Posted on 06/27/2013 5:35:20 AM PDT by IChing
I know what I’m doing this summer.
Once the verdict is in, I’ll be able to turn more of my attention to other things (like fending off rioting, marauding, murdering Obama legions) –but until that happens I’m mostly transfixed, watching as much of the George Zimmerman trial on live web-streaming as I can get away with, given other responsibilities.
I know there’s so much more going on these days. As I’ve said before, it’s all just too much. Considering the egregious, massive tidal wave of government scandals and treachery, forgive me if I’m developing a jaded detachment.
But for this, for now: A female judge presides, and six female jurors will rule over the fate of neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman. The case fascinates me and many others, for aspects besides the racially-motivated railroading of an innocent man, and 2nd-amendment controversy.
Here, estrogen has entirely co-opted our culture’s erstwhile, time-honored standard for jurisprudence and legitimate due process. Verily I say unto you, the root of words like testimony, testate, and testament – all of them relating to establishing validity and truth, as tested and found in legal proceedings – is the same root-word as that having to do with authentic maleness; in testes and testosterone.
In fact, the word testicle resulted from the method by which the ancients attested to the verified virility of someone whose biological maleness was up for confirmation; the verifier simply reached under the garment of the guy in question, and then gave testimony as to whether there were a pair of gonads attached at the groin. It’s true, look it up.
Still, I have enough confidence in the outcome of this kangaroo court to stick to my glimmer of optimism. As I’ve written previously here, I yet believe barely enough in the process that I predict a finding of not guilty.
To prove murder, the prosecution has to show evidence which contradicts Zimmerman’s’ story of legitimate self-defense. They can’t. Because they don’t have it. Because it doesn’t exist.
As for the endless false claims that Zimmerman improperly followed Martin after allegedly being told not to do so by the non-emergency dispatcher, I’ll first say that the dispatcher testified yesterday that he is trained not to give orders, only non-binding suggestions. Next, I offer the actual segment of dialogue from the call:
Dispatcher: ”Are you following him?”
Zimmerman: ”Yes.”
Dispatcher: ”Okay, we don’t need you to do that.”
Zimmerman: ”Okay.”
Zimmerman’s account is that he was turning to get back into his truck when ambushed by Martin, who had already had plenty of time, far more than enough, to just continue on to the townhouse where he was staying (the time-line proves this) – but that instead Martin suddenly appeared and accosted Zimmerman, abruptly decking him with a sucker-punch; then hammering his head into the concrete; then trying to smother him; and then grabbing for his concealed gun (telling Zimmerman, “you’re gonna die tonight motherf*****!!) when it became exposed by Zimmerman’s shirt riding up his torso as he desperately squirmed and writhed and screamed for help, flat on his back underneath Martin’s mounted attack.
Zimmerman’s injuries, along with tape recordings, painstakingly vetted time-line analysis, and the testimony of multiple eyewitnesses all back up his assertion that Trayvon Martin was the aggressor, and that Zimmerman was literally fighting for his life when he shot Martin.
The prosecution has only spin, pathos, outright lies, and “coulda, woulda, shoulda.”
Zimmerman attorney Mark O’Mara has already destroyed one key prosecution witness who took the stand yesterday. The unfolding of the trial so far this week has been highly compelling. The action on related Twitter hashtag streams is particularly troubling, as to the level of rabid ignorance from Zimmerman-haters, and the extent of their promises of riots if Zimmerman is acquitted.
Speaking of yesterday, we also got yet another glimpse of a what a world without a George Zimmerman around looks like. A ghastly, sickening video featuring a towering, giant black thug savagely beating, over and over, a young white mother in her living room (it was a home-invasion robbery, caught on nanny-cam) and in front of her terrorized toddler, went viral on all forms of media. Yes, yes, I know, I’m a racist for bringing it up, and for including the races of the perp and victim in my description. Sue me already.
While you’re at it, sue the FBI and various other statistical clearinghouses for having the hateful bigotry to report the fact that young black males, around 3% of our country’s population, commit upwards of half of the violent crimes and murders. These reports are not merely the result of what many spuriously claim is unfair policing and prosecutions – along with Uniform Crime Reports, the statistics also come from, and are corroborated by, actual compilations of National Crime Victimization Surveys, aggregates of data obtained when victims of crimes are asked about the race, etc., of those who preyed upon them.
Just to silence any more shrieking about alleged bigotry, and bogus claims that racial profiling is immoral or otherwise wrong, I’ll ask anyone who thinks so, to tell me if it is immoral or in any way wrong to be more inclined to seek out male subjects when a crime has been committed, and no workable description of the perpetrator is available.
Males overwhelmingly commit more crime, especially violent crime, than females do. With incomplete information, compiling profiles of probable suspects using gender is moral and right, just as including race as an element in developing a criminal profile is moral and right – because it’s realistic, and necessary, to carrying out good, effective crime-fighting.
Resources are limited, and it is insanity to engage in fantasy-land, wistful folly that ignores facts (for the sake of political-correctness) when lives and property are at stake. Just as actuaries must base their work on realistic probability, so must we all base our life-and-death decisions on probability, when seconds count and we have limited information and manpower. Jesse Jackson reluctantly agrees with me on this, by the way.
It’s not my fault that young black males, as a general demographic, tend towards such violence and criminality (the subject of a whole other book to be written).
Nor is it George Zimmerman’s fault that he found Trayvon Martin’s behavior suspicious. Based on the toxicology results, it did turn out that Zimmerman was accurate in reporting to the police dispatcher his sense that Martin was on drugs. Remember, as well, that Martin had been caught by school police with a large quantity of women’s jewelry and a sharpened screwdriver (evidence of his involvement in burglary) in his bag, and that he had been suspended for breaking into an area which was off-limits. I believe Zimmerman’s account of Martin’s suspiciously wandering around in the rain, peering into houses and porches.
Call me a racist all you want (I practice what I call “embracism,” actually), but do go ahead and research Zimmerman’s involvement in the Sherman Ware case in Sanford, in 2010, before you go joining the lynching party howling for his supposedly racist hide. The media will not inform you about Zimmerman’s activism on behalf of a homeless black man in the Sherman Ware case, because the media is dishonest.
Due to space limitations, I’m not even going to go into the rest of the pile of evidence that Martin was a violent thug, mostly gleaned from his social media accounts and texts.
At the Retreat at Twin Lakes townhouses complex in Sanford, Florida, in the months preceding the night in question, there had been at least seven break-ins and home invasions, all of them done by young, black males. And just like in the horrific video I mentioned earlier, one of them took place in broad daylight while a mother was inside her home with her very young child, leaving both of them traumatized and eager to attend the organizing meeting to support the formation of the neighborhood watch project led by Zimmerman, in coordination with the Sanford police.
George Zimmerman was a good neighbor in his besieged community, and a cautious, concerned citizen who, first and last, called for help.
Estrogen cannot solve everything, especially when the riots start.
Good Article... I’m wondering if I should give it to my wife to read... We’ve had terrible arguments about this case the past three nights.
Funny... during the Jody Arias trial? My sex life dramatically improved.
In THIS trial? I’m barely allowed in the bedroom. My 30th anniversary in next month... I’m not sure we’re going to make it! (JK)
Zimmerman will be found innocent and there will be no riots, other than a few rent-a-mob types.
I most sincerely hope so.
The media, (all media) desire two things:
1. Ratings (therefore money)
2. Expansion of their ideology
How come we never hear Obama described as white-African?
See number 2.
I am watching on the link below. There is a scrolling window of back and forth comments below the live trial. So many people made up their minds, and do not seem to understand our legal process.
Remember when tourists leaving the airport in rental cars were being slaughtered because they were the only prospective victims Eric Holder's people could be sure weren't packing?
The same principle will be at work here.
Dee Dee acts like the prosecution gave her a xanax this morning.
Everything you said is spot-on...although on HLN recently there was one bright, clean, articulate black lawyer guy who was making sense, in terms of glibly stating that the burden of proof/hurdle the prosecution has to clear is very high, and that the facts and evidence thus far support Zimmerman...
Excellent article
You underestimate Messrs. Obama, Sharpton, Jackson, Crump, et al. This is the one they’ve been waiting for.
Great post, Alex!!
words fail me
Their day has passed. They just haven’t figured it out yet.
“I hope GZ is found innocent, but I have mixed feelings about the guy. He has a concealed carry permit and lives in a state with no income tax and solid self-defense laws, all courtesy of a lot of hard work by conservative Republicans over the years. Yet my understanding is that he votes for Democrats, who will undo all that if and when they gain enough power (witness Colorado). “
I want George Zimmerman to go free because I think he is innocent and being prosecuted purely because the race baiters demanded it.
George’s brother said Zimmerman campaigned within the family for Obama. Zimmerman is a far left guy and it’s always entertaining to watch the left try to eat their own, as demonstrated by Juan Williams. The irony here is if someone else shot Martin it’s entirely possible Zimmerman would have been one of the ones in front of the courthouse waving a sign saying “JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON!” and demanding that person’s arrest.
In the years following the introduction of concealed carry, foreign tourists driving renal cars were being slaughtered in the vicinity of the airports because they were the only prospective victims that Eric Holder's people could be certain wouldn't be able to defend themselves. The rental agencies had to stop making their vehicles identifiable so that their customers wouldn't get carjacked and murdered.
There will be no Reginald Dennys this time around. Mayhem my erupt here and there, but it will be dealt with quickly and with extreme prejudice.
LOL, I understand completely
Thanks, Lorianne!
This guy hit all the points I learned in April of 2012 and summed it up very well.
I also like his digression into those that say our prison system is racist. He said the same thing I put in the form of a question: “So, are there more men in prison than women because the system is sexist?”
The responses are always - ALWAYS - hilarious.
I always liked Richard Pryor's epiphany on that issue:
"It made my heart ache, you know, to see all these beautiful black men in the joint. The warriors should be out there helping the masses. I felt that way, I was real naive. Six weeks I was up there and I talked to the brothers. I talked to 'em, and ... THANK GOD WE GOT PENITENTIARIES!"
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