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Originally Posted by redwitch
I'm definitely a leftie (big surprise, right?). Do I think Zimmerman is innocent? No. Do I think he's guilty? Nope. What he did was legal and I think he knew it. I also think he had enough of his neighborhood being victimized; saw this punk scouting the housing; figured he could set the kid up so it would be deemed self-defense. Am I right? Who knows? I don't -- it's just my theory. Obviously, Zimmerman knows and he ain't talkin'.
I never thought Zimmerman was racist. I think he would have killed Martin if given the chance regardless of his color -- it was walking in Zimmerman's neighborhood that got Martin killed, not the color of his skin. I do think Zimmerman sees himself as being white but that's totally irrelevant. I think Zimmerman thinks he's a good guy and feels he is being victimized. He killed a teenager. He has to live with that and I sincerely hope he really can't justify that killing -- no matter what Martin had done in the past, he was doing nothing wrong while walking through the complex and he had every right to be there.
The one thing that will always bother me is why didn't Zimmerman ever identify himself to Martin? Why deny he was following him? To me, that screams that Zimmerman was trying to set Martin up to react and, tragically, Martin behaved accordingly.
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Appreciate your reply and your honesty. We agree on some points but do not on others, mostly because I watched none of the testimony on this case at all.
I shut down when the investigation was shut down after the event. I shut down when two political sides became the driving force and folks made the evidence fit what they were being told on the media of their choice where it has become a nightly discussion and all one sided one way or another.
I really think that politics has nothing to do within...WITHIN...the justice system and within trials and more importantly as relates to this case.....WITHIN INVESTIGATIONS.
Watching the posts on here I was just curious because it seems to me that those who are what you call "lefties" have always posted on here about Zimmerman as if he were satan himself. They blatently talk about his body, and put words and actions into the conversation that never ever occurred.
Those who would then be called "righties" try to paint Zimmerman as an angel on earth, as someone who never errs.
I keep the young man out of this because he is gone and that is a shame but the same thing has applied to him. How sad that our political commentary enters into this and allows us to be actually so mean spirited about two young men that we do not know and rely on the pundits to tell us how to think and what to say.
I was disturbed as some on here kept score as if this was a sporting event and in some cases would post almost word for word from whomever the legal "expert" was on their selected network based on politics.
Had those with big mouths kept them shut early on and allowed the investigation to continue, and not allowed folks to CHANGE evidence and go completely around a system, we may have had a just decision a long long time ago, but it served some political agenda and thus everything that we SAY we are for in justice in this country was circumnavigated.
This kind of case, as with others that Mr Sharpton has been involved in, simply make any divide in this country larger and larger, while he continues to dodge taxes and create this divide, folks watch, listen and hang on his words politically.