"Traydown, when the Guam capsized"
Posted on 07/24/2013 7:20:06 AM PDT by TigerClaws
“overwhelming evidence” ??
They must be talking about a different case, one that had any evidence at all
If Martin had survived to be tried for the two counts of aggravated batter he racked up, I am sure he would have gotten a jury of his peers.
However, since Martin was not on trial, this isn’t relevant.
At least Trayvon got to select his own jury, it was his choice of Zimmerman.
America has an extraordinarily peculiar and, IMO, counter-productive jury selection system.
In Britain a pool of perhaps 200 is brought in, any obvious challenges dealt with, such as family members of cops, etc. Then a random jury is chosen for each trial by a computer.
I think such a system is better than our present one of spending weeks or months with the two sides competing to stack the deck.
Jim, you alma mater called. They want their diploma back.
After watching and listening to the Justice 4 Trayvon mobs, it should be obvious that Obama followers/liberals cannot or will not analyze information for themselves and are easily led by any charlatan who steps up to the microphone.
Watching the trial was admittedly an eye opening experience to me.
Witness after witness backed Zimmerman’s story and was patently obvious he was acting in self defense.
Yet there was this MSM narrative (concocted by the family first to cash in and then politicians to exploit racial divisions and keep their base motivated - apparently hatred is the only unifying force) that whatever the testimony was that day and whatever evidence came in, ALL of the talking heads (Nancy Grace being the worst) would keep repeating the lies over and over.
The picture of TM as a 12 year old... innocent child... did nothing wrong... hunted down... racially profiled... white vs. black.
The victim mentality has created a disconnect from reality. That’s my only explanation.
Year after year of ‘you’re a victim, racism is keeping you down, it’s the white man’ from MSM and liberal media has resulted in a psychological break from reality.
Like the dog beat when a bell rings, ANY event that remotely involves race closes down all mental faculties for lefties of all races. They immediately jump to conclusions and any information or facts contrary to their persecution complex reality are filtered out and ignored.
The THUG was not on trial, so he gets no jury of peers or otherwise. In the court of public opinion the verdict was proper because Zimmerman got a fair trial.
His “peers” were named ‘Smith’ and ‘Wesson’.
He’s a lawyer and he made those statements? LOL
I wonder who took the bar exam for him.
In their minds, this means 6 illiterate gang bangers. No sarc tag.
LOL! I didn’t hear that.
Don’t we teach civics anymore?
The entire point of a jury is to insure that an innocent man is not convicted because of bias or hate.
Therefore, the jury is to be composed of HIS peers.
That puts a final “STOP” to any attempt by the state to railroad someone on bias or hate grounds;
and even a tyrannical state cannot CONVICT someone it goes
after (although it can charge and prosecute him) if HIS OWN PEERS refuse to support the state.
The “victim” isn’t in need of any “protection” from the state, and so doesn’t have a say.
(And why insist that members of a lynch mob be included on a jury which will judge the one they are trying to get?)
‘Wee Willie’ Trayvon had lots of peers through windows, and trying at locks. Zimmerman caught him at it. Martin didn’t like getting caught and attacked Zimmerman. And you know the rest.
But we’ll re-tell the story as many times as those seeking “racial justice” want to hear it.
And tread on us at your own peril, ‘gangsta thugs.’
Trayvon WAS on trial, and he DID have a jury... but it was a jury of 1, and the choice was not aggravated assault, battery, or attempted murder. The choice was a simple upstairs or downstairs. I suspect this juror’s decision was downstairs.
Indeed, George’s opponent was the city of Sanford (or, was it the county or the state of Floriduh?), and not TM, nor TM’s family.
A “community” isn’t in danger from a conviction, either;
so it has no reason to be represented on a jury.
(Why put klan members on a jury in the old South to judge
an accused black man—just to satisfy “the community”?)
A jury is always and 100% meant to protect an innocent defendant.
Nothing else.
And weakening that protection is simply giving the lynch mob a say in a conviction.
btw, the Supreme Court “broke” the function of the jury system when it ruled that juries could be representative of “the local community”—meaning, that there could be a “racial balance”—
which effectively destroyed the entire purpose of the jury of peers.
(One imagines it was giving in to pressure and trendiness—not something the “guardians of the Constitution” should
be involved with.)
We need to reset that; otherwise we just hand out ropes to the jurors as they enter the jury box.
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