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Politics has Hijacked Justice

By Erik Zimerman On June 18, 2012 · Add Comment · In Against the Wind, Avvisi

Though I had been hoping to avoid this already over-covered subject, the endless stream of headlines on this single incident that stink of a political hijacking of due process and the American Justice system is too much to ignore. I have to say, that though of course I am sorry that Trayvon is dead as I am sure everyone is including George Zimmerman, I am not particularly fond of either of the protagonists. So why write about this? To be frank, it is not that the incident itself which is very newsworthy, not outside local news coverage anyways, nor that I find either of the characters interesting nor extraordinarily good, bad, brave nor cowardly. Unfortunately, murders happen in the US daily, and they happen in Florida daily. There are approximately 45 murders each day in the United States, and as shocking as that may sound, that is after steadily declining violent crime rates in the US since the early mid 1990s. New reports showed that 2010 was the safest year (in regards to violent crime) in forty years! In any event, 45 people are still murdered (not shot in arguably self defense) each day in the US. There has therefore been hundreds of new homicide victims in America since [...]

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