Bobert, checking his website, it looks like it's not on the new "Wrecking Ball" cd. He must have added "American Skin" to the show in response to the event. The only recording of it is on "Live in New York City", from 2001.

If he is innocent, how can a trial by jury hurt him? Well, I don't know that that strictly follows, but I agree a trial is needed.

The question is whether this case can cause any reexamination of the larger issues - of this particular case and in our society at large:

- why are black men/boys automatically suspect?

- why are there failures at "equal protection" and "due process"?

- How can "Stand Your Ground" be enforced without making it "License to Kill"?

- How can gun ownership rights be reconciled with the human tendency toward idiocy?

(Sorry, didn't know how to put that last one fairly.)

~ Becky in Tucson