High-profile cases lead to more high-profile cases, book deals, etc.
Kim Kardashian's dad became famous through the OJ trial (although Kim herself gained fame because she was in a hardcore porn film with her boyfriend and at the end they peed on each other).
Some attorneys get into the game because they are flambuoyant, they love money, they love attention.
Others love money too, but they also held onto some form of initial passion for the law.
The Trayvon case, unfortunately, has already passed into the realm of theater. Freepers are knocking themselves out pulling all of the skeletons out of Rev. Al and Jesse Jackson's closets. Zimmerman shot a 17 year old kid in the chest, and yet the freepers and their ilk label the quest for justice as "race baiting."
They hate Obama for saying Trayvon could have been his son.
Of course, they hate Obama anyway. If Trayvon were on his way to 7/11 for more Skittles and ice tea tonight, after never having met Zimmerman, they would STILL hate Obama.
In some sick, twisted way, many people in this country saw Obama's journey to the Oval Office as a permission slip to let their inner racist out to play.
This trial is going to be Cirque du Soleil, and the only consolation is that once the show is over, the players will pacvk up their tents and costumes and head out of town. I hope Trayvon's family finds some peace, some sense that justice has been served. I hope Zimmerman's family gains some understanding of their son, beyond a blind "blood is thicker than water" sense of wanting to protect him, regardless of his actions. I hope all of the people watching on the sidelines realize that actions have their consequences.
And in reality, UNLESS there is a dismissal, by the time a jury is selected and the trial actually begins, the Presidential Election of 2012 will be history. It took 48 days to just ARREST Zimmerman. The trial isn;t going to happen overnight. And unless Mitt Romney sprouts some kind of miraculous charisma and starts conecting with Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Lunchpail from Anytown, USA, the people who hate President Obama now are REALLY going to hate him when he retains his residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for another four years.
I hate all of this shit, but I am pragmatic and a realist by nature, and as much as I want to turn my head away from the ugliness, I know it will be waiting ffor me when I swing my head back in its direction.
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