The Zimmerman Trial And Authentic Reconciliation 2

The death of Trayvon Martin is a tragedy - an unnecessary tragedy. That the trial brought forward the reality that his death was caused by his own violent actions does not make it any less tragic - and unnecessary. To make matters infinitely worse, his death has escalated the polarization of our nation along racial and ideological lines. Some are using what they perceive as injustice to excuse their own commitment to injustice and general lawlessness - including high ranking officials in the federal government. Yet Christians and others committed to peace and a healthy culture have an opportunity to stand for the template God gives for society in the face of hysteria and violence.

Attorney General Eric Holder has promised the NAACP to investigate whether or not George Zimmerman violated Trayvon Martin's civil rights. (Of course it would be necessary to demonstrate racial bias in Zimmerman to try him on federal charges and even the prosecution in the case found no such evidence.) Holder has declared his certainty of Zimmerman's bigotry. The problem here is that only Zimmerman's rights have been violated in the way Holder imagines - as a matter of fact.

Zimmerman - not Martin - is the man who was assaulted and threatened with death while walking on a public street. He is the man who was prosecuted for second degree murder and had the additional charge of manslaughter illegally added during summary arguments - a violation of his sixth amendment rights. He is the victim of a prosecution team that held back evidence and introduced perjured testimony against him, and of an NBC News effort to compromise his defense by editing the tape of his 911 call to make him sound racist; he is suing NBC for this and he ought to sue prosecutors. One might ask why Eric Holder is not investigating and arresting New Black Panther leaders like Micah Muhammad for conspiracy and making the terrorist threats anyone can see on You Tube. Muhammad calls Zimmerman a wicked white beast and a dirty Jew while placing a $10,000.00 bounty on his head days before Holder addresses the NAACP.

Authentic reconciliation begins with a commitment to deal with the realities of a situation. It does not end there, but it must begin there. Reality begins with facts but includes much more - if justice is truly the goal. President Obama should be commended - I have often criticized him for fanning flames, but not this time - for expressing just such a commitment. In a recent surprise appearance the president accepted the jury verdict as final and appeared to rule out any further federal investigation of Zimmerman. At the same time he expressed the reality that many black men - and Native Americans and other minorities - have experiential and historical reasons for believing they cannot get fair play. He said he could have been Trayvon Martin thirty-five years ago; this is not inflammatory rhetoric, but simply harsh reality. I have many black and native friends who share how their children begged for different skin so they would not feel judged and persecuted. They have been boxed and labeled and refused services I can take for granted. They have also had my back in multiple nations and I am proud to have theirs. So how would Jesus re-frame the present conversation?

First He would say truth is objective, not subjective. He calls on His disciples to let their yes mean yes and their no mean no. He reminds them that the moral law is not finished but enabled by His death and resurrection; that includes the parts about not bearing false witness against neighbors or attacking them in the street. People who do these things, whether prosecutors, activists, or criminals should and usually do receive consequences. So much for persecuting George Zimmerman for defending himself, making him out to be some sort of symbol of historic oppression of minorities.

But Jesus likewise makes it crystal clear that the model for neighbor is the Good Samaritan who bound the wounds and paid for the care given his natural enemy when he found that enemy helpless and bleeding in the road. That means I can no more get away with writing off a Trayvon Martin - or an angry demonstrator - because they "have it coming" - than they can legitimately attack me for insisting the Zimmerman case be decided and resolved on its own merits and demerits. It means the time is here for Christians - and any Americans who believe the American dream is for every American - to be the Good Samaritan rather than just admiring him. It is time for honesty across the board. That's what repentance looks like.

The death of Trayvon Martin is a tragedy - an unnecessary tragedy.

Any article that spouts this nonsense will be ultimately invalid. Trayvon Martin was a punk who attacked and tried to kill George Zimmerman. He was not an asset but a deficit to society. His death was neither a tragedy nor unnecessary but rather an inevitability set in motion by his own choices.

Now the article mentions quite a few truths. But its use of The Good Samaritan story is incorrect. The article calls for America to be the Good Samaritan to its black citizens.

Now the Good Samaritan provided aid and comfort to one who was in distress from being attached and beaten. Well America fought a Civil War to end slavery of black Americans. And then it went through a Civil Rights upheaval to enforce the results. Those were America's "Good Samaritan" acts regarding its black citizens.

American now owes none of its citizens anything other than their rights as recognized in the Constitution. For those Americans who identify themselves part of a "black community", as they can by the right of free association, it is up to them to live up to the responsibilities of citizenship.

The article does not advocate living up to responsibilities. Rather, it exhorts those who are fulfilling their responsibilities to ignore the destructive behavior of those who reject responsibilities. This is not the moral sense of The Good Samaritan. This is moral nonsense.

I’m getting ticked off at this constant repetition by the media that anybody working security cannot leave their vehicle and determine what their purpose is being in a secured (gated)private area. George Zimmmerman was doing his job. I blame much of this on talk radio.

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Too many on both sides are playing with the truth of the Zimmerman trial.. The regime and the media set the premise for the trial narrative and their presentations ignoring the setting where the incident took place..An area having a “Neighborhood Watch”. If some of those so called conservative talk show hosts had interviewed guests who run such watches they would have exposed the regime and the media for the frauds they are. Particularly a “gated” neighborhood watch.When you enter one of these and start wandering around no matter if you are white, blue, red, green, or black. You can be asked your purpose for being there. You are on private property. And yes those on patrol can and do leave their vehicle and follow on foot if they lose sight of the person they’re observing..That’s the Watch Captain’s who is really a security guard’s job. .

It’s the second time the President of the United States has interjected himself into a confrontation between those in authority on legal grounds reasonably questioned and released someone involved in a curious activity in a patrolled area. Could this attitude be based from the idealized communist concept that there is no such thing as “private” property because the state (collective) owns the land ? .

In both cases those representing “authority” were reported as “white” . In the second case the person working security was attacked after questioning an activity while on private rights of way and allowing the person to continue on their way. Who then doubled back and attacked the “neighborhood watch” worker beating him severly on the ground and the attacker was subsequently killed in a struggle over the Neighborhood Watchman’s legal pistol.

In the second case both were dark skined.

Since the Zimmernan not guilty verdict has been rendered, the facts of this case are still being shamefully being concealed by the media to the extent they are advancing and are complicit in permitting a putrid injstice to be committed of the worst order,organized and instituted by our governent.While denied. It began as a miscalculation when a surname of a Jewish origin shot up and lighted the heavens like a star shell in the darkest of nights. It would have been difused if the media used pictures of both side by side because they look like cousins. And the area where this occured of paycheck to paycheck struggling homeowners of all races trying to protect themselves had been reported and not some ritzy all white enclave.they portrayed.

Worse yet the media is still pilling it on with ABC editing a a black jury members (remember when they were all white)t remarks to make it sound like she accused Zimmerman of murder .There are hundreds more but these from “mainline” media.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3048225/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3048631/posts

The result as we have seen is that another marxist axiom (division) has been implemented which has resulted with gangs of black youths murdering happless whites who happen into areas usually where a black population is the majority. Those media outlets who by their delberate misuse of the instrument of the 1st amendment are just as complicit in those deaths as the regime is.

Instead the party that hypenated itself from God at their 2012 convention into demo-coms, and believe that all groups should be hyphenated , Afro-American, Hispanic-American, etc..Decided Zimmerman to be the egg that is to be broken,. sacrificed, so that we have an omlet..

Just like Stalin did to the Ukrainian land owners known as Kulacks whom he executed, (and used that egg example) in a soclal engineering plan to organize collectives during a Russian drought..Because as we have learned there seems to be the intention to use a collective data base to create collectives.where a utopia of uniforimity of conformity exists. As was done in Detroit, and Oakland California.only this time a poor whitey or blacky won’t be able to move,.

Just as with the energy plan where the cost of fuel used for energy and transportation and that includes raising the price of transporting gas and oil by rail, that favors a key contributer while the regime has been recently ridiculing the impact the completion of a pipeline, has skyrocketed those costs. Placing many on fixed or limited incomes dependent on government handouts. Resulting from this regimes socialist policies which go blameless.

Now they call for the sacrifice of Zimmerman who must die for another communist plan.. We all move together in centers designed and approved by comrades running the collective who (just like Obamacare aren’t in it) won’t ever live there.

Do not confuse todays politicians and their ahearants in the press and academia as followers of “Liberalism”. . These are die hard God denying I’m right you’re wrong socialists incapable of independent thinking running todays media.. Devising political campaigns of lies and manipulated inflamatory languange disguised as “news or reliable information” designed to destroy any opponent or group to what is edict-ed by their leader. You must wind up goose-stepping in unison protecting the collective otherwise we will through the use of the government we control step on you and squash you like some insect..

What should the Rebuttal and counter charge be ?

Why is this being done ? To cover up Bengahzi, Fast and furious, IRS, Wind and Solar panel gate, NSA spying on US, Over-riding the constittution? Those are blamed on others .But not who accompaines Obama on his many trips around the world at taxpayer expence ? Were they the heavy hitters or their friends holding the president’s hand ? Never looked into either by the House and certainly not even speculated about or reported on by the media.

Seems like that could be considered pay back at US taxpayer expence. Isn’t that an impeachable offense ? Now if somebody even suggests impeachment. What better way to discourage any investigation into malfeasance and corruption by organizing the base for riots in the streets ? That’s why there is no serious investigations being conducted into any of these affairs by Bohner just grandstanding.

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