Lakshmi Rhone wrote: > Zimmerman is a punk. He made himself appear as menacing as possible to a > black kid. He follows him, does not tell him who he is. It's not as if he > did not know he was scaring the shit out of Trayvon. He takes sadistic > pleasure in his menacing behavior. He pursues a young victim that he thinks > he can handle. He certainly says in call to the cops that he knows that he's > a teenager, though he said in court that he thought Trayvon was near his age.
> Liar. Zimmerman provokes a confrontation because he knows that he has a gun > to bail him out of a situation. Then he finds that he's losing a fight that > he provoked. Humiliated, he shoots the boy. The guy should go to jail.< Based on the general way that our society works, I'd _guess_ that Zimmerman is guilty. But even though LR's story is plausible, I don't see how she or he can be so sure of the facts. How is such direct and complete knowledge of this sort possible at this point in the process? It reminds me of how many white middle-class people on the west side of Los Angeles _knew_ from the start that OJ was guilty. -- Jim Devine / "When truth is nothing but the truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. In nature there are always so many other irrelevant things mixed up with the essential truth." -- Aldous Huxley _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
