Quote Originally Posted by bae View Post
You mean if the jury doesn't find the evidence presented to meet the standard of "reasonable doubt", and declines to issue a guilty verdict? That letter of the law? Conflating laws concerning homicide with "automation and offshoring of jobs and corporate greed" and "upcoming lawsuit settlements" is amazingly sharp thinking...

Priceless. Might as well just throw the guy to the mob now to be torn apart.

Kill the pig, kill the pig.

Regardless of what you have posted here, Bae, I have posted how a chunk of the country thinks and all the laws in the world are not going to change this. You may very well be insulated from this world, and more power to you, but if you were to visit South Seattle and spend some time there.....the thinking and the reality are completely different there. I can't change your reality Bae, and such is not really my intention, the point here is that your reality is not my reality and vice versa. Also the laws of which you have such high regard mean very little if anything to a subset of the US population - as I've stated, appearances and perception matter a great deal more. It's great that you know so much about the law, and there is no sarcasm implied here - the only problem is that the laws you so believe in often serve to work against and not for all citizens, and due to this, laws tend to be distrusted and feared in places like South Seattle. As they very much should be in my opinion. That said, I follow the laws as I've stated before I don't care to pay any consequences for not doing so, and I don't disagree with the laws 100%, either. But in this case with the shooting of Michael Brown and how the police have behaved since - really, it's no different from the third world. And I resent that as in the third world there is a tendency towards family values and colorful marketplaces and once you get out of the huge cities, a slower pace of life. If America is going to be so obviously third world, is it wrong to demand the good of the third world? He we are just getting the crooked, corrupt bad of the third world without the little bit of good.

To summarize - the laws you hold so highly.....many work against and not for all citizens, and due to this, really, for many they don't mean much. You may brush this aside now and it's great that you are in a position to do so - but as things continue to slide in America, the day may come when this reality can't be brushed aside so easily. Just a friendly heads up based on US debt levels and the shrinkage of the middle class. Rob