To all those who want to Boycott Florida

[Scootaloo]

77. Yes yes, them evil yankees

We nawthunners just don't unnastayund how hawd it must be fuh yew. You po', po' thing yew. D'you need a hug?

I was born and raised in Mobile, Alabama. With the exception of myself and my mother, the entire family is spread between Biloxi and Pensacola. Spare me your whimpering about the damn yankees, unless you're talking about the band. What, you're a liberal in the south, do you want a fucking medal for that? You must, like so many other southern DU'ers who think their geographic location makes them special fucking snowflakes in this world.

Your state - as in the government of your state, the one the people of your state elected, just helped the defense make a case that resulted in a guilty verdict for the victim of a murder. And what, you think that because some simpering Scarlett O'Hara wannabe is a liberal in the same state, we should keep throwing our money at the place, our tourism and whatever else? We should just go "Oh! well, the entire state's system of governance is fucked beyond belief and it's basically the middle ground between 'Waterworld' and 'Beyond Thunderdome,' but you know, DonCoquixote lives there so let's just ignore all that because he's a liberal and that makes it all better!"

No, sorry. It doesn't work that way. If people boycott, guess what, you'll live. That's more than can be said for the actual victim, the boy who was shot, whose murderer was defended as much by the state of Florida as by his own defense team. Again I suggest using such an occurrence as a tool for change from within.

As for Alan Grayson? Great guy who was voted out of office by your fellow Floridians. I'd love to see him back in office, but I wonder what happened between his election and then his getting hoisted out of office? I'm sure you did what you could, got out the vote and cast your ballot and all, but since the rest of your state threw the man under a bus - and backed up a few times just to be sure, it's not much of a defense. A few good apples doesn't make the rest of the sludge in the barrel edible, to reverse a common saying.