…while you’s simultaneously told the politicians, the media, the race hustlers, and the “Occupy” morons who insist “we are all Trayvon” — when of course very few of us have ever found ourselves wandering around strange neighborhoods in the rain, sucker punching “creepy-cracker” neighborhood watch commanders, mounting them, and then driving their heads into the pavement — that no, we are not. And no amount of narrative manipulation or bias by omission and commission in the reporting of the facts by the media and politicians was going to make it so.
In your own small way, you have really struck a major symbolic chord for the forces of constitutionalism and the rule of law — this despite the surrendering of those principles by political climbers like Corey and Rick Scott, both of whom should resign in shame, and this despite where you may yourselves self-identify politically.
In fact, you’ve shown that even within many non-activists Democrats, as I’m sure at least a few of you are, there is a desire to see the rule of law upheld, and the conscience left to refuse to throw one individual to the wolves as a political scapegoat in order to quell the promise of mob reprisal.
Obama, Holder, the Republican prosecutor and Governor, the Jeb Bush-appointed judge, who cowed to the race baiters and the ignorant rabble rousers looking for a cause to get behind, regardless of the merits, because that’s just what they do — all of these people were exposed as the truly evil and or cowardly and opportunistic and cynical people that they are.
If you are willing to sacrifice one individual’s freedom to quench your own political thirsts, you are willing to sacrifice the freedoms of tens, hundreds, thousands, millions.
The jury, under what must have been tremendous pressure, said what needed to be said. There was never any there there. And yes, it is frightening that a prosecutor’s office would proceed with charges that facially had no merit, that a judge would let those charges stand, and that a media treated a man’s life like it was a SuperBowl. Despite what the prosecutor says, this was never a case about race or who followed who or who is a “wannabe cop.” Because if a neighborhood watch captain had saved his shit from being robbed, I’m sure he’d be singing a different tune. Just as I’m sure that following someone in your neighborhood does not give that person the right to assault you, then try to brain you on the pavement. Because that person you’re assaulting and braining? Has the right to protect himself. And this one happened to be exercising his natural right, carrying the means to that defense and using it defensively when in fear for his life, which try as you might you will never ever take away from us.
We’ve been temporarily brought back from the brink. By a few citizens who still know right from wrong. They may have just been doing their jobs, but there’s a heroism in that verdict.
Sadly. Because there needn’t be, save for the increasing politicization of our justice system, and the PC culture that allows us to rationalize all sort of vile sanctimonious behavior meant to destroy the lives of others to satisfy personal vendettas or blinkered and largely theoretical ideological positions.
I steadfastly avoided watching the trial. Because it was, from the outset, already an outrage. I want to thank this jury for doing what was right and just, and — unlike their political “betters” — not succumbing to the pressures of the race baiting industry.
Unfortunately, they’ll probably be hearing from the IRS now sooner rather than later — and I won’t be surprised when their personal information is accidentally leaked to the press.
Spit.
Amen. Thank you, ladies.
Shockingly, there’s some good stuff to be had on CNN, which was otherwise pathetic throughout. Zimmerman’s brother with Piers Morgan (I told you it was shocking.)
Mark O’Mara calls out Ben Crump and the race hustlers.
Well said.
As I said in a comment to Darleen’s post below, I think part of the institutional Left’s agenda in this case, was to chill the exercise of 2nd Amendment and self-defense rights. Yes, they ginned up the race aspect, but consider that now 50 states have CCW laws and numerous citizens who believe it is their own responsibility to protect themselves and their families. The classic M.O. for the Left is to use the courts when they cannot have their way through legislation. This is one such time, in my view. Sure, you can carry concealed and self-defense exists in theory, but if you exercise those God-given rights, we’re going to prosecute you and, at best, leave you ruined financially. Don’t think that the Left didn’t consider it a bonus to the whole race war stuff.
(BTW, Angela Corey may be a member of the Republican Party, that is only for the convenience of being elected. If she lived in a blue county she’d be a Democrat. She is first and foremost a politician and saw this as a means to get a bigger share at the public teat.)
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/15-Shot-As-Holiday-Weekend-Begins-214275491.html
72 shot in Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend. Mostly black. Mostly teenagers.
Somehow that wasn’t worthy of a national show trial moderated by Nancy Grace.
Atlanta Falcon’s Roddy White.
As I said last nite, Praise The Lord and pass the ammunition.
You wingnuts need to understand that it isn’t racist when one black teen shoots another black teen. Racism is the important thing.
Dead kids? Plenty more where they came from.*
*Thanks to the progressive policies that destroy families and create a permanent underclass for them to exploit.
Pablo, watched the first 10 minutes and clicked off. 1. RZ, Jr. first class guy. (For a 25% Black, White Hispanic /sarc) 2. Piers Morgan represents the MSM in continuing to toss red herrings hither and yon. It won’t end until the next fake controversy.
Fixed.
Gregory and Sharpton are a perfect pairing. Just remember that Ben Crump claimed to have brought Sharpton on board right at the beginning of their campaign to turn Trayvon into a money and power making machine. Crump & Parker are the guys most responsible for this whole farce.
It’s just gangs killing other gang members, nothing more to see at all.
You know one honest liberal I’ve read continuously during the trial? Jeralyn Merritt. Here is summary quote:
The legacy of this case will be that the media never gets it right, and worse, that a group of lawyers, with the aid of a public relations team, who had a financial stake in the outcome of pending and anticipated civil litigation, were allowed to commandeer control of Florida’s criminal justice system, in pursuit of a divisive, personal agenda.
Their transformation of a tragic but spontaneous shooting into the crime of the century, and their relentless demonization of the person they deemed responsible, not for a tragic killing, but for “cold-blooded murder,” has called into question the political motives and ethics of the officials serving in the Executive branch of Florida’s government, ruined the career of other public officials, turned the lives of the Zimmerman family, who are as innocent as their grieving clients, into a nightmare, and along the way, set back any chance of a rational discussion of the very cause they were promoting, probably for years.
geoff,
Why isn’t that bloviating POS in prison for murder, or at least incitement to riot, for the Freddy’s Fashion Mart massacre? After the Tawana Brawley debacle, why is that proven fraud even in the public eye?
Meanwhile, President Obysmal climbs back on his flying horse :
Ohferfuckssake. Honor a wannabe street thug, really? Besides, you ridiculous clown, it’s not “gun violence”, it’s “gang violence” and you know it!
Worst President in American History. The ghosts of James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson can now rest in peace.
no one can say what Trayvon Martin did wrong
So there is nothing wrong, nor even anything to criticize, about a person who sucker punches then continues to beat on another person because of being watched.
Oh my, who knew Sharpton had the back of gangbangers everywhere who kill when they are “disrespected” and see nothing wrong about it.
Physics Geek,
I absolutely agree with Merritt says in that quote, but I very strongly suspect that, to the charlatans she is berating, the last bit is a feature, not a bug. Race hustlers would be out of business if their stated goals were ever achieved.
Aaaaand, the pResident goes there .
Oops. I ought to read the whole thread first. Good job, Spiny.
Jaysus on a Pony, Spiny, when the stoooopid is so glaring from Obama, it’s gotta be malice.
– Bumblefuck is in “Lefturd pretend mode”, very busy pretending he didn’t step in the shit yet again by inserting himself into a criminal case, (that right there should have been grounds for dismissal), and get soundly rebuked by the jury.
– Has there ever been a more polarizing divider-in-chief? Will there ever be?
– He’s taking so much shit from his base over his slowness on immigration, his warmongering Bush-like actions on Gitmo and the wars, he needed to throw the true believers some red meat, and who on the Left really gives a shit about Hispanics, except for their votes.
Have any of the mediots brought up the seven figure settlement the grieving family of young Trayvon received from the HOA? Are they planning to dance the corpse of their dead son across the stage until the end of time for the sake of a some more blood money?
Speaking of blood money, has Sharpton ever paid Steve Pagones the money he owes him for ruining his reputation?
– Yes its malice. Raw racial malice. The militant blacks openly hate whitey and will attack at every opportunuty.
– Prepare.
Have any of the mediots brought up the seven figure settlement….
– The rabid bastard media somehow seem to have missed that little gem, busy as they’ve been doctoring video’s and publishing lies and falsehoods.
It is probably far from over for George Zimmerman: Now Eric Holder has to decide whether to double down on Angela Corey’s strategy…
More than 40 people gathered at Sacramento City Hall, and the Sacramento Bee reported that protesters chanted: “What do we want? Justice. When do we want it? Now. For who? Trayvon.”
– Big Whoop.
Well, Lord knows there is no real crime for Holder to investigate. Especially since his own department is helming most of it.
#ChicagoRules4Ever
Brava, Jerralyn. And thanks for pointing it out, PG.
“Sure, you can carry concealed and self-defense exists in theory, but if you exercise those God-given rights, we’re going to prosecute you and, at best, leave you ruined financially. Don’t think that the Left didn’t consider it a bonus to the whole race war stuff. ”
I don’t think that’s enough of a disincentive to defend myself. A year of hell in court that has a decent chance of me being set free at the end vs. a month of pissing blood and eyes that won’t look in the same direction and a wired jaw? Vs. my death or crippling? And I’m only supposed to lose my mind in fear if I am faced with shooting someone nominally of a declared “disadvantaged” race who is threatening me and not allowing me to leave? And them I might be adjusted towards whiteness if not initially white enough to engage the mob?
Fuck that. I would carry a gun for the same reason the secret service does: to protect people who are the most important to me. The cops and asshole lawyers are a secondary concern.
Obama just asked me to stem the tide of gun violence, which is statistically going down BTW, for the sake of someone who started to beat the shit out of a stranger and might have killed him or crippled him, if he were not shot in the act.
Obama did this after the person doing the shooting was acquitted of any crime AFTER being railroaded with a throw it to the wall and see if it sticks” charges that hinged on dumb speculation and misinformation.
Obama is apparently something of a tone deaf, self important, misinformed, disgraceful, mess making, idiot.
palaeo, I’m not suggesting that everyone will adjust behavior as a result of this incident. Rather, I think that some will think twice about CCW or defending themselves, or moreso others because of an unconcious fear of being put into GZ’s position. While it may be true that GZ’s situation resulted from an harmonic convergence of adverse factors, it seems likely that other cases will be twisted to conform to the anti-gun, racist, any self-defense narrative. The endgame is on display in the UK as we speak, where bona fide self-defense results in criminal charges and where passersby watch and do nothing while a soldier is hacked to death. Further, given that Light Bringer has now spoken, and further given the precedent for bringing cases without evidence solely to serve some other agenda, there’s nothing that keeps the DOJ from filing some bogus charge or civil lawsuit, even if the end result is favorable to GZ. The process is the punishment, dontcha know.
Shermlaw, you need to read some of the so-called gunbloggers.