walking while black - Trayvon Martin

[Jimbone]

Bull.shit. You've refused from the get-go to acknowledge that George STALKED Trayvon. Poor George. HotD has tried to show you both sides of the argument and yet you insist on defending Zimmerman without hearing the evidence. You're a close minded bastard. You still haven't answered my question about TRAYVON'S right to stand his ground. If someone is sneakily following you around, do you have a right to confront them and even engage them physically if you're fearful for your life? Huh?

Just as you and others insist on convicting Zimmerman without hearing the evidence. So who is calling who a closed minded bastard? I read and look at the evidence that is available, and so far Zimmerman's account of what happened that night is definitely plausible. Nothing more, nothing less than plausible. I can't dismiss it out of hand that he is lying or is a pussy scumbag who had a beat down coming.

As I've said MANY times, is George a douche? Yes. Was he overzealous? Yep. Doe he probably suffer from some wanna-be-LEO syndrome? Perhaps.

But taking the step of concluding that because Zimmerman followed Martin, whatever happened after that was all fair game isn't how the system works. Concluding that Martin had every right to beat Zimmerman to a bloody pulp just because he was stalked is lunacy. The law doesn't work that way... you don't have that right.

If you are being followed around your neighborhood, do you have the right to attack and beat the person following you? Of course you don't. But there seems to be an argument here that somehow that is a reasonable reaction if that occurs.

What if your husband walked down the street to check on the car that turned out its lights, rolled to a stop, and parked near your house? Do the occupants of the car have the right to beat your husband for 'stalking' them? Will you defend him if he gets in a scuffle with the occupants, and he shoots one of them to defend himself? Or will you just say he had it coming because he shouldn't have gotten involved?