Ramon F Herrera
12/3/2013 4:26:00 PM
On 12/3/2013 8:21 AM, prime cut wrote:
> On 12/3/2013 8:57 AM, ramon@conexus.net wrote:
>> On 12/2/2013 7:18 PM, Guy Fawkes wrote:
>>> ramon@conexus.net wrote in
>>> news:abdee$529d4a22$414e828e$19942@EVERESTKC.NET:
>>>
>>>> On 12/2/2013 5:47 PM, Guy Fawkes wrote:
>>>>> ramon@conexus.net wrote in
>>>>> news:33fcc$529d2de5$414e828e$8688@EVERESTKC.NET:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The Zimmerman partisans mob know there is a difference between the two
>>>>>> terms. In fact, that difference is precisely why they're so
>>>>>> militantly insistent on saying that Zimmerman - or "Zimm", as some of
>>>>>> them clownishly call him with fake familiarity - has been exonerated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Acquittal, or a court finding of not guilty, is a narrow and purely
>>>>>> legalistic term, and has no bearing on the question of whether or not
>>>>>> the accused actually committed the act that led to the charges. It's
>>>>>> much narrower in part because there is only a specific set of
>>>>>> procedures that must occur, all of them well defined and technical,
>>>>>> and the chain of events can be interrupted at any point, such that no
>>>>>> verdict is rendered at all.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Exoneration, by contrast, carries an unmistakable moral weight with
>>>>>> it.
>>>>>> Most people who hear the word exoneration think of it as pointing
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> *actual* innocence. For example, someone may be arrested and held as
>>>>>> a suspect in a crime, and his alibi that places him hundreds of miles
>>>>>> from the scene of the crime in the presence of dozens of credible
>>>>>> witnesses checks out, and he is released. Or, it turns out to be an
>>>>>> unmistakable case of mistaken identity, and he is released. Such a
>>>>>> person is considered to be exonerated, even though never tried an
>>>>>> acquitted.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The Zimmerman partisans mob is trying to appropriate - misappropriate,
>>>>>> actually - this moral meaning in saying that Zimmerman was exonerated,
>>>>>> precisely because they find a "mere" finding of not guilty to be
>>>>>> unsatisfying. They know full well that there is a prevailing sense
>>>>>> that Zimmerman got away with an unjustified homicide, and it is that
>>>>>> sense they are trying to combat by saying the verdict exonerated
>>>>>> "Zimm".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> He was not exonerated. In no sense did the jury find that Zimmerman
>>>>>> was actually innocent in the question of who started the fight. Two
>>>>>> jurors have spoken to the effect they believe that Zimmerman initiated
>>>>>> the confrontation. Implicit in their statements is that they
>>>>>> acknowledge they can't *know* that he started it, and such knowledge
>>>>>> would be required in order to convict, so they properly voted for
>>>>>> acquittal. When and if other jurors in the case speak, that sentiment
>>>>>> will be repeated. Bet on it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is something about the Zimmerman partisans mob and their attempt
>>>>>> to exonerate Zimmerman that calls to mind the Palin and Bachmann
>>>>>> partisans who vandalized the Wikipedia entries on Paul Revere and John
>>>>>> Quincy Adams to try to shore up their idols' shattered reputations.
>>>>>> Of course, we all know that Revere was *not* trying to warn the
>>>>>> British, and that Adams was *not* a founding father. And we know that
>>>>>> the Zimmerman jury's verdict of not guilty does *not* exonerate
>>>>>> Zimmerman in the sense of declaring that he didn't commit an
>>>>>> unjustified homicide.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Douchebag, live in the now. it's over, you lost. So go fuck youtself,
>>>>> or go back to the commie shithole that excreted you.
>>>>
>>>> No, I didn't lose. I wasn't on trial. Due to the nature of the case,
>>>> it was a bad case to bring.
>>>>
>>>> I wouldn't even say that justice lost. Justice is nothing but the
>>>> process being played out according to the rules, and that occurred. I
>>>> would say that the only thing that lost was the truth, but we can live
>>>> with that. I think most people know what the truth was...and is.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Are you running low on your meds again?
>>
>> <yawn> Stale and trite Usenet insult...I'm not surprised you can't do
>> any better than that.
>>
>>
>>> You are presuming to know what lots
>>> of people you don't know think about the Zimmerman case.
>>
>> I don't need to know them. Public opinion polls tell us. Only a
>> quarter of respondents think Zimmerman was justified in shooting Martin
>> - that is, only a quarter, at most, think Zimmerman was telling the
>> truth. Twice as many believe Zimmerman started the fight, and the rest
>> are fuckwits like you who are unable to hold an informed opinion.
>
> Shut your fat fucking Venezuelan piehole, you
Sorry, but no.