{"id":2327,"date":"2021-11-24T05:29:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T05:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/11\/24\/the-trial-of-kyle\/"},"modified":"2021-11-24T05:29:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T05:29:11","slug":"the-trial-of-kyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/11\/24\/the-trial-of-kyle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trial of Kyle"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rittenhouse trial was not about the 17-year-old primarily, but about one's right to defend oneself with lethal force against a lethal threat. Hence the great significance of this case. An absolutely crucial moral and legal principle is at stake. The righteous Right won this time, but the fact that the pernicious Left tried to railroad and destroy the intelligent, decent, and well-meaning kid shows that they will stop at nothing to destroy our Anglo-American system of justice, the best the world has yet to see.  Leftists smeared him as a 'white supremacist' against all evidence, and against all sense: Kyle and his assailants are all white. The Democrat 'president' of the United States, Joseph Biden, joined in the smear.  Rittenhouse's defensive actions, and the ensuing show trial, had nothing directly to do with race. And given all the clear video evidence, Rittenhouse should not have been criminally charged in the first place. <\/span><\/p>\n

But again, it is not primarily about Rittenhouse.  As bad as the Left's policy of personal<\/em> destruction is, far worse is their policy of political<\/em> destruction: the hard Left, which now controls the Democrat Party, aims to "fundamentally transform" (Obama), i.e., destroy, the American polity and system of government by, among many other things, opening the borders to any and all, eliding the distinction between citizen and non-citizen, giving the franchise to non-citizens, conspiring to give the vote to felons while still in prison, defunding the police, emptying the prisons, eliminating cash bail, transforming the public schools and the universities into  culturally Marxist seminaries, erasing the historical record, putting up statues to criminals  . . . .<\/span><\/p>\n

The battle lines have never been clearer. Get ready. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The line, it is drawn, the curse, it is cast<\/span><\/div>\n
The slow one now will later be fast<\/span><\/div>\n
As the present now will later be past<\/span><\/div>\n
The order is rapidly fading<\/span><\/div>\n
And the first one now will later be last<\/span><\/div>\n
For the times, they are a-changin'.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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The Biblical Dylan in prophetic mode<\/a>. The civil rights battles of the '60s were fought and won. Now a different civil rights struggle is upon us, and Dylan's words again resonate and apply.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Related: Victor Davis Hanson, Can the FBI be Salvaged?<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Rittenhouse trial was not about the 17-year-old primarily, but about one's right to defend oneself with lethal force against a lethal threat. Hence the great significance of this case. An absolutely crucial moral and legal principle is at stake. The righteous Right won this time, but the fact that the pernicious Left tried to … Continue reading “The Trial of Kyle”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,180,99,163,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-decline-of-the-west","category-law-philosophy-of","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-political-morality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}