So, how about that Rittenhouse trial?

[Zelen]

This judge is a moron who made a huge mistake in expecting that the jury would "be fine." Numerous potential jurors voiced their concerns about their safety to him during the jury selection process, and he blew them off. He's a relic of a bygone age when the Left had principles and wasn't just a raw expression of hatred for what is Just & Good.

Mob violence is the new rule, and his ineptitude and unwillingness to understand that threatens to destroy the life of Kyle Rittenhouse. No jurors should have been brought into the courtroom at all. They should all be sequestered in distinct undisclosed locations and presented testimony through telecommunications software. The identities of jurors should not be known to anyone, not even other jurors or court staff. This is the only way to have honest discussions in an age of widespread witch burnings.

[HappyDaze]

This judge is a moron who made a huge mistake in expecting that the jury would "be fine." Numerous potential jurors voiced their concerns about their safety to him during the jury selection process, and he blew them off. He's a relic of a bygone age when the Left had principles and wasn't just a raw expression of hatred for what is Just & Good.

Mob violence is the new rule, and his ineptitude and unwillingness to understand that threatens to destroy the life of Kyle Rittenhouse. No jurors should have been brought into the courtroom at all. They should all be sequestered in distinct undisclosed locations and presented testimony through telecommunications software. The identities of jurors should not be known to anyone, not even other jurors or court staff. This is the only way to have honest discussions in an age of widespread witch burnings.

Wouldn't having anonymous jurors only interacting through telecommunications have a high chance of bringing out the "internet fuckwads" in them?

[Ghostmaker]

Either completely anonymize jurors, or savagely bring the hammer down on even a hint of juror intimidation.

Otherwise, get used to the mob being used to sway the jury.

[3catcircus]

Either completely anonymize jurors, or savagely bring the hammer down on even a hint of juror intimidation.

Otherwise, get used to the mob being used to sway the jury.

This.  There is no reason why the authorities had to let protestors be on the courthouse steps.  Push them back a block.

But - there's part of the whole problem here - how do you distinguish legitimate protest from those who are there specifically to incite the mob?

People have the right to get on their soapbox, put on their tinfoil hat, and spout off in the public square.  The moment someone, however, starts to stalk the jurors or white threatening letters to the judge, you need to throw them a beating.

[Zelen]

The problem isn't necessarily the mob outside the courtroom, although the danger there is real. But every single juror is carrying in their pocket a device that connects their brain to the online mass-consciousness. But removing the cell phone from jurors is equivalent to taking a drug away from an addict -- How can you possibly expect these people to operate while going through withdrawal?

And if you don't, how can we expect unbiased independent judgment from people who are constantly connected to a barrage of online propaganda? (And is it even possible to obtain rational judgment from people who have consistently offloaded that responsibility to others, letting their own faculties wither if they were ever developed at all?) If you're a juror, you don't need to just worry about the mob being outside the courtroom; You need to worry about the mob being inside the deliberation room, taking note of what you say and then whispering to its violent enforcers to wreak hav-ok on your life if you oppose it.

[Willmark]

Not guilty on all charges!

[rgalex]

Not guilty on all charges!  Can't wait for all the riots that are going to go on this weekend.

[FingerRod]

So happy to be wrong. Now the question becomes, who buys a private island first, Rittenhouse or Sandmann?

[wmarshal]

Not guilty on all charges!  Can't wait for all the riots that are going to go on this weekend.

I hope the governor has enough National Guard ready this time to limit the rioting as much as possible. I hear there are about 500 on stand-by, but that doesn't sound like enough given that last year it took 1500-2000 to restore order.

[Willmark]

As to the above?

Yep if I'm Rittenhouse I'm targeting every celebrity and news outlet that may have slandered him. Also if I was him I would not accept any settlements,
I'd take them to court and push for the maximum damages possible and wring every last penny out of them.

Next ADA Binger and his clown buddy should be brought before the BAR and sanctioned at minimum, if not disbarred. Attempting to violate Rittenhouse's 5th amendment rights in front of the jury? After the judge told you no twice?

Hey Binger we can get you a copy of the Constitution and even read to you since you obviously can't.

[Shasarak]

Just in time for International Men's Day!

Confirming your right to defend yourself!

[Shrieking Banshee]

Faith in people restored a bit.

[Venka]

I dunno if it's possible to turn the tide or anything, but I'm really relieved to see exactly one thing go right.  It's been years lol.

[Neoplatonist1]

Fantastic news!

Why Kyle Rittenhouse is Now a World-Historical Figure

The political landscape in the US, and in the West generally, is muddied with corruption striking at the heart of its members' ability to function as respective sovereign nation-states. The future is in grave doubt. People don't know who to trust. The people who know that civilization itself is imperiled have been voting in as a Trumpish direction as possible, but, without knowing firmly who are his allies in the cause.

Rittenhouse's acquittal changes the game: he sacrificed his anonymity and a good deal of peace of mind, for the sake of his community, and, in so doing, he has created a political acid test to determine who stands against anarcho-tyranny and who does not. Trump supported him, so did Tucker Carlson, and Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona, and who else? Versus who actively condemned him or tarred his name.

He didn't make a plea deal, he "stuck to his guns" and although he paid a heavy emotional price for it, the fact of his honesty, good faith, and love for his fellow man, which shone through in his trial against vicious accusations of being a stone killer, has both, in this instance, saved him from an even heavier price, and shown the good people of America and the West a way to know which persons stand on the side of civilization and which are not.

Given that the West's fate as the capital ship of the human fleet will determine the fate of the world, that gives Rittenhouse's case's outcome world-historical importance, and makes him a hero both to American patriots and to clear-thinking world citizens. He earned it.

[Kiero]

Next time you're taking out commie trash, Kyle, use a helicopter.