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On 4/2/2012 10:15 AM, X ` Man wrote:
On 4/2/12 10:13 AM, JustWait wrote:
On 4/2/2012 9:00 AM, iBoaterer wrote:
In , says...

On 4/1/2012 8:37 AM, iBoaterer wrote:
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says...

On 30/03/2012 8:46 AM, Happy John wrote:
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:22:21 -0400, X `
wrote:

...I like this, a lot.

Travelers Can Save The Next Trayvon Martin By Avoiding Florida

A crucial fact thus far left out of the debate surrounding the
shooting
of Trayvon Martin is that Florida's Stand Your Ground law, which is
keeping George Zimmerman out of jail, affects more people from
outside
the state than it does Floridians.

According to census data, 19,057,542 Americans lived in Florida
in 2011,
a year in which the state claims 85.9 million tourists visited.
Florida
law must, in short, not only protect the liberties of Floridians,
but
also the wellbeing of tourists and tourism, the state's largest
sector.
The piece of legislation allowing residents "to stand [their]
ground and
meet force with force, including deadly force," which left
Zimmerman
legally unencumbered to shoot an unarmed teen, has consequences
for all
those visitors. The law's existence also ought to have
consequences for
the state.

In 2003, the advocacy group Oceana began a boycott of Royal
Caribbean
Cruises, demanding the company install wastewater purification
systems
and stop leaching toxins into the seas. Royal Caribbean, a
company with
a market cap over $6 billion, agreed to the changes after
receiving just
90,000 pledges from cruisers who said they wouldn't book trips
until the
cruise giant quite literally cleaned up its act. That same year,
Royal
Caribbean took roughly 3 million people to sea, meaning a mere
three
percent of its customers affected a major policy shift by
threatening to
withhold their dollars.

Because tourism is such a big business, travelers are more
empowered
than other sorts of consumers to make demands. (Ask a Burmese
official
about it some time.)

If tourists boycott Florida -- as tourists boycotted Arizona after
controversial legislation was enacted there in 2010 -- the state
will
have to choose between economic Russian roulette and putting the
guns
down altogether. As long as Florida depends on tourists' money --
to the
tune of roughly 9.3 percent of G.D.P and a million jobs -- the
state's
government has a motivation to protect citizens of Oregon,
Illinois and,
for that matter, Brazil, Germany and Japan. A simple reminder of
that
fact might go a long way pushing politicians to eliminate a law
that
demonstrably endangers the safety of everyone in the Sunshine
State.

By pledging not to visit Florida (sorry Grandma), non-Floridians
can
affect change.

There are major issues at play in the Trayvon Martin case -- race
and
the second amendment among them. Given the gravity of the
situation,
neither truth nor reconciliation are likely to arrive anytime soon.
Still, supporting an immediate solution to an immediate and
non-ideological problem could be the first step towards a
resolution
that, tragically, will never bring a young man back to life.

HuffPost

Punish Florida because Zimmerman's guilty.

Oh wait, he's not been tried yet. In fact, the investigation's not
even complete.

More happy horse**** from the happy horse**** crowd.

Zimmerman's guilt? Are we assuming guilty before innocent?

Second issue is the so called victim was currently on his third
suspension from school, for dope and vandalism issues. Hardly the
upstanding racist mongering Jackson would want to discuss.

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/T...144403305.html

But then there are those that facts be damned, lets make it a race
issue
for political gain.

Yes, the right wing instantly made it a racial issue. Hell, one of the
farthest to the right here was the first one to make it a race
issue in
here.

You stupid ****... It was a month before Jackson and Sharpton, and the
cowards from the New Black Panther Pussies decided they could turn it
into a money maker if they just turned it into a black white issue.

Bull****. You were the first one here to make this discussion racial.

Bull****, you brought your politics here because it was racial.
Otherwise we never would have heard of Zimmerman or Martin...

Moron.

Pedophile...