Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Update: ‘Trayvon' shouted as group attacks Good Samaritan
‘Trayvon' shouted as group attacks Good Samaritan
What happened then for Babbs to get away?
Man beaten in purse snatching disputes crowd yelling ‘Trayvon'
A Gainesville Police Department report regarding a Wednesday night purse snatching downtown states that an officer heard members of a gathered crowd screaming "Sanford" and "Trayvon" as the officer responded to the scene and interviewed witnesses.
The shouts were in reference to Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager who was shot and killed in Sanford on Feb. 26.
A man who claims he was beaten in Wednesday's incident, however, says he did not hear such shouts and has questioned the Police Department's account.
In comments posted online Friday at www.gainesville.com and Facebook, a man who identified himself as Felipe Echeverri took issue with the accounting of the incident that described bystanders invoking the name of the 17-year-old Martin.
Trayvon was black. A member of the neighborhood's crime watch, George Zimmerman, has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with Trayvon's death.
"No one shouted Trayvon. No one. In fact 5 people came to help me. All black. The white folks I was with … none of them showed up to do anything," Echeverri wrote. "So the story, instead of being about racial disharmony amongst Floridians, could have been a story about racial harmony and community."
Juan Felipe Echeverri, 33, and a friend, Tate Clair, 46, chased a black man later identified as Carl Milton Babb after he allegedly snatched the purse from a woman in the Bo Diddley Community Plaza, police recounted in a 10-page incident report released Friday to The Sun. Clair told police they caught Babb, who then punched Echeverri in the face and grabbed his hair, according to the report. Clair punched and kicked Babb to protect Echeverri and himself from additional harm, police reported.
More @ The Gainesville Sun
The Hunger Games
I went to see The Hunger Games last Saturday. As an action adventure movie, it’s very well done. But then you have to think about the underlying story, which is that some of the states of the USA tried to secede, Washington defeated them and is now punishing them for their insolence and treason. The fact that the despotic State would choose 12 children to fight each other to the death is much like Washington today. The power elite, regardless of party, has no compunction whatsoever about shoving 17-year-olds and 18-year-olds into the desert to carry a rifle and get their limbs blown off.
Then Hollywood makes movies like The Green Zone, Jarhead and The Hurt Locker that glorify military service. The best part of this movie is the back story, which is that this book trilogy is wildly popular with the young. That bodes very well for the future. Young people today know that are forced at the point of a gun to pay into a Social Security system that they will never get to use. They know that the national debt has been hung around their necks, not the Baby Boomers. All you have to do to get a taste of the youth disillusionment is to go to a Ron Paul rally. Doctor Paul packs football and basketball stadiums on college campuses and shares a message of solutions, not just platitudes. Go see the Hunger Games. And thank the ticket sales girl that you can see a great movie for only about ten bucks.
Then Hollywood makes movies like The Green Zone, Jarhead and The Hurt Locker that glorify military service. The best part of this movie is the back story, which is that this book trilogy is wildly popular with the young. That bodes very well for the future. Young people today know that are forced at the point of a gun to pay into a Social Security system that they will never get to use. They know that the national debt has been hung around their necks, not the Baby Boomers. All you have to do to get a taste of the youth disillusionment is to go to a Ron Paul rally. Doctor Paul packs football and basketball stadiums on college campuses and shares a message of solutions, not just platitudes. Go see the Hunger Games. And thank the ticket sales girl that you can see a great movie for only about ten bucks.
Dump DC: Six Letters That Can Change History.
I was wrong: Stand Your Ground was applicable
Via Dump DC
(3) A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.
(3) A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.
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