(np) Trayvon Williams tragedy

[David Morris]

And on a very closely related note (from Esquire's always insightful
Charles Pierce):

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/tennessee-evolution-law-7529437

In Indiana, where the state's value-sized governor, Mitch
(Presidential Kindling) Daniels signed a law that gives citizens the
right to resist physically any activities by law enforcement that the
citizen believes to be against the law. Now, the war on drugs, to name
only one theater of conflict to which this law likely will become
relevant, is idiotic and savage, and no-knock drug raids are a blight
on the Constitution. But am I the only one here who believes that this
thing has the potential to turn every traffic stop into the OK Corral?
Governor Daniels assures us that's not the case, arguing convincingly,
as only he can, that he signed a law that nobody ever is going to use
anyway:

"Contrary to some impressions, the bill strengthens the protection of
Indiana law enforcement officers by narrowing the situations in which
someone would be justified in using force against them," Daniels said.
"Unless a person is convinced an officer is acting unlawfully, he
cannot use any force of any kind. In the real world, there will almost
never be a situation in which these extremely narrow conditions are
met."

One of the bill's main supporters, however, is more sanguine about the
average Hoosier's right to open fire when he sees his inalienably
rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of jaywalkers threatened:

State Rep. Jud McMillin, R-Brookville, a co-sponsor of the law, said
the high court's decision went too far because "everybody should have
the right to resist anything that's unlawful from anybody."

I'm sure that the first time a black defendant exercises his rights
under the new law against, say, a white cop, Representative Jud will
be there for the defense. I'm also sure that unicorns graze on my
hedges in the misty morning light.


Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/tennessee-evolution-law-7529437#ixzz1psPtP3bC

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 8:12 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems that in Florida it's legal to kill someone as long as you say you were afraid for your life.