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Bruddah IZ
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Please use the Vaccine thread for your fascist references.
Bruddah IZ
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Don't worry, you fascist always seem to get your way.
thirteenknots
SILVER ELITE
Not only are you a lazy individual, but you have once again proven to the World
you can be easily led by that Large Brass Ring permanently installed in your
septum.
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Kyle Rittenhouse's mother did not drive him to Kenosha shootings
Louis Baudoin-Laarman, AFP USA
Mon, November 15, 2021, 10:38 AM·2 min read
Social media posts circulating during the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse claim his mother drove him to the town in the US state of Wisconsin where he shot three people. But the prosecutor trying the case says there is no evidence to support the claim, Rittenhouse and a friend testified about the people who accompanied them and did not list his mother, and she told a newspaper that she was in a neighboring state and did not know what her son was doing.
"Why are we just glazing over the fact that Kyle Rittenhouse's mother put her minor child in a vehicle, drove him across state lines and dropped him off in the middle of a riot armed with an assault rifle? Why is she not behind bars?" says a November 13, 2021 instagram post.
Screenshot of an Instagram post taken on November 15, 2021
The claim, which also appeared on Facebook in 2021, circulated online in the days after the August 25, 2020 shootings in Kenosha, with some people sharing a photo of an armed woman they claimed was Wendy Rittenhouse. The photographer came forward at the time to say that the image was taken in a different town.
Kyle Rittenshouse is on trial for killing two men and wounding a third during unrest in Kenosha that followed the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man. Rittenhouse faces five counts -- one count each of intentional homicide, reckless homicide and attempted intentional homicide, and two counts of recklessly endangering safety.
But his mother did not drive her son to Kenosha on the day of the shootings.
"There is no evidence that Wendy drove the defendant to Kenosha on 8/25/20," Thomas Binger, the prosecutor in Rittenhouse's trial, told AFP.
While testifying on November 10, 2021, Rittenhouse gave a detailed account of the day of the shootings, and did not list his mother among the people who were present.
"I did go downtown in the morning of August 25th," he said, adding after being questioned by the prosecution: "I went there with Dominick Black, my sister McKenzie Rittenhouse, and Ray Dickhart."
Desert Hound
DA
Driving across state lines? The idiots keep repeating that as if it means anything.
Do we need permission to cross state lines?
Is there any kind of law that prevents one from crossing state lines?
Or how about this? He lived in a suburb where the border was about a mile from his house. So as he crossed the big bad state line, he was now in another suburb.
I suspect you didn't know he lived a mile from the border did you?
Also his mom didn't drive him there either.
So outside of presenting completely incorrect information what is the point of your meme?
Wait...I figured it out. You just wanted to show us again of how ignorant of the basic facts you are. And with espola liking your meme it also shows he doesn't know the actual facts either. Tough to know things when the 2 of you live in a bubble.
He crossed a state line in commission of a crime, which makes it a Federal offense.
Loser!!!
Based on the little I know about Kyle, he went to go help some pals who owned some car biz. I also heard Saint Kyle is a crisis actor from Sandy Hook. The police report said that Kyle shot a pedo dude in the dick and he died. He then turned around annd shot a wife strangler in the lungs and he died. The last guy was a convicted burgular and his arm was shot off so he dont steal no more. Plus dude brought a gun to the fight and was helping start fires and steal things. I will wait until I see all the facts.
Desert Hound
DA
Commission of what crime?
He went to Kenosha to help protect some businesses from people intent on committing crimes.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Oh look, your twitter Master.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Okay.
He conspired in an illegal purchase of a firearm.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Too bad the guys chasing him didn't know that.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Reason‘s Eric Boehm reports on the terrible toll that Covid hysteria is taking on democratic norms. A slice:
A number of democratic countries—the report specifically mentions the United States in this section—have implemented COVID measures “that were disproportionate, illegal, indefinite or unconnected to the nature of the emergency,” according to the IIDEA report. Those include travel restrictions and the use of “emergency powers that sometimes sidelined parliaments.”
The last two years have indeed been littered with examples of previously unheard-of government powers on display in the U.S. That includes everything from statewide lockdowns in which governors decreed which businesses were “essential” to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with the backing of both the Trump and Biden administrations, making it nearly impossible for property owners to evict deadbeat tenants. It took until this month for the U.S. to reopen its border with Canada for supposedly “nonessential” travel, even though there was probably no good justification for closing the border in the first place.
Outside the U.S., places like Austria and Australia continue to rachet up authoritarian restrictions on public interactions and economic behavior—even for people who have been vaccinated. According to the report, 69 countries have made violating COVID restrictions an imprisonable offense, with two-thirds of those countries being ones the group considers to be democracies. Albania and Mexico have the most punitive laws on the books, allowing prison sentences of 15 years and 12 years, respectively, for violating pandemic-related protocols.
More than 20 percent of countries have used their militaries to enforce COVID controls, which the report warns could contribute to “the normalization of increasingly militarized civil life after the pandemic.” Meanwhile, 42 percent of countries have rolled out voluntary or compulsory apps used for contact tracing, which may be effective in curbing the spread of the virus but create concerning new opportunities for government surveillance in a post-pandemic world.
A number of democratic countries—the report specifically mentions the United States in this section—have implemented COVID measures “that were disproportionate, illegal, indefinite or unconnected to the nature of the emergency,” according to the IIDEA report. Those include travel restrictions and the use of “emergency powers that sometimes sidelined parliaments.”
The last two years have indeed been littered with examples of previously unheard-of government powers on display in the U.S. That includes everything from statewide lockdowns in which governors decreed which businesses were “essential” to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with the backing of both the Trump and Biden administrations, making it nearly impossible for property owners to evict deadbeat tenants. It took until this month for the U.S. to reopen its border with Canada for supposedly “nonessential” travel, even though there was probably no good justification for closing the border in the first place.
Outside the U.S., places like Austria and Australia continue to rachet up authoritarian restrictions on public interactions and economic behavior—even for people who have been vaccinated. According to the report, 69 countries have made violating COVID restrictions an imprisonable offense, with two-thirds of those countries being ones the group considers to be democracies. Albania and Mexico have the most punitive laws on the books, allowing prison sentences of 15 years and 12 years, respectively, for violating pandemic-related protocols.
More than 20 percent of countries have used their militaries to enforce COVID controls, which the report warns could contribute to “the normalization of increasingly militarized civil life after the pandemic.” Meanwhile, 42 percent of countries have rolled out voluntary or compulsory apps used for contact tracing, which may be effective in curbing the spread of the virus but create concerning new opportunities for government surveillance in a post-pandemic world.
Desert Hound
DA
Interesting. But wrong again. He wasn't charged for anything like that. The prosecution attempted illegal possession...but unfortunately for them, the actual law got in the way. Had the law not gotten in their way...he would have only been charged with a misdemeanor.
Here are some stories from the left side of the aisle that all admit Rittenhouse didn't break any weapons law.
-- from the AP
Hours before closing arguments began on Monday, Judge Bruce Schroeder granted a defense motion to toss out the weapons charge. Rittenhouse attorneys Mark Richards and Corey Chirafisi pointed to an exception in the law that they said allows minors to possess shotguns and rifles as long as they’re not short-barreled.
Assistant District Attorney James Kraus argued that the exception renders the state’s prohibition on minors possessing dangerous weapons meaningless. But when he acknowledged that Rittenhouse’s rifle’s barrel was longer than 16 inches, the minimum barrel length allowed under state law, Schroeder dismissed the charge.
--from the NY Times
The statute says it applies to minors carrying a rifle or shotgun only if they are not in compliance with at least one additional statute. Those include the regulation of “hunting and use of firearms by persons under 16 years of age,” and the prohibition of rifles with barrels less than 16 inches long.
--from Reuters
"This is going to touch a nerve for some people," said John Gross, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin. "But this is not an unreasonable reading of this statute by this judge."
Gross said the Wisconsin law concerning underage possession of a dangerous weapon - which covers everything from guns to brass knuckles - is written in a way that it seems to apply restrictions on gun possession only when the person is carrying a short-barreled weapon such as a sawed-off shotgun, less than 12 inches. That is what Rittenhouse's lawyers argued.
The .223 caliber Smith & Wesson rifle Rittenhouse used in the shootings has a 16-inch barrel.
What the legislature did in its writing of the law was to "accidentally carve out a rule that says somebody under the age of 18 can legally have a rifle or shotgun as long as the barrel is of sufficient length," Gross said. "It's just a legislative blunder and it should be fixed."
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Just hours before jurors received the case, Rittenhouse’s defense team dug up an exception. Under Wisconsin law, anyone under 18 who possesses a dangerous weapon is guilty of a misdemeanor. That’s punishable by up to nine months in prison.
However, the state law only applies to minors armed with rifles or shotguns with short barrels. The language stems from a 1991 law when lawmakers across the country were trying to find ways to curb gang violence. It was likely intended to prevent youths from carrying sawed-off shotguns.
That's a nice digest of Wisconsin law. Let me point out that the issue I referred to is Federal law. The Feds have not yet been heard from. However, there have already been moves by Kyle's victims and their families to pursue damages in civil court.
