The Most Dangerous Ground

By Dan Hagen

We all know, really, who George Zimmerman is. Zimmerman is Zaroff, the antagonist in Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game.”

Leslie Banks as Zaroff in "The Most Dangerous Game"

Both Zimmerman and Zaroff found ways to indulge their fever for hunting and killing unarmed human beings. Unfortunately, young Trayvon Martin wasn’t as canny — or as fictional — as Rainsford.

Zimmerman profiled an unarmed teenage boy who had committed no crime, pursued and stalked him against police instructions, frightened him, provoked a confrontation with him and then shot him to death during a struggle.

Why? Because he, like Zaroff, is evil. Those who support him are cheerleaders for evil.  On some level, they know that. That's why they're so nervously strident and unhinged about the case. They know they're whistling past their own moral graveyards.

The Zimmerman case offered a choice between justice and 21st century lynch law, and now we’ve seen which Florida prefers. Zimmerman escaped justice through the device of a jury instruction based on the “Stand Your Ground” law, legislation designed to permit people like Zimmerman to provoke fights with the people they want to murder.

Zimmerman got caught speeding with a gun in Texas the other day. After all, why should mere traffic laws apply to a man who has just gotten away with murder?

Zimmerman is still speeding somewhere, and it’s nowhere good.