Halloween Killer Victim's Mother — Wisc Atty Gen Joshua Kaul 'Not There for Me,' 'Doesn't Care,' 'No Help'

A view of Amory Street near Rose Avenue in Fond du Lac,
Wisconsin Saturday November 4, 2017. Lisa Ann French
disappeared from this area on Halloween in 1973. Her body
was discovered a short time later on McCabe Road, northeast
of Fond du Lac. The French family fights to keep the killer
safely away from the community year after year.
Doug Raflik/USA Today Network-Wisconsin

Democrat Attorney General Joshua Kaul Should Be Booted from Office

"You want some help to find out what's going on, and he (Joshua Kaul) doesn't help. He don't care about the victims."
 — Mother of victim of Halloween killer

Commentary

Madison, Wisconsin — "People in Fond du Lac and around the state still recall how the little trick-or-treater's brutal death changed forever how they think about Halloween," reads the Fond du Lac Reporter in 2017.

The story is about the nine-year-old murder-molestation victim's Mother and her family's struggle to protect their community and achieve some manner of peace.

The Halloween killer of 1973 lives forever in the Fox River Valley.

I grew up in Fond du Lac, Fondy, and it still gives me pleasure to think of Bob's Pizza, Joe's Fox Hut, many friends and the word, Proust.

But there is another side to Fond du Lac, the Halloween Killer of 1973. Craven politicians like Attorney General Joshua Kaul, who could not care less about victims and their lifelong fight for justice.

As the killer Gerald Turner was almost released, Attorney General Kaul failed the Mother of Lisa French, as reference in a TV spot, while Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney provided support and effective advocacy.

Kaul is the Democrat creation of Clintonite Democrats who view crime victims and the wrongfully convicted as little people who do not count except as pawns in Democrats' repulsive quest for power.

Lisa French's murder changed Halloween for many across America. Helping Lisa's mom, Maryann, and other crime victims seek justice is one of the most important aspects of my career as a DA.

Josh Kaul has repeatedly demonstrated his lack of concern for public safety and victims. pic.twitter.com/h2OFBLdkSw

— Eric Toney (@EricJToney) October 14, 2022

Now, Kaul is drawing justifiable anger for his despicable blowing off the Mother of the nine-year-old girl killed and molested by Gerald Turner.

The Mother in return is the object of Democrat social media trolls for whom people, whether they be Mothers of crime victims or the wrongfully convicted, do not exist for Wisconsin's Democrat Attorney General and friends.

The trolls brand anyone criticizing Kaul as "unhinged," while neglecting even one word of support for Ms. French.

Democrats are the worst, if it were in my power, I would vote them all out of office.

Wisconsin Democrats Silent on New Steven Avery Filing as Midterm Voting Begins

Democrats blocking innocents' freedom will lose votes — some votes

Update: See new legal filing and updates site.
Updated - Madison, Wisconsin — Republicans attacking Democrats in Wisconsin on crime and law enforcement are nearly as fervent as Democrats' asserting police support.

Midterm absentee voting has begun in Wisconsin, and key Wisconsin Democrats are all in, (trying to be), for police, no matter the misconduct they defend, no matter the innocent lives destroyed in wrongful conviction cases.

The August filing by wrongfully convicted Steven Avery details a new witness who contacted the Manitowoc County sheriff office to report he saw the prosecution's star courtroom witness pushing the murder victim's car onto the property of the defendant. The August filing also details that Manitowoc County Sheriff Dept failed to disclose the witness's phone call, a partial copy of which was obtained by Avery' s post-conviction attorneys, another clear Brady violation.

In this state with a horribly corrupt criminal justice system, the question remains whether Wisconsin voters will reward statewide Democratic Party officeholders who continue to block freedom for the innocent Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey, both of whom the state attorney general and governor know were framed by corrupt law enforcement, amid Brady violations, evidence planting, among other misconduct. highlighted to a worldwide audience in the Emmy-winning Making a Murderer docuseries.

Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey, were convicted of first-degree homicide in separate trials in 2007 for the murder of a young photographer, Teresa Halbach. Both men are serving life sentences.

The case is State of Wisconsin v Steven Avery, featured in Making a Murderer in a spectacular examination of police and politcal corruption.

Dassey is seeking a pardon from Gov. Tony Evers, pointing out the convictions are unreliable. Evers says falsely he cannot pardon Dassey because his Pardon Advisory Board advises him not to pardon Dassey.

Wisconsin Democratic Party officials, Gov. Tony Evers and Attorney General Joshua Kaul, have made the political decision to work for this corrupt law enforcement, even the disgraced district attorney Kenneth R. Kratz who prosecuted both the Avery and Dassey cases. Ken Kratz.

This is political liberalism at its most irrational. Tony Evers and Joshua Kaul will not allow crooked Wisconsin police to take a hit, and both Democrats oppose pardons and agreements to vacate the Dassey-Avery wrongful convictions.

One month into his term in 2019, Attorney General Kaul filed legal responses signaling the DOJ would stall Avery's exoneration by filing procedural objections

Life is cheap to Wisconsin Democrats led by Gov. Evers (D) and Attorney General Kaul (D).

No matter the evidence that has piled up since the airing of Making a Murderer shined a light on police and prosecutorial corruption, Wisconsin Democrats remain committed to keeping in prison those whom they know are innocent.

Democrats love their police, no matter how corrupt, for example, Manitowoc County and Calumet County sheriff operations are, as the midterm elections feature Republican ads showering Wisconsin Democrats as weak on crime.

For Wisconsin Democrats, it's defend police no matter how many innocent lives are destroyed.

Tony Evers rejects Brendan Dassey pardon petition

In December 2019, Tony Evers hid behind his Pardon Advisory Board, a stance the governor has continued through spokesmen in the media and administration who falsely say Evers has no choice but to take the advice of his own advisory board.

But the truth about Evers' pardon power came out two years later, last Spring, when Evers announced he would offer immediate clemency to doctors prosecuted for performing abortions under Wisconsin's nineteenth century antiabortion law. Nothing about Evers' Pardon Advisory Board and its criteria.

Tony Evers, like any Wisconsin governor, has the Constitutional power (executive clemency), to grant pardons, (grants of forgiveness restoring civil rights), sentence commutations (roughly, shortening a sentence), and reprieves, for any reason.

The gubernatorial clemency power is so broad that it is monarchical. Gov. Evers could wake up one morning and decide that only those convicted in courts presided over by judges whom we know are corrupt may be granted royal relief — perfectly within the province of his gubernatorial authority.

Evers set up his Governor's Pardon Advisory Board that advises him on whom to pardon. All clemency decisions remain Evers' and his alone. To be clear, any reporting that also suggests that Evers is bound by his Advisory Board or any other political adviser is erroneous.

Attorney General Joshua Kaul

After the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization last Spring, Joshua Kaul repeated he would not use state resources to enforce the Wisconsin anti-abortion law against convictions of women and doctors.

Going forward

Seth Waxman — a member of Brendan Dassey's legal team — said that when reviewing the outrageous interrogation of Dassey by Mark Wiegert, (current Sheriff of the Calumet County Sheriff's Office), and Tom Fassbender (Wisconsin DoJ, DCI investigator (ret)), that his "blood ran cold."

Gov Evers maintains the explicit state Constitutional authority and right to summarily reject the Board's decision and grant Mr. Dassey his immediate freedom with a stroke of a pen for any or no reason, (Rolling Stone).

This action would entail using capacities that to date Evers has not displayed — intellectual honesty, knowledge of Wisconsin law enforcement, and to the worst of Evers' personal defects, a moral backbone and sensibility to the call of social justice.

Joshua Kaul too could refuse today to oppose Steven Avery's new filing calling for a new trial. A witness, Thomas Sowinski, has come forward and swears in a statement that he saw the prosecution's key trial witness plant the murder victim's RAV4 vehicle on the property of the man, Avery, convicted of homicide in 2007.

In other words, a credible resident swears he caught conspirators red-handed in a frame-up scheme in Wisconsin's infamous murder case drawing headlines in state post-conviction litigation.

Further, Zellner brings another Brady violation to the Court's attention, showing a phone "call to dispatch from a witness claiming to see the vehicle leave the property was not provided to previous counsel. Zellner says her office [recently] received the 'previously suppressed' call that was placed on Nov. 6, 2005. The recording had never been disclosed to the trial defense," reports WBAY-Green Bay, citing another spectacular legal filing on August 16.

A worldwide community remains appalled with Wisconsin "justice." Will Wisconsin voters? November will tell.

Corrupt police worked and worked until planting evidence and character assassination gave a ridiculous local press enough for the get-Avery project in the public mind in east-central Wisconsin. Corrupt Wisconsin courts okayed everything that the prosecution and police did.

The long time common law rule was “1 warrant, 1 search. Not 8 days & 7 searches/entries to SA residence on 1 warrant. We challenged the searches pretrial & (as usual) courts created new law in WI just for SA’s case to allow it. One of many “Steven Avery exceptions” to the law. 🙄 https://t.co/GTLFyVVpdI

— Jerome Buting (@JButing) October 6, 2022

How can you allow the continued suffering of an innocent?

It is tantamount to walking past a dying man on the street, pretending not to hear his call for help. What kind of person does that? YOU?

God has given you the power to do good @Tony4WI @JoshKaulWI. HOW WILL YOU USE IT? pic.twitter.com/UlORf1COPy

— Rhonda SD (@rhonda_sd) August 22, 2022

Indeed, what else are they hiding? They’ve always had this call, and clear time stamps for all calls. MTSO officials & records clerks should give sworn deposition testimony about where & how their records are stored. Maybe someone has the personal integrity not to lie under oath. https://t.co/adRhEs9n8K

— Jerome Buting (@JButing) August 19, 2022

It’s true. They deliberately stripped the call times from the tracks provided. We spent hours trying to discern the sequence & times of calls based only on content & subjects discussed. https://t.co/sxfmcIazrY

— Jerome Buting (@JButing) August 17, 2022

It’s another Brady violation. As usual in these cases, a stroke of luck defense ever found out. A new records clerk apparently made mistake & included Sowinski’s call in new open records request in May 2022. The call was hidden from us before trial & from @ZellnerLaw until now.

— Jerome Buting (@JButing) August 17, 2022

System Choice — Power to Direct State Violence Is Discretionary, Political and Vicious

The once exonerated Steven Avery faces
his most malicious enemy in the
Democratic Party and a corrupt
Wisconsin Judiciary that has abdicated
its duty to act with impartiality. Damage and
destruction are the aims against Avery
and his nephew who have committed a
mortal sin in Wisconsin: Fighting back
against state violence and corrupt cops.
SPIRITS Goya sneered at malevolent clergy
in Hobgoblins.

Madison, Wisconsin — In Wisconsin, human rights workers fight for the innocent — brutalized by liars populating offices of district attorneys, attorneys general and seemingly an entire state judiciary — yet these same human rights advocates often labor under delusion.

This delusion is that the criminal justice system and the judiciary function in an intellectually honest, non-political fashion objectively finding facts, doctrine and application of law like detached, non-political agents of pure epistemology, so dedicated as to approach hard science.

Lunacy. Worse, it's a lie.

While not every Wisconsin district attorney is a verminous Ken Kratz (driven from law and Wisconsin), or an odious Vince Biskupic (a sitting judge!), nor is every cop a Matt Kenny (still a Madison cop) or Mark Wiegert (still a sheriff) or a cold-blooded killer Stephen Heimsness (sponging off Madison people as he claims he was traumatized for killing the innocent Paul Heenan), misconduct and malignant action of cops and prosecutors incur little costs, commonly garner professional awards, and win plaudits from most judges.

Put another way, cops will kill, and prosecutors will destroy life; and the judiciary, best understood as a cult of high  clergy, will stamp its imprimatur as agents of the Sovereign, smiling down on imprisoned slaves of the state like black-robed kobolds, diminutive "goblin-like creatures with short-tempers and a mischievous spirit."

See, for example, Wisconsin sitting County Circuit Judge Vince Biskupic: "[J]ust stay away from anything to do with [Vince] Biskupic. He will pull you into this (a homicide charge). You have nothing to do with it. He doesn’t care about you or your kids," a lawyer warned an innocent, lest she become another victim of Wisconsin injustice. 

And that was before Biskupic became a Outagamie County judge, and before he resigned in scandal as Outagamie County District Attorney.

Scandal and crime rarely disqualify for service in Wisconsin's criminal justice system.

The Judiciary

Widespread faith in the state and federal judiciaries persist no matter deceit.

This may be changing.

As judicial supremacists in the United States Supreme Court have decided women no longer possess autonomy over their own bodies and no longer have liberty to choose whether they have children, millions of Americans are asking, who the hell do these justices think they are? Monarchs?

It's a good question, but one that up to now was more likely to be brought up by Sidney Powell than the Democrat establishment.

The question of judicial supremacy especially as embodied in the federal judiciary that routinely overrides the will of Congress and the presidency on liberty questions, per Court caprice or service to favored interests, has been staring America in the face for a long time.

Civil disobedience is only now becoming widespread.

During COVID 19 that spurred a body of law governing citizen behavior on public health grounds, sheriffs the nation-over stated as Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling said, "state law does not have the power to supersede or suspend the Constitutional rights of American citizens" (WISC-TV).

Racine's Schmaling and others were not going to let laws or any judge intrude upon liberty (Washington Post, The Guardian).

Following the heroic leaking of the draft Supreme Court opinion eviscerating reproductive liberty enshrined in Roe v. Wade, (Politico) (Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization), Democrat prosecutors across the nation raced to declare they will not prosecute women under existing state laws defining abortion as a criminal offense (Washington Post). See Thomas E. Dobbs, State Health Officer of the Mississippi Department of Health, et al., Petitioners v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, et al. No. 19-1392.

Wisconsin Attorney General Joshua Kaul (D) declared his office will not investigate or prosecute woman or doctors for abortion 'offenses.' Further, Kaul is discouraging district attorneys and law enforcement throughout the state from enforcing an 1849 ban on abortion.

Putting aside why Wisconsin Democrats did not legislate away this ban in 2009 when Democrats had unitary control of state government, Kaul said on social media this week that his determination to protect women's choice would be fought on several fronts, including the courts, "We must speak out against this effort to erode Wisconsinites’ freedom. If the Court abandons precedent and Roe falls, we must fight to protect reproductive freedom—and our other freedoms—in Congress, state legislatures, and state courts."

We must speak out against this effort to erode Wisconsinites’ freedom. If the Court abandons precedent and Roe falls, we must fight to protect reproductive freedom—and our other freedoms—in Congress, state legislatures, and state courts. 4/4

— Attorney General Josh Kaul (@WisDOJ) May 3, 2022

Human Rights

Disobedience of Court-sanctioned lawlessness is a healthy development for human rights.

Justice Clarence Thomas, the face of judicial malignancy, commenting on the Roe opinion leak, said people must "live with outcomes we don’t agree with" or the judiciary is imperiled.

Really? In Thomas' view, there is no recourse once the judicial kings and queens have spoken. It's how Thomas and his friends view the Court.

The United States Supreme Court is poised to issue an edict that women are no longer masters of their own bodies, and following the release of this information, Thomas reasons we have to "live" with it.

We can hope that recent disobedience to what Thomas terms an "outcome" will be the beginning of massive civil disobedience, transparency from the Court, and resulting reform that will include mandates that every oral argument, judicial memo and correspondence be revealed to the American people in as close to real-time as possible.

The institutional narcissism and unparalleled arrogance of the judicial branch, working for the police and totalitarian movements needs to come to an end.

Judge Schroeder Signals Increasing Hostility Towards Prosecution; Rittenhouse Tries to Censor Jury's Viewing of Videos

The competency and fitness of presiding
Judge Bruce Schroeder has called into
question the Kyle Rittehouse trial integrity

Apparently Corrupt Judge Hints He'll Dismiss Case
Calls Prosecution's Presentation a "House of Cards"
Terms Coming Ruling on Video "Day of Reckoning"

Update: Threat of Rittenhouse-friendly judge declaring mistrial now looms over trial.

Madison, Wisconsin — Kyle Rittenhouse defense attorneys attempted to stop multiple viewings of videos in evidence by the jury that show Rittenhouse killing people.

The Rittenhouse legal team's reasoning is unclear, and the attempt appears to be unsuccessful, dispatches by Michael Tarm, AP legal affairs writer, show this morning.

The dispatches posted on the social media site, Twitter, also show the 75-year-old Judge Bruce Schroeder continuing his hostility towards the prosecution in outbursts that sometimes appear mercurial and manic.

The "Rittenhouse judge mentions a pending motion for mistrial and then alludes to the state's case as potentially 'a house of cards,'" reports the AP's Tarn at 1:00 P.M.

Later, just after 2:00 P. M., the AP. reports, "Rittenhouse judge says he could rule on a mistrial motion after a verdict or if the jurors ask to see the disputed [drone] video,"

 

#Rittenhouse judge mentions a pending motion for mistrial and then alludes to the state's case as potentially "a house of cards."

— Michael Tarm (@mtarm) November 17, 2021

#Rittenhouse judge says he could rule on a mistrial motion after a verdict or if the jurors ask to see the disputed drome video. https://t.co/ILthxUjm5t

— Michael Tarm (@mtarm) November 17, 2021

The antics by the judge have many observers concerned that Judge Bruce Schroeder will not allow a verdict adverse to Rittenhouse because Schroeder has already predetermined the outcome of the trial.

Schroeder has now "warned prosecutors that if it turns out upon further scrutiny that the video should not have been admitted into evidence in the first place: 'It’s going to be ugly.'"

This could actually mean that if Schroeder checks media coverage again, and determines he was been the source of more ridicule, he'll dismiss the case out of spite.

But Judge Schroeder warned prosecutors that if it turns out upon further scrutiny that the video should not have been admitted into evidence in the first place: “It’s going to be ugly.”

Part of that ugliness could be a post-verdict mistrial for #Rittenhouse. https://t.co/DNzl8hqvvm

— Michael Tarm (@mtarm) November 18, 2021

Kenosha Killer Impacts in All Directions

Madison, Wisconsin — As Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard champion Kyle Rittenhouse, two bodies, one grievously wounded man and several videos are constant reminders of the horror that one lunatic inflicted on an August night in Kenosha last year. 

Gabbard appears to be positioning herself as veep nominee with Donald Trump, using the Kenosha Killer to launch her new career. Anyway.

As overwhelming a case as was presented over the last two weeks by the prosecution, the visceral image of the child-Rittenhouse firing off an AR-15 in the city street like he was a video-game character will likely carry the day.

Jury is now watching this video of the Huber & Grosskreutz shooting.
Binger: this is someone who has no regard for human life #KyleRittenhouse pic.twitter.com/9OEkm30216

— Kristen Barbaresi (@KristenBarbar) November 15, 2021

The world has bore witness to the narcissistic, dictator-wanna-be world of Judge Bruce Schroeder, stupid, stupid cops, and the racist world of Kenosha Democrats that is the terrain where police and violence are the norm.

But when you fire off bullets, you are responsible for the trajectory of those bullets, unless you are a cop, (then fire away). You own the bullets. We learn it in hunter safety class in junior high school.

The school of Kyle Rittenhouse is altogether different. 

One learns to stop people by firing bullets into their bodies. Can't do that here, the world will soon see. 

And fleeing someone who needs help because you shot him is not a good look, especially for someone pretending to be a medic.

And hey, not to be cruel, but noone likes a crybaby.

Even fewer people like a killer. 

Anthony Huber, 26, (killed by Rittenhouse); and Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, (killed by Rittenhouse); and  Gaige Grosskreutz, survivor of Rittenhouse.

Tulsi Gabbard, Kyle Rittenshouse Defenders Go off Deep End

Rittenhouse posted bail, and then met with Proud Boys members
in a Kenosha County bar where he posed, flashing white power signs.

Updated - Madison, Wisconsin — After the Kyle Rittenhouse testimony last week, most everyone agrees this killer is dim, reckless and puerile.

But defenders of Rittenhouse's self-defense claim are proffering new justifications on the eve of closing arguments and jury deliberation this coming week.

One line of killing-justification proliferating on social media is the claim Rittenhouse's victims may have criminal records, so Rittenhouse's killings can be adduced as retroactively praiseworthy. Critics of the killings are similarly off-base in their condemnations under this justification, it is asserted. 

A second line of killing-justification is the claim that all of the people on the street protesting the maiming of Jacob Blake are arsonists, (no matter the lack of criminal records or even arrests in this argument), so all Black Lives Matter protesters present in Kenosha deserve to be killed, including the victims of Rittenhouse.

That these lines of argument are insane does not stop a lot of Rittenhouse supporters from advancing their defense of this homicidal racist.

But this weekend former U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard weighed in on the side of Kyle Rittenhouse, omitting mention of his Proud Boys connections, and his stated wish to fire off his AR-15 on people whom he adjudged as guilty of crimes. 

This is the kind of militarism that seems to pass muster in Gabbard's new book.

Gabbard claims Rittenhouse's motive are pure, and he just wanted to protect Kenosha.

Gabbard is off the deep end. Facile and sophomoric, her dangerous mainstreaming of vigilantism gives the green light to kill, as long as increasingly narcissistic Americans deem it necessary.

Writes Gabbard: "With no evidence, MSM & antifa-loving politicians immediately labeled Rittenhouse a white supremacist terrorist. It’s obvious now that he was just a foolish kid who felt he needed to protect people & the community from rioters & arsonists because the government failed to do so."

With no evidence, MSM & antifa-loving politicians immediately labeled Rittenhouse a white supremacist terrorist. It’s obvious now that he was just a foolish kid who felt he needed to protect people & the community from rioters & arsonists because the government failed to do so. pic.twitter.com/uhjGQtM4y4

— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) November 11, 2021

Really?

Everyone on the streets of Kenosha on Aug 25, 2020, felt individually that he or she was present out of principle, but only one person fired off his AR-15 at people, killed two people, maimed another, and traumatized families and communities for decades.

Don't believe what people say about a murdered relative. No one is ever the same. Everyone on the streets of Kenosha that night could be suffering from PTSD over Rittenhouse's horror.

Gabbard argues that since in his own mind, Rittenhouse was there to protect the City, this gives him the  right to kill.

Not even Rittenhouse's attorneys pursue this absurd line of argument, but this is good enough for Tulsi.

No sympathy from Gabbard about the Rittenhouse victims, or Jacob Blake. But Gabbard did post subsequent ruminations about World Kindness Day.

This is Wisconsin. 

People here celebrate wrongful convictions, police misconduct, but I do feel optimistic that open vigilantism won't fly, no matter the effort to superimpose reasonableness onto vicious killings, and stamp deserve-to-be-killed onto victims.

In the meantime, Tulsi Gabbard is reaching out politically to the lowest of low lives who live behind anonymous accounts, threats, calumny and bile. 

See:

You support pedophiles, I am above you. You are a trash human that lies when they feel their beliefs are threatened. Keep doing you, who knows who might find out your deepest secret. I would never be violent with someone unless in self defense.

— RustyWhaler (@RustyWhaler) November 15, 2021

If so, be a shame if certain people found out you support kid diddlers and wife beaters...

— RustyWhaler (@RustyWhaler) November 14, 2021

The new logic of the right is to accuse those criticizing killing as being "pedophiles." These are the people Tulsi Gabbard is courting.

Twitter will not take down the posts.

Michael Leon is a pedophile that is upset he got called out. He can't even define fascism and makes up lies about people threatening him. His wife finds out he likes children today, he's flailing. Hard.

— RustyWhaler (@RustyWhaler) November 15, 2021

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.

Allan Nairn on America during Trump Admin

Cops' beating, killing, imprisoning and harassing people is a
fact of life getting worse under the rightist Trump
administration. Above is a shot from a video of a cop
beating a black teen caught by a cell phone. The
video elicits equal parts outrage and approval in
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin in May 2018. See Mal Contends.

Rightist Republicans demolish the Republic

Donald Trump's campaign boast about hypothetically killing a man in public and maintaining his core political support is one of the few truisms the lunatic in the White House has emitted.

Trump is a radical rightist leader of a mass base of fascistic Americans—they hate black and brown people and would be happy to see them all warehoused in prisons.

If Trump were to declare the black-and brown problem must be solved with a final solution begun with a declared state of emergency, Trump's white supporters would declare approvingly, 'yep, Trump's doing something, MAGA.'

Republicans in Congress would weasel their way to express their support.

Across America emboldened, politicized municipal police departments target citizens for any or no reason with the assurance their careers are secure. Liberal mayors and municipal officials—in Wisconsin, think Madison's Paul Soglin and Milwaukee's Tom Barrett—go along.

After the recent beating of a NBA player in Milwaukee, Tom Barrett expanded on his tame expression of concern, and offered a public apology to the police victim. Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales had said the assaulting cops acted "inappropriately," as though the vile gang of white cops committed a breach of etiquette and not a human rights violation.

Black and brown people get hit the worst.

The lunatic in the White House routinely boasts about his standing among cops and Evangelicals who flock to police departments to kill, harass and imprison for Christ.

Allan Nairn is interviewed by Jeremy Scahill in The Intercept today.

This is critical reading on the nature of Republican America and the white supremacist Donald Trump administration. They block voters and try to slash any federal expenditures that help people, working at all levels of elected government though no Republican dares campaign on these intentions.

Said Allan Nairn:

Well, Trump dragged a rightist revolution into power. It’s the Paul Ryan agenda which could never have gotten elected in its own right, because it’s anathema to most Americans — slashing Medicare, slashing social security, transferring trillions of dollars from the working people, and even the poor and the middle class to the very rich. Mitt Romney kind of tried to run on that and failed. Ryan, in his own right, could never get elected president. But Trump, with his genius for unleashing the beast in white America, touching these deep chords of racism that succeeded in turning a crucial number of previous white Obama voters into Trump voters, precisely, in large part, because of his racist appeals and his appeals to fear.

He succeeded in dragging the Republican Party into the White House with a minority of the votes. And this is a Republican Party that is one of the most radical mainstream political parties in all of American history, perhaps with the exception of the pro-secessionist Democrats at the time of the Civil War. And they’ve been in there, they’ve been implementing a rightist revolution, doing the massive transfer of wealth in part via the tax bill, but also an important part by systematically, agency by agency, trying to gut the constraints on large corporations and the oligarchs, regarding the environment, their treatment of labor, their ability to discriminate, their ability to commit fraud without fear of being sued by the public, increasing the rights of rich individuals to intervene in politics, decreasing the rights of collectives of working people to intervene in politics, like the Gorsuch-led Supreme Court decision just the other day, inhibiting the ability of workers to file class-action lawsuits against their employers.

It’s a systematic program that’s been in the works since 1980, really. In a sense, it dates back to the old Powell memorandum, where Powell, who later joined the Supreme Court, said we, the representatives of the rich, we’ve got to fight back against this new environmental movement, against this consumer movement, against the labor movement, and also implicitly against the Civil Rights movement. 'These people have been making too many gains, we’ve got to organize ourselves.'

And they did! They created Heritage, and this whole other elaborate apparatus, and later the Koch Brothers came in, and they created ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council. They sent people down to the state legislature. And they’ve been working on this program for decades.

And, now, as the Republican Party has evolved to the most radical extreme, Trump dragged them into power again. They happen to have control of both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court. And they’ve been going around rigging the system so that a diminishing minority of people can hold power and continue to govern. Just as Trump was elected with a minority of the votes, they’re trying to set it up through a long list of tactics, including purging of voter rolls, voter suppression shortly before Election Day, gerrymandering, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, smaller and smaller numbers of people can win elections and retain power.

In Wisconsin, a reformist candidate for the Democratic Party nominee for governor, Matt Flynn, is campaigning on a platform of emptying the jails of those convicted of non-violent crimes. "Stop destroying lives," said Flynn.

Flynn faces a lot of opposition from both the Democratic and Republican parties.

Destroying lives is an objective of the most dangerous political party in American history, the Republican Party, which tries to insulate their rule from the democratic process.

Trump and his movement have not reached the bottom yet.

Wisconsin Gov Race — Matt Flynn Vows to Empty Jails of Non-violent Offenders

Matt Flynn is a candidate for the Democratic Party
nomination for Wisconsin governor

"My object is to stop destroying lives. ... I will review and accept petitions for review from a pardon board of any non-violent offense."
— Matt Flynn on mass incarceration

Madison, Wisconsin — Reached Matt Flynn, candidate for Wisconsin governor, by phone in March on his way to a national student walk-out event in solidarity with victims and survivors of the Parkland massacre.

Our topic was a different type of violence: State-inflicted devastation by the criminal justice system and what Flynn proposes to do about it, if elected governor.

Matt Flynn sounds a lot like he lost a family member to a criminal justice system. He didn't.

But the attorney has obviously been personally affected by family after family watching in horror as municipal police and state prosecutors throw another Wisconsinite into prison.

"I want to empty the jails and prisons of as many non-violent offenders as possible," said Flynn, outlining the scope of a major campaign plank that just a few years ago might be considered radical.

Criminal justice reform is an idea whose time has come as America has endured decades of becoming "a leviathan unmatched in human history," (Loury, Boston Review).

Gov. Scott Walker's part in the prison industry and the assault against Wisconsin families is not as well-known in our state as it should be.

"Walker pushed dozens of proposals in the state house to lengthen criminal penalties, for everything from perjury to privacy invasion to intoxicated boating. In just the 1997–98 legislative session, Walker authored or co-sponsored twenty-seven different bills that either expanded the definition of crimes, increased mandatory minimums for offenders, or curbed the possibility of parole," notes Scott Keyes in The Nation.

Walker openly bragged about his bill, the infamous Truth-in-Sentencing law, which limited early parole, as having come from the corporate bill mill, the American Legislative Exchange Committee.

Most Wisconsin Democrats went along with mass incarceration out of fear or for careerism.

Not Matt Flynn.

As brutality and cruelty have accelerated the erection of the American prison system, Flynn offers a competing vision.

Below is an extended quote from Flynn on the topic:

I had a kid come up to me in Eau Claire a couple of months ago, and he said, 'my dad just got out of prison after 20 years and he can't find a job. What can do we do?'

I said, 'that's a terrible thing; what did he do to get 20 years?'

The predicate offense that sent him off was something that was not violent, no way it should warrant 20 years. How it God's name did they give 20 years for that?

It was he had three prior convictions for marijuana possession. Two possessions can be a felony. Some of these judges, they want to be hard-nosed cowboys. They look at it and say, 'well, three prior felonies and fourth felony that in itself merits a longer sentence' without giving any consideration to the reality. So, if a man gets 20 years in jail, he loses his family, loses his wife, loses contact with his kids, can't get work, destroys his life.

I resolved that we're not going to that. And I think that there is something of an economic incentive for parts of government to build prisons. We spend more money on prisons than on the UW-System. I think we have to stop that, and turn that around. What I said is, and I got angry, I will pardon anybody who is in for a non-violent marijuana possession. I will review and accept petitions for review from a pardon board of any non-violent offense.

And consider commutation of that offense, or pardon depending on the circumstances. I want to empty the jails and prisons of as many non-violent offenders as possible.

I will pardon a lot of people.

Flynn emphasizes he will as well work for "full legalization of marijuana" in Wisconsin.

Flynn speaks with erudition and an acuity missing from Wisconsin politics during the state's Lost Decade, 2011-2019.

Using stories from Wisconsin families and works from history such as Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol and the intellectual historian, Carl Schorske's, disquisitions on 1890s Vienna politics and culture presaging 20th century totalitarian, Flynn has staked out a position, if not unique among his opponents for the nomination of the Democratic Party for governor, certainly the most full-blooded and convincing this writer has heard in this mindless pit of a state.

Alabama Lawmakers Propose Conviction Integrity Unit

Alabama, that's Al . a . bama has introduced legislation to review the integrity of felony convictions.

Reports Tim Lockette of the Anniston Star from Montgomery: A Republican member of the Alabama State Senate, (Sen. Dick Brewbaker, R-Montgomery), wants to create an Innocence Inquiry Commission to review felony convictions.

Time for my county, Dane County, to catch up to reformist Republican lawmakers in Alabama. Indeed, statewide, especially Milwaukee and Dane County, the need for conviction integrity units is clear, (Mal Contends).

Lots of talk behind the scenes among jurists of the necessity of an independent Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU) in Dane County enacted by the Dane County Board of Supervisors.

See Conviction Integrity Units: Vanguard of Criminal Justice Reform and An Epidemic of Prosecutor Misconduct, and the Innocence Project's Conviction Integrity Unit Best Practices for white papers.

Consider the cases from Dane County and the wrongful convictions such as Penny Brummer, and Forest Shomberg, and Ralph Armstrong, and Anthony Hicks, and Audrey Edmunds. These people had decades taken from the lives, and the toll on their families is incalculable.

An independent Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU) analyzing and providing recommendations to the District Attorney's office could have taken years off their wrongful sentences and returned these innocents to their families. CIU recommends X because of Y, Z. Easy to contemplate how facts and science would reveal the rush to judgement and tunnel vision all too common in law enforcement.

Consider Penny Brummer.

Any examination of the integrity of the 1994 conviction of Penny Brummer would lead to the exoneration of Ms. Brummer as there is literally no case against Brummer who was convicted anyway by a jury, most of whom were admitted homophobes.

If you have not signed the petition calling for a new trial, please do.

An observer of Ms. Brummer's case remarked if Wisconsin had a death penalty, the resulting necessary scrutiny of Brummer's case would have already led to her exoneration. Instead Brummer has fallen through the cracks of the criminal justice system, like an untold number of others.

Consider Dane County.

With the analytical resources available in the Dane County citizenry, staffing a Conviction Integrity Unit with retired jurists, scholars, students, journalists, intellectuals from labor, business and myriad other segments of the community, a low-cost check on the criminal justice system could result in avoiding tragedy. Finding CIU staff who would happily work for a stipend would be easy.

We must ask ourselves the question: How cheap are lives in Dane County?

"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is exercised under cover of law, and with the colors of justice ... ."
 - U.S. v. Jannotti, 673 F.2d 578, 614 (3d Cir. 1982)

Police Lying Comes to Light

Prosecutors and police routinely lie and
break the law in America—a fact.

A systemic failure from the Making a Murderer documentary series that has come to light is the fact police regularly lie; police are dishonest, and only a fool would trust them.

The Appleton Post Crescent runs an important and telling piece today by Duke Behnke of the USA Today Network-Wisconsin (Gannett Co).

The law enforcement interrogation of 16-year-old Brendan Dassey was critical in the conviction of Dassey and Steven Avery, and is typical of false admissions across the nation.

Writes Dehnke:

Criminal defense attorneys say U.S. courts have given police plenty of freedom in the ways they can extract information from suspects. Police can interview minors without parental consent. They can imply they have evidence they don't have, a technique called baiting. They can employ the 'good cop, bad cop' routine to gain cooperation.

They also can use 'strategic deception,' according to the 1990 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Illinois vs. Perkins.

'The cops can lie,' said Rob Bellin, a Neenah attorney with more than 20 years of experience in criminal defense and personal injury litigation. 'Absolutely they’re allowed to lie.'

A hostile and deceitful domestic police force, a careerist, conviction-at-any-costs prosecutorial ethos, racism and taboo ethics in the criminal justice system, and a commitment of district attorneys to defend wrongful convictions irrespective of truth or any consideration of justice present conditions perfect for mass incarceration constituting a "leviathan unmatched in human history," (Glenn C. Loury, Boston Review).

We're there, people.

Consider if your daughter, brother, father or mother were wrongfully convicted. Who stands with you then?

Think it could not happen to you?

Ask the family of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska, 1968-2009) (1923-2010), (Cary, Rollcall). The reader will have a full-blooded understanding of a Brady violation. Or ask the mother of Madison, Wisconsin's Penny Brummer: Interrogated, defamed, arrested, convicted and sentenced to a life sentence for being an out lesbian in an anthology of the criminal justice system.

Personally, I'll contend for the sake of argument that systemic failures in law enforcement, (hell, President Obama acknowledged the problem last night, saying "So I hope we can work together this year on bipartisan priorities like criminal justice reform ... "), are the culprits.

But contrary to popular wisdom we live in a land of the Sovereign (the people of the state and not the law) and bad faith and deceit on the part of law enforcement are a huge part of the problem.

I'm thankful for the Richard Posners, the Sidney Powells (there is a force of nature), and the Alex Kozinski(s) of this experiment in democracy. And am always mindful of I.F. Stone's admonition: "Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed." First read the quote in 1985 on a large poster that used to occupy a prominent place of the late Erwin Knoll's (NYT) wall at the Progressive Magazine, a journal carrying out this legacy and reporting the truth to this day.

Police and the Myth of Honor

Dane County Deputy Sheriff Andrew P. Steele
(ret), the face of Justice in Dane County

Update III: See Wisconsin: The Worst State for African Americans (Brown, The Progressive). For Wisconsin police forces steeped in anti-intellectualism, Brown writes "The first step to addressing racial inequality is recognizing that it exists." But you will not find many social justice activists in the self-selecting members of law enforcement, nor too many intellectuals.

Update II: Capitol protest draws 1,500 in Tony Robinson killing. (Wisconsin State Journal)

Updated - Testilying is the common practice of police testifying in court after prosecutors typically overcharge and put decades of a criminal defendant's life in the hands of easily persuadable juries.

That police in America routinely commit perjury is not a fact widely known outside of the principals of the bastardization of the criminal justice system.

That police routinely cook police reports is another fact.

That police will harass individuals fighting even a civil citation is another fact not widely known, corrupting a system with no apparent shame.

Most judges look to hang onto their six-figure, taxpayer-financed job, a good gig if you can get it; justice is not their objective.

What's the check on this system? There isn't any currently, and the conveyor belt of the police and the criminal judicial system moves on carrying as many victims as can be held.

In Madison, Police Chief Michael C. Koval ought to consider these issues at his next listening sessions, though the corrupt and insidious practice is widespread enough now (and has been for decades) that contemplation before action is not needed.

We need a Conviction Integrity Unit in Dane County, and it ought to be publicly funded. The Dane County Board of Supervisors has the responsibility on this for authoring and implementing this system.

Why isn't there a widespread call that former Dane County deputy sheriff Andrew Steele's work all be called into question after he murdered two people while still receiving public monies for medical leave?

Every case in which Steele's work was central should be suspect.

Tony Robinson, Killed by Madison, Wisconsin Police March 2015

But truth and justice are not the objectives of the criminal justice system and digging up old cases is a hassle.

Steele pleaded insanity late last month to two charges of First-Degree Intentional Homicide, a fitting plea for an insane criminal justice system by a deputy sheriff whom Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney called an "exemplary employee" last year.

In the meantime, the young among us are pointing the way forward, see Stocker, The Capital Times as they grieve the killing of 19-year-old Tony Robinson by Madison Police.

Will the killings of young, black men ever stop?

Will incarcerating more and more innocent Americans ever stop?

I guarantee a result if the people do nothing, and retreat into passive compliance and lethargy.

Conviction Integrity Unit Needed in Several Wisconsin Counties

Politicians, Police, Prosecutors, Judges the Whole Criminal Justice System Is Bleeding Lives
 
The career politician Scott Walker has left many victims in his wake.

In 1998 state Rep. Scott Walker (R-Wauwatosa) served as chair of the Assembly Corrections and Courts Committee.

Whether God-sent or not, Walker hit upon the idea the problem with the Wisconsin criminal justice system then was that not enough people were in prison long-enough.

Walker authored the "truth-in-sentencing" law, which was passed in 1998 and took effect in January 2000.

What wasn't known in 1998 is that Walker was a member of the Koch brothers-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) that "helped pioneer ... laws ... like mandatory minimums for non-violent drug offenders, 'three strikes' laws, and 'truth in sentencing' laws. In 1995 alone, ALEC’s Truth in Sentencing Act (PRWatch) was signed into law in twenty-five states." (Nichols, The Nation)

ALEC also pushed for the privatization of prisons by advocating bills allowing state contracts with for-profit prison corporations. (ALEC Exposed, Prisons)

Four years later in 2002, Walker began his furtive run for the 2006 Republican nominee for Wisconsin governor by ordering the installation of the first of at least two secret email systems in the Milwaukee County Executive's office used by Walker and his aides to secretly campaign from public office. (Kiefert, Green Bay Progressive.

Today, we see the tragic results. "Wisconsin ... has actually invested more in public and private prisons over the last 20 years. The state budget now allots more funding for corrections than it does for higher education. Wisconsin also incarcerates the most black men in the country, and in Milwaukee County, more than half of all black men in their 30s and 40s have served time. In the 53206 Zip Code alone, 62 percent of all men have spent time in an adult correctional facility by age 34. (WUWM)

As governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker announced in December 2013 he would not issue pardons because 1,000s of Wisconsin deserve pardons; yes, Scott Walker said that.

As Walker coyly plays I'm-the-gonna-run-for-president game, the real POTUS released the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing Includes Recommendations to Protect the Innocent. See also Remarks by the President after Meeting with Task Force on 21st Century Policing.

In December, the Center for Prosecutor Integrity issued a white paper, Conviction Integrity Units: Vanguard of Criminal Justice Reform. Other white papers include: An Epidemic of Prosecutor Misconduct.

As Texas drools over killing another innocent man, Rodney Reed, and a rare stay of [cold-blooded] execution was granted, the All In with Chris Hayes Show featured a spectacular segment last night on Mr. Reed's story.

In Wisconsin, we also have the spectacle of a volatile District Attorney, Martin Lipske, of Iron County running interference for sex trafficking of minors, and often using the Felony Bailjumping charge indiscriminately and maliciously in revoking bail and in one recent case quite possibly driving another innocent man to death with unsubstantiated charges, literally killing him with stress and betrayal.

We need a Conviction Integrity Unit in several Wisconsin counties including Iron, Milwaukee, and Dane Counties.

Every case involving former Dane County Sheriff's deputy's Andrew Steele should be reexamined, for example.

If misconduct or an inadequate basis for conviction is found, the wrongfully convicted should be ordered released. Just ask Penny Brummer, an innocent woman still behind bars.

All In America: The 11th Hour