July 15, 2013- Non-Committal Aquittal

This week's PET PEEVE MONDAY (PPM) is the outlandish, yet not unexpected, reaction to the George Zimmerman verdict.

My PEEVE just 2 weeks ago dealt with the unbelievable press coverage that had been devoted to this trial.

The good news is that it the verdict was released so late on a Saturday night, that there was little time for rioting. Some civil(?) disobedience / looting has happened. A protest march in CA turned into the looting of a Wal-Mart by youths dressed in hoodies.

Nothing says irony like African American youths protesting the racial profiling of Treyvon Martin, by wearing hoodies, becoming criminals, and looting a Wal-Mart.

With the NOT GUILTY verdict, I believe Justice has been served. I am not happy that a teenager's life is over, but I am encouraged that justice wasn't supplanted by emotion and political correctness gone awry. Defending yourself is not a crime.

However, within 24 hours, Obama decided that maybe the "Civil Rights" of Treyvon Martin had been infringed. Remember it was Obama who elevated this case initially by remarking last year, that if he had had a son, he would have looked like Treyvon.

Obama is not new to inserting himself into local situation. He famously said Massachusetts police acted "stupidly" in 2009 over an incident he knew NOTHING about.

But the President and Democrats have backed the DOJ into a corner. Now they've have to go through the motions. Yes, that makes a mockery of justice and the Department of Justice, but how is that anything new for this Administration?

Attorney General Holder is going after Zimmerman despite FBI establishing he did not act out of bias.

How much of our tax dollars will be wasted, AGAIN?

My PEEVE is that everyone says our legal system is the best in the world, UNTIL you don't get the result you want.

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