Thursday, July 18, 2013
Armed and Way Too Dangerous
Armed and Way Too Dangerous: In 2005, George Zimmerman was charged with "resisting an officer with violence" and "battery on a law enforcement officer&quo...
Armed and Way Too Dangerous
In 2005, George Zimmerman was charged with "resisting an officer with violence" and "battery on a law enforcement officer".
The officer didnt shoot George Zimmerman.
Before the Zimmerman jury was sent into deliberations, they were given the following instruction:
"If George Zimmerman was not engaged in unlawful activity and was attacked in any place where he had the right to be, he had not duty to retreat and had the right to stand his ground and meet force with force" ... (Sounds so far like Trayvon Martin).
..... "including deadly force if he reasonably believed that it was necessary to to do so too prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony."
In 2005, ALEC's Criminal Justice Task Force, co-chaired by Wal-Mart, the nations largest seller of rifles, ratified the Stand Your Ground Law which was eventually adopted in26 states, including Florida.
Trayvon Martin had the same right to meet force with force. Zimmerman was a stranger who chose not to identify himself as the Neighborhood Watch, not to wait for the police officer to arrive, but to struggle with a young man who had just celebrated his 17th birthday three weeks previously. And shoot him in the heart.
StandYour Ground is a bad law. It is an NRA backed broadening of gun rights based soly on the subjective decision by the gun owner. The victim has no rights.
Did Zimmerman "reasonably believe" his injury was life threatening? He refused treatment for his bloody nose and cuts to the back of his head until the following day.
The American Legislative Exchange Council ( ALEC ) is a group of state legislators and corporate lobbyists funded by the most powerful corporations in the United States. They write legislation benefitting corporate interests. Not so much the common man.
Thanks to ALEC, Stand Your Ground not inly is it less safe for unarmed citizens to walk the streets and hold perpetrators responsible for the death of a citizen,but also more difficult to hold corporations responsible for causing death or injury. 71 ALEC bills introduced in 2013 would weaken the legal rights of the common citizen to take legal action against oil, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, and health insurance companies.
ALEC , which is overwhelmingly Republican in membership, has written legislation that makes it harder to vote, destroys unions, protects corporations from civil liability, and suppresses environmental protection, all in the name of furthering corporate power and profit in this country.
The next time you hear certain politicians speak of Americans losing their rights and freedoms in this country, ask yourself who is responsible.
Obama? Or the NRA GOP, ALEC , KOCH and multi million dollar legislative machine that operates behind closed doors.
Its too late to ask Trayvon Martin.
The officer didnt shoot George Zimmerman.
Before the Zimmerman jury was sent into deliberations, they were given the following instruction:
"If George Zimmerman was not engaged in unlawful activity and was attacked in any place where he had the right to be, he had not duty to retreat and had the right to stand his ground and meet force with force" ... (Sounds so far like Trayvon Martin).
..... "including deadly force if he reasonably believed that it was necessary to to do so too prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony."
In 2005, ALEC's Criminal Justice Task Force, co-chaired by Wal-Mart, the nations largest seller of rifles, ratified the Stand Your Ground Law which was eventually adopted in26 states, including Florida.
Trayvon Martin had the same right to meet force with force. Zimmerman was a stranger who chose not to identify himself as the Neighborhood Watch, not to wait for the police officer to arrive, but to struggle with a young man who had just celebrated his 17th birthday three weeks previously. And shoot him in the heart.
StandYour Ground is a bad law. It is an NRA backed broadening of gun rights based soly on the subjective decision by the gun owner. The victim has no rights.
Did Zimmerman "reasonably believe" his injury was life threatening? He refused treatment for his bloody nose and cuts to the back of his head until the following day.
The American Legislative Exchange Council ( ALEC ) is a group of state legislators and corporate lobbyists funded by the most powerful corporations in the United States. They write legislation benefitting corporate interests. Not so much the common man.
Thanks to ALEC, Stand Your Ground not inly is it less safe for unarmed citizens to walk the streets and hold perpetrators responsible for the death of a citizen,but also more difficult to hold corporations responsible for causing death or injury. 71 ALEC bills introduced in 2013 would weaken the legal rights of the common citizen to take legal action against oil, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, and health insurance companies.
ALEC , which is overwhelmingly Republican in membership, has written legislation that makes it harder to vote, destroys unions, protects corporations from civil liability, and suppresses environmental protection, all in the name of furthering corporate power and profit in this country.
The next time you hear certain politicians speak of Americans losing their rights and freedoms in this country, ask yourself who is responsible.
Obama? Or the NRA GOP, ALEC , KOCH and multi million dollar legislative machine that operates behind closed doors.
Its too late to ask Trayvon Martin.
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