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Matt Jackson
The power of narrative, image, speed and technology will be harnessed to make an example out of Kyle - but in 2020, I think it still would be "bad optics" for the establishment if a court gave Kyle a guilty verdict. There's enough energy from the American conservative/libertarian-"I'm for private property"-Blue Lives Matter aspect to keep him out of jail. In 4 or 8 years in the future, however, I don't think that will be the case. I don't think we're going to be living in the same world in another 4 years. The Overton window is moving quickly.
I think it's likely Kyle will win the case. What's key is even if this kid gets off - is his life will not be OK. The state will make an example of out him, as they still do with James Fields from Charlottesville. There will be a media crucifixion. Kyle will have consistent politicians, media outlets and Hollywood celebrities throwing his name out there, constantly, to illustrate the threat of the "far right" and the GOP will do nothing to counter this narrative. They will endorse it.
Here is a rather silly example of a media outlet conducting their affairs in this direction:
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White Supremacists Were ‘On A Hunting Spree’ In Kenosha, Says Wisconsin Lawmaker
They were “driving around in pickup trucks, targeting protesters,” said state Rep. David Bowen.
By Mary Papenfuss
A Wisconsin lawmaker has accused armed vigilantes in Kenosha of organizing a “hunting spree” against protesters with little interference from local police.
“I literally witnessed firsthand a massive amount of organized white supremacists driving around in pickup trucks, targeting protesters,” Democratic state Rep. David Bowen of Milwaukee said in an interview Thursday on “Democracy Now.”
“They were there not there to try to defend businesses,” added Bowen, who was at the protest Tuesday night when two demonstrators were fatally shot. “They were there to hurt people. They were armed, and they were using chemical irritants. They were harassing protesters.”
A possible vigilante recruit and Donald Trump supporter, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, has been charged with homicide in the shooting deaths of two demonstrators and the wounding of a volunteer medic Tuesday night. He traveled from his home in Illinois armed with a semiautomatic rifle, according to investigators. The shootings were captured on video.
The protesters were killed as they demonstrated against the Kenosha police shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black father, on Sunday. Blake was shot seven times in the back by as he walked to his car, where his three young children were waiting for him.
The vigilante “Kenosha Guard” had been recruiting members on Facebook to join the “Armed Citizens to Protect Our Lives and Property” in Kenosha. The call to arms was picked up and distributed by the far-right conspiracy website Infowars.
Bowen said Rittenhouse was seen “joking around” with police before the protesters were killed.
“You don’t walk around shooting people away from a property that you supposedly were there to defend,” Bowen said. “It’s very clear that they were on a hunting spree. This was not the defense of property. And we should be very clear about that.”
Amazing. But they will say anything, because there is no actual Journalism anymore.
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The other important thing is that Antifa is being allowed to continue operating for a reason and it's being allowed to operate in Trump's America. This is made obvious for all but the most gullible to see and understand when the whole system, the entire Cathedral, shows its hand and publicly comes down full force on people like Kyle Rittenhouse during an incident like this. Antifa is basically state-sponsored terror. A paramilitary organization that is permitted to operate in the United States. They are the unofficial arm of the state, and that's why Trump has done nothing about them.
Being from the UK, you have an understandable misconception about how things work in the US. I may be wrong about the technical details here, but your system is much more National in nature than ours, and US law enforcement is almost entirely in the hands of state and local officials. For example, Murder in the US is not a federal crime -- all states have laws against murder, the laws vary in the details of the charging circumstances, and the state prosecutes the crime, with local officials acting as agents of the State in which the crime is committed. The Federal Government has jurisdiction in matters which cross state lines, but rioting in Portland happened in Portland, and the Antifa pussies destroying Portland are violating the laws of the State of Oregon, even if they came in from San Francisco. Oregon is responsible for letting Portland be destroyed.