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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LONUecnsMb8&feature=player_embedded
Great post! This link was a real find. For decades now, I have been convinced that black politicians and “Black leaders” and black politicians have been the worst enemies of Black Americans.
I can’t even imagine the kind of balls it must have taken for the guy on that video clip to lay out the specifics of black descent into dysfunction ever since the Watts and Harlem riots in the 60’s.
To Mansfield Frazier, “thoughtful and reasoning blacks” should demand that Zimmerman should be accept a plea bargain (like ten years in the joint) so that the country heal itself by surrendering to mob rule. He even thinks that Zimmerman’s father sounds like “a knee-jerk far-right ideologue” by expressing alarm at the hate fomented against his son by black community leaders.
The sort of stupidity that went into Mansfield Frazier’s ridiculous article is a sure recipe for the end of any civilization. Too bad blacks who can think for themselves can’t get heard.
As a former Sniper I can say with authority that no one will make it to with in 400 meters of me with their cranium intact. I recently updated my long distance tactical holdings from a Rem700 HV Bull Barrel +P4 recital scope to what my brother in arms are using now and the last precision weapon I was trained on the M110 aka the DPMS LR308 again with the P4 recital. I spend time a couple of weeks ago using 167gr OTM rounds sighting it in then popping tennis balls at 500 meters with it, Hats off to DPMS it is one fine weapon. 20+1 and with the 4 inch muzzle brake you can watch the round impact via the scope it is that stable and sub 0.75 MOA at 100meters from a semi-auto damn fine engineering.
See down here in Texas we have the right to not only protect our lives but also our property or the property of another that we have a written contract of employment to protect. Come these kinds of riots I will be selling my services to land or biz owners at minimum wage : ) under contract. Once a no trespassing perimeter is established at the property lines with the correct signage and/or purple fencing posts any and all trespassers legally can and will be shot on sight. I come with a team of 3 other Snipers, 1 other former Army Sniper and 2 Marine Scout/Snipers we have trained some of our other military vets to be our observes; how to read the ballistic charts and compute mil-click adjustments for us and how to use a spotting scope to call our fire when on mission.
Ideally a local biz would close its doors post no trespassing violators will be shot and then the families and friends of said owners bunker down with ample supplies in the structure while us warriors provide top cover and a 6 to 10 man ground team of combat vets secure the structure from the ones and twos that might slip pass us Tactical Marksmen. I keep in touch with at any given time 20 to 30 other vets who are like minded and still capable of bring the fight to the enemy physically. Never underestimate the millions of former Solders and Marines who are still in our fighting age prime we will not be victims nor let our families or friends fall prey to these animals we will exterminate them without hesitation.
Sigh...I know. And it’s not just “Rednecks”...
During the LA riots after Rodney King, the Korean storekeepers had to protect their own stores using guns.
And the Korean TV had a discussion about “anti Asian” discrimination, and they discussed how the cops refuse to protect them. Now Mayor Barry, the ex con, is complaining about Filipino nurses.
But I caution you not to use the word “monkeys” to describe the criminals of all races who prey on folks. Some might construe it as racial. Heck, in Oklahoma, it’s the white meth addicts who are the problem...
I see you have never read the Starve the Monkeys books by Patriot and Former Marine Tom Baugh. The monkeys are the unproductive parasite class of any race.
http://www.starvingthemonkeys.com/
This is a must read for any conservative looking to starve the beast and survive the coming fiscal melt down. That said I am white and have no white guilt, even though my forefathers not only owned slaves but bought and sold them as well, they were Spanish nobility and had the land grants and trade permission explicitly from our sovereign Phillip V to do such endeavors. That was in the 1700's 300 years later I refuse to have guilt over my fine lineage. I could really give two hoots if people think I might be racially insensitive its high time White People stand up and acknowledge that the extermination of our race and culture is being not only planed but implemented.
I cannot take credit for this but it is 100 accurate.
"Everybody says there's this RACE problem. They say this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white country and ONLY into white countries.
The Netherlands and Belgium are as crowded as Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and "assimilating" with them.
Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY white country and ONLY white countries to “assimilate,” i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.
What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY Black Country and ONLY into black countries?
How long would it take anyone to realize I’m not talking about a RACE problem? I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem?
And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn’t object to this?
But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the white race, Liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am anaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-white. Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white. " End quote.
People are tired of barely-concealed threats like the one your article represents, Mansfield. No thinking person wants a race riot, but if you guys bring it over this "white" Hispanic who was most likely defending himself from a violent thug, don't think you didn't see the warning signs:
Work on cleaning up your own community's act, Mansfield. The crime stats show where the real problem is.
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