The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #152883   Message #3577098
Posted By: JohnInKansas
19-Nov-13 - 02:13 PM
Thread Name: BS: How do u like your poster boy now, NRA?
Subject: RE: BS: How do u like your poster boy now
Previous reports (yesterday) did say that the arrest occured at a second complaint from the home of his "estranged wife." The report at the same site now says "his girl friend."

Just shows that the news media don't know much more than those leaping in to whine.

Zimmerman is now saying that he's deeply in debt (2.5 million dollars?), which is the same claim he made when seeking bail in the earlier case, before his "hidden bank accounts" were found. And of course he denies everything his "girl friend" has claimed.

In the earlier case, I saw very little comment from individual NRA members defending Zimmerman, although there was significant comment on the "stand your ground" laws that date back to the "castle doctrine" from British law a century ago. Zimmerman did NOT, and in the opinion of most COULD NOT claim a "stand your ground" defense, since as soon as he started to follow Martin, against police instructions to stay where he was, he was the aggressor, and MARTIN might have been entitled to that defense for trying to beat the crap out of Zimmerman(?). Unfortunately Martin didn't get to say much in court.

Most comment I saw from individuals, NRA or otherwise, was criticism of the handling of the earlier case by Florida police and prosecuters.

John