[SJackson]

I don't see where conservatives are or were involved in a political sense. They may be guilty of looking at all the evidence, including exculpatory evidence, unlike what the author describes as the lynch mob mentality of the sharptons of the nation and the press. His acts post acquittal are irrelevant, he may not be a nice guy, but you don't go to prison for being a jerk, rather for crimes committed. I acknowledge under similar circumstances I wouldn't have followed Travon (unless perhaps he was on my property), but even if that was poor judgement, it's not a depraved mind. If politics were involved at all, it was liberals attempting to capitalize on the purported racial aspects of the case, and a prosecutor who overcharged.

[chicagolady]

With all the $hit and hate Zimmerman went through I tend to believe it affected him in more ways than one. That’s not an excuse, but he probably needs to get some professional help because of what he went through on a national stage.

[Nervous Tick]

Which came first, the “chicken” (Zimmerman’s psychological issues) or the “egg” (overwhelming stress of the attempting railroading)?

I didn’t know him before any of this crap went down, so it’s pretty hard to judge.

I imagine that going through what he went through would make me a little crazy, too. In fact, I’m not sure I would have held up as well as *he* did.

[cripplecreek]

Its always been my opinion that Zimmerman should not have followed Martin but he was still innocent because he shot in self defense.

[mylife]

Lieberman is an idiot.

[Vaquero]

Zimmerman is (or at least was) an Obama supporter. And conservatives can agree that he was correct in preventing Martin from dashing his brains out on a concrete walk. And right in protecting his community by being a member of the neighborhood watch.

That’s it. Every time this clown threatens a wife or girlfriend he should be taken to task

[CGASMIA68]

17-year-old youth with no criminal record.

No ADULT criminal record

[bolobaby]

The real Trayvon didn’t matter one iota to libtards.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

George really didn't "follow" anyone. PRECISE descriptions are vital, vague flights of fancy just don't make the cut.

The beast that tried to eat George Zimmerman was laying in wait for prey to stumble by. It still wants him,it doesn't like to miss a kill.

[BraveMan]

This article really piles it on good & heavy.

Nice hatchet job, Ari.

[jsanders2001]

And with the liberal MSM and activists continuously targeting him and the he vs she version of events that never seem to completely match up whose to say if anyone is telling the truth. One truth we do know - the liberal MSM and their followers have targeted Zimmerman and what he stood for for extinction and they are relentless; the truth doesn’t matter at this point; only what they want does...

[DemforBush]

I don’t get what Liberman’s point is here. Whether Zimmerman is a nice guy or a jerk is irrelevant. The *only* thing that matters was whether or not he acted in legal self-defense the night he shot Martin. The cops at the scene thought he did, and a jury of his peers thought he did as well. The system worked as it was supposed to, and it rendered its decision.

[chesley]

Even conceding that GZ is a racist who “profiled” TM. Even conceding that he has “anger management problems”, and is violent, so what?

Even racists have a right to self-defense. Even violent racists have a right to protect themselves, and even their property.

The important question is “who attacked whom?”. A jury settled that under the law.

[ExTxMarine]

A weapon was never recovered in this case, but 911 audio demonstrates a sincere belief on the part of Shellie Zimmerman that her estranged husband had a gun in his possession and that her life was in danger.

She should have been charged with LYING to police, and making a prank call to 911! She stated, matter-of-factually, that he had threatened her with a gun, which was NOT on scene! That was a LIE! That was simply stated in order to make the charges seem more significant! If I remember, there were no charges filed in that incident - BECAUSE THERE WAS NO INCIDENT! Other than her over reaction!

The "author" of this drivel, believes in the old, "it's not the charges, it's the seriousness in which they were made" that counts theory!

[Moonman62]

Criminal charges in the above cases were either dropped or never filed,

...

The most important part of the entire article.

[roofgoat]

Shows you that America is still too weak, too frightened and too clueless to take on the cancer that is EVERYWHERE today - violent racist crime against whites.

When we still dwell on a guy like Zimmerman and analyze “should he have followed a punk in a neighborhood that had experienced crime” and what he has done since - all while we see blacks committing horrible violence on whites weekly, tells me we are still soft as a pillow.

I was hoping the hatred displayed towards white the last few years would wake people up. I guess we still have a lot more Mississippi Burnings, daily MSM Headlines that Whites are racist devils and Knockout Games to go.

[tanknetter]

Moreover, Zimmerman sustained very superficial injuries – some minor scrapes and bumps – and these injuries are not entirely consistent with the life and death struggle that Zimmerman described

George Zimmerman is an idiot with more issues than Sports Illustrated.

However the forensic evidence showed conclusively that the fatal shot (the ONLY shot) was fired upward, into a larger and better conditioned Trayvon Martin, who was on top of Zimmerman and in the process of beating him in the face.

[Eagles6]

The author has a rather distorted view of the facts.

[House Atreides]

Ari Lieberman should stick to foreign affairs where he has some knowledge. When he ventures into domestic American affairs, he transitions to carrying the progressives’ water for them.

[kanawa]

he stated that Martin jumped out at him from the bushes, when there were no bushes in that area

[Political Junkie Too]

The Real George Zimmerman-A cautionary tale for conservatives.

Despite the slanted portrayal of the actual events and proceedings, the author fails to deliver on the premise of the title.

What is the "cautionary tale?" What is it that conservatives are supposed to take away from this?

The author never says.

-PJ