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Sean Krajacic/The Kenosha News, Pool via AP, File Jury selection is underway in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where teenager Kyle Rittenhouse is facing the possibility of a lifetime behind bars if he’s convicted of murdering two men and trying to kill a third on the night of August 25th, 2020. Rittenhouse says that he was acting in self-defense; pursued by an angry mob through the streets of Kenosha as violence and looting was taking place across the city, Rittenhouse only fired after he heard a gunshot from the crowd behind him and saw Joseph Rosenbaum reaching for his rifle. Rittenhouse then tried to escape the crowd, only to be chased again. When he was hit in the head with a skateboard by Joseph Huber, Rittenhouse fired again, and one more time as Gaige Grosskreutz approached him with a gun of his own in his hand.
Prosecutors, meanwhile, are portraying Rittenhouse as a wannabe warrior who headed to Kenosha even though he didn’t live there because he was intent on getting into a fight instead of serving as a sentinel protecting local businesses. “The defendant came to our community,” Thomas Binger, an assistant district attorney, said during a recent pretrial hearing on the case. “He’s not a resident, he’s underage, he’s out after curfew, he’s armed with an illegal weapon. Why? That is the question.” Jurors in Kenosha County will be asked to revisit the events of that night and decide whether Rittenhouse, now 18, was acting reasonably when he used lethal force during a confrontation. The New York Times actually does a surprisingly good job of laying out both sides’ arguments, including the standard that must be met in order to legally use lethal force in self-defense in Wisconsin. Under Wisconsin law, someone can lawfully use deadly force only if he or she “reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself.” In Wisconsin, there is no “duty to retreat” before using force, and prosecutors will have to convince the jury that Rittenhouse’s belief was unreasonable. In a question unrelated to self-defense, […]
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Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
To those who have the means, we ask that you please donate. We have options available now, but there is no telling when those options will cancel us. We have our GivingFuel page. There have been many who have been canceled by PayPal, but for now it’s still an option. Your generosity is what keeps these sites running and allows us to get the truth to the masses. We’ve had great success in growing but we know we can do more with your assistance.
Thank you, and God Bless!
JD Rucker