Comments on: Keep prosecuting until they get the result they want?

By: the Elephant's Child

the Elephant's Child — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 00:59:38 +0000

Whipped up to a frenzy by race-baiting specialists like Al Sharpton, the mob wants a lynching. They have no personal knowledge of either the trial nor of lynchings; but they heard that sometime in the past lots of black people were unjustly lynched, and they want payback for past injustice because a black child was unjustly murdered by a white Hispanic, at least that’s what they heard.

It’s much easier to go for a simple romanticized story than to read accounts of the actual issues, follow the events in the case and struggle to understand the law.

By: novaculus

novaculus — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 18:09:39 +0000

When seeking political advantage and revenge, abusing the legal process can serve both agendas. Multiple prosecutions keep the base engaged and enraged, and serves to punish those a jury has already found not guilty. The process is made the punishment.

By: Isabelle

Isabelle — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 17:28:49 +0000

It would be a cage, obviously. And if there really is intelligent life in this or any other universe, I’m pretty sure it/they would welcome it.

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By: A6

A6 — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 16:46:52 +0000

Also, how do you put a fence around a ball?

Excuse me–let me withdraw that question and apologize: that question violates the rule against common sense.

By: A6

A6 — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 16:45:07 +0000

Isabelle,

You haven’t heard? Common sense *is* illegal.

By: criolle johnny

criolle johnny — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 16:25:21 +0000

In reply to Mr. Richard Nieporent:
“hand Zimmerman off to the mob and be done with it.”
That IS exactly what the High Priests (Jackson and Sharpton) have been advocating.
The problem is that “zimmerman” is the German word for “carpenter”.
About two thousand years ago, the high priests urged government to hand the carpenter to the mob and be done with it …
I’ve always wondered where they got their degrees!

By: Isabelle

Isabelle — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 15:11:49 +0000

The rabble wants to outlaw profiling and apply it to George Zimmerman ex post facto. While we are at it, why don’t we go ahead and make common sense illegal. Outlaw profiling and you might as well put a fence around the whole planet and rename it prison earth.

By: Rick Caird

Rick Caird — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:28:54 +0000

I do think we need to reverse this pseudo double jeopardy. Given a single act, like Zimmerman and Martin, either the Feds try him or the state tries him, but not both. This idea that several governments can stack different charges for the same act, is horrible. It allows government to persecute rather than prosecute.

By: William Nuesslein

William Nuesslein — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:11:21 +0000

To supplement Isabelle’s comment, I heard Al Hunt of Bloomberg on the radio yesterday say that Martin would have been convicted if he had killed Zimmerman. “That’s right.” chimed in Margaret Carlson. How soon we forget OJ Simpson wheh he was acquited for stabbing Ron Goldman 47 times. The very young Goldman was innocently dropping off a pair of glasses.

Besides the use of tribalism, the cases share a ferocity of action by the black guys.