All morning into the early afternoon I've been reading a variety of articles, blogs, and watching several news programs where the topic is, naturally, all about Trayvon Martin and Zimmerman.
We had a sour taste of it when Zimmerman's Self-Satisfied Attorneys appeared on The View to face Whoopi Goldberg. I find Mark O'Mara, the primary attorney, to be such a supercilious Famewhore that I won't comment beyond linking to The Mess.
Everyone has a slightly differing view no matter where one reads or channel surfs – even if the pundits and writers wanted to hear a Guilty Verdict. There is much apologizing, analyzing, criticizing, of the Justice System in not only Florida but all over the country. Pearls have been clutched. Fists have been raised. Al Sharpton found the verdict to be an "atrocity", with a surprising echo of same from NYC's Mayor Bloomberg. The U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, held a brief press conference earlier today to answer questions over the word on the streets that the Gubnet just might take on the case as a Human Rights Violation – or something like that. The answer? Maybe. (Stay tuned.)
Wingnuts – Ann Coulter to be specific – have rejoiced in the news of the acquittal. It had to be Ann, of course, to make the headlines first on how joyful it is for a vigilante to kill a "suspicious" looking kid in a hoodie and not be sent to jail. I wonder if she's going through back channels to get Zimmerman's phone # – his wife be damned!
Rumours are flying around that Fox News will hire Zimmerman to host his own "Stand Your Ground" program. I'm not sure if what I've been reading regarding that Natural Pairing is simply satire or a below-the-radar leak. Its not that out-of-the-question considering how Fox And Their Fiends rooted for Zimmerman from the beginning of the debacle. After all, I continue to write how the USA is going crazy; therefore it would make perfect sense to tune into Fox in the future to find Sean Hannity sitting on George Zimmerman's lap for a little special dance.
You know what? I could write a thousand words about this story. I have decided not to do so. People need to air-out their feelings right now – pro and con. The subject will remain the Top Story for most news outlets online and elsewhere for at least a week until some other shocking news event occurs.
I honestly have nothing new to say other than acknowledging a very simple truth: Our "Justice System" is not equipped to handle complex cases where the Burden Of Proof is mere hearsay from the Defendant, and when it appears that most police officers at the scene of a crime merely shrug and take a dead body to the City/County Morgue to remain unidentified for days as if they were tossing an unwelcome overdue phone bill into the trash. Something like that. And, by the way, that's what happened to Trayvon's body until someone decided it might be time to identify the victim as if it had been an afterthought.
Allow that image to rest within you for a moment.
Now, tell me, do you think such an egregious disregard for a human being would have happened had the victim been a clean-faced white kid? No way - unless he looked "Homeless."
That's all I have to say – at least today.
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