Damn and I thought I was the only heartless basstard that felt this way, I'm scared now that there are more of us out there!
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It's all circumstantial. In a circumstantial case, one has to weight the evidence at hand and determine how events ultimately unfolded. I find the case against Zman compelling. You are entitled to disagree with me.
The idea that their is some conspiracy to hide Trayvon's background is ludicrous. It's been in the public knowledge since well before the case began. And in the era of the intarwebz, once information is disseminated, it's impossible to put the genie back in the bottle. And as I said previously, you have an anti-Martin camp which is just as (if not more) vociferous as the anti-Zman camp. Meh.
No, it's not anti-Martin. At least not in my camp. It's pro 2nd amendment and the right to defend oneself. Sadly, this GZ/TM case is being used by those with an agenda to repeal stand your ground laws, and is another brick in the anti-gun nuts wall. It's also being used to further divide our nation by certain "groups" who believe our country's laws don't fit in with their agenda...
...I think the question - if one cares to examine it - is what were his actions, exactly? Was he the assailant or was he defending himself? Like I've posted before, this case is something of a Rorschach test insofar as the assumption of what cannot be known sheds light on the mind-set of those doing assuming.