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A Tale of Two Cities: Kenosha vs. Waukesha
American Greatness ^ | November 28, 2021 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 11/29/2021 10:28:38 AM PST by Heartlander

The media’s blatant lies amount to racial arson.

Both Wisconsin towns, Kenosha, and Waukesha, about 50 miles apart by car, were the recent sites of multiple deaths. The violence in both made national news. Yet in contradictory ways both reflected the common themes of America’s current legal, media, and societal corruption.

The relevant public prosecutors in both were in the news for alleged ideological bias. Specifically, they habitually calibrated the charging, indicting, and trying (or not) of defendants through ideological lenses and community pressure rather than on the basis of the facts and the law.

Kyle Rittenhouse was a 17-year-old armed youth who volunteered to protect business properties at the height of the August 2020 arson, riots, and looting in Kenosha. He was pursued and attacked by three members from a larger group who chased the armed youth, presumably either to disarm, injure, or kill him—or perhaps all three.

Rittenhouse variously was assaulted, kicked, and had a firearm pointed at him. In reaction, he fatally shot two of his pursuing attackers and wounded a third. Kenosha prosecutors reviewed videos of the altercations. They saw clearly that Rittenhouse was running away from his assailants. He was variously rushed by one assailant, kicked by another, and struck with a skateboard by still another. Again, a final pursuer pointed a gun at him at close range.

No matter. The Kenosha district attorney’s office charged Rittenhouse with several felonies including two first-degree homicide charges. All four whom Rittenhouse fired at—whether he missed, wounded, or fatally shot—had lengthy arrest records. Three were convicted felons; the fourth had a long arrest record.

Given the lengthy and quite horrific rap sheet of Rittenhouse’s first attacker Joseph Rosenbaum (including multiple counts of pedophiliac rape), it is difficult to understand why the latter was...

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1 posted on 11/29/2021 10:28:38 AM PST by Heartlander
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To: Taxman

Ping


2 posted on 11/29/2021 10:34:04 AM PST by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
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To: Heartlander

These idealogical prosecutors, politicians, bureaucrats, “journalists” and “celebrities” are pouring gasoline on a fire which is close to the point of no return. They are fomenting revolution, plain and simple and if the revolution goes the way of the French Revolution, not only will hundreds and thousands of innocent souls die as a result, but these azzholes will be held accountable and find both their heads and those of their children, family, friends, associates and supporters on the chopping block when all is said and done.

And for those that escape judgement in this life, they can’t escape it in the next one.


3 posted on 11/29/2021 10:40:22 AM PST by Qui is (Biden spews and Harris swallows. )
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To: Heartlander

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness..”


4 posted on 11/29/2021 10:42:27 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: Heartlander

VDH nails it...again.


5 posted on 11/29/2021 10:45:40 AM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Taxman
Kenosha vs. Waukesha

For a moment I thought this was a hip-hop sing-off
6 posted on 11/29/2021 11:01:28 AM PST by golux
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

7 posted on 11/29/2021 11:35:27 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Heartlander

This insanity will go on and on until the Corporate Media are made to pay.


8 posted on 11/29/2021 11:44:52 AM PST by TTFlyer (Vote harder, sucker. Yeah, that's the ticket. ..)
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To: Heartlander

How a Wisconsin ex-felon received a $1,000 bail bond and freedom to mow down innocents, after trying to run down two with his car, while another juvenile without an arrest record, with good grounds to claim self-defense, was required to post a $2 million bond (and so stayed incarcerated pending charges without running water in his cell) is a commentary on the abject implosion of the American justice system.


9 posted on 11/29/2021 1:26:18 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Heartlander
Yet the real reason the Left strained to gin up the theme of white-on-white violence as an example of racism was their larger agenda of sending a message to middle America: no American, in times of riot, arson, and looting, should have the right to use firearms to protect property. And under no circumstances could a citizen use a gun to ward off those intending to maim or kill him. Had Rittenhouse been found guilty, there no longer would be recourse for citizens living in cities where criminals were freely given the streets.

Rittenhouse's a hero - YES! we can stand up to black and white rent-a-mob thugs... and we can protect our prope4rty and lives. We can say NO to low life criminals... eff off Maxine Waters...

10 posted on 11/29/2021 1:27:28 PM PST by GOPJ (One man lying to himself is pathetic - - a culture lying to itself seeds it's own destruction.)
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