A letter to the media
Talk about a polite ass-whupin' -- Sundance over at
The Last Refuge has been doing an amazing job of following the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin story since day one.
Needless to say, the 'media' have contacted him for various sound-bites.
He penned
this wonderful reply:
An Open Letter To The Media � �Welcome To The Party Pal".....
Dear Mr. XXXXXXXX, prudence and necessarily instilled manners dictate that all correspondence deserves the full weight of polite response.
Allow me to thank you, with the most humble and earnest of appreciation, for all you do on behalf of a simple citizenry of which I am a proud and insignificant member. Indeed if our paths were ever to cross in person, I hold no disposition that you, as a person of consequence, would ever afford these calloused and well worn hands the time of day. I am, like many, comfortably invisible.
That said, and with the utmost respect for your professional endeavors, I hope you will consider this correspondence carefully.
It is not our �goal� to raise funds for George Zimmerman. It is our goal to shine light upon the injustice that George Zimmerman represents.When you see that justice is measured, not by due process, but by compulsion �- when you see that in order to invoke your sixth amendment right to due process, you need to obtain permission from men who rebuke the constitution -� when you see that justice is determined by those who leverage, not in law, but in politics -� when you see that men get power over individual liberty by graft and by scheme, and your representatives don�t protect you against them, but protect them against you -� when you see corruption holding influence and individual liberty so easily dispatched and nullified -� you may well know that your freedom too is soon to perish.
Powerful words -- much more at the site.
Where the people fear the government you have tyranny.
Where the government fears the people you have liberty.
--John Basil Barnhill, (1914). Indictment of Socialism No. 3 (PDF)
Posted by DaveH at July 2, 2013 9:42 PM