Daily Verse | Romans 10:9-10
That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.

Monday’s Reading: Romans 12-16

Happy Monday, dear Broadside readers. Shiplap is just barn wood pretending to be dignified.

I’m still in recovery mode, but making progress. I’m hoping to blog every day this week, even Thanksgiving Day. Thanks for the prayers and personal notes of encouragement.

So the jury found Kyle Rittenhouse noT gUiLTy on all charges, the absolute best outcome he could have had. And while I applaud the jurors who deliberated and delivered Kyle his freedom, I still can’t believe that the charges were brought and Rittenhouse was forced to defend himself against what amounted to a political show trial.

I don’t know the intricacies of how the legal system works, but the State of Wisconsin had no case. None. Every video showed that Kyle was under attack, that he sought to remove himself from harm by retreating, and that those he shot were the aggressors. The prosecution basically questioned why he was carrying a gun and why he didn’t take the beating instead of taking the shots.

This is a complete inversion of what our moral order has traditionally been: if you’re being attacked you have a right to defend yourself. No one has a right to attack you and expect that you will submit to the beating.

But over the last year, we’ve seen that our moral standards are being inverted by the Left, who cheer Soros-backed prosecutors like St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner (prosecuted the McCloskeys for brandishing weapons on their own property), Cook County, Illinois State’s Attorney Kim Foxx (dismissed case against Jessie Smollet), and San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who promised to dismantle mass incarceration by reducing sentences or releasing convicts early.

Here’s how Boudin’s changes are working:

San Francisco has been struggling with a surge in crime this year as it reopened during the pandemic. In the Central district, for example, larceny and theft incidents are up almost 88% from a year earlier, and overall crime is up almost 52%, according to police statistics.

These prosecutors have turned our justice system upside-down by letting criminals get away with crime, based on a misguided belief that the criminals are all oppressed victims and those being robbed somehow deserve it because white supremacy or something.

This is all of a piece, as the social Marxists seek to destabilize our society through their irrational, misinformed beliefs. To give you an example of what I mean, here’s a hot take by some twidiot (H/T Ace of Spades HQ):

“It only cost him three black lives.”

“#WhitePrivilege.”

He’s not the only one who seemed to consume the lies of the media and the progressive grapevine. Either that or he just assumed that it was “three black lives.” Never mind that the facts of the case are one hundred percent different.

We live in a society that no longer values the truth or the rule of law. It runs on sound bites and emotion.

So while the jury reached the right decision, proving that at least in Kenosha, WI, some semblance of sanity still exists, We the People are finding the rule of law and our historic moral code under attack. There is and will continue to be unrelenting pressure brought to bear on traditional American culture until the aggressors hit an immovable object.

We’re going to have to find our reasons to not just resist, but eventually stand firm and not back down. Not sure what it’s going to take, but that time is coming. Maybe the jury in Kenosha felt the same.

Maybe.

But don’t take any chances. Arm yourself and buy ammo.