let’s see... he was wandering around BETWEEN the houses in the rain in the dark...
If someone was walking between my house and my neighbors house in the dark in the rain, I would be suspicious too...
AND I would probably carry my gun to go see why
“Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.” Jacques Barzun
I hate political correctness. It not only organizes hatred; it corrals us all as sheep.
We even have Twitter Jail - not a limit on your tweets - but actual jail sentences for being impolitic. Amazing how a once free society is transforming itself into a gulag.
Oh for cryin’ out loud.......some questions just answer themselves.
A minute later, Tray jumped him.
We know Tray did drugs, engaged in street fighting, was a thief and was not known in the neighborhood.
Intelligence
Experience
Common sense...
Say that again, LOUDER!
Trayvon Martin looked suspicious because he fit the same behavioral and descriptive outline of the prior criminals in the Retreat at Twin Lakes sub-division.
The US courts need to accept the radical idea that “profiling” is *not* synonymous with “unfair profiling” or “oppression under the color of authority”.
The irony of profiling is that it works, and works very well, and is in common practice in most of the western world, unencumbered with “racialist” baggage.
Imagine the vast amount of money and hassle that would be saved the public if, for example, when Muslims wished to travel by public means, they were told that they should arrive an hour early, to get additional screening, “Because you are Muslims.”
There is nothing wrong about it. It is *not* unfair, because the vast majority of terrorist acts around the world today are caused by Muslims. Despite their denials, lies, and complaints.
Were we now the early 1940s, the same rule could easily have been applied to Germans, Japanese and Italians, without batting an eye. In the 1950s, extra scrutiny could have applied to Koreans or known communists.
This does not mean that “we are at war with Islam”. But it does mean that we are effectively at war with a substantial enough portion of Islam; and that unable to tell who are the more peaceable Muslims and who are the more dangerous ones, we must discriminate against all Muslims.
And there is nothing wrong with this. It is just the recognition that many Muslims cannot be trusted, and have ill intent to our nation. This is an acceptance of reality, and acting in a reasonable manner as circumstances dictate.
Let us dispense with the foolish notion that “Muslims can look like anyone”. There are a staggeringly tiny minority of Muslims that do not evidence their beliefs in their appearance, behavior, or attitudes, in such as way that they could blend in with non-Muslims.
No, there is no justifiable reason to search the wheelchair of a disabled Irish grandmother, or an 8-year-old blond girl. None. There is no realistic possibility that they could be terrorists themselves, or are transporting terrorist weapons on their persons on behalf of a terrorist.
That our courts do not recognize this means they are delusional. Likewise with congress, since they have not made it clear that reality based, not fantasy based, security works.
The profiling charge that was used to charge him with murder all goes back to what Dee Dee claims that Trayvon said over the phone...which is why the state is doing its best to keep the defense from getting the evidence about what she actually said when interviewed (which was some days after the killing...so she could have been coached on what to say by Crump).
The whole thing is meant to be a show trial to teach people they don't have the right of self-defense in Holder's America if they are attacked by one of Holder's people.