Kyle Rittenhouse Is a Mixed-up Vigilante Facing Hostile Headwinds

Madison, Wisconsin —  An anti-vigilante, anti-crime ethos predominates in Kenosha County, the site of the Kyle Rittenhouse vigilante trial.

Kenosha is steeped in racism and stupidity, but put that aside. 

The same sometimes mad-dog, don't-upset-the-herd fear that views black folks with suspicion, that abhors Black Lives Matter, [in Wisconsin, black lives most certainly do not matter], will see the jury return guilty verdicts. 

Rittenhouse deserves it.

Rittenhouse is guilty, this affair is a slam-dunk, and not even the corrupt Judge Bruce Schroeder can save Rittenhouse, though he is trying.

Prosecutor Thomas Binger has successfully portrayed the killer, Kyle Rittenhouse, as unreasonable, pathetic, a tragic child whose cognitive failings, myriad lies, absurd judgments and lack of character led him to become an active shooter and killer. 

On the witness stand this week, Rittenhouse said he "didn’t do anything wrong," and was not trying to "kill," rather only to "stop" those in the streets whom he judged worthy of shooting, in self-defense.

You see among a certain class of self-defense nuts, stopping, as in firing a bullet into another human being, is the same as killing, but one doesn't say that.

Binger asked Rittenhouse if, "[he] knew that when you pulled that trigger, that bullet was going to go right into his chest."

Replied Rittenhouse, "I can’t say — I don’t know where the bullet would have went exactly."

Fool. Liar.

Rittenhouse was not reasonably acting out of fear of great bodily harm or killing. He can rationally be seen as the person who was injecting reasonable fear on the Kenosha streets on August 25, 2020.

Reads the Wisconsin Self Defense statute: "The actor may not intentionally use force which is intended or likely to cause death or great bodily harm unless the actor reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself." (Wisconsin Statute 939.48(1))

But reason was nowhere to be found in the mixed-up and deadly Kyle Rittenhouse.

"If I would have let Mr. Rosenbaum take my firearm from me, he would have used it and killed me with it and probably killed more people if I would have let him get my gun," Rittenhouse testified.

Not reasonable. Harm was not imminent.

A death warrant is not granted onto anyone just because he has armed himself.

Rittenhouse feared for his life when Rosenbaum tried to touch the barrel of his AR-15-style gun, and now still trembles with terror and tears 15 months later, but imagine the fear instilled in the witnesses of the slaughter of Mr.  Rosenbaum, when Rittenhouse fired point-blank into his face. 

And Anthony Huber, and Gaige Grosskreutz. Their families. the Communities.

I don't believe Kenosha County lets this killer off.

The jury is expected to soon enter into deliberation in the coming days, after Monday, Nov 15, on which closing arguments and jury instructions are expected.