It's the bizzaro logic of race pimps.
Posted on 09/26/2007 10:07:36 AM PDT by KingofZion
*** I do not question the sincerity or motivation of the 10,000 or more protesters who descended on Jena last week, after riding hundreds of miles on buses. But long before reaching our town of 3,000 people, they had decided that a miscarriage of justice was taking place here. Their anger at me was summed up by a woman who said, “If you can figure out how to make a schoolyard fight into an attempted murder charge, I’m sure you can figure out how to make stringing nooses into a hate crime.”
That could be a compelling statement to someone trying to motivate listeners on a radio show, but as I am a lawyer obligated to enforce the laws of my state, it does not work for me. *** Conjure the image of schoolboys fighting: they exchange words, clench fists, throw punches, wrestle in the dirt until classmates or teachers pull them apart. Of course that would not be aggravated second-degree battery, which is what the attackers are now charged with. (Five of the defendants were originally charged with attempted second-degree murder.) But that’s not what happened at Jena High School.
The victim in this crime, who has been all but forgotten amid the focus on the defendants, was a young man named Justin Barker, who was not involved in the nooses incident three months earlier. According to all the credible evidence I am aware of, after lunch, he walked to his next class. As he passed through the gymnasium door to the outside, he was blindsided and knocked unconscious by a vicious blow to the head thrown by Mychal Bell. While lying on the ground unaware of what was happening to him, he was brutally kicked by at least six people. ***
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Skin color.
It's the bizzaro logic of race pimps.
Um, no, because stringing a noose on public property isn't illegal and six thugs beating a lone victim unconscious is.
Sorry, try again.
When you attack someone from behind you are not following any Marquis of Queensbury rules!
Vicious behavior is vicious behavior. No excuses allowed.
Excellent article. Thanks for posting.
“I cannot overemphasize how abhorrent and stupid I find the placing of the nooses on the schoolyard tree in late August 2006. If those who committed that act considered it a prank, their sense of humor is seriously distorted. It was mean-spirited and deserves the condemnation of all decent people.”
The race pimps more than likely got some George Soros money for expenses!
This is the same race-pimps that convicted the Duke Boys in the court of public opinion before the lies were exposed!
"Imagine you were walking down a city street, and someone leapt from behind a tree and hit you so hard that you fell to the sidewalk unconscious. Would you later describe that as a fight?"
Outstanding.
Vicious behavior is vicious behavior. No excuses allowed.The law is the law too. The prosecutor in Jena ignored it. We've been over this a million times in the previous threads.
Condemnation or beaten to an inch of your life?
Okay, that's fine and I agree. But the kid that got the crap kicked out of him wasn't involved in the noose incident. He was attacked because six animals couldn't control themselves. We have ways to deal with vicious animals...
The Jena Times said the nooses were put up in emulation of a scene in Lonesome Dove (which might mean that they had a Western connotation, not a racial one). This point remains unclear. They may, or may not, have been a prank aimed at an opposing football team in an upcoming game (again, this is not clear, and may be incorrect).
What is clear, though, is that students of both races were playing with the nooses afterward—swinging from them, putting their heads through them, etc. No one appears to have been mortally offended.
Three months later, there was a series of fights/confrontations mostly between non-students and some of the Jena Six, outside of school; and then the beating of one student in school, which was apparently unrelated to
the other fights.
I don’t know what the truth will look like when the dust finally settles; but it doesn’t seem to be the ‘Scottsboro’ of the 21st century (for that, I think you would have to look to Durham).
All the prosecutor did was fail to remove the case from adult court after the charges were downgraded. He could have left the charges at attempted murder and adult court would have been the appropriate forum.
In some quarters, that is the definition of a fight. The ability for a mob to beat down a victim must be defended. Otherwise it could signal a dangerous shift. Survival of the fittest is a right in some areas.
Think NY street gangs. Their bread and butter was the beatdown. It’s the same with unions. Loook what happened to Don Adams. Look at the “justice” in his case.
All the prosecutor did was fail to remove the case from adult court after the charges were downgraded. He could have left the charges at attempted murder and adult court would have been the appropriate forum.See what I just posted. The DA is a lying scumbag. I hope he loses his job, I really do.
“His claim that sneakers were “deadly weapons” should get his lying self disbarred”
Agreed. But if somebody slammed my kid unconscious and then a group kicked him repeatedly while he was on the ground, I’d want them prosecuted for everything under the sun.
That comment didn’t even make sense to me. It effectively said, if one thing is a crime and you can tell that it is, then you should be able to make a crime out of something that wasn’t one. It used very convoluted logic.
I’m sure it made perfect sense to the person who uttered it, but that demonstrates this person had no common sense.
Did anyone notice the slight slam on talk radio here. Paraphrased, “That may make a good sound-bit for radio...”. This District Attorney is probably a lefty. How does that sit with those who claim he’s nothing but a racist inbred.
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