I commented in a different thread, yesterday I think, that Zimmerman had been saying everybody should wait until the evidence all came out and vindicated him - but that without charges there isn’t a mechanism for the evidence to all be made public.
The way to do that without making charges would be through a grand jury, which would look at the evidence to see if there is enough to make charges and bring Zimmerman to trial.
I don’t know why she didn’t do that.
In my head I know there has to be some kind of trial in order for Zimmerman to be vindicated - or found guilty, if it turns out there is evidence to refute what we’ve already seen and heard.
But in my heart this petrifies me because I have absolutely no confidence that the system even attempts to arrive at justice. As I understand it, a NJ judge just decided that Obama is at least 35 years old, at least 14 years a US resident, and is a natural born citizen, based on ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE. Just like the GA judge decided on the basis of no evidence to prove eligibility and in spite of a bunch of evidence to disprove it. What we’re seeing is that evidence doesn’t matter. The system doesn’t care about evidence. And they are blatant about flipping us the bird if we bring up the issue of evidence.
The claim from Blacks is that they can’t trust the system either - that the fix is in on blacks. Could be they are thrilled that we have the sinking feeling in our guts that they say they’ve always had, knowing the people with the power to hear the evidence can use it for their own biased or political purposes and wipe out whatever evidence they want.
I think the place we need to get is where blacks and whites are both saying amongst each other and to others that the rules of evidence are a time-tested friend and protection for innocent people of all races when properly followed.
great post. thought provoking. insightful. I’m with you.
[[But in my heart this petrifies me because I have absolutely no confidence that the system even attempts to arrive at justice.]]
Casey Anthony, OJ Simpson, Robert Blake, on and on it goes- You have good reason to fear thsi will end in injustice
[[I think the place we need to get is where blacks and whites are both saying amongst each other and to others that the rules of evidence are a time-tested friend and protection for innocent people of all races when properly followed.]]
That will never happen- whites asre to be saddled with ‘white guilt’ for eternity, while blacks will take every advantage of our paralyzing fear of ‘appearing biased’- that is thwe world we live in and peoplel iek al sharpton, Bill cosby, jesse jackson the black panthers etc etc etc will all make damn sure we NEVER ever escape such a world