Maggie's Farm

However, we must understand that they believe that this is justified "for the greater good."

And that's why it's so hard to talk to them about it, especially if you suggest that their methods and tactics belie good faith - that anyone not committed to their cause might reasonably believe they were acting like weasels and weren't saints.

Kinda along that line, I was -- dismayed -- to recently discover that a few of my more liberal friends I've known for years, a few academics and a couple of M.D.'s, have swallowed the left narrative of the Martin / Zimmerman affair hook line & sinker. They were ecstatic when he got indicted.

They are completely unaware of the facts that have complicated the left narrative, and circumstances that, whether Zimmerman's guilty or not, make the indictment smell like an opportunistic political prosecution.

These are the folks that are supposed to be able to see through crude media propaganda and search for the truth before forming their opinions. Not to mention, you know, also insist that defendants subjected to criminal prosecution enjoy the presumption of innocence.

They're acting like a lynch mob and I'm not sure they want to know anything that would make them think twice. Maybe it's just because I've practiced criminal defense law and can see how far over the line they've gone, but I've been really disturbed by their position - one thing it certainly is not: "Liberal".

It really disturbs me - I had no idea how self-justified and righteous they think they are. They are showing a complete lack of the kind of base line circumspection about this kind of thing that I would have expected of them. Zimmerman might be guilty; I don't know*, but whether he is or isn't doesn't change how wrong-headed these folks are about the case.

People are going freaking nuts.

*Only Zimmerman, the police, and the prosecutor know what the important facts really are. The ones that matter in a prosecution. You can't expect any of those parties to have told all they know. The one certain thing is that the media, especially the wretched semi-news shows like Nancy Grace and her ilk, are mostly talking out their collecting rear end. Speculating like mad because they don't know all the facts and for now, can't. And, as we've seen already, the Media couldn't get the essential facts that are publicly available right in the first place. What a mess.