Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Here's the update.  

The guy didn't supposedly follow a bus.  He did follow the bus.

The bus had blackened out windows, so that the jurors themselves couldn't be seen.  

The bus was taking them daily to a parking lot, where they were dropped off to their cars to get home.

The guy told the cops that MSNBC in New York had given him directions to follow the bus, and then take photos of the jurors and their license plate numbers.

Then scumbag fake news people like those who are working at MSNBC will give out all the information to the world, doxxing them.

They don't care that they and their family members would then get threats to their lives from Joe Biden voters like you.  

Their goal is that they take photos of jury members and then they let the world know who they are so that crazy leftists can get their information and threaten them.

One Photographer was already banned from the courtroom, because he was taking photos of the jurors themselves.

The media is simply out of control.  

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Yep, there are nutjobs out there everywhere on both sides of the political aisle.

Did you hear that there are crazy nutjobs out there who still believe that Donald Trump is a Russian Spy who had a direct red phone line to Vladimir Putin.

Just imagine how nutty and completely unhinged a person must be to still believe that!  

Wow!!  

Originally Posted by James Brown

Here is a quote I agree with:

"The law in Wisconsin is very favorable to a defendant claiming self-defense. The prosecution has to affirmatively disprove self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt. If the jury went back there and had some reasonable doubt, then they were to return a not guilty verdict, and that it appears is what they have done," Honig said."

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/kyle-rittenhouse-trial-verdict-watch-11-19-21/

Let me personally call a pox down on anyone who:

*  States that Rittenhouse is a hero.
*  Claims that this is some sort of victory for gun rights.
*  Claims that the jury, judge, or process was racist.
*  Claims that the outcome would have categorically and unambiguously been different if Rittenhouse were black.
*  Uses this verdict as an excuse to riot.

We will hear all of this and more in the coming days.  I wonder how many pundits and activists on the L or R will state publicly, that this was a close case and that the jury did their job?

Jim

Originally Posted by James Brown

I see your point, and I agree, given the way you phrased it, so I'll try to re-phrase my original point.  What I don't want to see is a bunch of "patriots" marching around with rifles "keeping the peace" at all the future left-wing rallies.  I don't want Rittenhouse's acquittal in court to embolden the next Kyle Rittenhouse, even though it probably will. 

It is not something we have talked about recently, but the police should have controlled the riot.  If rioting breaks out tonight, I trust the National Guard to do their jobs.   It is not and should not remotely be Kyle Rittenhouse's job to protect the downtown.

Totally different if he is protecting his own home or business.   Jim

Originally Posted by James Brown

Rod, there are two profound and fundamental factual inaccuracies in the linked story.  Don't you care about your credibility at all?  This is no different than linking to crap posted by NewsMax.

Originally Posted by James Brown

They said he crossed state lines with the weapon and was partying with the Proud Boys.

Originally Posted by David Cotterell

Wondering if Manslaughter should have been the charge.... would the burden of proving self defense be different in that case?  I honestly don't know.

But

I fear that a door has been opened such that a nut-bar (of whatever persuasion) can show up armed with a gun/guns at a protest/rally/riot (of whatever persuasion) and when the attendees try to grab him or take his weapon from him or throw him out the nut-bar can unload his weapon into those people and claim he feared for his life and be found not guilty....

I'm not saying the trial result is some sort of legal precedent that prosecutors and defense attorneys will 'use' in future cases.  I'm saying that there is a small, but definitely non-zero, number of NUT-BARS who will THINK they have a green light that they did not have before this particular result. 

Dave

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

Look at the people that attacked him. These are not good neighbors and there are a million of them of them.