Featured Bottom Line on Judging Zimmerman's Actions...

I think this again is where Zimmerman has a problem. According to the timeline, he was on the phone with the police dispatcher when he got out of the truck (blue square in the photo). Instead of immediately going back to his truck, according to him he kept going to the other street to look for an address. He had just come from a lit side of the street where he could have gotten an address when he first got out his truck. He was still looking for Trayvon.

 

If I was prosecuting a murder case, I'd definitely want Benjamin and Zaac on the jury. Emotional and prejudicial.

 

Zimmerman has and will suffer for the rest of his life even if he is acquitted.

 

And if I were prosecuting a murder case, I'd definitely avoid you and all those who repeat the same talking points as Hannity and Limbaugh and then suddenly think you've got the market cornered on the truth of what happened.

 

He had plenty of responsibilities...I listed them.

I don't see him as the rogue vigilante you do, so of course we are going to differ on what responsibilities he had.

 

Benjamin, you must understand that this board is a reflection of angry, conservative White America. There are a lot of personalities on here who listen to conservative talk radio, etc, myself being one, and it has stoked the fire of Blacks cry racism about everything.

People feel as though they haven't taken a stand when Blacks have cried racism in the past and they're sick and tired of giving them a pass just because they cry racism.

And what you have ended up with is a group of folks, even in the Church, who are absent compassion and who speak about anyone who does not meet their standard as though they were somehow less of a human being.

All the while trying to hide it under the guise of "evidential truth" and the love of Jesus while displaying anything BUT the love of Jesus.

So don't dwell on it too much. It just is what it is. As I told some other folks, I've been on a lot of boards, but this CHRISTIAN board is without a doubt filled with some of the meanest, nastiest, unChristlike people I have ever encountered.

If you don't tow the clique line, gird your loins. :laugh:

 

Based on facts from testimony, the only thing irresponsible was his use of language. His actions were quite responsible.

 

He's a marked man. Prison may not even be safe for him.

 

Ditto for me. I keep trying to tell them that I'm by far the most conservative person on here but they don't believe me. :laugh:

Again, it just is what it is. It's the same thing that came out during the recent presidential election. Skin color was a factor. The folks on here tried desperately to pretend as though it were a non-factor, but just like this case, skin color does indeed mean something.

It's one of the reasons George Zimmerman pursued Trayvon Martin.

 

It's sad. And this is just another reason why you let the police do their jobs. Who will hire him after this if he isn't convicted? Can he and his family ever live a normal life in the United States after this? I wouldn't think so.

 

I agree with you on this matter of civil suits. This is going to drag on for quite some time. My opinion is that it escalated too quickly over not much of anything. Apparently the apartment or housing unit was the father's girlfriend's. So the parents have a mess in their personal lives. It was a crime area with break-ins although it looked like a nice complex on tv. It was very dimly lit. Martin had been using drugs. I agree with Alan Dershowitz, the uber liberal Harvard Law Professor, who noted that the defendant had two black eyes, a fractured nose and lacerations on the back of his head and a back ache. I think that the drugs impaired rationality.

 

Oh sure he will. Most people see this whole thing for what it is.

 

I don't think so. Most people see it for what he media, either liberal or conservative, wants them to see it as.

He'll have a target on his back in public and in the work place. And the stress on his family? It'll be crazy no matter what.