YOUR HIGHER MORALITY

[fpb]

Well, I suppose all my friends are right. We do need Zimmerman lynched. We are in need of a lynch mob unleashed by short and fraudulent media summaries to rip a man who has been judged innocent by a jury of his peers and hang him on a tree on the reports of MNBC and the rest. Because journalists never would lie and always understand everything that is going on, and are in fact fountains of virtue and sagacity, and we may confidently hate those whom they tell us to hate; whereas the jury that has spent weeks being exposed in detail to everything that could be retrieved of the facts are too stupid, ignorant and racist to make the right choice. We need more demos. We need more shouting. We need more threats.

Comments

[stahlhelm.livejournal.com]

"It's my general opposition to guns and vigilantism."

Easy to have that opposition to guns when your privilege to feel that way was secured by men with guns in the first place.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I think I have to intervene here. I don't think Karen deserved this level of rudeness, and I doubt whether she said what you seem to think. Opposition to vigilantism is not opposition to the legitimate use of force, and in fact Karen said nothing to say that she disapproved of Zimmerman using deadly force in self-defence. What bothered her - and there I have to say I did not agree - was the picture of the older man following the younger. I don't think it's right to blanket-dismiss her opinions on the legitimate use of force on that basis.

This saddens me because you are both friends of mine and I think highly of you both. S., P. is a philosophy teacher, mother of three, classical chorus singer and all-around good egg, a kindly, constructive, hard-working person whom life has treated a lot worse than she deserves. P. S. is a Marine in active service and either now or recently on duty in Afghanistan, and so is apt to be touchy if he perceives a dismissal of the legitimate use of arms. He is a man of unusual and independent mind and an amazingly brilliant artist who could easily make a living from his drawings. You are my friends and I like you both; I would like you both, not to agree, which is an idea I hate, but to understand and respect each other.

Finally, S., I hadn't heard from you in months and you may imagine I was worried. It is very good to hear from you and be reassured, and since yesterday was my birthday I regard this as a birthday present.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday! I'm sorry, I was out of town, visiting family, and missed the occasion. Many happy returns.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

No need to apologize, and thank you.