{"id":18426,"date":"2013-07-22T17:30:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T21:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18426"},"modified":"2013-07-25T17:26:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T21:26:57","slug":"elizabeth-warren-errs-agains-with-%e2%80%98stand-your-ground%e2%80%99-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18426\/elizabeth-warren-errs-agains-with-%e2%80%98stand-your-ground%e2%80%99-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Warren Errs Again with \u2018Stand Your Ground\u2019 Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you wanted to know what a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts thinks about a Florida murder trial, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/07\/22\/elizabeth-warren-stand-your-ground_n_3636079.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a> has you covered.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the press in South Boston today, Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said that while she thinks people should accept George Zimmerman\u2019s acquittal in Trayvon Martin\u2019s shooting death, it is reasonable to criticize \u2018Stand Your Ground\u2019 laws.<\/p>\n<p>Except that it\u2019s <em>completely unreasonable<\/em> in Zimmerman\u2019s case. As I pointed out in my column last week, <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/1902-after-zimmerman-in-defense-of-stand-your-ground-laws\" target=\"_blank\">Florida\u2019s \u2018Stand Your Ground\u2019 law played absolutely no part in the trial<\/a> for either the prosecution or the defense. Instead, Zimmerman argued that once Martin started beating him he was entitled to use deadly force to defend himself. Zimmerman relied on traditional self-defense, not \u2018Stand Your Ground\u2019 \u2013 a law which drops the requirement that a person reasonably fearing death or great bodily injury must first try to escape before engaging his attacker.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time Senator Warren has played fast and loose with the facts. For decades she (at best) made misleading assertions about her alleged Native American ancestry, allowing her to get plumb academic jobs at Penn and Harvard Law ahead of other more qualified candidates. Earlier this year, Warren claimed that her brother lived solely on his Social Security checks \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2013\/04\/progressives-start-push-for-elizabeth-warren-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">a claim she walked back <\/a>after admitting that she and her millionaire husband give him assistance.<\/p>\n<p>And so on with today\u2019s politicization of Florida\u2019s \u2018Stand Your Ground\u2019 law.<\/p>\n<p>Warren, like other liberal elites, is turning a tragedy into an activist agenda to repeal a law that played no part in Martin\u2019s death. It would be comical if it didn\u2019t betray a serious disregard for reality. Warren and friends need to stop directing anger at the wrong source, and start acting with the competence and prudence their high offices demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you wanted to know what a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts thinks about a Florida murder trial, the Huffington Post has you covered. Speaking to the press in South Boston today, Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said that while she thinks people should accept George Zimmerman\u2019s acquittal in Trayvon Martin\u2019s shooting death, it is reasonable to criticize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2975,354,4205,159,38,3548,3474],"class_list":["post-18426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-elizabeth-warren","tag-florida","tag-george-zimmerman","tag-massachusetts","tag-senate","tag-stand-your-ground","tag-trayvon-martin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18426"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18430,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18426\/revisions\/18430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}