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Town approves resolution
Monday, November 22, 2010

After calling a special meeting for Friday, July 10, the Pagosa Springs Town Council voted to approve a resolution and the first reading of an ordinance that will hopefully provide economic relief for town residents.

The resolution and ordinance, parts of an economic development plan identical to that passed by the Archuleta Board of County Commissioners on July 7, waives town impact fees, land use development and building fees, and provides sales tax rebates to developers and builders who purchase materials locally and hire local labor.

Council called the meeting to vote on the measures after discussing the economic development plan on Thursday, July 9.

Presenting before a packed audience on Thursday, Town Manager David Mitchem explained that the resolution and ordinance were the first steps towards a broader, more comprehensive economic development plan.

“We’re going to talk about a couple of incentives, today,” he said, “but that’s not sufficient. We need to talk about a portfolio of incentives.”

The plan presented by Mitchem was thin on details or ideas about how the town would boost tourism or help local area businesses; the only firm proposals offered in the plan were the building and development incentives that council approved at its special meeting.

Nonetheless, residents who addressed the council during the work session, spoke unanimously in favor of the plan.

“As president of the Home Builders Association,” said Bob Hart, “I’d like to thank David for his efforts. I think this is a very good start.”

Hart went on to add that the Town Tourism Committee was considering the proposal of other economic incentives for downtown businesses: providing sales tax incentives for merchants who stay open seven days a week and keep longer business hours.

Several other residents also spoke in support of the plan, including local Realtor Juli Morelock who said, “I’m in touch with a client who is ready to build a high-end home,” implying that the elimination of fees swayed the decision to build, adding, “The client wants whatever information is available,” regarding the town and county’s fee structure.

Council was clear that, once resolutions and ordinances had passed, it would do whatever was in its power to alert the public — in and out of Archuleta County — that “We’re open for business,” as Mitchem said.

Council member Shari Pierce asked, “How do we get the word out?”

Mitchem stated that word of incentives would be posted on the town’s Web site and staff would investigate any possible means of advertising that Pagosa Springs was “creating a pro-business environment.”

However, “a pro-business environment” was not clearly articulated in Mitchem’s plan except in how it related to providing incentives for further building and development. Although Mitchem’s presentation stated what needed to be done to further economic development in the Pagosa area, how the plan would specifically achieve those goals was missing.

When asked how building in an environment that has a record surplus of residential and commercial properties would benefit the local economy, council member Mark Weiler said, “It creates an internal velocity of money in the community which will increase the value of the initial infusion of cash by a factor of five to ten times.”

What Weiler proposed (with the phrase “internal velocity of money”) is the idea that cash infused into the local economy will potentially change hands many times, benefitting numerous businesses and residents as it circulates. Weiler might have slightly overstated the factor by which initial investment would increase, since Archuleta Economic Development Association (AEDA) Executive Director Bart Mitchell said in a later interview that, “The scenario would be, in the best case, a factor of three to five times.”

In fact, in order to achieve Weiler’s projection, $100 spent locally would have to change hands between five and ten times with none of that money leaving the county — a highly improbable scenario.

It was apparent that most residents attending the discussion were convinced by the logic of the plan, with local business owner Steve Van Horn saying, in regard to the question of how adding inventory to the current glutted home market will help improve the economy, “I’ve heard this come up before. What will fill the vacancies are the jobs created.”

“Our two largest industries (building and real estate) are being addressed by this plan,” Van Horn added.

Except, building and real estate are not the two largest industries in Archuleta County. According to a report recently released by Region 9 Economic Development District, construction accounted for 15 percent of employment in Archuleta county in 2007 — during a period when building and development were still strong in the area — and accounted for 15 percent of total income in the county.

That same study indicated that services accounted for 40 percent of jobs in the county (and 30 percent of all earnings), while wholesale and retail trade accounted for 15 percent of the jobs and 17 percent of total income. The study showed government (including the school district) employed 11 percent of job holders in the county while providing 18 percent of total earnings, closely edging out finance, insurance and real estate, which provided 11 percent of local jobs and 16 percent of total local income.

At the start of his presentation, Mitchem recognized the services and retail sectors of the economy, saying, “I believe we have two economies here in Pagosa Springs. Downtown, we have an economy that is tourist based while uptown, we have a suburban retail economy. We need to remember there is a distinction between the two. We’re hemorrhaging money out of the community and we need to stop that hemorrhaging.”

How that hemorrhaging would be mitigated was not addressed in the plan, however. Aside from proposing a 25-percent sales tax rebate on building materials purchased locally by builders and developers, the economic development plan contained no substantial incentives for reviving the retail and service sectors of the economy.

Still, with no dissent apparent on the council, Weiler was anxious to expedite the approval of the resolution and ordinance, asking the council if it could reconvene the next day to vote on both measures. Council, attempting to accommodate various schedules and meet Sunshine Law provisions, agreed to meet again the next day at 5 p.m.

At the Friday meeting, council heard several concerns regarding the measures to be put to a vote.

Pierce pointed out that language in the ordinance referenced sections of the Land Use and Development Code that were either wrong or nonexistent. Pierce also pointed out that the town “Collects impact fees for the school district and emergency dispatch. If we approve this, where will that leave them in collecting those fees?”

“If we elect to go forward,” Mitchem replied, “we would go to the school board and emergency dispatch and let them know what we’re doing.”

Yet, when the town intends to apprise the school district or emergency dispatch of its intentions remains unclear. No town staff or council member attended the meetings of the fire district board (the district administers emergency response) or the school board (see related story), both held Tuesday. Furthermore, although the town agreed to fund an intergovernmental agency (IGA) for the emergency response system to the tune of $50,000, the status of that IGA remains clouded as the town will no longer collect impact fees due to the fire district for the emergency response system.

Another concern, raised by Pagosa Area Water and Sanitation District (PAWSD) District Manager Carrie Weiss, involved the status of the Community Economic Roundtable (CER) and the monies that had been allocated to that project. The CER began meeting June of last year to develop an IGA between the various local organizations, such that all taxing entities within Archuleta County would work from a standardized formula for a “rational nexus” (i.e. the connection between the impact created and the resulting fee collected).

Weiss asked, “What about the Community Economic Roundtable? Is that a moot point? Is that going to be wasted money?”

Mitchem responded that, although results of the CER were due in less than a month, the findings of the study would not be relevant for the next 18 months and would, most likely, after that, require another study.

For his part, Weiler responded that PAWSD had funded its own studies and should look to its own finances and determine if the district could pay its own way. He also said, regarding the collection of fees for the fire and school districts, “We’re (the town) done doing the dirty work for other organizations.”

Again, the building and real estate community was well represented at the meeting, speaking in favor of the two measures before council. Van Horn spoke to the need to eliminate impact fees, saying, “Jobs is what is going to fill those vacant homes; jobs will fill those empty commercial spaces.”

“This is an experiment,” he added, “if this works, wonderful. If it doesn’t, we haven’t lost anything.”

At the end of the day, council seemed prepared to attempt that experiment. Weiler asked when the second reading of the ordinance could take place. He was reminded by Mitchem that statute requires 10 days before a second reading and that the August council meeting would be the most appropriate time to pass the ordinance.

By a unanimous vote, council approved the resolution and the first reading of the ordinance. Council will convene again at Town Hall on Tuesday, Aug. 4, at 5 p.m. for the second reading of the ordinance.


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by: COURTESY OF MICHAEL WORKMAN - The Seattle Seahawks offense and QB Russell Wilson were bottled up well Sunday by the Arizona Cardinals, who upset Seattle 17-10 at CenturyLink Field.SEATTLE — It had to happen sometime. The Seattle Seahawks just didn't want it to happen on Sunday.

With the NFC West championship and homefield advantage through the playoffs on the line, the Seahawks couldn't get it done, falling 17-10 to division rival Arizona at CenturyLink Field -- the first home loss of quarterback Russell Wilson's NFL career.

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It was Seattle's first setback at CenturyLink in two days short of two years, snapping a 14-game win streak dating to a 19-17 defeat by San Francisco on Dec. 24, 2011.

The 49ers (10-4) still need to beat Atlanta Monday night and then win at Arizona next Sunday to share the NFC West title with the Seahawks, should they lose to the Rams. Even so, Sunday's game was an opportunity squandered for the Hawks, who have now lost twice in the last three games with a chance to wrap up the division in the balance.

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"Give Arizona's defense credit," said Wilson, who completed only 11 of 27 passes with one touchdown and one interception. The Cardinals "played a great game, did a really good job of making some plays and not letting me look to run.

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"It was hard today," Carroll acknowledged. "The protection was really good. (Wilson) had plenty of time, but they were covering us up pretty well. For whatever reason, we just couldn't find guys open. We couldn't get the completions. That's uncharacteristic of us."

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Name: Brushing, scrubbing, and general cleaning > Attachments > Optical-member-attachable cleaner (e.g., windshield wiper) > Compound motion of oscillating arm
Description: Cleaners comprising an elongated member having a surface contacting member mounted on one end thereof, the other end being pivotally mounted to permit the first end to have a simple swinging movement in a single plane and wherein mechanism is provided for imparting another movement to the elongated member simultaneously with the simple swinging movement.

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7496987 Method for adjusting the angular travel of a wiper mechanism by modifying the length of a crank and crank comprising a deformable section Mar. 3, 2009
7420346 Drive arrangement for a wiper device for windows of motor vehicles Sep. 2, 2008
7257856 Windscreen wiper device, in particular for a motor vehicle Aug. 21, 2007
7251852 Wiper system Aug. 7, 2007
7076829 Fastening element for the wiper arm of a vehicle windshield wiper Jul. 18, 2006
6976285 Four-hinged wiper arm for a windshield wiper system Dec. 20, 2005
6966095 Linear-tracking windshield wiper system for wiping a rectangular field Nov. 22, 2005
6817056 Windscreen wiper drive Nov. 16, 2004
6782580 Vehicle wiper system and a method for operating a wiper arm linkage Aug. 31, 2004
6775878 Wiper arm, and window wiping device, in particular for a motor vehicle Aug. 17, 2004
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6721989 Slapping windshield wiper for de-icing Apr. 20, 2004
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6701568 Motor vehicle wiper system utilizing a slide Mar. 9, 2004
6662400 Device for driving a wiper arm Dec. 16, 2003
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6314607 Wiper system for a vehicle Nov. 13, 2001
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6105199 Windshield wiper Aug. 22, 2000
6065179 Wiper device with linear wipe pattern May. 23, 2000
5933991 Decorative attachment for wiper device Aug. 10, 1999
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5890256 Screen wiping apparatus for a motor vehicle, having an improved mechanism for orientation of a drive spindle Apr. 6, 1999
5884357 Four-joint wiper arm for a windshield wiper system of a motor vehicle Mar. 23, 1999
5860186 Lift-controlled windscreen wiper device Jan. 19, 1999
5819363 Windshield wiper for a window with a constant radius of curvature Oct. 13, 1998
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5715620 Mechanized animated display for an automobile Feb. 10, 1998
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5613267 Windshield wiper system with adjustable blade pressure Mar. 25, 1997
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  • picnicfun

    Beating on Santa and the Tooth Fairy shows how hateful and self-righteous you are. The Black Friday mocking is an excellent point but one loses credibility by taking such a point too far.

    • http://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/ James F. McGrath

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Trayvon Martin: The killing of an American child

Frances Robles of the Miami Herald reports that the “U.S. Department of Justice, FBI and FDLE to probe Trayvon Martin killing“:

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the FBI will investigate the killing of Miami Gardens teenager Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch volunteer, the department announced late Monday.

The announcement coincided with a statement from Florida Gov. Rick Scott asking the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to offer “appropriate resources” in the case.

The federal and state agencies are intervening in what attorneys call a botched investigation into the killing of the Michael Krop Senior High School student, who was killed Feb. 26 in Sanford, a town of 55,000 just north of Orlando. Trayvon, 17, on suspension from school, was staying at his father’s girlfriend’s house when he walked to a nearby a 7-Eleven store to buy candy and iced tea.

George Zimmerman, 28, a neighborhood watch volunteer with a long history of calling in everything from open garage doors to “suspicious characters,” called police to say he had spotted someone who looked drugged, was walking too slowly in the rain, and appeared to be looking at people’s houses. Zimmerman sounded alarmed because the stranger had his hand in his waistband and held something in his other hand.

The unarmed teen was carrying Skittles and a can of Arizona iced tea.

Trayvon Martin was 17 and he didn’t do anything wrong.

Judd Legum provided a good roundup of Trayvon’s slaying yesterday, “What Everyone Should Know About Trayvon Martin (1995-2012).” From that article:

Trayvon Martin (1995-2012)

5. Martin weighed 140 pounds. Zimmerman weighs 250 pounds.

6. Martin’s English teacher described him as “as an A and B student who majored in cheerfulness.”

… 10. According to neighbors, Zimmerman was “fixated on crime and focused on young, black males.”

11. Zimmerman “had been the subject of complaints by neighbors in his gated community for aggressive tactics”

12. A police officer “corrected” a key witness. “The officer told the witness, a long-time teacher, it was Zimmerman who cried for help, said the witness. ABC News has spoken to the teacher and she confirmed that the officer corrected her when she said she heard the teenager shout for help.

13. Three witnesses say they heard a boy cry for help before a shot was fired. “Three witnesses contacted by The Miami Herald say they saw or heard the moments before and after the Miami Gardens teenager’s killing. All three said they heard the last howl for help from a despondent boy.”

The Field Negro and Where’s the Outrage? have been following this story closely. So has Ta-Nehisi Coates, who highlights the way local police seem determined to exonerate the shooter while casting suspicion on the victim. Coates also reports that Trayvon Martin was on the phone as Zimmerman began following him. The account of the friend he was talking to confirms that of eyewitnesses, while contradicting that of the shooter and the police defending him.

Rashad Robinson writes about the ColorOfChange campaign to seek “Justice for Trayvon Martin.” The letter from ColorOfChange offers more details on the incident, the investigation, and the background of the Sanford Police. Here is their petition urging the U.S. Justice Department to take over the investigation. The DOJ is “investigating” the incident, but as I understand it hasn’t yet taken charge of the case.

Chauncey DeVega cuts to the heart of the matter:

Trayvon Martin was killed for the crime of being black, young, and “suspicious.” Like many other young black boys and grown men throughout United States history, he was shot dead for the crime of possessing an innocuous object (and likely daring to be insufficiently compliant to someone who imagined that they had the State’s permission to kill people of color without consequence or condemnation).

… Common sense renders a clear judgement here: if a black man shot and killed a white kid for holding a bag of Skittles he would already be under the jail; in this instance, the police are operating from a position where a young African American is presumed “guilty,” and his murderer is assumed innocent.

… White privilege … involves the luxury of not having to have a conversation with your kids about how to avoid being murdered by the cops because of your skin color. In many matters of life and death, white supremacy remains, in many ways, unchallenged. Black and brown folks, if they are responsible parents, cannot avoid such conversations with their children. The foot-dragging by the police in regards to the murder of Trayvon Martin reveals this ugly truth.

Grace at Are Women Human? begins a passionate, thoughtful post on the case by quoting from Audre Lord on the same subject DeVega mentions there:

Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you; we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs on the reasons they are dying.

Lorde wrote that in 1980. The killing of Trayvon Martin reminds us that it is still horribly true 32 years later.

Grace’s Are Women Human? post discusses the appalling details of the lopsided investigation by the Sanford, Fla., police:

This was a kid. A child. With a family who loved and cared about him and still does. We talk endlessly about protecting children and family values when the truth is we don’t think many children are worthy of protection. Quite the opposite. We don’t value many families.

Look at this case and see how the basic decency that Trayvon and his family are owed as human beings has been trampled and spit on at so many points.

Despite the fact that the police knew George Zimmerman went after a smaller, younger kid, who wasn’t doing anything wrong, despite the fact that they knew Zimmerman was armed and Trayvon was not. …

They ran a background check on Trayvon Martin, who was dead, but not on George Zimmerman, the man who killed him. They believed Zimmerman had a clean record – on his own assertion, apparently. Turns out he doesn’t. They ran alcohol/drug tests on Trayvon Martin (likely as a routine part of an autopsy), but not on Zimmerman, his murderer.

The police didn’t have the basic decency to do their job and investigate whether Trayvon Martin had a reason for being in the neighborhood, whether he had any friends or family in the neighborhood. Instead, they tagged him as a “John Doe.” His family thought he was missing. They had to call around and essentially do the work for the police of identifying their dead son.

Grace also refuses to allow the question of racism to be reduced to a matter of personal sentiment:

Look, I don’t give a shit how George Zimmerman or Bill Lee personally feel about black people or what their personal relationships with black people are like. I am not in the least interested in whether they’re “really racist” or not. I care what they did. I care about the cultural and institutional realities that made what they did (and are still doing, on the part of the Sanford PD) possible, and made them think – with very good precedent for thinking so – they could get away with it. And those – the actions and structural realities – have everything to do with racism, no matter what Zimmerman or the Sanford PD feel about black people.

… They can love all the black people they want – nothing changes the fact that this was, no question, racism at work. Racism isn’t just hate. It’s inequity. Privilege for some and contempt for others.

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  • http://www.metagalacticllamas.com/ Triplanetary

    Authoritarian conservatives are always whining about Big Brother, but they apparently don’t have a problem with the cops scrutinizing your every action if you’re black.

    “What are you doing walking through this neighborhood in the rain?” a cop might ask. “Whatever the fuck I want,” is an answer I can get away with, because I’m white. In a perfect world it’s an answer anyone could get away with, because unless someone is visibly committing a crime, they have a right to stroll in the rain if it strikes their fancy.

    The crime this kid was visibly committing was being black. The fact that that’s still a de facto crime is disgusting.

  • Maria

    … They can love all the black people they want – nothing changes the
    fact that this was, no question, racism at work. Racism isn’t just hate.
    It’s inequity. Privilege for some and contempt for others.

    Pretty much. I’ve heard commentary on this case that basically boiled down to, “It’s not racist unless you’re literally wearing a white hood and goose-stepping down the streets of Indiana. Killing a kid because he’s black and then having the cops essentially ignore it doesn’t qualify because if you bend over backwards enough you can a-a-a-a-almost come up with a cockamamie rationalization for it” For example, you ‘self-defense’, where the ‘defender’ has a weapon and the ‘attacker’ has a bag of candy (what was he going to do? Give Zimmerman tooth decay?); I’ve also heard people suggest that Martin was somehow technically guilty of trespassing because it was a gated community, even though he was staying with family who lived in the community and didn’t actually own a home in the community (which somehow doesn’t apply to Zimmerman even though he didn’t own a home in the community either).

    It’s amazing just how far people can bend over backwards to justify things like this.

  • http://www.metagalacticllamas.com/ Triplanetary

    The fact that people are so eager to bend over backwards to explain that this white guy who gunned down an unarmed black kid maybe kinda sorta had a good reason to is itself an example of ingranied, systemic racism. But try getting them to understand that.

    Every time a black person guns down a white person (a rarer occurrence than Fox News would have you believe), Rush and Bill-O and Glenn Beck (for whatever audience he has left) are quick to demonize the perp and declare it the vanguard of a black-on-white race war that will end with upstanding white Christians herded into concentration camps.

    But when it’s the reverse, eh, it’s just an isolated incident, and he probably had a good reason anyway. ^_^

  • Anonymous-Sam

    Oh, Fox was absolutely wonderful at revealing the depths of their discrimination during Katrina. “On this video, you can see some African Americans taking advantage of the chaos to loot indiscriminately. Watch as they carry much-needed supplies away from this supplies depot where others could have benefited from them! (A 7-11) In this video, watch these courageous young men scavenging in the face of danger, doing whatever it takes to survive (carrying boxes of food away from a 7-11).”

    Same. Bloody. Store. Same. Bloody. Boxes. One group is selfishly looting, the other’s just doing what it takes to survive.

  • MPM

    “White privilege … involves the luxury of not having to have a
    conversation with your kids about how to avoid being murdered by the
    cops because of your skin color.”

    That’s absolutely true and I would never suggest that I or my children are in the same or even a roughly comparable situation. That said, I have, as a white father of white children, had “a
    conversation with your kids about how to avoid being murdered by the
    cops.” You never know what may, one day, mark you to authoritarian, overzealous law enforcement as an “other.”

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  • http://twitter.com/graceishuman Grace

    Fred, thank you so much for writing about this. I was just talking to a white Christian blogger last night about how disheartening it is to witness the silence of white Christians with a significant social media audience on this case. The same people who were investing so much time in writing about and looking into Invisible Children two weeks ago are absolutely mum on this, even though it’s an issue where awareness and spreading the word can actually make a huge difference to a grieving family. If white American Christians want to understand better why white churches have so much trouble attracting and retaining members of color, well, here’s an example. We see how little white Christians care about the issues that affect us – and in this case an issue that *everyone* should care about, because an innocent child is dead and his murderer is being protected by people who are supposed to work to see justice served.
    So thank you again for posting about this. I hope others follow your example.

  • hapax

     I want to post about this, but I don’t know what to say.

    Except I know this exact same thing could happen in my town.  Not with an African American kid;  we successfully ran them all out of town generations ago.

    But a “brown” kid:  Latino, East Asian, “Arabic-looking”….  Yeah, I could see it happening.

    I’d expect it to be the cops doing the shooting, of course.  But if a Concerned Citizen felt the need to take up arms to “protect the neighborhood” — nope, I don’t see the police looking too hard into the matter.

    After all, it was only a couple of years ago when the local gay bar was burned down, and it was written off as an “accident”, despite months of reported vandalism and harassment of clientele.  But when the Baptist church on the same street burned down (despite a burn pattern pretty clearly indicating the fire started in the kitchen), all sorts of rumors about “Satanic gangs” and “Mexican  cartels” were credulously reported by the newspapers.

  • http://twitter.com/graceishuman Grace

    hapax – I do understand not knowing what to say about this. It’s an incredibly sad and infuriating case. What I’d suggest if the words aren’t coming is sharing and quoting posts by others. The facts of the case alone say quite a bit, and while writing about this is important to do, for people who can, I don’t think everyone has to comment individually/uniquely on the case to make a difference.

    I didn’t write about it for some time myself because it was just too heartbreaking to think about for more than a few seconds. The host of a the internet radio show I listen to (Blacking it Up) made a really good point that sharing the story and not letting up on talking about it was the only way to be sure it would get the national attention it deserved. That was the kick in the butt I needed to get past my paralysis on it.

  • http://apocalypsereview.wordpress.com/ Invisible Neutrino

    George Zimmerman, 28, a neighborhood watch volunteer with a long history of calling in everything from open garage doors to “suspicious characters,”

    So a guy with a history of being one of those annoying controlling little assholes who smugly gets his neighbors in trouble as well as wasting the police’s time, now has the police bound and determined to find an excuse for him not to be charged with manslaughter.

    Who does he have to kill next for the police to take this shit seriously?

  • Anonymous

    When I was an EMT, this is the sort of person we called a ‘yahoo’ or a ‘wannabag.’  The kind of person who lives in suburbia with a Ford F-150 with a crew cab, puts a light-bar on it (and has to be dinged by the cops for using a blue light bar, again and again and again) and loads it up with EMT gear for which he is barely trained in, surgical kits he should never even touch, a defibrillator that he took a class in a few years ago, an air compressor and a Jaws of Life, etc. etc. etc.  All sorts of shit that he thinks he should carry because he’s a big shot EMT and might need to jump in to save the day!

    The big difference being… the EMT yahoo’s heart is in the right place.  He might have only a passing idea as to how to do a tracheotomy, but you can trust him to know the basics, and he’s good to have in disaster-prone areas.  And under that yahoo lights-and-sirens-all-the-time, DEFIBRILATE ALL THE THINGS!, look-at-me-I’m-an-EMT! exterior, theres someone who really does want to help others.  It might be for a somewhat aggrandized view of themselves, but if they can swallow their pride long enough to take orders from a CERT chief in a disaster, I’ll be glad to see them.  And their F-150 full of gear.

    Zimmerman, though, is just a punk.  He wants all the authority, he wants to be saluted, he wants to be The Man.  And if he can’t get people to stand at attention when he orders them to, he has a gun to press the issue.  Zimmerman is a danger to not only anyone whom he doesn’t like, but also the neighborhood.  (And himself, but getting him out of the equation — preferably into a nice quite room in a nice quiet place — would be a bonus.)  The yahoo just wants to be a hero.  Guys like Zimmerman just want to be sucked up to.  RESPECT MAH AUTHORITAEY!

    Zimmerman is a punk. A punk who has killed someone. Let justice be served.

  • Anonymous

     “Who does he have to kill next for the police to take this shit seriously?”

    A police officer
    A relative/friend of a police officer
    A prominent person with influence
    A relative/friend of a prominent person with influence

  • Tricksterson

    Anyone white? Well, as long as they’re middle to upper class anyway.

  • Viliphied

    A white guy

  • http://jesustheram.blogspot.com/ Mr. Heartland

    The death of an innocent teenager is, of course, by far the most godawful thing about this incident.  Yet right now, for whatever reason, I am especially struck by the behavior of the police.  How is it that certain cops ever come to imagine themselves as defenders of the traditional social pecking order?  Enforcers of some ‘greater law’, (in which a White suburbanite is always correct in whatever dispute against ‘one of them’) beyond the laws on the books?

  • Anonymous

    When your political philosophy resembles Cartman…

    Mah propperteh! Mah… mah PROPERTEH!

    Or Fuzzy Lumpkins…

    There is a problem.

    I really want to say something more about this, but I just. I have no words.

  • Anonymous

    The discrepancies between Zimmerman’s version of the story and the version from the girl Trayvon was on the phone with are striking.

    ABC News was there exclusively as the 16-year-old girl told Crump about the last moments of the teenager’s life.

    “He said this man was watching him, so he put his hoodie on. He said he lost the man,” Martin’s friend said. “I asked Trayvon to run, and he said he was going to walk fast. I told him to run but he said he was not going to run.”

    Eventually he would run, said the girl, thinking that he’d managed to escape. But suddenly the strange man was back, cornering Martin.

    “Trayvon said, ‘What, are you following me for,’ and the man said, ‘What are you doing here.’ Next thing I hear is somebody pushing, and somebody pushed Trayvon because the head set just fell. I called him again and he didn’t answer the phone.”

    This completely contradicts Zimmerman’s account (emphasis added):

    Zimmerman said he had stepped out of his truck to check the name of the street he was on when Trayvon attacked him from behind as he walked back to his truck, police said. He said he feared for his life and fired the semiautomatic handgun he was licensed to carry because he feared for his life.

    Nevermind for the moment that all current evidence casts this account as false. Zimmerman “feared for his life” so he stepped out of his truck with a semiautomatic weapon? A large man stalking children through the night with a gun gets the benefit of the doubt? Between that and the 911 dispatcher urging him not to follow Trayvon, how is there not at least an initial arrest? This is disgraceful, but apparently not uncommon since Florida instituted the “Stand Your Ground” law:

    About Florida’s law:

    Q: How did law enforcement respond to the law?

    A: Prosecutors across the state opposed the law before it was enacted Oct. 1, 2005. In the following five months, there were at least 13 shootings in Central Florida where self-defense was claimed. Out of six men killed and four more wounded in the cases, only one was armed. Some Orlando-area police agencies simply stopped investigating shootings involving self-defense claims and referred them directly to state prosecutors to decide.

    Q: The law lets people use force if they “reasonably believe” it’s necessary to defend themselves. What defines “reasonable” in the perception of deadly threat?

    A: Professor Scott E. Sundby of the University of Miami School of Law says that part of the law is included in many self-defense statutes. “The court leaves that amorphous question to the jury to decide,” he said.[…]

    Q: Can an unarmed person legally pose a deadly threat?

    In case after case during the past six years, Floridians who shot and killed unarmed opponents have not been prosecuted

  • http://harmfulguy.livejournal.com/ harmfulguy

    Of all the items on Legum’s list, #2 bothers me the most. The police explicitly told Zimmerman not to engage Martin; that he did anyway smacks of premeditation to me.

  • Lori

    A police officer
    A relative/friend of a police officer
    A prominent person with influence
    A relative/friend of a prominent person with influence

    Short version—someone white.

  • Anonymous

     It would be interesting… well, okay, horribly tragic, and interesting in a morbid way, to see what would have happened had Zimmerman shot a black police officer, or a relative of a black police officer.  Would the Thin Blue Line become a noose around Zimmerman’s neck? or would whatever simmering undercurrents of racism in that particular police department rear up full and ugly?

  • Lori

    Sanford has a nasty racial history, so my guess is that if Zimmerman shot a black cop the Thin Blue Line would not rise up as one to hang him. I may be overly cynical on this issue, but I kind of doubt it.

    The same way that so many stories about this have noted that Trayvon was suspended from school at the time of his death, I’m sure that if the victim had been a black cop we’d be hearing about every problem he ever had on the job and he’d somehow get labeled a troublemaker or a malcontent or some such.

  • Anonymous

    Seriously. What do you say to this? Fuck, man, this country is drowning. A man with a gun followed a kid walking back from a store, got out of his truck, and shot him with a semiautomatic. The kid is the one people are raising an eyebrow at. What the fuck.

    I’m trying to think of this and not let the personal overcome me. But it’s hard. The town I went to school in is pretty racially diverse. We share a border with a rich white town. I’m just– it’s hard to read this story and not think, “Shit, that could’ve been Phil. Or Shaquille. Or David. Or Duane.” But it couldn’t have been Carl, or Danny. (Or me, actually. Which stings.) All of those kids have committed the ‘crime’ of walking slowly home in the rain with a bag of skittles and a can of tea. But Zimmerman wouldn’t have thought a white kid with a big hoodie and one hand in his pocket was suspicious.

    There’s a man I know, a rich white businessman who shops where I work, who wouldn’t think twice about calling the cops if he saw a young black boy walking slowly through his gated neighborhood in the rain. There’s probably several more who I don’t know by name. Some of them own guns, I’d wager.

    Fuck, man. Just… fuck. This kid should’ve had a long life. He should’ve had a fucking chance.

    Where are all the people crying about the death penalty? You know, If you come and kill us, we will kill you back! Where are all the people talking about tax dollars being spent on cops who don’t do their jobs?

    When Amadou Diallo was shot, they at least had some pathetic excuses to hide behind. They were cops, they were stupid, they were trigger-happy. This was a man with a gun who shot an unarmed teenage boy for walking in the rain with a package of candy and tea. And they ran a background check on the victim.

    What the fuck is wrong with this country?

  • http://thatbeerguy.blogspot.com Chris Doggett

    But Zimmerman wouldn’t have thought a white kid with a big hoodie and one hand in his pocket was suspicious.

    Sure he would have. The difference is that he would have pulled over and asked questions of the kid instead of pulling a handgun.

    I grew up as a white kid who liked hoodies and was out at odd hours, sometimes in odd neighborhoods. I worked swing and graveyard shifts at a stop-and-rob a few miles from home, and didn’t have a car, so I walked home at odd hours of the night. Sometimes I took the main streets, and sometimes I cut through apartment complexes or subdivisions or business parks because it was quicker.

    Did I get stopped by cops? Did neighbors driving by sometimes slow down, or even pull over and ask me questions? Sure they did. But (probably because I was white) no one ever pulled a gun, or was hostile, or threatening. The cops would ask where I was going and why I was out, but they never wanted to search my bag, they never cuffed me, and they only ran my ID a few times. (usually holidays like New Years or Christmas; don’t ask me why)

    I don’t think the color of my skin would make me more or less suspicious to a jackhole like Zimmerman, but I believe he would unconsciously correlate how threatening I ‘seemed’ with how far from white my skin color was. I think had he seen a white kid wandering around, he would have pulled over & rolled down the window, asked a few questions, maybe even offered the kid a ride home because it was raining.

  • http://lliira.dreamwidth.org/ Lliira

    No, I don’t think Zimmerman would have been suspicious of a white boy. He had an obsession with young *black* men.

    Zimmerman also didn’t just pull over — he was stalking Trayvon, and Trayvon knew it and was frightened. The girl he was talking to on the phone told Trayvon to run. They both knew exactly what was happening and why.

  • SB

    Did I get stopped by cops? Did neighbors driving by sometimes slow down, or even pull over and ask me questions? Sure they did. But (probably because I was white) no one ever pulled a gun, or was hostile, or threatening. The cops would ask where I was going and why I was out, but they never wanted to search my bag,

    Oh definitely. A tough looking, poor  looking young white man walking in a richer neighborhood is going to be considered suspicious…but he’ll get a chance to explain himself.  I am a young white woman, and I once wandered into a private garden (that I didn’t know was private) in a neighborhood much richer than my own.  Oh yes, I was confronted. A guy said “Can I help you?”   “I was just taking pictures” I said. “Uh, this is private property,” he replied.  “Oh, sorry,” I said, I got in my car and left.

  • LeCalabro

    Maybe so Ms. SB.  But, hundreds of thousands of felony crimes care committed against whites by black each year.  Unfortunately, black males commit most of the robberies, stores and strong arm robberies.

    In 2005,  black males committed over 35,000 rapes of white women and less than 10 black women were reported raped.

    Even liberal Jessie Jackson said that if he is walking on a darken street and he hears footsteps, as I recall, he said he hoped it was NOT a black male.

    The National News does not discuss this issue to any extent, but they are givng much attention to this one white on black killing. Both kinds of situations should be given National attention.

  • http://lliira.dreamwidth.org/ Lliira

    Where on earth are you getting these statistics? The vast majority of sexual abuse is committed by someone who is the same race as the victim, whom the victim knows.

    If I’m alone late at night and I hear footsteps, I hope it’s not a male, period. Including a cop. And it’s still WAY more likely that if I am sexually assaulted, it will be by a man or men I know. I’m not afraid of black men, I’m afraid of a justice system that does not bother to treat rape as an offense at all.

    A young black man was just basically lynched, and you come in here throwing out statistics from God knows where and trying to pretend that white womanhood is under assault from evil rampaging black males? What on earth would motivate you to do this? It’s vile.

  • Anonymous

    [citation needed]

  • cyllan

     You lie, and your words are vile.

    From 1976 to 2005 – 86% of white victims were killed by whites.  94% of black victims were killed by blacks.

    There were 194,270 white and 17,920 black victims of rape or sexual assault reported in 2006.

    (Note: this is a summation statement from Wikipedia based upon the report listed below.

    According to the Center on Disease Control’s annual Youth Risk Behavior
    Survey, African Americans report being in a physical fight at a similar
    rate (36.5%, versus 32.5% for whites), but were arrested for aggravated
    assault at a rate nearly three times that of whites (137 per 100,000,
    versus 48 per 100,000).

  • Anonymous

    Get out.

  • Anonymous

    Fuck off.

  • KarenH

    With all due respect to Rev. Jackson, who may or may not have said such a thing, I have been workimg night shift in the District of Columbia for more than 13 years now. Not only have I never been mugged or robbed or harmed, but when I have needed help, such as a flat tire at 11pm on a bitterly cold winter’s night (obviously not this winter), or when my car needed a jump start after leaving the dome light on all night by mistake, or when I locked my keys in my car, it has been black men who have stopped, pulled over and offered help. They have done so as BMW after Mercedes Benz after BMW piloted by white men drove by unconcerned (or furious that my car trouble has inconvenienced them to the point they had to change lanes). They have done so graciously, and kindly and refusing any sort of repayment beyond my profuse thanks.

    Are there criminals among the black population? Sure. But when I see a black man at night, I feel safe and reassured these days.

  • http://www.metagalacticllamas.com/ Triplanetary

    For over a year, I walked to work straight through one of the “worst”* neighborhoods in Atlanta, and not one single time did I ever feel unsafe or threatened. My dad and stepdad (joy of all joys, I have two conservative, racist fathers) both act like Atlanta is just this vast wasteland of crime and poverty, and often make comments to the effect of they wouldn’t walk through downtown Atlanta without their gun. ^_^

    Conservatives like them think they’re the serious, realist people. But they’re too scared to leave the suburbs for any length of time to actually know what the fuck they’re talking about. I’ve spent all my adult life in urban Atlanta, and the facts on the ground are that I’d be way more scared of a dumbass middle-class white man with a gun and way too much eagerness to use it than any random black person I pass on the street.

    *And of course you know what “worst” is a dogwhistle for.

  • Anonymous

    I agree with you on that one, Triplanetary.  It’s kind of like people advocating for concealed carry on college campuses.  Seriously, what are they so afraid of?

    It’s bad enough that the LEOs here are conditioned to see everyone as a potential threat.*  We don’t need a large number of armed citizens in the same mindset.

    *I know an anecdote is not data but stories are fun.  My uncle was a cop.  He kept getting into trouble with his bosses because he didn’t treat everyone and everything as potentially dangerous but rather evaluated every situation to determine what the level of threat was.  Most of the time there wasn’t one.

  • Anonymous

    Ugh.  Racist gun fetishists and their fantasies.  They make me roll my eyes at the best of times.  They are aware, aren’t they, that if they’re walking through a “bad” neighborhood and happen to run into some genuine bad boys, the chances are very good that said bad boys will have guns of their own?  Real criminals tend to put up more of a fight than scared teenagers.

  • Apocalypse Review

    What always astonishes me is just how much that bogeyman, the ever-present criminal, features in the fantasizing of right-wing commenters on blogs or forums who insist that they need guns.

    It would just be a bit sad and pathetic if it weren’t for the fact that these security blankets shoot bullets.

  • JenL

    “Both kinds of situations” – 1)  the ones where crimes are reported and investigated (and both the crime and the sentence are mentioned in the news); and 2) the ones where it appears a neighborhood watch captain murdered a boy walking home from the convenience store, and the cops said “nothing to see here; move along”.

    I’d say they’re each getting about the amount of attention they deserve, but only because the internet picked up the slack for the news media, which originally failed to report the 2nd…

  • Anonymous

    Oh fuck, oh fuck, why did I look at the comments on Field Negro’s post about Zimmerman? (Well, one of them; he’s been brilliantly covering this case.)

    My only coherent thought right now besides rage is that I really want somebody to come up to me and say that what we need right now is bipartisanship and to make peace with the people who say Zimmerman did America a favor by removing a trouble-making negro criminal from the world. What we need is to worry that victims might rise up and hate their oppressors. That’s the thing to worry about right now. I’d fucking love to see somebody tell me that now.

    If you’re Zimmerman, you’re a bad person and you deserve, at the very least, to spend the rest of your pathetic life in prison, if not death yourself. If you defend him because well, you know, blacks, or technicalities, or fdhdhgd, you are my fucking enemy and I hate you.

  • http://twitter.com/Didaktylos Paul Hantusch

    I thought it was called Neighourhood “Watch” not Neighbourhood “Act” for a reason …

  • http://flickr.com/photos/sedary_raymaker/ Naked Bunny with a Whip

    I keep seeing people bring up this “stand your ground” law. If that can be used in any way to excuse this behavior, then what’s to stop someone from shooting Zimmerman on sight and claiming they felt threatened?

    I’m hoping this law is being misrepresented, because if it’s not, then it’s wildly broken.

  • JohnK

     It’s not so much that it’s being misrepresented, but that the way it’s written creates a situation where, essentially, I can provoke an argument with you, and if you walk towards me or swing at me or do anything that even looks vaguely threatening, I can kill you and claim self-defense. The law doesn’t explicitly permit this but it makes it very difficult for the Government to prove otherwise in a court of law.

    Basically, it’s an expansion of the old English common law, the ‘Castle Doctrine’, which in essence says that you don’t have to retreat if someone attacks you in your own home. (Before that, citizens had an obligation to retreat and weren’t allowed to respond with deadly force unless they had retreated as far as possible from the danger).

    The issue here, of course, is that the local authorities didn’t even try. What’s supposed to happen in a case like this is, unless there’s actual evidence at the scene to support the claim of self-defense, the police should at least make an arrest and allow a judge to decide whether or not the self-defense assertion is valid at a preliminary hearing (held before the actual trial, to determine if the Government has enough evidence to justify the felony charge). But because of the breadth of the law, prosecutors often don’t even bother doing that much.

  • JenL

    If I understand correctly, it’s not so much that the law is being misrepresented (you don’t have to run first, before you can claim self-defense) as that it’s being applied to the shooter’s allegations as if those allegations were credible.

    He *claims* that he got out of his truck, walked across the street to check a street sign, and was attacked on the way back to his truck.  If that happened, he would have the right to defend himself against his attacker.  He would be able to claim self-defense regardless of whether he first tried to run away, get to his truck, etc.

    But that story just isn’t credible.  It doesn’t fit with his 911 tape, where he says he’s following the kid and the dispatcher says “no, we don’t need that”.  It doesn’t make sense given that he’s the self-proclaimed neighborhood watch (and therefore ought to know street names).  And it doesn’t fit with the description given by Trayvon’s girlfriend, who says he was trying to shake off his pursuer.

    News-folks who discuss the Stand Your Ground law as if it were realistically connected to what happened here are implicitly or explicitly buying into, and passing on, the idea that Zimmerman was Trayvon’s victim rather than the other way around.

  • http://lliira.dreamwidth.org/ Lliira

    I was wondering when you were going to pick this up, Fred. Florida government is corrupt. That this happened in this state is no surprise.

    The Sanford police defended Zimmerman by saying he’s “college-educated” and that he took a criminal justice class.

    Getting to this point took an internet petition by Trayvon’s mother, by the way.

  • http://lliira.dreamwidth.org/ Lliira

    That a lot of people even *here* are just now hearing about this is really, really depressing me.

    By the way, the people of Florida, including in Sanford, are, by and large, incredibly angry that Zimmerman hasn’t been prosecuted. It’s one more instance of our state just plain not working.

    The name of the prosecutor who isn’t doing his job in this case is Norman Wolfinger.

  • Anonymous

    I’ve stayed determined to unhook myself from ‘the stream’, especially TV and news, for months and months now out of simple sanity-preservation, which explains why I only learned about it this morning from a ColorOfChange email.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Don-Gisselbeck/520678931 Don Gisselbeck

    At what point in our descent into every-man-for-himself barbarism could we reasonably expect the victims of the violence of the predator class to attempt to take matters of justice into their own hands? I know that is not desirable, we did have reasons to develop the rule of law.

  • Tricksterson

    So who exactly are you defining as the “predator class”?  Zimmerman or Martin?  Because it seems unclear.

  • Anonymous

    Police Chief Lee said that Zimmerman was “within his rights to track the boy down and ask questions”. Really? Help me out here someone, because I have no knowledge of the finer details of the American legal system. Surely only an officer of the law would have such powers? Or does the fact of being an armed white male enable one to have “rights” over a terrified child running for his life?

  • Lori

    Police Chief Lee said that Zimmerman was “within his rights to track the
    boy down and ask questions”. Really? Help me out here someone, because I
    have no knowledge of the finer details of the American legal system.
    Surely only an officer of the law would have such powers? Or does the
    fact of being an armed white male enable one to have “rights” over a
    terrified child running for his life?

    This is not about the American justice system, it’s about the Florida justice system. The Florida law is badly worded, wrong-headed and an invitation to disaster, in large part because of the unique amount of leeway it gives one person to shoot another and claim self-defense. Florida government is broken*, so the chances of the law being changed, even now that someone is using it in an attempt to get away with murder, are effectively zero.

    *The state has been run by the GOP for like 2 decades now so the disaster is not exactly a surprise.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks Lori. It sounds pretty chaotic and, as you suggest, open to all kinds of abuse. Of course that same law has now put Mr Zimmerman in real danger. Any young man of colour might upon seeing him fear for his own safety (I would, in their place) and acting in their own self-defence ~ what do you mean, it doesn’t work like that?

  • blome

    fuck all you nigger loving socialist assholes

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charity-Brighton/100002974813787 Charity Brighton

    Sure you can always walk to someone and ask questions. And they can tell you to go hop in a lake.

  • JenL

    If I’m out taking a walk in my neighborhood and see someone who looks out of place, I have the “right” to walk up and ask questions.

    Police Chief Lee seems to be overlooking, though, the fact that the person I’m talking to has the right to ignore me, respond with questions, or insult me for being such an oblivious idiot…

    He also seems to be overlooking the fact that my willingness to walk up and ask questions suggests that I don’t really see the person as dangerous to me.

  • Quinnthebrain

    You got some sources to back that up, LeCalabro?

  • http://blog.trenchcoatsoft.com Ross

    Among the other shameful and bizarre facts in this case:

    The police attempted to “correct” witnesses who heard Trayvon cry for help by telling them they’d actually heard *Zimmerman* cry for help.

    And this bizarre quote from Police CHief Bill Lee:

    “This is all very unsettling. I’m sure if George Zimmerman had the opportunity to relive Sunday, Feb. 26, he’d probably do things differently. I’m sure Trayvon would, too.”

    Eww. Just eww. “I’m sure Trayvon would, too”? He’s like one step away from “Look; mistakes were made: Zimmerman shot an unarmed kid; Trayvon chose to be black. These are basically the same class of thing, so really they’re both to blame. “

  • Matri

    Well, Trayvon was non-confrontational and wanted to live. Of course the Chief was hoping he wanted to do things differently.

  • Lori

    Shorter LeCalabro: I am a racist who gets all his “facts” from white supremacists.

  • friendly reader
  • Anonymous

    Saying that he was killed for the crime of being young, black and “suspicious” is redundant. He was only “suspicious” because he was young and black.

  • Lizzy L

    Over at Digby’s place David Atkins has posted some of the comments made at FoxNews.com about Trayvon Martin. Be warned: they are dreadful. But read them anyway. I am so glad the Justice Department is muscling in on this, and I hope they do take over the investigation. It seems pretty clear that the local and state authorities intended to actively ignore this young black man’s death.

  • http://blog.trenchcoatsoft.com Ross

    The same thing happened when Whitney Houston died. Now, obviously, Fox News doesn’t provide the content of their comments threads, but it certainly does look like there is a strong pattern of Fox News attracting racist assholes.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charity-Brighton/100002974813787 Charity Brighton

     To be fair, you can find the same stuff at Yahoo.com comments threads. They’re pretty much unreadable if you have any kind of trigger at all. And these posts don’t just come out over racially-charged or otherwise controversial stories. You can be reading an article about a fundraiser for cancer research and the comments section will read like Stormfront.

  • Sgt. Pepper’s Bleeding Heart

    Don’t waste your eyeballs on reading anything from Louie Calabro. The dick’s a freaking Holocaust denier to boot.

  • http://apocalypsereview.wordpress.com/ Invisible Neutrino

    There’s a writeup about Rush Limbaugh (See “Mad Dog Limbaugh”) about him practically exploding in happiness because he got to trash a black criminal.

  • Matri

    Those are… squickishly poor choice of words there, IN.

  • http://apocalypsereview.wordpress.com/ Invisible Neutrino

    Rush Limbaugh IS squick. Your point?

  • Kevin Frieda

    Remember, “wanna be” cops that just could not “quite” make it..Usually there is an underlying problem.  Zimmerman is a NUT that at the least should be in a mental hospital.

  • Anonymous-Sam

    That sound you just heard was the cogs in the societal clock slipping back a tooth.

  • David

    I’m a little baffled by this law. Clearly, Zimmerman has been shown to shoot unarmed black men for no reason. Hence, black men, who rightfully should be rather scared of this, appear to have a reason to just shoot him pre-emptively.

    Either the ‘I can shoot people who scare me’ standard applies, or it doesn’t. It’s a clearly insane law, but it is the law, and under it, literally any black man can just walk up and Zimmerman in the head, as he _clearly_ poses a threat to them. In fact, I, a white man, would be rather scared by Zimmerman’s clear lunacy.

    What really confuses me about this law is the castle doctrine is based on a basic premise: People who are confronted in their house can make the invaders either _obey the law_ (By leaving the house), surrender to the homeowner, or get shot. It’s predicated on trespassing law, on the idea that either the _lawbreaking_ stop, or lawbreaker can be killed.

    Self-Defense is based on a similar premise, that you can force people to stop committing assault (Which, remember, can just be threats) and battery. If they do not, you can kill them.

    Both those laws make sense, in a way. Someone is breaking the law in a way that is extremely dangerous to you, so you can kill them if they continue.

    But I cannot fucking comprehend how this is supposed to work on public property, with people who are not breaking the law. ‘Hey, you, person who’s strolling down the sidewalk! Stop breaking the law, or I’ll shoot!’ Someone who ‘scares’ you is _not_ in violation of the law, and has no legal requirement to stop, even assuming it’s possible.

  • Anonymous

    Friendly public reminder to everyone that Disquis has a function that allows you to flag comments as inappropriate.

  • Anonymous

    No seriously, what the fuck. I’ve flagged the comment above several times and I know that gets submitted to Fred for review.


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