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Why we win. The CSGV/Martin Edition.

If it is any indication, the followers of the Coalition to Stop Gun Rights Violence are not the brightest color in the Unicorn Farting Rainbow.

I wondered what state demands background checks and psych evaluations to drive a car, so I checked her info:

Arizona does not require all that crap to get a drivers license. What truly amazed me is that she went to Rutgers Law which is supposed to be a good law school. And yet Ms. Wagner has not figured out the laws of Arizona regarding the issue of a Drivers License. Tuition at Rutgers Law is $34,010 for non-resident, do I smell another wasted student loan here?

But I would like to recommend Ms. Wagner to Ladd & Co. so she can be part of their legal team,

Is the Trayvon Martin Case about to turn into a crap sandwich ?

In the Miami Herald’s article Grand jury to probe Trayvon Martin killing, there are some things that are making me think this is not going to be the cakewalk to eradicate the Stand Your Ground law.

The first one is obviously that they case goes to the Grand Jury. Brevard County State Attorney Norm Wolfinger decision to go that route may indicate that after careful examination of the evidence presented to them, he cannot afford the political explosion that it surely come if he said that there is nothing indicating that the shooting was not within the parameters of the law. Wolfinger, a Republican is up for re-election this year and there is already a Democrat registered to contest him.  Even though there are more registered Republicans than Democrats in Seminole County, the number of Independents can shift an election. Leaving the decision to the Grand Jury to charge or not Zimmerman with a crime shields him from a possible fallout.

The second is the statement given by the Department of Justice.

“The department will conduct a thorough and independent review of all of the evidence and take appropriate action at the conclusion of the investigation,” the Justice Department said in a statement. “The department also is providing assistance to and cooperating with the state officials in their investigation into the incident. With all federal civil rights crimes, the government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a person acted intentionally and with the specific intent to do something which the law forbids — the highest level of intent in criminal law.

“Negligence, recklessness, mistakes and accidents are not prosecutable under the federal criminal civil rights laws.”

The last part caught my attention. It sounds like DOJ is already preparing the table to say that the case does not fall under federal purview. Not being a lawyer, I’d say that if he is brought to trial, the prosecution will aim for manslaughter instead of murder. It would be much easier (and if the evidence says so) to obtain either a conviction or a plea deal. Still it would be pushing it. The definition of manslaughter according to Florida Statutes is “The killing of a human being by the act, procurement, or culpable negligence of another, without lawful justification.”  So, it is very possible that DOJ already perused the Martin case file and thought it would be best to add that little disclaimer.

The last bit is also very interesting:

Police Chief Bill Lee told The Miami Herald that he was comfortable that his investigators were fair and thorough.

“I can say very confidently we would welcome any outside entity that wants to come look at what we did,” Lee said last week. “They are welcome to come here and look at it. We have not done anything but conduct a fair and complete investigation.”

The amount of pressure that Chief Lee must be under has to be monstrous. Yet his stance has remained firm from day one and even inviting the State and the Feds to review his investigation. So either he is totally nuts or he has all the ducks in a row and knows that it will survive any inquiry. And it it indeed survives the inquiry, that would mean Zimmerman will walk free.
And in case you have not been paying attention, the media frenzy is not about the alleged unlawful killing of a young black male but about the Stand Your Ground Law. Since it became part of the Florida Statutes in 2005 (yes, it has been in the books and applied for the past 7 years) Anti Gunners and Liberal prosecutors have hated it with relish. A case that was perceived as barely within the law but had a probable racial component was too good to pass up.

That Clint Eastwood Moment in Real Life.

What would really happen in real life after the words “Get off my lawn.” were uttered?

DERANGED KOREAN VET DIES IN CONFRONTATION WITH POLICE.
Had threatened teens earlier with an assault rifle.

KAKA-TV
(Highland Park)

A Korean veteran that threatened a group of teens with an M1 assault rifle for stepping on his front lawn, was shot and killed by Highland Park SWAT team when he refused to put down the weapon. Walt Kowalski (81) was known in the racially mixed neighborhood as a irascible man who would not associate with others. According to neighbors, he would usually use epithets against the mostly H’Mong population in his street. “Badgers,” “Spooks,” “Zipperheads” were common expression Kowalski used against Asian Americans according to Sue Lor, a neighbor.

According to the police report, the night before the confrontation with police, a group of local kids were horse playing next door when two of them accidentaly landed on Kowalski’s front lawn. Witnesses say that Kowalski came out of the house aiming his rifle to the teens and demanding that they leave or that he “blow a hole in your face and then I go in the house and I sleep like a baby.”

The teens ran away afraid for their lives and called 911. One of the teens filmed the event on his cell phone and turned it to the authorities. Due to the possible danger, police decided to use the SWAT team to arrest Kowalski. The neighborhood was evacuated and the SWAT team executed a no-knock warrant on Kowalski’s home which ended up with the shooting that took his life.

Cell phone image of Kowalski threatening H'Mong teens with his assault rifle.

Local priest Father Janovich commented that Kowalski had been angry, depressed and despondent after the death of his wife some months earlier. “I guess her death affected him more than we could imagine. He was irascible and abusive with everybody even calling me a ‘over-educated, 27-year-old virgin who held the hand of superstitious old women and promised them eternity.’ There is no doubt he had problems.”