“We should celebrate the jury’s acquittal, but we should also take note of the Establishment’s reaction to it. They are already setting plans in motion to ensure that this victory is erased and a similar acquittal never happens again.”
WHAT KYLE RITTENHOUSE’S TRIAL MEANS FOR AMERICA
For most of America’s history, protection of life and property was not just recognized as a right, but as a manly virtue. And when the law couldn’t or wouldn’t see that justice was done, the men of the community would take it upon themselves to uphold the law, an ancient right in our customs passed down to us by our ancestors.
Like so many others, I spent the past week or so riveted by the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. I’m not much of a courtroom TV guy, but this case was different. Friends I’ve talked to reported the same feeling, of projects and work grounding to a halt. Why? I don’t live anywhere near Kenosha. I am not a personal friend or family member of the accused. I’m not subject to a jurisdiction in which the laws and precedents of the state of Wisconsin have the slightest thing to do with me, and yet I was unable to think of little else. The reason is that on a gut level we all felt this trial was something far bigger than it appeared on the surface. It’s not even the spectacle that it has been — though it has been that too, a proverbial goldmine of high-octane meme content. It was America itself on trial.
Rittenhouse, among other charges, was on trial for killing Joseph Rosenbaum, a pedophile guilty of eleven counts of child molestation on five boys aged nine to eleven, including anal rape. That this pedophile was not already executed for these crimes — in fact, not even in jail for them — is evidence of a failed state that abdicated any right to a monopoly on the use of violence. If you need any further evidence, just look at what was allowed to happen in Kenosha before Rittenhouse put the fear of God into the rioters. Forty buildings burned to the ground and an additional hundred were damaged. Livelihoods destroyed and the local residents terrorized. They would have us forget our experience of Summer 2020, the tension and fear that hung in the air, knowing that dialing 911 no longer assured someone would show up to help. Americans were on their own. This was the reality of those months, staying up late watching riots unfold in real-time through internet live streams, wondering when this might come to our neighborhoods. This was true of small towns across America. Hundreds of armed citizens in towns like Snohomish outside of Seattle took to the streets in response to rumors that Antifa was planning to come to smash up the downtown business district. Clips circulated on social media of these well-armed gatherings and while there was an outraged response from the left, they never showed up to Snohomish. The Washington State Legislature responded by passing legislation to ban the open carry of firearms near public demonstrations.
