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.
“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.”
Right there you have a moron who was stupid enough to ID himself or herself, so SUE the prick!
Here’s her linked page
https://www.linkedin.com/in/taskina-bhuiyan-614019173
She’s female, here is her Facebook page. Now he knows what she looks like....
https://www.facebook.com/taskinab
If you fellas want to reject the justice system, go ahead. It then becomes whoever has the most numbers and the most will. No 30 days, 90 days or years in jail either. Be careful what you wish for.
Keep in mind that at this point this is coming from “some people and groups” at ASU, not the university or even the student body or faculty as a whole. It remains to be seen how far this goes.
And to find out her legal status. Apparently in Taskinas country being found not guilty by a jury means one is still guilty despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. This ticks me off soooo damn much, I would be suing her effin’ living guts out....
https://www.facebook.com/taskinab
This will just be another part of his massive multiple lawsuits.
Students groups like MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlán), Students for Socialism, Students for Justice in Palestine and the Multicultural Solidarity Coalition….
….. 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……
Ha! Look at the “organizations” doing this nonsense.
The usual leftist suspects.
Native Bangla speaker? No other history then being at/working at ASU?
You know the answer.
Nice to know we’re importing hate filled insurrectionists.
“Students” of what?
Underwater basket weaving?
Lesbian moon dancing?
Certainly not any real pursuit of knowledge at a real college (few U.S. colleges appear to be in this group).
Sounds like Kyle needs to take his Smith & Wesson MP-15 to class.
I say we start a petition that Kyle should sue Taskina Bhuiyan
Just add them to the long long list of civil actions.
Shouldn’t be difficult with her last name
There are no limits to communist purges...
All three people he shot who tried to kill him first(!!!) were white, and had criminal records. The alt-far-left wants to do away with self-defense and will do whatever it takes to achieve that end. As they always want power yet never have proper plans for governance the left resort to lying and terror to control you. I read an article over at DailyWire about their latest mountain from a molehill, “South African Doc On Omicron: Currently ‘No Reason For Panicking As We Don’t See Severely Ill Patients’”, so give that a look. This covid scamdemic was always about control and never ever about health. Kyle is going to be rich enough from suing MSM and Biden that he can buy a college soon, so he’ll be okay.
#SUEMETOO
You could see this coming a mile away the minute someone mentioned Kyle’s matriculation. That said, the university should shut it down now on threat of expelling the protesters.
Yes, he shot 3 white people who tried to kill him and only killed 2 of them first. A proper racist would shoot other races!
I’m all for that. F ‘ASU’ and and the communist horse they rode in on.
Sure are a lot of people who want to be sued out of everything they own.
I hope their wishes are granted!
Hillsdale may not have room for him. They only have 1500 or so students so they don’t have the infrastructure to accommodate every conservative student in the country.
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