ACTION: NAACP Seeks DOJ Intervention

Last night on Daily Kos  - when the verdict came down on Trayvon Martin the front page went up noting:

Zimmerman not guilty, but ALEC sure as hell is

And then the battle of the words began.
The majority of the commenters noting that Stand Your Ground was not the issue.
Some of us begged to disagree and immediately got trounced by the "comment pundits" at DKos, that we were wrong.

Funny thing happened this morning when I went to my first site of every day.

NAACP Seeks DOJ Intervention in Martin Case, Targets 'Stand Your Ground' Laws

by John Nichols           

The nation’s oldest and largest civil rights group responded to the acquittal of George Zimmerman with shock, anguish and a call to action.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is petitioning the United States Department of Justice to seek justice for slain teenager Trayvon Martin by filing civil rights charges against Zimmerman.

In a message posted on the groups’s website and circulated nationally within hours of the announcement of the verdict, NAACP president Ben Jealous declared “We are not done demanding justice for Trayvon Martin.”

As part of the NAACP campaign to get the Justice Department to open a civil rights case against Zimmerman. Jealous urged Americans to sign a petition to Attorney General Eric Holder that reads:

    The Department of Justice has closely monitored the State of Florida’s prosecution of the case against George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin murder since it began. Today, with the acquittal of George Zimmerman, it is time for the Department of Justice to act.

    The most fundamental of civil rights—the right to life—was violated the night George Zimmerman stalked and then took the life of Trayvon Martin. We ask that the Department of Justice file civil rights charges against Mr. Zimmerman for this egregious violation.

    Please address the travesties of the tragic death of Trayvon Martin by acting today.

Within hours of the online posting of the petition late Saturday evening, thousands of Americans had already signed it.

Within hours of the online posting of the petition late Saturday evening, thousands of Americans had already signed it
Based on what I have read it had hundreds of thousands of signatures.

The PETITION is on the NAACP webpage - 

Do something positive with your anger, frustration and disbelief.

The entire NAACP site is sometimes not loading at all.

If at first you don't succeed - TRY, TRY  AGAIN.
    UPDATE:  The site is down - it crashed - KEEP TRYING

As I write this - the entire NAACP site is not loading at all.

If at first you don't succeed - TRY, TRY, AGAIN.
I have been trying for over two hours.

Stand Your Ground - Kill at Will -  introduced across the USA by ALEC legislators, distributed by the American Legislative Exchange Council.

And Stand Your Ground WAS an issue 

Jury Instructions

JUSTIFIABLE USE OF DEADLY FORCE

    If George Zimmerman was not engaged in an unlawful activity and was attacked in anyplace where he had a right to be, he had no duty to retreat and had the right to stand his ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he reasonably believed that it was necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony