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posted by janrinok on Friday September 02 2016, @06:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the notorious dept.

Common Dreams reports

Reviled Florida State Attorney Angela Corey lost her reelection bid on [August 30], prompting widespread celebration as the woman The Nation once suggested was "the cruelest prosecutor in America" was ousted.

"Corey's loss is an encouraging sign that the public will no longer tolerate overzealous and unprincipled criminal prosecutions, including women and children", University of Miami law professor Mary Anne Franks said in a statement.

Corey, whose eight-year tenure in Florida's Fourth Judicial Circuit Court saw her charge 77 children as adults in 2016 alone and sentence more people to death than any other Florida prosecutor, gained widespread notoriety for her inadequate prosecution of Trayvon Martin's killer, George Zimmerman, and for seeking a 60-year sentence for Marissa Alexander, a domestic violence survivor with three children, for firing a warning shot in the direction of her abusive husband. (Alexander spent three years in prison.)

[...] Corey was defeated by unknown opponent and corporate lawyer Melissa Nelson, who will now face off with write-in candidate Kenny Leigh in the general election--although Jacksonville media noted that no write-in candidate has ever been elected to the state attorney position in Florida, and that Leigh has yet to make a single campaign appearance.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday September 02 2016, @05:36PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday September 02 2016, @05:36PM (#396716) Journal

    I know men who have been abused by women, one of whom is a close friend from college. The above is exactly right: men refuse to come forward precisely because of the attitude people like you have ("what a pussy! control your woman!"). If you can't spot at least three different kinds of toxicity in there you have a problem; you harm women AND men with that bullshit.

    This should be a simple question of humanism. People who themselves are part of oppressed groups SHOULD NOT support it when someone else is suffering the same things. Individual identity comes before group affiliation. It's unbelievable the kind of flack I've taken for pointing this out from people who are supposedly working for improving the lot of humanity. I've been called "traitor to the lesbian race" (yes, this is a direct quote!) for daring to suggest that trans* people are human and not insane, that plenty of men are suffering from the patriarchy, and that some women are horrible fucking people too.

    Makes me want to just go live on top of a mountain somewhere :( Why is this hard for people?!

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @11:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @11:17PM (#396811)

    > People who themselves are part of oppressed groups SHOULD NOT support it when someone else is suffering the same things.

    If you believed that you wouldn't be such a raging islamofoe.

    "Oh, but XXXX are different. They aren't decent people." Said every hypocritical bigot ever.

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday September 04 2016, @04:25AM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday September 04 2016, @04:25AM (#397265) Journal

      I've got no problems with Muslims. I have a problem with Islam. Ditto for s/Muslims/Christians/ and s/Islam/Christianity/ too. One more time: you can have sympathy for the plague victims and still take bio-safety measures.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @03:55PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @03:55PM (#397415)

        > I've got no problems with Muslims. I have a problem with Islam.

        Wow.
        You've adopted the exact argument you rail against without even the barest flicker of self-realization.

        "I've got not problems with homosexuals, I have a problem with homosexuality."

        • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday September 05 2016, @12:08AM

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday September 05 2016, @12:08AM (#397573) Journal

          If someone has a problem with me being gay, that's fine with me. If they have a problem with me personally, they'd best keep it to themselves. Their right to swing their fists, literal or metaphorical, ends where my face, literal or metaphorical, begins. They can hate me all they want in their hearts, but I'm *still* gonna marry my girlfriend. If they don't like it, that's their right.

          See how that works? That whole "I disagree with you but will defend your right to say these things to the death?" This is how grownups act.

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 05 2016, @04:22AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 05 2016, @04:22AM (#397669)

            . They can hate me all they want in their hearts, but I'm *still* gonna marry my girlfriend.

            You really don't get it, do you?

            It's that hate in their hearts which enables society to make it illegal for you to marry your girlfriend. Opinions do not exist in a vacuum, they are the basis for how society treats individuals.

            I'm pretty confident you do actually get it. I've seen you take down Runaway for the exact same rhetoric about gays. He never attacked you personally, he was just selling the hate against gay people in the generic. Just like you sell hate against muslims in the generic.

            > That whole "I disagree with you but will defend your right to say these things to the death?" This is how grownups act.

            Do not try to turn criticism of your opinions into a 1st amendment issue. That's Sarah Palinesque.
            Your right to be an asshole, is not a right to remain criticism-free and is certainly not required of you.