---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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 -- JAI RAC-LA -- JAI RAC- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
