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Jewish World Review July 12, 2013/ 5 Menachem-Av, 5773 OJ revisited: Will fear of race riots convict 'white hispanic' Zimmerman By Dave Weinbaum
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There are few tragedies worse than losing a child. The Martins and their family have lost
their son. That is incredibly sad and horrid. There is a trial afoot and if the man who killed
Treyvon is convicted, I believe that there will be two disasters.
OJ and George: A tale of two murder trials
Before I became a writer, I was a news junkie. Amongst events I couldn't get enough of
was the OJ Simpson case. I was especially interested in how a black celebrity who lived
a well-earned, upper class life with a beautiful white wife and family suddenly became the
press's version of an oppressed black man who'd just escaped from the Master and still
showed the wounds of his slavery. One would have thought that he was shackled and
whipped outside of camera range because he merely looked at a white woman much less
married and had children with.
No doubt that before the early 70's, both blacks and whites would have been upset by
the mixing of the races. Few in 1994 gave a hoot that OJ married a white woman, hung
out with mostly white cops—and his many Caucasian celebrity pals he partied with. Hell,
he even kept a white pet, a surfer/pool boy, on the premises. Remember Kato?
I was an OJ fan because he was one of the greatest athletes of all time. The Buffalo Bill
guard who led him on his adventures into the defensive backfields of the NFL was Reggie
McKenzie. Reggie was beat in a challenge by my co-starting guard at Evanston
Township High School, a walk-on for Michigan's Bo Schembechler's first Rose Bowl
team, Joe Jones.
Also, I thought Simpson's starring roles as the dupe in Police Squad movies opposite
Leslie Nielson were hilarious.
I was enamored with the Simpson murder trial from day one. For those suffering from
LOIS (Low Information Syndrome)—no, not the IRS criminal, Lois Lerner--OJ was
accused of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole, and a poor Jewish kid, Ron Goldman. Ron
was a waiter who happened to be returning Nicole's reading glasses from a restaurant
she was just in. Both were murdered with the same knife—Nicole was nearly decapitated.
It seemed to me that whites were sure Simpson was guilty and blacks were positive Juice
was framed by a cabal of racist KKK LA Kops.
What stood out to me—the thing I remember most other than black friends who were
sure he was innocent, was the video of a house for abused women, shown right after the
OJ jury acquitted him. All the women that I could see were black. They were laughing--
screaming and crying for joy--all at the acquittal of Orenthal James Simpson.
Now to the Zimmerman trial, some observations:
· The case became cause celeb when the race hustlers, The New Black Panthers,
Sharpton, Jackson and Obama, decided to override Florida law and put immense
pressure to have Zimmerman arrested, whether merited or not.
· Sanford Chief of Police, Bill Lee was fired when he refused to heed the political
pressure to illegally lynch Zimmerman.
· Thinking perhaps that Zimmerman was white and possibly Jewish; all the race
baiters sank their teeth into this. They were so deep into it that when they found that
George was Latino with some white blood, they doubled down, full speed ahead—KKK
and Jewish Defense League be dammed!
· The DOJ spent taxpayer cash protecting mobs who demonstrating to lynch
Zimmerman who hadn't been charged with a crime yet.
· The New Black Panthers put up a $10,000 reward for Zimmerman's capture,
dead or alive. Now they're threatening to invade white suburbs and burn them
down—unless George is convicted.
· Based on the testimony of all the key prosecution witnesses -- Zimmerman was
within his rights to defend himself based on Florida SYG law.
· Just this morning, the prosecution, clearly knowing they had no case, threw a
whole storage locker full of other crimes George could be charged with. What's next?
Noise violation?
Here we have the story of two racially charged trials, one with clear evidence of murder
and an acquittal due to prosecutorial incompetence and one where it's so obvious there's
no case that 90% of the Prosecution's witnesses and displays have been used by the
defense to bolster Zimmerman's case for acquittal.
But here's the dilemma: In both the Simpson and the Zimmerman trials, riots were
threatened if one was found guilty and the other acquitted. In the case of Zimmerman, as
most things today, it's become part of Obama's and other race hustlers mantra that
"white Hispanic", George Zimmerman be found guilty, not by the evidence but by the
race hustlers in support of the Obama Administration and most of the blacks in this
country.
You can't convince me that in either case the threat of violence to those prosecuting OJ
and those who are defending George Zimmerman aren't affected by those fears.
In fact, all one needs do is review the aberrant, biased behavior of the one person who is
supposed to remain impartial and fair throughout the proceeding: Judge Debra Nelson.
Tomorrow? The defense closes.
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