Re: Nice planet 4: Take 2. Action!
Randomly selected, sequestered in a hotel for three weeks away from your family and the outside world, then you're released and half the country wants your head on a platter. I'd take a contempt of court fine over that any day.
I know their identities have been withheld, but it's 20 freakin' 13. That means bupkus. All it takes is one script kiddie with an agenda, or a guy who knows a guy who knows a neighbor who noticed that "Alice has been gone for the past three weeks..."
Being a sequestered juror is just a short step from being a prisoner or a basic trainee. Loss of privacy. Loss of your ability to live your life. Eat now. Sleep here. Sleep now. Don't watch this. Don't talk about that. Watch what you say on the phone (were their calls monitored, their emails?). Please recall that months ago that galactic racist idiot Spike Lee published what he thought was the address of GZ's parents (he was wrong). Should those people have their house burned down? Their lives threatened or ended because of what their son did?
This was an entirely political prosecution. The Sanford PD and local prosecutors knew it was a loser. They knew they didn't have the evidence to prove the charges. But the governor of Florida decided (apparently in response to the same pot bangers that showed up in Durham) that he needed a special prosecutor who, hesto presto, discovered "evidence" that a crime occurred.
I've always been troubled by GZ packing heat. In Old Pio world, community watch people carry flashlights and cellies. And the unanswerable question is: was Zimmerman more assertive than he would otherwise have been if he wasn't armed? We'll never know. As Jean Cazeres (sp) said: they didn't come within a mile of proving 2nd degree murder (she said it at the conclusion of the prosecution's case). Criminal trials are supposed to deal with evidence. At the end of the day, that's what the jury did. All the speculation, surmise and inferences about what was in Zimmerman's mind might be true. But speculation, surmise and inferences aren't evidence. But there was no evidence of his alleged racism. Quite the opposite.
In his after-verdict presser, Mark O'Mara said he wasn't giving up on seeking sanctions against the prosecutors. He's hot about the evidence that was suppressed and that sleazy last minute effort to get the jury to convict Zimmerman on child abuse charges. The county IT guy has been fired, evidently for letting the defense know about the suppression of evidence, which by law must be shared. Any chance O'Mara will represent the guy in a wrongful termination suit?
This is the second big attempted national racialist lynching in recent years (Duke was the first) and in both cases the racialists lost. That won't stop them from finding another "outrage" they can use to divide America and pad their bank accounts. More's the pity. And we can count on the same MSM who stubbornly insisted in calling the hooker in the Duke case an "exotic dancer," and persisted in showing those pictures of a pre-pubescent Trayvon, edited tape to make Zimmerman look bad, called Zimmerman a "white Hispanic?" and all the rest will be right there to haul the water. Remember in the beginning, all of the media speculation that Zimmerman had said "effing coons" instead of "effing punks?" Establishing that racial narrative was Job One from Day One.
