Posted on 04/17/2012 11:27:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Trayvon Martin’s shooter has a new lawyer. Mansfield Frazier hopes he’s advising his client to take a plea, since a protracted murder trial is the last thing we need.
As George Zimmerman faces murder charges for shooting Trayvon Martin, it’s worth asking if America is in danger of facing Rodney King, Part II?
That’s what I see down the tracks: If this case goes all the way to trial, it’s a train wreck waiting to happen. The time is now for strong hands to take the helm and steady the ship of state—not to mention our national racial, political and legal discourse. The paramount concern has to be to avert a large-scale racial calamity.
As Touré recently wrote, if sane adults are not careful, deliberate and measured in the handling of the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman affair, a dark time could descend upon America.
Look what’s already festering on the streets of Sanford, Florida. On the one hand we’ve got the three stooges of the New Black Panther Party running around Sanford, spouting off crazy ideas and becoming a total embarrassment to more thoughtful and reasoning blacks who simply want justice. On the other we’ve got the equally clownish neo-Nazis, goose-stepping around on their self-appointed mission to protect the white race. In this environment it wouldn’t take much to ignite the racial power keg we’re sitting on. One false or ill-conceived move in this case could allow the loony inmates—not Zimmerman’s current neighbors, but those who are imprisoned by their long-simmering racial hatreds—to fan the incendiary flames of bigotry into full-blown conflagrations of violence across the land.
As someone who watched the King riots unfold from a Los Angeles motel window (and sometimes from the balcony, when we weren’t too afraid to venture out), I’m here to tell you it was a nightmarish time. Thick, acrid black smoke from hundreds of fires hung over the L.A. basin for days as young, armed blacks and Hispanics roared around in open convertibles and jeeps, wearing bandannas and brandishing all sorts of weaponry. We could hear gunfire both in the distance and nearby. Stores that hadn’t been set on fire the first day were looted by the second, and by the third day TV stations were warning of an impending food shortage. A body lay in the gutter on Crenshaw Boulevard for the better part of two days before National Guard troops removed it.
We don’t want to go back there. Fortunately Zimmerman’s new attorney, Mark O’Mara, appears to comprehend the broader implications and potential danger of the situation, and seems well qualified to negotiate a fair outcome for his client, and indeed for the rest of us. He has the calm demeanor of a law professor, and speaks in measured, but not calculating, terms. His first comments seemed designed not to convince anyone of his client’s innocence, but rather to take the heated rhetoric down a few notches. He cautioned that everyone should allow the justice system to work.
So what would a fair outcome look like? To my mind, the government offers Zimmerman a plea deal that has him back on the street within this decade, and he accepts it quietly. That seems like a conclusion most reasonable Americans could live with. Of course, no matter how long or short any sentence may be, there will be those who disagree, some vehemently.
If O’Mara were successful in brokering such a resolution, he should be viewed as nothing less than a savior. A protracted murder trial of George Zimmerman is the last thing this country needs right now. America can only dodge so many racial bullets, and a not-guilty verdict in this case could very easily turn the racial cold war into a very hot one.
Of course, for such a plea scenario to work, Zimmerman will need to listen more to O’Mara than to any of the other voices clamoring for a piece of him. He’s in isolation right now, presumably for his own safety, but a side benefit is that it keeps the more rabid right-wingers from getting inside his head and convincing him to take the case to trial, based on the belief that no matter what the evidence shows, in Florida at least one juror will never vote to convict. Unfortunately, this reasoning is not crazy. The South, after all, is still the South.
But after a few weeks of isolation and the counsel of O’Mara, Zimmerman may decide going to trial isn’t in his best interest. If O’Mara is as savvy as he seems, he will probably inform his client of the stark legal facts: The state overcharged him with murder 2 for two reasons: it’s a bargaining chip to force him to accept a lesser charge, and a means to keep him locked up pretrial. The way the legal system is designed, it’s difficult for someone being held in custody to win acquittal. Even if he went to trial and managed to get a hung jury, the state would surely retry him (multiple times, if necessary), until they get a conviction or he’s spent more time in the county lockup than he would have spent in prison if he’d just pleaded guilty in the first place. And even if he were acquitted, let’s not forget the specter of a federal indictment being handed down.
In all of this, the upcoming bail hearing is key: If the judge doesn’t grant bail, Zimmerman had better start listening real intently to his lawyer.
The wild card is his father, Robert, who has so far sounded like a knee-jerk far-right ideologue. In an interview he said, "I never foresaw so much hate coming from the president, the Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP," and this was before Obama said anything about the case! It will be virtually impossible to keep Robert Zimmerman away from his son, which means he’ll have ample opportunity to whisper Stand Your Ground rhetoric into his ear, possibly ginning up Zimmerman’s courage and convincing him to go to trial in spite of the danger of being convicted.
We all need to pray that Mark O’Mara is successful in bringing about a fair outcome for his client, for justice, and, more important, for America.
Look for Mansfield Frazier’s next column... Everyone Vote Obama to Avoid Riots!
“They would find it was not be Reginald Denny types facing them.”
The Reginald Denny types will be exactly who the black racists will target. There are smatterings of white progressive liberals living in government-subsidized lofts in the big cities and also working there. They are our canaries in the coal mine. When they start going down - shot, beat and raped - that will embolden the savages, thinking they can move into the suburbs and get whitey.
That’s when they meet people who are not Reginald Denny.
Exo 23:2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
Hey, Mansfield Frazier you are an A$$. If the black community must riot then they will have to suffer the consequences’ of their actions. Railroading a innocent man is not justice.
Nix that last reply, seems the purchase has been confirmed.
Given his history of possession of known illegal stuff, does not bode well that the question had to be asked.
Wasn’t George Herbert Walker Bush Defender-in-Chief of Rodney King?
I am very reasonable, and if I were George Zimmerman, I wouldn't accept a plea deal for something that I didn't do.
It was either self defense or not.
If self defense, he should walk, if not, go to jail.
As far I riots are concerned, the threat of black thugs burning our homes should not deter us from seeking justice.
The black thugs should think twice before taking that kind of action, because this is not 1969.
Well, if ever an article needed a “Barf Alert!” this was it...
“The paramount concern has to be to avert a large-scale racial calamity.”
Absolutely not. The paramount concern is something called “justice”. I hope in the instance climate this has brought about it’s still possible...
I think a trial is EXACTLY what’s called for.
These people preach on ‘social justice’ but in reality, they mean, ‘Just Us’.
Sacrifice the ‘white’ man to appease the natives. This is nothing more than payback for the number of blacks jailed for crimes they committed and this low IQ freak projecting a lie to make himself feel better about the color he is.
It has already happened to one Little Rock Business this week. 1/3 of their workforce that day either is dead or conspired to commit murder. Read the affidavit at the source, a half-dozen co-workers told LRPD that they heard the perps conspire for WEEKS TO ROB THEIR EMPLOYER AND MURDER JESUS because he called them out on their poor work ethic!
Various chat rooms in Little Rock are people talking about not trusting blacks under their employment that are "known troublemakers", i.e. on cellphone at work, constantly tardy, "dragging ass" at work, not giving a damn, no work ethic, calling in sick, trying to get "Kwanza" off, etc.
Anyways, here is article on Little Rock's "Hoodie on Hispanic" crime.
May the victim, Jesus, rest in peace!
If one wants to get active about racists killing people, for the life of me I can’t figure out why the hyper-active excitement about the Sanford Florida case, which seems quite slim, and the silence Tulsa, Oklahoma case, which seems a lot more substantial?
Does this guy work for the same outfit (Daily Beast) that J.M. Berger works for?
I knew I’d be sorry if I clicked that...and yet I clicked it anyway.
Sure, throw Zimmerman under the bus to keep the blacks from rioting. Outragous! I hate those lawyers who play with other peoples lives. Ever listen to a “public defender”? They will encourage all their clients to take a plea so they (the lawyers) don’t have to work to prove their client innocent. (Yes, it’s supposed to be “innocent until proven guilty”...NOT!) Happens all the time.
Getting Zimmerman to plead will not stop the riots. The black’s don’t need a reason to riot, they will do it at the drop of a hat. They have NO control over the emosions and I have said that before. They go off for the least and slightest of reason. The riots are just sitting there waiting to start. Does anyone think our dear leader will try to keep that from happening? Buy lots of ammo then lock and load.
Sure, throw Zimmerman under the bus to keep the blacks from rioting. Outragous! I hate those lawyers who play with other peoples lives. Ever listen to a “public defender”? They will encourage all their clients to take a plea so they (the lawyers) don’t have to work to prove their client innocent. (Yes, it’s supposed to be “innocent until proven guilty”...NOT!) Happens all the time.
Getting Zimmerman to plead will not stop the riots. The black’s don’t need a reason to riot, they will do it at the drop of a hat. They have NO control over the emosions and I have said that before. They go off for the least and slightest of reason. The riots are just sitting there waiting to start. Does anyone think our dear leader will try to keep that from happening? Buy lots of ammo then lock and load.
Sure, throw Zimmerman under the bus to keep the blacks from rioting. Outragous! I hate those lawyers who play with other peoples lives. Ever listen to a “public defender”? They will encourage all their clients to take a plea so they (the lawyers) don’t have to work to prove their client innocent. (Yes, it’s supposed to be “innocent until proven guilty”...NOT!) Happens all the time.
Getting Zimmerman to plead will not stop the riots. The black’s don’t need a reason to riot, they will do it at the drop of a hat. They have NO control over the emosions and I have said that before. They go off for the least and slightest of reason. The riots are just sitting there waiting to start. Does anyone think our dear leader will try to keep that from happening? Buy lots of ammo then lock and load.
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
Maybe in SA or Zimbabwe you race baiting POS.
FUMF
The 90 year old war veteran husband was beaten and his jaw broken. He was shot in the face numerous times with a BB gun and sent to the hospital in critical condition.
The 85 year old partially blind wife was RAPED and then BEATEN TO DEATH.
Can you just imagine the pain, the humiliation, the horror that dear old lady experienced being gang raped by that pack of feral animals?
(the autopsy states she was raped. Don’t think all of these animals didn’t all participate)
And can you imagine the pain, the horror of that dear old husband having to witness this?
There’s a lot more involved here than a home invasion and robbery.
WHERE ARE THE CHARGES OF A RACIAL HATE CRIME??
90 year old husband’s jaw broken and shot in face with a BB gun numerous times?
85 wife year old semi blind wife RAPED and BEATEN to death??
Why does it take a foreign press to enlighten America as to this henious crime?
WHERE IS THE NATIONAL OUTRAGE?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2117695/Brutal-home-invasion-Oklahoma-couple-ends-65-year-romance-meeting-blind-date.html
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They have arrested one. Have they caught the rest of the gang of feral blacks who raped, tortured and murdered this elderly woman? Are they even looking? Not a word about it in the media.
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