Posted on 07/24/2013 7:38:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A terrible moral dilemma. Hold a presser to vouch for the man who rescued you at a moment when he could really use the public support? Or stay out of the line of fire from vigilante lunatics bent on exacting “justice for Trayvon”?
What’s a couple with two small children to do?
The Gerstles were expected to hold a press conference today at the office of Zimmerman’s attorney Mark O’Mara, but cancelled a few hours before it was supposed to take place…
“The family called because they wanted to address the media. I knew that if we did it in an organized way, it would help them get back to a normal life.. But they called today and said they were more worried about blow back from saying anything that would be favorable to George, and decided they did not want to do any media,” O’Mara said.
The lawyer said that when he spoke to the Gerstles “their voices were trembling” and that they feared saying anything positive about Zimmerman “would be toxic.”…
Zimmerman “should be [armed] given the threats against him,” O’Mara said. He added, “If I were him I would leave” the country.
The most amazing thing to me about the rescue is that he was still in Sanford days after the verdict. I figured he and his defense team had devised a plan long ago to move him to Canada or Mexico or parts unknown in the event of an acquittal. He wouldn’t be “safe” there either necessarily, but the effort to track him down and get to him would be prohibitive for all but the most insistent nuts. As it is, I wonder if he’s thinking he can ride out the storm by lying low for a year or two, until most people have forgotten, and then quietly re-emerge somewhere in the U.S. I think he’s making a mistake.
Incidentally, is there an agency (or a charity) at either the state or federal level that provides security for high-profile criminal defendants upon release or acquittal? I’m not thinking about that for Zimmerman specifically, just in general. O.J. could have used it, I’m sure; so could Casey Anthony. I think they’re both guilty as sin, and maybe O.J.’s a special case because he could afford to pay for his own protection, but it seems weird to discharge a defendant from court on grounds that they’re “free” to go when they’re facing hundreds or thousands of death threats with little professional help in thwarting them. National media holds these people out, sometimes rightly and sometimes wrongly, as monsters and then they’re left to fend for themselves against a public that despises them. Is that their idea of “rough justice”? I’m not sure prison wouldn’t have been safer for Zimmerman.
the idea of a press conference was silly to begin with... heroes don’t rescue others for public accolades... would there necessarily be a press conference had the rescuer been someone other than GZ?
I know what you mean. Washington, Jefferson, Ben Franklin; etc. They didn’t have families?
What I don’t get is that we as a group who respect the founders, somehow seem to be able to ignore EVERYTHING about why they created America to begin with.
When I look at the risks they took, up to and including dying...and we can’t even VOTE in a secret ballot for what we believe in? We can’t fight back even with words of TRUTH to the liberal BS?
No, we are well and truly pathetic. I had a freeper tell me that ‘John Wayne’ talk was all BS. Really? If so, how did the founders create America? On lies?
Freepers need to consider that. If we don’t, how the hell do we expect the average schmock to?
A coward indeed.
I've noticed this a lot lately. People go with the main PC flow, not just with racial stuff. One day, too late, they will/might wake up.
I'd bet if Trayvon, or a black family was in that accident, Mr Zimmerman would still save them. I'm curious what the reaction would have been had it been a black family. I cringe that the saved family is wimping out. Maybe they wish someone else had saved them. Kinda shows that whites have no back bones.
One thing I'm sure of, Mr Zimmerman can sleep peacefully because of his brave act. God Bless him.
This moral dilemma is interesting to think about, especially if you think of it in terms of, “What would i do?” I’d be the last to judge him because we only have a portion of the story (the media version).
Half of me wants to accept the fact that he should be putting his family’s safety first. (Shoot, for all we know, his wife is the one who is scared and made him back out by threatening the couch treatment.)
Having said that, what does this teach his kids?! It teaches them to be loyal ONLY if it’s convenient and won’t cause any personal pain, that’s what it teaches them. It teaches them to be a wimp when you’re bullied and to turn tail and run like a whipped dog. It teaches them it’s preferable to crawl into a hole to hide when things get tough instead of standing up for what is good and right and Godly.
Zimmerman risked injury to himself to save this man’s entire family, for crying out loud! And not only that, now the “Hate Zimmerman” mob is claiming the rescue didn’t happen (or was staged)? And this couple can sit there and watch that and STILL do nothing to stand up for the man who helped them?
I wouldn’t climb into a foxhole with either one of these people! If this were my husband, i would be ashamed of him and have no respect for him if he didn’t stand up. As long as he consulted me first before going public, i would EXPECT him to stand up for Zimmerman.
Maybe they have some dirt on one of them, like an affair or an addiction or something.
I"mnot sure where it is in the Bible or if it's just an interpretation, but He dislikes a lukewarm person. Someone who's neither hot or cold. Didn't He say He would spew them out?Same applies to politics or every day life. People trying to play on the PC safe side of the road, staying within a personal comfort zone.
Maybe that family rather have died than be saved by Mr Zimmerman. God has placed those people together for a reason. The saved folks are living in fear of being unPC (siding with evil) than doing the right thing (siding with good and truth). Goodness,if the blacks attack them for speaking the truth, won't that expose the real issue?Either way,that family may find physical peace, but their spirit will be eaten with guilt.
Thanks WomBom.
I might add that my husband has also done what GZ did, so that’s probably influencing my thoughts on this. He came up on a wreck similar to this situation. The driver had broken legs and was trapped behind the steering wheel of a pickup that was on fire. My husband and another man pulled this guy out after prying the truck door open. Yeah, i was very proud of him. And yes, if my husband was Zimmerman, i would want the guy he saved to stand up for him.
(Revelation 3:15) I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
(Revelation 3:16) So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
(Revelation 3:17) Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
People who are not willing to stand up and be counted don’t deserve freedom.People aren’t standing up and that is why we are loosing it .
Exactly. Once upon a time, no man worth his huevos would give a second thought to doing the right thing soley because it was the right thing to do. Honor and decency meant something.
No one has to pretend they are Superman, but when something so simple and basic as standing up PUBLICLY for the man who helped rescue your entire family from a dangerous situation is somehow too much to ask, it’s time people do a pretty basic gut check about where their actual beliefs and principles lie.
This is basic stuff. Right and wrong. Principles matter. Little things matter. BASICS matter.
Zimmerman knows what he did. The family knows what he did.
And the nation now knows what he did.
There was some other guy there, who was as involved in the rescue as GZ, or possibly more.
AFAIK, his name has not been reported, and nobody is going to hold a press conference to publicly thank him.
Is there any particularly logical reason this family should be giving more publicity to GZ simply because he was recently acquitted in a high-profile trial?
Thank you.
Yep.
Uhm, yes...
Zimmerman _needs_ their support. Zimmerman’s own life is n danger, and their speaking out on his behalf might actually make a difference to his survival or how his life will be from now on.
They owe him their lives and should do what they can to help him. It’s about honour and decency, things that would have been a matter of course not long ago...
When it comes down to being a hero or making sure my family is safe you can call me a coward also.
Disagree.
They have no moral obligations to him other than those they would have if he were not a public figure.
There was someone other than GZ who helped rescue them. But nobody is denouncing this family for not holding a press conference to thank him.
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