Are We Just Going to Lynch Mr. Zimmerman?

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  1. JIMV

    JIMV Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You mean 'round up the usual suspects'...
     
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    Ummm no....he should not be lynched, nor do we allow any 'kangaroo' proceedings. The death should be thoroughly investigated and the outcome of that investigation should determine whether Mr. Zimmerman should be prosecuted or not.

    Seems obvious to me.

    But you don't seem to understand why people- such the boy's family- would feel outraged that their unarmed son was shot. I think there certainly is reason to look at it carefully, and it is simply idiotic to think that public outrage never prompts government to look at a case more thoroughly.
     
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    This is what happens when you allow people to have guns and play cops. They have no rights to confront people and prevent them from walking around neighborhoods. This guy pursued an individual simply because he thought he was up to no good. The guy created the confrontation and was told specifically not to pursue the kid.

    Even if the kid attacked him, the kid has just as much rights to self defense as Zimmerman does. With out a gun Zimmerman most likely does not confront the kid in the first place and does what he is supposed to do and call the cops.

    This is a perfect case for anti-gun laws. Even though they will never change. At least laws regarding confronting individuals with a gun should change.
     
  4. Dave1mo

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    What does "display attitude" even mean? Would you use that phrase if it wasn't in the context of describing a 17 year old black kid?

    If Zimmerman approaches someone with a weapon, why is that person obligated to stand there and be threatened by the individual? Zimmerman is not a policeman. A weapon and confrontation is reason enough to suspect you're being threatened, meaning Zimmerman was the aggressor, not Martin.
     
  5. Iolo

    Iolo Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I mean 'arrest the man who killed an unarmed victim'. What's your problem? Think that the racists should be allowed to shoot anyone they choose, do you?
     
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    I'm all for a good lynching! But more importantly, the law needs to be changed.
     
  7. JIMV

    JIMV Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    We do not, despite the loud claims of some, know what happened. We are in the 'shoot the suspect' then hold the trial phase of liberal justice.
     
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    Al Sharpton is now calling for a quasi-legal lynching.

    Tawana Brawley redux?

    Why is CNN not excited about all those black guys that died this last week?
     
  9. Iolo

    Iolo Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Why do you nutters keep ranting on about 'liberals' when you mean 'normal humans'? Everywhere in the world where there is law, a man who has killed someone else without any reason is charged and jailed to await subsequent trial. Are you racists so crazy you think the world still lives in the days of the Scotsboro boys or earlier? Clearly your culture is sicker than anyone outside realises, desperately sick.
     
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    JIMV Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You do realize the bolded part, the heart of your argument, is simply your opinion.

    Where was your demand for Justice here...http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-03-04/news/31122324_1_white-boy-fire-tv-station

    The left was dead silent and what little that was written was written with the slant that it didn't really happen and protecting the minority community was far more important than punishing the perps from that community.
     
  11. Iolo

    Iolo Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I don't know what all that might be about, but I know you always defend racist murder and anything nasty anywhere in the world that the extreme right do. What is the use of you?
     
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    JIMV Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Just because you have a knee jerk rush to opinion based on color and ethnicity does not mean we all do...I didn't rush in demanding arrests and prosecutions. I said to let the investigation play out and the actual facts (as opposed to the medias facts) come out and decisions be made.

    If the shooter was black or the victim white, the entire hue and cry from the left would simply not exist, and everyone knows it.
     
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    Iolo Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I have no knee jerk reaction at all. Like all normal people I don't think armed madmen should stamp about shooting people, that paid police should avoid doing their job for fear of racist nutters or, indeed, that racist nutters should be ranting on here. But there it is - that's America.
     
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    of course you don't...you just get to call folk 'madmen', and 'racist nutters' based on nothing more than your own perverse opinion...but that is Europe...(actually, it is wherever liberals flock)
     
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    Sadly, the histrionic left's rush to judgement and flame fanning has created an environment...

    where an actual lynching would result in only Zimmerman's death...

    while his escaping the metaphorical gallows will result in many many more.

    See: '92 Los Angeles riots.
     
  16. Iolo

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    Why should not a man who has killed someone be in jail, please? Why should some people be able to stamp about killing people without being arrested? Why should the police not do their jobs in certain benighted areas of the United States? Why do racists insult everyone's intelligence with their tedious blather?
     
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    Our justice system employs judges, lawyers, evidence, juries and court rooms to convict and sentence those accused of crime...

    Apparently, your 3rd world backwater is satisfied with the kangaroo variety.
     
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    And apparently the police chief of this city is not capable of doing his job, since he was judged to be incompetent by his city council.
     
  19. Iolo

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    No - we don't allow nazis to go round shooting people to please the gunsellers, and people who kill automatically end up in court, without drunken rednecks seeing that as other than proper and seemly. What is you people's problem? You seem to be nuttier and nuttier all the time.
     
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    "Damage control" ~ seemingly, a concept foreign to the modern leftist school teacher
     
  21. Dave1mo

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    Why do they need to do damage control if something immoral or negligent hasn't happened?
     
  22. webrockk

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    Removing or limiting one's exposure from contentious issues is not new....

    did you not learn of such along your path to becoming an educator?
     
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    Let the authorities deal with it.
     
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    The ones who passed a law allowing murder? Seems a bad bet.
     
  25. Dave1mo

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    Answer the question.
     

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