{"id":8617,"date":"2013-07-22T11:39:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T11:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/22\/the-lunacy-of-the-left\/"},"modified":"2013-07-22T11:39:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T11:39:45","slug":"the-lunacy-of-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/22\/the-lunacy-of-the-left\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lunacy of the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/a> is yet another example of leftist lunacy  from the editors of The Nation<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The real problem is not that jurors were willing to accord Zimmerman the  presumption of innocence\u2014a bedrock of our justice system. It is that Trayvon  Martin, an unarmed teenager, was never accorded the same presumption\u2014and that so  many defendants who look like him are denied this right every day.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is just breathtakingly idiotic.  First of all, it is not up to the jurors to will or not to will to accord the accused the presumption of innocence.  It is required that they do so.  It is one of the constitutive rules of our legal system that in a criminal proceeding such as a murder trial the accused is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.  Being  a constitutive rule, the presumption of innocence is not something jurors have any say about.<\/span><\/p>\n

Second, it is the accused who is presumed innocent until proven guilty, not the victim. For it is  the accused who is on trial.  Zimmerman was on trial, and he was accorded the (defeasible) presumption of innocence, a presumption that was not defeated.  Hence he was exonerated.  Martin was not on trial, hence presumption of innocence did not come into play in his case.<\/span><\/p>\n

Third, Martin was not the defendant in the case; Zimmerman was the defendant.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fourth, Martin's being an unarmed teenager is irrelevant to the question whether Zimmerman acted lawfully in shooting Martin.  The aptronymically appellated Charles Blow opined in a similarly moronic manner when he mentioned the 'disproportionality' of armament as between Martin and Zimmerman.  Again, utterly irrelevant.<\/span><\/p>\n

So there's the Left for you: willful stupidity, verbal obfuscation, lies, agitprop<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Addendum<\/strong>:  Chad McIntosh, upon reading the above Nation<\/em> quotation, subsumed it under what he calls the Madman Fallacy<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here is yet another example of leftist lunacy  from the editors of The Nation: The real problem is not that jurors were willing to accord Zimmerman the  presumption of innocence\u2014a bedrock of our justice system. It is that Trayvon  Martin, an unarmed teenager, was never accorded the same presumption\u2014and that so  many defendants who look … Continue reading “The Lunacy of the Left”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,163,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}