by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
In a stunning display of pre-trial bias and prejudicial behavior, a Wisconsin county circuit judge yesterday decided that the prosecution in the upcoming trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the armed teen who shot three individuals at an anti-police rally in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August of 2020, may not refer to those who were shot as "victims." Two of Rittenhouse's whatever-they-were died, and the third suffered serious injuries.
The judge does not want the dead and wounded to be referred to as victims because he regards "victims" as a "loaded, loaded word." The word might give jurors a negative view of the defendant, the teen who drove forty miles and crossed a state line in order to in order to insert himself and his AR-15-style rifle into a social protest.
Ironically, according to yesterday's on-line edition of USA Today, the judge will permit the defense lawyers to refer to the dead and wounded individuals as "looters, rioters, and arsonists" in open court. Those terms must not be "loaded, loaded words." None of the three people whom Rittenhouse shot were ever arrested or charged with looting, rioting, or setting fires.
The Rittenhouse trial is scheduled to begin on November 1st in Kenosha, Wisconsin, but it could conceivably be delayed if the kangaroos are late in arriving due to the backlog of container ships waiting to be unloaded on the West Coast.
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