Posted on 03/26/2015 6:24:04 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Before there was Ferguson, there was Trayvon Martin. On February 26, 2012, Martin was shot and killed by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman inside a Sanford, FL neighborhood, producing a ripple effect still being felt to this day. Zimmerman has been largely silent since his 2013 acquittal, but he is making up for lost time with a new video he recorded with his attorney, Howard Iken.
Asked who he blamed for the “highest level of unfairness” he has experienced since the shooting, Zimmerman was quick with an answer.
“By far, the president of the United States,” Zimmerman said. “Barack Hussein Obama. He had the most authority and, in that sense, I would hold him in the highest regard believing that he would hold that position and do his absolute best to not inflame racial tension in America.”
Zimmerman specifically criticized Obama for mentioning that if he had a son, he would look a lot like Trayvon. “To me, that was clearly a dereliction of duty pitting Americans against each other solely based on race.”
Zimmerman waited until now to speak out because he was still under investigation by the Justice Department. Eric Holder announced last month that they were putting that investigation to bed without charges, insisting that the “high legal standard” applicable to a civil rights case were to blame. Holder argued that these standards should be lowered.
Of course, the last thing we need to do is lower the legal bar needed to bring federal charges against a man who has already been acquitted by a jury of his peers. Our efforts would be better used to ask why Zimmerman’s case ever went to trial in the first place. The evidence clearly demonstrated that Martin initiated a violent confrontation, putting Zimmerman in fear for his life. It’s why he was acquitted, and it’s why he feels no remorse for what he did.
“Only in a true life-and-death situation can you have mental clearness to know that you cannot feel guilty for surviving,” Zimmerman said in the video.
To the race-baiters who have used the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown to fuel their aims, the facts don’t matter. Only now, months later, are certain news organizations admitting that they got “hands up, don’t shoot” wrong in the Ferguson case. Most still refuse to admit that they were just as wrong in this one.
For George Zimmerman (and Darren Wilson), life will never be the same. Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Al Sharpton, and the liberal media have seen to that. That’s a shame, but it pales in comparison to the damage these hooligans have done to our country. By weaving divisive fictions, they have gouged deep wounds across our national psyche. It will take a long time for those wounds to heal, but they will never close as long as we keep picking the scab. We will never move forward until we admit, collectively, that these cases were never what they seemed to be.
And I’m not holding my breath.
A liberal mugged by reality.
If only he had been on neighborhood watch in Kenya...
Obama: Best conservative converter, AND gun sales man.
100% chance he votes for all Democrats and would vote for Obama again.
This is to cheer for Satan’s odds against God
Someone should advise George to keep a low profile. In other words, he should just shut up. He’s not Charles Bronson, and I can’t imagine there are too many people out there who care about what he has to say.
A great hero for America. If a thug attacks you— shoot the bastard.
“Holder argued that these legal standards should be lowered.”
Why not? The White House has been lowering standards and expectations for about everything else for the last 6 years.
Do tell...
Check your Wheaties for yellow liquid, Francis...
It's difficult for me to respond to such a interesting (and illogical) post, so I'll just let it go. Feel free to post more gibberish. I won't respond. But if it makes you feel tough, and clever, go right ahead.
It blows me away when I hear conservative talk hosts stuck in and because of “political correctness” (most recently Joe Paggs but he’s not alone) when it comes to both episodes. Zimmerman in Florida and and Wilson in Missouri consistantly claim an innocent “misspeak” on Obama’s part.
Obama’s a guy who relies on the teleprompter just to open his mouth. When he made those statements he consulted with others supporting the same driven agenda. Get the blacks whooped up and divide the races so there can be no “impeachement talk” Including Sharpton, Holder, and Jarret. It was calculated.
It blows me away when I hear conservative talk hosts stuck in and because of “political correctness” (most recently Joe Paggs but he’s not alone) when it comes to both episodes. Zimmerman in Florida and and Wilson in Missouri consistantly claim an innocent “misspeak” on Obama’s part.
Obama’s a guy who relies on the teleprompter just to open his mouth. When he made those statements he consulted with others supporting the same driven agenda. Get the blacks whooped up and divide the races so there can be no “impeachement talk” Including Sharpton, Holder, and Jarret. It was calculated.
Good point.
Zimmerman and Ferguson were justified deaths — sad, but justified. The NY chokehold was not, in my humble opinion, in any way justified
The chokehold case, Eric Garner, I thought there would’ve been a case for at least excessive force. Selling “loosies” on the street in NYC is usually treated as a nuisance, mainly resulting in summonses and at worst, a little time in Rikers and/or probation. And heree’s a dirty little secret the LSM overlooked, the precinct Capt. where this incident took place is a BLACK WOMAN.
Exactly. the MSM ignored it because it didn’t fit into their stereotype of “race violence”.
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