Author: Blazingcatfur

Rittenhouse lawyers’ trial playbook: Don’t ‘crusade,’ defend

Soon after a Wisconsin jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse of all charges against him, defense attorney Mark Richards took a swipe at his predecessors, telling reporters that their tactics — leaning into Rittenhouse’s portrayal as a rallying point for the right to carry weapons and defend oneself — were not his.

“I was hired by the two first lawyers. I’m not going to use their names,” Richards said Friday. “They wanted to use Kyle for a cause and something that I think was inappropriate — and I don’t represent causes. I represent clients.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCulture Wars

Lockdowns Have Continuing Tragic Consequences

The bureaucratic mind has no idea of the interconnectedness of things.

Over 100,000 died of drug overdoses in the U.S. during this last 12-month period measured by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s a 30 percent jump from the year before, and, as the Irish Times (of all papers) notes, that is “more than the toll of car crashes and gun fatalities combined.”

Across the media, note is made that this dramatic rise took place in this Year of the Plague. Yet we are left to wonder whether the possibility of such a dreadful effect was considered at all by those who planned the COVID shutdowns.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease"

O’Toole says Conservatives need to stay the course amid public challenge to his leadership

Erin O’Toole says the Conservatives need to stay the course to defeat the Liberals in the next election amid increasingly public challenges to his leadership.

In an interview with The West Block, O’Toole claimed his party’s belief is that the Liberals actually lost the recent federal election because they failed to secure Prime Minister Justin Trudeau another majority mandate.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Would Kyle Rittenhouse Really Have Been Convicted if He Were Black?

If Kyle Rittenhouse were black, would he be in prison today after being convicted of murder? Or would he never even have faced trial, because he would have been killed by police on that fateful night in Kenosha when he was attacked by Antifa thugs? Many people are claiming that his acquittal proves that there is a double standard in the American justice system. Once again, however, reality differs from the Leftist narrative: on the same day that Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted, a black man named Andrew Coffee IV was also acquitted of murder charges on the grounds of self-defense.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Our ritual response to Islamist terror

Why is the first step always to genuflect before the Muslim community?

Our responses to terrorist incidents have a ritual quality — they serve what sociologists call a “sense-making” purpose.

One ritualised way of responding to an atrocity is to blame and punish the terrorist’s family and the wider community to which he belongs. We wisely try to avoid this — as well as being counter to our belief in individual responsibility, punitive revenge is usually counterproductive.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Unrequited rage: The demand for mob justice in the Rittenhouse trial

The aftermath of the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict is a lesson in unrequited rage. After a jury of 12 citizens in Kenosha, Wis., acquitted Rittenhouse on all charges, politicians and media figures lashed out at the judge, the jury and the entire legal system.

Like our politics and our media, the legal system has become a vehicle for collective rage; there is no room for doubt or deviation from our predispositions. Yet in denouncing “vigilante justice,” pundits and politicians seem to be advocating for a form of mob justice.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Leaked Audio Reveals How California Teachers Recruit Kids Into LGBTQ Clubs

A leaked audio recording revealed California teachers mocking parents over concerns about homosexual and transgender indoctrination at school, said a source who attended a recent teachers union conference in Palm Springs.

The recording, obtained by The Epoch Times, captured two seventh-grade teachers, Kelly Baraki and Lori Caldeira from Buena Vista Middle School in Salinas, Calif., telling other teachers how to recruit students into LGBTQ clubs, also known as “Gay-Straight Alliance” (GSA) clubs, at school.

“It was horrifying to listen to not just one teacher but really all of the teachers in all of these seminars, excoriating parents,” said the source, who goes by the pseudonym Rebecca Murphy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"They really do want your children", Big Gay

Enslavement of the Black by the White: ‘The Bedrock of the West’?

In August 2019, The New York Times initiated The 1619 Project, consisting of a collection of articles designed to illustrate that slavery was “one primary reason the colonists fought the American Revolution”. This project is directed by Nikole Hannah-Jones, a New York Times staff reporter who is not a historian but an avowed “critical race theory” activist. [2]

When American historians denounced the obvious falsehood of this assertion, and its revisionist and negationist nature against proven, documented and source-based historical reality, The New York Times altered the original version of the articles in question to say “some” colonists fought to defend the practice of slavery.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Progressive Racists, slavery

Maher to Dems: You’re not going to win by telling working-class white people they’re evil

Democrats know this. How could they not? Preppy hedge-fund executive Glenn Youngkin just took more than 70 percent of the vote in 45 rural counties in Virginia to nudge past Terry McAuliffe. That wasn’t because Youngkin was wildly charismatic or because Trump had endorsed him. It’s because blue-collar white voters believe Democrats are deeply hostile to them culturally, especially the progressive wing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Progressive Hypocrites, Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists

Proposed hate speech rules go too far: B’nai Brith

A prominent human rights group is leveling some serious concerns over Canada’s proposed online hate speech legislation.

Penned by B’nai Brith Canada, a report entitled How Social Media Algorithms Fuel Hate Speech And Misinformation says the new rules are so far-reaching it would do a better job censoring fair and legitimate comment over actually battling online hate.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", Freedom of speech