@izzythepush,
izzythepush wrote:
At the same time his punishment should be in keeping with the rest of the prisoners. His treatment has been particularly harsh, solitary confinement and isolation etc.
I don't know, I detest brutality and torture... but I do know treason carries the death penalty so Manning is perhaps fortunate to even be alive considering the severity of his crime. I don't like to hear of anybody being subject to such circumstances but he brought it upon himself in a sly and seriously underhanded way and there is the rule of law to consider. We are the UNITED states of America not the Anarchy States... His acts were apparently egregious, I am not a judge and jury so I cannot really say for sure.
Just like the Trey Martin case, I feel very bad for Trey Martin and his grieving parents but I also feel bad for Zimmerman.
Just before Trey was killed he went into a convenience store and never even put down his hood... It is automatic reflex, most people put down their hood when entering a store. I have witnessed it before standing at the door of a convenience store, people walk up to the door of a store and put down their hood. It is required in most banks too. No sunglasses, hoods or hats allowed...
It is an automatic reflex to put down the hood out of "common courtesy" Trey apparently did not (at least that time) have this basic common courtesy.
As for George Zimmerman, there is enough believable conjecture out floating around in the press to indicate he is/was considerably racist. So you put someone with little or no common courtesy with a rank hateful racist with a gun and this is what you get...
I was once a clerk at a convenience store and was held up at gun point, not by a black man but by a Hispanic 17 year old kid. That is what he did, he walked into the store with his hood up (so I could not see his face) and then came to the counter and said, "You are going to sell me cigarettes." I refused because he could show me no age verification. He came back with his buddy hiding out back of the store at 3AM when I was alone and tried to rob the store. I grabbed the gun out of his hands, picked him right up, kicked the door open and threw him out of the store. Then called the police.
I am not going out on a limb, I don't know all of the circumstances. I wear a hoodie a lot, winter as an undercoat and most of the summer when it is not too hot. I ALWAYS put down my hood out of respect when walking into a store and I am also not a racist... It is terrible this young man is dead... Life is so very precious and his poor parents are suffering horribly from this tragedy. My heart genuinely goes out to them in their tears and pain...
I say, I will not react out of ignorance... let a judge and jury decide these cases when all of the facts have been presented. I remain basically neutral...
As for Florida's gun law, that is most obviously and without any doubt, WRONG... Another reason to vote out each and every teapublican...
