Posted on 11/28/2021 6:28:32 PM PST by blam
President Joe Biden and media figures are not the only persons who are “angry” after a jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse on all charges. Despite a jury with the same racial makeup convicting the defendants in Georgia in the Arbery case, many have denounced the entire legal system as racist.
It does that matter that there was evidence supporting Rittenhouse’s claim of self-defense that was largely missing from prior coverage of the case. Now students and groups at Arizona State University are planning a rally and demanding that Rittenhouse be expelled. With leaders like President Biden calling Rittenhouse a “white supremacist” before any investigation was completed and legal analysts calling the entire trial “white supremacy on steroids,” there is a sense of legitimacy in demanding such extrajudicial punishments.
Students groups like MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlán), Students for Socialism, Students for Justice in Palestine and the Multicultural Solidarity Coalition are organizing a rally this week to “get murderer Kyle Rittenhouse off [the] campus.”
He is not on campus since he is enrolled as an online student.
However, Rittenhouse has expressed interest in in-person attendance at ASU. Students and faculty are being called to the rally to “protect students from a violent, blood-thirsty murderer.”
In addition, ASU student Taskina Bhuiya started a Change.org petition to denounce the verdict and to call for Rittenhouse to be “held accountable for the crimes he has committed.” Without a sense of irony, the petition declares “ASU should be a safe and inclusive place for all students, which will be disrupted if Kyle Rittenhouse is allowed to attend this school.” Inclusive unless you are an acquitted individual who must be “held accountable.” Hundreds have signed the petition insisting that “Rittenhouse should pay for his crimes.”
The campaign reflects a growing sense that the legal system is only worthy of respect (or even protection) if it rules in the way that we demand. It is the same mentality that has led members of Congress, law professors, and others to demand the expansion or restriction of the Supreme Court because it now has a conservative majority. Liberal justices like the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Justice Stephen Breyer has opposed such efforts as inimical to the rule of law.
We saw a similar campaign to block Nick Sandmann from attending Transylvania University. Various media outfits correctly false coverage of Sandmann, who was wrongly accused of racist attacks on a Native American activist. Various media companies settled with him and he is still in litigation with others. Yet, figures from an ACLU officer to a professor raised the alarm over his attending college and appearing on campus.
The fact is that Rittenhouse cannot be expelled or kept off campus due to such mob measures. He would quickly prevail in court. However, the rally and the rhetoric magnify the risk to his safety by those who demand “accountability” regardless of any verdict.
It will be interesting to see how many faculty step forward to defend his right to attend the college despite any misgivings over his case. Conversely, we have seen faculty members join such mob efforts, even attacking others on campus, blocking speakers, destroying political signs, or encouraging attacks on student journalists. University of Rhode Island professor Erik Loomis defended the murder of a conservative protester and said that he saw “nothing wrong” with such acts of violence. Other faculty members have made similarly disturbing comments “detonating white people,” denouncing police, calling for Republicans to suffer, strangling police officers, celebrating the death of conservatives, calling for the killing of Trump supporters, supporting the murder of conservative protesters and other outrageous statements. It is less common to hear professors today speak out for the rights of conservatives or others who are being targeted by campaigns on campus. The risk is simply too great that they will be “tagged” as intolerant, racist, or reactionary.
Rittenhouse has every right to attend ASU in person and has every right to expect that he can do so safely. If ASU cannot muster the integrity and courage to reaffirm those rights publicly, it has abandoned a core defining element for higher education. Colleges often sit in cringing silence as individual students are targeted and harassed. Students have every right to protest, but ASU must be clear and public in supporting Rittenhouse’s right to access to an education on its campuses.
All those signing that document have demonstrated a complete lack of respect and understanding of the law and the legal system of the US.
As such... all of them should have their federal aid terminated for being subversive.
Our tax dollars should not go to those looking to undermine the rule of law
You’re still posting, so being an argumentative, obnoxious a**hole isn’t a rule I guess…
MEChA is an acronym chosen because "mecha" is the Spanish word for fuse.
The logo shows a war bird clutching an Aztec head-chopper, and a lit dynamite bomb.
University graduates who belonged to MEChA are now mayors and judges across the Southwest and beyond.
It is time to sue the school and that students for slander.
That is what this is and it needs pursued at every level.
The jury has decided. Saying anything contrary to what the jury determined is slander and ultimately undermines the rule of law.
The local Young Republican chapter needs to go on the offensive and make it clear that, although they recognize their right to free speech, they will not let a Socialist group define who gets to stay on their campus. Let’s face it, many students are not thrilled with these Socialist groups bullying students. Somebody from the right has to lead on this.
This provides support for any laws suit Rittenhouse brings against ASU students, the lame stream media and Biden. It is clear evidence that the irresponsible campaign ads and news reports harmed him.
No greater serpentine effort to avoid Godwin’s Law have I seen employed …
There was similar outrage when the University of California Santa Cruz campus hire the murderous Angela Davis as a professor and allowed the murderer Huey Newton to obtain a Phd there. There wasn’t? Never mind.
One can only hope. This world Is crazy.
CORRECTION
SOROS groups like MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlán), Students for Socialism, Students for Justice in Palestine and the Multicultural Solidarity Coalition
the school if it had balls could make a big statement by saying any student signing a petition to expel a student excepted by the school will be expelled for bullying. this would nip a lot of problems in the bud that could happen in the future in other areas for the school.
ASU freshman Taskina, if that’s her real name, is apparently from that infamous shit-hole Bangladesh and is quite prolific in generating petitions on nearly every virtue signal issue of the crazed left, despite her brief academic stay of only a few months. Another muzzie crazed woman inspired by the success of the House Posse of Four.
Wonder what her immigration status is...and who sent her
“White” is code for not a Democrat. No Democrat would wish a Democrat-sponsored “peaceful protest” to be tempered by the rule of law. Rittenhouse erasedgraffitiDemocrat propaganda and opposed torching businesses in his neighborhood.The three people who got shot trying to kill Kyle were none of them African-American - but they were Democrats - so don’t you dare call them “white."
This article is fodder for Kyle’s forthcoming tort suit against journalists who richly deserve it.
Rittenhouse is a hero - he’s shown Americans that we can protect our cities and ourselves from two-bit violent commie thug rent-a-mob filth.
This kind of crap is more proof that a college education isn’t worth dick.
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