The Waukesha Christmas parade massacre is about to evaporate as a story.
Why is this? Why the media blackout? Why the prudence, all of a sudden?
Despite the outright terror of the vehicular assault and murder that took place at the 2021 Christmas Parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin on November 21 (a week ago as of this posting), there exists a danger that the story will quickly fade from public view.
By this past mid-week, the story had largely faded from public view. It’s a stretch to say it isn’t being covered at all, but the national media hasn’t kept this story front-and-center. This is eyebrow-raising, as mass murder via vehicular assault isn’t something that happens every day and, as you’ll see, often proved newsworthy.
But, first, what’s the media providing coverage of these days, anyway?
Close to a year after the U.S. Capitol riot of 1/6 that cost the life of one person (an unarmed rioter, at the hands of Capitol Police), it is still this incident that occupies much of the space of national media coverage. Meanwhile, politicians (including the sitting president, regardless of spin) and talking heads in the media, who had all sorts of things to say about Kyle Rittenhouse (much of it untrue) when the shooting incident he was recently tried and acquitted for occurred, don’t seem to have much to say about the Waukesha incident. If anything, they suddenly seem keen on getting the facts straight, this time.
Why is this? Why the media blackout? Why the prudence, all of a sudden?
There are many reasons, but the one I’ll focus on is this - the Waukesha incident was a policy failure, through-and-through. This wasn’t just the product of evil men doing evil things, it was evil men doing evil things because callous and cruel people in positions of power and influence like criminal justice reform crusading Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm aided and abetted them in doing so. The idea that someone who, only weeks earlier, had attempted to run the mother of his child down with a car could be out on the streets on $1,000 bail is unfathomable and could only happen either deliberately or negligently, both of which are totally unacceptable.
Yes, these people are callous and cruel. If you’re still in denial, read it straight from the horse’s mouth regarding his progressive criminal justice reform policies (from 2007):
"Is there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into treatment program, who's going to go out and kill somebody? You bet," Chisholm said. "Guaranteed. It's guaranteed to happen. It does not invalidate the overall approach."
14 years later, the chickens have come home to roost.
Some may point out that DA Chisholm’s jurisdiction doesn’t cover Waukesha. This is true and actually proves the point: policies often have consequences that go beyond arbitrarily-drawn legal boundaries. After all, wasn’t a common refrain among those who considered Kyle Rittenhouse guilty of crimes against humanity that he “crossed state lines?”
But, apparently, none of that matters. What does matter, however, is that a couple of independent journalists didn’t exercise prudence in their coverage of the Waukesha killer:
Of course, none of this means anything in the light of the media’s own abysmal coverage of the case. First, there was rather hasty attempt to explain the actions of the perpetrator, Darrell Brooks, as him “fleeing” from another crime that’d taken place nearby, as if Brooks had mowed down a crowd in a desperate attempt to get to safety. Sure, the media is reporting what they’re told by officials, but the idea anyone would consider vehicular assault of a crowd of innocents anything other than totally intentional is curious. This “fleeing a crime scene” narrative persisted well into the next day.
Then, take a look at how CNN chose to report on the story a week after it occurred:
Finally, there was The Washington Post’s coverage of the incident just days after the incident occurred:
“…a car drove through a Christmas parade…” “Caused by an SUV.” Wholly consistent with their religiously-held belief that inanimate objects, like firearms, pose deadly risks without human interaction, those who have bestowed themselves the responsibility (remember, we never asked them to) of informing the rest of us what happened and why have chosen to implicate the weapon, not the perpetrator, as the cause of this massacre.
Of course, when the Charlottesville car attack of August 2017 occurred amid heightened political tensions, the media seemed far less concerned about the mode of attack and more about the who and why:
Note the date: August 13, 2017. This was the day after the incident and after it’d become clear the identity of the perpetrator and his motivations. In other words, before all the facts had become known, the media had already settled upon the narrative that focused on what the perpetrator was and what he believed. They certainly got it right. So, why not do the same with Darrell Brooks?
After all, Brooks is no mystery. He possesses a criminal record a country-mile long, dating back over 20 years. These aren’t petty offenses, either. They include multiple instances of aggravated battery, domestic violence, firearms violations, and is a registered sex offender as a result of impregnating a 15-year-old girl.
As a point of comparison, you’d think Kyle Rittenhouse, whose greatest offense thus far is being in the wrong place at the wrong time and daring to defend himself with deadly force, was a once-in-a-generation kind of heinous criminal, so much so his bail was set at $2 million when he was arrested!
But, more to the point, Brooks made his hateful, violent views very clear. I won’t directly post the material onto my blog because the stuff’s absolutely abhorrent. It’s the sort of thing a White person could never get away with posting on social media and would be front-and-center if such views ever manifested in any level of violence, not just mass murder. Even the 2016 Berlin truck attack, which also occurred during the holidays, received a significant amount of media coverage in the U.S. and the attack’s association with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) wasn’t exactly underplayed.
But what’s really different this time is how Brooks’ actions seem to have a hint of endorsement by the regime. Take a look at some of these reactions to the attack:
FYI: Mary Lemanski, at the time, managed social media for DuPage County, Illinois’ local Democratic Party.
Here’s some more instant classics. Keep in mind, many of these accounts belong to folks with thousands of followers on social media or are professional-types, so to dismiss them as “nobodies” isn’t exactly fair. Contrary to conventional wisdom, these aren’t people on the fringes saying this, these are perfectly mainstream folks who are brave enough to say the quiet part out loud:
Holding these awful views is one thing. Sharing them out loud in public is something you do because you think you can get away with it. As I said previously, the cruelty is the point. There’s no hiding and denying it at this point.
At the risk of sounding cynically fatalist, it’s hard not to think that the media providing cover for someone like Brooks is intentional. As I explained in my post concerning anarcho-tyranny, criminals like Brooks are the real enforcers of the regime. As they certainly aren’t employed by our government, media, and universities, they provide their “services” at virtually no cost and the disassociation means the regime never has to take responsibility for the actions of the criminals.
What does happen, however, is that it creates an atmosphere of fear and terror authorities can easily manipulate to shore up their own power and secure the legitimacy and viability of their regime. After all, only the state can effectively tackle crime, right? The regime made that very clear in its failed attempt to destroy Kyle Rittenhouse, all while never addressing the fact the state was entirely absent in Kenosha in the summer of 2020.
If you still don’t believe those in power aren’t working against us, I’ll leave you with what Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib had to say only a day after the Waukesha massacre:
Nothing, and I mean nothing gets in the way of the revolution. Not even five dead and over 40 injured.
Max Remington writes about armed conflict and prepping. Follow him on Twitter at @AgentMax90.
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