Stand your ground laws are pretty straightforward. They are not just for white people, Thank you very much for your racist hearts. She should get off as a self defense, stand your ground. Just because she was arrested does not mean this will go to trial and she will get the death penalty.
Stand your ground laws are pretty straightforward. They are not just for white people
Counterpoint: the 2nd Amendment is also for everyone. the Black Panther Party started advocating gun ownership for self-defense of black people. Then the NRA anD Reagan passed gun control legislation.
Gun Rights have always had a racial problem.
Thank you very much for your racist hearts.
Oh look. Self-involved psuedo-concern.
She should get off as a self defense, stand your ground.
Here’s a thing. Self-defense isn’t stand your ground, at least not in Florida.
In Florida, stand your ground is presumptive. You are presumed to have stood your ground unless the state can explicitly prove otherwise, contrary to having to prove you acted in self-defense.
Just because she was arrested does not mean this will go to trial and she will get the death penalty.
Her being arrested is fine. Right thing to do, actually.
Her being charged in the face of all the evidence, in a state that refused to even charge numerous people like Michael Drejkla who killed a man because he got pushed, smacks of uneqal application of the law. Which is why people are pissed.
Part of me thinks the fixation on specific Jim Crow laws when discussing the civil rights era as opposed to how unequal and unfair all laws were/are enforced is why it’s so impossible for contemporary conservatives to understand how racism operates.
The other part assumes they actually totally understand, they’re just racist liars who want a veneer of deniability.
the people in grenfell died because they were poor.
the people in grenfell died because their landlord chose to spend money on flammable cladding because rich tenants in nearby penthouses didn’t like the ugly council building ruining their view.
the people in grenfell died because their landlord chose not to spend money on a centralised fire system or sprinklers or an additional fire escape.
the people in grenfell died because the tories voted against a law that would force landlords to make their buildings inhabitable and safe for their tenants.
the people in grenfell died because of the privatisation of social housing.
the people in grenfell burnt to death with their children in their arms because they were poor.
more than a year has passed, the tory government has done basically nothing, we haven’t forgotten
It is tempting to forget the morning rituals, when you inspected your body for lesions that might have appeared during the night and signal that it had started.
It is tempting to forget that when you asked, “Does this spot look purple to you?” you didn’t need to say anything else for everyone around you to know just what was on your mind, if not on your skin, and how fast your heart was racing as you uttered the words as casually as you could because sounding casual seemed to increase the chances of a reassuring response.
It is tempting to forget that there was a time when gay men were hoping not to lose weight, that plump meant healthy and healthy reassuring. And reassuring, in a turnabout so shocking for us then, meant sexy.
It is tempting to forget that people were dropping like flies, that many gay men in cities like New York or San Francisco were crossing out name after name from their address books, and it is tempting to forget that many gay men who had long left their families behind in favor of friendships were now left only with mere acquaintances, no one close still living.
It is tempting to forget how parents who had once expelled their faggot son now rushed to his bedside to keep te lovers and friends away, to contest the will, and to snatch the spoils of a life lived far from the tender bosom of the family.
It is tempting to forget that women never “got” AIDS but somehow died of it by the thousands.
It is tempting to forget that the truth could only be whispered or screamed but seldom simply told.
It is tempting to forget that kids were chased out of schools by their friends’ parents and by their friends and that their houses were burned to the ground.
It is tempting to forget that Ryan White was once described as a “homophiliac” in a newspaper.
It is tempting to forget the frightened medics and undertakers and the cop’s face masks and latex gloves, as they arrested dying young men and women fighting for their lives.
It is tempting to forget ACT UP’s unforgettable chant, “They’ll see you on the news; your gloves don’t match your shoes!”
It is tempting to forget angry queers screaming bloody murder and spitting out hosts in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York.
It is tempting to forget the pictures of Dorian Gray on TV and on the pages of magazines, the emaciated faces covered with lesions, the hollow stares, and the feeling that one might as well have been looking at a charred and contorted body hanging from a tree, like Billie Holiday’s strange fruit, as the crowd cheered.
It is tempting to forget gay-related immune deficiency and the gay cancer and the 4-H club — homosexual, heroin addict, hemophiliac, Haitian — and all the conspiracy theories and miracle cures that we knew were bullshit yet couldn’t help but consider just in case, because madness could make sense.
It is tempting to forget the promise of a vaccine in about five years and that it felt like such an eternity that researchers sounded almost apologetic when explaining that retroviruses are particularly treacherous foes.
It is tempting to forget the calls for quarantine camps and tattoos and mass expulsions, “solutions” whose pros and cons were discussed with the sort of equanimity now applied to the debate on torture.
It is tempting to forget that nobody gave a shit.
It is tempting to forget that all this is still happening far, far away from here.
It is tempting to forget and it is easy.
pp. 9-10, The Nearness of Others: Searching for Tact and Contact in the Age of HIV, David Caron.
“This photo was taken one week before her death. She chose it for her obituary because as she said, “I look so good for someone almost dead!” Her brief time diagnosed with inoperable cancer gave her mere days to live.”
“A final message Ellen wanted to share was about the fat shaming she endured from the medical profession.
Over the past few years of feeling unwell she sought out medical intervention and no one offered any support or suggestions beyond weight loss.
Ellen’s dying wish was that women of size make her death matter by advocating strongly for their health and not accepting that fat is the only relevant health issue.”
Fatphobia is deadly.
Your fat hatred kills people.
People who are loved, people who are desperately missed.
This is utterly shameful and emblematic of the total lack of regard for indigenous Australians ingrained into the racist “justice” system of this shit country
Dungay died at the Long Bay jail mental health ward during a cell transfer after he refused to stop eating a packet of biscuits. Five immediate action team officers physically restrained him in the prone (face down) position and he was injected with a sedative by a Justice Health nurse.
In footage shown to the court and partly released to the public, Dungay said 12 times that he couldn’t breathe. An expert medical witness testified on Tuesday there were a number of points during the restraint when a medical professional could have recognised the warning signs of asphyxia and stopped the onset of what he believed was a fatal cardiac arrest.
These heartbreaking and incredibly moving images show the affection and love shown during the height of the Aids crisis. Photographer Gideon Mendel’s project The Ward began in 1993 when he spent a number of weeks on the Charles Bell wards in London’s Middlesex Hospital. All the patients on the ward were dying with the knowledge that there was no cure for the disease. During this time antiretroviral medications were not available and patients on the ward faced the prospect of an early death.
I don’t think people should be executed for ‘producing propaganda for al-Qaeda’ but the most striking thing to me about the debate over whether Kareem should be executed is the number of people who – like me – don’t speak or read any Arabic – and are just taking the word of random other people who also don’t speak Arabic that his journalism constitutes ‘propaganda for al-Qaeda’. Kareem says he just reports on atrocities committed by American forces. I haven’t seen anyone counter that by saying ‘no, here’s a translation of a broadcast in which he says something false’.
I haven’t actually seen anyone clarify whether they consider ‘reporting on American atrocities’ to be ‘al-Qaeda propaganda’ all by itself, even if every word is true.
If you were concerned about learning that the summary execution of a U.S. citizen never charged with any crime was ordered by the U.S. government, and then you learned that the government says he’s producing ‘al-Qaeda propaganda’, and then you went ‘oh okay’, and you didn’t even ask to see any of the propaganda, then I think you have some very scary information about yourself.
I know that this is a trivial nitpick of a very serious issue (which I have previously linked to coverage of), but this seems like a misuse of the word “executed”.
It seems to me that execution implies that the party doing the executing has physical control over the person being executed. That is, that the person is a prisoner.
I would call this an “assassination” or just a “killing”.
I think this is a worthwhile nitpick, because it’s also central to the lack of a trial. The failure to prosecute Kareem is not necessarily “because there’s no evidence”, but rather “because prosecution wouldn’t give us any legal right to take this action”.
Assuming that someone managed to convict Kareem (in absentia, presumably) of treason, it almost certainly wouldn’t legalize drone strikes against him. The Eighth Amendment suit over a cruel and unusual method would probably be an easy win, and no one would want to open the door to drone striking convicts already in prison.
So: the failure to try Kareem boils down to having no reason to try Kareem – he’s not being executed regardless. What’s happening is either a killing in war, a killing of an enemy combatant, or an extrajudicial assassination, depending on who you ask.
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