Left-wing politicians and racial-grievance profiteers across America are now fanning the flames of racial discord, demanding that George Zimmerman endure a politically correct show trial at the federal level despite his acquittal.F-king communists.
Members of the professional Left can barely conceal their glee that Zimmerman was found not guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Trayvon Martin. This means they get to retain Zimmerman as a villain they can use to foment racial hatred, cause future civil disturbances, raise money through direct mail solicitations, and get out the vote for race-baiting Democrats.
Zimmerman was acquitted by a 6-member all-female jury late Saturday. A leader of the neighborhood watch program in crime-ridden Sanford, Fla., he encountered unarmed Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26, 2012. A physical confrontation followed in which Zimmerman, a Latino, shot Martin, a 17-year-old black youth, to death. Zimmerman claimed he needed to use deadly force to save his own life.
President Obama decided that the Zimmerman verdict was an opportune moment to press for gun control. “We should ask ourselves if we’re doing all we can to stem the tide of gun violence that claims too many lives across this country on a daily basis,” he said after the verdict. “We should ask ourselves, as individuals and as a society, how we can prevent future tragedies like this. As citizens, that’s a job for all of us. That’s the way to honor Trayvon Martin.”
Fishing for votes, Obama injected himself and racial politics into the Zimmerman case during the election cycle last year when he volunteered, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.” Now he’s pretending he had nothing to do with all the race-based antagonism that he stirred up.
Left-wing thought leaders across the fruited plan are doing their best to exacerbate and exploit the potentially explosive racial tensions created by Obama’s meddling and the media’s saturation coverage of the Zimmerman case.
Racial arsonist extraordinaire Al Sharpton, whose race-baiting rants have gotten people killed, blasted the verdict as an “atrocity” and “a slap in the face to those that believe in justice in this country.” Fellow MSNBC personality Chris Hayes simply tweeted, “Goddamit.”
Sharpton played a major role in turning a local crime story into a national media obsession. He is now demanding the federal government lay civil rights charges against Zimmerman.
Jesse Jackson Sr. said on MSNBC yesterday that Zimmerman’s acquittal amounted to a “tremendous miscarriage of justice.” He berated the jury, noting that there were no men on it. “Trayvon was a black boy — there was no man, no black on the jury,” he said, adding, “so at least the idea of a jury of your peers was a stretch all the while.”
Jackson is obviously no lawyer. In America the Constitution guarantees the accused, not the victim, an impartial jury. A common notion taught in civics classes is that a jury is supposed to contain the peers of the accused, not the victim.
Last year Jackson said Martin’s death could be treated as a tragedy or it could spur a new movement. “How do we go from a moment to a movement that creates fundamental change?” Jackson told a church congregation. “If it’s a moment, we go home. If it’s a movement, we go to war.”
On CNN disgraced former Obama green jobs czar Van Jones, a self-described “rowdy black nationalist” and “communist,” wondered aloud, “Do I now have to dress my kid in a tuxedo so that he can go buy Skittles?” Incidentally, CNN has rewarded Jones’s radicalism and 9/11 trutherism by giving him a co-host spot on the upcoming revival of the show “Crossfire.”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told “Meet the Press” Sunday that he welcomed federal prosecution of Zimmerman. “I think the Justice Department is going to take a look at this. You know, this isn’t over with and I think that’s good. That’s our system. It’s gotten better, not worse.”
Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), co-chairman of the neo-communist Congressional Progressive Caucus, said the verdict would inspire copycats. “You empower individual citizens to basically take the law into their own hands.”
Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.), also a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, lamented that the defendant should have been convicted of something: “What the jury is saying is, ‘Here’s George Zimmerman back, here’s his gun back and what he did was perfectly fine. And he’s coming to a neighborhood near you.”
Damn. These people are destroying the country, starting with the president on down, to AG Holder, and the leftist Democrat-Occupy-Anarchist alliance et al.
The fruits are everywhere on the streets, the mf's.
