Who was…
…that masked man?:
George Zimmerman, who has been in hiding since he was acquitted of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, emerged to help rescue a family who was trapped in an overturned vehicle, police said today.
Zimmerman was one of two men who came to the aid of Dana and Mark Gerstle and their two children, who were trapped inside a blue Ford Explorer SUV that had rolled over after traveling off the highway in Sanford, Fla. at approximately 5:45 p.m. Thursday, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Zimmerman did start wearing a mask, there have been so many death threats against him.
[ADDENDUM: My favorite comment to one of the articles about this Zimmerman rescue is someone who wrote that NBC has footage of the incident that it’s running backwards, so that Zimmerman is shown pushing the family back into the upside-down car.
Another:
Eric Holder probably has DOJ legal interns busily researching whether or not there are any federal crimes for unauthorized use of a fire extinguisher, or illegally parking on the shoulder of the road, or crossing against the traffic, etc.
And:
I heard angela corey was going to charge him with child abuse cause he pulled the adults out first.]
[ADDENDUM II: Althouse continues the theme.]
The tie-in that needs to be made repeatedly and overtly, as though to 5 yo’s, is that Zimmerman acted from the *same* beneficial neighborly/community ethic when he helped with the vehicle accident as when he reported and tracked Martin.
Such actions sounds like “in character” for George Zimmerman – not that the MSM would report it as such.
As far as the death threats? I won’t expect the Obama administration to say anything against them, let alone investigate or arrest anyone who engages in such illegal behaviour.
Too funny not to repeat from Allahpundit:”When will he learn to stay in his car?”
Seriously, Zimmerman is a great volunteer citizen.
I have never seen anything so twisted in my life.
I told you that creepy ass cracker just can’t mind his own bidness.
The interesting thing is that Zimmerman is known to have engaged in activism against the police for beating a black man. Oh, and I understand that black man’s sister protested against Zimmerman.
This piece, a followup to an earlier piece (linked in this one) from Patterico is also of interest, since some have accused Zimmerman from making calls that show a pattern of racist fearmongering.
http://patterico.com/2013/07/22/proof-that-zimmermans-calls-to-911-about-black-males-were-legitimate-and-not-racial/
What a nice guy and a good neighbor.
He has a right to be wary of giving assistance, but he was ready to help once again.
I think it’s been clear for quite some time to anyone who actually studies the facts of the Zimmerman/Martin case, and the way Zimmerman has conducted himself during the trial and beyond, as well as the obvious respect his neighbors seem to have for him, that he’s a good person. That’s one of the reasons the hate directed at him is so hard to watch.
Yes you have, in the Gospels. The arrest, trial and crucifixion of Yeshua/Jesus is a lynching not unlike any number of lynchings of scapegoats throughout history. This is a common event throughout history. The lynching of Jesus seems to me to be similar to the lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish pencil factory manager, who was falsely convicted of murder in 1913 and lynched by a mob of prominent citizens of Marietta Georgia in 1915.
What differs in these three instances is in no small part the degree to which we, who are contemporaries of the event, can see the innocence of the scapegoat/target victim.
The way I see it is there are (and were) very powerful and yet common human subconscious motivations compelling many of us to seek George Zimmerman’s blood.
I find it curious that no one in the Main Stream Media (as far as I can tell) has seen fit to report on the anniversary of Leo Franks’ arrest, trial and conviction 100 year ago this year.
My guess is that any spotlight on Leo Frank would cast the Rev. Al Sharpton in a rather unfavorable light.
There are way too many low information voters claiming that this latest event is simply a publicity stunt. Pretty sad, but not unexpected, I suppose.
Yes, yes, a kind hearted act, but the real question is….are the Gerstle’s Caucasian? If they are, this not only is NOT evidence of Zimmerman’s decency, it is further evidence of his racism! For his willingness to help white people is additional proof of his hatred of black people.
….The logic of lefty moonbats. 🙂
From Power Line:
The tweet of the day comes courtesy of Glenn’s Twitter feed, which includes this retweet of Kathy in South Carolina:
The most famous white Hispanic helped rescue 4 Americans. The most famous black Caucasian refused to rescue 4 Americans! Who’s A HATER?
Zimmerman continues to be a decent person even though his life has been ruined. His life will never be normal again. For many that would be a reason for bitterness and withdrawal from society. He just seems to want to help people.
If Zimmerman helped black people, it would only be because those were uncle toms, so says the Left.
If a black sister protests against Z man, it’s because she was ordered to do so. Slaves have little choice in the matter. They must do as they are told, brother or no brother.
I’m not sure if it would be hard to watch as the Left tears people like Z man apart or not. In the larger scheme of things, Zimmerman was just one person the Left has sought to destroy. The Left has succeeded in destroying many more people who were equal or better than Zimmerman at the civic duty work. This is nothing but a drop in an ocean. Yet that ocean is not perceived by the great majority of folks. They call limbs flying down from the Left, “rain”. A natural thing.
There’s an old fantasy causality line, that goes something like this.
Demons hunt down and eat humans.
Humans call upon a Hero to make sacrifices and save the people.
The Hero defeats demons.
The humans pull down the Hero and destroy him afterwards.
Sort of like rock vs scissors vs paper. Demons kill humans. Demons are killed by humans. Yet whereas normal humans can’t kill demons, normal humans can bring down the hero that kills demons.
It makes perfect sense.
Ordered? … because she was ordered to do so? No, more likely she was a willing participant so strong are the social forces motivating the mob. Et tu Brutus? George Zimmerman may have aided her brother but George Zimmerman profiled, hunted down and executed an innocent boy, a child. A young angelic 9 years old smiling boy on errant for Skittles for his little brother! What a monster that Zimmerman! Men such as he should not be permitted to prowl the borderlands of our community … snatching away children … we lose so many children … to outsiders of course, to monsters at the edges of our community …
The internal stresses in the African American inner city community must be incredible. Consider the uncharacteristically high crime rates, the pervasive academic failure, the high youth unemployment rates, the culture of violence, of male aggression and of misogyny of pervasive illegal drug use and the profound lasting damage caused by multiple generational fatherlessness. Those internal stresses have to go somewhere. Better they be directed to a target, a monster, on the edge of the community than those stress be targeted internally. Accusations directed internally in such a target rich environment would rip the community apart.
You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.
My favorite was lib media will blame him for the crash because he was following too closely.
“The internal stresses in the African American inner city community must be incredible.”
How about a President who was on the opposite end of the spectrum from Martin as a youth yet, rather than pull black youth up to his level, instead normalizes Martin as the role model for black youth by citing a myth of his own youth?
How are even conscientious black parents supposed to raise their kids right when the President is effectively telling black kids to be like Martin?
For the Left, black victims are more useful than black progression. (Recall what ‘progressive’ meant in America before the Marxists corrupted it like they have the entire liberal school.)
I’m beginning to doubt that it’s possible to have a functional multiracial society. It just makes it too easy for race hustlers and opportunists to divide people along racial lines in order to gain power and exploit the public.
No, more likely she was a willing participant so strong are the social forces motivating the mob.
The idea that mobs or even the people in them, are individuals capable of making their own decisions is a conceit of American industrialism and individualism.
The Left knows that they are tools to be used like anything else.
When people attempt to fight the Left by treating their tools as individuals that can use reason, they are basically stabbing the gun and thinking they have won. Whereas the serial killer just gets another weapon to do the deed. Stabbing or fighting the “gun” doesn’t accomplish much.
The idea of will is erroneously held by anti Leftists to be something of a reasonable thing they can discourse, debate with, and convince people to use against the Left. When in fact the Left doesn’t use people’s “will” at all, because they fundamentally downsize humanity into merely tools. This is not a propaganda ploy, but actual reality.
People will never win against the Left when they don’t want to see it for what it truly is.
I would not characterize the positions of Obama and Martin on a spectrum as being opposite. Obama’s upbringing surely was more privileged. However, Martin’s upbringing could very well be characterized as middle class. Martin’s mom has been earning over $60000 and his dad is a truck driver.
The “internal stresses” of the black community would be described by me as “training techniques for animals”.
Training a puppy to be able to do tricks and kill human enemies, requires a set of doctrines and methods. The idea is to be able to use them to kill outsiders. Having the dogs go crazy and turn on their owners would be bad, chaotic.
However, it is not necessary to “hate” the tools or the dogs. They are what they are because of their society, their Leftist masters. Kill the Left, hate the Left, and most things resolve themselves afterwards.
Trimegestus says:
“I’m beginning to doubt that it’s possible to have a functional multiracial society.”
The problem is not about multiracial, but rather is about freedom vs eurosocialism.
What we sometimes mistakenly think of as black society/culture, or as expression of “salad bowl” (as opposed to melting pot), is actually expression of an entitlement culture which promotes eurosocialism, and whose bottom line is about money and power. The bottome line is not about skin color; is not about artistic/individualistic/African cultural expression. The bottom line is your money and Eurosocialist Americans’ increased power.
It is fully possible that a nation which is rent between belief in free enterprise, vs belief in eurosocialism, cannot stand.
The whole racial grievance thing is merely a cover for the real agenda: Eurosocialism. The racial grievance thing is a feint; a fake.
Ira,
I didn’t know the financial state of Martin’s parents. That’s informative.
However, I was thinking more of teenage Barry Obama, who from what I gather was a sheltered inoffensive border-line nerd, in contrast to Martin’s wannabe gangsta. At worst, Obama was pretentious preppy rebel-lite, Hawaiian style.
Neo — re: your comment 7-22-13 @ 9:23 PM
Agree completely! The frustration about this whole thing is watching so many judge (ouside of court, of course, without knowing, or deliberately omitting the key facts (i.e. their past behavior) about both Zimmerman and Martin….MOST ESPECIALLY Martin. Seeing as the case rested completely and entirely on self-defense, each of their histories related to interaction with others was salient — but in our “racial profiling world” one dare not inquire if Trayvon Martin could somehow possibly not be the (now) Sainted Angel of Skittles-and-Iced-Tea who will now watch over all children carrying them home from Seven Eleven to ensure their journeys are safe (just waiting for the gold encrusted pendants to go on sale…hmmm…Franklin Mint, are you listening?).
But talk about racism, to even suggest that Trayvon may well have been innocent (of something, anyway) until the moment he hauled off and assaulted G.Z. for looking at him, is to risk life, limb, and possibly civil rights charges by Fed’l Govt.!!!
Any other time, Georges Zimmerman might be regarded as a pro-active person sincerely interested making his home and neighborhood safer and a better place to live. Somewhere along the way, however, the “Activists” became those champions of Trayvon Martin’s, blissfully ignorant of who he was and what his day to day interaction w/ others was like…Who cares anyway? He’s black! What else does one need to know?! And, ironically, somewhere along this convoluted way of thinking, not only were racial lines drawn, but these same lines became synonomous with political leanings, too: of course, conservatives are the only people who would be pro-Zimmerman/anti-Martin — in other words rabid racists (as opposed to anyone who might consider the facts and come to an independent conclusion (Heaven Forbid!). Liberals are the only people who would be so “clear-minded” and see Trayvon as the innocent child who was profiled and murdered so brutally on that Feb. night.
(Think anyone has dared to suggest to B.O., that if he had a son, he might very well resemble George Zimmermathan so much as Trayvon, given the mixed ethnicities so prevalent in Peru, GZ’s mother’s homeland. Caucasians were in the minority with many more Blacks, Hispanics and Indians making up the greater population which apparently intermarried quite freely making ethnic backround much less distinct.
Eric, you hit the nail on the head. Here is a guy who never spent a black day in his life, probably was never in a place with more than two black people, until he transferred to Columbia, talking about how 35 years ago that could have been him. 35 years ago, he was attending a tony private school in Hawaii. The worst part of the story is that not only do the MSN buy this poseur, but black people do as well.
Richard Saunders,
Myth is a conscious element of religious Narrative.
George Zimmerman – the REAL community activist, the kind you WANT in your neighborhood.
Part of why Leftists are so pure and why I don’t worry about mislabeling them, is because the Left themselves purge their ranks of traitors and other people interested in liberty or human rights. Thus their purity of construct is internally valid and enforced, not by me, but by them.
Thus Zell Miller is kicked from the Democrat party. Others like Juan Williams is “sanctioned” in cable news.
People and Democrats like Zimmerman, either must obey or they are penalized.
The Left is very useful in separating good from evil. Those who think I and others are being jingoistic or mischaracterizing a broad group of people with unsanctionable labels need to look at the fishbowl they are in here.
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