Zimmerman trial

This has to be some kind of joke right? And then to top it off with this.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/1...-campaign.html At least it makes it easier for me to see who I need to delete from my facebook.

It should go without saying that love and pride of country should be the first qualifications for anyone seeking the presidency of America.
President Barack Hussein Obama came into the power of the White House as an activist—pushed by activists.
Foreboding for the future of America, Obama will always be an activist. He doesn’t know what else to be because he’s always been an activist. Even as an Illinois senator, he merely wore the title without doing any of the heavy lifting.

In the day-to-day running America, Obama leans on the tools of activism and has been doing so ever since he first got elected.
Obama is really the long hoped for ‘King of the Isms’ who waited as long as 100 years for one of their own to come along and turn the tables on an unsuspecting and pliable civil society.
With an agenda activated to deliberately destroy the country that elected him, Obama is really the Activist who Made it as President.
In the White Noise thrown up by the mainstream media and cable television talking heads, the topic of Obama is often changed and re-routed to bad presidents of the past. As bad as some of them were, they were at least sincere. Not one of them ever came into office as an activist with a publicized intent for the ‘Fundamental Transformation of America’.

We live in an era where we let the riffraff star in our lives. Starring in many lives of quiet desperation during the last three weeks is Edward Snowden propagandized by WikiLeaks Julian Assange as the Double O Seven of the 21st century.
Has anyone other than America’s Survival Cliff Kincaid and New Zeal blog Trevor Loudon ever thought that President Barack Hussein Obama has much in common with self-styled leaker Edward Snowden? Hoopla aside, both are activists now running with the ball.
Holed up at Moscow Airport, Snowden is stirring the pot that promotes the propaganda that America is the world’s biggest ‘bad guy’ in what some news outlets are calling “the biggest bout of anti-Americanism since the Iraq war”. (Financial Times, July 12, 2013)
Obama dishes on America under the official emblem of a U.S. president, and worse does it when he’s on taxpayer-paid trips to foreign lands.
Even while the stock in trade of both Snowden and Obama is putting down America, they have seized the laurel wreaths of folk heroes. Time will soon prove that not everybody bought so easily into fake hero worship.
Though not everybody readily admits it, so far America and the Free West have survived every one of Obama’s destructive policies. Things are looking rough. Jobs are scarce, bills mount and hope is fading.
But will there be no coming back from the last two fronts to which Obama is leading the world?
How does America credibly extricate itself from the evil Muslim Brotherhood which Obama so flagrantly boosts? Will it be the Revolution in Egypt that finally capsizes the ship known as the Middle East?
Will it be the racial unrest that follows an innocent jury call for George Zimmerman that finally ‘forces’ Obama’s hand on declaration of Martial Law?
Fifteen months ago Obama the Activist planted the first seeds of racial unrest when he announced out of the blue: “You know if I had a son he’d look like Trayvon.” (Politico, March 23, 2012)
These are the words of an activist, not a president.
Should the racial unrest many worry about follow the impending Zimmerman jury decision, the blame should be laid where it belongs: on Activist Obama’s doorstep.

Judi McLeod

IT director who raised questions about Zimmerman case is fired

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/13/justic...ing/index.html

Sanford, Florida (CNN) -- An employee of the Florida State Attorney's Office who testified that prosecutors withheld evidence from George Zimmerman's defense team has been fired.

Ben Kruidbos had been on paid administrative leave since May 28 from his job as director of information technology for the State Attorney's Office.

A spokeswoman for Fourth Judicial Circuit State Attorney Angela Corey said Kruidbos was no longer an employee of the office.

Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, is on trial in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin last year.

Kruidbos testified before Zimmerman's trial began that Martin's cell phone contained images of Martin blowing smoke, images of marijuana and deleted text messages regarding a transaction for a firearm and that those images had not been given to Zimmerman's defense team.

He received the termination letter, dated July 11, on Friday, the same day jurors began deliberating Zimmerman's case. The letter states: "It has come to our attention that you violated numerous State Attorney's Office (SAO) policies and procedures and have engaged in deliberate misconduct that is especially egregious in light of your position."

Read the termination letter

Kruidbos said that, when he printed a 900-page Florida Department of Law Enforcement report from Martin's cell phone in late 2012 or early 2013, he noticed information was missing.

Concerned that attorneys did not have all the information they needed to prepare the case, he said, he reported his concerns to a State Attorney's Office investigator and later to prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda.

Kruidbos said he generated a report that was more than three times the size of the one that had been handed over.

For example, Kruidbos said that 2,958 photos were in the report given to the defense but that his report contained 4,275 photos.

Kruidbos also said that he has been told to not put specific case-identifying information into internal e-mails.

Through his attorney, Wesley White, Kruidbos informed Zimmerman's defense team that the information existed.

Did investigators blow the Zimmerman case?

In court, Kruidbos testified that he was concerned that he could be held liable if all information wasn't shared. "All the information is important in the process to ensure it's a fair trial," he said.

In a six-page dismissal letter, the State Attorney's Office, Fourth Judicial Circuit, blasted Kruidbos' assertions and motivations. Managing Director Cheryl R. Peek accused Kruidbos of having erased data from a laptop in violation of the Public Records Law and derided his concern about being held liable as "feigned and spurious" and "nothing more than shameful manipulation in a shallow, but obvious, attempt to cloak yourself in the protection of the whistleblower law."

She concluded, "Because of your deliberate, willful and unscrupulous actions, you can never again be trusted to step foot in this office. Your have left us with no choice but to terminate your employment."

But the defense said Kruidbos' testimony supports its claim that the state violated the rules of discovery.

Ex-Sanford police chief: Zimmerman probe 'taken away from us'

"When it takes me six months to get a color picture of my client, when the first one I get is a black and white, when I look at it and go, 'This is off a cell phone; cell phones don't take black-and-white pictures,' and I ask for a color copy, that takes two months," defense lawyer Mark O'Mara said Wednesday in an interview with CNN's Martin Savidge.

"And then I get a pastel-colored color copy of it, and it takes me to file a motion and have a hearing set before I get the actual .jpeg, no, that's frustrating. That should not happen. I've done this too long to make believe in my own mind that that's happenstance."

O'Mara said he learned about the missing information months after he was to have received it. "The only way that we really found out about it ... and the only way that we really found out about the intensity of the failure to give us information was when a person from their own office, a whistle-blower, came forward and said, 'I gave them that information in the middle to end of January' and we didn't get it until June 4th."

He said he was "beyond" shocked. "It could have derailed the trial," he said.

The defense said it did not get the complete report until a few days before the trial. O'Mara and co-counsel Don West argued that they needed more time to go through the information found on Martin's phone and asked for a delay, which was denied.

Judge Debra Nelson said before the trial that the possibility of sanctions -- requested by the defense -- would be addressed after the verdict.

The defense team declined to comment Saturday.

Not Guilty.

Good. Now on to more important matters. What's for supper?

I think one important point brought out during the defense's closing statements was the fact that when Martin COULD have left the scene during the four minutes after Zimmerman lost sight of him, and Martin COULD have returned to where he was staying with his father, but he chose NOT to and obviously chose to instead return and confront Zimmerman. IF Martin was afraid of being followed by someone and had the opportunity to easily evade him, why would he have chosen to do that?

My guess is that Martin circled back in a tactical flanking maneuver to try to catch Zimmerman by surprise, and the attack was therefore premeditated. Then Zimmerman got sucker punched by Martin and was on the ground before he could get his wits about him. That is what a sucker punch DOES to a victim. In a fight, landing a punch like that is an enormous advantage. It had to be completely unexpected by Zimmerman otherwise his gun wouldn't have still been in his holster when he hit the ground. It would have been in his hand with him ready to defend himself with it. Had Martin then simply run away at that point, having landed that blow to Zimmerman's face, then that night probably would have turned out a lot different for the both of them.

But no, it didn't happen that way, now did it? Martin was apparently interested in inflicting even more damage upon Zimmerman, and Zimmerman had every right to be in fear for his life. Because under those circumstances his life WAS in jeopardy. He was apparently at Martin's complete mercy, unable to stop the attack for 40 to 45 seconds. That doesn't sound like much, but count out 40 seconds and think about having your head pounded onto the concrete and ground during that time and see what you think about it. I'm actually amazed that Zimmerman didn't lose consciousness.

Had Zimmerman NOT had a gun on him, well, there's a real good chance that this whole thing would have been just barely a blurb in the local Sanford newspaper about a man named George Zimmerman being murdered by an unknown assailant. This sort of incident is EXACTLY what having a LEGALLY concealed weapon and the right to self defense is all about.

And I am glad that the jury paid attention to the FACTS presented by the evidence and didn't let the emotional content that the prosecution was trying to capitalize on to sway their decision. This was a very unfortunate experience for all involved, but two wrongs wouldn't have made a right.

So will Sharpton now razz the hood into revolt?

Originally Posted by Metachrosis

So will Sharpton now razz the hood into revolt?

of course he will, but I doubt he'll be on the front lines.

Originally Posted by Metachrosis

So will Sharpton now razz the hood into revolt?

I'm wondering this myself......


(And also wondering what the subject of today's church sermons will be. Forgiveness maybe? I think not.)


Can Zimmerman petition for his gun back now that he's free and clear? I hope so.

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Here is your Merica people.......