Remember back when equal treatment under the law was really a thing in the United States?
We’ve all seen the coverage of the Karmelo Anthony affair. Anthony was, according to what we know of the case, in a place he shouldn’t have been. When confronted, he pulled a knife and stabbed another young man in the chest, killing him. Then he fled. Now Anthony faces trial, and is claiming self-defense. He’s been released on a reduced bond, and his family is cashing in big with a GiveSendGo fundraiser. His family has since moved into a big, expensive house in a gated community.
Who said crime doesn’t pay?
This can’t help but draw comparisons to the case of Kyle Rittenhouse, who really did act in self-defense, who fired to protect himself from several attackers, and who was also put on trial – and acquitted. Yet the left derides him, accusing him of being a racist, a fascist, a right-wing terrorist – anything but what he is, a young man who found himself under attack and reacted the only way he could.
Now he’s asking some serious questions.
To answer Mr. Rittenhouse, I can only say this:
No, Kyle, I can’t help this make sense. It doesn’t make sense. Not to any decent person, not to any civilized person, not to anyone who understands the principle of equal treatment under the law, a founding principle of our republic. But to the left, it makes sense. Here’s why:
You were present in Kenosha in opposition to rioters and looters, who were terrorizing that community following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. The four days of rioting resulted in as much as $50 million in damage to private property, in addition to $2 million in city property. Several businesses were burned to the ground. But those riots, like the George Floyd riots and the rest of the 2020 “Summer of Love” riots, were sanctioned by the left. This was during the supposed COVID-19 lockdowns, but the marches, the riots, the actual insurrection in which a portion of a major American city was seized and controlled by armed thugs, were excused by the left.
Karmelo Anthony was, for reasons we don’t know, in the shelter of a sports team he didn’t belong to. He had no business in that shelter. A young man, Austin Metcalf, confronted him. Anthony stabbed Metcalf in the chest. Anthony fled, and Metcalf died in his brother’s arms. Now he’s claiming self-defense, and the same legacy media that condemned you are strangely silent.
No, Kyle, I can’t help this make sense. It doesn’t make sense. It will never make sense. Not to us. Not to people who understand equal treatment under the law. Not to people who understand basic fairness.
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We can hope that in this case, as in Kyle Rittenhouse’s case, justice will at last be done. But it won’t bring back Austin Metcalf. It won’t retract all the money Karmelo Anthony’s family raked in by cashing in on the event. It won’t take back their new big house in a gated community. And it will never make Austin Metcalf’s family whole again.
I’m sorry, Kyle. I wish I could help. But none of this makes any sense, and it never will.
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