[EXCH54FE]

George Zimmerman will never live a normal life. The American public have been polarized with emotions stirred up for absolutely no reason. Racism is essentially manufactured, as if it were a commodity.

[Shimmer1]

Obama is NOT a former law professor

[Average Al]

Obama didn't loose anything by that verdict. It just demonstrates his racial prejudices are warranted with his base.....

[VanDeKoik]

He doesn’t have to live one.

He can now sue for millions, and retire anywhere in the world he wants in comfort.

[InterceptPoint]

By injecting himself in a minor Florida criminal case by implying Martin could be his son, the president of the United States — a former law professor, of all things — disgraced himself and his office, made a mockery of our legal system and exacerbated racial tensions in our country, making them worse than they have been in years.

You could easily add: "and help insure his victory in the 2012 election by riling up his base".

If you agree then you understand the real, tactical reason that Zimmerman was fingered as a target by the Left.

[Will88]

or, my wife said sarcastically, elevated to director of Homeland Security)...

His wife has great powers of perception. Who could possibly be more qualified to carry on in the tradition of Big Sis than Angela Corey?

[mosaicwolf]

Me thinks a “Beer Summit” with Zimmerman and Martin's family will solve all these political issues. //sarcasm off//

[Will88]

By injecting himself in a minor Florida criminal case by implying Martin could be his son, the president of the United States...

Just falling back on his background as a community agitator who had no qualifications to be president.

[Red in Blue PA]

Everything obama touches or opines on turns to crap.

Absolutely amazing how one person can be so consistently wrong.

[DJ Taylor]

Zimmerman: Plenty of guilt left over

by: Henry Mark Holzer

In celebration of George Zimmerman being found not guilty we can not lose sight of the many others that in connection with the case are guilty.

The president who put his thumb on the scales of justice with the gratuitous observation that had he a son the boy would look like Trayvon Martin.

The race-driven Attorney General of the United States who sent federal employees into the State of Florida to create a frenzy of rabble demanding George Zimmerman’s scalp.

The mostly Negro rabble itself, inflamed by Al Sharpton and his cohort of race hustlers.

The TV network that doctored a tape of Zimmerman, making it appear that he was a racist.

The complicit media who, without knowing any of the facts, convicted Zimmerman even before Trayvon Martin’s body was cold.

The cowardly Governor of Florida who, fearing the mob, appointed a special prosecutor when local law enforcement didn’t even arrest Zimmerman.

The compliant Attorney General of Florida, a purported conservative, who at minimum acquiesced in the special prosecutor’s appointment and who may have had a large role in choosing her.

The special prosecutor herself whose press conference announcement of the overcharging complaint (she never went to a grand jury) for murder 2 sounded like a glowing eulogy for Trayvon Martin and a vicious condemnation of George Zimmerman.

The unethical assistant prosecutors who, as Professor Dershowitz said, should be disciplined by the bar association because they violated Zimmerman’s constitutional rights by withholding exculpatory evidence and denying the defense discovery to which they had a legal right. Let alone trying a case they could never prove.

The biased, incompetent trial judge who committed at least three reversible errors: excluding the exculpatory evidence contained in Trayvon Martin’s phone, failing to dismiss the case at the end of the prosecution and defense’s cases, and charging the jury on manslaughter of which there was not a shred of evidence—thus giving the jury a possible compromise verdict.

Yes, as the defense said after the not guilty verdict, justice triumphed for George Zimmerman.

But manifest, fearful injustice remains. Especially because none of those who conspired to railroad George Zimmerman—the “White Hispanic”!—will ever pay any price.

One can’t help wondering . . . who’s next?

http://henrymarkholzer.blogspot.com/

[DoughtyOne]

A clearly shaken NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous...

He referenced another killing of a black youth that many have compared to the Trayvon Martin slaying, the 1955 killing of 14-year-old Emmett Till, who was killed in Mississippi for allegedly flirting with a white woman.

It boggles the mind to see the muddled thinking on display regarding the Zimmerman/Martin incident.

Here NAACP Justice compares Martin's predicament to that of Emmett Till. Till is described as being killed for flirting with a white woman. How is Trayvon imagined to be the victim of that level of racism? How is appearing to be casing homes for potential vandalism later the same as merely flirting with a white woman?

Why is Martin getting this type of support? Is it okay to sneak around behind homes in the middle of the night, apparently checking them out. Think about this. How long does it take to traverse through a housing tract like this? If you're bookin' it, it wouldn't take you more than a few minutes. Here we seem to have a guy loitering around behind or in between homes, checking them out. He isn't bookin' it. He's taking his sweet time. Why? Isn't it rather obvious he was not just walking back home?
 
Zimmerman observes, makes a phone call, leaves his vehicle, checks out the address, heads back to his car, all the while Martin is still not headed back to his Dad's home.

Something was up here. Zimmerman was on to something. It seem obvious that he was.

Is it now a civil right to case potential crime scenes? I doubt that. So what is going on here is racism on display. Martin was black. That's where the story line ends for the race baiting set. It's where the story line ends for those who condemn Zimmerman.

The black woman in the video at the LINK stated she would have probably voted Zimmerman not-guilty too, based on what was presented to the jury.  None the less she thinks justice was not served here.  This truly made sense to her.  She evidently saw no racism in her take on things.  The black kid was dead.  It had to be racism.  This evidently came from her very core beliefs.

Racism was and still is a problem in America. At one time some whites were prejudiced against blacks. Most of that has diminished. What has taken it's place, is the polar opposite. Now it's some blacks who are prejudiced against whites.

If Martin were the victim of racism, I would defend him. This was not racism on display. It was a young man seemingly up to no good on display. The real crime on display here, is that some blacks can't objectively look at this and realize Martin was at fault. He wasn't simply walking back to his dad's place. He wasn't approached and hassled by Zimmerman. He wasn't placed in a bad situation by a racist. Martin was the problem. He wound up beating a man up, breaking his nose and pounding his head into the cement.

How do you judge a young kid like this to be the victim? He was perpetrating a serious crime.

What we see here, are people for whom race trumps everything else. There is no guilt, if you're black. If you're black you can do anything to anyone, and it's justified. You can pound someone's head into the cement if you like. You are justified. You can pummel their face if you like. You are justified. If someone objects, and fights back, they are not justified. If they can't physically defend themselves and use a gun, they are the problem, the black man isn't.

This is pure racism. Is this what Martin Luther King fought for?

We have a community that is racist. We have a broader group of people in America who are racist. We have a Justice Department head who is a racist. We have a president who is a racist.

Welcome to the ultimate end game of white guilt.

We have a massive amount of self-examination needed in this nation. This time, it does not involve whites.

At some point in time, the criminal must be assessed for being who he is regardless of race. I am sorry that a 17 year old kid is dead today. I don't care what his race was. I care that he made poor choices and paid the ultimate price for it. Although I am sorry he is dead, I recognize the part he played in it. He started a chain of events, that he couldn't back down from, he didn't back down from, and ultimately it cost him his life.

Somewhere in the fabric of this kid's life, it was instilled in him that he could do no wrong. His skin was black, and he was justified in anything he could imagine to do.

There is a sickness in the land...

[GOPJ]

By injecting himself in a minor Florida criminal case by implying Martin could be his son, the president of the United States — a former law professor, of all things — disgraced himself and his office

Obama show himself to be the President of Black citizens, not President of the Unite States. He disgraced the office - he disgraced all of us ...

[Logical me]

Further proof that this President is nothing but garbage. He is a communists BLACK Muslim and impeach. How much more should we put up with?

[fso301]

This case was win-win for the Democrats. Hussein could use it to stir the blacks up and rally them to vote in 2012.

Post election, the case served to distract blacks from the fact that obama has done zero for them and that they as a group are much worse off than they were during the Bush years.

The jury verdict will be used to remind blacks that the nation is still overwhelmingly racist and that problems blacks are having has nothing to do with obama's mismanagement of the nation and everything to do with a racist society in which the only safe have for blacks is within the Democratic party.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

If I had egg on my face, it would look like the egg on Obama’s face.

[Jeff Head]

Yes, turns out (as we might have expected given his background) that Treyvon actually would have been the type of kid Obama would have. Angry at America, and particularly at "crackers." Willing to commit a horrible crime to "put them in their place."

Except "whitey",: in this case a Latino, who was armed and used his firearm. End of story. The person profiling as it turns out was Treyvon, and he not only got it wrong...he picked someone who was armed and knew how to shoot when, in the end, he had to.

Zimmerman found not guilty

From USA Today

SANFORD, Fla.--George Zimmerman, the man accused of murdering Trayvon Martin, was found not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter on Saturday.

The verdict is the culmination of a case that captured the nation's attention and will undoubtedly be imprinted in America's history. For Zimmerman, it means trying to recapture his life after he was at the center of a national maelstrom over racial profiling, state gun laws and what constitutes self-defense.

The not guilty verdict means the jury of six women found that Zimmerman justifiably used deadly force and reasonably believed that such force was "necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm" to himself — Florida's definition of self-defense.

Zimmerman showed no emotion as the verdict was read. After the verdict was read, he smiled slightly and shook hands with one of his lawyers.

The unidentified jurors decided Zimmerman didn't "intentionally commit an act or acts that caused death" or demonstrate a "depraved mind without regard for human life" --Florida's definitions of manslaughter and second degree murder, respectively.

In a press conference after the verdict, Zimmerman attorney Mark O'Mara said his client will now need to get on with his life.

"I think he's going to be great. I think he is still worried. Hopefully everyone will respect the jury's verdict," O'Mara said.

He offered his sympathies to Trayvon's parents for the loss of their son. But he said despite the national protests that erupted after the shooting, the case had nothing to do with civil rights.

Zimmerman's brother, Robert, told CNN's Piers Morgan that his brother was processing the reality that he is free.

"He has some decompressing to do," he said. "Our family was emotional. We are exonerated as a family and George is exonerated as a defendant. It's going to take us some time to heal."

For all the euphoria on Zimmerman's team, prosecutors and Trayvon's family faced a huge letdown. Trayvon's parents were not in the courtroom when the verdict was read.

Trayvon's father Tracy posted on Twitter, "Even though I am broken-hearted, my faith is unshattered. I will always love my baby Tray ... even in his death I know my baby proud of the FIGHT we along with all of you put up for him."

The family's attorney Benjamin Crump thanked all the protesters nationwide who "put their hoodies up and to everybody who said, 'I am Trayvon.' " He urged supporters to remain peaceful, despite the verdict.

Lead prosecutor Bernie De la Rionda said, "I am disappointed in the verdict but I respect it. We accept the jury's verdict."

My own feeling is this. I have followed the trial closely...each day. The Jury clearly looked at the evidence, which was overwhelming for the defense and Zimmerman.

Zimmerman's nose was broken and his face was bruised and bloodied after the confrontation. He had cuts and bruises on the back of his head. He had grass stains on the back of his shirt and pants. Treyvon had no injuries from the fight, except the gunshot wound. There were scrapes on his knuckles. And he had grass stains on his knees. All of this was supported by the forensic evidence and was not challenged.

It is clear who was delivering a beating, and who was receiving it. An eye witness indicated Treyvon was on top of Zimmerman and hitting him. Clearly, the one who was screaming histerically, and terrified for help, was the one being beaten, not the one on top doing the beating.

In almost all cases, the prosecution witnesses, under cross examination, gave testimony that ended up supporting Zimmerman's story.

It is tragic that things happened like they did. But neither person had broken any laws, or committed any crime, and could have walked away from this up until the time one of them decided to sucker punch the other in the face, break his nose and knock him down. Even then Treyvon could have walked away and had very little long term personal consequence. But when he began beating Zimmerman on the ground as he did, he took a path that led to his death. Zimmerman finally shot, and the forensic evidence showed that Treyvon was shot at close range, with the bullet traveling upward through his body (and his heart) while Zimmerman was on the ground.

There simply was not evidence of any hate crimes. There was simply no evidence of murder or negligence. The jury decided that Zimmerman was defending himself.

We know now that Zimmerman, an Hispanic male, mentored young black kids in his spare time. No racist there at all.

No, it is tragic that a 17 year old young man was killed. He was not a "little" kid. He was 6' 2" tall, 170 lbs, and was quite muscular and fit as a high school football player. Zimmerman was 5'9", also weighed around 170 lbs, but was not in good shape and over weight. And Treyvon was not angelic...far from it. His facebook page and tweets make that clear enough, as does his own record...all of which the jury could not hear...and in the end, did not need to.

Would Zimmerman have died that night? We will never know. But he clearly thought he was in great danger, and he was definitely being beat up. So he finally pulled his gun and shot in self defense.

I pray the country can move on from this. This case was trumped up by politicians, the Media, and those seeking a racial cause. The local police had already pretty much determined what this jury found and that is why Zimmerman was released after being taken to the police station that night. These types of things happen fairly often in this nation of 350 million.

For example, shortly before this event, a black man, who was being stalked by 4-5 white thugs, was at home one night when these thugs came to his house and began calling him names, and throwing rocks at his home from his drive way. He was safe in his home. It was secure and he was armed. He did not have to go out. But they were on his property and he decided to go out and confront them. There was an argument. One of the young men, about 19 years old, charged the man yelling that he was going to hurt him. The man shot...and the 19 year old died.

That man was not tried. He was not arrested for murder or manslaughter. Everyone knew these kids were on his property and up to no good. He could have stayed inside, but he decided to confront the evil on his property and when attacked, he defended himself. I have no problem with it...and believe more Americans should send such messages to criminals when they are threatened. 911 takes on average 9 minutes for anyone to get there. Usually by that time, it is over.

That above case happened in Florida by the way...and there was no outcry, no demands to punish that man for killing the much younger man. It was clearly self defense...as was this case with Zimmerman. Turns out, Obama was right when he said that, about Treyvon could have been his son.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Just another POTUS item for the blooper reel. Good thing video is stored digitally, he would have 2 or 3 middle silos full of canisters. Maybe that’s why the NSA needs all that storage space.

[P-Marlowe]

By injecting himself in a minor Florida criminal case by implying Martin could be his son, the president of the United States — a former law professor, of all things —…

I stopped reading right there. I don't need to read the opinions of an ignoramus. If he can't fact check his article even as far as the second sentence, his opinion is not worth the electrons it is displayed on.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Already I saw one wit comment: “Obama failed Trayvon”.

[Moonman62]

Obama was already a big winner.

He and the Democrats needed a racial issue for the election. They got it. And they'll probably continue to use it for the next election.

[GOPJ]

Zimmerman will become a hero in time... he’ll lead a good life.