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Stand Your Ground law critics push for Florida boycott
Miami Herald ^ | Jul. 17, 2013 | Jim Turner

Posted on 07/17/2013 4:56:27 PM PDT by neverdem

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To: neverdem

We have stand your ground here too. It works


41 posted on 07/17/2013 5:39:28 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: Duckdog

If you like hunting/fishing/boating/hiking Michigan would be thrilled to have you. We recently reduced the costs of out of state hunting and fishing licenses.


42 posted on 07/17/2013 5:41:35 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: neverdem
Yeah that will fix us we wont come down to Florida, lol
please do us a favor DON'T come down then we wont have to put up with your constant whining about how it so wonderful where you were from and how backward we are down here. We will continue to protect ourselves and with you idiots not being here will be so much easier and less traffic to boot win win situation.
43 posted on 07/17/2013 5:46:35 PM PDT by bikerman (Obama! if his lips are moving he's lying.)
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To: neverdem

Oh please, please, please, stay the heck out of my State.


44 posted on 07/17/2013 5:58:00 PM PDT by lastchance ("Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis" St. Augustine)
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To: tet68

Specifically, buy “Florida’s Natural” brand in the carton— because it is made from all Florida juice.

There are others that are as well.The label will tell you. But not minute maid, or Tropicana— large brazilian juice content.


45 posted on 07/17/2013 6:00:48 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: neverdem
Scott’s beliefs hadn’t stopped more than 8,800 people from signing the Moveon petition by Wednesday afternoon.

Yawn. 8800 morons who wouldn't have vacationed here anyhow. They probably don't even know where Florida is on a map.

46 posted on 07/17/2013 6:03:54 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Play the 'Knockout Game' with someone owning a 9mm and you get what you deserve)
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To: BenLurkin

How about “boycotting” all the crack and marijuana that flows to the inner-city tribal parasites, that they use their EBT’s to buy?


47 posted on 07/17/2013 6:19:56 PM PDT by traditional1 (Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
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To: Chode
the RATS that will boycott Fla, Fla don't need around anyhow...

Yeah, that commie (and talented) ass Neil Young can stay up nawth too!

The popular analysis of that song has always pissed me off. There seems to be some question whether Skynyrd was agreeing or disagreeing with Young's Southern Man. So the debate seems to be "Are they good people who agree with Young, or bad people who disagree with him?" And I'm like "Uh, why isn't 'Good people who naturally think Young's a dick' one of the choices?"

48 posted on 07/17/2013 6:22:24 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: neverdem

Now, let’s see.... would I feel safer vacationing in Florida or should I go for a place with no stand-your-ground laws like Chicago or Detroit? Hmmmm, such a hard choice! In Florida we are talking fun in the sun, beaches, eye sugar, etc. In Chicago or Detroit we are talking bums urinating in the street, bodies of black teenagers laying in the streets, the Mexican cartels and city employees running drugs, etc. Yes, such a hard decision.


49 posted on 07/17/2013 6:28:45 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The short list would be the list of all administration officials that are NOT pathological liars!)
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To: Still Thinking
100%
50 posted on 07/17/2013 6:36:09 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Detroit has a stand your ground law.


51 posted on 07/17/2013 6:45:58 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: neverdem
While the Stand Your Ground law, that so many people in the liberal media decry, did not actually apply in this specific case, it is also true that Florida SYG definitions codify into law an absolute human right to an individuals defensive use of force, up to and including lethal force, in personal self defense.

Why have SYG?

Presumption if innocence, absent overwhelming evidence to the contrary, and absence of compelling evidence that another act of “homicide” is likely to occur without pretrial incarceration.

There was a case a few years ago, again here in Florida where a man was “charged with a homicide crime and detained in jail” for over a year, involving the inarguable homicide of his beloved child.

It was eventually discovered and proven beyond any doubt that a worker at the daycare center he responsibly placed his child in, while he worked, caused the death of his little child, and at least one other child.
That man lost his child, his job, his family, and all that he had managed to accumulate in his entire life...Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson did not take up the case.
Nobody anywhere seems to even care that he was incarcerated by the State of Florida for over a year on what was later accidentally discovered to be an entirely false charge of manslaughter.No evidence existed that the man had ever harmed his child in any way.Just a mere unfounded charge of murder, and the government used the charge to incarcerate him, for over a year

BTW, the man was a black man, not that his race is at all an issue. I don't know that poor persecuted man. I do know an inexcusable act of prosecutorial injustice was committed upon him by the State of Florida. I would appreciate hearing his opinion of the Zimmerman case more so than those of any of the talking heads on TV.

52 posted on 07/17/2013 6:46:46 PM PDT by sarasmom (The obvious takes longer to discover for the obtuse.)
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To: neverdem

I would encourage people of that ilk to boycott Florida also. That is the best idea I’ve heard in ages. Imagine a vacation without having to deal with that trash!


53 posted on 07/17/2013 6:48:33 PM PDT by Figment
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Hi Basil...Come on down. I have nothing to sell but you will not have any trouble finding fun things to do and see here in the Sunshine State. Advisable to come in the Fall or Spring as our weather is cooler then.


54 posted on 07/17/2013 6:59:46 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: BatGuano

One never knows—we just may drive over to Florida one of these days. It’s one of the few states I haven’t visited....

We’re not too cool here in Texas during the summer either......LOL!


55 posted on 07/17/2013 7:21:34 PM PDT by basil (2ASisters.org)
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To: cripplecreek
Looking at your pae it seems we may have tread the same ground. I lived, briefly in Ida Michigan. Most of my family lives either in Michigan or just south of the border in OHIO.

And Custer was a great breveted General during the Civil War.

56 posted on 07/17/2013 9:01:30 PM PDT by Cannoneer (The purpose of power is to maintain power.)
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To: neverdem
Music legend Stevie Wonder says he will boycott Florida until the state abolishes the controversial law...

I don't think he sees a reason for the law! /s

57 posted on 07/18/2013 4:59:25 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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58 posted on 07/18/2013 5:00:26 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: Future Snake Eater

Thank you for the rim-shot! I’ll be here all week. Try the veal!


59 posted on 07/18/2013 5:15:17 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: neverdem

Do they PROMISE?

This will make FL attractive to tourists.

No more thugs!


60 posted on 07/18/2013 2:40:09 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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