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How I love responding to "morons"

Just recently, I read a blog written by the most boring voice in man's history - Ben Stein, entitled, "The Trayvon Martin case is worrying me."

This blog bounced around like a lightning-speed pinball, but mainly focused on the Trayvon Martin case - how George Zimmerman was a "poor soul" in this whole ordeal (even though he's still living), that the liberal media made him out to be a "Klansman," and he basically insinuated that African-Americans are lazy and violent people, whom need our prayers - because closing our eyes and thinking about someone's problems will make them magically disappear (from our minds).

After reading this racist and lazily written blog, I felt the need to respond to it with a blog of my own, entitled, "Ben Stein is really worrying me..."

This morning, I received a response from an anonymous individual (George Zimmerman, Ben Stein, Sean Hannity, someone by the name of Tony, or Bozo the Clown perhaps), which read as follows:

"FACT: Multiple 911 calls revealed screams of 'help' for nearly a minute, while the closest eyewitness saw Martin pinning down and raining down blows on Zimmerman, who suffered two black eyes, a broken nose, and cuts to the back of the head.

If you think that's a proportionate response to being 'followed', then you're a moron."

Yeah, speaking of morons... ::stares at the response for quite some time::

Who on earth is saying beating someone up is a proportionate response to being followed? It's about cause and effect, bright one. If a person knocks another's door down and breaks an entering with the intent of robbing a person, and the home owner shoots and kills this person, is the killing a proportionate response to a door being knocked down? Not on the surface, no, but the home owner felt threatened and reacted according to this fear. If a woman is followed by a man and temporarily blinds him with Mace, is temporarily blinding a person a proportionate reaction to being followed? Again, on the surface, no, but again, the woman felt threatened and responded accordingly.

FACT: George Zimmerman's following of Trayvon Martin preceded the skirmish and shooting. If Zimmerman had never followed Martin, he never would have been on the receiving end of "two black eyes, a broken nose, and cuts to the back of the head," and both would still be alive today.

FACT: If I had never received this moronic response, I never would have responded to it. 

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