Posted on 07/11/2013 12:32:25 PM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: I haven't paid any attention to this -- well, I've been paying attention to the trial. I haven't paid much attention to this judge until today. You know, my instincts told me the fix was in on this thing from the very first moment Obama and Eric Holder got involved in it. But this is outrageous, what this judge allowed today. Folks, it's all up to the jury now, and it really depends on what they do because in the Zimmerman trial, I mean, every fear that we've had about this appears to be manifesting itself.
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Prosecutors in the George Zimmerman murder trial want to ask jurors to consider lesser charges of third-degree murder and manslaughter because they know that they haven't made their case on first degree murder. So they went and they said, "We want to let the jury decide," 'cause the alternative was acquittal or first-degree murder. And the prosecution today said, "No, no, no, no, manslaughter and maybe second-degree murder -- third-degree murder." I think it was a second-degree murder charge, not first-degree. And then, to compound this -- are you ready for this? -- it looks like the judge is going to permit the jury to consider a charge of child abuse because Trayvon Martin was 17 years old when this happened.
The attorney for Zimmerman stood up and was beside himself. He said (paraphrasing), "They're pulling this out of their hat. This has been buried deep. We didn't know this was coming. We need some time to prepare for this." The judge didn't seem too sympathetic at all. The judge seemed more than willing for virtually anything that will convict this guy of something to happen. Now, I had a little time here, not a whole lot when this started to shake out. As best I could determine, given the time constraints I had, I'm open to being shown wrong about this, but as I checked the statute on this child abuse business, I think, in order for Zimmerman to be convicted of this in something other than a banana republic court, he would have to have known that Trayvon Martin was 17 years old.
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You heard that, too? Well, I don't think Zimmerman cared how old this guy was when this was all going on. I certainly don't think he knew he was 17. I certainly didn't think he was involved with a child here. Prosecutors said that they would ask that the lesser charges be included as they hammer out jury instructions today. Prosecutors also seeking a child abuse charge against Zimmerman since Trayvon Martin was 17 at the time of his death. Never mind that Zimmerman's lawyers can't defend against either of these new charges 'cause they've rested. They rested their case, so this stuff comes out after they've rested. They have to ask the judge for special dispensation here.
Zimmerman's attorney has been on TV all morning, strongly objected to the prosecution's proposal that third-degree murder be included in the instructions. The defense attorney's name is Don West. He called the proposal "outrageous" given that it is premised on the idea that Zimmerman committed child abuse since Martin was underage when he was fatally shot. He said, "Oh my God. Just when I thought it couldn’t get more bizarre." West questioned how Zimmerman could be charged with child abuse while Martin was on top of Zimmerman "pummeling him."
The judge's name is Debra Nelson. She said today that she would allow the jurors to consider manslaughter. Arguments on third-degree murder had yet to be made. That's why the defense rested. There were no arguments made on third-degree murder. Look, my dad was a lawyer, but that's the extent of my knowledge here. I just think it's outrageous. And this is what happens in show trials. The only important thing in a show trial is pleasing the people in power and giving the unwashed masses a lesson. Show trials have nothing to do with dispensing justice. They're all about dispensing social justice, which is usually the polar opposite of real justice.
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Now, I don't know; I would think we've got grounds for an appeal here. But, I mean, who wants to see Zimmerman dragged through the courts again, even on an appeal, even though he might have to do it. I don't know, folks. I was on Fox yesterday afternoon on their show at five o'clock, and they asked me about this, and I told them that the media, since day one, has been invested in a guilty verdict here based on race.
You know, most of the media people that I've met -- sports, news, you name it -- given their age and generation, the civil rights movement seems to have had a profound impact on informing them of life in America. They are of the belief that racial injustice is just as prevalent today as it was during slavery and that we have yet to really make amends for it, and they consistently look at minorities as really constantly always discriminated against. They've got unbridled sympathy -- you know, it's really what it boils down to. They have unbridled sympathy, and I think it's actually insulting. They look at minorities as incapable of handling themselves, incapable of navigating the canals and the rivers and the fjords of life. And it really is a put-down.
It's a contemptible condescension that they have toward minorities while claiming to love them and being in their corner and being their champions and so forth. But to arrive at that position they've gotta believe these people are pretty much incompetent and incapable and that's why this never-ending sympathy. So the case comes, just like the Duke lacrosse case, it made to order, it fit the bill, and it didn't matter the nature of the evidence. It was yet another opportunity to prove that America is imperfect and needs to be perfected. It's yet another opportunity to prove that America is not yet the land of justice and freedom for all and that the people continually denied are blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities, people of color. And so the media champions, here comes a case, even to go to the extent of they called Zimmerman a white Hispanic.
The New York Times, we researched it, only five instances in United States history in the media of somebody being called a white Hispanic. Zimmerman was number five, and the other ones were in inconsequential references. CNN's picked it up now. He's a white Hispanic, all for the purposes of promoting racial polarization. All for the purposes of promoting a racial divide. So as is much the case and is often the case with liberalism, it's the seriousness of the charge that motives. It's not the nature of the evidence that matters at all. In fact, the nature of the evidence must always be ignored.
I first learned of this, by the way, my life has been a never-ending education of liberalism. During the Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill hearings, I kept hearing advocates for Anita Hill wringing their hands talking about the seriousness of the charge. Yeah, well, what about the evidence? That doesn't matter. Seriousness of the charge. Oh, actually it was before that. The first time I heard it, there was a professor at Columbia named Gary Sick -- appropriately named -- and in 1990, he published a book, and the book claimed that George H. W. Bush was flown secretly to France on an SR-71 spy plane to negotiate with the Iranians. He struck a deal where the Iranians would keep our hostages through the 1980 election, thereby making Carter look bad and enabling Reagan to win. In 1990, 10 years after the fact. Of course, this was all about the George H. W. Bush reelection in 1992.
The Speaker of the House at the time was a man known for stealing airline food, Thomas Foley from the state of the Washington. Well, he was. He'd fly commercial flights and he'd steal people's food and disembark with it. He really loved the plastic knives and forks that came with it. Anyway, he goes to the microphones and the camera, said, "The seriousness of the charge is such here that we are required to investigate." The seriousness of the charge? By who? A whacked out Columbia professor? Yeah, that's all it took, the seriousness of the charge. It's the same bogus BS here. The seriousness of the charge, racial discrimination, racial hate crime, i.e., same thing at the Duke lacrosse case.
It doesn't matter what happened at the Duke case. It doesn't matter everybody involved was embarrassed profoundly. It doesn't matter they were dead wrong, same thing here. So now the trial happens, and the prosecution, everybody knows it, and then the news fails to make their case on second-degree murder, uh-oh, time for emergency procedures. Guess what? You know what? We want to go for "he broke his finger and has a hangnail," whatever we can get a conviction on, child abuse. The judge says, "Oh, that's interesting, oh, okay we'll consider that." And Zimmerman's lawyers don't know what to do.
We're in a show trial. This isn't about justice, folks. Eric Holder goes down there and ratchets up public opinion with Reverend Al. The president says, "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," thereby injecting race into a story that may not have been about race at all. Probably was not about race. We certainly do not have white on black crime here. We have made up white Hispanic so-called crime on black here. The only reason this trial is taking place is because the media is invested in a guilty verdict, and the race hustler industry, including the attorney general, flew down there the minute this case happened, when Zimmerman wasn't charged. Remember the original police chief wouldn't charge. They didn't have enough evidence to charge. There was nothing to charge here.
The race hustler industry got involved and brought public pressure on the law enforcement officials down there, and even on the state attorney. In order to satisfy the demands of the all-powerful federal government, they charged Zimmerman. The original law enforcement bunch first exposed to the evidence didn't charge Zimmerman. There was nothing to see. And then the Reverend Sharpton and the other race hustlers got in business and flew down there, Eric Holder flew down there, thanked Reverend Al, as he called him, for his community outreach and service.
The regime saw an opportunity to turn something into a profoundly racial case for the express purpose of ripping the country apart. I don't know how to describe it. I really don't know how else to describe it. Last night on CNN's Anderson Cooper 175 correspondent George Howell interviewed the former Sanford, Florida, police chief, Bill Lee. He was the guy that said there was no probable cause for arrest and he was the guy that was fired, or removed from the case. So the CNN correspondent Howell said, "Your lead investigator, Chris Serino, suggested manslaughter on that initial police report. Why is it that for 40 plus days George Zimmerman walked a free man?"
LEE: The laws of the state of Florida and the Constitution require you to have probable cause to arrest someone. The evidence, the testimony that we had, didn't get us to probable cause. You know, if we had people that were witnesses that could tell us that the self-defense claim or the way George Zimmerman said things happened that contradicted that, then we certainly may have probable cause.
This was a show trial before it even convened.
That should read “Persecution”.
I wish I had complete faith that the jury will acquit George Zimmerman.
I am so praying.
The prosecution keeps using the word ‘profiling’ in closing statements.. THEY ARE SETTING THE DOJ UP FOR A FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS ‘RACIAL PROFILING’ CHARGE. There is NO evidence whatsoever that George was watching Trayvon due to his race. They couldn’t even find someone that could testify to George ever saying the ‘N’ word, or they SURELY WOULD HAVE.
I have to wonder if the IRS has audited Zimmerman yet?
I wish I had complete faith that Zimmerman would've gotten a jury of his peers.
That needs repeating !
Well, Mr. Prosecutor.. He DID defend himself! BOOM! LOL
I haven't been following this, are the prosecutors all bleeding heart dims?
yep.
yep.
Right there with you Onyx!
Me too.
I think it probably depends on whether threat to the jurors’ personal safety and that of their families has been somehow communicated to them.
It was 2nd degree murder, not first.
I mean it was 2nd degree murder he was charged with, not that he is guilty of it.
That is all Mr. Zimmerman; and all of us for that matter; has left, FRiend. Praying to God that the jury recognizes the outrageous, desperate nature of the proceedings.
Tatt
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