No Federal Charges for Zimmerman

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Good.

A win for vigilante justice.

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Thank God. The guy seems like a real assclown but it's idiotic that they even thought about federal charges.

Left wing extremist are outraged.


Time to burn some more buildings down.

I reiterate that hate crimes are bullshite. All crimes are hate crimes. While a mens rea is valid inquiry, particularly in making distinctions between "honest mistake" and legitimate criminal activity, as well as between various grades of homicide, "manslaughter", "second degree murder", "first degree murder", etc., delving into the "motivation" of a crime seems dangerously in the thought police area.

While it might be helpful to a jury to establish the defendant indeed had a reason to commit the crime, to use the varying motivations to establish a crime or (even worse, in many respects) to elevate the penalties seems the height of thought police.

For example, the James Byrd dragging - I don't care why the yahoos targeted - whether or not his shirt was untucked, he looked too tall for his weight or he was wearing a Longhorns cap - once they decided to drag him to his death, they're animals worthy of being put down. I don't want to get into the fact he may have been targeted because of his race, because that just reinforces the fact that blacks are different and need "special" protection.

Everyone deserves equal protection under the law in our system or it won't work.

The tragedy of the Martin shooting is that it was so preventable - if the 2 men had communicated openly, honestly - neither would have been much troubled. But because they both feared and suspected each other, the conflict ended in the tragic death of a young person - a tragic, avoidable death.

But I remain unconvinced of any criminal activity on the part of Zimmerman - the first "white hispanic" in U.S. history.

Great post, Ace