Yesterday, Stacy McCain published a 3,500-word essay entitled: How Soon Will This Madness Stop? And How Much Of A Damn Should I Give? It it he discusses the swirl of commentary and analysis that surrounded the whole Trayvon Martin / George Zimmerman story from day and that continues to draw people’s attentions.
It is really worth your time because it contains some damn fine analysis — and I say that even though I do not agree with some of his conclusions.
A few highlights:
What actually transpired between Trayvon and Zimmerman that drizzly night on Retreat View Circle? What were their motives? Why did Zimmerman tell the 911 dispatcher that Trayvon looked “suspicious”? Why did Trayvon, rather than running to his father’s girlfriend’s townhouse a few hundred feet away, instead decide to confront Zimmerman with a little “whoop-ass”?
We don’t know. We don’t know. We don’t know.
Our ignorance is not our fault, because some things are ultimately unknowable. Zimmerman may have lied to the police and Rachel Jeantel [sic] is an unreliable narrator. Of course, Trayvon is not here to tell his side of the story, but if he were, he might lie about it, too.
Here we are, nearly 19 months after the night that Trayvon Martin was shot dead, and we still don’t really know enough to be able to render a final judgment. What we do know is that a Seminole County jury had enough “reasonable doubt” that they could not convict Zimmerman of either second-degree murder or manslaughter.
Case closed — except the fucking media won’t shut up about it, which is why The President of the United States had to chime in.
And…
How it was Trayvon Martin won the Media Victimhood Sweepstakes in 2012 is a story unto itself, but I was busy trying to cover the presidential election campaign at the time and simply didn’t give a damn. I never would have written a word about it if it weren’t for the fact that (a) the media seems to require us to have an opinion about it, and (b) I hope to persuade sane people they shouldn’t give a damn, either.
“Your TV is making you crazy!” I shouted on the day of the verdict. “Stop watching so goddamned much TV!”
Why is it so difficult for people to understand this?…
And…
Wait — I used the phrase “common sense” in that last sentence, and this phrase is now clearly obsolete: Common sense has become quite rare, because most people nowadays let TV producers do their thinking for them, rather than exercising their own judgment. The ordinary sort of logic that we used to call “common sense” has atrophied because almost nobody uses it anymore. Instead, people turn on the TV. They only know what TV wants them to know, they only believe what TV tells them to believe, and they only feel what TV makes them feel.
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People who believe things TV wants them to believe and feel what TV makes them feel are full of anxiety and rage over a shooting that happened more than a year and a half ago. There have been roughly 16,000 fatal shootings in America since Feb. 26, 2012, and nobody is holding up posters with pictures of those victims at televised protests — yes, isn’t that ironic? TV turns a Florida shooting into a nationwide sensation that leads to a trial that leads to a verdict, and then there are protests about the verdict, and TV covers the protests, too.It’s all just a made-for-TV drama, isn’t it?
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Normally, I would agree with Stacy that this should have stayed a local story, but I believe it has the potential to be a good thing if it makes more people aware of the deranged thinking of many blacks in America.
So many have willingly embraced the thinking of Jeremiah Wright. They believe that there are active conspiracies to oppress them through such things as introducing crack into the ghettos. Go to their churches and civic meetings and listen to what they’re being told, watch the videos of them posted on YouTube.
What we’re seeing with blacks in America is the very much like what happened in Germany in the 1920′s and 1930′s, especially among the youths [let us not forget, it was on college campuses that Hitler drew
his biggest crowds].
One hopes that more people, including blacks, will have an epiphany as a result of this case. Then again, I hoped for the same thing after the jury in the OJ Case used Jury Nullification to thwart Justice, so maybe I should be my old cynical self.
A reckoning is coming if the black population does not throw-off the figurative chains that they have placed on themselves.
One legacy of the whole Leftist propaganda campaign surrounding this story is a rising in tensions between blacks and hispanics. Some are amazed that the Obama Regime is encouraging this, but we must never forget that, in the end, the Left is all about achieving Power And Control so they can re-engineer us into a Brave New World. They believe that sowing Chaos is the way to get us to the point where we’ll beg them to come and save us and restore Order.
TOM commentator Keyboard Jockey wrote:
Zimmerman isn’t a white man in fact he has black ancestry are they suggesting that they should be allowed to lynch him? Actually his ethnicity doesn’t make any difference. In this country, you are innocent until proven guilty. He was found not guilty in a court of law.
They have lived long enough to become that which they hated.
He’s assuming that the Left ever truly hated racial prejudice. They never did. The Left uses whatever means it believes will help them achieve their ends.
As both Paul Kengor [in his book on Frank Marshall Davis] and Diana West [in her new book American Betrayal] have shown, the Soviets infiltrated and gained control of the vast majority of civil rights groups, such as the NAACP, back in the era of FDR.
And let us not forget that it was the Left In America of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries that promoted eugenics, especially of non-whites.
This is about Power and Control. The Masterminds [as Mark Levin calls
the Leftist leaders] don’t give a damn about the people. The people are means to be exploited in the long march to the Leftist End, which is Utopia, Heaven On Earth, the Immanentizing Of The Eschaton.
However, in no way do I mean to imply that Free Will is not involved here.
I’m not a believer in Pre-Destination. However, I do believe in Destiny. I believe it is formed for an individual by the acts of said individual. In other words, Destiny is a product of Free Will, the former being an effect of the latter cause.
Those who believe in the conspiracy theories I mentioned have, ultimately, only themselves to blame when the feces [and the fasces] hits the fan.
In a dank prison cell, Charles Manson is ROTFLHAO.
