Via Florida Today:
Zimmerman’s lawyer to speak at Viera event
O’Mara’s speech, raffle of pistol and Bible expected to draw big crowdGeorge Zimmerman’s defense attorney will be the featured speaker at a Gun Rights Preservation Forum next month in Viera.
The Nov. 4 event, organized by the Republican Liberty Caucus of Central East Florida, also will include a raffle in which the prize is a Kel-Tec 9 mm semiautomatic pistol and a Bible.
Bob White, chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus and evidently far less truthful and courageous than the species of ground-dwelling bird his name recalls, claims it’s just a coincidence that Zimmerman’s lawyer is an event speaker and that one of the raffle prizes is the same type of gun Zimmerman used to kill unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin.
That’s bullshit, and White is a liar and a sorry excuse for a human being. It would be comforting to think that such an event is just a gathering of bloodthirsty, fringe-dwelling loons who swap homemade bullet recipes and sell each other seed vaults on an obscure website.
But the article notes that event participants include the county sheriff and the newspaper’s public interest editor. This gives it an imprimatur of respectability it doesn’t deserve. Do they show up at Klan rallies too and pretend those events are just a benign component of a diverse political mosaic? Disgusting.