Trayvon Williams tragedy(not)

[Michael Bailey]

 David Morris wrote:
> Discuss the word tragedy all you want.  Just leave this boy's murder out of it.
>

How does pointing out that the tragic protagonist in the shooting of
any apparently innocent victim is not the victim, but the shooter,
fall short of acceptable sympathy?

Isn't considering a killer as being a fallible human - not unlike
oneself in many respects - the liberal, progressive response, rather
than the reactionary revenge-oriented response that brought the
current law-and-order gun-toting stand-your-ground menace into its
current prominence? Isn't there a place for mercy, for rehabilitation,
or at least forbearance?

more to the point, isn't there a responsibility to define one's terms
adequately - how else can one act sensibly?  Isn't there a presumption
of innocence built into the legal system?  Nothing has been completely
proven, yet.  I was outraged that this was seeming to be let slide,
but a rush to judgement is equally wrong.

-- holy cripes, while I'm on the soapbox, some buttwipe with a
supposedly nasally gifted dog helped Florida lawmen wrongfully convict
a whole bunch of people over the years, one of whom was finally
released and compensated

http://wrongful-convictions.blogspot.com/2009/08/16-cases-mired-in-dog-handlers-fraud.html

trying to find a live petition about that -- Florida atty general
promised to address it, hasn't.


If somebody shot me or anyone I love I would say the same thing, in
public anyway.  Assuming I could speak...

ah well David, don't hate me because I'm a word geek.

I'm done anyway.  Places to go, petitions to sign...donations to make
(from a moth-ridden wallet)...ballots to cast...