Not Guilty

I have been silent throughout the Zimmerman trial because I was thoroughly disgusted by the way this case even came to trial.

The cops who did the initial interviews, who were first to see what happened and to get the immediate impressions had chosen NOT to prosecute. Pressure from the press and that idiot in the White House forced the state to proceed on a weak case.

I think it is a tragedy that a young man is dead. However, that does not allow public and political pressure to put another man through the hell of a trial, a police chief to lose his job for doing it correctly, and a state to spend thousands and thousand of dollars on a losing case.

I also think it is a tragedy that every case involving a white person and a black person, where the black person comes out on the losing end of the confrontation,  is immediately labeled as racism, and the press will then get involved to put pressure on everyone involved, make all kinds of pronouncements, and then turn strangely silent when the truth comes out.

There are no winners in this case, just losers.