Over at PJMedia, Roger L. Simon has a piece with the catchy title “Obama Big Loser in Zimmerman Trial.” Simon writes:
By injecting himself in a minor Florida criminal case by implying Martin could be his son, the president of the United States — a onetime law lecturer, of all things — disgraced himself and his office, made a mockery of our legal system and exacerbated racial tensions in our country, making them worse than they have been in years. This is the work of a reactionary, someone who consciously/unconsciously wants to push our nation back to the 1950s.
It is also the work of a narcissist who thinks of himself first, of his image, not of black, white or any other kind of people. It’s no accident that race relations in our country have gone backwards during his stewardship.
It’s a clever premise, and in ideal world, it should be true, but in the world we live in, the one where Obama got re-elected, I suspect it doesn’t hurt Obama one bit.
These are just a few quick thoughts on my part, so they won’t be fully fleshed-out, but as I see it, Obama got most of what he wanted from the Zimmerman trial. Zimmerman wasn’t convicted, but as far as Obama and Holder are concerned, that only would have been the icing on their toxic cake.
As suggested in this great article by Karen McQuillan at American Thinker, Obama and Holder are masters at using race and division to advance their agenda. And when this incident occurred, Obama was showing some softening of support among black voters who were not faring well in the Obama economy. McQuillan writes:
Once the president of the United States weighed in, Zimmerman had a target on his back. An ounce of election advantage to our privileged, Ivy League president versus the ruination of a Hispanic man’s life — it was an easy choice for Obama. Obama’s great appeal to voters in 2008 was his self-presentation as a black man without animus or grievance, eager to move the country beyond divisions of all sorts — black and white, red and blue. In reality, Obama is obsessed with divisions — race, class, gender — and is expert at fueling war between us, to his political advantage.
Obama has used accusations of racism before, to rally his troops and attack his political opponents. Opposition to ObamaCare? Racist. Opposition to big government? Racist. His core liberal supporters like this stuff, and the other voters give him a pass on this, as on everything. The election analysts were predicting that even black turnout could dip in 2012. Obama moved from racial slurs on opposition groups to attacking a particular individual citizen. Zimmerman was sacrificed.
The death of Trayvon Martin was a tragedy. Not just for his family, or for any one community, but for America. I know this case has elicited strong passions. And in the wake of the verdict, I know those passions may be running even higher. But we are a nation of laws, and a jury has spoken. I now ask every American to respect the call for calm reflection from two parents who lost their young son. And as we do, we should ask ourselves if we’re doing all we can to widen the circle of compassion and understanding in our own communities. We should ask ourselves if we’re doing all we can to stem the tide of gun violence that claims too many lives across this country on a daily basis. We should ask ourselves, as individuals and as a society, how we can prevent future tragedies like this. As citizens, that’s a job for all of us. That’s the way to honor Trayvon Martin.
Libtards lust for power in order to control the sheeple according to their current, faddish view of “correctness.” They are prideful and lash out with the politics of personal destruction against those who stand in their way. Their wrath is both verbalized and implanted by way of insidious actions meant to undermine their opposition. They have lying tongues. They scheme and devise wicked plots. They sow discord. They plant festering mischief. They twist the context to fit their version of the truth and justify their lies. They refuse to practice circumspection and correct their errors in any sense of obedience to promoting a better solution.
“None of those reflections are to start from the premise that perhaps Zimmerman had a right to have a weapon with him and to use it to fight back when he was knocked down and attacked.”
An older man threatens a young kid and instigates something – clearly he was harassing him from the calls to the victim’s sister – then gets his ass kicked.
Then shoots the kid.
This is your hero?
According to the lunatic right wing, its now legal and moral for anyone to go to go to a High School, instigate fights with kids stronger than you, get beat up, then shoot the person you picked a fight with.
This is the America you want to live in? Not me.
Wrong.
They lost because none of the facts adduced during the investigation supported a charge of 2nd degree murder (or manslaughter, for that matter).
They lost because this was a ‘show trial’ up to the point where the 6 lady jurors showed some moxie and resisted the political, media and incipient lynch mob pressure and rendered the only just verdict based on the facts presented at trial.
And good for them: that took guts.
But don’t think that two of America’s most prominent race-baiting sons of bitches, Obama and Holder (with those pimps Jackson and Sharpton close behind), are done milking this drama.
Because they’re not.
Then do everyone a great big favor and go somewhere that’s more suited to your politics, like Venezuela.
You and your ilk have done enough damage to this country as it is.
Nice job grossly misrepresenting 1). the point of my post, and 2). the facts of the case, mike.
If I understand fully, I mostly agree — but therein is an irony: much of what passes as leftist ‘intellectualism’ is premised upon what is often termed social justice. Injustice must continue to exist if this particular strain of leftism is to continue to exist and so while a conviction might have been celebrated as a kind of victory, the acquittal actually better serves the long-term. One can even make a similar argument re. Obama’s own election, as his presidency removes a long-standing grievance held as one proof that the continued need for agitation for change is necessary — that is, as long as the symbol of racial representation is held proof of justice, then there can be no peace.
The real tragedy is that there is genuinely little regard for Martin’s life: it is those who have reduced the Zimmerman trial to a game played on a racial chess board, whose symbolism supersedes any facts of the case and that Martin’s corpse is to be used as a pawn in a particularly gruesome media spectacle (to say nothing of Zimmerman’s life). The race-baiter claims outrage but his existence depends upon just such cases.
I’m very cynical, obviously. Do I think racial and other agitators engage in such convoluted reasoning such as it is? I’m not sure but it appears that whatever the means, the end serves the purpose of grievance and the grievance industry owes its current cachet to Zimmerman’s act of self-defense, a debt of metaphysical if not literal gratitude.
Good to see all the “usual suspects” and “useful dupes” out in-force waving the bloody-shirt and yelling “racism…”
**Yawn** Now can I have my Cable-TV back?
“Nothing to see here. Move-along, move-along…”
You make many good points about the rhetoric of “Social Justice” and the different ways this case serves its aims, Ignatius. I’m inclined to agree with all your observations in that respect.
Jman61: With regard to the prosecution’s case, be sure to follow the link I have provided above on the prosecutor’s name. It will take you to a Legal Insurrection post about Alan Dershowitz’s assessment that the prosecution had no case. I just tested the link and it isn’t working, but I will fix it as soon as I post this comment. (It is fixed now.)
Not just a ‘young’ kid, but a ‘little 16-year-old kid’ [as a female POC commenter whose name I wish I could remember said today]. Yes, a 16-year-old, six-foot-one, one-hundred-fifty-pound “little kid” with apparently just a little bit of pent-up rage to go along with the physical characteristics.
Sorry, but Buckwheat, he wasn’t.
Kurt-
I read that one (and watched the video) a few hours ago, before you posted this topic.
Dershowitz (no staunch conservative) was emphatic in describing Angela Corey as a liar due to her manipulation and omissions in the Affidavit of Probable Cause that she filed with the court.
Of course, if the facts warranted a charge of 2nd degree murder, any good and honest prosecutor would have taken it to the grand jury and let them hand down the indictment.
And just today, the good professor said that the two prosecuting attorneys should face disbarment for their actions in presenting this case.
Throw that despicable Corey in with them, and that would be some real justice.
Too bad it won’t happen.
Let’s stop right there.
Did Trayvon call his sister?
No. She wasn’t his sister.
And she also lied multiple times and admitted that Trayvon was making racial slurs.
So you don’t even have the BASIC facts right, mike.
But is that going to stop you? No. As we see:
No it isn’t. You are lying. You are lying, smearing, attacking, and berating all of us here based on your prejudice, your bigotry, and your hate.
You haven’t posted a single fact, provided a single bit of evidence, done anything besides come in here and scream and lie and race-bait.
You don’t care about facts or the rule of law or due process or anything, mike. You are the new KKK, the racist lynch mob that is going to kill whitey.
Why are you such a racist, mike? Because your Obama is one and you have to obey the black racist Obama?
Race-baiting mike has made it clear how the Obama Party views this: white people are automatically guilty and should be lynched.
It has been hilarious to watch the race-baiters like mike go apocalyptic over the past day. Clearly mike and his fellow race-baiters are livid that the jury didn’t call for Zimmerman to be executed as they had demanded the minute they found out Trayvon’s skin color.
Once you realize that Obama, the Obama Party, and their puppets like mike had decided Zimmerman was guilty the second it was found that Trayvon was black, you see them as the sick, deluded individuals they truly are, and you see why they cannot stop themselves from lying about every aspect of this case.
Their identity is at stake. They would be exposed as utter bigots and racists if Zimmerman was found not guilty, given how they IMMEDIATELY declared him guilty based on Trayvon’s skin color.
And they are now exposed as such. So they are going to shriek and lie and project and scream to avoid the fact that they are bigots, that they pre-judged the case on the basis of Trayvon’s skin color, and that they wanted a lynching, not a fair trial and due process.
mike @ #1
Yes, because the reasonable response to verbal confrontation is physical violence.
Really, only one person knows exactly what happened, and the prosecution failed to demonstrate that Zimmerman was guilty of something other than killing in self defense, beyond a reasonable doubt. Because they failed to do that, Zimmerman was presumed innocent, according to the principles of the law in the United States.
Who said that he is a hero?
Huh?
Ignatius @ #5
His life is insignificant. About 150,000 people die every day. There was nothing significant about Martin’s death that should have made it anything more than a typical trial (if it should have been a trial in the first place). That this trial was made into national news, let alone news that was focused on pretty much incessantly, is a farce.
Rattlesnake writes: There was nothing significant about Martin’s death that should have made it anything more than a typical trial (if it should have been a trial in the first place). That this trial was made into national news, let alone news that was focused on pretty much incessantly, is a farce.
That is certainly true. Last night Glenn Reynolds highlighted a memorable tweet from HotAir’s Allahpundit which reads: “No matter how much contempt you have for the media in all this, you don’t have enough.”
Geez, how did I ever miss this gem?:
And the person who had the least regard for his life was Martin himself.
Followed closely by his parents (but watch how fast they try to clean up with a civil suit against Zimmerman; never let a tragedy go to waste, I suppose).
And his ‘friends’ who egged him on with his racist text messages and his multiple boasts re: who he beat up, or who he was planning on beating up. And how many from this group are going to wind up as gangstas, on the dole, in prison, or dead at an early age because we have a very f—ed up culture that aids and abets this type of behavior, because to condemn and punish it would be ‘judgmental’ and ‘RAY CISS’?
I’m pretty sure that’s not how you meant it, though.
Yeah, he was actually a good and decent kid who was a tad too rambunctious, that’s all.
You know, the way most energetic 17 year old teenage males are.
Anyone else want to try their hand at an amateur canonization of St. Trayvon of Skittles?
Rattlesnake
If you are 16, and you are clearly threatened by someone following you, what might your reaction be?
Mine might have been to fight back. Think back to when you are 16.
“His life is insignificant”
Horrible. Beyond horrible. And hopefully folks on the left can use this correct stupid gun laws that make picking fights then winning them with guns illegal and thus bringing some significance to this awful tragedy.
Which is what it this whole case is. A Tragedy.
I wouldn’t resort to violence unless it was clear to me that my life was in danger, which wouldn’t be the case if someone was just talking to me, unless the words were extremely threatening (i.e. “I’m going to kill you” or something like that). But way to not respond to everything else I said (about this being irrelevant in the first place).
Please. If you were really compassionate about all the black kids that are killed due to gun violence, you would be talking about all of them, not just one that isn’t even representative of the majority of them. Look at Chicago, where the gun laws are more to your liking.
I’d heard that his parents have already been-paid $1-1/2 Million-dollars by the Homeowners’ Assn’s insurance carrier out-of-court.
That, right there, is myth-making: mike can’t even get Martin’s age right.
Why does his age matter anyway? Does beating someone up for merely verbally addressing you (assuming nothing threatening is said, which there doesn’t seem to be evidence of in this case) become acceptable as long as you are below a certain age?
RS – if you took the age low enough, actually yes: no one faults a 1-year old for hitting, because they can’t understand if you try to correct them.
But, to your first question…I think the age (the incorrect one, 16) may matter to mike, because he and other Martin supporters may feel that the younger they push it, the crueler (and more racist?) are people like us, who fail to blindly support Martin.
I know; if that is really how they think, it’s pretty stupid. But, I suspect they do.
I don’t think we can assign credit (or is it blame?) to littlelettermike for the incorrect age promotion; I’ve seen several post-verdict comments refer to T.Martin as age 16 at time of death. I do believe it’s myth-making though—much in the same way he is portrayed as being “unarmed”. [Fists and the use of surrounding environment (eg, concrete) notwithstanding.]
Apparently to some, he’s more of a victim (and more diminutive) if he’s referred to as being a year younger.
And I suspect you’re right!
RS:
“Why does his age matter anyway? Does beating someone up for merely verbally addressing you (assuming nothing threatening is said, which there doesn’t seem to be evidence of in this case) become acceptable as long as you are below a certain age?”
14, 16, 17 18, or 20. Martin was a kid. And If you were a kid, and someone was stalking you then comes out tries to stop you, I am damn sure you would not just submit to this weirdo on the street. You would either run, or fight. In this case Martin fought and Zimmerman is such a pussy he could not win the fight he started without his gun.
Zimmerman put himself in this situation by following and confronting. That much is clear. He could have avoided the situation and stayed in his car but instead he followed and instigated the fight, started losing that fight, then shot the kid.”
That much seems clear to me. And that to me, makes him a murderer. No matter what a jury says.
A one-year old can’t beat someone up to the point where they are almost dead. I’m sure a 5-year old could, if the victim was sufficiently weak, in which case the 5-year old would likely be reprimanded in some way. Yes, there is a distinction due to the age; the 5-year old shouldn’t be tried as an adult because he or she likely lacks the mental maturity to realize how what he or she did is very serious, but that doesn’t make what he or she did acceptable (which was my point).
Do you know what Zimmerman was saying to Martin? You sure are presuming a hell of a lot about this case.
Hi, mike! You’re still an idiot!
If Trayvon DID fear for his life — why did he call Jeantel and not the police? Why the racist slur in regards to George while on said call? Why did he take two-hundred and seventy seconds, four and a half minutes, to double back and get into an altercation with George?
Oh, right, those facts don’t support your narrative, so you conveniently ignore them while having the audacity to lecture people here who have actually bothered KNOWING WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT!
If the only way you can push your narrative is to blatantly lie, then own it, mike. Don’t pretend you want a debate, come out and admit you are a shameless racist and be done with it.
Microbe.
See how this is going?
Race-baiter mike the Obama cultist is going to throw anything and everything at the wall in the desperate hope that something sticks.
Hilariously, mike is showing the deep and pervasive racism and animalistic behavior at the core of liberal policies by his insistence that Trayvon was operating at the mental level of an animal.
This is why race-baiter mike won’t deal with Chicago or any other Obama paradises. Race-baiter mike thinks it’s NORMAL for black teens and adults to act violently, and this doesn’t see anything unexpected or wrong with their behavior. Race-baiter mike only cares about this case because his racist bigot Obama thought Zimmerman was white and thought he could turn a quick race-hustle with it; now, just like with the Duke lacrosse case, race-baiter Obama snivels and backpedals and leaves his increasingly-desperate lackeys like mike here to dig themselves in deeper and deeper.
The Obama Party and the black community are already screaming that Zimmerman and the jurors should be murdered.
This shows you what sick, depraved people mike and his fellow Obama supporters are.
And here we have it:
Oh really?
What makes you more qualified to judge than they are, race-baiter?
They saw the evidence. They were given opportunity to review everything. They asked questions. They got information.
And we should apparently ignore all that in favor of what YOU think. Instead if being judged by a jury of your peers, we should let people be convicted based on what YOU want.
Which is why, mike, you and your fellow Obama Party feces-flingers are calling for the jurors and Zimmerman to be killed.
You shriek for more gun laws, mike, even as you and Obama spit on the most fundamental portions of the Bill of Rights.
This displays EXACTLY your attitude, you sick fascist. You and your sick racist Obama pile more and more and more and more laws and “regulations” on us — as you then ignore them and call for mob rule and lynchings.
Moreover, mike, you’ve made it clear that you liberals like your Saint array in are animals who can’t respond any way but violently and will kill us if we don’t give you exactly what you want.
Sick fascist mike, you are making it clear to us: kill or be killed. If we go to the courts, you’ll murder the jurors. If we win a judgment, you and your sick thugs will hunt us down and threaten us and our families, just like you did with Zimmerman.
You don’t want the rule of law; you want rule by temper tantrum. And you deserve to have it inflicted on you.
NDT, I rarely find lower-case-concern-troll comments worth responding to, but his preening and simpering on this topic. (“Think of the children!! Oh, Gawd, Think of the children!!”) at least made me chuckle.
I found this preciious:
“14, 16, 17 18, or 20. Martin was a kid.”
So using mike’s ‘logic’ George Zimmerman (at 29) was a ‘kid’ and thus should have been excused for the entire thing.
Infantilizing people is a liberal fetish.
It’s called “control”, V the K.
What makes it really pathetic is that mike tries to argue that Saint Trayvon was a typical black person and typical teenager, which means all black people and teenagers are violent animals who can’t do anything other than make racist and homophobic slurs and crack people’s heads into the pavement.
This to me is what makes the Obama Party so sick. They call for Clarence Thomas, Condi Rice, Mia Love, Herman Cain, JC Watts, Tim Scott, and others who prove that black teens do NOT have to be uneducated violent street thugs to be lynched and demonized as race traitors, and instead hold up Trayvon Martin and Rachel Jeantel as “real” black people and as models for how all black people should think, dress, and act.
White liberals are locked into their view of black people as a minstrel show caricature.
One thing that stood out about the Trayvon Martin coverage was you never saw the requisite fawning media pieces where family and friends would talk about how great he was, how “his laughter could light up a room,” how he nursed a little birdie back to health, or lent a friend a shoulder to cry one. The usual MFM pablum that usually gets spooned out to make low-information voters swoon was conspicuously absent.
The same MFM that made John Edwards look like a loving husband and father couldn’t make Trayvon Martin into a likable human being. That says a lot.
mike writes: 14, 16, 17 18, or 20. Martin was a kid.
That makes me think of the tweet by @CaptYonah that Bruce retweeted in his Twitter Feed last night: “But Trayvon was a little baby at 17 who wouldn’t hurt a fly! …Ga. 13-year-old accused of molesting 4-year-old http://shar.es/AVnta“
It is amazing how quickly the black community organizes demonstrations whenever a legal decision in a high profile case goes in favor of a white person, as happened in Los Angeles after the police were aquitted in the Rodney King case. Last night Beyonce, held a moment of silence for Trayvon. Rapper Jeezy has composed a song for Trayvon. Of course the ususal players like Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson adds fuel to the fire. All these demonstration really show is how the blacks still have a feeling of being victims of slavery. Emancipation was more than 150 years ago. Can´t they let it go? What would their reaction have been if white people went out demonstrating after the OJ Simpson acquittal in which a jury member admitted that it was racial preference not his guilt or innocence that they were concerned with.
Why doesn´t Beyonce and all the other black celebraties march on the South Side of Chicago, in Detroit, or Trenton, NJ where black on black crime is at epidemic proportions? Have you ever heard of a high proifile case involving a black on black crime? There was a young African American girl about 13 years old who participated in the 2013 inauguration of Barak Obama. A week after she was an innocent victim of gang shooting in Chicago. Has the shooter been arrested? If not, why not? And if he has, has he been tried? If not when will he be and will he be? Will the MSM give it as much coverage as they did to the shooting of Trayvon? And what about the black that killed a white woman and her six month old baby. What is the status of that case? Has there been an arrest?
It will be interesting to see the civil trial of George Zimmerman. Maybe at that one the defense attorney will be able to enter into evidence Trayvon´s rap sheet. He does have one and it shows that he was no angel. Angela Corey and Lo Biondo had it suppressed. They knew that it would have been an absolute loser for them. The were out to get Zimmerman not to search for the truth and justice.
This administration has, from the very beginning in 2008 has become an entity to separate the blacks from the whites. Now, the independents who voted for this so called commander in chief and the liberal politicians who jumped into the mess with him have set the civil rights movement back so badly, I am not sure it will ever recover completely. I see the out spoken segment of the black population becoming total blinded into being part of the leftwing mindset just I see the so called main stream gay movement thinking with their dicks and unable to see how this administration and their pet politicians have robbed them of their money through taxation, their civil liberties to think independently. They have become cults: Give us your money, give us your time, think exactly as we tell you to think and how to live. If you do not do as the herd thinks, we will destroy you. No different from the right or left wing religious movements, the Jim Jones mind set, the KKK, the Fidel Castros, the Chavezes, the Hitlers, and the list goes on and on. A cult is a cult, the faces, methods, promises come and go but the end result is the same: chaos.