If there are riots, I agree Obama is the person to blame.Seth wrote:Yeah, but the Obama administration was evidently pressuring them to make an arrest, so I guess we can blame Obama for the riots that are all but inevitable.Warren Dew wrote:They could have done that just by sticking with the original decision not to prosecute.Seth wrote:Give 'em a break, they are desperately trying to avoid a Watts-like burndown of the entire city.Coito ergo sum wrote:The prosecution just asked the jury to use their hearts..... seriously?
"I don't have any charts or six foot long time-lines...just use your common sense, and your hearts...."
Bwahahahahahahahahahhaha!
Translation --- I won't bore you with the evidence -- just feel in your heart that the man is guilty...
...and he's referring to Martin as a "child."
Prosecutors.... scary bunch, man. Scary bunch.
State v Zimmerman
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The rationale for TV censorship was that the airwaves belonged to the public and the broadcasters were only licensed to use them at the whims and caprices of the FCC, which controls that use. It's just like the printing press, except that the airwaves were the government's "printing press" so they got to dictate what was said on them.Tero wrote:So how come you could not say fuck on tv till the 1980s? Where is the FCC in the constitution?
That ended when the government started SELLING blocks of frequencies to private entities, thereby making those transmission frequencies private property (private printing presses), which is why you can say "fuck" and watch people fucking on satellite channels and wire-line cable systems. The media (airwaves and cables) don't belong to the government so it can't censor the content.
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Teh Marxism!!Seth wrote:the airwaves were the government's "printing press" so they got to dictate what was said on them.
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State Attorney Angela Corey Fires IT Director Who Raised Concerns In Trayvon Martin Case
July 13, 2013
July 13, 2013
Edited to fix urlState Attorney Angela Corey fired her office’s information technology director Friday after he testified last month about being concerned prosecutors did not turn over information to George Zimmerman’s defense team in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
On the same day attorneys finished their closing arguments in that nationally watched trial, a state attorney investigator went to Ben Kruidbos’ home about 7:30 a.m. to hand-deliver a letter stating Kruidbos “can never again be trusted to step foot in this office.”
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The Second Amendment forms a fourth branch of government (an armed citizenry) in case the government goes mad. ~Larry Nutter
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Hey, all she wants is for prosecutors to be able to unjustly convict whoever they want. Is that too much to ask for a power grubbing politician?Gallstones wrote:State Attorney Angela Corey Fires IT Director Who Raised Concerns In Trayvon Martin Case
July 13, 2013Edited to fix urlState Attorney Angela Corey fired her office’s information technology director Friday after he testified last month about being concerned prosecutors did not turn over information to George Zimmerman’s defense team in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
On the same day attorneys finished their closing arguments in that nationally watched trial, a state attorney investigator went to Ben Kruidbos’ home about 7:30 a.m. to hand-deliver a letter stating Kruidbos “can never again be trusted to step foot in this office.”
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Heck no, and since they're already starting to put pressure on courts to decide who gets an organ transplant, they can now ironically fulfill the "death panel" nonsense they cried about for years.Warren Dew wrote:Hey, all she wants is for prosecutors to be able to unjustly convict whoever they want. Is that too much to ask for a power grubbing politician?Gallstones wrote:State Attorney Angela Corey Fires IT Director Who Raised Concerns In Trayvon Martin Case
July 13, 2013Edited to fix urlState Attorney Angela Corey fired her office’s information technology director Friday after he testified last month about being concerned prosecutors did not turn over information to George Zimmerman’s defense team in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
On the same day attorneys finished their closing arguments in that nationally watched trial, a state attorney investigator went to Ben Kruidbos’ home about 7:30 a.m. to hand-deliver a letter stating Kruidbos “can never again be trusted to step foot in this office.”
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George Zimmerman found not guilty
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... y/2514163/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... y/2514163/
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Hmmm, I would have expected manslaughter. I wonder if FL's nutty sentencing and lack of parole played a role in the jury avoiding that?Warren Dew wrote:George Zimmerman found not guilty
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... y/2514163/
In any case, civil lawsuit and a life of hiding, here you come George!
I'm just thrilled that I can turn on a news network without "gavel to gavel" coverage of an overblown local news bit.
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Acquittal. The correct decision, IMO. The jury was not swayed by the political pressure or threats of violence. Respect. No riots yet, but it's only 10:21 PM Saturday night, there's still plenty of time to get liquored up and pissed off. But I'm well armed, locked and loaded, doors locked, alarms on, dogs hungry.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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I doubt it. I expect what drove the verdict was that it was a clear cut case of self defense on the part of Zimmerman.Daedalus wrote:Hmmm, I would have expected manslaughter. I wonder if FL's nutty sentencing and lack of parole played a role in the jury avoiding that?
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Like I've maintained all along, only one person alive knows for sure what happened that night.
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Could be, I don't know, and guess I won't unless the jury starts talking.Warren Dew wrote:I doubt it. I expect what drove the verdict was that it was a clear cut case of self defense on the part of Zimmerman.Daedalus wrote:Hmmm, I would have expected manslaughter. I wonder if FL's nutty sentencing and lack of parole played a role in the jury avoiding that?
I wouldn't be shocked either way.
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I suppose I could lock my windows. There may be a pissed off Korean...nah. Maybe not.laklak wrote:Acquittal. The correct decision, IMO. The jury was not swayed by the political pressure or threats of violence. Respect. No riots yet, but it's only 10:21 PM Saturday night, there's still plenty of time to get liquored up and pissed off. But I'm well armed, locked and loaded, doors locked, alarms on, dogs hungry.
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Wouldn't do you any good. Even a Korean ninja can get through a locked window.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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