Posted on 11/20/2021 6:30:02 AM PST by Kaslin
The Kyle Rittenhouse trial is over. He’s been found not guilty of all charges. He’s a free man. He’s a patriot. He’s a hero. And if you believe in the rule of law and the right to self-defense, this is a win. The national nightmare for this young man is over. He was the subject of political persecution, being charged for shooting two men and wounding another during the 2020 Kenosha riots. Two men, Joe Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber were trying to kill him. he shot them in self-defense. The video evidence clearly shows that. Gaige Grosskreutz, who survived, admitted to being shot once he approached Rittenhouse armed with a handgun. What’s worse are the lies that have emanated from this incident. They are many and outrageous. Miranda Devine on The New York Post picked the top ten. Once you read them, you can figure out why the Left’s reaction was…interesting. And by that, I mean totally based on fake news (via NY Post):
The central media narrative is that Kyle Rittenhouse is a white supremacist whose mother drove him across state lines with an AR-15 to shoot Black Lives Matter protesters. All lies.
“A white, Trump-supporting, MAGA-loving Blue Lives Matter social media partisan, 17 years old, picks up a gun, drives from one state to another with the intent to shoot people,” was typical from John Heilemann, MSNBC’s national affairs analyst.
So, let’s go through 10 lies about Rittenhouse, debunked in court:
1. He killed two black BLM protesters. All three of the men he shot in self-defense during violent riots in Kenosha on Aug. 25 last year were white.
2. He crossed state lines. He lived 20 miles from Kenosha in Antioch, Ill., with his mother and sisters. But his father, grandmother, aunt, uncle, cousins and best friend live in Kenosha. He had a job as a lifeguard in Kenosha and worked a shift on Aug. 25 before helping clean graffiti left by rioters at a local school. There, he and his friend were invited to join other adults who had been asked by the owners of a used car lot in Kenosha to guard the property after 100 cars had been torched the previous night, when police abandoned the town to rioters. Kyle took his gun to protect himself, since the rioters were violent and armed, including, for instance, Antifa medic Gaige Grosskreutz, who lunged at him with a loaded Glock pointed at his head before he was shot in the arm.
3. Rittenhouse took an AR-15 across state lines. Esquire accused him of “terrorist tourism.” False. His rifle was kept in a safe at his best friend’s stepfather’s house in Kenosha.
4. The gun was illegal. Wrong. Under Wisconsin law, he was entitled to possess the AR-15 as a 17-year-old. The judge dismissed the gun charge, which the prosecution never should have brought.
There are six more lies Devine points out, one of which involves the lies about Rittenhouse wearing medical gloves to cover his fingerprints. Uh, he was administering first aid—also his face is visible. The first is the biggest lie that seems to have eaten away at the Left’s mind like cancer. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, delivered a scathing statement about the verdict that was a straight lie. First, the Kenosha protests were sparked by the officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake, who is still alive. Maloney said he was killed. It also was neck-deep in the insinuation that this was a racially motivated shooting, or at the very least that the victims were black. Rosenbaum and Huber are white dudes. And this was not a BLM protest. It was a riot.
The media and their allies appear to be really upset about the black rioters that Kyle Rittenhouse never shot.
Looks like the country is completely divided.
We’ve been living the leftists’ narrative, but hopefully this is the pendulum moving back to reality.
If there are riots protesting the verdict, you can be absolutely sure that the left will do nothing to stop them, but in fact will promote them and give them material and moral support, and will allow the rioters to burn, steal, attack, rape and kill.
The Left has a clear agenda - Worldwide Totalitarian Government by means of destroying America.
The Right needs to be more effective than just hate the Left. The Right has no clear goal or objective at all except to hate the Left.
Patriotic Right must unite under the banner of "MAGA BY RESTORING OUR FREE CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC" by means of
1) dismantling the $3+ trillion unconstitutional portion of the federal government,
2) reinstating the Constitution as the Supreme Law of the Land, and
3) reinstating State sovereignty.
“Let the guilty pay”
Independence Day
Martina McBride.
The trial may be over, but the fallout has just begun.
First of all, the landscape is littered with the remains of liberals’ heads exploding. Unable to protest, because it is simply too cold in Kenosha (or most anywhere) to mount a real burn, loot and mayhem rampage, they were displaced to localities like Chicago and New York city, where it is safe for mobs to gather and shout incomprehensible slogans, but even there, the protest was rather desultory and lacking any real passion.
Despair has seized the activists, their support among the otherwise only tepidly committed has sunk to an all-time low. MSNBC and CNN have been muffled and muted, their message no longer so widely distributed.
Do not call for their total obliteration, but keep just a few of these fools around to remind ourselves just how far the emotions can drift away from logic and sweet reason.
How low do you have to be as an adult trying to destroy an 18 yr old’s life
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Just gotta be a urinolist or a politician...it’s in the DNA
Thank goodness that the one element of our justice system that has not been able to be weaponized still works. THE JURY SYSTEM.
At least for now. I'm sure the left bureaucracy is trying to fix that too.
Yes. Expect the wrongful death lawsuits to be filed any day now.
Unfortunately if you’re a reporter who is engaged in responsible reporting, your editor and producer will have you unemployed very quickly. The management of news is tightly in the grip of political propagandists. Your reporting will fit the narrative or you will no longer fit.
During the trial, the owners of the car lot have denied they asked Rittenhouse, or anyone else, to guard their lot.
Rosembaum was a particularly disgusting character - he was released from a psych ward the same day of the riots (hmmmmm) and had been convicted of sodomizing 5 (five!) young boys, among his many other crimes.
And the prosecutor, Thomas Binger, called him a “hero.”
The build back better bill just passed by congress is loaded with the funding of outrage mobs to be unleashed like wild dogs. The state funded media houses, feeds, grooms, and trains these wild dogs. That grant money is in the bill too.
The media and their allies appear to be really upset about the black rioters that Kyle Rittenhouse never shot.
The media and the democrats are really upset about a judge and jury essentially approving/green lighting vigilante behavior. They are now scared to death that conservatives and anyone their BLM/Black Block terrorists attack, can be shot/killed because it is now clearly established that We the People do have the right to protect ourselves and by extension our property when the police/government fails to do so.
It also sets precedent that the activities of BLM are NOT First Amendment activities. Burning, looting, and terrorizing people in the community is now no longer "protected" speech, not that it ever was protected speech in the first place.
Unfortunately, many conservatives are not going to take up this mantle that is their God given right, Constitutional right, and defend themselves and property, against the terrorists that are the progressive/communist left.
It is way past time that organizations like BLM and by extension their major funders are sued for damages, charges of insurrection brought against them, judges who waived and freed law-breakers back to the riots be voted out or impeached, cities sued, mayors, and governors.
This verdict should be sending us our signal to go on the offense. Enough is enough of this nonsense called BLM, Black Block, Woke, Cancel Culture. We are way too complacent when it comes to this violence in our cities. We too often shrug our shoulders, boycott cities, and just go elsewhere. None of this will stop unless we make those in charge pay for their failures.
No one in America should ever be afraid of a protest, it is our right to protest and file grievance against an unjust government. It is no one's right to engage in destruction of property or terrorist activities against citizens.
No the Left isn't having a meltdown over 'white supremacists,' or anything the media is trying to paint this as. The President/VP being upset regarding the jury findings, isn't that justice was not done...they are upset because justice was done and it reaffirmed the values America holds dear to her republic.
Their meltdown is because they understand better than ourselves what this means all the way down to the violent jack-booted thugs rioting in the streets. It makes them criminals, it makes them wrong.
After so many years of dealing with the left, it’s been clear for a long time that they cannot deal with facts or truths. They truly live in a fictional world full of hypotheticals.
Why do you assume the people who asked knew his age?
Why do you assume 17-Year-Old people are incompetent in dangerous situations?
Many 17-Year-Olds have performed heroically in the past.
And the prosecutor, Thomas Binger, called him a “hero”
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From Binger’s non-heterosexual perspective, he probably is.
“During the trial, the owners of the car lot have denied they asked Rittenhouse, or anyone else, to guard their lot.”
Yet the same owner is in pictures with Rittenhouse and has at least one text message from Rittenhouse.
The dude was most likely pretending to cut ties with Rittenhouse, to avoid retribution from left-wing mobs.
Great post and you pretty much summed it up.
This was a “do over/make up” trial for what happened to Mark McCloskey in St. Louis, who famously showed his AR-15 to BLM rioters outside his home, but didn’t actually fire it.
His eventual pleading of fourth degree guilt gave the green liot to the rioters. This full trial however completely took it away. At least for now, expect more test in the future, possibly soon now.
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