Picking at the scab

To begin, some wisdom from Chad Vegas from this past Saturday to put things in perspective:

I don’t celebrate the not “guilty verdict” of Zimmerman today. If he was truly “not guilty,” then I am thankful some semblance of justice was done. However, I am still grieved today. I am grieved that a family lost a son. I am grieved that this same family must feel a tremendous sense of injustice with their loss. I am grieved that black people were treated so badly in our nation’s past that they rightly question the equality of our justice system. I am grieved above all that sin has entered our world and driven us into both a deep racial divide and into the need for a criminal justice system in the first place.

That being said, Doug Wilson is rightly lamenting the unsurprising and hackneyed aftermath/reaction to the verdict.
Douglas Wilson:

The irony is that Trayvon is now being compared to genuine lynch mob victims, and the comparison is being made by crowds outside the courthouse, away from the evidence presented in a rule-guided setting, but nevertheless demanding the conviction of an individual for political reasons.

Wilson goes on to point out that, in the current political climate, no one even blinks when another court butts in to a case that has already been adjudicated, if the verdict was politically distasteful.

Whenever someone is tried and acquitted, as Zimmerman has been, it is beyond offensive to continue to orchestrate political pressure in order to keep trying him until we find a venue that will give us the “right answer.” Our double jeopardy protections are there for a good reason, and the right of a convicted man to appeal, while restricting the right of a defeated prosecutor to do so, is grounded in biblical law. It is of the highest order of importance that political passions be kept out of the courtroom.

The parties involved in the George Zimmerman / Trayvon Martin case have had their day in court. One can only assume each party gave it their best shot before a jury that reached a unanimous decision. Now the feds want to get into the act.

How can you expect to heal if you keep picking at the scab?