I find it interesting and I’m not prepared at this point to discount what the Trib says merely because it presumably doesn’t like what such details imply about the youth’s political views, such as they are at this point in his life. It looks to me like worthwhile investigative reporting, though I can accept that there are certainly journalists out there who would salivate at the prospect of finding a photo of him or one of his relatives in a brown shirt or something like that. But I’m not sure that the particular reporter who wrote the article linking the quick interview to which Neo referred is in that category right off the bat. But if we’re thinking of this as a brewing war situation, it does bring up the question: why do people march off to war? Everyone has his own reasons in that moment. That’s why I find the boy’s story of interest, I suppose.

Oh, also thanks to Isolden and Rufus for the local color angle. I love local color.

I’m enraged.

Those have been Antifa’s goals for a long, long time. I don’t know how widely known it is, but I’ve certainly written about it on this blog several times. The riots are part BLM and part Antifa, and both have similar goals (see this about BLM).

The rest of the world has video of the events.

Maybe Rittenhouse was defending himself? But he was clearly courting danger. He wasn’t a business owner standing out to protect a business he had poured his life into.

Yeah, let Grandpa defend his own business if the police cannot or will not show up.

And if he tries to reason with the rioters and they kill him, well so what … that is none of our business. That’s what we have law enforcement for! To clear the bodies of the innocent dead away!

You are not fit to be, or to live among, free men Montage. But, you already knew that, didn’t you …

Violent felons, pedophiles, sexual predators, anarchists, members of radical revolutionary groups. And no commentary from the media on the common thread binding all of this destruction together. They are criminals, all. And they represent just the foot soldiers.

I cannot recite his account, however.

Ami Horowitz has interviewed hundreds of rioters from Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, and New York City riots as well.

This provoked Prager to ask if his own generalisations were false: most looters are black, but most rioters are young and white. Ami said this impression was true.

But Ami Horowitz next observations were disturbing. All of the hundreds of rioters shared the same motives and rationalisations: almost no one mentioned dead black victims. They were irrelevant. The all blamed the west, especially the US, for creating all of the world’s ills. And only by destroying the USA could this be changed. Destruction of the US, sedition and Revolution is their aim.

He did report that in Kenosha, his gang of rioters discussed attacking a hospital that sheltered the shooter. But contradictory and uncertain target intelligence shot down their planning.

If this interview gets posted online somewhere, listen. I’ve not heard anything so firsthand, nor so riveting. And disturbing.

Ah – Trevor Noah, another great mind-reader.

He hasn’t a clue about what motivated Rittenhouse or anyone else – except perhaps for himself. And although Noah is entitled to his opinion, why on earth would I subscribe to it? It’s not the least bit persuasive to me – and it’s illogical, because if Rittenhouse wanted to shoot someone it’s awfully strange that he would wait till he was attacked and being chased to do so.

I have my own opinion, which I’ve already expressed quite fully, so I have no need to restate it.

Oh, and good old “unarmed” Blake was apparently reaching for the knife under his driver’s side floorboard when he was shot. This was after being unsuccessfully tased and unsuccessfully wrestled with by two officers, who failed to restrain him.