Or maybe not.

Does it work for the defense?

O'MARA: Other major assets that you have which you can liquidate reasonably to assist in coming up with money for a bond?

S. ZIMMERMAN: None that I know of.

O'MARA: I discussed with you the pending motion to have your husband, George, declared indigent for cost, have I not?

S. ZIMMERMAN (George's wife): Yes, you have.

O'MARA: Are you of any financial means where you could assist in those costs?

S. ZIMMERMAN: Not that I'm aware of.

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News reports have indicated that his parents also testified that the family had few assets, but were unable to testify about how much had been raised through his website.  I assume Zimmerman was required to testify or make disclosure of his assets, as well.

Zimmerman's lawyer thinks it could have affected the judge's decision.  There's a hearing about it tomorrow, and it sounds like O'Mara's bracing for it.

Orlando lawyer Mark O'Mara told CNN's "AC360" that George Zimmerman told him Wednesday of the donations as they were trying to shut down his Internet presence to avoid concerns about possible impersonators and problems with his Twitter and Facebook accounts.

"He asked me what to do with his PayPal accounts and I asked him what he was talking about," O'Mara told Anderson Cooper. "And he said those were the accounts that had the money from the website he had. And there was about 200, $204,000 that had come in to date." ...

Asked whether knowledge of the money might have made a difference to Judge Kenneth Lester Jr., who presided at Zimmerman's bond hearing, O'Mara said, "It might have."

O'Mara continued, "I'm certainly going to disclose it to the court tomorrow -- coincidentally, we have a hearing."

He said he was prepared to "deal with any fallout," but predicted Lester would not feel misled. "I told him what I knew at the time, which was exactly what I was aware of."

The money has been placed in a secure account since O'Mara learned about it, he said, adding, "Nobody's touching it until we figure out how to handle it."

But criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos said Lester might not react benignly. "I know a lot of judges who would remand the guy back into custody immediately," he said. "If you've got more money stashed in an account and you could just pay the bond and be gone, that gives a lot of judges concern."

Though the account has been closed, O'Mara said he intends to open a legal defense fund for Zimmerman. "I've had dozens, hundreds actually, of people wanting to donate," he said.

I think O'Mara has done an effective job of getting the judge to trust him.

As well I think the judge has a very low opinion of the prosecution's evidence, and strongly suspects this case was brought to trial almost entirely for political reasons.

It could also be that significant amounts were not donated
Until after the bond hearing

They said James then reached for the gun as the two toppled to the ground.

Nineteenth Century editorial cartoons depicted the U.S. as an eagle, Britain as a lion, and Russia as a bear.

The word 'jingoism' comes from this British beer hall song:

We don't want to fight
But, by Jingo, if we do
We've got the ships
We've got the men
We've got the money too
We've fought the bear before
And while we're Britains true
The Russians shall not have
Constantinople.

'We've fought the bear before' refers to the Crimean war. The song was popular during the various 'Eastern Question' crises of the late Nineteenth Century.

And most self-described libertarians that come here are ridiculously self-deluded.  They are wingers who don't particularly want to be associated with the batsh!t crazy arm of the GOP, even if slightly batsh!t themselves.  Understand, I'm not saying you fit that category.  Too soon to tell actually, but your "beyond the pale" business was the first datum.

I guess Zimmerman put himself beyond the pale of liberal sympathy, by exercising his constitutional right to go armed for the purpose of self-defense.

Gee, how could anyone mistake that for right wing hackery...