[Hoot Gibson]

Hoot, you're acting like there's some secret clues that are going to come out in this case, you act like its so complicated when it's really not.

The fact is, most of you can't separate this from your politics, and that is pathetic.

What's pathetic is your failure to understand basic legal principles. The gashes on Zimmerman's head, his broken nose, black eyes, and eyewitnesses claiming that they saw Martin slamming his head against the pavement give him a credible basis for claiming self defense. It is the government's obligation to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt in a criminal case. Are you aware of evidence that would establish beyond a reasonable doubt that Zimmerman attacked Martin?

It doesn't matter that you rushed to judgment and assumed that this was a case of a white racist stalking and executing a young black teenager, which was the story told by early media accounts. It has already been shown that the assumptions that you and RV made in this case and your tirades against those who disagreed with your conclusion were ill founded.

As for your accusations that I am not capable of separating politics from facts, I think that you are projecting your own issues onto me. I am not saying that Zimmerman will not be convicted because none of us know all of the facts that a jury will be presented. Nor are any of us experts on the Florida laws against which jurors will be instructed to weigh the evidence.

I am sorry that it upsets you so much that some of us are not ready to lynch a man based on an incomplete set of facts obtained from a media that has egg all over their face where this case is concerned, but that is just the way that it has got to be.

Our system is designed to protect the innocent even if it means that guilty men go free and that may be the end result in this case. It's not a perfect system but it sure beats lynch mob mentality.