A Few Words On the Zimmerman Verdict

THERE'S VIRTUALLY NOTHING I CAN ADD TO  THIS CORRECT VERDICT  except to repeat what has already been said ad nauseam:   It has been the biggest, silliest and craziest witch hunt---and attempt to make a humongous  mountain out of a sad but minor molehill---that I have seen in my lifetime.  Congratulations to the jury for not bending to massive, highly charged political and emotional pressure,  and instead ruling on the unvarnished evidence.   No other verdict could have come from jurors even mildly in touch with reality (verses manufactured media fantasy propaganda).

As a matter of fact,  I too think this case should never have gone to  trial in the first place.  Fortunately Zimmerman as unfortunate scapegoat and sacrificial lamb had terrific, smart lawyers who did their part to defend him extremely well.

Highest congratulations and best wishes to them.

I blame the MSM media---including  Matt Drudge whom I mostly like--- and the professional race baiters for much of the mayhem and emotional tantrums and group projections on Zimmerman. (Is America really gripped in the second day of mass fury? Or are the usual suspects having their usual cry baby tantrums and getting more than ample attention from the usual media suspects who then try to magnify it into World War XYZ? It's a rhetorical question.)  

Victim consciousness is alive, well and getting louder in American today. In fact, it's big business with all the special interests that stand to gain more hits and money from beating this dead horse and continuing to give coverage where coverage is really not due. Such publicity is only playing into the unthinking, over-emotional masses only too willing to take up their cross of victimhood and follow race baiters' lead like sheep to the slaughter. This is exactly what the liberal media wants them to do.

Eric Holder and Al Sharpton are beyond the pale in every way as far as I'm concerned.  Two race-baiting hacks who love the sound of their own divisive, racist voices and have  no limits to the extent of their power-mongering egos.

Meanwhile, Talk Left gives the finest wrap-up of the Zimmerman trial I've read to date:

The legacy of this case will be that the media never gets it right, and worse, that a group of lawyers, with the aid of a public relations team, who had a financial stake in the outcome of pending and anticipated civil litigation, were allowed to commandeer control of Florida's criminal justice system, in pursuit of a divisive, personal agenda.

Their transformation of a tragic but spontaneous shooting into the crime of the century, and their relentless demonization of the person they deemed responsible, not for a tragic killing, but for "cold-blooded murder," has called into question the political motives and ethics of the officials serving in the Executive branch of Florida's government, ruined the career of other public officials, turned the lives of the Zimmerman family, who are as innocent as their grieving clients, into a nightmare, and along the way, set back any chance of a rational discussion of the very cause they were promoting, probably for years.

The problems of racial disparity and arbitrary enforcement of our criminal laws are real, systemic and need to be addressed. Criminal defense lawyers see it and fight to correct it every day. From charging decisions to plea offers to sentences, the system is not fair and everybody knows it. 

But this case has never been representative of those problems. And perhaps most unfortunate of all, as a result of the false narrative created by the lawyers for grieving parents who tragically lost their son -- a narrative perpetuated by a complicit and ratings-hungry media -- any attempt at meaningful reform is likely to fall on deaf ears for years to come.