Kenosha Rising: media deception after the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse
“Kyle Rittenhouse, who killed two anti-racist demonstrators in Kenosha, was acquitted” and “USA, Rittenhouse acquitted: killed two anti-racist demonstrators in Kenosha” , Corriere della Sera and Adnkronos headline almost in unison. According to RaiNews , the young man acquitted simply killed ' two people' , as if he had opened fire on two passers-by.
The masterpiece is reached by the Huffington Post and Fanpage : the first, speaking of a "shock sentence" , describes the victims of Rittenhouse as "two black activists" , while the second describes them as "African Americans" , and clearly whoever is still in possession of sight understands that instead of two whites. For Open , the two deaths were generic "protesters" .
Kyle Rittenhouse has ended up on trial, we remember it since the sentence had a remarkable echo also in this side of the world but the phases of the trial did not enjoy equal attention, for killing two left-wing extremists in August 2020, and for having wounded a third, who tried to lynch him in the town of Kenosha, Wisconsin, which had been set on fire for days. Literally.
Rittenhouse, who had crossed the border between Illinois, where he resides, and Wisconsin holding an AR-15 assault rifle and joined other armed citizens placed to protect businesses threatened by Black Lives Matter militants. and Antifa found himself face to face, not metaphorically, with his assailants, one of whom armed with a Glock pistol: the boy, on the occasion, did not shoot at mere looters, he did not open fire on some hooded man guilty of having destroyed a shop window or set a car on fire, but he fired to defend his life after being surrounded, hit, chased and knocked down.
And now this elementary truth, known to anyone who has wanted to observe those frames with a spirit that is neither partisan nor prejudicial, has emerged in a court of law.
Contextualizing the facts, an increasingly difficult exercise in this era of hyper-polarization and mental and pseudo-ideological fences, helps to understand procedural developments which, with all due respect of the mass media, are by no means 'shocks' .
Rittenhouse in fact, with the equally good peace of the American and Italian press – and also of President Joe Biden who said he was heartbroken in his statement over the outcome of the sentence, while acknowledging that the sentence must be respected and the justice system based on juries popular works – he simply protected his life, after being thrown to the ground and repeatedly hit by left-wing militants, who also tried to steal his rifle and even imagine what to do with it.
The victims of the Rittenhouse fire, incidentally, as the New York Post reminds us, enjoyed particularly disturbing criminal records, with one even convicted of child abuse and another of domestic abuse.
And let's say that, beyond the criminal record, if you are stupid or fanatic enough to attack for serious harm, chasing and raging on a person holding an assault rifle in his hands there is a good chance that your face will end. to adorn some memes punctuated by the motto ' fuck around and find out' .
The various videos that circulated immediately after the attack suffered by the boy and the killing of the two extremists and the wounding of a third already immortalized a very different reality from that monolithically described by a certain press and by the political world of the left, starting precisely from the future present Biden who spoke then, in no uncertain terms, of Rittenhouse as a white supremacist. Clearly, other Dem area politicians did not fail to describe Rittenhouse as a racist, a Nazi, a very dangerous element who should have been thrown in jail without trial.
The context, we said. It was in the heart of an almost insurrectionary atmosphere, following the death of George Floyd, and subsequently that of Jacob Blake, two African-Americans killed by the police. Blake had been killed by law enforcement precisely in Wisconsin, an aspect that had sparked the fuse of fighting and looting in this state.
Black Lives Matter and the hooded Antifa set fire to cities, clubs, shops, damaged, attacked, imposed their regime of terror, while the idea of 'Defund the Police' was mounting in the heart of public opinion, in various cities .
In the Marxist-insurrectional perspective, not all black lives counted equally. In fact, few were indignant when Bernell Trammell, an African-American supporter of Donald Trump, was killed in cold blood.
The violence that swept the United States in those long, fiery months has scarce precedents: widespread throughout the States, unlike, for example, previous brutal riots such as those of 1992 in Los Angeles which instead remained confined to the Californian megalopolis.
Seattle, after Floyd's death, was transformed into a grotesque anarchist commune, with the police disappeared and entire city areas occupied militarily by Marxist groups, while in many cities the city councils seriously cut the funds to the police, with the result of making skyrocketing crime in the poorest and most depressed areas populated by people who would have had a hard time being able to afford private police in no time.
The controversies that struck the police forces ended up inhibiting their interventions, and behind the retreat of the men in uniform, the hordes of devastators advanced who, without any restraint, swarmed through cities and counties doing good and bad weather, very often viewed with a certain condescension and sympathy from politicians, members of the academic and journalistic world, starlets, musicians who mistook those thugs, now situated on the edge of domestic terrorism, for avengers of the anti-racist cause.
Anyone who has seen photos and videos of Kenosha in those days remembers the swirls of flames and black smoke, the atmosphere of authentic guerrilla warfare, the people attacked, the clashes, and that wonderfully grotesque and surreal ' mostly peaceful' CNN overprinted. impression, to describe the street protests, right on a scenario with destruction and flames behind it.
Many citizens, fed up with the climate of tyranny imposed by 'anti-racist' militants (strictly mandatory quotes) and having their jobs, homes and cars destroyed without any reason, armed themselves and protected their property .
The video of some Italian-Americans armed to the teeth guarded the entrance to their shop to prevent it from being looted and destroyed went around the world. And we cannot forget the arms defense of their home by the McCloskey relatives who met the Antifa in their backyard, in St Louis, Missouri.
Rittenhouse is certainly not a hero, but neither is he a 'killer' , as the press has seen fit to define him, he is not a Nazi, nor a terrorist or a ruthless murderer. He is a boy who perhaps naively and with that naive spirit that often connotes many Americans has thought of providing a real service to protect the orderly and harmonious life of other Americans, for too many days now imprisoned in a spiral of violence from which public power seemed have no will or strength to protect them. On the other hand, Rittenhouse was not alone, but had joined other citizens who, with the spirit of a Militia, had reached Kenosha to protect homes and premises in arms.
I am not surprised by the artificial ballet set up by the mainstream press which, unable to metabolize the reality of the facts and the verdict of acquittal, had to alter the truth, describing the accused as a murderer and the victims as mere, simple, perhaps peaceful demonstrators, even, falsifying the undeniable truth, painted as "African-Americans", while as is repeated they were whites.
The communicative game of the mainstream and a certain political party is rather linear and open: Rittenhouse is a violent racist who reached Kenosha to be an executioner and killed two black demonstrators. Like a manhunt in the Ku Klux Klan era. Perfect short circuit.
No newspaper headline uses even vaguely words, terms or concepts that reveal the reason why legitimate defense was recognized, that is, the brutal aggression that Rittenhouse suffered. The violent nature of the "demonstrators" is bleached from the newspapers, and they remain there, exhibited as two unfortunate people who seem almost to have come across the executioner Rittenhouse by chance.
Judgments, like all human things, fallible by their nature, can and indeed must be analyzed, commented on, discussed and even criticized, but the point is exactly this: the verdict of acquittal is not simply commented or criticized by the mainstream press and by the politics. The way in which the news was presented and fed to the appetites of the public, the broken tweets (sublime for lack of a sense of ridicule the writer Stephen King who summarized everything with a "and then the white boy got away with it . Is this the message? " ), The political controversy, mark that Pavlovian tic of the left and of the progressive world: guarantees and laws are interpreted with ample flexibility for those who think like us, all the others, and there are no sentences that they take, they still deserve the punishment.
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