Two Wrongs Make a Right

[Imran Siddiqui]

Very true Sloww, but the question becomes... what's the alternative? They did try the peaceful route (sit in under the tree), but the DA wasn't too keen on that. Not saying it's right, but it is understandable due to the frustration I'm sure they must feel.

[Patroklos]

Imram, the reason the kid pulled the gun was because a group of black kids were chasing him. Not his words, but third party witnesses. What is wrong, legally, with pulling a gun (not using) in this instance?

When the legal system doesn't address your wrongs, violence becomes a proper recourse.

What wrongs, the noose? A dispicable act, but hardly the good old boys dragging then thar negros behind their pickup trucks with chains.

The only time there was white instegated violence against blacks, the barn party, the white guy did get assault charges. Though note the fight was about them trying to get into a private party. They might not have been invited because they were black, but they were not attacked becase they were black.

The Gena 6 beat up that white kid for two reasons. 1.) The white kid insulted their pride with the you "you got knoked the **** out comment" as it were (not a racial attack btw) and 2.) According to Agathon THEY had racial angst to get out of their system. Which of those absolves them from guilt?

From what we have observed we have a few white kids verbaly attacking people, and a few black kids physically attacking people. Which of those two are crimes?

[SlowwHand]

He wasn't involved at all, that's the biggest problem.
He wasn't part of the noose hangers, that much is known.
The tree is chopped down. Now all lose what it provided.
Like I said, plenty of blame.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Patroklos
From what we have observed we have a few white kids verbaly attacking people, and a few black kids physically attacking people. Which of those two are crimes?

The white kids run their mouths because they know they have a local system full of "******s to the back of the bus" types that will support the whites and do all the rousting and intimidation of the blacks that is normally needed.

Where does a DA get off trying a juvenile as an adult when he knows he has no statutory authority to do so?

Where does a judge get off allowing a legally defective trial to proceed and passing sentence?

Where does a neighboring parish judge get off in voiding a motion to remove the original judge, when he refuses to recuse himself and clearly has shown prejudicial conduct toward the defendant?

[SlowwHand]

They get off at 1st & Pier. All the girls hang out there.


You're sweeping in your judgment that race is so intimidating. Race doesn't intimidate everyone. It doesn't me for damn sure.
Unless it's some guy with a lawn mower or other gardening tool.

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by Patroklos
What wrongs, the noose? A dispicable act, but hardly the good old boys dragging then thar negros behind their pickup trucks with chains.

Isn't that a bit more than a despicable act, though? Isn't that a death threat?

[Kuciwalker]

Isn't that a death threat?

Not quite.

[Guynemer]

How else might a black person in the Deep South reasonably construe that?

[Berzerker]

The tree is chopped down. Now all lose what it provided.

And they are made equal by hatchet, axe, and saw.......deedle dee deedle dee

[Guynemer]

Obscure Rush references
Berz
Racism
Violence

[Berzerker]

How else might a black person in the Deep South reasonably construe that?

50 years ago it might have been a death threat, now its just rubbing the past in their noses

[Berzerker]

ty ty

[Guynemer]

How many years ago was it that that black man was dragged to death behind a truck? Might not black teens in the Deep South know about past threats and violence from their parents, who experienced the same things?

[Guynemer]

And wouldn't a Jewish family consider it a death threat if someone painted a swastika on their home, even if the Nazis were over 60 years ago?

[Berzerker]

Eh, I suppose. I guess I'd have to be a black living there. But I cant see a jury convicting someone of a death threat based on that.