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Zimmerman verdict: Not Guilty.
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RE: Zimmerman verdict: Not Guilty.
August 1, 2013 at 3:28 pm
(August 1, 2013 at 2:26 pm)Red Celt Wrote:
(July 26, 2013 at 5:54 pm)Tiberius Wrote: and as we all know...power corrupts.
Like the power to drive around a gated community, deciding who is (and who is not) acting "suspiciously". With a gun.
You realize everyone has that power right?
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RE: Zimmerman verdict: Not Guilty.
August 1, 2013 at 3:35 pm
(August 1, 2013 at 3:28 pm)Tiberius Wrote:
(August 1, 2013 at 2:26 pm)Red Celt Wrote: Like the power to drive around a gated community, deciding who is (and who is not) acting "suspiciously". With a gun.
You realize everyone has that power right?

In your country, perhaps. Thankfully... not in mine.
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RE: Zimmerman verdict: Not Guilty.
August 1, 2013 at 11:12 pm
(August 1, 2013 at 3:28 pm)Tiberius Wrote:
(August 1, 2013 at 2:26 pm)Red Celt Wrote: Like the power to drive around a gated community, deciding who is (and who is not) acting "suspiciously". With a gun.
You realize everyone has that power right?

In certain states. That is the problem.
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RE: Zimmerman verdict: Not Guilty.
August 2, 2013 at 2:48 am
No, it's not a problem. There is nothing inherently wrong with driving around deciding people are suspicious, even if you do have a gun.
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RE: Zimmerman verdict: Not Guilty.
August 2, 2013 at 2:50 am
Excused me, boss ( and I will say this as politely as I possibly can) but you are out of your fucking mind.
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RE: Zimmerman verdict: Not Guilty.
August 2, 2013 at 2:56 am
I'm sorry, but people make decisions like that automatically. You see someone doing something shady; you think they are suspicious. There isn't anything wrong with that. The fact that you may have a gun with you doesn't make it wrong either.

Now, if you decide to take the law into your own hands and use your gun against them because they were being suspicious, that is where it becomes wrong.
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RE: Zimmerman verdict: Not Guilty.
August 2, 2013 at 8:39 am
(August 2, 2013 at 2:56 am)Tiberius Wrote: I'm sorry, but people make decisions like that automatically. You see someone doing something shady; you think they are suspicious. There isn't anything wrong with that. The fact that you may have a gun with you doesn't make it wrong either.

Now, if you decide to take the law into your own hands and use your gun against them because they were being suspicious, that is where it becomes wrong.

Aaaaand... the loop is closed.

(July 26, 2013 at 5:54 pm)Tiberius Wrote: as we all know...power corrupts.

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RE: Zimmerman verdict: Not Guilty.
August 2, 2013 at 10:29 am (This post was last modified: August 2, 2013 at 10:30 am by CleanShavenJesus.)
^ Haha awesome.

(August 2, 2013 at 2:56 am)Tiberius Wrote: I'm sorry, but people make decisions like that automatically. You see someone doing something shady; you think they are suspicious. There isn't anything wrong with that. The fact that you may have a gun with you doesn't make it wrong either.

Now, if you decide to take the law into your own hands and use your gun against them because they were being suspicious, that is where it becomes wrong.

Yeah, but some idiot going around with a gun, ready to use said gun, thinking a kid is suspicous....leads to him taking the law into his own hands and using the gun!

I just have trouble understanding that you think it's fine for someone armed with a firearm to stalk another person because this someone thinks this person "looks suspicious". The situation can't lead to anything good; it's only logical that that it leads to very bad things.
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RE: Zimmerman verdict: Not Guilty.
August 2, 2013 at 12:11 pm
(August 1, 2013 at 12:01 pm)Dionysius Wrote:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebu6Yvzs4Ls


I think the first posting didn't appreciate the hotlinking. The second, hopefully will be a little more enduring.

What is interesting about this video is the very end where Bill comments on the media's attempt to link Trayvon with the pseudo-philosophic legacy of MLK. It truly is a slap in the face!

Can we [mankind] really be so stupid as to be continually duped by the MSM and the corporate world all in the name of money?
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RE: Zimmerman verdict: Not Guilty.
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