All right, OK, I suppose it’s time to weigh in on the George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin tragedy. I will weigh in, but I’ll make it brief. Too much has been said about it already by many, many others.

The verdict is in and – no surprise, given Florida’s Stand Your Ground (SYG) law and the vicissitudes of this prosecution that should never have happened, George was found not guilty. Was he exonerated? In a manner of speaking, yes. But when the President and Attorney General of the United States weigh in on the case, I don’t think exoneration is the word that immediately comes to mind. Instead, what it appears has happened is that his level of guilt did not rise to topple the bar enacted by the Florida legislature (and more than 30 other state legislatures as well) called SYG.

I choose not to second guess anybody’s motivation in this. What happened was simply a tragedy that left a young man dead and another man and his family’s life ruined. These kind of situations happen fairly frequently in the U.S. Why was this one different? First of all, it’s Orange County, home of Mickey Mouse, former home of Casey Anthony and that three ring circus. CORRECTION: The incident occurred in Sanford, which is in Seminole County, NEXT to and south of Orange County. So the troubles are on their way south. Hope they don’t come here…Now, back to the post. Guess they’re becoming as known for sensational trials as Palm Beach County is for failure to manage the voting process. Did anything resembling the truth come to the fore? It’s hard to say. I think it might have, just as it likely did with Casey. But this I know about such things: I am shocked and dismayed by Barack’s and Eric Holder’s comments. Both of them are lawyers, and both of them realize that the judicial process is all that stands between us and the anarchy you see daily in Egypt’s headlines. To put negative comments out about anything related to the trial is either pandering, extreme emotion (from two guys who’s emotional temperature is somewhere between tepid and frozen) or a knee-jerk reaction to a history of these kinds of events. Again I don’t want to second guess anybody’s motivation, but sometimes those two just don’t know when to shut up. Guess it’s time for another lip zip pic, eh?

This is the last I’ll say about it: George’s troubles are far from over. To quote a line from Paul Simon’s immortal but rarely seen or heard Broadway Show “The Capeman”,

“the boys had their day in court, and now it’s time for some fuckin’ law and order…”
Judge Gerald Culkin

In the Capeman, it was two Puerto Rican boys who were tried and convicted of murdering a white boy in a situation analogous to this one. They were sentenced to the electric chair in New York in the late 50’s. But this time there was a death, but thanks to SYG, there was no conviction, no sentence and no perceived justice. I fear someone will feel compelled to balance the books on this one. Beware George: watch your step from any angry friend, relative or sympathizer for Trayvon. Feeling that since the President and Attorney General of the United States aligned themselves with the bereaved, it’s surely OK to take care of business. Then what will they say? To quote Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum in Independence Day…

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