Posted on 07/16/2013 3:28:02 PM PDT by Red Steel
Laws like "Stand Your Ground" undermine innocent Americans' safety "by allowing - and perhaps encouraging - violent situations to escalate in public," Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday afternoon, three days after George Zimmerman's acquittal in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager spurred civil rights protests across the United States.
Delivering remarks to the NAACP's annual conference in Orlando - 30-something miles from where Zimmerman, claiming "self-defense," fatally shot Trayvon Martin - Holder acknowledged that "as passionate civil rights leaders, as engaged citizens and, most of all, as parents," his audience members remained "deeply - and rightly - concerned about this case." Calling the teen's death "tragic and unnecessary," he stressed that his department will consider "all available information" in determining whether to pursue federal criminal charges against Zimmerman.
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A federal DOJ that allows Black Panthers to intimidate voters by standing in front of poling places with nightsticks “encourages escalating violence”. A DOJ that is lawless encourages escalating violence. A DOJ that is corrupt encourages escalating violence.
I get the impression that some types of “escalating violence” is actually viewed as useful for advancing The Agenda of the people at the top of the DOJ.
I heartily recommend that everyone read Chapter 10 of F.A. Hayek’s wonderful book, The Road to Serfdom.
Hayek Was Right: The Worst Do Get to the Top
FEBRUARY 01, 1998 by LAWRENCE W. REED
In spite of freedom’s remarkable, global progress in recent years—from the collapse of the Soviet empire to the growth of “privatization”—there is no sign yet of a shortage of statists with silly and destructive schemes. The best explanation of why and how such people get into positions of power is still found in “Why the Worst Get on Top,” which is chapter ten of F. A. Hayek’s masterpiece, The Road to Serfdom.
When Hayek wrote his best-known book in 1944, the world was captivated by the notion of socialist central planning. While almost everyone in Europe and America decried the brutality of nazism, fascism, and communism, public opinion was being shaped and molded by an intelligentsia which held that these “excesses” of socialism were avoidable exceptions. If only we make sure the right people are in charge, said the statist intellectuals, the iron fist will dissolve into a velvet glove.
Those who, in Hayek’s words, “think that it is not the system which we need fear, but the danger that it might be run by bad men,” are naïve utopians who will forever be disappointed by the socialist outcome. Indeed, this is the history of twentieth-century statism—the endless search for a place where the dream might actually be made to work, settling on a spot until disaster is embarrassingly apparent to all, then blaming persons rather than the system and flitting off to the next inevitable disappointment. Perhaps someday, the dictionary definition of “statist” may read, “Someone who learns nothing from human nature, economics, or experience, and repeats the same mistakes over and over again without a care for the rights and lives of people he crushes with his good intentions.”
Even the worst features of the statist reality, Hayek showed, “are not accidental byproducts” but phenomena that are part and parcel of statism itself. He argued with great insightfulness that “the unscrupulous and uninhibited are likely to be more successful” in any society in which government is seen as the answer to most problems. They are precisely the kind of people who elevate power over persuasion, force over cooperation. Government, possessing by definition a legal and political monopoly of the use of force, attracts them just as surely as dung draws flies. Ultimately, it is the apparatus of government that allows them to wreak their havoc on the rest of us.
Hardly a day goes by that, a half-century after Hayek wrote, the newspapers fail to provide new examples of the worst getting to the top.
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” No one, except probably us, cares that yet another kid was killed by thug culture.”
Speak for thy self, John Alden.
Every thug killed saves the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Hmmn - perhaps we should arm the thugs and let them shoot it out until only one is left standing. Then let the ‘Drone Ranger’ bomb him.
Oh, yeah - my mistake. The ‘Drone Ranger’ is a thug.
Obama, Holder and their people could not be more wrong. SYG ends violence. Law abiding citizens are able to stop violence with SYG. If left unchecked, Obama’s people will continue to be violent. SYG stops violent people dead in their tracks and they are never able to be violent again. It is whole lot cheaper than the revolving doors of our country club prisons that allow criminals to be better criminals.
Not a one of these people would live anywhere near a ghetto. But Holder and the liberals and the their voters all believe we should pretend we’re asleep when someone breaks into our homes and hope the thief takes all he wants but doesn’t kill us.
I include the voters in the equation because they’re the ones who put people like Holder in power.
Escalating violence? I didn’t realize Stand Your Ground laws applied in Chicago.
The truth is there should be no need for a “stand your ground” law. It’s common sense you should be able to protect yourself and your property from criminals.
Yep. ABC radio news just said that SYG was an "integral" part of the Zimmerman case.
There has already been a large number of stand your ground cases in the US, of people defending themselves and their property from criminals and the violent. So what is needed is to assemble a state by state list of these events, and all the times their actions were justified in the law.
And the relatively few times it wasn’t.
Holder’s bizarre assertion that SYG “encouraged” violence is utter hooey. These laws prevented not just violent felonies, but saved the lives of many people.
Silly me.
They are and that’s what evil looks/acts like. UGLY with nothing but LIES/DECEPTION. There’s a place for eternity for them. Now, they are merely pointing the way they want to go.
And, if it happens that I have my 22LR instead of my handgun, there are 25 cartridges in the magazine which will cover the body, including the crotch. That is self defense, so don't mess with me and you won't get shot.
I am sick of this bellyaching by Holder and Hussein and Jackson and especially riot maker Sharpton and any black who would like to slaughter white people.
I know all of you are not going to shoot someone because you feel like it or because of the existence of color in the skin - if someone attacks you, shoot the sucker.
This wasn't a case of stand-your-ground.
But while we're on the subject Mr. Holder...
An example of stand-your-ground would be Selma and Montgomery Alabama circa 1965.
Remember those AG Holder?
There were marches and sit-ins.
Stand-your-ground is a civil right.
This case should shoved into the GOP-e’s face as a primer on why appeasement of the left does not work. First they just wanted the arrest and trial...you know...justice. And when they failed to get the verdict that they thought was all but a slam dump (not a typo), they went bat crap crazy.
They fact that they are demanding changes to SYG laws when it has nothing to do with this case is not an accident or misunderstanding; it was always the agenda. The left takes remotely related threads and weaves them together with the help of a compliant media. I talked to three people today who were certain that GZ got off on a SYG defense, wow!
If anyone in the GOP has one grain of sense, what is happening here should shut down all talk of amnesty. Once that camel get the nose under the tent, they will want immediate voting rights for everyone and the MSM will help them all they can. Any supposed good deeds by GOP lawmakers who vote for this travesty will be swept away just like GZ’s tutoring of black children was.
Oh and BTW Stevie Wonder, you are way to old to go by a six year old’s name and no FL does not give a flip if you perform in our state again.
Freedom>Peace
BO and Holder are doing a better job on escalating violence among the races than SYG ever could! Sad thing is, we have NO ONE we can count on to put a stop to it and impeach BO and throw Holder in prison. Sad
Liberals feel you do not have a right to self-defense.
Liberals tell women not to resist a rapist.
Liberals tell victims not to fight over the money in their wallet.
Liberal lawyers tell corporations to prevent employees from defending themselves.
Liberals fight tougher sentencing guidelines.
Liberals release prisoners due to spending on social welfare.
Liberals support a felon’s right to vote.
tm is nowgun control part iii.
part i -fast and furious, foiled
part ii - newtown, failed
part ii - tm + race component
last on part iii, damn tablet
Holden said his father had to give him the “respect police” speech when he was a young man and it saddened him that he had to give it to his son.
What?
I am white. I am 60 years old. I got the speech from my Father when I was 10.
“The Man may not be right, but he has the gun and the law.”
“You may be right, dead right.”
Was the quote.
When my white daughter started driving, she got the same lesson.
Holder, there is life beyond race. Put your cards away.
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