{"id":10780,"date":"2021-12-23T19:39:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T00:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idavox.com\/?p=10780"},"modified":"2021-12-23T19:39:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T00:39:28","slug":"so-did-anyone-see-kyle-in-arizona-with-known-neo-fascists-and-white-supremacists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idavox.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/23\/so-did-anyone-see-kyle-in-arizona-with-known-neo-fascists-and-white-supremacists\/","title":{"rendered":"So Did Anyone See Kyle in Arizona With Known neo-Fascists and White Supremacists?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We all did, Rittenhouse. We all did.<\/strong> Just like we always do.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Since his acquittal last month of charges that he murdered two people and injured a third during a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin during a protest against the police shooting of Jacob Blake, 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse has been doing the conservative circuit meeting with the most prominent in right wing circles. And since the verdict, conservatives have been championing the idea that Rittenhouse\u2019s acquittal somehow vindicates him of any charges leveled at him for being a white supremacist and he should be able to file suit against media outlets and President Biden for accusing him of being one.  It will be a curious thing to see how such lawsuits will fare, but the association with some of the worst elements of right wing circles that include the white supremacists he is counted among will not help such an effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is something that even his attorneys have warned against him doing. \u201cHe\u2019s very recognizable right now,\u201d Rittenhouse attorney Mark Richards told Fox News. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people who I don\u2019t think have his best interests at heart, and probably want to make him a symbol of something I don\u2019t think he wants to be necessarily associated with.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regardless of who it is he wants to be associated with, Rittenhouse seems to be enjoying the attention, as evidenced by the rock star reception he received at a recent conference in Phoenix, Arizona sponsored by the conservative activist group Turning Point USA. As he stepped onto the stage to join a panel discussion, he was greeted with fireworks and the audience cheering his name. Joining him on the panel however were some particularly dubious characters: Drew Hernandez, who provided \u201cexpert testimony\u201d at Rittenhouse\u2019s trial, Charlie Kirk, the founder and head of Turning Point USA, who recently called for a citizen force to be deputized and put on the border so they can protect “white demographics in America,\u201d Blaze TV host Elijah Schaffer, known for his attacks on Muslims, people of color and the LGBTQ+ community, and white supremacist Jack Posobiec who was recently hired by TPUSA to host one of their programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Southern Poverty Law Center recently published a series of articles<\/a> about Posobiec\u2019s white supremacist history which included promoting an event<\/a> put on in April 2017 by the Polish neo-Nazi group Ob\u00f3z Narodowo-Radykalny (ONR) and working with National Policy Institute\u2019s Richard Spencer, who said in a an interview conducted by One People\u2019s Project that is referred to in the article that Posobiec called himself a white nationalist sympathizer. Posobiec and Spencer has since had a falling out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kyle Rittenhouse gets hero's welcome from Charlie Kirk and crowd at Turning Point USA conference – yes, the same Charlie Kirk who recently said we should \u201cDeputize A Citizen Force, Put Them On The Border\u201d and that an immigrant "invasion" is threatening \u201cWhite Demographics.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/L5q5kbVp7n<\/a><\/p>— IREHR (@IREHR) December 21, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>