“Without any provocation, a deputy officer of the Isle of Wight, Virginia Sheriff’s Department shot a man in the back with a taser, causing him to lose consciousness and fall abruptly to the pavement…”
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Fleming spent nearly 25 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. The Guardian spent an afternoon with Fleming as he saw Times Square for the first time in a quarter century
How much money are we (U.S. citizens) going to compensate all of these wrongfully convicted people?
How much is 25 years of your life worth?
Why does the U.S. only give $93.00 to the formerly incarcerated once they are released from prison.
People need more than $93.00 to run their life. They need first and last month’s rent at a minimum. They need a job in order to keep their housing and feed themselves.
Not everyone has friends and family to help them. And some of our friends and family can not help or refuse to help.
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“As the philosopher Anarchasis observed in the 6th century B.C. in comparing laws to spider webs, laws catch the weak and poor, while the rich and powerful tear them to pieces. Although not always the case, the ancient philosopher has shown himself to be prophetic in both the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and in the area of contemporary international affairs, a profoundly undemocratic arena in which the powerful demand accountability of their weaker enemies, while insulating themselves and their allies from prosecution.”
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““I wouldn’t give up. No matter that they sentenced me to three life terms in prison. I wouldn’t give up. Just because a jury of 12 misinformed people… found me guilty. And because I was not guilty I refused to act like a guilty person.”
– Rubin “Hurricane” Carter”
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Predatory lending. A two-tiered justice system. The list of discriminatory practices goes on, and on, and on …
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“… Maddy, I can understand you more now as a person, but I still don’t like that you changed your vote. There, I said it. Does that mean that I hate you? No. Does it mean I have no respect for you as a person? No. If I were to meet you, I would want to sit and hear about everything you experienced in Seminole County. I think we might have something in common moving away from our hometown within our hometown, to find that people in other parts of this great nation are not welcoming to “outsiders.”
I would tell you that our brains process what our guts tell us. Example? When you were mocked and demeaned, did you first feel it in your gut, or your brain? It took your brain time to discern that the women were not laughing with you, but at you. If your gut hadn’t processed their motivation, your brain would not have discerned it.
So, what is the problem that the anti-Trayvon Martin camp has with Maddy and Lisa Bloom’s interview of her? They allege that Maddy told Reverend Sharpton on his Politics Nation program, that she had not been bullied.
Thankfully, that interview is on Youtube. Reverend Sharpton said that there are those who question what happened in the jury room. Did people pressure people? Were people bullying Maddy? He asked her directly, “Were you bullied, Maddy?” Maddy hesitated. She started her answer with “we.” She stopped again, and when she continued stated, “I can’t say I was bullied.”
As she continues, she goes back and repeats what she has always contended; i.e., that the way the law was read to her, she could not say that Zimmerman was guilty.
What I see in Maddy’s interview on Politics Nation, and her interview with Lisa Bloom, is that Maddy speaks of two distinct times. She tells Lisa Bloom what happened BEFORE the jury deliberated and it was at that time when she was bullied. By the time that the jury deliberated, two of the jurors had already re-defined Maddy in her person to believe that she was not educated and intelligent enough to understand anything presented to the jury at trial, neither the jury instructions, nor the law to in which to apply the facts. By the time of jury deliberations, there was no further need to bully Maddy. She was already intimidated…”
“History has proven there is only one way to get the attention of unmovable ideologies to achieve change. Matching and protests are strategies, which is nothing more than a good show for the cameras. For example, the March on Washington and the Million Man March produced little in terms of measurable results. On the other hand, BOYCOTT’s work – the Birmingham Bus Boycott and the Martin Luther King Holiday Boycott on the state of Arizona – WORKED! It is time to stop BS-ing and BOYCOTT FLORIDA and everything connected to it. We will then get change. And that’s my thought provoking perspective…”
Stand your ground against Stand Your Ground.
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“This video tells the story of a black teenager in Florida who was killed by a white man after an argument over loud music. The slain youth’s father shares his loss.”
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“Chairperson Kirsten Sandberg discusses the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child report outlining massive allegations of child abuse coverups and its demands The Vatican take action to hold guilty parties accountable.”
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