I want to post the whole thing for your edification.
(Click to embiggen.)
It urges the family to "euthanize him."
Read that again.
EUTHANIZE HIM.
To the woman who sent this letter, I have only a two word message.....
....the second word of which is "YOU".
And to everyone else, I would like to quote Sophie Scholl*:
(*The image is actress Julia Jensch in the film Sophie Scholl: The Final Days. The words, however, are taken from Sophie's interrogation transcript. She died for saying them.)
For more about Sophie Scholl--and her mirror image, Traudl Junge--you might wish to click here......
August 14, 2015: A jubilant American sailor, celebrating the end of the Afghan War, sexually assaults a nurse in Times Square, New York, in this picture taken moments before he was taken into custody. The nurse stated that he held the sailor no ill will but would prosecute regardless for the good of the community.
Now that the jury has spoken, it's clear to me that Trayvon was in the wrong, was actively trying to harm Mr. Zimmerman, and probably bought the bullet that killed him.
OTOH, I can completely understand why there is such a profound loathing of the police (and by extension an armed 'neighborhood watch') by the black community.
Because of shit like THIS:
A SIXTY YEAR OLD MAN going through HIS OWN CAR in HIS OWN DRIVEWAY is shot by the cops at 2:30 in the morning because of a "911 call" causing the police to respond, give orders to the man, and he.... "didn't comply."
You hear that? "Comply or die."
Fortunately the mindless imperial storm troopers that shot at him--FIFTEEN ROUNDS!--exhibited their usual marksmanship and, well, mostly missed.
Somehow or other I don't think the cops would have shot if he suffered from a melanin deficiency.
Of course this happens every day. Every week. Every month. Every year.
Despicable.
The police chief needs to resign NOW. The cops need to be arrested NOW. And the police of Escambia need to be retrained. YESTERDAY.
Nope. Trayvon probably had it coming. But this old man did not. And it makes perfect sense, after losing enough innocents, that people would be a *mite* suspicious about the Zimmerman shooting.
This was not written for chiefs. (general consternation) Hear me! Hear this! Among my people, we carry many such words as this from many lands, many worlds. Many are equally good and are as well respected, but wherever we have gone, no words have said this thing of importance in quite this way. Look at these three words written larger than the rest, with a special pride never written before or since. Tall words proudly saying We the People. That which you call E Plebnista was not written for the chiefs or the kings or the warriors or the rich and powerful, but for all the people! Down the centuries, you have slurred the meaning of the words, 'We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution.' These words and the words that follow were not written only for the Yangs, but for the Kohms as well!
CLOUD WILLIAM: The Kohms?
KIRK: They must apply to everyone or they mean nothing! Do you understand?
--Classic Trek, The Omega Glory, 1967
Click the pic for the epic story behind this.
"The Blog Formerly Known as 'The Infinite Monkey (At The Keyboard)'"
I like bats much better than bureaucrats. I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of “Admin”. The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern.... -- C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
DEMOCRACY is the word with which you must lead them by the nose.... you can use the word democracy to sanction in his thought the most degrading (and also the least enjoyable) of all human feelings.... under the name of Envy it has been known to humans for thousands of years... you can sanction it -- make it respectable and even laudable -- by the incantatory use of the word democratic. - Screwtape Proposes a Toast
I honor and love you. But I shall obey God rather than you. And while I have life and strength, I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy. For know that this is the command of God; and I believe that no greater good has ever happened in the state than my service to the God. For I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but first and chiefly to take care about the greatest improvement of the soul. This is my teaching.
And if this is the doctrine that corrupts the youth, then I am a mischievous person.
But if anyone says that this is not my teaching, then he is speaking an untruth. . . . - Socrates, by way of Plato and Steven Schwartz
§ It's said that an infinite number of monkeys typing away at keyboards will eventually reproduce the complete works of Shakespeare. § What they don't say is that the total amount of matter in the universe, if turned into monkeys and typewriters, powered by all energy present in the universe, to feed the monkeys in question, working for a hundred billion years, can't possibly create as much as the first act of Hamlet. § One Infinite Monkey--i.e., a human being--can write all of Shakespeare's works in the course of a single lifetime... if that Infinite Monkey happens to be Shakespeare. § You are an Infinite Monkey. So am I. Amphibians are we, half spirit and half worm: monkeys in the sense that we are Steve Gerber's “hairless apes, trapped in a world we never made”; infinite in the sense that we are also immortal and we shall still live when the sun is a black dwarf. § If you recognize, like this old silverback, that we are a duality and not a mere mechanical emptiness--you may find my writings amusing. If so, welcome. Stay a while. And feel free to comment. (But keep it clean.)
TOXIC "CONSERVATIVE" WEB SITES TO BE ACTIVELY SHUNNED BY GROWNUPS
World Net Daily/Michael Savage Because Michael Wiener AKA "Michael Savage" defamed the parents of autistic children, of whom I have three.(It doesn’t help that they’re birther nuts, either.)
Ann Coulter Because she's far crueller than necessary and leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
Debbie Schlussel Ditto the above, plus she hates, and has actively slimed a lot of people I call friends.
VDare Because they're white supremacists who hate immigrants. (White doe? I beg your pardon?)