I agree with Roger Simon that Obama is big loser in this case …
Forget the over-zealous prosecutors and the repellent state attorney Angela Corey (who should be immediately disbarred or, my wife said sarcastically, elevated to director of Homeland Security) and even the unfortunate Trayvon Martin family (although it is certainly hard to forget them — they have our profound sympathies), the true loser at the Zimmerman trial was Barack Obama.
By injecting himself in a minor Florida criminal case by implying Martin could be his son, the president of the United States — a onetime law lecturer, of all things — disgraced himself and his office, made a mockery of our legal system and exacerbated racial tensions in our country, making them worse than they have been in years. This is the work of a reactionary, someone who consciously/unconsciously wants to push our nation back to the 1950s.
It is also the work of a narcissist who thinks of himself first, of his image, not of black, white or any other kind of people. It’s no accident that race relations in our country have gone backwards during his stewardship.
Congratulations to the jury for not acceding to this tremendous pressure and delivering the only conceivable honest verdict. This case should never have been brought to trial. It was, quite literally, the first American Stalinist “show trial.” There was, virtually, no evidence to convict George Zimmerman. It was a great day for justice that this travesty was finally brought to a halt.
… however, will this hurt Mr. Forward at all? Certainly, during the final arguments, everything Simon just said was a matter of naked projection by the Leftist Eric Boehlert
But from the crooked perspective of the far-right media, the trial represents something far more insidious than justice on display. Unfolding beneath the sinister specter of President Obama’s pugnacious interference, the Zimmerman hearing is being denounced as a Soviet-style show trial, by Lou Dobbs on his July 9 program, and a hoax in which the defendant is the real victim.
It’s the defendant who faces a perilous future even if found not guilty we’re told; a defendant who’s being persecuted by “the race industry.” And it’s a trial that allegedly operates under the ominous threat of “riots” if Zimmerman is found not guilty.
In other words, the trial, and the irresponsible right-wing commentary surrounding it, represents the latest example of how the conservative press remains incapable of dealing honestly with issues that the nation grapples with, and especially any issue that involves race, when an African-American (Democrat) sits in the White House.
Instead, the right-wing media once again gleefully stirs the cauldron of racial animosity. Uninterested in letting justice unfold in the courtroom, the far right mob has been obsessed with making Obama a central player in the saga. A Breitbart writer this week condemned the president for his “direct insertion” into the story, referring to the time, 16 months ago, when Obama answered a single question about the Martin controversy. Obama’s quote was supposedly part of a larger, menacing White House plot “to gin up charges of racism” surrounding the case, according to the site.
So while Oakland riots, the Left plantation masters of pallor like Boehlert will wring their hands about “understanding” black rage — because we all know those dusky-skinned, permanent children are just congenitally incapable of dealing with adult disappointment — the narrative of RIGHTWINGERS ARE TEH RAAAAACIST!!1!1! will continue, Obama will be shielded, a new racial category of White Hispanic will be permanently established and, indeed, Angela Corey may find a position with either the Obama Administration or the head of some college system.
Zimmerman’s life is ruined, but the Left marches on.
– The “Oakland riots” are having a hard time mustering 150 people, to the point where the local police are largely ignoring the whole thing and vandelism, so far, is “bicycles up and down the street, some horn honking, and a few cases of minor graffitti”.
– To this point it doesn’t seem like theres a whole lot of support for the “reaction” crowd.
I’m glad the jury held on to the concept of the Rule of Law, instead of succumbing to pressure which they either knew or surmised existed.
As for Boehlert and his ilk, they are in mourning because their own manufactured “race” controversy blew up in their faces, starting with GZ’s black grandmother, the “white Hispanic” foolishness and imploding with GZ’s black neighbor and GZ’s seeking justice for the homeless man who was beaten up by the son of the Sanford PD’s former police chief. They are either too stupid to look at the facts or they are evil: Creating a myth to foment a race war, either for ratings or for some progressive agenda.
(BTW, I have thought that the chilling of the exercise of 2nd Amendment and self-defence rights because of this trial was more significant than the race aspect. Had GZ been convicted after all the pressure by the DOJ and Civil Rights crowd, law-abiding citizens would think twice about defending themselves and their families for fear of winding up like GZ.)
Zimmerman’s life is ruined . . .
y’know, I don’t actually think this is so, but quite the contrary is possible even. Sure, I know his life has been made more difficult, unnecessarily and to us, intolerably so . . . but here’s the thing. He hasn’t done anything wrong and has in fact done very much well, even shining out excellently at times. There is much potential that he will do even better in the future. So no. His life isn’t ruined, but has been made better for his suffering, because he knew and seems to continue to know to pursue a just path. The man is in the right, and being in the right is better, not worse.
BBH
Yeah, I should have put “riots” in scarcasm quotes. It is such a cesspool of a city that regardless of the threats/expectations of the race-mongering Left, there was less hooliganism in Oakland after this verdict than what happens when the Occupy cretins play there.
sdferr
I hope you’re right. I’m just feeling very cynical about how this guy and his family are going to get on with their lives when there are howls for the DOJ to file charges and individual idiots are threatening death to him and the members of the jury.
Here’s a thing about the claim I make Darleen (and from which I derive the very idea, in fact). It’s long, intricate and complex (and indeed, only a part of another much longer chain of argument), but worth visiting and re-visiting again and again.
I got you linked up, Darleen, ‘Oakland Riots After #Zimmerman Not Guilty Verdict’.
I read the jury instructions, and it seemed to me that the jury hadn’t bothered to read through them before beginning their deliberations.
First the state defined 2nd degree murder, and what needed to be proved for the jury to come back with a charge of “guilty”. Since this was laughable to anyone who saw the evidence, they simply checked the “Not guilty” box and went on to manslaughter (which was next in line).
Then the State defined manslaughter, and I thought of a few ambiguities in the way they had been phrased, and I’m sure that someone on the jury had a similar question.
They asked the question, the lawyers and judge freaked out, someone let it slip, and it was All Hand On Deck for Manslaughter conviction while the jury ate supper.
Then someone happened to idly turn the page to “Self-Defense” (which came next in the jury instructions printout) and found out that even if they thought he had actually committed either Murder-2 and/or Manslaughter, Self-Defense is an absolute defense under Florida Law, and that GZ had no duty to withdraw (even assuming he had the opportunity once Trayvon sucker-punched him). There is even a point where the instructions point out that unless they can come to the decision “to the exclusion of, and beyond any reasonable doubt”, they MUST vote “Not Guilty”.
This is all hypothetical, of course, but it fits the known facts and the timeline.
Oh, and I can’t wait to see how many zeroes will be on the CNN settlement for posting GZ’s SSN info on the TV long enough for the “Kill Da Cracka” contingent to start salivating and gloating…
I’m equally eager (but far less sanguine) for the DOJ’s prosecution for Attempted Murder-For-Hire by the NBPP ($10k bounty on GZ’s head, anyone?).
Any day now. Any. Day. Now.
– This morning the Sunday WH ankle-licking mediots are all in caterwailing mode, sensing their phony “race-bait” narrative is falling into the rabbit hole. The false-equivalencies, all based on outright lies, are STILL being dutifully repeated over and over, which shows just how much the Libturd press has invested in this bullshit.
– Glaring example.
– The Left has zero scruples. They will even terrorize their own children with vicious lies for their ideology. What totally useless shitbags.
– These scum suckers are absolute emotional children, and should never be allowed anywhere near a position of any sort of responsibility.
– They’ve made it their whole life goal to avoid and ignore the very existance of such a thing as adult/perdsonal resposibility, so why should anyone be surprised the way they act.
I heard on the radio that GZ is getting his gun back from property. Let the caterwauling begin!
This oldie-but-goodie seems appropriate.
It was the first day of school in a San Diego suburb. Miss Jones asked her 4th graders to raise their hands if they were Chargers fans. Everyone raised their hands but Mary. The teacher asked why she didn’t raise her hands, and she proudly said “My mom and dad are from Kansas City, so we’re Chiefs fans.”
Miss Jones, clearly agitated, sputtered out “Well… what if your mom were a crack whore, and your dad were her pimp and drug dealer? What would THAT make you?” Mary thought for a moment, then tentatively said…
“Um… A Raiders fan?”
Heh. I loved that joke when I lived in San Diego, Monster.
Hard to say Obama’s lost anything when he hasn’t been hurt by this, isn’t it?
George Zimmerman to Get His Gun Back
A minority (of both Hispanic and black heritage) was railroaded by politically motivated, and emotion driven prosecution for the ‘crime’ of defending himself against a politically protected class member.
Imagine someone like Trayvon Martin on trial and a prosecutor, lacking evidence of the charged offense, appealing in his closing statements to a jury of women that they focus on, not the facts of the case, but “what they know in their hearts.”
That’s how they used to do it in the South. And it was never so much about race as it was about appeasing the politically powerful forces of the day.
Apparently some things never change.