George is a hero to his community. He accepted the role of watching out for his neighbors. I would want that in my community too.
Amen to that.
Speaking of six people who are going to have to enter Witness Protection in rural Idaho...
Heroes? Maybe, but in another thread, it looks like at least one Juror is going to write a book, and one that Freepers probably wouldn’t agree with.
They did their job and came to the only logical conclusion.
It is sad that a hero today is someone who just does their job. In a nation of people mooching off makers, I suppose one could argue that is what passes for a hero today in our country.
Keep in mind that the jury is/are the representatives of the poeple within the judicial branch.
This was a very new innovation started by the English, that the people should have the final say in the matter.
And in this little insight is one of the real reason for the elite’s and aristocrat’s frustration at times. For a sequestered jury, six people or twelve people speaking as one voice (the unanimous vote), makes their decisions based solely on the evidence and on the law, and can rise above and defy the political wishes of those in power.
The commissars are angry. The appartchiks selected the proper comrades as the prosecutors and judge but failed to arrange the selection of a jury. Party leaders are deeply embarassed. There will be corrections made in the future and the reeducation of the people who failed to obtain people’s justice. Mistakes are not tolerable.
Importantly, George’s honesty and integrity really impressed the Sanford police, who looked at the evidence and concluded that he was right. This matters so very much.
When the FBI showed up, it interviewed those police, and talked “cop to cop”, they convinced the FBI agents that Zimmerman was honest. And when your career, in either case, is all about honesty and justice, when you get your mind set that somebody is honorable, it is extremely hard to convince you otherwise.
Neither police or FBI agents are easy to bully into persecuting someone when they don’t want to. Very frustrating for Holder, no doubt.
BTW:Zimmerman, his family and his reps better watch what they say in the next few months because Holder and his minions are going to go over every statement they make in order to build a phony civil rights case against him.