The Glade 4.0

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

parking his truck illegally has nothing to do with killing trayvon or violating his right to life which more or less revolve around the exact same set of facts.

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin

No, DE listed that as an example. With that said my understanding is that he can be charged with violating Martin's Civil Rights if they argue that George was following him because he was black. This does not mean GZ will face Murder or Manslaughter charges again, it means he will face Civil Rights charges which is a wholly separate crime.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

It was a cold, windy night as a young and innocent Trayvon Martin exited his favorite WalMart® armed only with a bag of Skittles™. Ahh, Skittles™: Trayvon remembered the long summer nights he used to spend munching on them with his grandmother before she was lynced and raped by their local KKK chapter.

As the young Trayvon gleefully frolicked across the street (looking both ways before crossing) in his safe multiracial neighborhood, sinister forces were at work; A 'George Zimmerman' drunkenly ventured out of his KKK seminar donned in his all-white robes and hood, bloodstained by racial crimes. Zimmerman, the battle-hardened racist he was, quickly spotted the vulnerable Trayvon and hid stealthily in the bushes, waiting for the right moment to pounce.

No sooner had the adolescent Trayvon step foot on his home's block then Zimmerman had cut him off with an evil grin. "What are you doing here?!" the money shouted before letting off a slew of racially insensitive jeers. "W-why I was just bringing home some medicine for my sick mother, sir." Trayvon timidly replied. "Liar!" Zimmerman angrily shouted as he charged at him, raising a burning cross in one hand and a deadly pistol in another.

Suddenly, George's foot caught a loose piece of concrete and he tumbled, landing on the back of head with a crack. "Are you okay, mister?" Trayvon feebly whispered, offering the half-empty bag of candy. Zimmerman pulled his trigger, ripping wide holes in Trayvon Martin's innocent chest with deadly hollow points. The Skittles™ fell to the sidewalk with a crinkle, and that was the end of Trayvon Martin.

The ability seek alternate charges or redress for the same circumstance is a product of the last 40-50 years of juridical history in the United States. There's also the fact that Florida changed their Manslaughter standards earlier this year in an attempt to make the compromise verdict unavoidable, as I understand it.

How would that be relevant to this case? They'd still have had to use the standard that was in place at the time the crime happened.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Seems the beatings are starting...

A jogger in MS was abducted by three black men and beaten and a Hispanic guy in Baltimore was chased by a gang of people and beaten.

The Baltimore one is here

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryla ... 5359.story

But the link for the MS one seems to be broken(unless it was pulled).

Yeah, I'm not sure what's more annoying, the unwillingness of so many blacks to accept the verdict, or the faux unity with the extreme liberal supporters.

You're talking about people that primarily rely on their own intuition for their worldview. Since it intuitively seems like if an unarmed teenager is killed by a grown man with a gun, it must be murder, then as far as these folks are concerned it necessarily is murder. They may be able to intellectually grasp the possibility of exceptions in the abstract, but when it comes to a specific case, the images of specific people and the need to fit it into the worldview are overpowering.

Interesting thought in a piece I just read, about a common argument we *didn't* hear. Nowhere during the Trayvon Martin case did the NRA step in to suggest that Trayvon would be alive today if he'd only had a gun.

Twitter user swiftly sabotages Zimmerman juror’s book deal

A Twitter user who launched a social media campaign to stop a juror in the George Zimmerman case from getting a book deal has succeeded in her effort—within six hours.

On Monday, Juror B37, one of six female jurors who made the controversial decision to acquit Zimmerman in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, told Anderson Cooper that she had signed with a literary agent to shop a tell-all book about her experience during the three-week, televised trial.

The agent, Sharlene Martin, told Yahoo News that the juror reached out to her on the advice of a producer from a morning show and that the juror has said she was planning to publish the book anonymously “given the sensitivity of the verdict and the outpouring of mixed reactions by the American public.”

Then came the social media campaign.

Genie Lauren, whose Twitter handle is @MoreAndAgain, tweeted out the agent's contact information, urging fellow users to flood the agency with calls and emails "to stop the book deal from coming to fruition," Uproxx.com reports.

"Hey, @sharlenemartin, please drop juror B37," Lauren wrote. "Do not help the person who let a murderer get away profit from this tragedy."

"Only thing I can think to do is flood Sharlene Martin's phone, email, and snail mail, w/ requests that she drop juror B37," she continued.

Lauren then launched a Change.org petition asking the agency to drop the unnamed juror:

After murdering Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman was acquitted, even though juror B37 admitted (in a CNN interview) that Zimmerman "went too far", and didn't "stop at the limitations he should've stopped at". Now that very juror, who allowed Trayvon Martin's killer to get away, is writing a book. Please don't allow this person to profit off of the injustice that they've served to the American public. We deserve better. Trayvon Martin's family deserves better.

The petition quickly reached 1,000 signatures, and the Martin Literary Agency released a statement late Monday:

After careful consideration regarding the proposed book project with Zimmerman Juror B37, I have decided to rescind my offer of representation in the exploration of a book based upon this case.

Juror B37 then announced she was abandoning the book idea:

I realize it was necessary for our jury to be sequestered in order to protect our verdict from unfair outside influence, but that isolation shielded me from the depth of pain that exists among the general public over every aspect of this case. The potential book was always intended to be a respectful observation of the trial from my and my husband’s perspectives solely and it was to be an observation that our "system" of justice can get so complicated that it creates a conflict with our "spirit" of justice. Now that I am returned to my family and to society in general, I have realized that the best direction for me to go is away from writing any sort of book and return instead to my life as it was before I was called to sit on this jury.

Roots' drummer Guestlove applauded Lauren's efforts, tweeting a thank you note to his 2.6 million followers

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin