Ballad of a Marked Man
28th July 2013
Jim Goad looks at the future of George Zimmerman.
George Zimmerman is now a free man. He is free to be stalked, threatened, harassed, persecuted, and possibly killed at the hands of the perpetual malcontents who are sorely displeased with his acquittal late Saturday night.
But he is not free to sleep soundly—not now, nor possibly for the rest of his life. Like O. J. Simpson after his murder acquittal, he is likely to face big-money civil suits from Trayvon Martin’s family members. And like the LAPD officers who were originally acquitted on charges of using excessive force against Rodney King, he is now vulnerable to a federal civil-rights prosecution. In fact, the Justice Department is investigating precisely that possibility, despite the fact that an FBI investigation found no evidence that Zimmerman is “racist,” as if such a thing can actually be proved.
But if someone were to kill him, there would be no DOJ investigation into such a violation of his ‘civil rights’ (if the right to be free from random murder isn’t a civil right, what is?) because, as a ‘white Hispanic’, he has no rights that a black person need respect.
August 3rd, 2013 at 13:26
Unfortunately, I predict that Mr. Zimmerman’s future will be short. I fully expect to hear in the news that he has been murdered and that scores of people have set up rallies in support of his killer.