Accused White Domestic Terrorist Kyle Rittenhouse Released from Jail
By: Herbert Dyer
Tags: Domestic Terrorism, White Supremacy, Kyle Rittenhouse, Jacob Blake, Donald Trump

Accused White Domestic Terrorist Kyle Rittenhouse Released from Jail

The White Right (Including ‘My Pillow’ Guy & Trump) to the Rescue

According to one of his many lawyers, Lin Wood, the accused 17-year-old right-wing domestic terrorist Kyle Rittenhouse “is out of jail.” Rittenhouse stands accused of the shooting deaths of two people during a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin in August of this year. He has been released after posting $2 million bail.

Attorney Wood tweeted a “special thanks” to actor Ricky Schroder and the “My Pillow” guy Mike Lindell, both of whom are staunch supporters of Lame Duck Donald Trump, for their substantial contributions to Rittenhouse’s Gofundme “legal defense fund,” which put them “over the top.”

The viral video of the killings show a white man, who appears to be fresh-faced Rittenhouse, in the act of shooting and killing protesters Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum, and grievously wounding a third man.

Rittenhouse is a self-described enthusiast of so-called right-wing “militia” groups, who crossed the state line from Illinois into Wisconsin with the specific purpose of “protecting” the property of Kenosha’s citizenry from “rioters.” Those protesters initially conducted nonviolent demonstrations against that city’s police department’s own public demonstration of brutality against an unarmed black man.

Indeed, the protests were ignited immediately following Jacob Blake’s shooting in the back at least seven times by a white Kenosha officer and at point-blank range. From the back seat of his vehicle, Blake’s three young sons watched the attempted murder of their father by a policeman in real-time. The shooting was filmed by a number of bystanders and immediately went viral.

This time, amazingly, an unarmed black victim of “excessive force” by white cops somehow survived. However, according to his doctors, it is unlikely that Blake will ever walk again.

Blake’s shooting came hard on the heels of the police murder of another unarmed black man, George Floyd, in the neighboring state of Minnesota just three months earlier. That killing, along with delayed release of yet another video of the murder of a black woman in her own home, Breonna Taylor, in Louisville, Kentucky, followed the actual hunting down and point-blank shotgun murder of Ahmaud Arbery even earlier this year by a father/son posse of two similarly situated white domestic terrorists. It was this trio of back-to-back-to-back “incidents” which finally set off the largest nonviolent and, yes, violent, protests against white supremacy and white racism since the “Long, Hot Summers” of the 1960s and ‘70s.

As noted, Lame Duck Donald Trump has all but pronounced Rittenhouse “innocent,” or at least “not guilty,” of any crime whatever. At a presser following the “incident,” Trump responded to these killings thusly: “We’re looking at all of it.”

When asked if he would specifically and directly condemn the white supremacist “ideology” reportedly embraced by the accused young man, he, of course, would not and did not. Rather, Lame Duck Donald proffered a possible “self-defense” legal defense for poor Kyle and his put-upon attorneys.

Further sayeth the all-time lamest of lame ducks:

That was an interesting situation. You saw the same tape as I saw. He was trying to get away from them, I guess, looks like. And he fell and then they very violently attacked him. And it was something that we’re looking at right now, and it’s under investigation, but I guess he was in very big trouble.

As any number of observers have written lately, Trump himself is virtually passé and irrelevant in terms of future public policy-making. Oh, he will remain a powerful, if chastened, partisan, and especially cultural, force to be reckoned with after January 20. That is, he will still lead legions of white supremacists, white nationalists, and white racists in their never-ending battle against the surging black, brown, red and yellow hordes. But Trump will no longer have the official imprimatur of the United States government underwriting his and their racism.

No. What we must gird and guard against now is Trumpism, the continuing, full-flowered, deeply rooted, freely and openly expressed — and practiced — white nationalism and white bigotry unleashed by Trump in the same way that he has allowed, even encouraged, the novel coronavirus Covid-19 to infect millions and actually kill 250,000 people.

It is the 70 million-plus people who not only voted for Trump but who will also applaud Rittenhouse’s release from jail — and perhaps have even already likely contributed to his “defense” fund.

It is those selfsame Trump worshippers and death cultists who continue to pretend that he (and they) are ever the aggrieved “victims” of black people, their white “allies”, and all other “minorities” whose only goal in life is to “replace” white supremacy with black supremacy.

And, it is also those same Trumpsters who will never accept the “legitimacy” of a Biden-Harris electoral win or their upcoming administration, because, and only because, too many black and brown people voted for them and against their “Chosen One.” You see, by their lights, and since this country’s founding, black people were never meant to be allowed to vote; and even if and when blacks managed to force their way into the polling booth, their votes were then never, ever, meant to be given the same weight as white peoples’ votes, that is, if they were “counted” at all.

Perhaps Margaret Kimberley over at BlackAgendaReport.com put it best in a recent column:

Trump puts whiteness first and that means he will always have support and Republican leaders know it. It is ridiculous to ask why they won’t condemn him. He is probably the only one of their party who could have beaten Hillary Clinton and the only one who could do so well in a losing effort despite presiding over a pandemic that has killed more than 230,000 people in the country. Whatever their personal feelings, Republican leadership know that their people still love him.

And so, given the very large and indeed powerful Rittenhouse-Trump “base” of “support,” it is really not surprising that this accused white domestic terrorist has been released. On the contrary, the surprise would have been had he not gotten out.