The Zimmerman Trial

[KrazyHorse]

OK, this is freaky. I saw a picture of Rachel Jeantel for the first time. My immediate thought was "she looks like jabba the hutt". Apparently millions of other people already knew this...

[KrazyHorse]

In particular the pic I saw was the initial still here http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/15/justic...l?c=homepage-t

Pics from the trial I just found make her look far less like jabba.

[giblets]

It's distressing but unsurprising to see liberals try to ditch rule of law and advocate what is clearly double jeopardy. Interesting to see the reversal from 30 years ago. Conservatives and liberals have flipped on free speech and due process, it seems.

What happened 30 years ago?

[Hauldren Collider]

Probably should have said 40, but basically, Pentagon Papers, Miranda v. Arizona, Gideon v. Wainwright and so on, all of which were more popular with liberals than conservatives. Now we have cases like Citizens United and this Zimmerman thing and the roles are reversed.

[The Mad Monk]

x-hc

Linda Ronstadt debuts as Mabel in "Pirates of Penzance"

[Berzerker]

liberals and conservatives haven't reversed, its about whose ox is being gored

[Uncle Sparky]

Kevin Kline was quite entertaining as The Pirate King.

[Aeson]

Exactly, anyone who has every flown across the Pacific knows that Asians don't know how to land planes.

This could be because they spend all their HR capabilities in their search for flight attendants ... not much time left for picking the pilots.

[MrFun]

Please, PLEASE tell me that you were adamantly supportive with the O.J. Simpson verdict!

I was not

[Wiglaf]

[Berzerker]

It's distressing but unsurprising to see liberals try to ditch rule of law and advocate what is clearly double jeopardy.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow did exactly that tonight, she even brought up the murders of James Byrd and Matthew Shepard to endorse a federal hate crime prosecution of Zimmerman. She pointed out how the killers of Byrd and Shepard were convicted by the Feds, she just didn't mention the killers weren't acquitted by state courts beforehand. But with George Zimmerman? Who cares about the acquittal... And she had on Ben Jealous from the Naacp and let him lie the entire "interview", he even said the police dispatcher told Zimmerman to stay in his car.

I hope he sues NBC and wins big

[molly bloom]

What happened 30 years ago?

H.C. wasn't born. The world was obviously a better place.

[kentonio]

And she had on Ben Jealous from the Naacp and let him lie the entire "interview", he even said the police dispatcher told Zimmerman to stay in his car.

You mean they actually told him not to follow Martin, rather than telling him to stay in his car? Not exactly Watergate, is it?

[Sava]

It's distressing but unsurprising to see liberals try to ditch rule of law and advocate what is clearly double jeopardy.

agree

[The Mad Monk]

You mean they actually told him not to follow Martin, rather than telling him to stay in his car? Not exactly Watergate, is it?

Since he agreed to stop following Martin ON THE TAPE when they told him to, it is rather significant, don't you think?