I had a brief dialogue with an individual today regarding this topic so I found relevancy in posting it…
Someone on Facebook today suggested, and I quote… “Let’s start a national petition to execute George Zimmerman legally.”
I respond: “No.”
He says: “Why not?”
I respond: ”Aside from the obvious fact that no one in the “nation” was there to even know exactly what went down…
Aside from the fact that it is inherently diabolical to judge the man under the subjective premises of “he said, she said” accounts…
Most notably, men have the right to life and even if a man kills he still reserves the right to life. This is not to say killing is right but no vote, consensus nor man made law can infringe upon these rights of man. Rights are not privileges they cannot be revoked by any consensus because they are endowed to man by his nature…
This is a republic, not a democracy, and within a republic one cannot vote to seize ones rights, the right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness & property. (In fact the founding fathers loathed democracy, quoting it as “two wolves and one sheep voting on what’s for dinner” and “mob rule”.) That is the main distinction between a democracy and a republic…
Lastly and most simply, Violence cannot solve violence. What about this doesn’t make sense?
Objectivity is the key to truth.”
He responds: “F**k that. Kill that predatory racist motherf***er.”
I Respond: “That, my friend, epitomizes the problem. Does this act not suggest the very same predatory means, based on preconceived labels, as a solution? It is sinister, cynical, cyclical and not solution orientated by any means. A problem cannot be solved by that which created the problem to begin with.”
It seems as though I often, so vehemently, sing this same song….
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” — Henry David Thoreau
