Friday, November 19, 2021

Open Season

I can't say I'm surprised about the Kenosha Killer verdict.  I'm not privy to the jury deliberations, but the judge sure didn't seem impartial.  Needless to say, I don't agree with the verdict, and am legitimately surprised that they didn't even get the defendant on weapons possession charges.  It's a verdict entirely predicated on our nation's demented laws, which serve those who seek to act with lethal violence... provided that they are politically correct.

The truly disconcerting thing about the verdict is that, indeed, the shooter lived out the greatest MAGA fantasy, he killed some 'libs' with impunity.  These are the people who pushed for hit-and-run down protestors bills, after all.  Gunning down white people who stand in solidarity with Black people is also a longstanding right-wing tradition.  I can easily see an uptick in right-wing violence, as other creeps decide that they want to kill others for fun and profit.  These are the people who venerate mass shooters as 'saints', and this verdict is pretty much an early Christmas present for them.

Already, they are yearning for more violence, more killing: The whole situation is beyond fucked up.  As a New Yorker, I tend to feel like a spectator to this violence, due to our sane gun laws, but the right-wing judiciary is poised to export the killing to our state.  While there's always been an undercurrent of murderous violence in this nation, it's now looking like Open Season.

3 comments:

The Sophist said...

BBBB,

I would quibble with only one little bit: it's not just about the laws. It's also about their White Supremacist application. No Black man in Rittenhouse's position would have lived to stand trial, and even if by some miracle he did, he would have been convicted. Look at what happened to that guy Reinoehl in Portland.

Richard said...

I am going to take a breath before i react to this. It is not as if we didn't see them coming.

They are not going to get their "white boy winter". What is that? Don't they have children and old people? Do they have wives, husbands,girlfriends, boyfriends? Any friends?

If they don't have that, they can go have that "white boy winter " out there in the mountains and starve and freeze to death.

This part of the world is harsh. The only way we survive is by helping each other. Sometimes people can't handle these facts and they fall for an ideology.

I feel sorry for these boys and i hope they will get better soon.

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

Look at what happened to that guy Reinoehl in Portland.

That's why I linked to the story.

This part of the world is harsh. The only way we survive is by helping each other. Sometimes people can't handle these facts and they fall for an ideology.

These people think they're going to end up as Lord Humungus in their Mad Max fantasy.