Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Some speculation about the Zimmerman case

This could be a mistake and have some errors in it because I haven't researched this case extensively.  But everyone out there is running their mouths off about thing, so here's my two cents.  Before starting, let's just say that I think the whole thing is being ginned up for political effect.  It has a precedent.

Two decades ago, I researched the assassination of President Kennedy after the Oliver Stone movie JFK.  Prior to that, I wasn't too interested in it.  But that movie changed that.  The results of the research pretty much decided me that Stone is a propagandist and this was a well-crafted piece of propaganda that was intended to help the Democrats in the 1992 election.  It gave me a very negative opinion of the Democrats who kept defending this piece of trash.

This Zimmerman business reminds me of that.  Some of the "leaders" like Jesse Jackson and Sharpton are probably doing more harm than good for their own people.  This makes black folks look pretty bad in my estimation.  You have to worry about the future of the nation when people act like this.

It is not as if there may not be a valid complaint against Zimmerman.  But the way this was pursued almost guaranteed the outcome that we see now.  I think the outcome of a not-guilty verdict was probably planned and executed so as to use it for political advantage.

Now, as I mentioned from the beginning of this post, I haven't researched this carefully.  So the following is a bit speculative.

I think Zimmerman kept going after he was advised to stop following Martin.  I think he went to the point where there was a corner that Martin went around that made it impossible for Zimmerman to see him.  Zimmerman went to that point, in my opinion.  Martin was hiding, just out of view.  It was dark enough so that visibility was hampered to the extent that Martin could jump out of the darkness and confront Zimmerman suddenly.  After that, "nature took its course".  That is to say, if there was any chance of this being a crime, it was a crime of passion.  More likely though, it was a mistake by both parties and that mistake got out of hand.

For I can imagine a scenario where Martin decided to "kick ass" and struck Zimmerman because he felt angry for being followed around.  Once the fighting began, Martin had to realize when he saw the gun that he might be in a lot of trouble if Zimmerman decided to use it.  At that moment, he may have reached for Zimmerman's gun, and that's when Zimmerman may have beat him to the punch, so to speak, and shot Martin.

This was a civil suit, at best.  There's just no way to proceed on criminal charges because there's no way that all the facts can be known with the certainty required for a criminal conviction.  In a civil suit, all you need is a preponderance of evidence.  It may have been possible to get that, but the irony is that the criminal trial may have obviated that possibility.  This may not have been an accident.

What better way to prove that a system is unjust than to deliberately make it fail, and then accuse the system of being fundamentally unjust.  It is being ginned up in order to generate civil unrest.  The purpose of this could be sinister.

It doesn't help when conservatives allow themselves to be baited into this and fail to respond intelligently.

We are being played.

Update:

As a bit of clarification, the part above where Martin went around the corner, was based upon a diagram or picture of the layout of the place, and where Zimmerman was parked in relation to that.  It is in the shape of a "L", but upside down and turned the other way.  Zimmerman was parked beyond the end of the extreme right bottom part of the "L".  Martin disappeared where the "L" goes vertical.  In other words, the spot in which the fight took place was near the 90 degree junction of the "L".  This would be the spot where Martin could disappear behind the dwellings.  Of course, this was well-known to Martin and Zimmerman both, as they were residents in that neighborhood.

The distances were far enough that Zimmerman couldn't have covered the distance to the junction in the time he was on the phone and was advised not to pursue.  In other words, I think he continued to that spot despite being advised not to.


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