American Jurisprudence - Florida Style

If you can be led by those who determine programming at Comcast/NBC, you are getting a close up, daily, of the trial of one young man who killed an even younger, young man.  At issue, perhaps, is the circumstances of the killing.  The victim can't speak - the survivor claims self defense.

Did you know that not all that long ago, just three years ago, in the same state, a bit further south, a very similar situation arose late one night?  The news story of this event can be read at -  http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20100420/article/4201060

In this case, the victim also was not available for the trial.  As a matter of fact there never was a trial.  You see, the survivor was a police officer who decided to pursue the person(s) who rang his doorbell late at night and then ran away - after grabbing his gun which he used on the unarmed prankster/victim when he claimed his life was endangered.  That is all it takes - the simple claim that "I felt I was in danger" and - no public hearing; no trial; no nothing.  If you are a police officer.

Is that right?  This obvious double standard?  Is it wrong?  This obvious double standard?

We don't know - frankly we don't have a clue (pun intended.)  The clues all support the conclusion favorable to those who perform the self examination (bureaucrats call this an "investigation.") 

What we do know is that in the "black community" this so-called "double standard" is on trial today; the one being vigorously covered by Comcast/NBC.

When we read the US constitution we do not see any provision for any double standard in our legal system - anywhere in the country.  Most certainly Florida is not permitted a legal system that treats one situation different from a similar situation.  We see the opposite - equal justice under the law for all.  But, obviously, there is a double standard.

We do not know if this politician/bureaucrat/union boss/prosecutor/judge decreed set of "double standards" in American jurisprudence is a reason, perhaps even a major reason, for the breakdown in much of America's black, minority, struggling communities in almost every state in the country.  We do know that those in America's black communities who can get away from this and other circumstances of the blighted black communities do so - they do so in large numbers.  It has happened in Detroit - is happening now as we speak in Chicago - and will continue to happen across the land.  The distrust of America's legal system is systemic in these struggling communities. 

By the way, the victim in the police shooting noted above (the one you probably never heard about) was white.  But you didn't even know that did you?  Why didn't Comcast/NBC cover that story?  We know why they didn't cover the trial - there never was one.  We also have a pretty good idea why they ignored the story.  Do you?

One other thing we don't get about this whole situation - why does the black community, almost to the point of unanimity - those who escape the ghettos and those who don't, continue to offer electoral support to the very same cabal - the politicians/bureaucrats/union bosses/prosecutors/judges/Hollywood media who impose this "double standard" on them?  Do you understand why they do this?