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July 14, 2013

The Hunt For The Great White Defendant

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Every assistant D.A. in the Bronx, from the youngest Italian just out of St. John's Law School to the oldest Irish bureau chief,
who would be somebody like Bernie Fitzgibbon, who was forty-two, shared Captain Ahab's mania for the Great White Defendant. For a start, it was not pleasant to go through life telling yourself, "What I do for a living is, I pack blacks and Latins off to jail." Kramer had been raised as a liberal. In Jewish families like his, liberalism came with the Similac and the Mott's apple juice and the Instamatic and Daddy's grins in the evening. And even the Italians, like Ray Andriutti, and the Irish, like Jimmy Caughey, who were not exactly burdened with liberalism by their parents, couldn't help but be affected by the mental atmosphere of the law schools, where, for one thing, there were so many Jewish faculty members. By the time you finished law school in the New York area, it was, well ... impolite! ... on the ordinary social level ... to go around making jokes about the yoms. It wasn't that it was morally wrong ... It was that it was in bad taste. So it made the boys uneasy, this eternal prosecution of the blacks and Latins. [The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe]: A Reading List | VDARE.com

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Ah, yes...

Posted by: leelu at July 14, 2013 2:02 PM

I see Eric Holder and Harry Reid want to take another whack at poor George. Sadly, the existing jurisprudence is that separate prosecutions under Federal and State laws don't count as double jeopardy.

The statutory basis for the prosecution would be:

18 USC ยง 249 - Hate crime acts

(a)(1) Whoever ... willfully causes bodily injury to any person ... because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, or national origin of any person ...

(B) shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life ... if (i) death results from the offense ...

The Statute was the product of the 2009 Congress that also gave us the Porkulus and Obamacare.

I am sure that Hussein and Holder want to do it. The professionals might tell them to stuff it, the case is a lead pipe looser.

Posted by: Fat Man at July 14, 2013 2:54 PM

Since when have those guys ever concerned themselves with what the law says?

Posted by: Anonymous at July 14, 2013 4:30 PM

George Zimmerman is this season's Emmanuel Goldstein.


As for the case being a lead pipe loser, that's not the point. If GZ ever actually goes to jail, the whole game is over.

Posted by: SteveS at July 15, 2013 8:57 AM

George Zimmerman is this season's Emmanuel Goldstein.

Bingo - and the seasons grow shorter, and the Two Minutes Hate is required several times a day. The Gramsci strategy is played out before our eyes: create sufficient chaos and the people will beg for Totalitarianism.

Posted by: Rob De Witt at July 15, 2013 9:52 AM

If it wasn't for Blacks and Latins, whom would they put in the cooler?

Posted by: Peccable at July 15, 2013 11:41 AM

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