A BRIDGE TOO FAR<\/p>\n
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 13, 1865.\u00a0 John Wilkes Booth, the assassin, was shot and killed on April 26, 1984.\u00a0 On May 1, 1865 President Andrew Johnson ordered the Lincoln assassination conspirators tried by a military commission.\u00a0 The trial began on May 12.\u00a0 On June 30 the Military Commission determined its verdict and issued sentences.\u00a0\u00a0 David E. Herold, Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell and George Atzerodt \u00a0were sentenced to be hanged.\u00a0\u00a0 Three other people, Samual Mudd, Michael O\u2019Laughlen and Samuel Arnold were sentenced to life terms and Edmund Spangler was sentenced to six years.<\/p>\n
On July 7, 1985, Surrat, Herold, Powell and Atzerodt were hanged.<\/p>\n
But John Surrat got away.\u00a0 He was allegedly in Elmira, New York on a spying mission for General Edwin Lee.\u00a0 He fled to Canada after Lincoln was assassinated.\u00a0 In September 1865 he went to England and later Italy.\u00a0 In late 1866 he was captured in Alexandria, Egypt and brought back to the U.S. for trial in civilian court.<\/p>\n
The trial began on June 10, 1867 and ended on August 10, 1867 with a hung jury.\u00a0 The delay resulted in the statute of limitations expiring on everything but a charge of murder.\u00a0 All charges against him were dropped and he was released from custody in the summer of 1868.\u00a0 Incredibly Surratt tried to make money on a lecture tour where he admitted his involvement in the plot to kidnap Lincoln, but denied knowledge of the assassination plot.\u00a0 It was not well received.\u00a0 He died in 1916.<\/p>\n
There is no doubt that if John Surratt had been captured in the spring of 1865 he would have been convicted of something.\u00a0 He certainly had more involvement than some of the other \u201cconspirators.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
In this case, it would appear that the real miscarriage of justice was with regard to John Surratt.\u00a0 It is very hard to believe that he was not heavily involved in the Lincoln Assassination.\u00a0 It is impossible to justify hanging his mother and sparing him.\u00a0 But the point is that a fair trial is nearly impossible with this level of public outcry. \u00a0At least in the case of Lincoln, a U.S. President had been assassinated and the outrage was legitimate.<\/p>\n
\u00a0In the case of George Zimmerman the outrage was based on false and misleading information in the main stream media.\u00a0 There are still people in the main stream media openly rooting for a conviction.\u00a0 When it became obvious that Second Degree Murder was more than a reach, they pleaded for at least manslaughter.<\/p>\n
Now we learn that the DOJ participated in fanning the flames of outrage.\u00a0 Judicial watch has documents proving that the DOJ sent people to help protest against George Zimmerman.\u00a0<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.judicialwatch.org\/press-room\/press-releases\/documents-obtained-by-judicial-watch-detail-role-of-justice-department-in-organizing-trayvon-martin-protests\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The following e-mail from Miami-Dade County Community Relations Board Program Officer Amy Carswel explains this very well:<\/p>\n \u201cCongratulations to our partners, Thomas Battles, Regional Director, and Mildred De Robles, Miami-Dade Coordinator and their co-workers at the U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service for their outstanding and ongoing efforts to reduce tensions and build bridges of understanding and respect in Sanford, Florida\u201d following a news article in the Orlando Sentinel about the secretive \u201cpeacekeepers.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n This is clear evidence that the DOJ was helping to stir up public sentiment against George Zimmerman.\u00a0 They set up a meeting with the NAACP and elected officials demanding the resignation of the police chief.\u00a0 Sadly, this was successfull:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/06\/20\/bill-lee-sanford-police-c_n_1614018.html<\/a><\/p>\n Bill Lee was fired as police chief.\u00a0 The City Manager based that decision on the \u201cescalating divisiveness that has taken hold of the city.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n The reality was that Police Chief Lee was fired for failing to immediately arrest George Zimmerman.\u00a0<\/p>\n The initial lack of an arrest following the death of Martin, an unarmed black teenager, by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in February led to protests across the nation and spurred a debate about race and the laws of self-defense. Zimmerman’s father is white and his mother is from Peru<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n Note that Zimmerman is described as having a white father and a mother from Peru.\u00a0 By this measure, Barack Obama could be described as having a white mother with a father from Kenya.\u00a0 They did create a bridge, but it was a far cry from a bridge to undertanding and respect.\u00a0 Instead it fanned the flames of discontent.\u00a0 There was a time when brave law enforcement professionals protected people from any angry mob, even when the suspect was obviously guilty.\u00a0 Now the DOJ is the angry man at the back of the mob egging them on.<\/p>\n The DOJ wanted to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in civilian court in New York because everyone, no matter how despicable, deserves a fair trial.\u00a0 Perhaps they were hoping for another John Surratt outcome.\u00a0 But with George Zimmerman, they had zero interest in a fair trial; they were only interested in convicting him of something.\u00a0 When our DOJ sends in people to fan the flames of outrage, it is quite simply a bridge too far.<\/p>\n TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A BRIDGE TOO FAR Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 13, 1865.\u00a0 John Wilkes Booth, the assassin, was shot and killed on April 26, 1984.\u00a0 On May 1, 1865 President Andrew Johnson ordered the Lincoln assassination conspirators tried by a … Continue reading \n
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