Thanks for responding and clarifying your conclusion. It was beginning to look as if you didn't appreciate that the author has given the first overall summary I have seen that seems to be complete and fair-mindedly informative; and worthy of wider distribution.
I saw the post you linked to when it originally appeared, and agreed with it. Yes, I also have been following this from the point where somebody started building a fire under this incident, which to all purposes had already been resolved by the local authorities on the scene. Since then, folks everywhere have been jumping in left and right, often on incomplete, distorted, and/or completely fabricated "facts" and opinions, fanning the flames higher and higher.
The only way to shut them all up is to lay out the timeline and inescapable testimony that demonstrates to all exactly what happened in such a way that removes the circumstances from the realm of hearsay and opinion. Some FR contributors have tried to make sense of this.
I fully agree with you that incarcerating Zimmerman with the motive to make somebody with more influence feel good is abhorrent. But whether or not that was the motive neither you nor I know, although we may strongly suspect. But that is not now the issue in question. The only way to get the facts out of the court is to get Zimmerman in the court. Otherwise they are only jumbled hearsay.
The problem is that the mess is initiated by the agitators, the family, and the media, that the state must deal with. And they are in a pickle, in which the only way they have to prove to the faultfinders is to bring out all the facts in open court that will unarguably settle the issue. The media and the agitators must be denied any further rational grounds with which to continue and spread the filth.
The state also needs to somehow protect Zimmerman from the very real danger to Zimmerman of being out on bond with a bounty on his head, or of his death, promised by the terroristic NBPP. Florida is not going to get any help from the US DOJ against the New Black Panthers, so what do they do now? Call out the National Guard and provoke a bigger crisis? It's bad enough now.
The way out for the state might be to deliberately prefer charges that border on insanity, permissible within the scope of the law and the presiding judge, but have them pronounced as being wrongly placed when the jurors examine the body of facts, and prove the charges wrong; thus freeing Zimmerman from this predicament. If the state has any other mechanism than correctly using and enforcing the law to cause the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to be adduced and admitted by all, I do not know what it is.
Their tactic may look like railroading, but it is not lynching when the law is followed. If procedure is against the constitution, that also must be decided, not by you or me. And Zimmerman is not being put through this by the state. The city and the state have been maneuvered into an untenable position by these extra-legal power groups. Zimmerman is being put through this by the media and social agitators, as the author of the article points out.
But just remember, there is a stinking fly in the ointment upon which all of this hoorah and this trial hinges, and that is because one officer disagreed with the others, at the time insistently recommended that Zimmerman be charged, and the state's(?) attorney decided not to. That officer's intransigency is the root of the problem. That factor gave the family, Sharpton, Jackson, thr NBPP, and the media a stepping stone they would not otherwise have had to escalate the complaint to the public arena. Was he right? We'll find out. (He'd better not have been.)
I will say again, neither you nor I as onlookers have anything to add to this until the trial procedure, whatever the charges, comes forth being judicially proven and accepted.
I will also say that the insulting tone of your original response and of this one does not help your case at all. With respect, and thanks for telling what your problem is with accepting the value of the posted article ---
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Having looked at what has been posted so far, I have been licensed CCDW for several years, and have a sincere concern and compassion for what Zimmerman is going through, and the import it has for the rest of us in such a circumstance.
Furthermore, about 50 years ago I was a volunteer fireman, and we were in the position of, and called in to fill in for Rochester NY city hose companies who were used, and men hurt, in quelling the rioters. We were advised when we were called in, to bring with us every hydrant wrench we had -- we would need them to protect ourselves, not for operating hydrants. I know what this is all about.
WHOOPS! I misspoke here! I did NOT mean claiming that Zimmerman bordered on insanity! I meant that the charges would be so ridiculously far from reality that they would be almost insanely not fitting! Sorry!