The verdict just came in for this 18-year-old kid and like most everyone on our side I am greatly relieved that at least for now, this kid’s life has been given back to him. It’s still possible that Merrick Garland and the rest of the vampires in the Biden Justice Department may still decide to persecute him under some bogus civil rights charade but maybe their plate is full right now persecuting the poor bastards from Jan. 6th and the school parents in Virginia. But if he is free and clear what is the takeaway we have from this incident?
Well, for me the takeaway is that the Antifa/BLM organization is a paramilitary group that has weapons and tactics that can only be resisted by individuals armed and trained to do so. Which tells me that the only way to avoid being subject to their attacks and harassment is to live in a jurisdiction where the police will arrest them if they riot. That was Kyle Rittenhouse’s mistake. He assumed that because he was heavily armed and fairly proficient with his weapon that he would be immune from harassment by the protestors. That mistake could have cost him his life either at the scene or later in a court of law. He was only saved by luck, the copious video evidence of his actions being self-defense, the skill of his attorney to portray this evidence clearly and convincingly and the fact that he had an honest judge.
As far as I know, Florida is the only state that has passed laws to protect its citizens against municipal governments that decide to empower BLM rioters by handcuffing the police. But that is the only way to prevent places like Atlanta, St. Louis, Houston and all the other blue cities in red states from harming red state citizens. So, short of moving to Florida the strategy is living far enough from a blue city in a red state to avoid a barbarian invasion.
And honestly that’s the only lesson. Anyone who attempts to do what Rittenhouse did will end up no better than he did and most probably a whole lot worse. This problem can only be addressed by the united front of a whole community. And that doesn’t exist in places like Wisconsin or Virginia and certainly not in New York or California. In places like that BLM is the legitimate militia. They are recognized to have the right to burn, loot and kill people who happen to be in the path of their swarm. Maybe someday a counterforce will emerge on its own and challenge BLM and its protectors but that is far in the future. That won’t happen until the people being attacked have nothing to lose and just rise up against their tormentors. Maybe that’ll be in California. Probably it’ll be the Hispanic people living in areas adjacent to the inner-city no-go zones. When no one else will help them, they’ll pay protection money to the gangs and the gangs will handle the swarm by fighting fire with fire.
But that won’t be of any help to us. Our lives are wrapped up in the fabric of civilized society and so we will have to live where that society still exists. So that’s my takeaway from the Rittenhouse story. Live where the majority of people will support the police protecting citizens from barbarians. It’s a cautionary tale and an object lesson about where not to live.
This has been a really good day. First, I learn that justice was done with Rittenhouse but later learn that CNN has been acquired by Discovery, Inc. The Chairman says, “Discovery Media Board Chair John Malone Lauds Fox News Before Saying He Wants CNN to Evolve ‘Back to Actual Journalism’
This does not bode well for Don Lemon or Chris what’s-his-name.
Wheee!
“Evolve Back to Actual Journalism.” That’s wonderful. Yes I guess that means Lemon and Cuomo will have to go back to work for the less picky male escort services. But that is encouraging.
Sorry about hijacking the thread below but I was giddy with visions of a sullen and muzzled CNN under the control of adults. Just read your post and your take is considerably more pessimistic than mine. I think that the fact of an acquittal of any sort in that hyper progressive environment is evidence of a beginning sea change. I think the “progressives” have gone so far that even my wife’s North East US rabid leftist family that has been looking so askance at me for the last 25 years has gone past having 2nd thoughts into 3rd and 4th.… Read more »
Tom, I think I was upset at a kid getting jammed up by the scumbags in Antifa. I think the correct way to handle this is to completely avoid any state that would allow its citizens to be victimized the way Minnesota and Wisconsin and all the rest did last year. They should be treated the way violent overseas hellholes are quarantined. Companies should pull back from those places. Look at Seattle and San Francisco. Chain stores are pulling out because of the unrestrained theft that is essentially legal there now.
As yes, there’s a reason Liberia and now South Africa figures in no ones vacation plans.
Exactly. Any city or whole state that refuses to protect its citizens from criminals is by definition a gangster state and most honest people cannot afford to live there.