April 22, 2012
Let the Conversation Begin
Many people much smarter than I (but not nearly as sexy, in a Lance Hendriksen kind of way) seem to believe the arrest affidavit in the Zimmerman case (and it is the Zimmerman case, not the Little Trayvon case) is so thin as to constitute possible perjury on the part of the state attorney's office. The thought process being a series of mistrials will result in an eventual hung jury, and the Riots Shall Commence.
Barack Obama and Eric Holder, among others, have done nothing whatsoever to assuage the situation, and much within their power to aggravate it. When the only card you hold is the race card, well, folding ain't an option.
This outcome may be true. My thought that the jurors and judge will bend over backwards to assure a murder conviction on Zimmerman may not be the slam dunk I assumed. We shall see. Already we see black pundits insisting justice will only be reached by a plea bargain by Zimmerman, regardless of the evidence, lest his black brethren start killing you.
Here's another thought, perhaps equally erroneous, but we shall see. Blacks comprise 13% of the population, but control 100% of the supposed conversation. I see this influence waning. Perhaps, if Zimmerman is acquitted, or walks on a hung jury, parts of Detroit and Los Angeles will predictably burn. But this scenario will not play out across the nation.
Concealed carry permits are up astronomically under the Obama Administration, in part due to the Department of Justice's unmistakable motions that show race will be the only obtaining factor in any dispute or disagreement. People are starting to feel the fear. There are now nearly one million concealed-carry holders in Florida alone. Ammunition and firearms continue to fly off the shelves.
There are a lot of permitted soccer moms out there, well-meaning folks, who in a climate of fear will shoot first, and beg indulgences later, should the unspeakable occur. People with no skin in the racial-grievance game have played along for years out of a sense of displaced guilt. Now that they understand their government will not only refuse to protect them but will actively advocate violence against them, their survival instincts will kick in.
Don't believe me? Go give a toddler an unsolicited pinch on the cheek at the mall. If you are lucky you will only be beaten with a handbag with 2 pounds of .357 in it.
Tolerance is unfortunately the rotting corpse of a prior age's civic sensibility. Even the benign among the populace smell war in the air, and the generals on the enemy's side aren't too hard to find. LA and Detroit may burn, but in Atlanta and Cincinnati and Phoenix you are going to see a lot of gullible young people, fed a toxic broth of hatred for decades, shot in the face by people afeared for their lives. Not by me, of course. I know how to avoid tense areas, and conflict. But many people will find themselves in a bad moment, and instead of kicking themselves in the ass for lack of situational awareness will opt instead to shoot that aggressor.
Perhaps Obama should just keep his mouth shut for the remaining months of his tenure. Here's an idea: PETA kills 90% of the animals it rescues. Because to have an animal adopted would be to condemn it to servitude, and death is, of course, preferable to that. I'd rather they donated the animals to the master chefs at the White House, so that Obama could crack their poor bones, and suck their benighted marrow, and otherwise keep himself occupied while the rest of us grab blankets and attempt to beat down the flames engulfing our community home without his help.
"you are going to see a lot of gullible young people, fed a toxic broth of hatred for decades, shot in the face by people afeared for their lives"
But this is what the gods of the copybook headline require.
Posted by: Joan Of Argghh! at April 22, 2012 2:37 PM"The thought process being a series of mistrials will result in an eventual hung jury, and the Riots Shall Commence."
The trial judge could dismiss the jury, hear the case while texting and calling the counsel for the defense "You little faggot", declare Zimmermann's plain guilt, alongside that of the white race, and order the bailiff to draw his sidearm and execute Zimmermann there and then in the courtroom. While getting some video with his smartphone and posting it to WorldstarHipHop. There would still be nasty riots, all over the country. There will be rioting whatever the verdict, or I don't know "urban" people.
If you know a place to get a bet down, make the bet. Guaranteed payout. Guaranteed.
Posted by: Mike James at April 22, 2012 3:57 PMSo.... Timely... After months of inattention I got the shotguns and other items out for cleaning just before clicking over here.
Posted by: vanderleun at April 22, 2012 4:40 PMI fear you underestimate the number of firearms in the hands of the urban gangs. And they are organized in a way the rest of the citizenry is not.
Georgia law charges the Probate judge of each county with maintaining the militia rolls. Try a little experiment. Go to your local probate court and ask to see the militia rolls. They will look at you as if you are from the moon.
Posted by: Jack Straw at April 22, 2012 4:54 PM"I've been really tryin baby,
Tryin to hold back this feeling for so long,
And if you feel like I feel baby...Oh...
Let's get it on."
Marvin Gay
Righty, let's get it on indeed. Still, in this post racial age, Harris Faulkner stirs my loins when few others do.
Posted by: Casca at April 22, 2012 7:53 PMIf they had any kind of case against Zimmerman, there is no way he would be making bail at any price. I have thought all along this administration has been hoping for some sort of social explosion so they can declare martial law and kick the Constitution to the curb !
Posted by: Ed at April 22, 2012 9:13 PM@Ed "hoping for some sort of social explosion..."
Hoping? More like instigating. Does anyone seriously doubt the provocations, from black youth attacking whites at the Wisconsin State Fair last fall to the flash mob attacks everywhere, are not planned? Or that Holder's praise of Al Sharpton isn't a signal? Or that the contrived and totally bogus accusations of racism against the Tea Party by black members of congress were anything other that testing the waters?
The One fancies himself a black Lincoln. He needs a civil crisis to declare martial law. And a modern day court case to outrage his constituency like Dred Scott did prior to 1860. Enter Zimmerman.
As many others have said, this WILL not end well.
Posted by: Dagny at April 22, 2012 10:44 PMThings are looking decidedly gloomy.
Should some small number of that 13% wish a race war they may not like the outcome. And seriously, better organized than us rednecks? Seriously?
With Holder's Gunwalker and Nifong's grand delusion, no one should underestimate the capacity of political narcissists to paint themselves into embarrassing corners. This case is below weak and will never get to a jury because, as the first judge deomstrated, there is a bad smell to it and people in the process will not want to get any on them. The question is whether Zimmerman will let them off the hook and plead to involuntary manslaughter. He is, after all, a Democrat, and might take one for the team.
Posted by: james wilson at April 22, 2012 11:32 PMMartial law for a start. The cities will explode, burn, then starve. Total government control using the military. ["Mr. Tamquam, yes, you are entitled to rations for you and your family. I see that you purchased several firearms over the course of the last few years. Once you've turned them in rations will be provided." I've heard (take it for what it's worth) that the military has "a plan to lock the country down." Given the National Defense Authorization Act recently signed into law, a lot of people are going to disappear. They ain't building those FEMA camps for nothing.
They'll take out Kulaks and counter revolutionaries like me (and likely you!) in the time-honored way, quietly, one at a time in the night. The only solution to that is massive and spontaneous civil disobedience. Were citizens to gather at the danger points to block and obstruct the reapers a la Tienamen Square (only armed to the teeth) might such a fate be forestalled.
I think the balloon will go up in the late Summer-early Autumn. Not much time to organize this herd of cats.
Posted by: Tamquam at April 23, 2012 1:03 AMI don't live in a city, Tamquam, and I hope you don't. I live in a part of California that doesn't like the parts that make the rest of the country talk the way it does--with fairness, I don't like admitting--about my beloved Golden State.
The San Joaquin Valley, part of the big valley in the middle with 10% of the population and 50% of the evangelical churches, that had so many farms in production before Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in the Assholembly started dicking with the California Aqueduct. You know, it would break our hearts to see Los Angeles, San Francisco, and most of all fucking Sacramento be pacified by mech infantry, and patrolled by UH-60's.
They would need to get through the Coast Range, or over the Grapevine to get to where most of the farms are, farms and oilfields around where I live. Not the Alps, but defensible. Maybe a little easier terrain up around the Bay Area heading east, but, you know, San Francisco; they have contempt for us, we hate them.
Oakland is something to worry about, but going north they end up in densely forested mountains with a lot of armed, wealthy commercial pot growers, and they go through Marin county before anything else--Nancy Pelosi country. There's some production on the coast, but I figure the first confiscations to feed the cities begin to complicate things.
Okay, the above might all be Mad Max-inspired horseshit, except for the hate part, but I Have A Dream.
If you are in a city, stay safe, and be ready to juke at the proper time. Remember, Zimmermann guilty or not guilty,riots will happen.
Posted by: Mike James at April 23, 2012 3:19 AMThe Obama cabal could not be more stoked about the growing angst in our nation. Balkanization is the order of the day, and if enough chaos ensues, many will be afraid to not vote for him due to the repercussions. Re: the tactical acumen of gangs, they are skilled in drive-bys at 10 yards, and are used to slinging bullets like I sling my dogs crap over the fence. Against the silent majority in towns and country coast to coast, they do not have a chance with real shooters that do not find them so intimidating.
Posted by: Jagerkommando at April 23, 2012 4:32 PM@ Mike James
Hanford, we should hook up.