On 7/22/2013 2:15 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 12:51:08 -0400, iBoaterer
wrote:

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On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 06:28:31 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 7/22/13 1:12 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 13:40:45 -0400, "Eisboch"
wrote:

Although I agree with those who say we don't need "Stand Your Ground"
statutes outside of your home, I don't understand the media attention
and activist groups (led by people like Al Sharpton) who are using
the Zimmerman trial to promote the elimination of SYG.

Zimmerman's defense was *not* based on SYG grounds. It was based on
self-defense. This was a purposeful and strategic decision by his
defense attorneys.

The reason he was acquitted by the jury was due to the stupidity of
the state's prosecution team of attorneys. *They* are the ones that
put into evidence all of Zimmerman's accounts of the events, thereby
allowing de facto testimony by Zimmerman without the ability to cross
examine him. The defense attorneys made good use of this blunder by
calling other witnesses to testify that gave credence to Zimmerman's
account of the events, raising sufficient reasonable doubt to generate
a "not guilty" verdict.

Typical of any unpopular decision or circumstance (to them) , the
liberal media and activist groups are totally misinforming the public
on the facts.

The strange thing is black defendants have availed themselves of SYG
defenses at a higher rate than white people.

Holder, Sharpton and the rest seem to be ignorant of or simply ignore
that fact.



My guess is that "Holder, Sharpton and the rest" believe the Stand Your
Ground laws suck, no matter who is availing themselves of them. They
seem to be little more than laws that allow you to settle disputes on
the street with a gun.

"He slapped me, I was scared, so I shot him."

The SYG laws encourage bad behavior on the part of gunslingers.

How many times would your head have to be pounded into the concrete
before you thought you were in fear of your life?

More FOXite rhetoric!!! It's been shown in court that Zimmerman's head
wasn't "pounded into the concrete".


Cite?


There is no cite.. There was one witness that felt the "pounding" was
one or two blows and didn't think they were that hard.... But nobody
ever said Zimmermans head wasn't "pounded into the concrete". Loogie, or
harry or whoever said it, lied or only listens to MSNBC...

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I'm not scared when I walk down the streets in, say, Anacostia, and
see black teen-agers coming my way. I say "hello," they say "hello."
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When in college in Washingon, DC, I drove an ice cream truck in summer in
Anacostia. Nobody bothered me, everybody paid, nobody stole from me.




Were you driving the special ice cream truck. They guy who was driving the ice cream truck in
my neighborhood, just outside of DC, when I was a kid was selling dope too.

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On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 08:48:22 -0400, Gogarty
wrote:


When in college in Washingon, DC, I drove an ice cream truck in summer in
Anacostia. Nobody bothered me, everybody paid, nobody stole from me.




Were you driving the special ice cream truck. They guy who was driving the
ice
cream truck in
my neighborhood, just outside of DC, when I was a kid was selling dope too.

I am talking 1950. What was dope? My biggest annoyance was to turn into a
block and see the Good Humor man disappearing around the corner at the other
end and all the children eating Good Humors. I can't even remember the name of
the ice cream company I worked for. My father made me put the truck in the
garage so the neaighbprs wouldn't see it. My biggest casualty was when my
younger brother helped himself to a popsicle and left the truck ice box door
open. That was more than sixty years ago.

Anacostia was a totally different place in the 50s and early 60s.
In the late 60s it became the combat zone it is today although some
parts are probably being gentrified and the criminals are being pushed
out into PG county..
My sister went to Anacostia high and lived in the 3300 block of C
street SE in the 50s. It was a pretty nice neighborhood in a working
class kind of way. I lived right off Benning Road for the first 12
years of my life. We had black people right behind us but they were
working class folks just like us.

It was the welfare state LBJ created that led to the downfall of that
area.

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