Rittenhouse jury just went to deliberate

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

If you call yourself a conservative, you discredit all true conservatives.

As a matter of fact, I call myself a liberal. I often do discredit you neo-cons. It's not hard. You kind of do it yourselves.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Not guilty on all counts? What is wrong with us?

Yes, what is wrong with you?

 

[john doe 101]

Odd nobody in hear making excuses or coming up with conspiracy theories like some people were yesterday when they were afraid Kyle might be found guilty. Isnt that odd?

 

[john doe 101]

As a matter of fact, I call myself a liberal. I often do discredit you neo-cons. It's not hard. You kind of do it yourselves.

You can call yourself anything you want. Fact is you are no liberal.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

You can call yourself anything you want. Fact is you are no liberal.

Fact is, you have no Goddamn clue what a liberal is. You've been brainwashed to think that Socialism is liberal.

Liberal:

 

[sealybobo]

Sounds good to me. Do you even know which end is the dangerous end?

Either way, we could have a whole football stadium full of armed people, and nothing will ever happen unless SOMEBODY makes it happen.

don't start nothin'
won't be nothin'

But I am glad that you are coming around on the whole....human right to arms thinky. I know you have hated it until now.

Meanwhile I'm hunting right now with a Ruger 450 Bushmaster

Rittenhouse is a Blue Lives Matter enthusiast who went to protests against a police shooting with a military-style rifle that he obtained illegally, falsely told people he was a medic, and ended up killing and hurting people who felt threatened by him. The overwhelmingly white jury appears to have given Rittenhouse the benefit of the doubt, after a trial in which the judge at times appeared to show favorable treatment of the defendant, and in a country in which it’s almost impossible to imagine a Black defendant accused of similar crimes receiving such easy treatment.

Rittenhouse’s series of encounters was only possible in a society with truly harrowing social maladies, including a pathological obsession with guns and a rising culture of right-wing militias. Did Rittenhouse set out to shoot people that night? That question is unanswerable. But the whole situation would never have emerged anywhere but in a deeply ill society.

Here are three takeaways from this trial — and the national conversation surrounding it.

1. Rittenhouse’s case was about self-defense. And it was hard to argue against.
whether the prosecution could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Rittenhouse did not act in self-defense when he fired his shots, according to Barbara McQuade, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School and former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.

As she explained in a column for MSNBC prior to the verdict, that that was a very high bar to meet under Wisconsin’s vaguely worded law:

2. In an America that wasn’t swimming in guns, this would never have happened.

Rittenhouse’s foremost error was to take a gun to the protest. Being 17 at the time, he was not old enough to buy one (an older friend purchased it for him), and he was not mature enough to wield one. But he took one anyway, and that misjudgment resulted in loss of life that otherwise would never have happened.

3. Rittenhouse shows the dangers of an alarming vigilante culture.

 

[sealybobo]

You can call yourself anything you want. Fact is you are no liberal.

He went from NeoCon loving Bush to Nazi loving Trumpster.

 

[sealybobo]

Yes, what is wrong with you?

That was very liberal of you.

 

[M14 Shooter]

2. In an America that wasn’t swimming in guns, this would never have happened.

You're right. Rittenhouse would be just another casualty of the #BLMob

Rittenhouse’s foremost error was to take a gun to the protest. Being 17 at the time, he was not old enough to buy one (an older friend purchased it for him), and he was not mature enough to wield one.

The results say otherwise.

3. Rittenhouse shows the dangers of an alarming vigilante culture.

Self-defense has nothng to do with vigilantism.

 

[john doe 101]

Fact is, you have no Goddamn clue what a liberal is. You've been brainwashed to think that Socialism is liberal.

Liberal:

Yep, we no longer live in the 18th, 19th, or 20th century. Thanks for pointing that out.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Rittenhouse is a troubled teen who was raised in a dysfunctional family. He apparently didn’t have a solid male role model n his life.

He took out the trash.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Next time I see a comotion I'll take my gun down to it and have a look. You bring yours too. Wild west days are back.

Riots across the nation show those days were back, long before the riots in Kenosha.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

who went to protests against a police shooting with a military-style rifle

Sounds scary!!!
Is that worse than a non-military style rifle?

 

[Resnic]

Meanwhile I'm hunting right now with a Ruger 450 Bushmaster

Rittenhouse is a Blue Lives Matter enthusiast who went to protests against a police shooting with a military-style rifle that he obtained illegally, falsely told people he was a medic, and ended up killing and hurting people who felt threatened by him. The overwhelmingly white jury appears to have given Rittenhouse the benefit of the doubt, after a trial in which the judge at times appeared to show favorable treatment of the defendant, and in a country in which it’s almost impossible to imagine a Black defendant accused of similar crimes receiving such easy treatment.

Rittenhouse’s series of encounters was only possible in a society with truly harrowing social maladies, including a pathological obsession with guns and a rising culture of right-wing militias. Did Rittenhouse set out to shoot people that night? That question is unanswerable. But the whole situation would never have emerged anywhere but in a deeply ill society.

Here are three takeaways from this trial — and the national conversation surrounding it.

1. Rittenhouse’s case was about self-defense. And it was hard to argue against.
whether the prosecution could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Rittenhouse did not act in self-defense when he fired his shots, according to Barbara McQuade, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School and former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.

As she explained in a column for MSNBC prior to the verdict, that that was a very high bar to meet under Wisconsin’s vaguely worded law:

2. In an America that wasn’t swimming in guns, this would never have happened.

Rittenhouse’s foremost error was to take a gun to the protest. Being 17 at the time, he was not old enough to buy one (an older friend purchased it for him), and he was not mature enough to wield one. But he took one anyway, and that misjudgment resulted in loss of life that otherwise would never have happened.

3. Rittenhouse shows the dangers of an alarming vigilante culture.

You are truly beyond hope and do not belong in this country.

 

[john doe 101]

You are truly beyond hope and do not belong in this country.

Who said you do, boy?

 

[candycorn]

Second, glad you credit me with bringing up a good point as to why we only see whites in trials while blacks who have done much worse are not.

Yeah...I seem to remember OJ being on TV.

 

[Cecilie1200]

Little Kyle is a perfect example of that.

Coming from you, that means he's a decent human being and a hero, and you just hate that sort of thing.

 

[FA_Q2]

They are already blaming a broken system and racism. Not really much of a surprise.

The evidence broke hard for Rittenhouse and the verdict was already pretty likely as easily shown by the media trying to cover their ass the past few days. If the charges that the prosecutor withheld evidence are true though, there needs to be something done about that. That is unacceptable.

For MONTHS the media has been calling Rittenhouse a murderer over and over again. Over and over again they stated that Rittenhouse went there with the intent to kill people. That such propaganda was blasted out DAILY and that riots were a damn good possibility after the verdict as well yet he was still acquitted of all charges should be an indication of jsut how strong the case actually was.

The the great chagrin of all the idiots here demanding he was a thug murderer.

 

[sealybobo]

You are truly beyond hope and do not belong in this country.

Oh fuck you. I'm a moderate. To say that to me, you must be an extreme right wing nut job.

 

[22lcidw]

You can call yourself anything you want. Fact is you are no liberal.

You can be liberal and be on the right. The difference is that being responsible for ones actions comes into play and the social programs that pay people off for the same are questionable. We are now going to add more social programs. And they do not get cut once started.