On 7/15/13 9:55 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
On 7/15/13 9:50 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
Thanks for giving us the longer-living link, but I don't get the
relevance to Z?
No relevance to the insufferable Zimmerman topic, in favor of the
Zimmermann history related to the other thread. (never mind)
Got it... I thought maybe.
I remember enduring the OJ trial and I'm afraid this feels the same.
My sympathies lie toward believing that Zimmerman(n?) was an overzealous
jerk who put himself in an untenable situation and got away with it by a
quirk of the legal and media systems. I suspect that Martin was not
without blame in the situation (responding to an overly agressive
self-appointed vigilante with violence?) but not deserving to lose his
life over it. I also have sympathy for the post-trial Zimmermann...
he's the one who will have to live with knowing his part in the thing,
and knowing that he pulled a fast one on the public/system to some
extent. The stories of his getting back his handgun (and concealed
carry permit) because he is in "more danger than" ever smacks of poetic
justice.
If I'm wrong and Zimmermann was just an honest, caring citizen of his
neighborhood, protecting them against real threats and he walked into a
situation he wasn't fully prepared for and was forced to use deadly
force against a dangerous foe who would have killed him (and continued
on to do whatever violent or antisocial act he was in process of acting
out when stopped by him), then Zimmermann is the martyr and will at
least live out his life of newly paranoia-inducing circumstances
righteously. Somehow I don't think so.
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