{"id":1978,"date":"2020-09-08T08:56:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T08:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2020-09-08T08:56:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T08:56:20","slug":"kyle-goes-to-kenosha-a-folk-hero-is-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=1978","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Goes To Kenosha: A Folk Hero Is Born"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kyle Goes To Kenosha: A Folk Hero Is Born<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.townhall.com\/townhall\/reu\/contributor-sm\/authorimages\/ilanamercer.gif\" alt=\"Ilana Mercer\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/ilanamercer\/\">Ilana Mercer<\/a> | Posted: Sep 03, 2020 6:15 PM <em>The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe width=\"728\" height=\"90\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.townhall.com\/townhall\/reu\/ha\/2020\/238\/14506a1a-8ded-47af-b50e-15bd7dee44de.jpg\" alt=\"Kyle Goes To Kenosha: A Folk Hero Is Born\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><small><em>Source: AP Photo\/David Goldman<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/4bd147bb60508d125ea855f071433310.safeframe.googlesyndication.com\/safeframe\/1-0-37\/html\/container.html\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Trending<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/derekhunter\/2020\/09\/08\/democrats-and-the-big-lie-n2575776\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/derekhunter\/2020\/09\/08\/democrats-and-the-big-lie-n2575776\">Derek Hunter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/derekhunter\/2020\/09\/08\/democrats-and-the-big-lie-n2575776\">Democrats And \u2018The Big Lie\u2019<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2020\/09\/07\/nobody-is-switching-from-trump-to-biden-n2575752\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2020\/09\/07\/nobody-is-switching-from-trump-to-biden-n2575752\">Kurt Schlichter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2020\/09\/07\/nobody-is-switching-from-trump-to-biden-n2575752\">Nobody Is Switching from Trump to Biden<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/madeleinewesterhout\/2020\/09\/08\/we-must-take-a-deeper-look-at-the-motivation-behind-the-trump-tellall-and-anonymously-sourced-articles-n2575781\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/madeleinewesterhout\/2020\/09\/08\/we-must-take-a-deeper-look-at-the-motivation-behind-the-trump-tellall-and-anonymously-sourced-articles-n2575781\">Madeleine Westerhout<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/madeleinewesterhout\/2020\/09\/08\/we-must-take-a-deeper-look-at-the-motivation-behind-the-trump-tellall-and-anonymously-sourced-articles-n2575781\">We Must Take a Deeper Look at the Motivation Behind the Trump \u201cTell-All\u201d and Anonymously Sourced Articles<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe width=\"300\" height=\"228\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Having done an about-face against rioting, the sanctimonious Don Lemon at CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stillgray\/status\/1298576558605471751\">giggled and smirked<\/a> his way through a segment about racist white suburbanites, who imagined any decent rioter would bother with their ugly abodes. Hey, racists, there is no Gucci merchandize where you bunk down, taunted CNN&#8217;s silly man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Desperate, suddenly, to appear on the side of normies, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openschoolofjournalism.com\/resources\/encyclopedia\/fourth-estate\">Fourth Estate<\/a> is currently yearning for a <a href=\"https:\/\/politicaldictionary.com\/words\/sister-souljah-moment\/\">Sister Souljah moment<\/a>. Sister Souljah had expressed \u201csympathy\u201d for the 1992, LA rioters. If only black people would turn to killing whites instead of one another, lamented that eponymous rapper.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back then, Bill Clinton\u2014a master politician, and a conservative by the standards of Democrats today\u2014diffused her weasel words. Candidate Clinton called the rapper a racist as bad as David Duke. As a master of triangulation, he managed at once to appease whites (who mattered back then) without alienating black Americans.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, unlike Anderson Cooper, Bill Clinton felt your pain.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/08\/27\/kenosha-zach-rodriguez-anderson-cooper-cnn-defend-property\/\">Behold the puzzled look on&nbsp;<\/a>Cooper\u2019s bewildered face, as he is told by an ordinary, working American what it means to lose your life\u2019s work to louts and looters. The silver-haired Mr. Cooper, also a CNN celebrity anchor,is the son of heiress Gloria Vanderbilt. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Private property owners defending their modest residences and meager businesses is not something someone who grew up in a castle can comprehend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/political-cartoons\">CARTOONS<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/political-cartoons\/michaelramirez\/\">Michael Ramirez<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/political-cartoons\/2020\/09\/08\/176525?hpnl=true\"> View Cartoon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not so Kyle Rittenhouse. Young Kyle went to Kenosha, Wisconsin because he was never confused. He attempted to do the job politicians and police have refused to do. As the city\u2019s mayor and the state\u2019s governor watched Kenosha burn, Kyle confronted the enemies of the commonweal. Unlike the men of the media and in corridors of power, the 17-year-old rose to the challenge, firing only when he was prone and was being pounded by the feral fiends.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Intent on doing a <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/ilanamercer\/2019\/01\/25\/covington-kid-hated-for-the-color-of-his-skin-n2540232\">Nick Sandmann<\/a> on Rittenhouse, the media hounds have been pounding the airwaves with the \u201cright-wing vigilante\u201d pejorative, also calling Kyle a \u201c17-yearl-old man.\u201d This is a subliminal message for \u201ccharge him as an adult.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consequently, GoFundMe, a crowd-funding portal<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/aug\/27\/kyle-rittenhouse-gofundme-campaigns-removed\/\">, removed<\/a> efforts on Kyle\u2019s behalf, directing visitors, instead, to the campaigns of the men he killed in self-defense. The one had a history of domestic violence; the other was a registered sex offender.For his part, Jacob Blake, whose shooting unleashed the Kenosha peace parade, had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/jacob-blake-sexual-assault\">sexually assaulted<\/a> a woman and was being intercepted for violating a restraining order against his victim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/4bd147bb60508d125ea855f071433310.safeframe.googlesyndication.com\/safeframe\/1-0-37\/html\/container.html\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Even the New York Times\u2019 Visual Investigations unit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/27\/us\/kyle-rittenhouse-kenosha-shooting-video.html\">provided a blow-by-blow account<\/a> of young Mr. Rittenhouse being hunted down by fellows who were foaming and fulminating about the need to \u201ccranium\u201d Kyle. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumnews1.com\/wi\/madison\/news\/2020\/08\/29\/teen-s-attorneys-claim-self-defense-in-kenosha-shootings\">This is 100 percent self-defense<\/a>,&#8221; seconds Kyle\u2019s attorney. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seventeen-year-old Kyle\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumnews1.com\/wi\/madison\/news\/2020\/08\/29\/teen-s-attorneys-claim-self-defense-in-kenosha-shootings\">recent history<\/a>? Working as a community lifeguard\u2014boy, can he swim in polluted waters\u2014cleaning \u201cdefaced storefronts,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkDice\/status\/1299804984926564352\">extinguishing<\/a> dumpster fires lit by Democratic detritus, and standing sentinel in front of storefronts in downtown Kenosha, actions the local police instructed him to cease.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But President Trump is a fierce brawler. He knows that the only time you reach across the aisle to the current crop of pyromania-enabling Democrats is to grab them by the proverbial throat. With the president in the lead, I hazard that 50 percent of the country is behind this remarkably composed young man. (\u201cNever Trumpers\u201d are with the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/08\/31\/the-democrats-laughable-president-chaos-strategy\/\">new and radicalized Democratic coalition<\/a>.\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, energetic attempts are underway by the media\u2014a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/fifth-column\">fifth column<\/a> really\u2014to frame murder, mayhem, and riots across American cities as Trump&#8217;s doing. Not even Democrat voters\u2014vested in law-and-order like everyone else\u2014believe that Trump\u2019s tweets and patriotic convoys of his flag-waving supporters are destroying Seattle, Portland, Kenosha, Oakland, Minneapolis, Chicago, Albuquerque, Denver, Berkeley, Harrisburg, on and on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In particular, a malevolently dissembling media accuse Trump supporters of causing the conflagration in anarcho-Portland, which, with mayoral imprimatur, has adopted permanent rioting status. Why so? Because \u201cPatriotic Prayer,\u201d a \u201cdangerous\u201d pro-G-d group, dared venture into sin city.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Didn\u2019t the flag-waving faithful know that those with God and law-and-order on their minds were not welcome; that Mayor Ted Wheeler had consecrated the city for criminals alone? Wheeler has turned Portland into a sanctuary city for the kind of rabble that is reducing American cities to rubble.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An enabler of the Portland riots, you have to know that Mayor Wheeler has allowed criminals to homestead his city.As Scott Jones, sheriff in Sacramento County, CA, put it: These rioters are idiots. They have no coherent platform. Other than to destroy, they don&#8217;t know what they want. They must be met with force. Unlike Wheeler, Sheriff Jones would not be letting rioters gain a foothold on his turf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lo and behold, Portland\u2019s Wheeler is now<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1i1U4UuhNxOIXngiRbgWX5isiwuAmJ7B6-rZL1Pj8aoc\/edit#bookmark=id.gjdgxs\">&nbsp;calling<\/a> on the violence to cease and for unity to prevail, after a member of \u201cPatriot Prayer\u201d was murdered by one of Wheeler\u2019s proteges.&nbsp;It seems the mayor and his police force intend to succor the man who, allegedly, executed Patriot Prayer\u2019s Aaron &#8220;Jay&#8221; Danielson. The killer, clearly visible on closed-circuit television, is still on the lam, though a man who says he&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/08\/31\/man-suspected-in-deadly-portland-shooting-is-100-antifa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">100 percent Antifa<\/a>&#8221; reportedly is under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/derekhunter\/2020\/09\/08\/democrats-and-the-big-lie-n2575776?utm_campaign=inarticle\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.townhall.com\/townhall\/reu\/s124x68\/2020\/172\/52e95246-df1a-45f0-8687-702fb1fc0d57.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommended <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/derekhunter\/2020\/09\/08\/democrats-and-the-big-lie-n2575776?utm_campaign=inarticle\">Democrats And \u2018The Big Lie\u2019<\/a> Derek Hunter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One fractious group, Black Lives Matter, and its white hangers-on, is the beneficiary of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2020\/06\/cambridge-universitys-very-modern-bigotry\/\">light-touch policing<\/a>.\u201d The other group, for Trump and law-and-order, gets \u201cheavy-handed policing\u201d for daring to safeguard American civilizational markers: statues and store fronts, both symbolic of a history and a work ethic once shared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, where are the charges against these bands of roving violent outlaws, for ongoing aggravated assault, arson, and for crossing state lines in furtherance of their criminal enterprise? Only 300 arrests have been made nation-wide. A mere 75 have been charged federally. By Chad Wolf\u2019s telling (he is acting homeland security secretary), 100 of these are in Portland. Given the magnitude of the destruction\u2014this is not law enforcement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid the chaos, some pettifoggers have found the wherewithal to throw the book at Kyle Rittenhouse and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/mmalkin\/stand-with-steven-baca\/\">Steve Baca<\/a>, of Albuquerque, NM. He, too, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PolitixFireball\/status\/1277423932463669248\">was chased down by a wilding pack<\/a>; ran until he could no longer, and only then stood his ground. Why is Baca being prosecuted and destroyed, rather than given the key to the city?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>T. Jefferson\u2014hush, don\u2019t say a Founding Father\u2019s name out loud\u2014passed the 1807 Insurrection Act. If it was good enough for him, it\u2019s good enough for me. Bring It.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still better: Tired of waiting on a neutered, coopted, infiltrated and compromised police to come to the rescue? Let law-abiding taxpayers hire private protection of Kyle Rittenhouse\u2019s caliber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilanamercer.com\/biographical\/\"><em>Ilana Mercer<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;has been writing a weekly, paleolibertarian&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilanamercer.com\/weekly-column\/\">column<\/a><em>&nbsp;since 1999. She\u2019s the author of&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2d2mhu1\"><em>Into the Cannibal\u2019s Pot: Lessons for America From Post-Apartheid South Africa<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;(2011) &amp;&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2aUHdBF\"><em>The Trump Revolution: The Donald\u2019s Creative Destruction Deconstructed<\/em><\/a><em>\u201d (June, 2016). She\u2019s currently on&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/gab.ai\/ILANAMERCER\"><em>Gab,<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCJraGN3rmcNE1lEkaNhg9ZA\"><em>YouTube,<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlanaMercer\"><em>Twitter<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ilana-mercer-378a671b0\/\"><em>LinkedIn<\/em><\/a><em>, but has been banned by&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PaleolibertarianAuthorILANAMercer\/\"><em>Facebook.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Goes To Kenosha: A Folk Hero Is Born Ilana Mercer | Posted: Sep 03, 2020 6:15 PM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com. 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