Posted on 11/25/2021 4:21:40 AM PST by Kaslin
During and after the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the white 18-year-old accused of murdering two white men and injuring another, one could hardly keep track of the insanity based on falsehoods recklessly peddled by media and politicians.
In Chicago, the Rev. Jesse Jackson marched in the front line of a group of protesters where some chanted, "When black lives are under attack, what do we do?"
Black lives under attack? Rittenhouse is white, as were the two men he shot dead and the man he injured.
In September 2020, presidential candidate Joe Biden posted a video that included a picture of Rittenhouse, slamming President Donald Trump for "refusing to disavow white supremacists." But the New York Post's Miranda Devine wrote: "The accusation has become holy writ, but there is zero evidence. The FBI scoured Kyle's phone and found nothing about white supremacy or militias, the court heard. All they saw were pro-police, 'Blue Lives Matter' posts from a kid who had been a police and fire department cadet, wanted to be a police officer or paramedic and once sat near the front of a Trump rally. That was enough for the media to brand him a white supremacist."
PolitiFact claimed that Rittenhouse was illegally in the possession of a firearm: "The Wisconsin Department of Justice honors concealed carry permits issued in Illinois. But Rittenhouse did not have a permit to begin with, and he was not legally old enough to carry a firearm in Wisconsin."
But The New York Times wrote: "The judge in Kyle Rittenhouse's homicide trial on Monday dismissed the misdemeanor gun possession charge the teenager faced after defense lawyers argued that he did not violate the state statute in question because of his age and the length of the barrel of his semiautomatic rifle. ... The statute says it applies to minors carrying a rifle or shotgun only if they are not in compliance with at least one additional statute (including) the prohibition of rifles with barrels less than 16 inches long.
"Mr. Rittenhouse was 17 at the time of the shootings. The judge threw out the charge after nobody in court disputed the length of the gun's barrel."
Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., said: "Here you have a 17-year-old boy who was driven by his mother across state lines with an automatic weapon -- frankly, she should have been detained for child endangerment -- to go to a protest."
But Fackcheck.org wrote: "The Smith & Wesson semiautomatic rifle that Rittenhouse used in the shootings was already in Wisconsin, according to court testimony and police interviews. ... Using money that Rittenhouse gave him, Dominick Black, a friend who also dated one of Rittenhouse's sisters, bought the gun at a hardware store in Ladysmith, Wisconsin, in May 2020. Black, who was 18 at the time, purchased the gun for Rittenhouse, who at age 17 was too young to legally buy it for himself. In court this month, Black and Rittenhouse said they agreed that Black would hold onto the rifle until Rittenhouse turned 18 in January 2021, and that it would be kept at Black's home in Kenosha."
NAACP CEO Derrick Johnson said, "It's hard to reconcile the verdict with the experience that many African Americans have faced over the several decades." But reportedly the jury was not call white. Chicago's WTTW reported: "It consisted of seven women and five men, all of them were white except one person of color." If so, does that mean the other 11 white jurors browbeat "the person of color" into finding Rittenhouse not guilty on all five counts?
One more note of madness. Consider this tweet posted before the verdict by Gregory McKelvey, vice chairman of the Oregon Democrats Black Caucus: "Employers, consider giving your Black employees a day or two off after the Rittenhouse verdict. Regardless of the outcome, it's going to be hard for Black people to work and it isn't fair to expect them to."
Why complain? This means I'm not required to write a column this week.
If that’s the best you have to complain about on FR today, you’re gunna have a great day. ;o)
It was a joke to point out the absurdity of the Communists assertion that this was a racial incident and that if you believe that assertion, you should honor your AF employees and give them a couple days off paid so they can grieve.
Here’s some more to replenish your supply.......... :-)
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He is black and was the only black candidate that ran against that rat governor of Kalifornia.
Twenty FBI tactical force agents have no problem dealing with women, children, and old people. Like-minded individuals need to start banding together and planning on how to deal with the feds when they start a full-blown attack on the American people. There is power in numbers, if those numbers can act as one.
Once posted, it’s impossible to get rid of a series of dot-dot-dots. It’s as if there is some unfinished thought that you forgot to discuss. Sort of an invitation for the reader to realize that this is an unsettled utterance, but given your interaction with me I doubt that. Now go eat the bird.
That been addressed. The optical sight was removed to allow it to fit in the evidence box. It’s immaterial.
Thanks, I didn’t know that.
More than that he has a capitalized Black friend.
It appears in the first photo that it might have had a optic viewer above the rifle. One that is easily removed from the rail.
If the optic was not Kyle’s, it would be logical to remove it.
The optic had nothing to do with the functioning of the rifle.
That would explain the absence of a front sight on the barrel.
I bought a .308 Savage rifle recently. It came with a scope mounted on it. It had no front sight or mount for one on the barrel. It is a very simple, clean design and is exceedingly accurate.
All of these idiots are making Kyle’s case for a huge lawsuit.
Good piece. The charges have not been dismissed so far. I’m not sure whether Binger will try to salvage something or just call it a day on this whole fiasco.
https://wcca.wicourts.gov/caseDetail.html?caseNo=2020CF001275&countyNo=30&index=0&mode=details
Looks to me like the straw purchase is the one thing they might have a case with. Hope I’m wrong.
Interesting how the people on the left can’t seem to see the difference in the Kyle case and the one in Georgia. It is true that criminals were killed in both cases. The dead people were not heroes. But the difference was that Kyle ran away. While the people in Georgia pursued the person who died. And that is the difference between a crime and freedom. That is why antifa tries to provoke people into taking a swing or pointing a gun. Then they beat the crap out of the person. Of course they get it wrong from time to time. They are just a bunch of thugs themselves.
I hope so, too. All I’m going on here, though, is the quote from factcheck.org, and I don’t know how accurate and unbiased they might be.
It would be interesting to trace who all is behind Lin Wood.
“It would be interesting to trace who all is behind Lin Wood.”
Most likely the “Q” gang (i.e., Deep State) - telling us Deplorables to be patient as Trump 2.0 is just around the corner...so as to allow the Leftists to finish securing power, permanently. Note how there’s no ‘Tea Party’ grass-roots uprising now, even though this Junta is far worse than Obama ever was...this “Q” is successfully keeping the Deplorables at bay, making them think that all will be fine...about 2 months from now (with ‘now’ being a variable that increases day by day).
C'mon Kaslin.
I didn't think I needed an "S/OFF" tag for my post.
Good grief man, any one on FR KNOWS that Larry Elder is black.
Did you forget to take your humor pill today?
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