Originally Posted By: the G-man, 5-6-2012
The people trying to politicize and capitalize on this are having a problem deciding on which narrative to push.

Originally, it was that self defense laws should be repealed because they can allow kids wearing hoodies to get shot.

When it was pointed out that the law wasn't necessarily applicable in this case and that Martin may have been an agressor they fell back on the "white racism kills innocent black kids" claim, figuring they could use that to guilt everyone into voting for Obama.

When it was discovered that Zimmerman is part black and part Hispanic, that became a problem, and many of them started trying to push the "no self defense" cause again.

And so on...

Conspicuously absent from either narrative is the idea of actually waiting until all the facts are in or trying to preserve the rights of the accused.

Hell, there are some people out there (for example, "9/11 was a government conspiracy" types) who were more willing to give Osama the benefit of the doubt than want to give Zimmerman.


Quoted for extreme trueness.

  • from Do Racists have lower IQ's...

    Liberals who bemoan discrimination, intolerance, restraint of Constitutional freedoms, and promotion of hatred toward various abberant minorities, have absolutely no problem with discriminating against, being intolerant of, restricting Constitutional freedoms of, and directing hate-filled scapegoat rhetoric against conservatives.

    EXACTLY what they accuse Republicans/conservatives of doing, is EXACTLY what liberals/Democrats do themselves, to those who oppose their beliefs.