Topic: What is BLM?
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Sat 07/16/16 10:44 PM



The phrase “black lives matter” was born the night of July 13, 2013, when Alicia Garza, an Oakland-based community organizer, learned that George Zimmerman had been acquitted in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin. Garza immediately thought of her younger brother, who is about the same size and build as Martin, and felt it could just as easily have been him who was killed. In a 2015 interview, Garza recalled:

The one thing I remember from that evening, other than crying myself to sleep that night, was the way in which as a black person, I felt incredibly vulnerable, incredibly exposed and incredibly enraged. . . . It was a verdict that said: black people are not safe in America.

That’s a feeling most black folks had, a feeling that I certainly had, and that many black folks in your churches had. Garza immediately logged onto Facebook and posted an impassioned message that ended with the words, “Our lives matter, Black Lives Matter.”

When fellow activist Patrisse Cullors saw Garza’s post, she combined the now famous final phrase with a hashtag and began sharing it to foster a discussion about protecting the dignity and affirming the value of black lives. The next day, Garza and Cullors spoke together about organizing a campaign around the discussion. Finally, the two reached out to Opal Tometti, another activist they knew in the field of immigrant rights. The three women started by setting up Tumblr and Twitter accounts and encouraging users to share stories of why black lives matter just as much as any other lives. The slogan gained traction on social media, and with some initial gatherings, the Black Lives Matter protest movement we know today was born.


https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/is-black-lives-matter-the-new-civil-rights-movement


So I guess the whole BLM is based on false premises. The jury found Zimmerman NOT guilty. So just because this "activist" had a different opinion then those that actually HEARD ALL THE EVIDENCE they started this movement. Today this same movement continues to use lies like "Hands Up Don't Shoot" from the Ferguson tragedy to promote this agenda that somehow black lives don't matter to anyone.

Whatever the original reasons were, it has morphed into a just another racism industry group.


no, its not a false premise


a jury finding someone not guilty doesn't mean anything except what their legal fate is


The jury and the justice department found him not guilty, just like in the Brown case!

The hands up don't shoot BS was proven to be a lie!

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Sat 07/16/16 11:31 PM
Edited by Two on Sat 07/16/16 11:31 PM




BLM is Bureau of Land Management, isn't it?


Yep. Another criminal organization! laugh


Yup, just like the MOB, they own Nevada...

rofl rofl rofl


The gaming control board ran the mob out of town in the 80's and 90's. Your watching to many movies.....


You go ahead and believe what you want... They just moved out the other MOB bosses so they could own it...
:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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Sun 07/17/16 12:38 AM
I believe it's not just the Black Lives that Matter, all human race are one....all our lives matter not just black, brown nor white . All people are important, we want safety, security, appreciation and acceptance. Nobody wants their kid to be killed or put in prison, but one has to answer for his wrong doings and there is justice for all, there should be a just penalty for evil actions. We all abhor violence or oppression but cannot totally eliminate these as we don't control the behaviors of every individual. But whoever makes mistakes will have to accept the consequences. We shouldn't promote violence or stir hatred in the minds of the people to go against each other. But rather we should teach everyone to stir clear away from any evilness , to love and respect each other so to build safety, peace and order in our communities.

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Sun 07/17/16 12:42 AM




The phrase “black lives matter” was born the night of July 13, 2013, when Alicia Garza, an Oakland-based community organizer, learned that George Zimmerman had been acquitted in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin. Garza immediately thought of her younger brother, who is about the same size and build as Martin, and felt it could just as easily have been him who was killed. In a 2015 interview, Garza recalled:

The one thing I remember from that evening, other than crying myself to sleep that night, was the way in which as a black person, I felt incredibly vulnerable, incredibly exposed and incredibly enraged. . . . It was a verdict that said: black people are not safe in America.

That’s a feeling most black folks had, a feeling that I certainly had, and that many black folks in your churches had. Garza immediately logged onto Facebook and posted an impassioned message that ended with the words, “Our lives matter, Black Lives Matter.”

When fellow activist Patrisse Cullors saw Garza’s post, she combined the now famous final phrase with a hashtag and began sharing it to foster a discussion about protecting the dignity and affirming the value of black lives. The next day, Garza and Cullors spoke together about organizing a campaign around the discussion. Finally, the two reached out to Opal Tometti, another activist they knew in the field of immigrant rights. The three women started by setting up Tumblr and Twitter accounts and encouraging users to share stories of why black lives matter just as much as any other lives. The slogan gained traction on social media, and with some initial gatherings, the Black Lives Matter protest movement we know today was born.


https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/is-black-lives-matter-the-new-civil-rights-movement


So I guess the whole BLM is based on false premises. The jury found Zimmerman NOT guilty. So just because this "activist" had a different opinion then those that actually HEARD ALL THE EVIDENCE they started this movement. Today this same movement continues to use lies like "Hands Up Don't Shoot" from the Ferguson tragedy to promote this agenda that somehow black lives don't matter to anyone.

Whatever the original reasons were, it has morphed into a just another racism industry group.


no, its not a false premise


a jury finding someone not guilty doesn't mean anything except what their legal fate is


The jury and the justice department found him not guilty, just like in the Brown case!

The hands up don't shoot BS was proven to be a lie!



like oj was proven not to have committed murder

o Clinton was proven not to have broken laws


a 'not guilty' means there wasn't enough to prove, not that anything is disproven

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Sun 07/17/16 12:52 AM

I believe it's not just the Black Lives that Matter, all human race are one....all our lives matter not just black, brown nor white . All people are important, we want safety, security, appreciation and acceptance. Nobody wants their kid to be killed or put in prison, but one has to answer for his wrong doings and there is justice for all, there should be a just penalty for evil actions. We all abhor violence or oppression but cannot totally eliminate these as we don't control the behaviors of every individual. But whoever makes mistakes will have to accept the consequences. We shouldn't promote violence or stir hatred in the minds of the people to go against each other. But rather we should teach everyone to stir clear away from any evilness , to love and respect each other so to build safety, peace and order in our communities.



well said, life matters, just penalty , and building peace and order

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Tue 07/19/16 04:54 PM

The phrase “black lives matter” was born the night of July 13, 2013, when Alicia Garza, an Oakland-based community organizer, learned that George Zimmerman had been acquitted in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin. ...




This slogan was then co-opted over the last three years by race baiting profiteering activist leaders and an entire generation of irrational, racist millennials.

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Tue 07/19/16 05:31 PM


The phrase “black lives matter” was born the night of July 13, 2013, when Alicia Garza, an Oakland-based community organizer, learned that George Zimmerman had been acquitted in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin. ...




This slogan was then co-opted over the last three years by race baiting profiteering activist leaders and an entire generation of irrational, racist millennials.


theres been a new generation in three years ? Interesting


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Tue 07/19/16 06:22 PM



The phrase “black lives matter” was born the night of July 13, 2013, when Alicia Garza, an Oakland-based community organizer, learned that George Zimmerman had been acquitted in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin. ...




This slogan was then co-opted over the last three years by race baiting profiteering activist leaders and an entire generation of irrational, racist millennials.


theres been a new generation in three years ? Interesting




What are you even talking about? There are two groups of people who have, together co-opted this slogan. Both did this co-opting over the last three years. One of those groups is an entire generation of irrational and racist millennials.

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Tue 07/19/16 06:26 PM




The phrase “black lives matter” was born the night of July 13, 2013, when Alicia Garza, an Oakland-based community organizer, learned that George Zimmerman had been acquitted in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin. ...




This slogan was then co-opted over the last three years by race baiting profiteering activist leaders and an entire generation of irrational, racist millennials.


theres been a new generation in three years ? Interesting




What are you even talking about? There are two groups of people who have, together co-opted this slogan. Both did this co-opting over the last three years. One of those groups is an entire generation of irrational and racist millennials.




how many are making up this 'generation' of 'irrational and racist millenials'?

those who are coopting are few, compared to the numbers who are not



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Tue 07/19/16 06:39 PM


those who are coopting are few, compared to the numbers who are not



It doesn't really matter the relative numbers of this group when the vast majority of people who identify with the label bend over backwards to rationalize their indoctrination into the beliefs promoted by the thought leaders - does it?

Do you remember that ignorant BLM man that was embarrassed by a 17 year old black republican teenager? He is one of the many who just blindly accepts the dogma and misinformation being spread by the few.

The culture is dysfunctional. Its a culture based on peoples "lived experiences" - no matter how delusional those people may be - rather than the actual facts. Its a culture of hatred and bigotry. Its a culture of racism and collectivism.


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Tue 07/19/16 06:43 PM
I know how its uncomfortable to face other peoples realities,,

I will leave it at that,,,sigh

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Tue 07/19/16 11:08 PM
I believe we just gotta live with the reality of life. The cruelty in the world will never die, there will always be light and darkness. What we choose to live is up to us. Life is what matters. To live a life with freedom to do what is right or wrong.......to seek the meaning of life. What would you choose to live? To live in peace and harmony, to fight for your right with reasonable or unreasonable cause, to live a meaningful or meaningless life? What difference can we contribute to the world? Each and everyone of us may have a reason for every actions that we make yet the question is if nobody has the courage to do something , will there be awareness among us? Whatever the cause we stand for, let's just hope for a better world someday. Whatever we want to do with our lives......make it matter and make a difference for the world to rejoice.:smile: :banana:

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Tue 07/19/16 11:11 PM
ty dolphin:smile:

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Wed 07/20/16 12:42 AM
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263460/black-lives-matter-movement-built-lies-john-perazzo

The clown show known as Black Lives Matter is akin to a paranoid maniac who: (a) dreams that his spouse is having a torrid, illicit affair; (b) then berates and beats his spouse upon waking up; and (c) finally, when reminded that it was all just a dream, becomes even more enraged at the betrayal he supposedly suffered while he slept. There's really no point to continuing the charade of calling Black Lives Matter by the phony name it has exploited since its inception. If black lives truly mattered to the know-nothings who comprise this movement, they would have something—anything—to say about the fact that approximately 5,500 of the 6,095 black victims of homicide in 2014 were killed not by white devils, not by satanic ghouls in blue uniforms, but by other blacks. Instead, all they give us is a silent, collective yawn punctuated with a raised middle finger. So from this point forward, Black Lives Matter will be called by its correct name, “Facts Don't Matter.”

The mouthpieces of Facts Don't Matter say their mission is to demand “an immediate end” to “the murder of Black people” by the hordes of racists who purportedly comprise our nation's police forces. They tell us that African Americans are a hunted and endangered species, mowed down by blue-uniformed white sadists who are animated by bloodlust, bigotry, and dreams of genocide. But wait. It turns out that of all the people who have been killed by police in the United States in recent years, about 42% were white, 20% were Hispanic, and 32% were black—even as blacks committed nearly 39% of the types of serious crimes most likely to result in a violent confrontation with police. Last year was typical: 494 whites and 258 blacks were killed by police. And what do the race-obsessed demagogues at Facts Don't Matter have to say about this? Nothing. Facts Don't Matter.

Facts Don't Matter tells us that police are particularly inclined to gun down, in cold blood, African Americans who are unarmed and pose no threat to anyone. Of course, “unarmed” victims are sometimes shot while they're physically assaulting an officer or trying to take away his gun. But still, let's play along and look at—if you'll excuse the expression—the facts. In 2015, there were 38 unarmed blacks and 32 unarmed whites who were shot and killed by police. These figures are roughly proportional to the respective numbers of violent crimes committed by blacks and whites nationwide. So why the outrage? Because Facts Don't Matter. Remember?

And does it matter that statistically, the likelihood of a police officer being killed by a black male is 18.5 times greater than the likelihood of an unarmed black male being killed by a cop? Nope. Facts Don't … well, you know how it goes.

The plain truth is that if you search for evidence of systemic racism in police shootings, you won't find it anywhere outside the imaginations of the Facts Don't Matter racists and the imbeciles who support them. The premise underlying Facts Don't Matter's mission is a lie, founded on a fantasy, stapled to a hallucination, wrapped inside a fairy tale, strapped to the wing of a unicorn.

But naturally, none of this prevented Barack Obama—in the aftermath of the recent police shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana—from doing what he does best: lament America's intransigent white racism, and foment black hatred and mistrust of police officers. This is where the President always shines, and dutifully he trotted out several old favorites from his well-worn collection of hackneyed platitudes:

“[T]here's a big chunk of our citizenry that feels as if, because of the color of their skin, they are not being treated the same.”
“[T]he data shows that black folks are more vulnerable to these kinds of incidents. There is a particular burden that is being placed on a group of our fellow citizens.”
“[T]hese fatal shootings are not isolated incidents. They are symptomatic of the broader challenges within our criminal justice system, the racial disparities that appear across the system year after year, and the resulting lack of trust that exists between law enforcement and too many of the communities they serve.

A few hours later, a dozen officers were gunned down at a Facts Don't Matter rally in Dallas, and five of them lay lifeless in pools of their own blood.

This atrocity was just a natural extension of the toxic and deadly anti-police climate that Obama had previously helped cultivate with many similar statements over the years. And not surprisingly, law-enforcement officers throughout urban America have responded to this troubling climate by becoming less proactive in apprehending criminal suspects, particularly for low-level offenses. This, in turn, has led to a dramatic rise in crime rates in a number of U.S. cities. For 2015 as a whole, America's 56 largest cities experienced a 17% rise in homicides; in 10 heavily black cities, murders increased by more than 60%. During the first quarter of this year, homicides in the nation's 63 largest cities increased by another 9%, while non-fatal shootings were up 21%. In other words, immense harm has been done to the very same “black lives” on whose behalf Facts Don't Matter claims to work.

If Barack Obama were something other than a racist Marxist revolutionary, he would state clearly and unequivocally that the Facts Don't Matter movement is nothing more than a horde of know-nothing degenerates who should be ostracized as the moral equivalents of cross-burning Klansmen. But that's a bit much to expect from a man who has made yet another prominent racist, Al Sharpton, his leading adviser on matters of race. So instead, Obama doffs his hat to the Facts Don't Matter clowns, and treats them like dignitaries. Leaders of Facts Don't Matter have visited the Obama White House many times since 2013, meeting with not only the President, but also with the First Lady and a number of high-level administration officials.

In September 2015, for instance, Facts Don't Matter leader Brittany Packnett—fresh off her seventh visit to the Obama White House—told reporters that the President had “offered us a lot of encouragement” while urging the activists to “‘keep speaking truth to power.’” The following month, Obama lauded Facts Don't Matter for addressing “a specific problem that’s happening in the African-American community that’s not happening in other communities.” Two months after that, he described Facts Don't Matter as a positive force that was shining “sunlight” on the fact that “there’s no black family that hasn’t had a conversation around the kitchen table about driving while black and being profiled or being stopped” by police. And at a Black History Month event at the White House this past February, Obama welcomed Facts Don't Matter representatives and extolled their “outstanding work.”

This is the pathetic condition to which the our nation has sunk under Barack Obama: The President of the United States openly and unequivocally supports a racist terror group that is committed to the slaughter of police officers and the breakdown of law-and-order—and, by logical extension, to a steep and swift rise in death-by-homicide rates among civilians in dozens of cities across the country. And he's done it all in the name of “racial justice.” People don't get any uglier—or dumber—than this.

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Wed 07/20/16 01:38 AM
Edited by msharmony on Wed 07/20/16 01:40 AM
HAAAAA

same old insane distractions



that addressing peoples grievances with police makes people kill police

and that a community that has crime therefore has no standing to take issue with police brutality


suck it up sallies, its a new age and people aren't going to stop speaking up for change




but I give credit to the devotion of having pages of these ridiculous rebuttals on hand



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Wed 07/20/16 03:18 AM
Amusing and ironic how the same people who note that Zimmerman was found not guilty, and want that mess permanently put to bed, still insist that Clinton go to jail after being found not guilty.

All rather clearly demonstrates how it really isn't about rational thinking or real personal principles of justice to a lot of people.

Conrad_73's photo
Wed 07/20/16 04:35 AM

Amusing and ironic how the same people who note that Zimmerman was found not guilty, and want that mess permanently put to bed, still insist that Clinton go to jail after being found not guilty.

All rather clearly demonstrates how it really isn't about rational thinking or real personal principles of justice to a lot of people.
Clinton was found Not Guilty in WHAT COURT?
better read that pesky Rule she repeatedly broke!
Love your Pineapples and Potatoes!:laughing:

Conrad_73's photo
Wed 07/20/16 04:37 AM

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263460/black-lives-matter-movement-built-lies-john-perazzo

The clown show known as Black Lives Matter is akin to a paranoid maniac who: (a) dreams that his spouse is having a torrid, illicit affair; (b) then berates and beats his spouse upon waking up; and (c) finally, when reminded that it was all just a dream, becomes even more enraged at the betrayal he supposedly suffered while he slept. There's really no point to continuing the charade of calling Black Lives Matter by the phony name it has exploited since its inception. If black lives truly mattered to the know-nothings who comprise this movement, they would have something—anything—to say about the fact that approximately 5,500 of the 6,095 black victims of homicide in 2014 were killed not by white devils, not by satanic ghouls in blue uniforms, but by other blacks. Instead, all they give us is a silent, collective yawn punctuated with a raised middle finger. So from this point forward, Black Lives Matter will be called by its correct name, “Facts Don't Matter.”

The mouthpieces of Facts Don't Matter say their mission is to demand “an immediate end” to “the murder of Black people” by the hordes of racists who purportedly comprise our nation's police forces. They tell us that African Americans are a hunted and endangered species, mowed down by blue-uniformed white sadists who are animated by bloodlust, bigotry, and dreams of genocide. But wait. It turns out that of all the people who have been killed by police in the United States in recent years, about 42% were white, 20% were Hispanic, and 32% were black—even as blacks committed nearly 39% of the types of serious crimes most likely to result in a violent confrontation with police. Last year was typical: 494 whites and 258 blacks were killed by police. And what do the race-obsessed demagogues at Facts Don't Matter have to say about this? Nothing. Facts Don't Matter.

Facts Don't Matter tells us that police are particularly inclined to gun down, in cold blood, African Americans who are unarmed and pose no threat to anyone. Of course, “unarmed” victims are sometimes shot while they're physically assaulting an officer or trying to take away his gun. But still, let's play along and look at—if you'll excuse the expression—the facts. In 2015, there were 38 unarmed blacks and 32 unarmed whites who were shot and killed by police. These figures are roughly proportional to the respective numbers of violent crimes committed by blacks and whites nationwide. So why the outrage? Because Facts Don't Matter. Remember?

And does it matter that statistically, the likelihood of a police officer being killed by a black male is 18.5 times greater than the likelihood of an unarmed black male being killed by a cop? Nope. Facts Don't … well, you know how it goes.

The plain truth is that if you search for evidence of systemic racism in police shootings, you won't find it anywhere outside the imaginations of the Facts Don't Matter racists and the imbeciles who support them. The premise underlying Facts Don't Matter's mission is a lie, founded on a fantasy, stapled to a hallucination, wrapped inside a fairy tale, strapped to the wing of a unicorn.

But naturally, none of this prevented Barack Obama—in the aftermath of the recent police shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana—from doing what he does best: lament America's intransigent white racism, and foment black hatred and mistrust of police officers. This is where the President always shines, and dutifully he trotted out several old favorites from his well-worn collection of hackneyed platitudes:

“[T]here's a big chunk of our citizenry that feels as if, because of the color of their skin, they are not being treated the same.”
“[T]he data shows that black folks are more vulnerable to these kinds of incidents. There is a particular burden that is being placed on a group of our fellow citizens.”
“[T]hese fatal shootings are not isolated incidents. They are symptomatic of the broader challenges within our criminal justice system, the racial disparities that appear across the system year after year, and the resulting lack of trust that exists between law enforcement and too many of the communities they serve.

A few hours later, a dozen officers were gunned down at a Facts Don't Matter rally in Dallas, and five of them lay lifeless in pools of their own blood.

This atrocity was just a natural extension of the toxic and deadly anti-police climate that Obama had previously helped cultivate with many similar statements over the years. And not surprisingly, law-enforcement officers throughout urban America have responded to this troubling climate by becoming less proactive in apprehending criminal suspects, particularly for low-level offenses. This, in turn, has led to a dramatic rise in crime rates in a number of U.S. cities. For 2015 as a whole, America's 56 largest cities experienced a 17% rise in homicides; in 10 heavily black cities, murders increased by more than 60%. During the first quarter of this year, homicides in the nation's 63 largest cities increased by another 9%, while non-fatal shootings were up 21%. In other words, immense harm has been done to the very same “black lives” on whose behalf Facts Don't Matter claims to work.

If Barack Obama were something other than a racist Marxist revolutionary, he would state clearly and unequivocally that the Facts Don't Matter movement is nothing more than a horde of know-nothing degenerates who should be ostracized as the moral equivalents of cross-burning Klansmen. But that's a bit much to expect from a man who has made yet another prominent racist, Al Sharpton, his leading adviser on matters of race. So instead, Obama doffs his hat to the Facts Don't Matter clowns, and treats them like dignitaries. Leaders of Facts Don't Matter have visited the Obama White House many times since 2013, meeting with not only the President, but also with the First Lady and a number of high-level administration officials.

In September 2015, for instance, Facts Don't Matter leader Brittany Packnett—fresh off her seventh visit to the Obama White House—told reporters that the President had “offered us a lot of encouragement” while urging the activists to “‘keep speaking truth to power.’” The following month, Obama lauded Facts Don't Matter for addressing “a specific problem that’s happening in the African-American community that’s not happening in other communities.” Two months after that, he described Facts Don't Matter as a positive force that was shining “sunlight” on the fact that “there’s no black family that hasn’t had a conversation around the kitchen table about driving while black and being profiled or being stopped” by police. And at a Black History Month event at the White House this past February, Obama welcomed Facts Don't Matter representatives and extolled their “outstanding work.”

This is the pathetic condition to which the our nation has sunk under Barack Obama: The President of the United States openly and unequivocally supports a racist terror group that is committed to the slaughter of police officers and the breakdown of law-and-order—and, by logical extension, to a steep and swift rise in death-by-homicide rates among civilians in dozens of cities across the country. And he's done it all in the name of “racial justice.” People don't get any uglier—or dumber—than this.

Obama's,Hillary's and their Dirigiste's Cannonfodder!

Smartazzjohn's photo
Wed 07/20/16 09:54 AM

Amusing and ironic how the same people who note that Zimmerman was found not guilty, and want that mess permanently put to bed, still insist that Clinton go to jail after being found not guilty.

All rather clearly demonstrates how it really isn't about rational thinking or real personal principles of justice to a lot of people.


Who found Hillary "not guilty"???
I take it you are talking about what Comey said.
He didn't say Clinton wasn't guilty, in fact quite the opposite, he outlined what she was guilty of doing.

Any one who is intellectually honest with themselves and others would acknowledge that a decision not to prosecute someone isn't a declaration that they aren't guilty.

msharmony's photo
Wed 07/20/16 11:57 AM


Amusing and ironic how the same people who note that Zimmerman was found not guilty, and want that mess permanently put to bed, still insist that Clinton go to jail after being found not guilty.

All rather clearly demonstrates how it really isn't about rational thinking or real personal principles of justice to a lot of people.


Who found Hillary "not guilty"???
I take it you are talking about what Comey said.
He didn't say Clinton wasn't guilty, in fact quite the opposite, he outlined what she was guilty of doing.

Any one who is intellectually honest with themselves and others would acknowledge that a decision not to prosecute someone isn't a declaration that they aren't guilty.


kind of like not prosecuting Darren Wilson,,,,I agree

and even prosecuting and finding 'not guilty' doesn't mean being proven innocent,, just that there wasn't enough there to 'prove' up to that courts standard and the legal definition of the charge,,,