Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted on all 5 counts, and he'll now embark on the celebrity tour part of his "career" here in USAmerica Inc.
And he'll probably be fairly well compensated, though it won't be a bump-free ride. And after the first blush, he'll have to get used to toiling away in relative obscurity, as even most of the staunchest ammosexuals don't like to be reminded too accurately of their fervent embrace of bloodlust.
Let's check in with George Zimmerman to get a hint as to what may be in store for young Kyle.
George Zimmerman event canceled by Idaho hotel after learning the man who fatally shot Trayvon Martin was speaking there
A weekend event featuring a speech by George Zimmerman was nixed by an Idaho hotel group after the company learned the man who killed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin was slated to be a headlining attraction at their venue.
The gathering, billed as the Lethal Force Gun Laws 2021 Tactics & Strategies Conference, was to have begun Friday and ended Monday at The Riverside Hotel in Boise.
The Idaho Statesman reports that the hotelier pulled the plug on the conference after learning about its “incendiary details” on social media. That report said the hotel owners cited for its reason the “immense pain” Zimmerman caused its “guests, team-members and community” when he gunned down the unarmed Black teen in February of 2012.
A few thoughts:
- That whole scene last summer was a full-on coast-to-coast cluster fuck in the first place, which was very much what the Daddy Staters wanted to see
- I think the skateboarder (Anthony Huber) acted in response to what he thought was a bad guy with a gun, which reinforced Rittenhouse's fucked up hero fantasies
- Mistaken identity and false conclusions were (and remain) the order of the day
- Rittenhouse was acquitted on the phony basis of "defending himself" against a threat that he created.
This looked for all the world just like the stories I grew up hearing about the old west - particularly the ones about some asshole drifter with a gun and a shitty attitude who feels the need to prove himself, so he goads one of the locals into a fight in order to get a little thrill and boost his bad ass reputation, and then claims self defense, and blah blah blah.
It's nine kinds of fucked up, and we have to figure out how to get ourselves past this shit.
- and -"It sends the unacceptable message that armed civilians can show up in any town, incite violence, and then use the danger they have created to justify shooting people in the street."
— Heal the Planet ✌✌🎸🎸 (@fwtoney) November 19, 2021
--just one of the victim's mother...
Will "self-defense" become an ever-expanding justification for political violence within a society of soaring gun ownership, mounting political extremism, increasingly violent political threats, and growing vigilantism?
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) November 20, 2021
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