Posted on 01/19/2015 5:12:05 AM PST by SJackson
I don’t get what Liberman’s point is here. Whether Zimmerman is a nice guy or a jerk is irrelevant. The *only* thing that matters was whether or not he acted in legal self-defense the night he shot Martin. The cops at the scene thought he did, and a jury of his peers thought he did as well. The system worked as it was supposed to, and it rendered its decision.
“He is no hero to the right, regardless of how the left wants to change the story.”
True; while many defended his actions, nobody was holding him up as a role model for young men everywhere. He was designated as on the “conservative” side by a media that creates classes and assigns members to them; he was attacked for 1) owning a weapon, and 2) protecting property rights - both no-nos in the new world order.
Even conceding that GZ is a racist who “profiled” TM. Even conceding that he has “anger management problems”, and is violent, so what?
Even racists have a right to self-defense. Even violent racists have a right to protect themselves, and even their property.
The important question is “who attacked whom?”. A jury settled that under the law.
Had Martin just continued on to the apartment, rather than doubling back, none of this would have happened. I could care less if Zimmerman is a sinner or saint. . .but that day, he was assaulted by Martin and Martin paid the price, end of story. . .same deal with Michael Brown. . .thug life has its privileges AND its consequences.
I remember people on FR who called him a hero.
I can understand lauding his actions in terms of gun rights; there wasn’t much else to praise in him. In fact, we still don’t know a whole lot about him.
George Zimmerman is a mess, no question about it. But he has also been branded with criminal behavior when it was NOT criminal, and this was probably the starting position.
If you are as likely to be hung for being a wolf as being a sheep, then there is no greater cost for behaving like a wolf.
Criminal charges in the above cases were either dropped or never filed,
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The most important part of the entire article.
A lot of FReepers seem to struggle with the whole concept of dumb vs criminal.
Shows you that America is still too weak, too frightened and too clueless to take on the cancer that is EVERYWHERE today - violent racist crime against whites.
When we still dwell on a guy like Zimmerman and analyze “should he have followed a punk in a neighborhood that had experienced crime” and what he has done since - all while we see blacks committing horrible violence on whites weekly, tells me we are still soft as a pillow.
I was hoping the hatred displayed towards white the last few years would wake people up. I guess we still have a lot more Mississippi Burnings, daily MSM Headlines that Whites are racist devils and Knockout Games to go.
“The “author” of this drivel, believes in the old, “it’s not the charges, it’s the seriousness in which they were made” that counts theory!”
and the concept: show me the man and i will show you the crime!!
Don't know, I wouldn't have gotten out of my van either. Of course in my neighborhood I'd have a pretty good idea where I was. However even if he did follow him, that's not illegal, and it's not clear to me it represented poor judgement. It does seem that's his only action open to criticism, and from what was presented doesn't seem to be to arise to criminality. I think the police and prosecutor had it right the first time, but if the special prosecutor was going to proceed on political grounds, a lesser charge would have made sense.
He went through a lot, and I’m sure it had an impact. But even if he had anger issues prior to the incident, the prosecutors couldn’t connect any dots.
The author has a rather distorted view of the facts.
But even if he had gotten very close to Martin, so what? It's no excuse for Martin to knock him down and start pounding his head into the pavement. Whether he followed Martin closely or as he said only for a short distance before turning around, he did not escalate the situation as some on this forum have suggested. Martin did so by ambushing Zimmerman.
If I start walking in a strange neighborhood that had seen frequent robberies/home invasions wearing a hoodie like many burglars, if someone starts following me I don't have the right to knock them down and bang their head into the concrete. The person following me didn't escalate the situation...I did by attacking the observer.
Ari Lieberman should stick to foreign affairs where he has some knowledge. When he ventures into domestic American affairs, he transitions to carrying the progressives’ water for them.
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