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In reply to the discussion: Doctor: George Zimmerman had black eyes, painful broken nose but no head trauma [View all]The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)First, people certainly have a right to state their view of the facts in a public matter. They have a perfect right to do so even if you do not like their view of the facts, or sympathize with one side in the matter.
Second, the person actually used the conditional 'if', and stated what they considered a proper action to be if in that circumstance. And in fact, a person has no right to accost another on a public way, and a person so accosted has a perfect right to react in manners unpleasant to the accoster. It is a simple statement of fact that Zimmerman had no right whatever to ingterfere with Mr. Martin in any way.
Third, do you really think reaching for a Communist bogey-man amounts to a useful gambit? Are you seriously accusing members of this forum who express their view that Zimmerman murdered Mr. Martin of being Communists, in fact or spirit, and aping the practices of Soviet totalitarianism?