Wednesday, August 14, 2013
The Trayvon Martin story is a case study in how, even in the modern day, an advanced industrialised democracy can completely lose its senses...
Interesting and VERY comprehensive construction of the George Zimmerman story by a South African Journalist – James Myburgh. A “mere snippet” reflects:
[...] In the chapter on “national delusions” in his 1852 work Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles MacKay noted how “In
reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they
have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement
and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole
communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its
pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with
one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some
new folly more captivating than the first. “
The Trayvon Martin story is a case study in how, even in the modern day,
an advanced industrialised democracy can completely lose its senses;
and how difficult it is for it to then recover them. In this particular
matter a whole society seemingly fixed its mind on the one object of
having George Zimmerman arrested, convicted and sent to jail for life,
in reckless disregard of the evidence and the law. The mainstream media,
so-called civil rights organizations, the Democrat President of the US,
the US Attorney General, the Republican Governor of Florida and his
Attorney General, and State Attorney Angela Corey all combined forces in
an effort to destroy a single, isolated individual.
Yet,
as documented above, we now know that the incendiary claims made by the
Martin family team – which ignited and then fueled this state of
national hysteria – were almost all bogus. Zimmerman’s legal team came
very close to proving, beyond reasonable doubt, that their client had
acted in reasonable fear of his life and great bodily injury in shooting
Trayvon Martin; an inversion of the usual burden of proof. The Sanford
police knew from the beginning that the evidence tended to support
Zimmerman’s self-defence claim which is why they had been reluctant to
make an arrest.
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