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Woman Facing $3,500 Fine For Posting Online Review
sabri writes "Jen Palmer tried to order something from kleargear.com, some sort of cheap ThinkGeek clone. The merchandise never arrived and she wrote a review on ripoffreport.com. Now, kleargear.com is reporting her to credit agencies and sending collectors to fetch $3,500 as part of a clause which did not exist at the alleged time of purchase. 'By email, a person who did not identify him or herself defended the $3500 charge referring again to Kleargear.com's terms of sale. As for Jen being threatened — remove the post or face a fine — the company said that was not blackmail but rather a, "diligent effort to help them avoid [the fine]."' The terms and conditions shouldn't even apply, since the sales transaction was never completed."
this is correct. black people shoot other black people all the time and nobody cares.
white person shoots a black person, it's front page news.
"man bites dog", right?
for whatever it's worth (I'm sure you're immune to logic), the prosecuting office in the "detroit girl shot in face" case have already said that it will most likely be classified as homicide (note "denfensive shooting" is not classified as homicide) and have requested police assistance in putting together a case most likely to result in a conviction. As for Trayvon, anybody who followed the facts of the case (note, the facts, not the wild opinion and sensationalizing) and knows anything about the law, knows that was a justified shooting. A man (17 year old travon was physically a man) assaulting another man's head repeatedly with a block of concrete is 100% grounds for self-defense-due-to-fear-for-life in all 50 states. no "stand your ground" required. no "concealed carry" required. nothing else required.
But keep going. I'm sure you're doing wonders for this country's ability to make it to a real post-race society by continually fanning the flames of any possible race-based tension anywhere you can find it. go ahead and pick that scab! jam a knife into it while you're at it, it'll work out for the best in the end... somehow... right?