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The time to speak to America is before the jury renders a verdict. The ball is in your court, Mr. President. Choose wisely

Step Up Before It’s Too Late, Mr. President



Dear Mr. President: From the moment you chose to insert yourself, and, as Judicial Watch has discovered, your minions at the Justice Department into a local incident in Sanford, Florida, a travesty of justice has unfolded.
That your administration's orchestrated discontent was aided and abetted by a media more than willing to alter reality with doctored audio, (courtesy of NBC, attempting to make George Zimmerman appear racist); doctored video, (courtesy of ABC, who purposefully covered Zimmerman's head wounds with a strategically placed graphic); and the execrable New York Times, which referred to Zimmerman as a "white Hispanic" (which, by the way, makes you a "white African-American") is unsurprising. What is surprising is the apparent motive here. Apparently you and your administration believe an enraged black American community is a united black American community. United behind what? The kind of racial arson perpetrated by the likes of Al Sharpton, whose stature was enhanced by the appearance of both you and your attorney general, Eric Holder, at one of Sharpton's National Action Network events? Whatever verdict the jury renders in this case, made even more transparently unfair by the 11th hour addition of a manslaughter alternative to the original charge of second degree murder, as well as the prosecution's pathetic attempt to file felony "child abuse" charges against Zimmerman, is almost irrelevant. The incalculable damage to the advancement of racial harmony in America has already been largely accomplished.

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You can choose to ignore or deny this assessment, but your current silence, standing in stark contrast to your statement, "if I had a son he'd look like Trayvon," is quite telling. It is impossible to believe you are unaware that a few well-chosen words spoken by you about the need to respect our system of justice, as well as making it clear your administration will not tolerate rioting in the streets, would go a long way towards defusing the anger and resentment this case has engendered. Do you have it in you, sir? Do you have the capacity to transcend the despicable machinations that have brought this nation to the precipice? Whether you know it or not, this is the defining moment of your presidency. Either you are the uniter on which you campaigned, or you are the divider who sees no problem with the possibility of Americans fighting and dying in the streets, as long as it accrues to your political benefit. The time to speak to America is before the jury renders a verdict. The ball is in your court, Mr. President. Choose wisely. Sincerely, Arnold Ahlert, concerned American


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Arnold Ahlert -- Bio and Archives

Arnold Ahlert was an op-ed columist with the NY Post for eight years.


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