Posted on 07/15/2013 9:02:37 AM PDT by jazusamo
There are no winners in the trial of George Zimmerman. The only question is whether the damage that has been done has been transient or irreparable.
Legally speaking, Zimmerman has won his freedom. But he can still be sued in a civil case, and he will probably never be safe to live his life in peace, as he could have before this case made him the focus of national attention and orchestrated hate.
More important than the fate of George Zimmerman, however, is the fate of the American justice system and of the public's faith in that system and in their country. People who have increasingly asked, during the lawlessness of the Obama administration, "Is this still America?" may feel some measure of relief.
But the very fact that this case was brought in the first place, in an absence of serious evidence — which became ever more painfully obvious as the prosecution strained to try to come up with anything worthy of a murder trial — will be of limited encouragement as to how long this will remain America.
The political perversion of the criminal justice system began early and at the top, with the President of the United States. Unlike other public officials who decline to comment on criminal cases that have not yet been tried in court, Barack Obama chose to say, "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon."
It was a clever way to play the race card, as he had done before, when Professor Henry Louis Gates of Harvard was arrested.
But it did not stop there. After the local police in Florida found insufficient evidence to ask for Zimmerman to be prosecuted, the Obama administration sent Justice Department investigators to Sanford, Florida, and also used the taxpayers' money to finance local activists...
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What we have witnessed is the first time annoucement of the old beat-up race card being “declined” this past Saturday night.
No, America died November 6, 2012 of self inflicted vote wounds. obamaville rose in its place.
Wow...well said, and I sure hope you’re right.
Rather it is the failure of Obamaville.
I am, look how puny the protests were.
I love this man he is so right all the time..
America died on Nov. 4, 2008.
Hats off to those six brave women of the jury.
Sowell is one of the clearest minds alive.
No.
Its not even pre-America.
No. It is more like the USSA: United Socialist States of America.
Sort of like Sweden, except that it doesn’t work as well.
And Sweden is getting more conservative!
It was mortally wounded then and never recovered. November 6,2012 it breathed its last. Roberts upholding obabacare and the upcoming “Immigration Reform” that both the Republican and Democrat Parties for different reasons will ensure that there is no resurrection.
Thomas Sowell for Emperor.
Only half joking.
Amen to that.
Decades from now, our kids may well look back on his writings and think, “Why the heck didn’t our parents listen to folks like him more?”
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