As I Predicted, The Murderer Zimmerman Beats The Rap

I would have preferred to be wrong, but as usual when I predict something, I was right. I'm an unusually perspicacious person, although I don't think any unusual insightfulness was required to predict this outcome- just a passing familiarity with U.S. history, U.S. courts, the racial caste system of America, and “white” people, especially Southern whites. The jury consisted of 5 white women and one “minority.” (Not otherwise identified in the media reports I've seen, so I'm going to guess Hispanic, which would have tended to make her identify with the half-Hispanic George Zimmerman. If she had been black, we could have expected the media to highlight the fact as if say See? This is very fair! Now how can you question an acquittal? There was A Black on the jury! Same as with the New York jury that acquitted the cops who shot unarmed black African immigrant Amadou Diallo nineteen times while he was standing in the entrance to his own building, minding his own business. Yeah, they fired 41 shots at him- I guess they're no marksmen.)

Even with the manslaughter possibility thrown in to provide a possible compromise verdict, there was no conviction. This despite the fact that the screaming was obviously Martin, being held at gunpoint by a ruthless thug, who then coldly executed him. Martin should have ran, so at least Zimmerman would have shot him in the back. They after the inevitable acquittal, it would have been obvious to more people what a travesty this trial is, what a sham the legal system of the U.S. is. (Especially Florida's, although this could have happened in almost any state in the U.S. Maybe not in Vermont.)

As I noted in my previous essay, [BELOW] the prosecution did a poor job (for example, identifying the screaming voice on the recording as Trayvon Martin should have been easy- instead more evidence was presented by the defense claiming it was Zimmerman screaming frantically for ten or so seconds until the execution shot rang out than was put on by the prosecution, which inexplicably failed to use voice print technology). A parade of liars took the stand for Zimmerman, his family and friends (Zimmerman, a chronic liar, apparently takes after his family) and even the detective who initially refused to charge Zimmerman went to bat for him.

The only reason there was a trial at all is because of a month of protests and pressure in Florida and all around the U.S., finally forcing the state to bring charges and do a half-assed prosecution for show.

The defense deftly turned reality on its head, blaming what Zimmerman's attorney called “the violence” on Martin's refusal to go home. (! He was ON his way home, you infuriating jackass!) Somehow Martin has no right to stand his ground- even though he was the one being pursued, as he told his friend on the phone during Zimmerman's stalking of him. This clearly reveals what the Florida “Stand Your Ground” law really is- it's a Freedom To Kill Blacks law. In fact, when a black female victim
of domestic violence named Marissa Alexander invoked it when she was tried for attempted murder for firing warning shots (!) at her male attacker, a domestic abuser, in Florida last year, her defense failed and she was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Not for killing anyone, just for firing shots at someone. But that's a twofer: it isn't just about racist oppression, it's about sexist oppression, enforcing women's subordinate and subservient position in society enforced by male violence backed by the power of the state. (Do an Internet search on her name and you'll get major media reports on the case.)

So now what? Hopefully Zimmerman will be sued for civil damages by the Martins, same as O.J. Simpson was (and found liable for millions in damages to the families of the two people he gutted like sheep.) Simpson went on to commit an armed robbery, so there is some justice for him as he now sits in prison for that. Apparently his sense of personal invincibility emerged intact with his acquittal for two murders. Talk about overconfident.

There is a possibility of Federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman, but there isn't much basis for that. Besides, Obama is always bending over backwards to prove to whites that he doesn't favor blacks. So in practice Obama has been anti-black. His Attorney General, the awful Eric Holder Jr., has done next to nothing to stop the blizzard of voter disenfranchisement laws passed by state legislatures controlled by Republican, even though these run afoul of Federal voting rights laws.

There is no militant armed black organization to put a bullet in Zimmerman's head. Such organizations are not tolerated. On the other hand, until fairly recently, white racist terrorist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan were not only tolerated, they were state sanctioned, and used by the FBI to help suppress the black civil rights movement. (Just one small example: An FBI informer Klansman, Gary Rowe, was in the car of Klansman who chased down and executed Viola Liuzzo, a white northern woman who was unusually ethical in that she felt an obligation to go south to help oppressed blacks gain their basic human rights. Rowe may have been the actual executioner.) Yet just recently the FBI and State of New Jersey announced a doubling of a multimillion dollar reward for the capture of Assata Shakur, who was apparently part of the short-lived and minuscule Black Liberation Army. Shakur has been in exile in Cuba for about thirty years. Yet the FBI supervisor announcing the new push to Get Shakur fulminated in an enraged voice about her “terrorist ideology.” Apparently that was what this ideological fanatic finds most intolerable about her.

As long as blacks are just shooting other blacks, as long as black rage is turned inward in community self-destruction, the establishment can sit smugly by and watch. But they are prepared to crush with an iron fist any manifestation of black militancy, armed or unarmed, against the power system.

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So was I right about the Zimmerman case because of correct understanding of reality, or because of some personality defect on my part? I'm generally regarded as a “pessimist” and a “cynic.” That may be, although I think I am more realistic than most people. Their unreasonable optimism, based on blind hope and willful naivete, makes my realism appear to them as pessimism.

As for “cynicism,” anyone who calls out Official Bullshit is branded a cynic. Teachers were calling me that in school.