Trayvon Martin case: use of Stand Your Ground law or pursuit of a black teen?

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Razgovory

#810
April 11, 2012, 09:00:02 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on April 11, 2012, 08:42:26 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 11, 2012, 08:08:08 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on April 11, 2012, 07:39:02 PM
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Given the fact that they were representing him at all and were doing it pro bono, I think you have to assume that they're enormous attention whores. :hmm:

I met Casey Anthony's lawyer.   :)  He seemed like a nice guy, if a little socially awkward.

He kinda looked like Scip.

:hmm:  A beardless, Puerto Rican Scip crossed with Eliot Spitzer, maybe.

Really?  I thought he had a beard.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Capetan Mihali

#811
April 11, 2012, 09:12:48 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 11, 2012, 09:00:02 PM
Really?  I thought he had a beard.

You tell me how much this looks like AmScip:

"The internet's completely over. [...] The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
-- Prince, 2010. (R.I.P.)

Eddie Teach

#812
April 11, 2012, 09:14:29 PM
They're both fat white dudes.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Capetan Mihali

#813
April 11, 2012, 09:17:15 PM
On further reflection, that's a really odd pocket square. 
"The internet's completely over. [...] The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
-- Prince, 2010. (R.I.P.)

CountDeMoney

#814
April 11, 2012, 09:22:06 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on April 11, 2012, 09:17:15 PM
On further reflection, that's a really odd pocket square.

How so?  It matches the pattern of his shirt in contrast.

Sheesh.

Razgovory

#815
April 11, 2012, 09:36:30 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on April 11, 2012, 09:12:48 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 11, 2012, 09:00:02 PM
Really?  I thought he had a beard.

You tell me how much this looks like AmScip:



I must have confused him for someone else.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Capetan Mihali

#816
April 11, 2012, 09:45:05 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on April 11, 2012, 09:22:06 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on April 11, 2012, 09:17:15 PM
On further reflection, that's a really odd pocket square.

How so? 

The fold and the seersucker element, mainly.  But I defer to your sartorial judgment, of course.   :worthy:
"The internet's completely over. [...] The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
-- Prince, 2010. (R.I.P.)

CountDeMoney

#817
April 11, 2012, 09:49:32 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on April 11, 2012, 09:45:05 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on April 11, 2012, 09:22:06 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on April 11, 2012, 09:17:15 PM
On further reflection, that's a really odd pocket square.

How so? 

The fold and the seersucker element, mainly.  But I defer to your sartorial judgment, of course.   :worthy:

Straight fold has been back in fashion for a while.

Neil

#818
April 12, 2012, 07:47:53 AM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on April 11, 2012, 09:45:05 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on April 11, 2012, 09:22:06 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on April 11, 2012, 09:17:15 PM
On further reflection, that's a really odd pocket square.
How so? 
The fold and the seersucker element, mainly.  But I defer to your sartorial judgment, of course.   :worthy:
Indeed.  You won't win in a fashion-contest against the most high-functioning of the forum gays.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

derspiess

#819
April 20, 2012, 09:44:25 AM
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Jacob

#820
April 25, 2012, 04:50:15 PM
More on Zimmerman's background: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/25/us-usa-florida-shooting-zimmerman-idUSBRE83O18H20120425

Makes him look a lot more sympathetic than the "black people hating racist" picture we've seen in the media.

CountDeMoney

#821
April 25, 2012, 04:55:23 PM
Meh, still a cop-wannabe with anger management issues.  That's a problem when guns are involved.

DGuller

#822
April 25, 2012, 05:21:54 PM
Quote from: Jacob on April 25, 2012, 04:50:15 PM
More on Zimmerman's background: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/25/us-usa-florida-shooting-zimmerman-idUSBRE83O18H20120425

Makes him look a lot more sympathetic than the "black people hating racist" picture we've seen in the media.
Damn.  :(

Berkut

#823
April 25, 2012, 08:32:18 PM
Quote from: Jacob on April 25, 2012, 04:50:15 PM
More on Zimmerman's background: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/25/us-usa-florida-shooting-zimmerman-idUSBRE83O18H20120425

Makes him look a lot more sympathetic than the "black people hating racist" picture we've seen in the media.

Wow, that is one hell of an article.

However, while the more calm information that comes out about Zimmerman leads to me being much more sympathetic towards him, it doesn't change the fact that the police, at the time, sure seemed to give at best a cursory examination to the killing of a young black man. If a more thorough investigation makes it clear this is really just a rather depressing tragedy, than so be it - but it seems like that investigation would never have occurred except for the intervention of the media.

And someone being shot to death should never be treated callously or with the apparent indifference shown initially.
"If you think this has a happy ending, then you haven't been paying attention."

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Berkut

#824
April 25, 2012, 08:34:22 PM
And "Stand Your Ground" laws are fucking stupid. They should be called "Wave Your Gundick" laws, because that is what they are about.

The idea that there was some kind of terrible problem with innocent people not being able to defend themselves in legitimate circumstances such that a law that will inevitable result in giving people a license to shoot first rather than evade trouble is pretty damn hard to buy, IMO.
"If you think this has a happy ending, then you haven't been paying attention."

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