Law in Contemporary Society

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StandWhoseGround 4 - 22 Apr 2012 - Main.DavidFrydman
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 Who serves to benefit from the Florida Stand Your Ground statute and others like it???

The Silver Lining

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 The loss of Trayvon Martin’s life probably would not have been prevented even if Florida did not have a Stand Your Ground statute. George Zimmerman appears to be a man with a violent history living in a region with profound racial tensions. If he was ready to pull the trigger that night, I’m not sure that the presence of a different State self-defense statute was going to stop him. It is not the law that destroyed the life of Trayvon Martin. But the outrage over the non-arrest of Zimmerman has opened the eyes of much of the American public to ironic “beauty” of the law. A statute which was passed with the purpose of protecting the innocent man who is forced to defend himself is now being used to protect the morally and socially reprehensible acts of a killer. The public sees this, and recognizes yet another protection of injustice by the very social force that is supposed to be perpetuating justice. Instances like this—although most are on a much smaller scale—are exactly why the law is enormously feared, even though there is “nothing to it.”
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To anyone who may still be interested in learning more about ALEC and the lobbying work they do under the guise of a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, please check out the article today in the New York Times found here.

 

-- DavidFrydman - 26 Mar 2012


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