<Grin>! Good point Geoffrey!
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 8:31 AM, geoffrey theist <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 They should be repealed in every 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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