Day: July 18, 2011

Are We A Country Of Legal Rights?

Daily Agitator

I am sure that this will get some people’s dander up….but keep in mind that I am NOT making a call on guilt or innocence…….

I was not gonna post anymore on the Anthony trial but since the media has turned this into a three ring circus….I feel I must!

We Americans are proud of our country especially because of our rights and freedoms, at least that is what we are told to be proud of daily, but (there seems to to always a but) there are times that I have a hard time understanding the thinking…..Americans are an emotional people, and at times act in a contrary way than what the Constitution and such say…….

By now everyone with hearing knows that Casey Anthony was been found not guilty of murder….my most appreciative thing about the trial was listening to Nancy Grace self destruct and her head explode at the verdict, that aside….I do not post too often on gossipy crap but this time I will make an exception……

People are all over the media saying what a travesty of justice has been done……of course these are all personal opinions….but look at from a legal point of view and leave the media induced emotionalism behind……the prosecution did not prove its case beyond a shadow of doubt…..is that not what our laws say…..innocent until proven guilty?  The prosecution did not prove its case on her guilt.  That should be enough for the citizens, but instead the media has turned this into a circus for the sake of ratings…..I am not voicing my opinion on whether she is guilty or not, my opinion is just that MINE, I am however saying that because were are a nation of laws and procedures and after a trial of her peers she was found to be not guilty and that should be enough for the people….the system worked the way it was designed to work…..

All the hysteria and emotions that have been poured out by the people is disgusting…….there have even been death threats and physical harm threats against the people on the jury because they did NOT find this person guilty……they did not act the way that the media wanted and so now we have every nut job being trotte3d out to a mic so we can hear what the media wants us to hear….this is unacceptable….if these dirt bags want to harm someone then go after the prosecution, because they did not make their case…..but leave the people on the jury alone…..

And why do all these people think Anthony is guilty?  Basically, because the media made the case against her few of the hysterical people were in the courtroom to hear the evidence so they are talking smack brought on by the media……

Like I said earlier, I am NOT making a judgment on the verdict or the guilt of the person…I am speaking from a purely analytical point of view…..my biggest bitch is that the media has the power to convict a person even before a trial and then has the power to question the verdict to the point that Americans go bat shit crazy and will possibly break the law…if so, where does that serve the public’s best interests?

Will It Come To Independents?

Bummer!  USA loses to Japan 3-1 in PKs!

We hear all the crap fed to us by the media….you pick the media, none of them offer a real analysis….they are telling us that the independents will make all the difference in the 2012 election….will Obama convert them or will it be the GOP nominee?

I recently wrote a post on the centrist vs independent debate….http://t.co/UCvygdG (if you would like to refresh your memory…..personally, I do not believe all the hype on the independent thing, as we will read….and it seems that a few agree with me, at least partially…..

I found this on political wire…..

Alan Abramowitz dispels the idea that independent voters are the largest segment of the American electorate and will decide the 2012 election.

“Research by political scientists on the American electorate has consistently found that the large majority of self-identified independents are ‘closet partisans’ who think and vote much like other partisans. Independent Democrats and independent Republicans have little in common. Moreover, independents with no party preference have a lower rate of turnout than those who lean toward a party and typically make up less than 10% of the electorate. Finally, independents don’t necessarily determine the outcomes of presidential elections; in fact, in all three closely contested presidential elections since 1972, the candidate backed by most independent voters lost.”

I have been calling this BS for the last 10 years and it is good to see that people are starting to see what a pile of manure that is being fed to the public……media analyst use it because they cannot explain what is happening in the electorate and it is easier to make up something than to do the research…..

The independents are the biggest myth that has been perpetrated on the public by the media in the last couple of decades…….we are political animals and few of us are truly independent…..