“And I know I’m not everybody, I’m just one person. I’m a human being. And for the gift that God has given me, and from whatever I mean, I decided today that until the Stand Your Ground law is abolished in Florida, I will never perform there again. As a matter of fact, wherever I find that law exists, I will not perform in that state or in that part of the world.”
via Stevie Wonder Says He Now Refuses to Perform in “Stand Your Ground” States.
From the same post we have the following states that Stevie won’t be performing anymore if he is true to what he said:
Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. (North Carolina is also a SYG State. Thnx Ron!)
A quick check online shows that he is booked solid till next march playing in Motown: The Musical in NY. So it is not like he is gonna be doing any great sacrifice in the near future.
Hey now! There is no duty to retreat in North Carolina either!
And what about states like Washington? We don’t have a SYG law, per se, but we do have decades of court precedent which effectively not only affirms the intent of SYG, it strengthens the it. 🙂
Damn. Need an edit button… 😛
Yup.. gotta talk to Jetpack
And with his *ROCKIN* 2013 tour schedule, I’m sure he can afford to boycott 30 states’ venues.
When Event
Dec. 7 Sat 12:00 Jason Mraz – Circuito Banco do Brasil 2013 in Brasilia
Dec. 14 Sat 12:00 Jason Mraz – Circuito Banco de Brasil 2013 in Sao Paulo
*whew* I’m not sure how he can stand the hectic pace…
I stand corrected – those dates aren’t for him – they are for Jason Mraz (thought the name was for the venue)
Here’s the actual listing of tour dates for SW from http://concerttour.org/stevie-wonder-tour
EVENT VENUE DATE/TIME
No Tour Dates are Currently Scheduled for Stevie Wonder
Duty to retreat in the face of danger? That’s NOT the American way!
Oregon doesn’t have a “no duty to retreat” (aka “Stand Your Ground”) law, but we don’t have a “duty to retreat” law, either.
On the other hand, there are some … interesting … rules about the use of “physical force” vs “deadly physical force” when it comes to self- or home-defense (among other things, the use of “deadly physical force” is OK to stop a burglary, but not criminal trespass [unless in defense of a person], so the resident presumably must know HOW the criminal gained entry to the property/building). I’m afraid I don’t know the court precedents off-hand.
Ohio still has a duty to retreat, unless you’re in your car or home.
Same with Virginia. No staute on use of deadly force, but well over 100 years of consistant Stand Your ground precedent. To the point that the case cites on SYG precedent are cited in the legal books and part of the state certification training for security guards.
I believe that there is also SCOTUS case precedent for Stand Your ground as a matter of common law. (All below snipped from http://www.davekopel.com/2A/LawRev/Self-Defense-Cases.htm )
Beard v. United States, “[Beard] was not obliged to retreat, nor to consider whether he could safely retreat, but was entitled to stand his ground, and meet any attack upon him with a deadly weapon, in such a way and with such force as, under all the circumstances, he, at the moment, honestly believed, and had reasonable grounds to believe, were necessary to save his own life, or to protect himself from great bodily injury. . . “the tendency of the American mind seems to be very strongly against the enforcement of any rule which requires a person to flee when assailed.”
Alberty v. United States, Alberty was “not bound to retreat, but may use such force as necessary to repeal the assault.”
Rowe v. United States, “[t]he accused was where he had a right to be, and the law did not require him to step aside. . . ”
Brown v. United States, “[d]etached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.” And, also for practical reasons, declared Holmes, there is no duty to retreat from anywhere that a victim has a right to be.
If you go to Williamsburg the old capital of VA and watch the reenactment of the murder trial you will learn that we have had stand your ground for around 400 years. Our legislature was smart enough to know that they did not need to write a law for something that is covered in basic human rights.
Hmm, should have linked to Travis’s comment, above.
Just to be clear, while the Commonwelath of Virginia has no Stand Your Ground law per se, the consistent case law at all levels is de facto Stand Your Ground. Considered so binding that they are actually printed in the statute books, since we don’t have much of a deadly force statute at all. . . of course, if we had a statutory SYG law, we could have civil immunity for successful self defence pleas. . .
Hey, doesn’t he live in California? Is he going to boycott his own home? A quick check of that on Wiki didn’t confirm it, but showed he owns an El Lay radio station, KJLH. Gonna boycott that?
Just one more actor/entertainer that is uninformed, ignorant, divorced from reality, surrounded by sycophants, or on an unholy crusade that I have to boycott. Just as quick as they spout off stupid ideas, my dollars go elsewhere. Seriously, if we could link all of the brain synapse from Hollywood together, we would not get a coherent thought.
“Well… Bye.”
The wisdom of old is gone. Nowadays, “Someone oughta pass a law!” trumps even the MOST basic human rights. 🙁
Man, that sucks.
I dig Stevie’s music, and I’d love to see him live. Guess that’ll never happen now. 🙁