but they were allowed to consider a charge of manslaughter, right? and the state couldn't prove that to a sufficient degree to convince the jury - granted, that wasn't what they were really aiming for but still...
in related news - is anyone besides me troubled by the tweet of Zimmerman's brother saying he's "proud to be an American" because of the verdict?
sort of makes me sick to my stomach...
I'd be more concerned about having our judicial process displaced by Mainstream Media howlers pushing for social justice. I don't suppose you can connect the dots between "Remember the Maine", the WWI anthem "Over There", and "Weapons of Mass Destruction" to name just a few media-mediated American insanities.
I'm not especially proud to be an "American" when I review the history of the Trail of Tears for the Cherokee tribe, or Kit Carson's re-enactment of it on a smaller scale marching Navajos to the west Texas desert. We do have some credits for doing better as occupying forces after WWII than say the Japanese were during that war, but we are losing that reputation now with some of the behaviors we have seen by our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Overall, it is a huge historic tragedy that the United States has become the jackbooted policeman for the United Nations and globalism. I wonder why our media ignores our present global fascism political agenda and can't accept the fact that a stupid black kid decided to go pound a stupid Hispanic who was trying to get an exact address for a stupid dispatcher who couldn't just say "The police on on their way, now go home." uhhmmmm.... twice.
But most of all, it makes me sick to my stomach that "Americans" can be mesmerized by an insanely biased major media that ignores every single fact of the story to make this a racial issue. I guess it's true that if you get some talking heads in suits and/or skirts hosting daily shows, pushing some particular view of the "news" with priestly intonations about what is acceptable in society, you really can get "society" going in practically any self-righteous way you want.
uhhhmmmmmm. . . . .
well, except for maybe six women who actually got to hear the evidence and did consider the facts. five of them mothers, mind you, who decided to care to have their own kids live in a world that is not fundamentally a "mob".