idahoblues said:
for all it's worth, I had Zimmerman pinned for the absolute minimum of third degree murder, with a potential manslaughter plea.
I have been on a jury in this country and I can guarantee you that the defense chose that jury, they probably figured that all females would see their point of view.
There simply wasn't enough evidence to convict him, even if they actually felt he was guilty.
Regardless of all the usual anti US rhetoric, I still believe that the US judicial system is the fairest in the world, it's better that ten guilty people go free than one innocent gets wrongfully committed.
I've read how in any other country he'd have been automatically imprisoned and found guilty, well let's think about that...it didn't seem to work that well with the `Birmingham six' or the `Guildford four'.
People talk of racism, but nationalism is apparently ok. Fucking yanks this etc, people in glass houses really shouldn't throw stones
By the way, I just spent the weekend at a music festival in western Wyoming, with three very black, beautiful ladies, multiple Mexican couples and even a Korean girl, and nobody was lynched, set upon, verbally abused or in any other way picked on. Yeah, we're so racist here......
Oh dear - you shermans seem awful touchy when anyone knocks Uncle Sam and your apple pie way of life.
And you are missing the biggest point of all here.
Yes, our judiciary gets it wrong nowadays, in cases such as you stated.
But, and here you really need to pay attention, when we do err, we can rectify the error by releasing those wrongly convicted, apologise unreservedly, financially compensate them, and offer them support and counselling to rebuild their lives.
You can't do this in your country, because you would have attached electrodes to their heads and administered electric shocks until their brain fries and they die in agony.
Usually if they are black, or have the mental age of a child.
We don't have police chiefs who are members of the Ku Klux Klan.
We didn't need our own Rosa Parks to show us that racial segregation was wrong.
We don't have bonkers neo-Nazi paramilitaries armed to the teeth with rocket launchers running around the Derbyshire hills.
But hey - at least you have Fauxbama - your Oreo-cookie joke of a president to show you that anyone can make it in the Land Of The Free.