Posted on 07/19/2013 11:24:42 PM PDT by John Semmens
The acquittal of George Zimmerman for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin spurred an incensed Attorney General Eric Holder to vow to rein-in “the senseless concept of self-defense.” A Florida jury decided that Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, used deadly force in self-defense after the bigger Martin attacked him, knocked him to the ground, and proceeded to beat him—breaking his nose, blackening his eyes, and bashing his head against the pavement.
“We don't live in some primitive state-of-nature where everyone must defend himself,” Holder asserted. “We are a civilized society. It is the Government's Constitutional responsibility to provide for the common defense. Granted, Government agents can't be everywhere all the time, but to use this as an excuse to allow individuals to decide how much force they can use to protect themselves is a formula for anarchy.”
The Attorney General claimed that “in an ideal world only government officers would have weapons. We are assiduously working toward that ideal, but aren't there yet. Until we get there we ought to insist that self-defense be limited to a response in-kind. If someone punches you you'd be entitled to punch back, but not to escalate by retaliating with a weapon. If this concept of self-defense had been in place, Trayvon Martin would be alive today. Zimmerman might have taken a severe beating, but he'd probably have survived. The social cost of the run-in between these two would've been lower than it turned out to be under our antiquated concept.”
While admitting that he cannot seize all the privately owned guns, Holder took some small satisfaction in his authority to seize Zimmerman's gun as “evidence” in a prospective trial for violating Martin's civil rights. “The scope of the benefit is narrow and probably temporary—though, who can say how long our investigation might take,” Holder observed. “At the very least, we have disarmed an admitted killer for a while.”
In related news, Press Secretary Jay Carney disavowed the government's responsibility to protect Zimmerman from widespread death threats. “To imply that the President has an obligation to protect this guy is ridiculous,” Carney maintained. “Besides, isn't Zimmerman an advocate for self-defense? Wasn't that his claim at his trial? I suppose he felt strong facing one unarmed teenager, but maybe isn't so brave with hundreds after his scalp. He should've thought of that before he pulled the trigger on a boy who could've been the President's son.”
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/138485-2013-07-19-semi-news-a-satire-of-recent-news-july-21-2013.htm
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I’m sick of it.
Why don’t the blacks just have their uprising and get it over with? What’s stopping them....fear of losing their benefits?
Bring it on, I tire of this constant gumming about it.
Burning a little midnight oil, John?
John, I think there was a "yet" in there.
When you pull out the map which shows where both gentlemen were at the start, then the distance that Trayvon covered walking away, then walking the distance of three apartment buildings back to where Zimmerman was standing....you are left with an odd occurrence. A rational logical-thinking guy....perceiving anyone following them....would never do something this stupid. Confrontation?
I think the kid was hyped up on drugs, and paranoid. He did exactly what a paranoid person would do. By walking back....he just invited a potential mess.
And I’ll add this comment....let’s say this was a seventeen-year old Trayvon....who now carried a knife, or had a gun on himself. Would this had been an entirely different episode? My humble guess is that Zimmerman would be dead, and the most that Trayvon would have gotten? Maybe fifteen years in prison...on some manslaughter charge, not murder in the second degree. He would have gone off to prison...gotten saved by converting to Islam, and changed his name to Muhammadvon as he left prison.
Without a doubt one of your best.
AMEN!!
I don't think that's what's stopping them...they know they would go into an uprising as about 1/7th of the total population and would come out of it with about 1/10th. They'd have some initial success in the urban centers, but as soon as they tried to spread out they'd run into a lot of angry crackas with guns. The carnage in the inner cities will motivate them to resist the ferals.
Yikes! Are you sure that’s not verbatim?
IMO Trayvon was doing his thug walk with thug attitude and dressed like a thug so he could get a thrill from intimidating people in a place where such a display is not normal.
Enter Zimmerman, who turned that scenario on its head by making Trayvon feel intimidated by following and being on the phone.
Right after they lost contact, it sank into Trayvon how he became the scared one and that enraged him. Trayvon then went back determined to attack Zimmerman to repair the damage done to his thuggish self identity.
facts... thats old skool.... we in a new skool now... facts dont mean anything to leftists
I call him Traydown
How about the concept that in an ideal world no government officers would have weapons?
But, as a barrister, he knows that this is not an ideal world; and starting with the person and peccadillos of Eric Holder, it's not going to be.
OOOOps!
Ya got me this time!
A traydown would be tragic.
John, your satire often contains a great deal of truth... truths that many are afraid of.
Keep up the fine work my FRiend.
Slotholder already beat you to it, John.
One of your very best, John. Kudos!
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