blogvader:

Folks, no one wants to hear this, but let’s be honest here.  None of us knows a thing about what happened that night other than a kid getting shot in the chest and the identity of the person who pulled the trigger.  Maybe Trayvon attacked Zimmerman, and maybe he did not.  I don’t know, and neither do you. 

Our work has ensured that Zimmerman will stand trial, now let the courts determine the truth based on the evidence. Speculation and emotionally discounting anything that runs contrary to the preferred narrative makes us look exactly like the knuckle-dragging racists who blindly support George Zimmerman.

What’s right at this point is leaving it to the courts to determine the truth, and I, for one, just hope they get it right. 

I’m reblogging this because I don’t want to repeat myself to all of the folks who feel they need to litigate this in public, again.

Folks, no one wants to hear this, but let’s be honest here.  None of us knows a thing about what happened that night other than a kid getting shot in the chest and the identity of the person who pulled the trigger.  Maybe Trayvon attacked Zimmerman, and maybe he did not.  I don’t know, and neither do you. 

Our work has ensured that Zimmerman will stand trial, now let the courts determine the truth based on the evidence. Speculation and emotionally discounting anything that runs contrary to the preferred narrative makes us look exactly like the knuckle-dragging racists who blindly support George Zimmerman.

What’s right at this point is leaving it to the courts to determine the truth, and I, for one, just hope they get it right. 

After waking up early this morning, I found on CNN that the gentleman (and I use the term loosely) who murdered seventy people in Norway is claiming self defense.  I’d call it absurd, but as an American, do I really have any moral ground to criticize his please?

Now, someone correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t it seem as if we’ve lost any concept of what self-defense really is? From Stand-Your-Ground laws to Bush’s preemptive wars, to Brandon Zeth, Trayvon Martin, and Bo Morrison, we as a people have made sacred some perceived license to escalate confrontations and perpetuate violence.  Zeth was just drunk and unfortunate enough to walk to the wrong house in the middle of the night.  Morrison had the misfortune to hide out in the wrong backyard after cops broke up a party he was attending. Hell, our so-called Department of Defense kills more people in the world than anyone else, and we have no rightful way of knowing how many. 

It really just disgusts me, the American concept of ‘self-defense’. 

egiaslolwut:

Why have a court system when the media and general public determine who’s guilty and innocent?

If the Casey Anthony trial is any indication, the media and public have very little bearing on court proceedings in Florida.