>>>What say you, citizens? I would have a hard time deciding.
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>>>The jury decision is expected today.
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>>I'd say if I were an Asian in Florida who owned an electronics or sporting goods store I'd be calling in the cousins right now to lock and load and get on the roof.
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>>( I have no opinion about the verdict as I, like anyone who was not there including the jury, have very little information about the truth of the matter. But as a student of media drum-beating, manipulating of public opinion for agendas that have nothing to do with the truth, and the idea that being aggrieved - or pretending to be so - is supposed to be a free pass for barbarous behavior I am pessimistic about the result, no matter which way it goes)
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>You are more pessimistic than me. Juries get it wrong sometimes but I have faith in the system. I would not bet my life on what happened, either way. As you say, we have very little information about the actual truth of the matter.
This has nothing to do with the jury. This has to do with a society that tolerates reacting to jury verdicts (or sports championships) with looting and pillaging against people who were in no way involved.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
