Nice work!
Do we know if the trial will be here in Central Florida?
It will be a Circus If so.
Excellent summary. Thanks for sharing. I will check out your blog
Great read. Well written. So true!
If this had been in LA, MS, AL, WY, TX, or OK, I would be more optimistic for GZ, but FL, forget it.
Outstanding job! I am always proud to see a FReeper-made blog out there, and I will share this with everyone on my social media connex.
Ahem. Let's call a spade a spade. They assumed he was Jewish.
Pray for Zimmerman, that he will be at peace. And that justice will prevail. He really needs our help with all that is coming against him here in FL.
Are you going to be covering the trial with LIVE post reports direct from the courthouse???
Good luck with the blog, and kudos for a nice, if incomplete, summary of events.
George Zimmerman has become the Gettysburg of the right to defend yourself with a firearm. Because Lee’s soldiers needed shoes, Gettysburg became famous. Because race hustlers wanted to cash in and the Government didn’t want riots, Zimmerman became famous.
The mainstream media has twisted the reality of the two principal players so badly that a return to the truth won’t be accepted by those who’ve swallowed the tall tale of Saint Skittle the Unarmed and George the Racist Vigilante
If it goes to trail, the real issue will be if the the Government need for order in the face of potential violent unrest trumps the individual right to life and liberty.
And if Zimmerman had displayed his firearm before the thug made physical contact with him, he would still be alive as well. He'd have run away.
Ya done good!
That was a fine presentation. If the Defense attorneys could just read it to the jury, the case would be over.
Jury selection will make or break Zimmerman. The State’s case requires a panel of irrational liars (who say they haven’t heard anything about the case...) primed and ready for some racial payback. Judge Nelson’s refusal to let the Defense see the juror questionaire is ominous.
It doesn't matter that George is a democrat, he probably knows better by now, he is being persecuted for protecting his own life and the battle should have all conservative's support.
JimRob, we need to be on this thing like white on rice! It's not solicitation, it something that needs to be done.
The mass press will be on this story when the trial starts, maybe even a little bit during the Frye and Sanctions hearings next week. It will be much more difficult to maintain the fiction once the evidence starts coming in to the trial. Not that the press will be accurate all of a sudden, just that it will be more difficult to spin, compared with making shit up in a vacuum.
Why? Nome of the facts have changed from day one. From your own mouth, you were one of those who wished to crucify Zimmerman and trying to convince others that he was a racestand deserved what he got. Well, you and the others of your ilk did their jobs well and Zimmerman is getting railroaded. You should be satisified.
That’s the story that the State of Florida would like for you to believe. The truth is that almost none of that story is true, and it’s well past time for the State to acknowledge the holes in their narrative and drop the charges against George Zimmerman.
We “know" (insert standard disclaimer here about nothing having been proven in court - but note, that is normally a line in favor of the defendant, not the prosecutor) all that. The real issue is not whether it is reasonable to convict on the facts, but whether a reasonable verdict based on the facts can be a “reasonable” verdict for the jurors to announce and subsequently live with.There is much more here to discuss regarding the weakness of the State’s case against George Zimmerman. Prosecutors know all of the facts outlined above, and they know how little their probable cause affidavit has to do with reality. Even if some or most of this evidence about Trayvon’s character is inadmissible in a court of law, it is not off limits for a prosecutor’s use in determining the appropriateness of the charges against George Zimmerman. Perhaps, through the efforts of a corrupt State’s Attorney and the hanging judge who appears determined to railroad Zimmerman to prison and will do so by excluding any discussion of the proclivities of Trayvon Martin toward violence and drugs, the State will win a conviction in this case. If they do so, however, the real loser won’t be George Zimmerman, whose conviction will almost certainly be overturned on appeal. The real loser will be our system of justice in the State of Florida.
Obviously, the risk of violence ensuing from an acquittal is nothing to sneeze at, but there are two other considerations. One, would it not be equally likely for a guilty verdict to precipitate a riot, on the grounds that the presumption of white racism is vindicated? Second, would not the propaganda media influence potentially riotous behavior in either case? I put it to you that the public interest lies in not having a riot - and for the right reasons. The public interest lies in having the public fully informed about all the ins and outs of the case. It is not merely George Zimmerman who is on trial, the legitimacy of the Establishment is on trial, as it is in every criminal case.And, in fact, the real trial of the Establishment is scheduled for after the criminal trial of George Zimmerman. The real trial of the Establishment, which should precede the criminal trial, is the civil suit Zimmerman has filed against NBC. Zimmerman should have never agreed to delay it until after the criminal trial, as if the tort of editing out the context of Zimmerman’s “He looks black” comment - and broadcasting the resulting libel to the whole world - would not be a tort if Zimmerman is convicted of the murder charge.
And it is not just NBC which should be on trial in that case; journalism as a whole is guilty of promoting the atmosphere which produced the (on the merits of the case, irrational) arrest and indictment of George Zimmerman. Establishment journalism as a whole - for which the best proxy is the Associated Press and its members individually - should be called to account in civil court for everything that has happened to George Zimmerman and his family since he was released by the police, for whatever residual effects that propaganda campaign will have on the family in the future, and for every dime of damages which arise from any riot which might ensue on a “not guilty” verdict (or for that matter a “guilty” verdict).
In that trial, there would be no escape for Establishment journalism from all the facts surrounding the case - not only the reasons why your first paragraph, which not only is an accurate portrayal of the prosecution’s case, but also reads like a parody of the actual facts surrounding the case. In that trial, perhaps, the reality that a defense of Zimmerman is inherently, and can only be, an attack on the decedent Trayvon Martin would allow the facts about St. Skittles to be brought into evidence.
If the journalism Establishment were confronted with responsibility for the actual costs of its tendentiousness, perhaps it would have the prudence to use its incalculable influence to defuse the situation before the murder trial. And even, as you suggest, to obliterate the rationale for the mockery of a trial which the prosecution has planned for George Zimmerman.
If in fact Zimmerman is acquitted and a riot ensues, the people of Florida deserve nothing less than that the governor call out the National Guard and read the riot act to all TV and radio broadcasters in the state - telling them that they would broadcast the exculpatory truths vindicating the decision, and nothing else, until order was restored - or they will be shut down by the National Guard.
More recently, the defense has released photos of Martin that show him holding a gun in his hand, and smoking and growing marijuana.
I don't believe that there is any evidence that Martin is the one holding the gun in that picture that was on his phone. And for that matter, is there any way to prove that the smoke coming out of Martin's mouth in the picture was marijuana and not cigarettes?