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Trial of George Zimmerman Could Trigger Another Rodney King
The Daily Beast ^ | April 18, 2012 | Mansfield Frazier

Posted on 04/17/2012 11:27:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The paramount concern has to be to avert a large-scale racial calamity.

Stupid me. I thought the business of the courts was justice.

/johnny

21 posted on 04/17/2012 11:52:19 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
So what would a fair outcome look like? To my mind, the government offers Zimmerman a plea deal that has him back on the street within this decade, and he accepts it quietly.

To my mind, the fellow has the fair trial he's entitled to, and if he's found innocent he is released and any rioters and those inciting them shot as they deserve to be. How's that for "fair outcome", Mr. Frazier?

22 posted on 04/17/2012 11:56:50 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
On the other we’ve got the equally clownish neo-Nazis, goose-stepping around on their self-appointed mission to protect the white race.

The gentleman is lying his face off.

23 posted on 04/17/2012 11:59:17 PM PDT by rogue yam
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
a not-guilty verdict in this case could very easily turn the racial cold war into a very hot one.

Is this a column or a blackmail note? This little proposition is a bit different from the Rodney King situation. That was just a question of an obviously guilty SOB getting beaten up and then let off with bumps served. (Okay, while destroying the careers of the cops who were defending themselves, which was a crime.)

But this notion is, if possible, crazier. If the demand being made is that occasionally, some citizens must gracefully confess to sins they did not commit and go to jail because otherwise the mobs will exact vengeance on the whole society, then all bets are off. If the truth isn't admissible, we're already at war. Let's have the hot one, and get rid of this totalitarian s#$% once and for all.

Which reminds me: I think law-abiding Floridians are way better armed than the Angelinos were.

25 posted on 04/18/2012 12:03:59 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: LadyDoc
how does that saying go?

“You don’t realize that it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed.”

Caiaphas John 11:49-52, 18:14

26 posted on 04/18/2012 12:04:11 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Rom 13:4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good...he beareth not the sword in vain)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
OBTW, doesn't this stupid SOB remember that the Rodney King Riots were directly instigated by by the Mayor of LA who urged "His people" to "Take to the streets to show their feelings?" On Television?

If the LAPD had IMMEDIATELY done their job (Chief Darryl Gates was at an Awards Banquet and didn't even know what the hell was happening!) it would have been a short disturbance indeed.

Then the uber-wimp GHW BUsh came in and instead of arresting the Mayor for Inciting a Riot, made sure the acquitted cops were charged with "Civil Rights" violations and condemned to serious time on completely trumped up charges that even enraged .... for a while ...the ACLU! ... again to appease African-American mobs. One smart move in LA would have won him re-election!

And BTW, Bob Zimmerman did not speak out against Obama and Holder until AFTER they had shot their mouths off. I have no idea who this Mansfield Frazier guy is ... except maybe some token newsroom geek who cannot wait to go pull the Obama lever.

27 posted on 04/18/2012 12:06:42 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (So, Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out if Obama is a Natural Born Citizen?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; jobim; LadyDoc

The writer has decided in advance what “justice” would look like and what sort of outcome he wants. He isn’t concerned about a fair trial for Mr. Zimmerman or examination of the facts.


28 posted on 04/18/2012 12:07:56 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“The paramount concern has to be to avert a large-scale racial calamity.”

F that, you racist POS. Bring on the calamity. I don’t want to share my country with people like you.


29 posted on 04/18/2012 12:13:59 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: DNA.2012
Threats of riots should not determine anyone’s fate.

Right there with ya. I'm tired of this sh*t.

30 posted on 04/18/2012 12:15:03 AM PDT by KJC1 (Go Newt!)
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To: SamuraiScot
I think law-abiding Floridians are way better armed than the Angelinos were.

The New Black Panthers cannot possibly be dumb enough to riot anywhere but in large urban areas where they will be under the protection of Black Mayors and Black Police Chiefs. (aka "The Kiss of Death" for any American City) And you can bet they will not be taking on any Korean shopkeepers.

31 posted on 04/18/2012 12:15:03 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (So, Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out if Obama is a Natural Born Citizen?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mr. Frazier, I was in LA for the ‘92 riots.

I don’t live anywhere near people like that anymore. I was on my own then, so anyone in a new potential riot zone shall be on their own should it happen again.

I don’t wish for any riots to come, but I sure as shit don’t care if any riots come.


32 posted on 04/18/2012 12:15:03 AM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: SamuraiScot
"Is this a column or a blackmail note?"

Yes.

33 posted on 04/18/2012 12:18:08 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Blackmail? Really Mr. Frazier, how disgusting. Mr Zimmermman deserves a fair trlal and if found not guilty any rioters should be held accountable for their actions. I want justice for all.


34 posted on 04/18/2012 12:18:29 AM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So, you are all just a bunch of thugs, eh?

I already knew that.


35 posted on 04/18/2012 12:21:07 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

To your mind a Cairo outcome qoild result in the deprivation of a man’s innocence ?

To avoid a synthetic injustice ?

To avoid a so called race war?

Again whom?

A Hispanic?

A “White Hispanic?”

You are a joke. A travesty to anyone possessing reason and fairness.

You want a predetermined outcome and you publish your premise as an article of racial justice.

Justice should be blind and predicated on the facts. not your feelings of something the rest of ua don’t recognize as some endemic cancer and blight of white or Hispanic existence that by its color and quantity proves your theory.

Go to hell.

I too lived through Rodney King. I looked for a friend in LA who I find was safe only to return to San Francisco and have my evening interrupted by societill miscreants looking for any reason to burn down “Whities” vestiges of relaxation, fun and shopping.

FU and Your premise.

If zimmerman is found innocent or the charges dropped, you should quietly accept it, the same as we did with OJ.

FO and have good evening.

We are prepared for your “Get Even Society”.

It won’t end well for anyone.

But, you don’t care about the consequences.

Again, FO.


36 posted on 04/18/2012 12:30:00 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Slings and Arrows; shibumi

Wanna borrow my bucket?

Let it burn.

Fire cleanses.

Shibumi, bring on the tagline.


37 posted on 04/18/2012 12:33:03 AM PDT by Salamander (Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
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To: donna

Fubar


38 posted on 04/18/2012 12:33:20 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: gigster

+1


39 posted on 04/18/2012 12:35:22 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: thecodont

Sounds like a not-very-thinly-veiled threat, to me.

Convict or we tear you apart.


40 posted on 04/18/2012 12:35:52 AM PDT by Salamander (Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
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