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Rittenhouse showed poor decision making to go to the riots to try to help. That was his intent, to try to limit the destruction and loss of life. He was in fact trying to put out a fire when he was attacked by the rioters because they wanted the fires. For that simple humanitarian act he was targeted and they tried to kill him. But for his own gun he would have been killed by some nameless rioter who to this day would never have been brought to justice. He defended himself after running from his attackers until they had him on the ground and could run no more. Pure self defense. I hope he is found innocent by the jury and I hope his lawyers sue the city and get millions for this travesty of law by the prosecutors.
This was the prosecutor's pitch yesterday, summarized quite accurately from Ace of Spades:
"This series of questions: "Rosenbaum only chased you and tried to take your gun. "The guy who kicked you only stomped you in your face. "Huber only hit you in the head with a skateboard used as a club. "Grosskreutz only pointed a handgun at you. "You had an AR-15 and should have just absorbed all these attacks because it is the only Real Weapon at the scene." People who aren't watching will think we're making this up, but the argument really seems to be that he unnecessarily antagonized innocent peaceful rioters by putting out their fires. What's more, with the benefit of hindsight, that really does seem to be what pushed some of the more violent and suicidal rioters over the edge. Show trial pure and simple.
The prosecutor is a joke and the defense lawyers aren't much better. The crusty old judge is interesting but allows way too much time-wasting speculation. >Rittenhouse showed poor decision making to go to the riots to try to help.
Or, he courageously went to serve his community, state and nation. As the authorities charged with that job watched the chaos and did nothing!
We haven't heard anything more about the Alec Baldwin case, but I did hear that almost immediately, a bill was filed in the California legislature that would ban real guns in the film industry. How did this happen, one might ask? Probably because the the legislation had already been prepared and was sitting at ready, for deployment when the right, tragic moment came around.
"Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste", say our Cloward-Piven trained progressive-leftist leaders. This is what is meant. The progressive leftists know how to invest in their strategy, know how to look out over the tops of the waves, and quietly plot. Their strategy pays off big, with forceful societal impacts at strategically-important moments to shift the window. One only has to look at the organizational talents that supported nation-wide riots last year to know this is true, or to look at the idiotic overreactions with 10 ft high fences, then 14 ft, around our nation's capitol for months after the single conservative protest event of the election. So it is with Rittenhouse. The resources were already set aside be deployed in pursuit of the right case. Step back and view the scene: Masses of out-of-town rioters destroying a small suburban city over a righteous shooting, the police killing of a career violent criminal. A young man dares to intervene on principle, and dares to defend himself. These impulses must be quashed, and an object lesson issued to others who may be so inclined. Step back, view the entire episode, and re-confirm for yourself the absurdity of it. Don’t think the man died but is paralyzed to some extent.
Rittenhouse showed poor judgment all right. He should have stayed home and watched a movie while a neighboring city was being burned by thugs because the police did nothing or were not allowed to do anything. After all, that property belonged to someone else. Why should he care? It just got him in trouble....
The truth is that he was doing what grownups should have been doing. He defended himself against aggressors who meant to kill him and for that he was charged for murder and he and his family were put through physical/emotional/financial hell. GoFundMe (if we didn't before, we now know these people are no better than Twitter or Facebook) refused to allow fundraising for Kyle's defense. There is so much more to say but a final thought: Why wasn't Grosskreutz charged with attempted murder? Kyle was charged with that for shooting him but he pointed a loaded (illegally carried) gun at Kyle. “Why wasn’t Grosskreutz charged?”
Come on, man! Wrong (political) party, pal. Several other bloggers have mentioned that the prosecutor should be treated the same as Nifong after the Duke Lacrosse trial.
Re Rittenhouse
I bet that kid wishes he had never gone to Kenosha. I am surprised at the number of people that want him convicted despite the evidence. Dems overwhelmingly want him convicted. https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/crime/rittenhouse_trial_most_democrats_think_kenosha_shooter_guilty_others_disagree Doctors Are Leaving Medicine In my rural area, we've had a big shakeup. Most local doctors were employees of Mission hospital in Asheville. Then Mission was bought out by Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), and doctors started leaving. My personal PCP and numerous others built a new building and set up their own practices affiliated with another hospital in the area. The doctor that does my flight physicals quit Mission, as well, and set up his own practice affiliated with yet another hospital. I would love to know the reasons they left, but there's a wall between patients and physicians; We lie to them and they lie to us.
Trade offs are everywhere.
The upside of socialized medicine (government intervention in the medical system starting with subsidies for employer provided insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, and ObamaCare) is that prices - not the overall cost to our nation, but the prices patients pay for services - decreased. The downside is that you get what you pay for. Doctors may not be rocket scientists, but they're above average on the IQ scale. Expecting them to sit there and be treated like peons by administrators and have their pat cut in half and not do anything was always a foolish bet. QUOTE: Biden Transportation Secretary: Roads Are Racist… In fact, the construction of roads, bridges, and other infrastructure have often torn apart established minority neighborhoods and created barriers between white and minority neighborhoods. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/07/16/how-railroads-highways-and-other-man-made-lines-racially-divide-americas-cities/ Ridiculous article published in 2015, the KiddieZ cite as fact.
Buttigieg blows. So the European Union sees Belarus “pushing” migrants into Poland as an “attack” on the country that could lead to war.
Will Resident Biden seek EU support in repelling the attack on the US from Mexico? https://antibellum679354512.wordpress.com/2021/11/11/belarus-poland-conflict-could-lead-to-nato-russia-clash-reuters/ Of course roads are racist. The whole reason they were built was to enable people with cars - exclusively rich white people - to invent the suburbs in their quest to flee the poor black communities in the cities. I mean, c'mon, they even named it 'blacktop', do I need to draw you a picture?
You can read all about it in Henry Ford's autobiography Black Like My Model T or in John D Rockefeller's autobiography, Look, For The Last Time, I'm Not Jewish! Fun fact: The popular misconception of Okies fleeing the Dust Bowl was really white people fleeing from blacks and the photographs of grim desperation on their faces did not spring from poverty and hunger but rather from their anguished attempt to find a clean service station bathroom. The Okies inevitably wound up in California, which explains why California is well-known as home to some of the most racist people on Earth. |