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2021-11-17 h
RITTENHOUSE SHOW TRIAL XXI

The best outcome is for the jury to come in with a verdict of not guilty on all counts. The judge knows that Kyle is innocent. Anyone who looks at the video and follows the evidence knows that this case never should have been brought. But he also knows that it is important that the public accept the verdict.

We in the US and in much of western Europe are living in a world where there is a great deal of pressure to believe a bunch of lies. To maintain these fictions it is necessary to control as much as possible the means of communication. For example, to maintain the view that gender is a matter of choice, you need to accustom the population that “the truth” is a matter of obedience and dissent from such “truth” is a punishable offense. Another example is that the police are going around murdering black people for no reason other than their skin color. The reality is that the number of unarmed black people killed by police in a year is fewer than 20 and in most cases it involves resisting arrest.

The sources of information are largely controlled by a small number of people who have used that control to promote these fictions. In the case of Kyle Rittenhouse, Facebook banned support for Kyle from its platform. Paypal refused to allow Kyle to raise money for his defense. The notion that everyone has a right to a fair trial before an impartial jury and to be represented by a lawyer committed to one's defense is a bedrock principle of our democracy. We are now living in a country where this principle is not accepted by most of the media, the entertainment world, the internet oligarchs and much of the Democratic party.

Hakeem Jeffries, one of the most important members of Congress, tweeted “Lock him up and throw away the key”. Jeffries should be the first person to be given a MLGA (Make Lynching Great Again) hat as a reward for his tweet. Biden isn’t much better.

The mob outside the courthouse in Kenosha is a trifle in comparison to the mob out there including the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Microsoft Edge, Merrick Garland, General Milley and many more. Judge Schroeder knows that if there is an acquittal in this case, a lot of these powerful people and institutions will not accept it even though the video evidence for acquittal is overwhelming. I believe he feels that a not guilty verdict will receive greater public acceptance if it is delivered by a jury of ordinary citizens.

In their closing arguments, the prosecution based its case on the proposition that the town of Kenosha had no right to protect itself from a mob destroying it and Kyle Rittenhouse had no right to defend himself because the mob chasing him might have only beaten him up and not actually killed him.

It is hard to believe that any rational person would go along with the prosecution but if you can force people to believe that a biological male is actually a biological female, you can convince someone of anything.

— Jonathan Cohen, 17 November 2021

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