Florida's Stand your Ground law

I believe that the motivation in that
is concern of witness intimidation.

I believe that the motivation in that
is concern of witness intimidation.

More commonly known as the assumption that women are too weak
to stand up for their own best interests,

In full because it is so good

AS a black man who has been mugged at gunpoint by a black teenager late at night, I am not naïve: I know firsthand the awkward conundrums surrounding race, fear and crime. Trayvon Martin’s killing at the hands of George Zimmerman baffles this nation. While the youth’s supporters declare in solidarity “We are all Trayvon,” the question is raised, to what extent is the United States also all George Zimmerman?

Under assault, I didn’t dream of harming my teenage assailant, let alone taking his life.

Mr. Zimmerman reacted very differently, taking out his handgun
and shooting the youth in cold blood.

What gives?

Welcome to gate-minded America.

From 2007 to 2009, I traveled 27,000 miles, living in predominantly white gated communities across this country to research a book. I threw myself into these communities with gusto — no Howard Johnson or Motel 6 for me. I borrowed or rented residents’ homes. From the red-rock canyons of southern Utah to the Waffle-House-pocked exurbs of north Georgia, I lived in gated communities as a black man, with a youthful style and face, to interview and observe residents.

The perverse, pervasive real-estate speak I heard in these communities champions a bunker mentality.
Residents often expressed a fear of crime that was exaggerated beyond the actual criminal threat,

as documented by their police department’s statistics. Since you can say “gated community” only so many times, developers hatched an array of Orwellian euphemisms to appease residents’ anxieties: “master-planned community,” “landscaped resort community,” “secluded intimate neighborhood.”

No matter the label, the product is the same: self-contained, conservative and overzealous in its demands for “safety.”

I am interested to see here the connection made between my hostility towards the utopia builders and my hostility towards gated communities. I had not before now put them together.

Some friends of mine live in a gated community in Florida.
I 'm considering the possibility of joining them, Hawkeye.

"Why is it that some on the right are actually taking this up as a cause?" Scarborough asked. "

I'm becoming unsettled by how often I'm voting up your posts in this thread. I share a distaste for gated communities and the mentalities that come with them. Likewise the "no sidewalks, no public transportation" mentality, people who want to restrict other people's ability to reach them but simultaneously restrict their own movement, which I believe is based on a similar way of thinking.

I'm becoming unsettled by how often I'm voting up your posts in this thread. I share a distaste for gated communities and the mentalities that come with them. Likewise the "no sidewalks, no public transportation" mentality, people who want to restrict other people's ability to reach them but simultaneously restrict their own movement, which I believe is based on a similar way of thinking.

You should not be because while I am a flame thrower I am also right a lot of the time, and I have a heart of gold. The problem with gated communities is that it is an attempt by people to escape the ills of this collective. We need to FIX the ills of this collective as we are in very deep trouble, and to do this we need all hands on deck. Those who chose to live behind bars are loafers, and as such they deserve our scorn.

Should I assume that the draw of moving from NY to Florida is the normal one....
the opportunity to avoid parting with some of your money through taxes?

"Let the public be damned!

"Let the public be damned!

The authoritarian utopia builders are at heart
slackers, just as are gated community residents.

Life is the opportunity to have fun!

I have no interest in working.

Quote:

Life is the opportunity to have fun!

Work first, then play. A job well done is so much more rewarding than is fun.


Oh ya, you are a lawyer, so you would not know about that. SORRY!