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From: John A Imani <johnaima...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 10:00 AM
Subject: Zimmerman Case
To: "rac...@lists.riseup.net" <rac...@lists.riseup.net>, "
rac-lasupport...@lists.riseup.net" <rac-lasupport...@lists.riseup.net>, "
copwatc...@lists.riseup.net" <copwatc...@lists.riseup.net>


The George Zimmerman case and the potentially inflammatory effects of a
“Not Guilty” verdict has often been analogized to the incidents preceding
and leading to the civil disobediences in Los Angeles in 1965 and 1992.
These latter two, however, were triggered by popular perception of the
conflicts between the stated mission of the police department, i.e. “To
Protect and Serve”, and its behaviors in its actual conduct in carrying out
of it's charge. In both years, long-running periods of arbitrary and
authoritarian administering of ad hoc non-judicial punishments,
colloquially, beatings, etc, welled itself up into mass revolt against the
continuance of such tactics on the part of purported public service
employees. In a word, it was the character of society's policing power that
was being challenge.

With the Zimmerman case, it is not the policing power of society and its
conduct that is being called into question. It is that society itself. That
society with all of its suppositions, superstitions and stereotypes it has
established and engendered throughout the course of its existence. And to
choose but one aspect of that society, in this incident the relative import
of the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms and to stand one's ground while
doing so versus the human right to buy a pack of Skittles. And not be
bothered because of those suppositions, superstitions and stereotypes. And
not be stalked, followed, confronted and killed.

Will there be violence? Maybe this time, maybe not this time. But there
will be the potential violence so long as man-made rights conflict with
man's human rights. There is a reason for the famed Anatole France quote: “*The
law, in its majestic equality*, *forbids* the rich as well as the poor to
sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread “


 JAI


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