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Saul,
You make a bunch of great points. And this would never be covered this way if the events had happened in the opposite direction.
posted by
sarooster
on September 29, 2007 at 1:32 PM
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By the way, sarooster, I wrote about this in a little more detail a few
days ago.
Check it out.
posted by
saul_relative
on September 29, 2007 at 1:15 PM
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Exactly, sarooster. Law matters. Circumventing the law to promote
self-centered agendas is destroying the rule of law. Between the idiots on the Right and the morons on the Left, they're slowly but surely polarizing the nation and contributing to the dissolution of the Constitution. Both sides need to get their collective heads out of their asses. This Jena incident is just another media-driven and propagandized event where an event is blown far out of proportion to its merit, given voice by extremists with their own agendas, and works toward division and polarization within the populace. Sharpton and Jackson ignore the rule of law to make a photo op and undermine the rule of law. Cases such as this involving the Jena Six are overlooked with nervous intensity by the Justice Department just to insure that no one's civil rights are being violated. The Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney's Office have found nothing concerning race (except for the conflicting testimony of the assaulted and the assaulters) in this case, therefore making Jackson's and Sharpton's comments about civil rights moot. The original charges may have been a bit much (who knows? What would you charge six teens, all fairly big boys, with when they were seen kicking an unconscious person in the head, regardless of race?). But these boys' assault case need to be adjudicated, regardless of the race issue, regardless of what started the fight. A simple schoolyard fight, as Jackson publicly called it, does not involve a person being sucker-punched while coming through a door, knocked unconscious, and being kicked in the head by six people. Remember, there is a victim here, and it isn't the six boys that did the assaulting...
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saul_relative
on September 29, 2007 at 1:13 PM
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sarooster
thanks for sharing
posted by
richinstore
on September 24, 2007 at 8:03 PM
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