So, What's Next For Zimmerman?

Over at Say Uncle, he and his readers (and you are reading him right? otherwise you're missing out) are speculating on what Zimmerman can do next. After all the man has a legion of people itching for his scalp, a racially-charged Justice Department that wants to mount his head on a pig-pole, and the media trying to broadcast his every move and his address, drivers license, phone and social security number.

While he's suing NBC for their audio hit job on him that falsely panted him as a racist, that probably won't be enough.

I suggested that he's a shoe-in for the role of the Obama Administration's Emmanuel Goldstein.

After all, the media and administration already has him broadcast for their daily two minutes hate, so he's a natural.

Not sure it will pay his bills though.

Don't Confuse Rochelle "Race All The Time" Riley With The Facts

While Zimmerman was properly acquitted, the acquittal has now opened a firestorm of racial hand-wringers and chest-thumpers throughout the land and here in Detroit it's no different.

Rochelle Riley kicks off her hand-wringing article in The Detroit Free Press with the following question: What do we have to do so George Zimmerman and others get it? Not all black boys are dangerous

I daresay Trayvon trying to bash George's head in on the concrete gave George a particular suspicion that Trayvon in particular was indeed dangerous. Indeed George got it quite well.

She then begins her column with:

Just minutes after the verdict, my fingers searched for the keyboard. I wanted to write about how black America must find a way to get people to see our boys and tell the difference ...

... between thugs and altar boys.

... between gangsters and kids in the National Honor Society.

... between pimps and boys too shy to ask the girls they like to the prom.

But I stopped, closed my computer and prayed. Because that’s not the proper response to the Zimmerman verdict.

Here’s the proper response: Why do I have to convince the George Zimmermans of the world that not all black boys are dangerous, that not all black people are dangerous?

It's quite simple really dear Rochelle: Tell the kids to A) Not act like a thug; B) Not dress like a thug; and C) Don't attack people like a thug, and then people won't regard them as dangerous.

For the record, Trayvon Martin, as much as Rochelle contrary to all the evidence tries to put him on a pedestal, was clearly not an altar boy, nor a member of the National Honor Society, nor too shy to ask someone out to the prom. T

Instead Trayvon was a thug, a drug user, possibly a drug dealer, in possession of stolen jewelry and a burglar tool and was suspended from school at the time he tried to tap dance with Zimmerman's head. That Rochelle willfully ignores all the evidence as to who the real Trayvon was speaks volumes abouyt her racial blindside.

It's simple Rochelle - don't let you children grow up to act like the Trayvons of this world, be a parent and insist they do well in school and don't do crime, and they'll be fine.

Zimmerman Not Guilty

The system worked - based on the evidence this was self-defense and he was properly found not guilty. Of course, the travesty is the politics and media that drummed-up the unjustified outrage that required the system to take to trial a case that had already been thoroughly investigated and already found to be self-defense.

I'm sure the Home Owner's Association is now kicking itself for agreeing to settle for allegedly over seven figures with the Martin family for their thug son.

Kudos to some excellent defense counsel, and kudos to Mr. Ben Kruidbos for following the law by revealing the existence of the extensive test messages when the prosecutors tried to hide the evidence in violations of both the law and ethics rules. If anything, it's Mr. Kruidbos who deserves a big settlement for being unjustly fired for fulfilling both his and the prosecutor's office's legal and ethical duties in this case.

George Zimmerman's Case Heads To The Jury

If you haven't been following this case with the brilliant, thorough, detailed, and legally awesome reporting by Andrew Branca at Legal Insurrection you need to do so immediately. This is especially so if you think you know anything or have any opinion regarding the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman shooting Incident.

The case is a definite warning of how what now seems like a justified defensive shooting can turn into a media and legal circus when it becomes politically expedient for some to make it so.

My opinion, based on viewing the evidence put forth by the state and the defense in this case is that Zimmerman should be acquitted and his actions were justifiable under the circumstances, and the prosecution should be sanctioned for its discovery games and unprofessional tricks during the case.

Now we wait to see what verdict the jury arrives at in the case, and may justice be done.