MAYBE IT’S TIME WE CHANGE THAT LETTER
Whats my point here ?
Perhaps an explanation is in order my friends…..
I gotta tell ya that when this all went down 17 months ago I was totally on Trayvon Martins side of the ball, because thats the truth….but as Zimmermans trial was coming to a conclusion….in all honesty……based purely on the laws of evidence and not my emotions….and as the evidence was presented in the trial by the prosecution and the defense…….that had changed.
Based on the evidence according to the letter of the law……. I was not surprised one bit by the finding of not guilty,
moreover based on that letter of the law I had too agree with it.
According to the laws…………but WTF morally no way.
I have been saying for a long, long time now that our legal system is broken.
Doesn’t the morality and fairness of our laws dictate the justice we hope to find in our laws….?
Isn’t that how judge them…?
What am I missing here ?
Short and sweet…….one woman shoots a gun into a ceiling during a domestic argument in which there were no injuries in the state of Florida,
and is now in prison for 20 years.
Zimmerman shoots and kills Trayvon Martin…. also in the state of Florida, who is not initially doing a damn thing wrong, and somehow it is Martin who judged at fault …….
based solely on the contention that according to the letter of the law, that it is what Trayvon Martin did after the initial fact of what George Zimmerman the person instigating this whole tragedy did, that outweighed all else and thus led to Zimmerman’s acquittal on all charges ???
The letter of the law ?
Maybe it’s high time that we make damn sure that it’s the right letter huh……
Maybe it’s time we changed that whole letter completely !
If our laws do not take into account our moralities…our sense of fairness………….than what good are they to begin with ?
Believe me when I tell you that my siding with the letter of the law in this trial,
……………….. it damn well does not make me think or feel as if justice is really being served on a consistent basis….rather it shows me just how non consistent our system of justice really is, how justice is being perverted and used against those who are deemed by the system as unworthy of that so called justice.
Not for nothing but if this isn’t proof that this system is not severely
flawed….if not completely broken…than nothing is.
Thank you
DL