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Good afternoon everybody! What happened about a month ago appalled me beyond anything, and this is what I would like to share with the world today: Self- justice as a new law? At the end of February, a young black male -still in his teens- was for whatever reason wandering around within a gated community in Sanford, Florida around 7:30 pm as he was spotted, stopped and questioned about his whereabouts by an alleged neighbor watch crime captain. It didn't take long, and Trayvon Martin was lying on the ground with the hood still over his head - shot dead by a lunatic of a self- righteous and omni- potent George Zimmerman, who shortly after incredibly and ridiculously claiming having acted in self- defense proved to be in no possession of a security license at all. What the heck?!
Okay, one would think that that moron appearing like Rambo himself would as a consequence be taken into custody, right? No, nothing of that kind as this quite obviously racist fellow is still enjoying his freedom! Not that I would have expected that person to turn himself in, however, I would certainly anticipate the law to step in here and become effective immediately. But again, nothing so far.
And this is just not sitting too well with me, to be honest. I am seriously wondering why this guy has not been arrested up to now. After all, is self- justice going to set a new trend for there seems to be no legal aftermath whatsoever? I totally understand and agree with all the folks that are being out in the streets everywhere to protest against BS like that. Besides, I fully support the public call for action and for a change of laws. Trayvon Martin should not have died in vain, nor should George Zimmerman, as a self- labelled security person of that compound be able to just get away with the scorn of thousands of outraged people all over America. Poor Trayvon rest in peace.

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Hi, my name is Marion. I am originally from Austria, Europe and have been living here in New England for five and a half years ever since I got acquainted and subsequently wed to my sweet husband. I speak a few languages, and have always kept my ear on the ground as to what is going on around me politically, socially, economically, and most of all psychologically no matter where I am as I feel it is of magnificient importance to stay updated at least on the surface of major matters which simply make or break a country's society. Sure, I am not in the position whatsoever to bring changes upon this or that people, but I should at least be able to express my free opinion about what bothers the heck out of me and hopefully others too. The reason why I wanted to start blogging is that I simply do no longer want to just sit around idle and keep accepting and excusing certain occurrencs, events, trends, situations, developments, and facts because everybody ...
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