[Peace-discuss] [Peace] Organize!

[Carl G. Estabrook]

The NYT op-ed page, policing the boundaries of acceptable opinion, tells us, "The case was always about race." 

And, it is implied, nothing else.

Cf. the Snowden case, which was always about theft.   


On Jul 17, 2013, at 8:10 AM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Even though I believe that a manslaughter charge, without 2nd degree murder, might have succeeded with a better prosecution, even that's quite debatable.
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> In any event, if bad cases make bad law, bad law makes bad cases. SYG has clouded the issue in this case, and who know how that affected GZ.
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> What I really want to say is that seeing Eric Holder on the news this morning talking about further prosecution makes me sick, not because it probably won't stick either, but because it's just more identity politics/co-option from the Obama administration. Not a perfect analogy, but for some reason it reminds me of Kennedy's grudging support for civil rights while invading Vietnam, Cuba, etc.
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> DG
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