The politically motivated persecution of George Zimmerman continued yesterday as the man at the center of the Trayvon Martin shooting was ordered to return to jail. Florida judge Kenneth Lester, in a move which appears designed to appease those on the left, ordered the defendant back to jail over a financial technicality. Prosecutors, who also seem to be bowing to political pressure from the left, claimed that the defendant lied when he told the judge that his financial resources were limited, and that the shooter of Trayvon Martin had collected more than $130,000 through a website created to fund his legal defense.
Lawyers for the defense are expected to demonstrate basic contract law when they explain how money raised through an independent trust cannot be accessed by the defendant directly, and therefore, not directly his money. However, it is not known whether the judge will grant a new bond hearing. Mark O'Mara, attorney for the defense, commented on this stating "He is in custody now. He's going to remain there until we get back before Judge Lester if and when he grants us a bond hearing." It is clear that defense attorneys do not know whether the judge will even grant another hearing, or if he will bow to political pressure to keep the defendant in jail.
But this blatant attempt by both the prosecution and the judge show how politics often seeps into the courtroom, a place where those within the system claim that justice is blind. In the case of George Zimmerman, it seems that justice is blind to the fact that a person is innocent until proven guilty, not guilty because a screaming mob says so. And it is a public opinion that is created and directed through the prism of a left-wing media. The moment a young African-American man was shot and killed by an older white man, the narrative was set. The media picked it up and ran with it, and it did not matter that the defendant was actually Hispanic, he was an old white man who murdered a black youth.
And this narrative was just what those on the left wanted to hear, the kind of rhetoric that they could then use to create a frenzy of racial tension within the African-American community. And it seems that a justice system that is blind to political pressure has at least heard the shrieks of anger from the mob on the street and responded to it. In what many call a "political hack job," the defendant is once again having his rights trampled on to appease the ferocious mob. In such an atmosphere, it is only natural to ask, can he receive a fair trial? If the actions of the judge in granting the request made by the prosecution to revoke the defendant's bail over their inability to understand basic financial law is any sign of the future, George Zimmerman may be in real trouble.
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Comments: 15
No, don't, give me the idiotic reason that one was black and one was white, therefore, it becomes a Democrat verses Republican thing. That trash reasoning want wash in this day and age.
The only thing being dealth with in the tradgic death of a teenage boy, is the determination by a jury to decide whether or not he was killed in self defense or intentionally without valid reason.
For anyone to attempt to make the incident into some political football game here on Gather News or elsewhere, is repulsive and demonsterously sickening.
No Democrat nor Republican pulled the trigger on the weapon that killed that boy, only a man did so without any political party having any part in the act nor the consequences which have followed.
If you really feel that Mr. Zimmerman is being "railroaded" then you have lost trust in the U.S. Justice system and that is very very sad. I personally, do not believe that our system is that vunerable nor that unfair. We as a people have lived under/by the same system since 1779, it is revered around the world as the fairest legal system to be had, anywhere, bar none.
If anything, knowing the heavy pro white attitude and sentiment of most Floridians, which is quite evident by the state being under voter registration sanctions and scruity by the DOJ, I would say the odds are far better than even that Mr. Zimmerman will be given every break possible by a jury of his peers.
As to race baiters making this tradgic event a race issue, true or not, when you even mention such in your comment, you are perpetuating and promoting that idea yourself, so cool it man. Let the justice system of Florida run it's course and then make your mind up as to whether or not Mr. Zimmerman received a fair trial. There are appeal courts available to Mr. Zimmerman if he feels that the system has been unfair to him. Now is not the time for anyone to make such judgement of unfairness.
If you are going to put yourself in Mr. Zimmerman's shoes and thereby make claims that he is being railroaded, then in all fairness, you must also put yourself in the shoes of the dead teenages mother and father and thereby, want answers as to what happened and justice for your dead son.
You must remember, when all the legal matters are over, Mr. Zimmerman will be alive and not much for the worse, once the system has run it course. But Trayvon Martin will be still be dead and his family will have lost their beloved son. There is nothing which can nor will, change that horrible fact. Which would you rather be an alive Zimmerman or a dead Martin, which would your family rather you be ?
Help stop the hate on all sides, don't be apart of it.
If not, then your fears and distrust are totally unwarranted and you really should reconsider your position. Such distrust of any government agency can be the cause of great consternation of mind, as well as, the planting of mental paranoia, neither being good for your personal nor mental well being.
I sincerely hope that you change your stance, even if you do not, you should at least consider not promoting and plantimng the idea in the minds of others, that Mr. Zimmerman is being unjustifiably railroaded by the justice system, when there is no factual proof nor evidentiary basis for that assumption.
If that happens, it will once again bring out the "Unfair justice" charges by those who support Mr. Zimmerman. A group of people who do not know any more about the case than you nor I. But nevertheless, those supporters will scream that it is political pressure which caused the charge to be added, when in reality, it was Mr. Zimmerman's own fault and his admitted dishonesty.
The death penalty is not something which I can support at anytime, I say that with tongue in cheek, because, if it was imposed as a sentence on someone who murdered a member of my family, I may feel differently, I just don't honestly know.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/on-a-new-web-site-george-zimmerman-speaks-out/
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