By Michael Smith:

Watching the Rittenhouse trial has been an interesting endeavor for me.
The lead prosecutor, ADA Petyr Baelish, stated in open court that Rittenhouse was the "active shooter” and the mob chasing him through a maze of burning cars and buildings, were the REAL heroes, just trying to end the risk Rittenhouse presented as he indiscriminately mowed down the crowds while dressed in body armor and a Rambo costume.
Rosenbaum and Huber died heroes. Grosskreutz is to be celebrated for his bravery in confronting the evil teen with the AR-15.
Pardon my French, but Jesus F. Christ.
To paraphrase the novelist and critic Mary McCarthy speaking about Lillian Hellman in a 1979 interview with Dick Cavett - everything the prosecution said was a lie, including the words "and”, "but”, and "the”.
It was like watching a couple of three-year-old children trying to explain to their parents why it was totally not them who climbed on the kitchen counter and broke the cookie jar.
What a bunch of liars.
If those prosecutors in that Kenosha court are in any way representative of the prosecution in our metropolitan areas, there is little wonder we are where we are as a nation. Setting aside their pitiful individual performances, there is a bigger theme running through this trial – and a pretty scary one at that.
There are new rules in our system of jurisprudence, one that involves making criminals into victims and the victims into criminals.
And this is not just in that Kenosha courtroom this is happening from coast to coast and from border to border. From Seattle, Portland, San Francisco to New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago and from Kenosha to the southern border with Mexico, there is a legal ethos developing that supplants traditional American jurisprudence based on the Constitution and duly passed laws that says people who abide by the law are bound by it, and those who chose not to, are not.
There is a dangerous perspective arising that laws only apply to some people based on the current social fads, the woke flavor of the day. If you are woke, the laws that apply to the non-woke do not apply to you. There are even black activists openly campaigning and advocating for systems of black justice and white justice.
It is painfully evident that Kyle Rittenhouse was within his legal and Constitutional rights to be where he was and do what he did. What is completely ignored is the mob that surrounded the teenager was not. Many of them were engaged in destruction of private property, trespassing and criminal violence – all of which was completely ignored by law enforcement under "stand down” orders from Kenosha city leadership.
That is a totally new and different standard of law, but has become common in cities like Baltimore, Philadelphia, Seattle, and Portland…and in this case, Kenosha.
But you can also see it in the actions of the IRS and the DOJ. You see it in how the J6 offenders have been treated vs. the ANTIFA/BLM rioters who raged for the better part of 2020. You can see it in the legal treatment of the border jumpers vs. America’s poor. You can see it in the way Project Veritas is treated vs. the literal criminals behind the Russia Collusion hoax. Steve Bannon and the J6 protesters go to jail, Andy McCabe gets his pension back and his records expunged.
Separate systems of jurisprudence and laws enforced in arbitrary and capricious manners simply cannot survive.
All Americans are all equal under the same law, or there is no law, there is only lawlessness.
And that lawlessness makes us all into Kyle Rittenhouse, all surrounded by a mob just waiting for an opportunity to destroy.

1 I listened to Fox News' coverage last evening for almost five hours, and heard a lot of sharp legal minds -- including Jonathan Turley and Alan Dershowitz -- discussing the case. One thing brought out was how the prosecution's attempt to make light of the physical damage caused by the rioters, and the jury, being local citizens who could see for themselves what was happening, wasn't having any of it.

None of the lawyers interviewed made this point, but I think this speaks strongly for having a trial in the venue where the supposed crime was committed. Local jurors are smarter about their surroundings than a jury in some other city. We often hear of recommendations to move a trial when violence is expected, as in the Derek Chauvin case. But the Rittenhouse case shows the wisdom of letting the locals decide.

2 On Fox last night, most of the lawyers recommended that Rittenhouse sue the media and even the President. But on the Fox News website today, Jonathan Turley details the risk of such suits, and quotes Voltaire as saying "I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one."

3 Yeah; Rittenhouse could be opening a very bad can of worms with a lawsuit.

But something must be done.

I was listening to Fox News Sunday this morning and they kept giving credence to people like Jesse Jackson criticizing the outcome.

Why can't we have a news agency that actually IS fair and balanced? There was no reason to give these people any time; they have had plenty everywhere else. This was an open-and-shut case.

4 Fox News Sunday is comparable to The View. It's apparently the network's bow to the Left. Once you get into the late afternoon, things get better. And Lefty Geraldo Rivera got shouted down -- more than once: the first time on The Five when he tried to link Rittenhouse with white supremacy, the second time on Laura Ingraham when he said that Rittenhouse's first lawsuit should be against the prosecutor. Laura's a lawyer and had two other lawyers on with her, and they really piled on Rivera. 

5 That's good. I don't get Fox so never see anything but Fox News.

My father gets it though and a number of the shows annoy me to no end. But the Five is good, as is Waters World and a bunch of others. And of course Tucker Carlson.