Posted on 08/28/2020 4:42:25 AM PDT by marktwain
It has become all the rage. That is, to partially defend Kyle’s actions as probable self defense, but then to raise the following stipulations. First up, Leon Wolf writing at The Blaze.
Kyle Rittenhouse should not have been patrolling the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, Tuesday night. Whatever failures might have existed on the part of state and local government (and there appear to have been many), the idea of a 17-year-old with a loaded rifle being dropped into that powder keg can only happen when some horribly bad judgment has occurred.
We’ll get to that in a minute. Next up, Steven Hayward writing at Powerline.
Let’s stipulate starting out that Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old from Antioch, Illinois, who has been arrested and charged with murder for shooting two people during the Kenosha riots two nights ago, should not have been present at the scene with a semi-auto rifle. That’s no place for a 17-year-old, even if he is a regular at the gun range. And resorting to vigilantism is a sure path to a breakdown in the rule of law and perhaps even open civil war.
Steven is massively naive. He raises two points – his age, and the resort to “vigilantism.” Let’s hold in abatement the issue of age for a moment. As for vigilantism, surely he isn’t thinking clearly or perhaps hasn’t admitted the truth to himself.
We’ve discussed this many times before, but the police are committed to their salary and benefits. They are under absolutely no legal obligation to defend life or property, or provide protection or safety for anyone. We know this from Castle Rock v. Gonzales and Warren v. D.C. They could wait until a murder has been fully and completely committed, while watching and eating doughnuts, and as long as they effect the arrest after the fact, most of them will have fully followed their department protocol.
The police are under the full control of the politicians, and the politicians are mostly Marxists. Thus, holding the police back redounds to the destruction of property, unsafe environment for residents, and even the loss of family wealth when entire businesses have been burned to the ground. Many families are not in a position to take a loss like that, regardless of the money Steven makes.
When left with no alternative, it’s obscene for Hayward to advocate the unrighteousness of defense of life and property. Furthermore, to imply that the “breakdown in the rule of law” is the fault of hopeless and hapless residents lacks compassion, understanding, and good analysis. And to say that this is what may lead to civil war is more ludicrous still. Hayward must surely know that we are in an escalating civil war as we speak. If he doesn’t, I would never hire him as my attorney. He lacks even the basic skills to understand the current milieu or the signs of the times.
As for Leon Wolf, his appeal to the youthful age as a reason that Kyle shouldn’t have been there is equally ridiculous and even bigoted. We send 18 year old men to fight our wars for us, and with approval, 17 year old men can do the same.
Let’s go one step further. In the battle of King’s Mountain, the British forces were essentially all loyalist fighters with the exception of the commander. This was to be General Cornwallis’ going-forward strategy for winning the campaign in the South.
Upon learning of the coming destruction, the “over-mountain men” left their homes in the area and also neighboring states to travel overnight, many nights, on horseback, to gather and fight the loyalists.
At the time of the battle, crops were being harvested and families couldn’t send the fathers. Men had to be in the fields in order to prepare for the coming winter. They did the only thing they could do, and entire families gathered in streets and sang hymns to their young fighters as they sent their sons riding off to war.
They won a decisive victory, destroying Cornwallis’ strategic plan. What most people do not know about the “over-mountain men” is that the vast majority of them were under the age of 18. You too can learn this if you study history, or perhaps come to the King’s Mountain military park and tour it, read the placards, and study the area.
But rather than hold older men accountable for their actions, like politicians and police, pundits are satisfied with turning on Kyle for being young and deciding to make a stand.
Back to Mr. Wolf. The thing that has gone wrong in America for Kyle Rittenhouse to have to do this is that men are no longer men, that they have allowed a Marxist revolution to steal the country, and that no one has the stomach left for having and keeping liberty. What has happened to the effete, cloistered, foppish, dainty men in America? Good Lord.
I did not excerpt his article, because I believe he wants wide distribution. But give him a click to show your appreciation of his work.
I agree wholeheartedly with the article. Kyle is a hero and more a man than any of his detractors.
I hope what I have read is true that Lin Wood is representing him and that Kyle ends up owning all those lying about what happened.
Kyle is the first hero of CWII.
Who is Lin Wood
The issue is his team - the people who he was working with to protect property -abandoned him. Whether that was due to poor training, poor OPORD, etc - will be determined soon enough. They have not even shown up after the event via their lawyers to explain their missions, etc. Nothing.
And he’s going to have to explain why he was OC’ing a long rifle which some people have stated is illegal in Wisconsin.
Never mind, I looked him up
Lawyer that represented Nick Sandmann
I agree. The boy bravely defended the life and property of his neighbors. He took great personal risk to stand alone and defend civilization from a hoard of barbarians. He is a hero.
Hopefully, thousands more will join him, civilization will survive, and future songs will commemorate his lone heroism.
Another lawyer on the case will be John Pierce who is or was representing Rudy Giulianni
The communist mob is now on the receiving end of the war they’ve started. They didn’t think patriotic Americans had the balls to take them on. They’re now understanding, however slowly, how wrong they were. It’s way past time these filthy scum were exterminated......by any means necessary.
“And he’s going to have to explain why he was OC’ing a long rifle which some people have stated is illegal in Wisconsin.”
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A parent should have stopped him when they saw him heading out the door toting an AR15 and ask what was going on with him.
My sentiments exactly, but worded better than I could have.
Brave kid. He showed up.
There should have been two more armed Citizens with him, though - the mob wouldn’t have been able to cut him off and surround him like they did, and force him into the life-or-death situation he found himself in.
Lesson learned, folks.
That young man did us all a great service, even the spineless whimpy fair weather patriots.
One of the ‘squad’, congresswoman and general horses ass Ayanna Pressley tweeted this about Kyle yesterday. I forwarded it to Mr. Wood.
‘A 17 year old white supremacist domestic terrorist drove across state lines, armed with an AR 15.
He shot and killed 2 people who had assembled to affirm the value, dignity, and worth of Black lives.’
Sadly. I have to agree totally.
The cops take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, not obey Marxist political hacks.
Almost without exception, they have stood by watching citizens beaten, threatened, killed, businesses looted and even failed to protect themselves.
At what point in our history did we surrender our rights to self defense and protection of our country to an entrenched
Civil Service Establishment.
Have Gun
Will Travel
Wire Kyle Rittenhouse
How do you know these things?
This is an EXCELLENT, well-reasoned essay that utterly destroys their nonsensical arguments that he is too young, should not have been there, we should wait for the police to protect us, and he is causing CW II.
The comments to the essay at the site are excellent, as well.
Thanks for posting this.
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