the left has waited for a scenario like this. if only George Zimmerman had cooperated by being by being a full blown cracker instead of half baked.
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > I found the infomercial of the fat broads in pink tutus dancing in a > circle singing about the virtues of a vacuum cleaner far more interesting > than this entire mess. > > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Keith In Tampa <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Thanks for sharing this article Michael. As Shafer openly admits, he >> didn't watch the whole trial, (I caught most of it) and I think his >> premise is just a little skewed, but he brings up an excellent point; a >> point that is, (as Plain Ol's calls it) "Spot On". >> >> In my humble opinion, our Nations' States, Counties and municipalities >> all made a grave, serious mistake, like here in Florida, when in 1985 we >> removed the "law" that required and mandated it a citizen's duty to use >> whatever force necessary to resist an illegal or wrongful arrest. >> >> This was replaced with statutes that mandated it was illegal to resist a >> law enforcement officer.....In Florida, the minor infraction is titled: >> "resisting an officer without violence" and the felonious charge is >> captioned: "resisting an officer with violence". Both of these statutes, >> but especially the "without violence" charge are "catch-all" criminal >> infractions and hard to prove against. They should be repealed in every >> jurisdiction, and the old laws that required a citizen to resist illegal >> arrests be reinorporated. >> >> I believe that this is just one more check to balance out overly >> aggressive and errant law enforcement officers. >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 9:23 PM, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> *What Bothered Me Most About the Zimmerman Trial >>> *Butler Shaffer >>> July 14, 2013 >>> >>> I did not watch the entirety of this trial, but I did watch most of the >>> closing arguments. There was a tone to the prosecution’s summation to the >>> jury that left me with the impression that the core of George Zimmerman’s >>> offense was that he was *not* a police officer. While giving >>> lip-service to the propriety -- even the desirability -- of “neighborhood >>> watch” practices, the state’s prosecutors saw a conflict between ordinary >>> people and “official” police officers doing what Zimmerman did. Toward the >>> end of the state’s summation, it was said that if a person wanted to do >>> what George Zimmerman did “you’d better have one of these” (whereupon a >>> photo of a policeman’s badge was projected onto the screen). >>> >>> What the state was implicitly acknowledging -- whether such was its >>> intent or not -- was the real-world dual standard that operates on the >>> streets of virtually every city in every state: a police officer will >>> almost never be held to account, criminally, for wrongs committed against >>> innocent victims. Take the identical facts in the Zimmerman case and change >>> just one: have George Zimmerman be a city-appointed police officer. Is >>> there anyone so naïve as to believe that his actions would have turned him >>> into a criminal defendant? Would the event have even made it into the >>> media -- apart, perhaps, from a blurb news report on page 23 of the local >>> newspaper? Because the state is defined as a system enjoying a monopoly on >>> the use of violence, its practitioners must be shielded from the >>> consequences of their violent acts. >>> >>> I shall not hold my breath awaiting the media babblers addressing this >>> issue. The institutionalized keepers-of-the-questions-to-be-asked would >>> never be so foolish or careless as to allow such a thought to surface. >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. >>> For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum >>> >>> * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ >>> * It's active and moderated. 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