>>>>>>>>>>Thoughts?
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>>>>>>>>>A very nice lynching so far (no matter what Zimmerman did).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Someone died at the hands of another. How many people died that way since this occurred?
>>>>>>>>Did the media push/hype all the cases where someone died at the hands of another?
>>>>>>>>Those two questions expose the media for what it has become.
>>>>>>>>It uses sensationalism to get your attention, so you will buy a paper, and sells the demographics, based on papers sold, to advertisers in order to generate a profit.
>>>>>>>>Imagine that. Using the death of someone to generate a profit. My goodness.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Blame it on the media.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>If not for the media and citizens who chose to get involved George Zimmerman would be walking around a free man. Now he will have his day in court. This is the way our system is supposed to work.
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>>>>>>Our system is supposed to use lynch mobs. Got it.
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>>>>>>Yeah. NBC edits the 911 call to make it sound racist. Enter Sharpton and the other lynchers.
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>>>>>>Lynching black people is not allowed, but apparently lynching hispanics (Zimmerman is hispanic although they try not to mention that so it sounds more white (you know, racist)) and whites is a real sport for the media.
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>>>>>>They'll probably say he didn't vote for OBama too just to really get the racist chant going.
>>>>>
>>>>>Bill, seriously.
>>>>>
>>>>>I was open minded about a case that quickly became racially polarized. There weren't any witnesses, I said. (Which remains true). I was as annoyed as you when Al Sharpton and other opportunists leaped into the fray. Let's withhold judgment, I said. This is why we have courts.
>>>>>
>>>>>Then I started hearing some more things. Like George Zimmerman having called the cops 46 times before about suspicious characters. About him profiling Trayvon Martin specifically and finding him that night. Like pursuing him, with a gun, after calling it in and being specifically told by the cops to let it go, we'll handle it.
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>>>>>Maybe he is in fact innocent. I am reacting to the facts as they come out.
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>>>>They used to have a law enforcement system and courts for that kinda stuff.
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>>>>Lynching is better, right?
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>>>Please don't put words in my mouth, hockey buddy. I didn't say anything like that.
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>>Let's be really polically correct and say mob rule with a bounty on the guy's head. How's that? Wanna claim that isn't EXACTLY what you have here?
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>Yes, I do want to claim that. I do not assume he is guilty. Just that there is good reason to think he might be. The courts will decide.
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>I have been called for jury duty three times and have not yet been impaneled. Twice I was dismissed on peremptory challenges because I am a software developer. Most lawyers don't want independent thinkers. They want people who will be putty in their hands. Bzzz, off I went. The other time I was in the initial pool but my number was way toward the end. I was next in the questioning seats when the 15th and last juror (12 in the box and 3 alternates) made it past both lawyers.
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>It was an interesting experience and proof that we ordinary citizens believe in our system. People make jokes all the time about jury duty and how to get out of it. Right there in the courtroom, though, we think differently. The high ceilings, the judge being called and a hush coming over the room, we take it seriously.

But who needs that when we have NBC, Al Sharpton, and the mob?

I've served on a jury 4 times. I've been called probably 6. Apparently lawyers like me (damn!).