Politics shouldn't force federal case vs. Zimmerman

Andrew C. McCarthy   Editor's note: Andrew C. McCarthy, a former assistant U.S. attorney, is author of "Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy," "Willful Blindness" and "The Grand Jihad." He is a senior fellow at National Review Institute and a contributing editor at National Review.

"We have a Department of Justice, not a Department of Social Justice. That is an essential distinction. It is brought into sharp relief by politicized demands that George Zimmerman, having just been acquitted of murder by the state of Florida, be subjected to a second prosecution -- a federal civil rights indictment -- over the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
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"Yet, though Attorney General Eric Holder never tires of reminding us about the due process owed even to foreign terrorists who've confessed to mass murder, the principle does not seem to apply to Zimmerman, an American now acquitted of murder."

Ignore Trayvon? Move on? Old News? THINK AGAIN!!!   "I would like to take a moment and address all of this Trayvon and Zimmerman nonsense.

 

"I am seeing it all over social media and frankly, enough is enough.

 

"I’m talking about all those who say there should be nothing more said regarding Trayvon and Zimmerman. They say we need to focus and while I agree, I am still at something of a loss.

 

"Focus on what, exactly?"

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Boston mayor blasts Rolling Stone for glamorizing Boston Marathon; The Atlantic Monthly says not so fast...

Jihad Watch  "Pamela Geller brilliantly imagines Rolling Stone's next issue..."

"Meanwhile, many stores are refusing to carry the magazine with Tsarnaev on the cover. The Leftist media, of course, has been glamorizing jihad and demonizing those who oppose it for quite some time. The Rolling Stone cover was just another step down a long road that they've been on for years. "Mayor, top cop blast Rolling Stone over Tsarnaev cover," by Marie Szaniszlo and John Zaremba
 for the Boston Herald, July 17 (thanks to all who sent this in):" More.

 

Lycium tweeted: "....Is he the Justin Bieber of terrorism?"

 

Go Ahead and Read Rolling Stone's Profile of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

"But the brouhaha over the cover photo ignores the main reason Rolling Stone used that selfie in the first place; the piece is excellent. Seriously, read it. The author, Janet Reitman, wrote a fantastic, well-researched and thorough report on the evolution of "Jahar," or as his friends called him, "Jizz," from a National Honor Society student to an accused terrorist."

.... The writer of the Atlantic article concludes with this:

"In addition to talking to a wide array of his personal friend network, Reitman meticulously goes through seemingly all of Jahar's 1,088 tweets from his Twitter account. That's one of the many signs that she has done her duty as a reporter. So while you may not love the cover, do read what's inside." 

‘Ridiculous’: Reporters Mock, Sneer At Daily Caller Intern Who Dared Ask Jay Carney A Question

Mediaite  "The impropriety displayed on Wednesday by a high school-age intern who dared to ask White House Press Secretary Jay Carney a question relating to the security provided to the family of George Zimmerman knows no bounds. That is apparently the opinion of a number of members of the political press. After an intern had the temerity to ask Carney a question, the political media flew into a tizzy over the presumptuousness of the intern and turned to mocking him and the venue which credentialed him to be in the Briefing Room in the first place.
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How dare he? 

Tucker Carlson Blasts POLITICO For Mocking Questioning Intern: ‘They’re The Rich Kids’ Camp In Meatballs’

"....POLITICO in particular, who expressed shock over the impertinent intern and the substance of his question to Carney."

 

Impertinent, you say? How about David Gregory, Norah O'Donnell and others asking to ask President Bush if he would apologize for his policies?

Conversation about race? Get real

Politico   -"Let’s take the advice of the attorney general of the United States. Let’s have a national conversation about race in the wake of the Zimmerman case. Let’s make it a painfully honest conversation — except about all the things that are painful for us to admit.
"Let’s take a tragedy and make it a racial crime. Let’s not acknowledge the evidence suggesting that Trayvon Martin was beating George Zimmerman. Let’s never, ever admit that if Martin hadn’t hit Zimmerman, he would almost certainly be alive today." Read more:
Rich Lowry is editor of National Review and the author of the new book “Lincoln Unbound.”

How Dare You?! The Supremacist Nature of Muslim ‘Grievances’

Raymond Ibrahim  "In 2012 in Pakistan, as Christian children were singing carols inside their church, Muslim men from a nearby mosque barged in with an axe, destroyed the furniture, desecrated the altar, and beat the children.  Their justification for such violence?  “You are disturbing our prayers…. How dare you use the mike and speakers?”
"Welcome to the true face of “Muslim grievance”—what I call the “how dare you?!” phenomenon.  Remember it next time “progressive” media and politicians tell you that Muslim terrorism—whether the 9/11 strikes, Fort Hood Massacre, Boston Bombing, or recent London Beheading—are products of grievances against the West. Missing from their analyses is the supremacist nature of Muslim grievances."
 

To Avoid Looking Like a Criminal, Don't Commit a Crime

Ann Coulter  ...."Dozens of these hair-on-fire racism stories are retold in my book, Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama. In the golden age of racial demagoguery, they came at a pace of about one a year. Al Sharpton was usually involved.
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 "Instead of turning every story about a black person killed by a white person into an occasion to announce, "The simple fact is, America is a racist society," liberals might, one time, ask the question: Why do you suppose there would be a generalized fear of young black males? What might that be based on?
(emphasis added.)

On Race, No Hope or Change

The election of a black president has not reduced “racial tension.”

Dennis Prager "The greatest hope that most Americans — including Republicans — had when Barack Obama was elected president was that the election of a black man as the country’s president would reduce, if not come close to eliminating, the racial tensions that have plagued America for generations."....

Since neither black animosity nor the Left’s falsehood of “racial tensions” is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America can do will affect the perceptions of many black Americans or of the leftist libel.

 

Mona Charen; Race in the Internet Age   "There’s another America that exists on the TV, the radio, and the cell-phone screen. There, the race baiters, provocateurs, rumormongers, and ratings-mad self-promoters hold court. It’s the dark underside of the nation."

Rolling Stone’s Boston Bomber Cover Flops

Have these people been educated with Howard Zinn history books?

Legal Insurrection

Matt Mackowiak @MattMackowiak

An Outrageous and Totally Unacceptable Rolling Stone Cover -- http://zite.to/17k5iJ5 

11:30 PM - 16 Jul 2013

New Rolling Stone Cover Depicts Alleged Boston Bomber As Dreamy Teen...

By Paul Szoldra @PaulSzoldra

Taking lots of heat on social media for it.

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• This is far from America's greatest generation. TD

The Administration’s Obamacare Denial

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"Obamacare was supposed to go so well, we were told.
"The mandates. The long-term care insurance. The Medicaid expansion. All going swimmingly, right?
"Only in the minds of Harry Reid and the bureaucrats at Health and Human Services (HHS).
"Despite a host of delays, legal challenges, and complete implementation failures, the Senate Majority Leader says “Obamacare has been wonderful for America.” The Administration says it’s simply implementing the law “in a careful, thoughtful manner.” "....
 

Zimmerman prosecutor Angela Corey may face a reckoning

American Thinker  "Angela Corey, the special prosecutor who struck out going after George Zimmerman, has not taken defeat well.  At Red State, streiff catalogues her outrageous behavior in an article that should be read in its entirety:

....She has a sense of entitlement that is so typical of small people promoted to jobs that are well above their level of competency but who lack the self-awareness to recognize what everyone else knows. (You need look no further than her bizarre post-verdict press conference that she treated as though it was an Academy Awards acceptance rather than a repudiation to see that she occupies a different reality than most.) In Angela Corey's world, criticism of her is a basis for legal action. She has threatened to sue Harvard if it did not fire Alan freakin Dershowitz after he pointed out her lack of legal acumen and ethics. In Florida she is something of a legend for threatening her critics....

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Angela Corey’s Checkered Past  Her peers describe an M.O. of retaliation and overcharging.  ...."She is “one hell of a trial lawyer,” says a Florida defense attorney who has known her for three decades — but the woman who has risen to national prominence as the “tough as nails” state attorney who prosecuted George Zimmerman is known for scorching the earth. And some of her prosecutorial conduct has been, well, troubling at best."

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