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Editorial See other Editorial Articles Title: Ballad of a Marked Man George Zimmerman is now a free man. He is free to be stalked, threatened, harassed, persecuted, and possibly killed at the hands of the perpetual malcontents who are sorely displeased with his acquittal late Saturday night. But he is not free to sleep soundly—not now, nor possibly for the rest of his life. Like O. J. Simpson after his murder acquittal, he is likely to face big-money civil suits from Trayvon Martin’s family members. And like the LAPD officers who were originally acquitted on charges of using excessive force against Rodney King, he is now vulnerable to a federal civil-rights prosecution. In fact, the Justice Department is investigating precisely that possibility, despite the fact that an FBI investigation found no evidence that Zimmerman is “racist,” as if such a thing can actually be proved. As of late Sunday night, the oft-threatened post-acquittal riots have yet to manifest themselves, save for a predictable spate of window-smashing, trashcan-tossing, spray-painted death threats, and flag-burning in Oakland, a town which should really just burn itself to the ground and get it over with. But the week is still young…and it is the middle of summer, after all. (Update: Violence has been reported between protesters and police in—where else?—Los Angeles.) Zimmerman is “going to be looking around his shoulder for the rest of his life,” his brother Robert told butt-sniffing noodlehead Piers Morgan on CNN shortly after the verdict was announced. “I don’t know if he’ll carry a gun now, but I would think he has more reasons to than before….They express they’re trying to kill him, all the time, every day, on my Twitter feed, on the Internet.” “He has to be very cautious and protective of his safety because there is still a fringe element who have said, at least in tweets and everything else, that they want revenge,” said Zimmerman’s defense attorney Mark O’Mara. All Saturday night and all day Sunday, the threats kept coming and coming and coming and coming and coming and coming and coming on Twitter. A Facebook group called Kill Zimmerman garnered over 7,000 “Likes” at last count. The threats are not only being aimed at Zimmerman. The six jury members—all of whom were female and five of whom were white—are also being targeted. So are “crackers” in general. Mexicans, too. Obviously, the most important thing we can learn from the verdict is how celebrities feel about it. Miley Cyrus is not happy. Neither is Katy Perry. Nor are many other musicians. Pro athletes also feel compelled to vent their spleens about this grievous miscarriage of justice. New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz tweeted that “Zimmerman doesn’t last a year before the hood catches up to him.” Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Roddy White (he’s black) said that all six jurors should kill themselves. I believe it was MLK who said something along the lines of “a perceived injustice anywhere leads to nauseatingly misguided sanctimony everywhere.” The flaming quills of the progressive press corps—you know, the ones who initially whipped this everyday killing into a national moral outrage and potential race war—were frantically scribbling about this wretched injustice shortly after the verdict. The Nation blamed it on white supremacy because, well, The Nation blames everything that’s wrong with the world on white supremacy. It even acknowledged that Zimmerman and his family are not white, yet it still blamed the whole mess on white supremacy. The Guardian declared that it is now “open season on black boys.” (Trayvon, who was 17 at the time of his death, has repeatedly been eulogized as a “boy” and a “child” by those who appear to have presumed his innocence from the start.) Race-baiting cockroach Tim Wise tweeted that this alleged “white supremacy” he and his cohorts keep hallucinating had earned an “enemy” in his 12-year-old daughter as a result of the verdict. And a Pee Wee Herman-looking scribe for The Daily Beast, speaking as a pale mouthpiece-by-proxy for the descendants of Ham, wrote that “black America seethes” at the verdict while he conjured the ancient ghosts of Jim Crow and slavery. These people will not let go of the script that’s been welded into their stupid minds. They’ve gullibly swallowed a race-oriented screenplay that’s been fed to them since this story first broke. And they will apparently adhere to that narrative even if they have to take the whole country down with them. They turn a blind eye to the story of Daniel Adkins, one that mirrors the Trayvon case, seeing as the victim was Hispanic and the shooter was black. The mentally disabled Adkins was walking his dog last year when he was shot dead by Cordell Lamar Jude, a gang-affiliated thug who was sitting in his car with his eight-months-pregnant girlfriend. As in the Zimmerman case, it took authorities a while to prosecute Jude, who also claimed self-defense. Haven’t heard of the case? Ask your friendly neighborhood reporter why not. They ignore the beating death of Joshua Chellew, who in early July was allegedly knocked unconscious by four black teens and left to die on a five-lane highway in the Atlanta area, where he was left “helpless” and eventually run over by a car. Mind you, these are the same media mavens who over a quarter-century ago made a huge national story of the Howard Beach incident that was similar in many ways to Chellew’s beating death except for one crucial distinction—the races were reversed. They are the same people who never remind you that 93% of black homicide victims are killed by other blacks, nor that an estimated 11,000+ blacks have been killed by other blacks since Trayvon Martin was slain. It simply doesn’t fit the script. And they must stick to the script whether cities burn or not. And these are the same people whose unforgivably skewed reporting has made George Zimmerman a marked man. Last year there were several reported incidents of black-on-white violence perpetrated in Trayvon’s name as a result of this massive media malpractice. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to suspect that a second wave of retaliatory violence is coming. But this time, you have no right to cry foul if you get shot. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
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Who really gives a $#it if misfits like those are unhappy? They are always going to be unhappy about something. Paul Craig Roberts
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