Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, even after confessing to the murder
of Kate Steinle, was found not guilty on November
30, 2017. If the Left is looking for an indictment of wrong doing, they need to
look in the mirror, illegal immigration, sanctuary cities and Left-Wing unjust
judiciaries.
Justin Smith writes with the obvious sense of injustice resulting
to Zarate’s verdict. When there is no justice, what is an end result? Vigilantism?
JRH 12/4/17
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The Murder of America's Sons and Daughters
By Justin O. Smith
Sent 12/2/2017 9:33 PM
A San Francisco jury engaged in a gross, outrageous
miscarriage and travesty of justice and denied Kate Steinle and her family
justice, on November 30th, when they delivered a "not guilty" verdict
to her murderer, Garcia Zarate, an illegal alien from Mexico. The integrity of
the law was destroyed by this jury nullification, which abandoned facts, reason
and the truth, and these jurors sent a clear message to America that a criminal
illegal alien's life was more important than Kate Steinle's life and those of
America's own sons and daughters.
Partly to blame, the Court itself exhibited just how broken
our system really is. The five previous deportations of Zarate and his seven
previous felonies were left out of the case, even though Ms. Steinle's murder
and Zarate's illegal alien status had sparked a national debate on the
country's illegal alien problem.
However, on the barest facts of the case, the jury should
have easily been able to arrive to a "guilty" verdict on involuntary
manslaughter, at the very least, unless they held the typical liberal
anti-"white privilege", pro-sanctuary city Democratic Party line of
most of the area's populace. This jury was a cross-section of an area that is
thirty-percent foreign born and seemingly 100 percent ignorant of
U.S. law, or simply predisposed to dismiss America's age old shared principles
and common national sentiment.
Any reasonable person, who has a cogent thought process,
would have immediately seen through Zarate's lies and continuously changing
story. If he'd been shooting at a sea lion, as asserted, with the gun he
supposedly "found", the bullet would have been travelling away from
Ms. Steinle and the crowded section of Pier 14. If he'd simply stepped on the
gun, a weapon the quality of the Sig Sauer P239 would not haveanywhere between 4.4 and 10 pounds of
trigger pull, depending on its original owner's preference.
A check of the firearm by the Bureau of Land Management in
April 2015, three months before the shooting, found it was in perfect working
order, which was noted by Assistant District Attorney Diana Garcia. Explaining
further, the DA stated: "It's not the kind of gun that's going to go off
by accident. He knew all along what he was doing."
It's undisputed that the gun was in Zarate's possession, and
witnesses saw him spinning on a bar chair pointing the gun down the pier.
Zarate's own statement is basically a confession, through his own claim the
shooting was an accident, even though he fired towards multitudes of people on
the pier that day, without any due caution and circumspection. At the very
minimum, this fits the precise definition of "involuntary manslaughter".
It's also undisputed that Zarate should not have been in
America in the first place. If the Sheriff's Department had turned Zarate over
to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, as required by federal law, instead of simply releasing him back to San
Francisco's streets, Kate Steinle would be alive today.
How could this jury not convict Garcia Zarate, especially
with the understanding that Kate Steinle could have been one of their own
daughters, and as they witnessed her family's pain?
Jim Steinle said: "We're just shocked
-- saddened and shocked ... There's no other way you can coin it. Justice was
rendered, but it was not served."
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was quick to say, "I urge
the leaders of the nation's communities to reflect on the outcome of this case
and consider carefully the harm they are doing to their citizens by refusing to
cooperate with federal law enforcement officers."
One should note, FBI statistics show 67,642 murders in the
U.S, from 2005 through 2008 and 115,717 from 2003 through 2009. The General
Accounting Office attributes 25,064 of these murders to criminal illegal
aliens, which means, by extrapolating the stats, that 3.5 percent of this population in America
committed twenty-two percent to thirty-seven percent of all murders in the
nation.
Ninety-five percent of approximately 1500
outstanding homicide warrants in Los Angeles are for illegal
aliens. About 67 percent of LA's 17,000 outstanding
felony warrants are for illegal aliens, and 4.5 million pounds of
cocaine worth $72 billion are smuggled across the southern border every year.
Kate Steinle was thirty-two years old at the time of her
death, blonde and beautiful and already successful in her career. She was also
an adventurer and had already traveled overseas to Barcelona, Dubai and South
Africa. Just days before her death, Kate had written,
"Whatever is good for your soul -- do that."
Kate, her father and a family friend were enjoying an outing
and taking pictures of birds, boats and each other on Pier 14, in the
Embarcadero district, on July 1st 2015, when Zarate's bullet struck her back
and pierced her aorta. As she lay dying in her father's arms, she gasped her last words,
"Dad, help me, help me."
Kate's vibrant life was taken far too soon, but Zarate gets
to rise each day and continue his life to whatever miserable end finally finds
him, after he completes a two to three year sentence on the felony weapons
charge. He will be returned to Mexico upon release, and that's not justice.
America must force our leaders to fully enforce existing
immigration law aimed at halting illegal immigration. No longer should the
nation bear any tax burden either for sanctuary cities, that ignore these laws.
Detain and deport anyone entering America illegally, regardless of their
criminal or innocent intentions, and imprison repeat offenders for enough years
to send a message to others and deter them from entering illegally. Build the
wall and secure our borders, because Kate Steinle and other Americans murdered by
illegal aliens deserve no less.
And perhaps, America needs a victim veto set in U.S law, for
instances of jury nullification and a defendant's obvious guilt, so the
victim's family can say: "Judge, I can't live with this miscarriage of
justice. This man murdered my daughter. I cannot possibly let this go
unanswered. Let the judge make the final ruling.”
As the father of two daughters, in the absence of a
punishment that fit the crime, a sense of being avenged and then to witness the
criminal go free, without paying any real price, my own outrage would be such,
if I were in Jim Steinle's position, that I would make it a point to kill
Zarate upon his release, because a criminal, especially a killer, must face a
day of reckoning and receive his due.
The death penalty, life or twenty-five years in prison
without parole could never redress the harm Zarate's actions brought to the
Steinle Family, but to let him go without finding him guilty of involuntary
manslaughter is an intolerable moral violation. If the principles of the U.S.
Constitution applied equally to protect victims, as much as the accused, it
would be cruel and unusual punishment to deny the victims any real semblance of
justice, that accompanies the rightful punishment of those who have done them or
their families harm. And, as in this case, justice denied is no justice.
By Justin O. Smith
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Edited by John R. Houk
Source links are by the Editor.
© Justin O. Smith
More than "vigilantism", I would call it a "Righteous Defense" in the face of "blatant and evil injustice" --- [when there is no justice], which speaks to the absence of law or the abandonment of our customs, measures and laws, the uniformity of our principles, and the former common national sentiment, which would never have allowed such a gross injustice as this to occur, until recent years.
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