Holder's comments, with my responses interspersed:
Eric Holder wrote:
Of course, as this celebration unfolds, we are also mindful of the pain felt by our nation surrounding the tragic, unnecessary shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida last year – and the state trial that reached its conclusion over the weekend. As parents, as engaged citizens, and as leaders who stand vigilant against violence in communities across the country, the Deltas are deeply, and rightly, concerned about this case. The Justice Department shares your concern – I share your concern – and, as we first acknowledged last spring, we have opened an investigation into the matter.
But, at all costs, be sure not to tell your audience that not only did that investigation fail to find even a modicum of evidence of racial bias on George Zimmerman's part, it also showed that George Zimmerman
reached out to blacks. Definitely don't mention the name
Sherman Ware in front of such audiences.
Eric Holder wrote:
Independent of the legal determination that will be made
Spoiler alert: the legal determination will be that there's no
there there, and the DOJ has no jurisdiction where no crime exists, and no motivating racial bias exists. But I'm going to obfuscate that point by launching into the same old, tried-and-true polemic about race relations.
Eric Holder wrote:
I believe that this tragedy provides yet another opportunity for our nation to speak honestly about the complicated and emotionally-charged issues that this case has raised. We must not – as we have too often in the past – let this opportunity pass. I hope that we will approach this necessarily difficult dialogue with the same dignity that those who have lost the most, Trayvon’s parents, have demonstrated throughout the last year – and especially over the past few days. They suffered a pain that no parent should have to endure – and one that I, as a father, cannot begin to conceive. Even as we embrace their example and hold them in our prayers, we must not forego this opportunity to better understand one another and to make better this nation we cherish.
Yes, let us discuss those opportunities - such as the number of children born in illegitimacy, the number of children raised without a father, and especially, the number of children killed by perpetrators of their own race.
Oh, those weren't the opportunities you were talking about...?
Eric Holder wrote:
Moreover, I want to assure you that the Department will continue to act in a manner that is consistent with the facts and the law.
(Again, I'm not going to mention that the law gives no ground for the DOJ to act. Insert flowery language here to distract.)
Eric Holder wrote:
We are committed to standing with the people of Sanford, with the individuals and families affected by this incident...
How about George Zimmerman and his family? Do you stand with them? Will you investigate the New Black Panthers Party for violating his rights through their vigilantism of offering a monetary, dead-or-alive bounty? Will you investigate the hundreds - if not thousands - who have issued death threats to them? Will you investigate Spike Lee for doxing a completely uninvolved couple who had the misfortune of living in a house mistakenly believed to be that of the Zimmermans?
Oh, those weren't the individuals and families you were talking about...?
Eric Holder wrote:
...and with our state and local partners in order to alleviate tensions, address community concerns, and promote healing. We are determined to meet division and confusion with understanding and compassion – and also with truth.
DOJ-CRS: we're from the government, and we're here to help!
Eric Holder wrote:
We are resolved, as you are, to combat violence involving or directed at young people
Does that include violence perpetrated by young people? That violence certainly
involves them - just as violence perpetrated by a young person
involved George Zimmerman against his will.
How about the four young thugs who beat a two-tour Marine to death? How about the four young thugs who drove a man into the street to be run over by oncoming traffic? How about the 17-year-old black kid in Chicago who was killed by a young thug for refusing to join a gang?
Oh, that's not the sort of violence
involving young people that you were talking about...?
Eric Holder wrote:
...to prevent future tragedies and to deal with the underlying attitudes, mistaken beliefs and stereotypes that serve as the basis for these too common incidents.
Like "creepy ass cracka"? That sort of underlying attitude?
Oh, that's not the sort of underlying attitude you were talking about...?
Eric Holder wrote:
And we will never stop working to ensure that – in every case, in every circumstance, and in every community – justice must be done.
I daresay it was. And I think the Fifth District Court of Appeals said it best: "
That the attacker sustained a mortal wound is a matter that should have been considered by the deceased before he committed himself to the task he undertook." -
5th DCA, Stinson v. State (Fl)
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McCain didn't link CTH in the first paragraph as the source of his school info, he linked atlas. Rush quoting from article now... this is HUGE! He has millions of listeners that hang on his every word. It's not only good for an avalanche of hits for Stacy, but also good for GZ.
YAY Chip !!~