Well, I think I can say with reasonable certainty that I have yet to see any true justice in politics. Justice, by definition, implies fairness and honesty, two dead opposites of politics, (at least in this country). If you're going to have true justice, you have to keep the politics out of it.
And so it was that Charles Zimmerman, not known as a racial bigot or a prejudiced man, encountered Trayvon Martin in a dark apartment lot in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman walked out of that encounter; Martin's lifeless body was carried out on a gurney. Investigators concluded that Zimmerman should not be charged because all of the evidence pointed to self-defense.
Enter the politics: (1) President Obama lamented that Martin could have been HIS son, (2) Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson proclaimed that the death was the result of racism and demanded a special prosecutor, (3) the black community, stirred to action by the politics of the situation, demanded that charges be filed, and (4) the special prosecutor complied by filing charges against Zimmerman for 2nd Degree Murder.
After hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees and a national outcry, Zimmerman was tried by a jury and found innocent. Jackson, Sharpton and Obama all chimed in saying that the system has to change so that justice can be done. A demand was made that the Justice Department file a civil complaint against Zimmerman for violating Martin's civil rights. Never mind that Zimmerman was found innocent and never mind that there was at least a four-minute period of time when Martin could have run back to his apartment and avoided any further conflict, but that he chose not to. Never mind that Martin was likely "stoked up" on marijuana, that his cellphone had pictures of guns and purportedly stolen jewelry on it, or that the special prosecutor decided to withhold that evidence before trial.
When O.J. Simpson was found innocent in a travesty of justice, they celebrated; when Charles Zimmerman was found innocent in a well-considered trial, they claimed racial prejudice. In other words, as long as you find the black man innocent, justice is properly served.
One thing is patently clear: This President has done more to foment racial prejudice in this country than any previous President. He has set the advancement of absorption of the black community into American culture and society back at least 100 years. By interjecting himself into this case from a clearly incorrect and racial viewpoint, he has set the system of black justice in this country back at least 50 years.
All three of these "Musketeers" have proven beyond a reasonable doubt that they value the politics of race more than American justice.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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