I mentioned a few moments ago the rather comical case of the murder defendant in Florida who is citing Stand Your Ground and the “Bush Doctrine” to have the charges against him thrown out. But what’s even more amazing, frankly, are the facts of the case.

A few hours before the shooting some neighbors holding a Labor Day barbecue had threatened to “get him.” So William T. Woodward “snuck up” on the family barbecue a bit after midnight and opened fire, killing two of the threateners and seriously injuring the other, who survived despite being shot eleven times. In other words, what we normally call cold blooded murder.

As Woodward’s lawyer explained, “I think legally that term has sort of been evolving especially given changes of our government’s definition of ‘imminent. It’s become more expansive than someone putting a gun right to your head. It’s things that could become, you know, an immediate threat.”

Remember a couple weeks ago when a GOP legislator from Colorado got in a bit of trouble for going off at a public hearing on poverty on the role of fried chicken in keeping blacks poor. Well, now a fellow Rep. brought a box of Popeye’s Fried Chicken to the Capitol as a silent protest against the rising tide of intolerance over saying crazy stuff about black people.

I guess the Zimmerman precedent isn’t enough down in Florida. A Florida man is citing both the state’s Stand Your Ground law and the so-called “Bush Doctrine” to justify shooting and killing two neighbors at a Labor Day Barbecue.