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The Pythonesque farce known as the Kyle Rittenhouse trial<\/a> makes me nervous – not so much the goings-on at the hearing itself, but the possible aftermath. No matter what the verdict, no matter what charges stick, no matter what the sentence if the lad is convicted, I fear that the doo-doo is going to hit the fan.<\/p>\n If Rittenhouse walks, that will outrage Blacks, as well as many progressives and liberals. Remember the riots that erupted after those LAPD cops were acquitted for beating Rodney King? Of course, there was no excuse for that violence; but there was no excuse for the verdict, either. Judge Bruce Schroeder has made matters worse by forbidding the use of the term \u201cvictims\u201d for the two men whom Rittenhouse shot and insisting that they be labeled \u201crioters\u201d and \u201clooters.\u201d All this does is fan the flames of racism and encourage violence. Words can become very potent and dangerous weapons in the right context.<\/p>\n If Rittenhouse is found guilty on even one charge, that will hack off Q-anon, Proud Bois, and other assorted right-wing bugnuts. After the 6 January putsch, I have zero faith in their ability to control themselves. They’ll label Rittenhouse a martyr and regard his case as a bloody shirt for them to wave, just as BLM protesters wave the bloody shirts of George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, Breonna Taylor, etc.<\/p>\n No matter which way you slice it, the Rittenhouse trial is likely to be a pivotal moment in our country\u2019s history and the saga of race relations. Right-wingers harp on the claim he was attacked, and assert that he was acting in self-defense. OK, I wasn’t there, so I don’t know what really happened; and had I been in his shoes, how would I have acted? On the other hand, what was a 17-year-old doing with an AR-15, a weapon that no civilian should wield, let alone a teenager? Even if he was trying to protect an auto dealership, as one source claims, you don’t send a child to do an adult’s job. Teens are notorious for having little common sense, if any at all.<\/p>\n Batten down the hatches, y’all – I see a bad moon rising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Pythonesque farce known as the Kyle Rittenhouse trial makes me nervous – not so much the goings-on at the hearing itself, but the possible aftermath. No matter what the verdict, no matter what charges stick, no matter what the sentence if the lad is convicted, I fear that the doo-doo is going to hit […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}