Posted on 11/19/2021 11:13:09 PM PST by John Semmens
MSNBC "MTP Daily" host Chuck Todd expressed dismay that Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted in his trial for shooting three people during a riot in Kenosha last year. "I can understand how a teenager like Rittenhouse might feel endangered when a guy tried to club him with a skateboard or pointed a pistol at him," Todd admitted. "From a narrow perspective, it might be self-defense for him to shoot to save his life. But from a broader perspective, is society better off because he did? What message did the jury's verdict send?"
"If Rittenhouse had withheld his fire the worst that could've happened is that he could've been killed," Todd reasoned. "But two other people would've lived. Why didn't the jury weigh those odds? By acquitting him has the jury emboldened others to imitate his actions? Did they consider the possible public violence that may follow from those disappointed in the verdict?"
MSNBC commentator Joyce Vance wondered "whether we will be safer after this verdict? Had it gone the other way the message would have been clearer—don't attempt to take personal action to protect property and people from rioters. Rittenhouse put himself in danger by trying to do just that. I mean, if the powers that be—the mayor and the police—are content to let the looting and burning be, then so should everyone else. But I fear that such a common sense approach will not be possible if interlopers are allowed to take whatever action they please without consequence."
House Judiciary Committee Chair Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) demanded that the DOJ "find some federal crime Rittenhouse can be can be charged with. The asserted archaic individual right of self-defense must yield to the progressive right of the people to collectively pursue social justice. The men Rittenhouse shot were attempting to burn down Kenosha in protest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake. At the very least, Rittenhouse is guilty of infringing their First Amendment right to air their grievances."
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) complained that "Rittenhouse killed two people who had assembled to affirm the value, dignity, and worth of black lives by attempting to chase him down and beat the crap out of him. He should've have taken his beating like a man. Instead, he shot them and asked for mercy on the witness stand. A white supremacist jury heard his plea and let him go free. Now there will be no justice for Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber."
President Biden professed himself "angry and concerned" about the not guilty verdict while pointing out that "there are still many buildings that weren't burned down last year" and called for "more peaceful protests."
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MSNBC and CNN are going full meltdown China syndrome.
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Excellent!
Definitely more News in there.
They should hear themselves.
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Stay away from the brown acid. MSLSD.
“What message did the jury’s verdict send?”
Oh, I dunno.
FAFO, maybe?
I don’t know how anyone can claim white privilege when an all white prosecution team couldn’t run a lemonade stand let alone a prosecution .
John Semmens, ya done it again.
Outstanding, as usual John!
Read later.
House Judiciary Chair Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) demanded that Rittenhouse get the death penalty. “The men Rittenhouse shot were attempting to burn down Kenosha in protest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.......it was a peaceful protest,” Nadler insisted.
It’s hard to tell what’s satire and what’s not when dealing with left wing lunatics.
Of course they do. Blacks and criminals can harass and kill and harm you, but you dare not accuse them. In NY they say let the criminals take what they want, Do not attempt to deny them. When is enough enough? If police cannot help because the dem leftist will not allow them Then citizens will. We will defend ourselves. Until the dems disarm us. Then the criminals and the dems will take us out.
Another outstanding one!
Thanks John.
Mark Richards, Kyle Rittenhouse's main defense attorney, joined “Banfield” after his client was was found not guilty of first-degree intentional homicide and four other charges in connection to fatal shootings in Wisconsin last year.Kyle Rittenhouse's attorney speaks out after verdict | Banfield | November 19, 2021 | NewsNation Now
When "satire" is more truthful (and scary) than approved "news"...
As always, thanks much John for an excellent and timely column.
Thx
I appreciate your kind words of support.
Nice one
Excellent
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