Posted on 11/30/2021 9:06:10 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
HE IS NOT ENROLLED...
HE HAS NOT GONE THROUGH THE ADMISSIONS PROCESS...
Why are they trying to indicate that he was booted out.
God, I hate the MSM.
That kid doesn’t need college. The movie rights alone will make him a top 5%’er. This kid should wipe himself with an ASU jersey.
I completely get the distinction you make...and it is a valid one.
Does anyone even know if he graduated high school yet?
If this University was honest they would suspend these students and welcome Kyle on campus. Send a message that illegal mob rule’s day is over.
That’s hilarious. I was thinking Jakob…but George works.
Penalties for the likes of big dollar companies like the New York Times, CNN, and fat cat politicians rich with Chinese payoffs like Brandon need to be well up into hundreds of millions and perhaps a billion in order to inflict the type of pain warranted by their egregious actions. Fifty million is chump change to them and is hardly enough to even make them think twice about doing it again. I want Kyle to be the first billionaire from defamation lawsuits.
ASU is beneath Rittenhouse.
He should get a West Point appointment with a career path into Special Forces leadership.
Since he has actual combat experience he’ll be unique.
I know. I would like to see it too, but I also don’t want to use him as a cudgel for my conservative thirst to see these scumbags pay out the nose.
If he chooses to be that hammer-I will enthusiastically support him...if he chooses it.
It is unfortunate that our society as a whole though tolerates an unhealthy amount of outrageous, immoral, unlawful and unethical behavior by some segments of our population. The rot runs deep sadly.
Student groups can advocate anything they want. Mere advocacy doesn’t violate anyone’s civil rights. If the State University (a governmental actor) behaves contrary to the law or the Constitution in response to said advocacy, that’s another story.
I have always thought that to be true, perhaps it has only taken this long for our immorality and irreligiosity to catch up with us.
I have recently made it a personal goal to read the Bible from cover to cover, and while the Old Testament is rough going, it is hard to not see over, and over, and over again how God deals with those who have turned their faces from him.
As we largely have.
And that worries me.
There could be even more mischief with “Kyle Rittenhouse” sightings all over the country—could be a board game!
Current reporting says he has not graduated from or enrolled in his IL Public High School. His what I did last summer report would have been epic.
He’s probably in search of a higher quality educational institution and a better class of students.
Why would he go to ASU? he can soon afford to go to a real school.
Next up: a demand to change the name of the Multicultural Center to the Joseph “Jojo” Rosenbaum Memorial Shrine. Maybe Mark Ruffalo can be the keynote speaker at the dedication ceremony.
Part of me wants the system to indeed make "The bar for proving defamation . . . high” - because someone has to take a case to SCOTUS calling for the revision, if not the outright overruling, of the 1964 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan decision.That was a unanimous decision - with enthusiastic concurrences - by the infamous Warren Court. The ruling was, essentially, that the First Amendment changed - attenuated - libel law. Specifically for government officials, but extended in practice to people who get turned into “public figures” by the media.
We all love us some First Amendment, or we wouldn’t be posting here (with the support of the owner of FR, who is the one under whose 1A rights FR is published). But the historical truth is, of course, that the Federalists who composed the unamended Constitution had serious reasons why they didn’t want to include a bill of rights in it. They agreed to include one by amendment only because they couldn’t get the Constitution ratified without making that promise.
Since the rights Americans took for granted were products of the organically growing Common Law, any effort to enumerate them all would have been both novel and a fool’s errand. Common Law was then, is now, and into the indefinite future can be expected to - be evolving. A complete enumeration of rights was therefore simply not in the cards. The further problem with a bill of rights was the likelihood that people would (correctly) assert that “the right you are claiming is not enumerated in the Bill of Rights and wrongly prevail over you despite the fact that the right you were seeking court vindication of was a right which had been taken for granted at the time the Bill of Rights was ratified. The danger, that is, that a bill of rights might function as a ceiling over our rights, not (as the AntiFederalists wanted) a floor under them.
The Federalists undertook to deflect that danger by passing the Ninth and Tenth Amendments:
Amendment 9 - Ratified 12/15/1791.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.Amendment 10 - Ratified 12/15/1791.The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.Before the ratification of 1A, everyone understood that any government official had the right to sue for libel or slander. And they still understood that after the Tenth Amendment was ratified. And no other relevant amendments had changed that before the 1964 Warren Court ruling to the contrary.Sullivan makes sense only under the assumption that journalism as a whole was a politically unbiased institution. But in fact Sullivan “set loose the dogs of war” against any politician who did not go along and get along with “the media” (read, the wire services and their member press outlets). And even, as you suggest, against an innocent 17-yo boy.
The ideal solution would be for SCOTUS to reinstate the vulnerability to libel action specifically against the wire services and their members, Facebook and Twitter, and against the FCC and its licensees. That would suppress the industrial scale libel, but leave small scale opinions as free-fire zones. It is also necessary to enjoin government schools not to teach the absurd proposition that journalism is objective.
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