Speaking of Jena

[reality_hammer]

Speaking of Jena....
In early December the case of the "Jena Six"--the six African-American high school students in Louisiana accused of viciously beating a white classmate in 2006--collapsed dramatically with a felony guilty plea by one of the defendants. As something that was going to trigger "America's next great civil rights movement" (to quote

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[inibo]

Hey, is that a new user pic?

Here is the definition I like:
A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim. - L. Neil Smith

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z1buym2xUM

Oh, yeah. We're supposed to be talking about Jena, right? *yawn*

[jordan179]

How is Hammer arguing in favor of initiating the use of force when discussing the "Jena Six?"

[inibo]

He's not. I just liked his user pic and kind of went off on a tangent. My bad. Jena is inconsequential to me, at least as far as it being anything more than a local crime story.

[reality_hammer]

Initiation of force is a good enough concept except that some people get stuck on what "initiate" means. :/

Thus the split amongst libertarians over the Iraq war.

[reality_hammer]

Nope. It is about...three years old? I don't remember exactly.