Posted on 07/10/2013 4:26:59 PM PDT by Doctor 2Brains
This week, instead of attacking a Hispanic senator, Marco Rubio, I will defend a Hispanic citizen, George Zimmerman, on trial for the murder of Trayvon Martin. (Zimmerman would make a better senator.)
It's becoming painfully obvious why no charges were brought against Zimmerman in this case -- until Al Sharpton got involved. All the eyewitness accounts, testimony, ballistics and forensics keep backing up Zimmerman. We should send a big, fat bill for the whole thing to Sharpton, courtesy of MSNBC.
With the prosecution's witnesses making the defense's case, the inquisitors' last stand is to claim that, if the races were reversed, the black guy would have been instantly charged with murder. As explained in The New York Times:
"Had Mr. Martin shot and killed Mr. Zimmerman under similar circumstances, black leaders say, the case would have barreled down a different path: Mr. Martin would have been quickly arrested by the Sanford Police Department and charged in the killing, without the benefit of the doubt." (Also, CNN could have dropped the "white" and referred to Zimmerman exclusively as "Hispanic.")
The people who say this are counting on the rest of us being too polite to mention that it is nearly impossible to imagine such a case in a world where half of all murders and a majority of robberies are committed by blacks. To reverse the races with the same set of facts, first, we're going to need a gated, mixed-race community, similar to the Retreat at Twin Lakes, that has recently experienced a rash of robberies by white guys. The only way to do that is to enter "The Twilight Zone."
There were at least eight burglaries in the 14 months before Zimmerman's encounter with Martin. Numerous media accounts admit that "most" of these were committed by black males. I'm waiting to hear about a single crime at Twin Lakes that was not committed by a black male.
Just six months before Zimmerman's encounter with Martin, two men had broken into the home of a neighbor, Olivia Bertalan, while she was alone with her infant son. She had just enough time to call 911 before running upstairs and locking herself in a room. The burglars knew she was home, but proceeded to rob the place anyway, even trying to enter the locked room where she held her crying child.
Bertalan had seen the burglars just before they broke into her house -- one at the front door and one at the back. They were young black males. They lived in the Retreat by Twin Lakes.
In another case, a black teenager strode up to Zimmerman's house and, in broad daylight, stole a bicycle off the front porch. The bike was never recovered.
Weeks before Zimmerman saw Martin, he witnessed another young black male peering into the window of a neighbor's house. He called the cops, but by the time they arrived, the suspect was gone.
A few days later, another house was burglarized. The thieves made off with jewelry and a new laptop. Roofers working across the street had seen two black teenagers near the house at the time of the robbery. When they spotted one of the teens the next day, they called the police.
This time, the roofers followed the suspect so he wouldn't get away. The cops arrived and found the stolen laptop in his backpack. This was the same black teenager Zimmerman had seen looking in a neighbor's window.
The only reason it's hard to imagine the Zimmerman case with the races reversed is that it's hard to imagine a white teenager living in a mixed-race, middle-class community, mugging a black homeowner. This is not a problem of society's reactions, but of the facts.
There is, however, at least one case of a black homeowner fatally shooting a white troublemaker. He was not charged with murder.
In 2006, the ironically named John White was sound asleep at his nice Long Island home when his teenage son woke him to say there was a mob of white kids shouting epithets in front of the house. The family was in no imminent danger. They could have called 911 and remained safely behind locked doors.
But White grabbed a loaded Beretta and headed out to the end of the driveway to confront the mob. A scuffle ensued and White ended up shooting one of the kids in the face, killing him.
White was charged and convicted only of illegal weapons possession -- this was New York, after all -- and involuntary manslaughter. He was sentenced to 20 months-to-four years in prison, but after serving five months was pardoned by Gov. David Paterson.
With all due compassion for the kid who was killed, the public was overwhelmingly on the father's side -- a fact still evident in Internet postings about the case. The kids were punks menacing a law-abiding homeowner. Even the prosecutor complained only that Paterson hadn't called the victim's family first. The local NAACP had campaigned aggressively on White's behalf. There were no threats to riot in case of an acquittal.
The centerpiece of White's self-defense argument was his recollection of his grandfather's stories about the Ku Klux Klan. George Zimmerman's memory of young black males committing crimes at Twin Lakes is somewhat more recent.
John White wasn't jumped, knocked to the ground, repeatedly punched, and his skull knocked against the ground. He wasn't even touched, though he claimed the white teen was lunging at him. Talk about no reason to "follow," there was no reason for him to leave the safety of his locked home. White's son knew the kids by name. They could have waited for the cops.
So, yes, this case probably would be very different if Zimmerman and Martin's races were reversed. It is only when the victim is black that we must have a show trial, a million-dollar reward paid to the victim's parents and the threat of riots.
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Good grief, blatant violation of neutrality and noninterference. Chicago thug style “community organizing” courtesy of the Obama/Holder DOJ. Like you say, we need more folks fired up about this. I’m gonna do what I can to spread the word.
Thanks again.
yours truly:
www.TokyoRove.com
Recall that in the Duke case, the accused BEGGED for the FBI to come down and investigate (the FBI refused). The accused WANTED an independent investigation, but couldn’t get one.
Neither was the DOJ interested in the threats by the Black Panthers (some made inside a courtroom), and even across state lines. (Imagine if the Klan had done that to a black defendant.)
(And note that for all Nifong’s race-baiting, he wouldn’t add hate crimes to the charges, because those are federal counts and would have required the DOJ to enter the case.)
The DOJ wasn’t interested in helping the falsely-accused lacrosse players (then or later). It refused even to investigate Nifong AFTER the case was over.
OTOH, it immediately sent “counselors” to Jena; and now, as we see, to Florida.
That’s the modern “Equal protection of the laws”...
I mourn for the America we have lost.
C&P from another thread:
It also indicates to me the so-called wonderful conservative Governor of Fl was in on it too with the DOJ. He is the one who assigned that bull dog Angela Corey to find a way to drum up a charge against Zimmerman.
FRiends, we have no allies in this Government as true conservatives/state rights supporters.
They all are against us in one way or another.
How about Mark Levin?
Wha?? What million-dollar reward is that?
And when it comes to blacks and Koreans? Whoooaa..... The only thing I can compare it to is it's like the Muslims and the Jews with the blacks acting as the Muslims. Man, the racist crap I seen blacks put Koreans through would blow peoples minds. For some reason blacks just have this absolutely fanatical hatred of Koreans.
Remember that black judge a while back who got his pants lost by the Korean cleaners and he sued them out of business? He sued them for some huge ridiculous amount, something like $60 million bucks. Yeah here it is...
http://www.newsnet14.com/?p=4280
Amazing how this was all brushed under the rug. Can you imagine a white judge doing this to a black owned business?
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