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Guest Post by Galicant Wiseword

You probably will not like what I have to say about Kenosha Kyle so maybe we should start with some common ground.

Do you love your nation?  Do you hate tyranny and big government shuttering your business and church  to perpetuate a lie?  I do.

Do you think police should be held accountable when they act dishonorably?  Do you think that black life matters but realize that BLM is a billion-dollar front of a Marxist revolution?  We agree.

Do you think some kid who has either trained extensively with his rifle or got extremely lucky should be heralded as a national hero because he wasted two commie pawns?  Do you think his character and intentions that night are irrelevant compared to his ability to clear a jam while being assaulted by a skateboard?   Let’s talk.

To start with, I need to tell you about a few completely different self-defense shootings from the past year.  Read that last line twice because I’m not going to bother correcting you if you get the two mixed up and embarrass yourself in the comments.

One happened a little over a month ago in Austin TX.  Protestors were marching down the street to demand accountability for the murder of an EMS/first responder in Kentucky.  In the middle of the night, several heavily armed men broke into her home and shot her while she slept.  They shot her boyfriend who, woken up in the middle of the night as his door burst in, leveled a gun at them in self-defense.  He lived but was charged briefly with attempted murder.  His charges were dropped, but those directly responsible for Breonna Taylors death, although known by all, have yet to be arrested, charged, fired or probably even scolded movie-style by a clichéd angry police chief.

Let’s not forget that much of the anger that has sparked these protests and subsequent riots is justified.   When the state murders innocent people without consequence, the people will be angry.  The people should be angry.

In late June as this protest moved down the streets of Austin Texas, an American soldier from Ft. Hood named Daniel Perry drove to the location of the march.  He drove through a red light as the crowd moved past the intersection, quickly pulled his vehicle up to a crowd of protestors, rolled down his window and fired at an American veteran named Garrett Foster, killing him.  Garrett had attended the march with his AK rifle slung to his person.  Perry fled the scene and turned himself into the Austin police department.

Much like the events in Kenosha, cell phone video showed people a story and they interpreted it through their political spectacles.   The gunfire became the first flub as many instant acoustics experts declared they KNEW that the AK fired first.  They just knew it from the sounds captured by a microphone the size of a pin head on a moving device in someone’s hand across the empty, building-lined street.  The first shots heard are certainly louder and more distinct but with a little patience, we learned that Garrett never fired his weapon.  Before Daniel’s handgun barrel had cooled, people had made up their minds about Garrett Foster.

“He was marching in lockstep with the BLM movement!  He was a commie!  He was carrying an AK, I would have shot him too!  It was clearly self-defense!”  I watched that incident divide the freedom movement overnight.  I didn’t know Garrett personally, just online as mutual members of a libertarian meme page that raises money to help people.  I got to know Garrett through our mutual political beliefs.

Garrett was not a commie.  He wasn’t antifa or a marxist.  He wasn’t a “libtard” or a “trumpkin”.  Garrett was an American.  He believed in small government and big liberty.  He was pushing his disabled black fiancée down the sidewalk when Perry aggressively maneuvered his car at them.  As Garrett’s fiancée lay on the ground, falling from her wheelchair as the car sped towards them; Garrett approached the car from the rear drivers’ side.

The Austin police department confirmed he never fired his rifle and screen-grabs from the cellphone footage proves his rifle was never even leveled at Perry.  His death rocked our small online community.  We knew Garrett wasn’t doing anything wrong.  Perhaps he made a tactical mistake in approaching the car, but his death at the hands of Perry was unjustifiable.

Nevertheless he was mocked.  The internet shows no mercy.  His character was maligned.  The memes ranged from cringy to outright evil.  When you operate out of hatred not much is below your standards it seems.   People took sides and made fools of themselves.  I watched it all from an insider’s perspective.  I can only imagine how his family and close friends must have felt; must still feel.  It was because of Garrett’s death that I took my time to formulate an opinion on the Kenosha Kyle shooting.

I knew Garrett’s political beliefs; thus, I knew a part of his character. I knew that he wasn’t there to loot and riot.  He was there, armed, to defend his wife and help bridge the government crafted gap between the [redacted] bois of the freedom movement and the black community where many still think that racism is the main culprit of all police brutality.  His motivations were important.

I’d like to take this moment in honor of Garrett to make sure everyone knows that police departments across the US have been lied to, just like the public.  A massive propaganda campaign has them all believing they are heroes for extorting what you have left after taxes for various “crimes”.  They are bombarded with the “war on cops” narrative every single day.  They think they are the nation’s last hope, sheepdogs, the thin blue line between order and chaos.

Their union reps tell them that if police departments are somehow defunded and only elected sheriffs had law-enforcement authority, the world will delve into chaos!  Thousands of ruffians waiting in the bushes would pour into suburban homes and steal Karen’s Kitchenaid before nightfall.  They are inundated with shoot/don’t shoot scenarios but not approach from cover and de-escalation training.  They read Grossman and ignore the LGD chapters.

Twice a day and four times each holiday they hear that nothing is more important than officer safety, even honor.  They must get home to beat their wives at quadruple the national average no matter what. They have killed American’s with impunity for decades now.  Black and yellow brown and white, we are range silhouettes in their sights.   While there is, no doubt, some racists with badges, the real problem runs much deeper.

If you don’t believe me at this point please understand that we’ve had 12 days all year where the police in this country didn’t kill someone.  Please look up Duncan Lemp.   Research Hannah Fizer.  Type the name Ryan Whitiker into your search bar.  If you don’t already know the name LaVoy Finicum quit reading now.  It’s not black verses white, it’s blue verses you.

Innocent Americans of all colors and backgrounds endure mistreatment by the government every day and often cannot get even civil courts on their side.  If they do, the taxpayer gets the bill and the police department gets a new MRAP.  Civil asset forfeiture has turned the thin blue gang into the most successful ring of thieves in history, stealing more from Americans than all burglary and robberies combined.  Qualified immunity protects the bad apples that, at best, get tossed into a different barrel if caught.

It’s smooth-brain time to think that it’s only about racism or a few bad apples.  It’s an issue of honor and character, and speaking as someone formerly on the inside of it all; it’s an issue that was half-initiated by a dangerous group of people and half-grew from a lack of morals and faith.  Men of honor wouldn’t allow dishonorable behavior behind the badge.

When time replaced those street-tempered men with fatherless college-kids and master’s degrees, all kinds of things changed.  Ultimately, “Law enforcement officers” are nothing more than the teeth of the state machine.  Whatever bad law gets bribed into existence is enforced at the end of a gun.  “If you don’t like a law just change it” becomes the automated response when all involved parties know it will just keep getting worse.

Let us discuss one more self-defense shooting before we talk about the most recent.  You may or may not know the name Jack Wilson.  Last December, just before the Rona closed churches but not abortion clinics, the Texan put a bullet in the head of an intruder who entered his church and killed two men.  He teaches tactical handgun courses and was providing security for his congregation that day.

The video from the churches online services captured the event for all to see.  A threat developed, Jack ended it with admirable skill and a single bullet from his Sig Sauer.  I teach churches how to respond to active shooters and improve their security so this story had my undivided attention.  I watched the video on repeat; I am certainly going to use it in future classes.  I’d easily call Mr. Wilson a hero.  He defended innocent people when a deranged gunman attacked.   I’ll come back to Jack and Garrett later, let’s talk about Kyle.

So you’ve hopefully seen the video, the slowed-down video, the other video, the enhanced video and the other video.  Nothing that happens today is far from the watchful eye of a cellphone or two or seven.  It’s pretty clear that at some point in time Kyle was being followed and verbally assaulted by the now room-temperature pedophile.  The soon to be dead dimwit threw a bag that (due to lighting) some mistook for a molotov towards Kyle.  About this same time someone fires a handgun into the air.  Kyle turns around, fires and kills his attacker.

He freaks out a little bit, makes a phone call saying “I just killed someone” and begins to leave the scene.  He’s subsequently attacked by the mob; they chase him from the scene of the first shooting.  He is attacked, trips and rolls.  Shots are fired and the guy who brought a skateboard to a gun fight gets a hole in the chest.  Then a bullet blows the elbow off a “medic” who pulled a handgun out.  Doctors are unsure if he’ll be able to raise his fist to salute the revolution which as we’ve all seen may be dangerous.

It’s pretty hard to watch the video and call it anything other than self-defense.  I agree that his actions that were caught on film were all justifiable.  But before we arrange the parade, we need some answers.  Why did Kyle get separated from his group?  Why did Kyle want to be there?

Why was he alone?  His defense team just released a statement saying he was moving back and forth from a gas station and car dealership seeking to help the wounded.  Maybe that’s true.  It would be a bad tactical decision, leaving the line unassisted to go play medic, but at least an admirable one.  Some twitter reports said that he was shunned from his militia group for being a hothead although no video evidence supports those reports at this time.   It was a few days ago that past video of Kyle punching a high-school girl surfaced, so maybe he had some pent up anger issues.

The classy guy who posted the video subsequently started a gofundme for 100 bucks to buy some new shoes after using his to presumably stomp on Kyle at the unseen end of the video.  Maybe Kyle was out for some revenge after being attacked by some black schoolmates.  The fact is, we don’t know yet.

We do not know the most important part of the story, the motivations of the main character.  We have yet to finish the book.  Many people are calling Kyle a hero, because of his actions, “look how well he performed under duress” they say, “he ended up only killing guys with a criminal record!”  It’s like calling the terminator the hero for killing some street punks for their cloths in the first 10 minutes of the movie.

“Look how he took that knife to the gut without flinching!”  Many people are idolizing this kid because they can’t see any flaws in people ideologically similar to themselves.  He killed commies, I hate commies, end of story.  It’s like the “Christians” who support Trump and his favorite Bible verse from 3^rd Leviticus.  He can’t be wrong because he’s got that fabulous (R) behind his name on muh TV.

Of course some people are calling Kyle a domestic terrorist already, they, on the other side of the swinging pendulum cannot or will not admit that their political agenda has them justifying destroying private property to protest the injustices of the public system.   To them Kyle is already the villain of the story.  It doesn’t matter that he was attacked, or that if he didn’t fire his attackers would have almost certainly killed him in the street with his own rifle.

People on the opposite political spectrum raise Kyle up because their enemy wants to drag him down and vice-versa.  The two-choice machine wins again.  It divides Americans in order to conquer.  Just like with Garrett’s murder (or manslaughter), people who can’t see past the two choices the matrix offers them, choose their side and malign the other, facts be damned.

Those of you paying attention already know that the puppeteers’ strings are visible in many of the worst events of the past century.  You’ll have to excuse the tin-foil cap for a minute while I ask you to consider that everything may not be what it seems.  I am certain that the people who call themselves your leaders have been lying.  I don’t put it past the people who developed MKULTRA to use a kid who was already anxious to become part of the machine to further their goals.  Less than a year from now he could have been firing a much bigger gun halfway around the world and nobody would bat an eye.  His age isn’t important.

Why did they let this kid through the police line after he killed two people?  Why was he wearing the latex gloves?  What’s up with that hand signal?  How did he get the tiny pedo man in the temple and where did his other shots go?  All additional questions to be asked before getting your bronze Kyle Rittenhouse statue delivered.  Still the most important is: Who is Kyle?

I’ve become accustomed to questioning any story that divides Americans further and it dominates the news for more than 24 hours.  I questioned Jack Wilsons character.  I had to consider that maybe Jack paid the homeless guy to come into his church and rough up an Usher so he could have his moment.  He makes a living teaching people how to do what he did on video after all.  It’s unlikely, but I considered it.  Why?  Because you can’t call someone a hero whose intentions were villainous.

Garrett’s participation in a protest march made him an instant villain to some Americans, but he was there with the best intentions, he shouldn’t be labeled as a villain.  So maybe we should hold off on calling Kenosha Kyle a hero.  Let’s wait to find out what the whole story is first.  We can say he performed admirably in the use of his weapon, but let’s wait to hail him as a champion of freedom until we know why he left his group and what transpired off camera.  We don’t know if he threatened the mob at gunpoint or if his temper got a hold of his tongue.  We do know he idolized the thin-blue gang and somehow walked through them on his way home after killing two people.  What we do and don’t know is still being threshed out.

Maybe, most importantly, the true enemy of everyone there that night remains unquestioned.  Once again, the divided Americans fight each other while the government that just destroyed this country over the seasonal flu escapes unsinged.  Someone posted a meme glorifying Kyle’s violence using Thomas Jefferson’s famous tree of liberty quote.  “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants.  It is it’s natural manure.”  Ask yourself what blood was spilled in Kenosha last week.  Patriots?  Tyrants or neither?

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