Zimmerman: Afraid of Being in Jail

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117. I don't see flippant attitudes here so much as anger and indignation.

You have to take into account a whole boatload of things, like:
-- the increasing frustration over the lack of equal justice for all, just aggravated by a case like this, in which the guilty person is flatly guilty but gets off because the guilty person is lighter-skinned and his/her victim likely wasn't;
-- the utter outrage over the very idea that this kid was unarmed;
-- that zimmerman was clearly told by the 911 dispatcher that they didn't need for him to be pursuing his target. They wanted him NOT to do that and asked him not to, directly. Then he answered them with some version of "okay" or other affirmative acknowledgement. So he lied to them because he had no intention, really, of stopping his pursuit especially when his inner Clint Eastwood was all stirred up - on top of what his deliberate defiance of that clearly-issued directive (he seemed to have understood the language the dispatcher was using that night, too, didn't he?) ultimately put him in a position to do;
-- the infuriating spin machinery on his behalf as relatives and "friends" attempted to color public opinion and embroider on events they did not witness and of which they had no knowledge;
-- the infuriating spin machinery on his behalf as relatives and "friends" attempted to color public opinion and embroider on events they did not witness and of which they had no knowledge - EVEN IN THE FACE OF POLICE PRECINCT VIDEO AND 911 TAPES that tell a different story.

BTW - anyone should understand, coming here to DU, that we here have suffered through various spin machinery since Selection 2000. We haven't been just annoyed, or upset, or confused. We were seriously outraged. Justifiably so, too, imo. And we're BEYOND infuriated when it keeps coming up, to cloud and blur and confuse facts and diffuse or excuse guilt - or make people forget about it or throw up their hands that "oh they all suck, they all do it."

So anyone who picks at that sensitivity is REALLY pushing a button. It's made some of us extraordinarily cynical, and unfortunately that deep, profound cynicism, taught to us and force-fed to us from the highest levels of government and other institutions, seeps in EVERYWHERE. It's like trying to stopper all the little leaks and oozings and bubblings around the La Brea Tar Pits. You almost always see thick, sticky little this's and that's breaking through cracks in the ground or the pavement. It's under pressure from below, and it's never contained for long.