The judge in the Rittenhouse murder trial refuses to allow the victims to be called victims.
The judge said: Don’t you call them victims, just because they was shot.
But you can call them looters, if that’s the word you care.
Attorney: But judgie they was murdered, in cold blood
In the street. They never stole a nickel, so that just don’t seem fair.
The judge: Well, they was demonstrating.
And marching in the street.
Attorney: But marching is all legal.
Just walking with your feet.
The judge: I call em as I see em. And when I see those folks
they look like their itchin for a fight.
Attorney: Not so, my judge, all they was doin
was exercising rights.
The judge: The right to march? well, maybe.
But I don’t like it none.
Attorney: Still, judge is that a reason to
Attack them with a gun?
The judge: The Rittenhouse boy was serving
the interests of the law.
Attorney: The tapes show something different.
Murder is what we saw.
The judge: No, the boy came here to help. To keep the peace
and help the police kick butt.
Attorney: He was a vigilante. A madman and a nut.
The judge: Watch your mouth, attorney, in my courtroom you say only words
that I allow, or else you have to pay.
Attorney: A victim is a victim, by any name you choose.
I expect there’ll be no justice if you control the words I say.
The Old Liberal 
Can you join a crowd carrying a highly visible gun, shoot people you encounter whom you may see as threatening, and claim to have acted in self-defense? I believe that is the question confronting the jury.
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Thank you for focusing on an important story that hasn’t received sufficient coverage/outrage. Alas, we are increasingly seeing the grievous results of the decades-long remaking of the judiciary into a blatantly anti-democratic, anti-judicious—indeed dangerous—force in our national life.
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Please suggest alternatives.
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Yes, the courts used to be a place where one could hope to get justice based on the law. Didn’t always work, but at least you felt like the judge was trying to be fair. Not this guy. I expect an appeal is already being prepared.
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