Several months ago, when I first made the conscious choice to engage in really digging into and understanding the George Zimmerman case; the reason for my inquiry was based on the fact-based and historically accurate understanding that President Obama does not get involved in anything unless he stands to gain from something politically.
Additionally, I have held the opinion the entire construct of the George Zimmerman V Trayvon™ Martin case would have evaporated from view within weeks, if it were not for the Rose Garden speech by President Obama about ‘Trayvon being his son’. At that moment, that specific moment, is when the forces aligned against George Zimmerman increased exponentially. It was also at that moment that any possibility of a fair or impartial vetting of the case was crushed into the land of impossibility.
President Obama’s involvement is also the reason I have told many “at risk parties”, who do not possess the internal strength to look boldly into the furnace, to run away from it. This case is not for the faint of courage. Once you put the full weight, and credibility, of The Office Of The President of The United States into the mix, the concentric circles of narrative protection increase exponentially in all their forms; and they will attack you viciously ad infinitum.
Consider this latest revelation/development from the Miami Herald report to be a case in point. Emphasis mine:
FLORIDA – The FBI dispatched at least 10 special agents to Central Florida to investigate the Trayvon Martin shooting, records filed in Seminole County Court show.
The agents interviewed up to a dozen firearms dealers, gun range employees and private investigators about George Zimmerman, according to a court document filed Friday by Assistant State Attorney Bernardo de la Rionda. Another 11 investigators from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement also joined the probe.
“Two FBI agents showed up here with a picture of Zimmerman asked me if I recognized him,” said gun dealer Khaled Akkawi, who was listed as a witness in the case. “They were pretty much asking along the lines of if he had made racial comments or anything. My employees told me it couldn’t be further from the truth.
“Didn’t the guy have a Sunday school in his house for minority kids?”
Before he shot the unarmed teen, Zimmerman mentored a black child, his family has said.
Akkawi owns Shoot Straight, a firearms store and range that boasts seven Florida locations and the “largest selection of guns for sale in the Southeast.” Zimmerman purchased the Kel Tek 9 mm semiautomatic handgun he used to kill Miami Gardens teenager Trayvon Martin at the store’s Casselberry location, Akkawi said.
“As soon as there is a controversy like that, I look it up in the computer, and sure enough, there he was,” Akkawi said, insisting that the Herald mention that he is a strong advocate of the state’s Stand Your Ground law. “I have to admit, this has been a good year for gun sales. I don’t know if it was this case or the election year, but we’re enjoying a good boost.”
Akkawi’s name appears on a list de la Rionda filed in court that documents the additional evidence that was turned over to defense attorney Mark O’Mara on Thursday.
The package of evidence O’Mara received included seven compact discs and hundreds of pages of documents, the defense attorney said on his website.
“It includes surveillance video, police radio transmissions, crime scene photos, 911 calls Mr. Zimmerman made prior to the night of the shooting, and more,” he wrote. “The documents include a crime scene diagram, and additional reports from the Sanford Police Department, FDLE, and the FBI. … The discovery process is ongoing, and we expect additional discovery to be disclosed as the case develops.”
The judge gave O’Mara 30 days to review the new evidence before it is made public.
Prosecutors said they plan to release six recordings of Zimmerman’s jailhouse phone calls being used in evidence in his wife’s perjury case. Initially the State Attorney’s Office said it planned to release 151 of Zimmerman’s calls, but held off after O’Mara objected. […]
(snip. WTF, why would the prosecution want to release the contact information of George Zimmerman? Talk about intimidation. Seriously…… /SD)
In Friday’s court filing, prosecutors also mentioned 21 more witnesses whose names have been kept secret.
Other witnesses who were named included Akkawi’s employees, two people from a tactical firearms facility in Central Florida, a private investigator and a range master at another gun club.
“I don’t know where you are getting this from,” said former Seminole County Sheriff’s Deputy Scott McLeod, range master at the Chuluota Sportsmen’s Club who was listed as a witness in the case. “I am telling you: Nobody has ever come to interview me.”
The document filed by the court also said prosecutors would present cellphone records belonging to Tracy Martin, the dead teen’s father. Crime scene photos, emails between Zimmerman and former chief Bill Lee were also listed as evidence, as well as the defendant’s previous calls to police in the six months prior to the shooting and a printout of his anti-Mexican rants on MySpace. (Read More)
