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In reply to the discussion: Facts are difficult to come by in the Trayvon Martin Case, and [View all]Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)35. I'm not good at analogies off the cuff
and probably a lot of damaged offspring in nature don't
ever get loved.. but maybe the gist of what I was saying
came through.
I see a hopeful urge & a goodness that keeps on going,
no matter what we do wrong, keeps offering us another
chance.
The trees keep making oxygen, they don't stop to hate
the ones who are polluting the air. There is a kindness
in the energy behind everything living. The sun rises on
Zimmerman & the rest of us, exactly the same. It doesn't
rain down darkness on anybody.
Something there is that doesn't judge, Life itself: gives us
the freedom & ability to judge ourselves, but not others.
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To be a magistrate in Virginia, one isn't required to have knowledge of criminal law.
Kaleva
May 2012
#38
It seems to me that they (Zimmerman's legal team) are doing so much leaking...
cynatnite
May 2012
#24
YES. And if it had been a police officer who shot Martin, there'd have been more of an investigation
MH1
May 2012
#36
We know this, that had there been no public outcry, this case would never have gone to
sabrina 1
May 2012
#28
Someone on another thread linked a raft of documents from the case. Fact is, the media
HiPointDem
May 2012
#31