>>>>>>>>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.
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>>>>>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.
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>>>>???
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>>>>No offense but this is maybe the dumbest thing I have ever heard you say. For one thing it assumes a guilty verdict, something which is as yet unknown. More seriously, it indicates an unseemly attitude about race.
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>>>>Out.
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>>>First, I've said a lot of things dumber than this - you must not be paying attention <s>
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>>>Second, it would actually assume a not-guilty verdict. A guilty verdict would mean a racist murderer ( according to some aggrieved community leaders ) had been found guilty - though man-slaughter many not be enough.
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>>>The assumption is the innocent youth was killed because he was black. If his killer is found not guilty, it could be seen as a reason for outrage. If you were around for things like the Rodney King verdict you may remember Los Angeles became a very bad place to be a Korean who owned a store that sold TV sets, as many were liberated by citizens expressing their outrage at the white cops who were acquitted.
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>>>Again, I have no opinion about the case just as I have no opinion about Jodi Arias or what kind of bassinet the Karashian child should have.
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>>>I just think media circuses bring out the clowns.
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>>Prepare for explosion.
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>>http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/13/justice/zimmerman-trial/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
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>So far I'm delighted to be wrong. That is not to say we won't see Al Sharpton out on a street corner in Liberty City shouting "No justice, no peace" but so far the people who actually have skin in the game - i.e. prosecution, defense, and families - seem to be behaving.
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>My fear is that 24 hour news channels with way too much air time to fill and nothing more titilating like Jodi Arias to feed on currently are going to have way too many talking heads committing sociology on the air and telling us how to feel and What It Means and Says about Us as a Society.
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>Fortunately my TV has a twit filter. (and I am into my annual summer rewatch of 7 seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Netflix)

They are warming up in California so far.