What he said about it wasn't even that bad. He repeated a few theories going around at the time, didn't make up anything himself, then moved on. When more information came out, he openly and publicly retracted his words and apologized. The entire length of time he'd talked about the event before being sued, if you put it back to back, couldn't have been much more than 5 minutes. It was a blip under the radar.
And then he's made to pay an absolutely outrageous fee for something he'd already retracted and apologized about years prior, when his statements had basically no long term impact whatsoever.
Nobody who thinks a man should be fined billions of dollars for thinking it was weird that a Sandy Hook parent was laughing and joking right before a press conference when he didn't know the camera was on can be honest about anything.
I think even the most die hard Alex Jones hater who has a shred of honesty can probably bring themselves to admit that the way the families against him behaved against him in court was pretty disgusting.
I find their actions against the man MORE disgusting than if they had actually staged their children's deaths in an elaborate hoax to gain public support for firearms regulation. At least in that case they could claim they were doing the right thing to get rid of guns or some liberal bullshit.
That's lawfare. Whether it's because someone ripped you off or whatever you're trying to get even it's always wrong because the law cannot make true amends.
With margin of error given that Kyle Rittenhouse was blessed and protected by God that night, and headshotted the pedophile who was trying to murder him.
Litigation culture is different from lawfare. This isn't an ambulance chaser looking for an opportunity, these are political actors looking to attack a target.
It could be both because there seems to be a wrongful death lawsuit following every acquittal. They have a grudge, but it is also true that this has become commonplace in the culture, which includes the law.
Of course Kyle is. He's a cultural symbol for the right and gun rights. Just like how the machine went after that boomer couple in Missouri for simply holding their ground with brandished weapons against a feral mob trying to burn their house down.
Oh it wasn't the feral mob looking for more property to destroy that was the problem. It was the fact someone used their legal rights to push them away and inspired the right. They had to go down for "justice" because they didn't conform to the "just shut up and let them do whatever they want with your property" narrative.
Remember that Critical Theory emerged from lawschools. Most of the politicians in DC are lawyers. Every state bar association is desperate to disbar right-wing attorneys and representation. Judges are currently indicting attorneys for legally representing Trump.
I hate to say it, but Robert Barnes is right about bar associations and licensure for attorneys. But if he's right, then he's not going far enough. Bulldoze the lawschools (deny them all government funding including student loans), Bulldoze the bar associations (ban all credential requirements for attorneys), start passing and enforcing laws that execute prosecutors and judges for misconduct. And not the ones with a history of misconduct, capital punishment needs to be the result of the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd offense. Being a prosecutor or judge should be an aggravating factor.
Only then will you have a right-wing legal blowback. The profession is being purged of dissident voices in a very literal term, and it's currently occupied by corporatists who support the purge. The next wave of "legal scholars" are already steeped in Leftist Lawfare and Critical Theory, so those are the ones you are going to have to imprison.
If you want to fix the legal system, you've got decades before you can return it to normal.
How did that degenerate have an estate? I thought he was homeless and fresh out of jail. Maybe they inherited his secret stash.
What he said about it wasn't even that bad. He repeated a few theories going around at the time, didn't make up anything himself, then moved on. When more information came out, he openly and publicly retracted his words and apologized. The entire length of time he'd talked about the event before being sued, if you put it back to back, couldn't have been much more than 5 minutes. It was a blip under the radar.
And then he's made to pay an absolutely outrageous fee for something he'd already retracted and apologized about years prior, when his statements had basically no long term impact whatsoever.
Absolutely ridiculous sequence of events.
Nobody who thinks a man should be fined billions of dollars for thinking it was weird that a Sandy Hook parent was laughing and joking right before a press conference when he didn't know the camera was on can be honest about anything.
I find their actions against the man MORE disgusting than if they had actually staged their children's deaths in an elaborate hoax to gain public support for firearms regulation. At least in that case they could claim they were doing the right thing to get rid of guns or some liberal bullshit.
That's lawfare. Whether it's because someone ripped you off or whatever you're trying to get even it's always wrong because the law cannot make true amends.
Or maybe he was being paid for what he was doing that day.
It's a way of masking "the family of the pedophile was told it could be pay day by political actors".
technically everyone has an estate when you die. it owns all assets, liabilities, and legal claims of the deceased until the estate is settled.
An estate is just whatever he had ownership of at time of his death. It could be nothing or a penny or even debt
He literally told Kyle to shoot him...
"Shoot me nigga! Shoot me nigga!" -Man who was shot
"Shoot me nigger!" He used a hard r serval times.
surprised Pikachu face when shot
With margin of error given that Kyle Rittenhouse was blessed and protected by God that night, and headshotted the pedophile who was trying to murder him.
It was a chest shot.
He landed multiple shots. One shot hit Rosenbaum's forehead.
It was Huber who was shot once in the chest.
FTFY
He was probably hoping to win the ghetto lottery.
Ahh, litigation culture. I wonder who brought that blessing to the west.
The same people that control the media
Litigation culture is different from lawfare. This isn't an ambulance chaser looking for an opportunity, these are political actors looking to attack a target.
It could be both because there seems to be a wrongful death lawsuit following every acquittal. They have a grudge, but it is also true that this has become commonplace in the culture, which includes the law.
Of course Kyle is. He's a cultural symbol for the right and gun rights. Just like how the machine went after that boomer couple in Missouri for simply holding their ground with brandished weapons against a feral mob trying to burn their house down.
Oh it wasn't the feral mob looking for more property to destroy that was the problem. It was the fact someone used their legal rights to push them away and inspired the right. They had to go down for "justice" because they didn't conform to the "just shut up and let them do whatever they want with your property" narrative.
Good luck. I'd imagine it'll be hard to sue for damages when a court has ruled the person you're suing acted in self defense.
It's easy when you get an activist judge.
I can't imagine the RW lawfare once that pendulum swings back, will be an interesting time.
That's going to take nearly 20 years, at soonest.
Remember that Critical Theory emerged from lawschools. Most of the politicians in DC are lawyers. Every state bar association is desperate to disbar right-wing attorneys and representation. Judges are currently indicting attorneys for legally representing Trump.
I hate to say it, but Robert Barnes is right about bar associations and licensure for attorneys. But if he's right, then he's not going far enough. Bulldoze the lawschools (deny them all government funding including student loans), Bulldoze the bar associations (ban all credential requirements for attorneys), start passing and enforcing laws that execute prosecutors and judges for misconduct. And not the ones with a history of misconduct, capital punishment needs to be the result of the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd offense. Being a prosecutor or judge should be an aggravating factor.
Only then will you have a right-wing legal blowback. The profession is being purged of dissident voices in a very literal term, and it's currently occupied by corporatists who support the purge. The next wave of "legal scholars" are already steeped in Leftist Lawfare and Critical Theory, so those are the ones you are going to have to imprison.
If you want to fix the legal system, you've got decades before you can return it to normal.
The pendulum is a myth. It is a ratchet.
why is every comment down voted at least once? jidf?
The judge should agree that Kyle is responsible.
And thus the family of the child rapist should have to pay Kyle as he's responsible for getting rid of a pedophile who was attacking him.