentage we are now observing.
Of course, everything the media airs a lie,
Mr. R. is not a hero. He will have to live for the rest of his life with this tragedy [and proceeds from $1,000,000,000 righteous lawsuits].
The Real Issue: How can we live in a country where a violent child [five each babies ages five to 11] rapist can’t try to kill someone and not get shot?
After years of studying media and academia detritus – picture picking through the entrails -, I cannot decide which is more operative: the dishonesty or the stupidity.
I stopped trying. I already had years before earned my PhD in proctology.
T. Shaw-So we should view what the mediaminions say through a proctoscope? Any with 5 star reviews on Amazon? “used but refurbished” cheaper ? Guy, Texas
I think Kyle does have heroic qualities. I’m hoping he gets his life back on track and isn’t distracted by attention from outsiders. As for the services of Lin Wood, I’m recalling E. Howard Hunt’s remark that he had been a plaintiff in one defamation suit and he would never get involved in another no matter what someone said about him. As for money windfalls, see Lily Tomlin, “Sometimes the worst thing that can happen to you is for you to get what you want”. I hope he treads very carefully there with an eye to clearing his debts and financing vocational training.
In regard to Kyle’s future, some MSNBC snot-bag named Hayes offered a catty remark about George Zimmerman’s ‘trajectory’. Just what was that? Zimmerman’s been a plaintiff in defamation suits which went nowhere (because the courts are enablers of the media), been subject to sometimes atrocious harassment (including an attempted murder), had some personal pratfalls (his wife left him, a friend turned on him, and he kept company with an erratic woman who attempted to injure his reputation), produced some art work marketed by his brother (not badly executed, trashed by art critics who merit no attention), and otherwise lived an obscure life. He is apparently living in a suburb of Orlando and neither he nor his employer are making a public point of where he works. The most public thing he’s done in recent years was to agree to appear as a guest speaker at a 2d Amendment conference in Idaho. (The weasels and woke-tards who run the hotel chain cancelled their contract with the organizers when they found out he would be appearing).
I’m hoping Kyle finds the right trade, has a wife and children in ten years, keeps the loyalty of those near him, and doesn’t cross paths with would-be assassins. That’s would be a satsifactory trajectory.
Apparently, Soros’ Hessians already are in winter quarters and not available this week again to burn down Kenosha.
Anyhow, KR could be OK or he could be deeply harmed by the experiences – both the shootings and the persecutions.
He was 17 years old. He put himself in a situation for which he had no training and no leadership.
Speaking of proctology. They did a colonoscopy on Clueless Joe and they DID NOT find the lost marbles.
He put himself in a situation for which he had no training and no leadership.
He had little leadership other than what the volunteers were providing to each other. He did know how to use that gun and he had had first-aid training. He’d trained as a lifeguard as well.
Again, he was there, because the police had been told to pull their punches and governor refused to mobilize the National Guard. The twits who say he had no business being there never tell you just who had some business being there, nor to they contemplate the reasons those someones were absent.
If you don’t want people to defend their homes, businesses, and friends, don’t tell the police to stand down when rioters come to town.
That is the point of police– they are supposed to reduce the amount of individual action needed to enforce basic laws. It always comes down to the individual to do so, when other protective measures fail.
Part of why they didn’t want to hit too hard on the part about Kyle going to a different state to do this is because, legally, he’s a resident of Kenosha.
His dad, and his dad’s entire family, lives there.
The other address is his mom.
Per the e-friends who deal with “complicated” families, so long as he spends at least a single weekend a year with his dad– he can claim that as his legal residence, and in court cases both are treated as a home address. (Very relevant for things like school registration, obviously.)
So besides the usual basic driving to the nearby town where you have a job even though there is a state line down the middle stuff, Kenosha is literally his home town.
So if crossing borders is so bad, does that mean we’re going to get strict immigration enforcement now?
(Note the above was tongue in cheek.)
The fascinating part of the “across state lines” meme is that it’s become completely separated from the rest of the narrative. This is because the MSM is less willing to call Kyle a murder now, since that’s pretty clear defamation once he’s been found not guilty, and many of them have also admitted that Kyle did not take a gun across state lines. (While Kyle himself crossed the border, the AR-15 he used was in Kenosha the whole time.)
So you get people saying things like “how could he face no time, even though he crossed state lines!” as though merely crossing the border itself should be illegal. The media frames it that way because there’s no other way that they can frame it at this point (other than a “well he probably just got off cause he’s white” narrative.) But the MSM audience largely consists of people who will just repeat whatever they are told, so they repeat the narrative exactly, even though it doesn’t make a lick of sense when stripped down like this.
Actually, I think the “Across state lines” trope being manically parroted by the political Left and the media Left is to set up another effort at federal “comprehensive gun control legislation” aimed at “vigilantism.”
The talking points are too highly coordinated.
Aren’t there bedroom communities in the states surrounding Washington D. C.? Don’t the people living there cross their state lines on the way back and forth to work in D.C.? The whole across state lines smacks of totalitarian governments with the need for papers in order to travel.
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When I look at the behavior of the leftists, isn’t it very much like that of organized crime? The mobs that set cities afire act like leftist enforcers. They bring a whole new double meaning to mob rule. Pure extortion and protection racket behavior. What is the practical difference between the behavior of activist leftist politicians, judges, and prosecutors and that of public officials on the take from organized crime?
GregB:
“ What is the practical difference between the behavior of activist leftist politicians, judges, and prosecutors and that of public officials on the take from organized crime?”
Not much of one, as far as I’m concerned.