Posted on 07/16/2013 10:47:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Lincoln did no such thing. I'm surprised that a law school, hell, even a college graduate, would say that he did.
Blatant lie.
The problem has been the focus on irrelevant arguments some of which are actually unsupported by the evidence.
1. GZ racially profiled TM There is no evidence of this.
2. GZ disobeyed an order by the police * The civilian dispatcher, Sean Noffke, testified that he did not give GZ an order and, in fact, he, like his fellow dispatchers, are trained not make comments that sound like commands. * Noffke also testified under cross that, as a result of his asking GZ which way TM was going, GZ could have reasonably interpreted this as being asked to follow Martin. * It is also not a crime in Florida to disregard a comment made by a civilian dispatcher.
3. GZ got out of his car Not a crime on public property and not negligent either.
4. GZ followed TM Again, anyone can follow anyone on a public street unless the followee has obtained a restraining order against the follower and even there, the RS only places time, place, and manner restrictions on the person enjoined.
5. GZ wasnt really injured * Under Floridas self-defense laws, one doesnt have to be injured AT ALL to use deadly force * No one is required to refrain from defending himself while another is engaged in or attempting to commit a felony.
6. TM is dead through no fault of his own * If you believe that TM assaulted GZ, then he IS dead as a result of his own actions.
7. GZ could have left * Under Florida law, there is not a duty to withdraw rather than use deadly force * TM was straddling GZ so how the latter was supposed to leave the scene is unanswered.
8. GZ was armed and TM wasnt * Ones fists can be considered weapons and can result in severe bodily harm or death.
* GZ was legally carrying a weapon * There is no requirement under the law that the same weapon be used by the assailant * A homeowner can kill an intruder whether or not he has been threatened * Those that attack cannot feign surprise if they are met with superior firepower.
9. Stand Your Ground! * SYG is NOT at issue in this trial. * The defense is a classic self-defense case.
10. Black men NEVER get to use SYG! * Wrong http://tinyurl.com/nboht35
11. GZ is a man and TM was a boy! * As if boys dont commit murder, rape, and assault everyday in this country.
You’re right and furthermore, this crap has gotten way too far out of line and too damn tiresome.
ENOUGH.
It did not apply to Union states that still allowed slavery.
Had it done that, then the Confederacy would likely have won.
How would you like that, "Kam"?
Thanks to the proliferation of Stand Your Ground laws, America is in danger of turning back into a country where no black person has any civil rights which any armed white racist vigilante feels bound to respect.
Oh. I guess I didn't know black people are still prohibited by Jim Crow laws from keeping and bearing arms.
Those people do not deal in facts.
Zimmerman had a broken nose and bruises to his face, and lacerations and bruises on the back of his head.
Zimmerman also had grass stains on his back and the back of his legs.
Martin, OTOH, had grass stains on his knees, and had only two injuries. Scraped knuckles, and the single bullet wound that killed him.
It is clear what happened. And so it is time that we removed this lie:
And replaced it with the truth:
But with the race baiting, hate America, get "whitey," crowd, the truth of what happened does not matter. Advancing their goal of "fundamentally changing" America is all that matters.
One thing...for once, Obama actually got it right. Now that we know so much more about Trayvon, it is true...if Obama had a boy, hhe would have been just like Trayvon.
Ya know what pisses me off?
My town was a part of the underground rail way.
No one in my family ever had a slave.
But my entire life I have to pay and pay and pay, because of my skin color.
The law is blind, or at least it should be blind.
That serves the least amongst us.
It is not mob justice but egalitarianism.
I have been on the wrong side of the law and unjustly so.
Do blacks really imagine they are the only people to ever suffer injustice?
I expect these idiots will grasp the overplaying of their hand.
Black Law, you know. It’s a whole other constitution. Whitey to camps.
Pardon me. WILL NOT GRASP the overplaying of their hand
So why do they try to say Zimmerman was at fault when it was Martin who really had the chance to avoid a confrontation - "run away"?
Martin did not have to confront Zimmerman the way he did. He could have asked why Zimmerman was following him and after being told that he was the Neighborhood Watchman just checking things out, Martin could have ID'd himself and been on his way home (with his "Skittles").
But no, Martin had to initiate a violent confrontation, probably such as what he is used to in his environment (and that does not necessarily mean "black"!).
Liberals are always harping on how kids turn bad due to the environment they're brought up in. Well, here was a perfect chance for them to step up to the plate and put their words to action. But what did they do? They chose to play the race card.
Martin is dead because he wanted to play the tough guy, maybe even thought he had to, such as it is in today's society.
It feels that way.
The majority of Americans would be shocked to sit down and examine 1855 America. The vast number of residents in Alabama....probably over 90 percent...did not own slaves. To convince the public over the past one hundred years that all of those Alabama residents got into the Civil War....because they wanted to right to own slaves....is totally bogus. There is a total lack of understanding of American life and how things really developed.
Who the Eff is calling for a good old fashioned Lynching?
Liberals, that’s who.
Now: Remember who made the Klan? Who was the one and only Grand Kleagle senator?
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