"...Guy, no one goes to a jury for a ruling of law..."
No shit, Sherlock.
I was merely being conversational and using
YOUR verbiage...
( "...No, five white people who were stupider than rocks
ruled..." )
...without really giving a rat's ass about the precise terminology.
I knew what you
meant and
did not think it important enough to correct your original usage.
I find it amusing that you, in turn, attempt to correct me, for playing along with
YOU, and being more forgiving of
YOUR verbiage-usage oversight than you were about my playing-along
WITH you.
Just too precious for words.
"...You go to a jury because it can be emotionally manipulated, which is what was done here..."
Incorrect.
You go to a jury because it is the fundamental Constitutional Right of every accused person to a trial by a jury of one's peers.
You go to a jury of peers because they do not have the government's vested interest in finding fault or blame and are more likely to apply rigorous screening prior to conviction.
The jury was not emotionally manipulated to an extent which determined their verdict.
Otherwise, the pro-Martin camp would have won their anticipated duck-walk verdict, by sympathizing with the dead teen and his family, rather than attending to relevant law.
"...These jurors were stupidier than rocks, just judging by the two who have come forward and are baffled why the whole world is outraged at them."
No such assessment is indicated, nor is that your call to make.
The jury appears to have conducted itself correctly and honorably and conscientiously and in accordance with relevant law, and they manifested sufficient intelligence, integrity and courage, to properly discharge their obligations under the law.
No more is required of any jury of peers.
You are simply desperate to assign blame to anybody possible, for a verdict you disagree with, and have resorted to besmirching conscientious fellow citizens who performed a difficult duty in an exemplary and commendable manner.
"...Yes, it is unfortunate that Saber-Tooth Tigers are no longer around to weed people this stupid out of the gene pool. Most of the world, you have an armed thug and an unarmed dead child with a smoking hole in him, most people think, 'murder'..."
Both incorrect and irrelevant, and nothing more than yet another pointless manifestation of sour grapes which signifies nothing in the final analysis.
"...Except now he's a marked man."
If, by that, you mean that he may be at-risk of Racially-Motivated Violence, then, yes, I agree, there is some modicum of danger, in that respect, for some weeks or months, anyway, until the whole thing dies down.
Lynch-Mobs and Vigilantes come in
ALL colors.
INCLUDING Black.
With any luck, any racially-motivated person(s) bringing harm to Zimmerman will be caught, tried, convicted and sentenced, at law, of both Criminal Harm
AND Civil Rights (Hate-Crimes) Violations.
Now wouldn't
THAT be a hoot?
That blade slices
both ways, even if one edge isn't used as much as the other...