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Outraged that they are portrayed as criminals, the black community is busy proving them wrong by tweeting death threats, and rioting in Oakland. Aided by a press that is busy counting the profits that will be made from reporting the civil unrest, the NAACP calls for violating Zimmerman’s constitutional protection against double jeopardy. This is far from over.

Here is the applicable law in Florida:

776.032 Immunity from criminal prosecution and civil action for justifiable use of force.

(1) A person who uses force as permitted in s. 776.012, s. 776.013, or s. 776.031
is justified in using such force and is immune from criminal
prosecution and civil action for the use of such force, unless the
person against whom force was used is a law enforcement officer, as
defined in s. 943.10(14), who was acting in the performance of his or
her official duties and the officer identified himself or herself in
accordance with any applicable law or the person using force knew or
reasonably should have known that the person was a law enforcement
officer. As used in this subsection, the term “criminal prosecution”
includes arresting, detaining in custody, and charging or prosecuting
the defendant.

 So sure, the Martins can sue Zimmerman, but the dirty tricks of suppressing discovery have alreadt been used, so the Zimmerman team will be better prepared. Then, there is the rest of the law:

(3) The court shall award reasonable attorney’s fees, court costs,
compensation for loss of income, and all expenses incurred by the
defendant in defense of any civil action brought by a plaintiff if the
court finds that the defendant is immune from prosecution as provided in
subsection (1).

So, if they try it, they will be suing a person who has no money, having spent it all in defense of his criminal trial. If they win, they get nothing. If they lose, they get to pay Zimmerman’s legal costs.

This is why no one who carries a gun should EVER allow himself to be punched in the head…

The New Black Panthers Party has threatened “unrest all over America” if George Zimmerman is acquitted. New Black Panthers leader Samir Shabazz reportedly stated (unconfirmed):

“This time we’re doing it right… This time we’re not burning
down our communities. This time we’re going out to Whitey’s suburbs and
burning down HIS community. We’re going to make Whitey feel the pain.”

 The group used Twitter to say:

 “For the record whatever God moves Black People to do after the verdict, it can never be called a riot – it’s a rebellion,” 

  This will be a VERY expensive lesson, at least in this state. The National Guard is reportedly on alert, the cops are on alert, and there are a WHOLE lot of guns hereabouts.

The state of Florida had information that was exculpatory to George Zimmerman, but withheld that information in violation of the law. An IT professional blew the whistle. That IT guy got fired, while the Special Prosecutor and the lead Prosecutor got their pensions illegally increased.

Nice.

People keep saying that profiling is wrong. I disagree. Why would it not make sense to target law enforcement efforts where they will do the greatest good?
According to the Bureau of Justice statistics  (pdf alert), 22% of violent crime involved a weapon. When a weapon was used, a firearm was the weapon one third of the time. The most common violent crime was battery.

When it comes to age, 37% of people who commit murder are between the ages of 18 and 24. This demographic is twice as likely to commit murder than any other.

With regard to sex, males are eight times more likely to commit murder than females, with 89% of all murders being committed by males.

Blacks commit 52% of all murders in the US, and since they represent only 13% of the population, are 9 times more likely to commit murder than any other demographic.

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics:

Black victims are over represented in homicides involving drugs. Compared with the overall involvement of blacks as victims, blacks are less often the victims of sex-related homicides,
workplace killings, and homicide by poison. 

In fact, 65% of murders where a black man is the offender are drug related.

The BJS also had this to say:

The sharp increase in homicides from the mid-1980’s through the early 1990’s and much of the subsequent decline is attributable to gun violence by juveniles and young adults. 

Some will say that this is racism, but I am just stating the facts: The demographic that is most likely to commit a violent crime is a black male between the age of 18-24. So when a person says that George Zimmerman is wrong for profiling a young, black, male who appears to be on drugs, they are mistaken. The facts are there. Trayvon Martin was a young, black, male who was in fact on drugs. He was a criminal. Instead of spending their efforts on complaining about it, perhaps the time of the protesters would be better spent in preventing black youths from doing drugs and committing other crimes.

If Zimmerman is found not guilty, please remember to be sensitive to people seeking justice for Trayvon(TM) by rioting: They are not looters, they are ‘undocumented shoppers.’

A TV station proves that the mainstream media gets it wrong as often as the blogosphere when they report the supposed names of the Chinese flight crew involved in this week’s plane crash. The reported names of the flight crew were:

– Capt Sum Ting Wong
– Wi Tu Lo
– Ho Lee Fuk
– Bang Ding Ow

Tell me again about how ‘authorized journalists’ are more accurate than bloggers…

This just in: The news station has released the name of the editor that reviewed the report for accuracy: Sum Dum Ho.

As we await the end of the Zimmerman trial, I realized that lost in all of the arguments about race and the differing opinions on the meaning of this versus that, we have a fundamental problem: Everyone is treating this like a game. Some kind of sporting event, where the players try to gain advantage and  win the game, while the entire time we forget that the person who is accused has constitutional rights. Not just in this case, but in every case.

The entire point of having constitutional rights is to prevent mob rule, otherwise we would be a true democracy. The people who are the largest cheerleaders in this case are blacks, who more than anyone, will have to face the results of what the prosecution has tried to do to Zimmerman.

What did they do?
The prosecutor lied on the charging document. There is evidence of witness tampering, manufactured evidence, slow rolling of discovery, the hiding of possibly exculpatory evidence, misrepresentation of the facts, and many other violations, right down to the last minute addition of the murder by child abuse charge. Politicians interfered in the investigation by tainting witnesses and pushing for charges in order to advance their own political careers.

All of this has been lost in the argument of people who have been distracted into asking the wrong questions.

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.” ~ Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

There is a new Android app that lists on a map all of the gun owners in your vicinity. The app relies on users reporting on where the icky guns are. The problem is illustrated by the maker of the app:

“The gun rights community has been busy making personal threats (we
remain unconcerned), as well as spamming the Gun Geo Marker database
with false markers,” he exclusively told FoxNews.com. “Though these fake
markers are not useful for identifying dangerous guns and owners, they
are certainly representative of the highly paranoid reaction we have
come to expect from any attempt to improve gun safety in the United
States.