What addles my mind is the fact that the jury for the
Zimmerman vs. People of Florida (Martin) has been regaled with death threats
for their decision. I understand that a
jury of peers is, by design, the faceless will of the people therefore when the
will does not match the body, problems will arise. This disconnect is a problem, but how this
disconnect occurred is what I want to point out.
I blame the media.
When the news sparked this conflagration realized that they had
something that would grab the weakened sensibilities of their victims…er..audiences.
TV-Land banks on the fact that a huge
percentage of Americans are nothing more than overfed cows, constantly chewing
on the heroine laced cud of the media, mooing on command. When the news station tacticians started to
fan the flames into an inferno, they knew exactly what they were doing. Why else would they show Mr. Martin as a
child, much younger than the incident that to incur the wrath of mothers and
those that daily fight or are the victims of racial oppression? What about the
pictures and stories put up on the screen to prey upon ‘white guilt’?
Why did the media do this? In the Tampa area, lawyers were approached
with this statement:
TV-Land: “Hey there Mr.lawyertypeperson, how would you like
to be the top expert on the Zimmerman case for the leading News organization in
Tampa?”
Mr.lawyertypeperson: “Of course I would, I have a lot to
offer on this as I have been studying this closely. I would start off by first looking at
locutionary appeal…”
TV-Land: “Oh, ah, yeah, of course sir, yes, very
interesting, locomotion fruit peels, very good, so you would do this?”
Mr.lawyertypeperson: “Yes.”
TV-Land: “Great, we are glad to
have you aboard, now we will accept a check made out to ‘TV-landdoesn’tcare’
for the sum of Ten Thousand dollars.” (this is an actual amount asked for this
spot)
They did this and they got bites, a lot of them. This is how they pay the bills, because the
rent for pocket-lint tenants of the TV-Land owners’ suits just went way up.
These moguls simply need more money lining their coats and look at you sternly
when you ask, “why for the need for more money?”, and angrily when you ask, “why
the dirty tactics?” Why did they turn our most serious social glue, the court
system into a racial sport?
This need for money then has a profound effect on
society. What the news did for this
trial has created a doppelganger of the jury; a jury consisting of all the
people who watch TV or read the paper. They created a schizophrenic,
multi-personality mind that is in direct competition with the real jury. This News-Jury does not deliberate, they
judge. This News-Jury does not follow
instructions containing the statutes they need to compare to the evidence, they
follow what the ‘I paid for this spot’ experts say. You know what we call someone who has two
personalities, hears voices, and acts on those voices?
Crazy—and dangerous.
While I don’t like the fact that an innocent kid died based
on what really does seem to be started by profiling and circumstance, I do
accept that the system did what it needed to, and that the jurors did what they
needed to. They looked at the evidence
and felt that there was at least a shadow of a doubt that murder from a
malicious mind, and that self-defense/stand your ground was warranted. Isn’t it
enough that Zimmerman, while free, will exist in a living hell, a prison much
more dangerous than what the state runs?
There is nobody that will make him their bitch and eventually protect
his
mopwig-wearing-ass.
Now, his entire family is in peril, not just him. The judge is under fire, the prosecutor is
hated, and the jurors are facing a death sentence by the public all because the
mob was summoned by the unscrupulous greed of the hand that directs the
media.
I agree a hot story is a great thing to behold. But didn’t we all learn to not play with fire
lest we be burned…..or let the neighborhood burn down? I guess it doesn’t matter when you don’t
live in the neighborhood, or when your house burns down, you can just buy
another. But for those of us without
that luxury, beware of playing with this fire; you’re going to get burned while
you are burning others.
