Kyle Rittenhouse, Kitty Genovese, Pre-Crime and Tribal Stone Throwing
Things that make you go "hmmmmmmm"...
If the linked article is true, three things I have feared are happening.
I think at least these three things may be at work in the Kenosha jury room:
The Kew Gardens ethos/the loss of civic pride and sense of responsibility
Pre-crime: the Anti-Second Amendment/firearms propaganda and agitprop
Tribal stone throwing: violence and intimidation
First, that the jury cannot conceive that an individual, especially a 17-year-old teenager, would put themselves in the middle of a riotous arsonfest to protect anything or render aid, because they cannot see themselves doing it. People have been told for decades that government will protect you, that situations like Kenosha are a job for the police, they are there to protect the public, so if the situation is far too volatile for government and their agents to quell, then it is impossible to stop, and nobody should try. Let it burn. He had no business being there in the first place.
I don’t mean the jury should have up armed and hit the streets, but situations like those in Kenosha, Seattle, Portland, and Philadelphia that took place throughout 2020 seem examples of such a lack of civic pride and responsibility, that the citizens of these cities cowered in fear, adopted the Kew Gardens approach, and simply decided they didn’t want to get involved.
For those of a lesser vintage than many of us, Kew Gardens refers to the brutal murder of Kitty Genovese in New York on March 13, 1964, in the Kew Gardens area. The myth that grew from it cemented the perception in the global psyche that the citizens of Kew Gardens could hear Miss Genovese’s cries for help but were not only uncaring and unwilling to help Miss Genovese but were willfully detached to the point of criminally depraved indifference.
It gave birth to the phrase “I don’t want to get involved.”
So few people in the affected areas demanded the heads of city officials who allowed the “Summer of Love” wanton destruction, it seems that the people in those areas just decided that maybe they brought the destruction on themselves.
One wonders if there isn’t some Kew Gardens “I don’t want to get involved” thinking going on in a Kenosha Jury room.
Another possibility in play is that the anti-Second Amendment/anti-firearms agitprop and propaganda has been so successful that by the mere possession of a firearm brings into question your motives. It is a fact that the mere sight of a firearm sends many on the left into an irrational, hysterical panic, a veritable orgy of fear – and they project that irrational fear onto others. The leftist movement in America has so ingrained the idea that every firearms owner is simply a pre-criminal or is a mental defective who harbors homicidal intent and is simply a murderer-in-waiting and that the any person possessing a firearm should be considered guilty until proven innocent.
They openly wonder why someone would want to own such a murder tool designed to do nothing but kill humans if they didn’t have an urge to indiscriminately kill.
There is no thought about self-defense at all. If one believes that the mere possession of a firearm constitutes intent, the provocation of violence immediately exists.
Could that be in play in that jury room?
You bet.
The last factor is something obvious to all – the tribal stone throwing that is jury intimidation. During 2020, they rediscovered something that even the pre-humans knew when they resolved disputes by throwing rocks at each other. Violence works. Intimidation works. Neither has a place in a civil society or a constitutional republic, but here we are. The simple, implied threat of looted businesses, burning buildings and car lots, “autonomous zones” and invasion of private homes must be playing on the minds of people, especially those who have been witness to those events within their own sphere of existence.
There is no way the Rittenhouse jury did not hear the chants of “No justice, no peace” emanating from the steps of that Kenosha courthouse and based on the events of 2020 and not understand what the crowd meant by those chants.
No rational human could be threatened and not feel threatened.
They should take the opportunity to apply their feelings to how Kyle Rittenhouse felt.
But none of these three perceptions have any bearing on the events of the night of August 25, 2020, and how they affected and effected Kyle Rittenhouse.
These three things should have no bearing, but there is a distinct possibility they will.