My feeling was that 'yes, the basic jury system still works' but at what price?
If I was attacked my skin color and lack of 'ethnic cover' would mean that every hateful thing done to George Zimmerman would work on me. NBC news would call me 'white' with enough hate to kill an elephant. They'd doctor tapes to make it worse. CNN could make up words and put them in my mouth - then retract their hate comments at 3 AM.
Bullies in the press have made sure Zimmerman's right to defend himself has been trumped by their right to do what they can to destroy his life.
Many of us will wonder if we'd just be better off allowing black thin-skinned thugs to beat us to death rather than go through the horror of a 'show trial'.
Then we saw the State act in criminal ways - holding back information - firing whistle blowers who wanted the truth to come out... The FBI and DOJ acting like Obama's personal army against his political opponents. Even after they discovered Zimmerman was a democrat who voted for Obama. That wasn't good enough. Having black blood wasn't good enough. Nothing was 'good enough' once they felt Zimmerman could be passes off as a conservative gun totting 'white guy'... The IRS evil, the FBI evil, all of it could be 'justified' with the destruction of Zimmerman. They weren't going to let him off the hook.
Liberal elites wanted blood - white middle class, middle aged conservative blood. And Zimmerman could be protrayed that way if the alphabets lied... and they did lie.
The rigged show trial was an excercise in hate aimed at 'right wingers' -even if Zimmerman wasn't one - he was portrayed as one. The FBI and DOJ wanted white conservative to lynch - Zimmerman would have to do... he was close enough for the goons to run with.
No, this isn't my country. I have little faith totalitarian jerks won't work to destroy the jury system now they know it's a weak link.
Expect calls from the boys in the press for professional juries. And a general mocking of private citizens. If the members of the jury are made public, Obama's boys in the MSM will go after them with the same hate and scorn they went after Zimmerman. It's not my country.
If we had a halfway decent leader in the WH many heads would roll from the DOJ to officials in FL and the enemedia, but many will say I'm nuts for even bringing that up.
Obummer, the supposed leader in the WH and his worshipers are the crux of the problem.