Reflections of a stormy petrel

My own experience of having the Politically Correct hounds of Hell unleashed against me by people in power (specifically, university authorities) leads me to feel strong sympathy with Zimmerman, who has done nothing wrong that I can see. Of course, being no fan of gun nuts and lynch mobs, I am not going to jump up and down at the waste of a life that began long before Martin ran into that bullet. I hate the thought of - as Dickens wonderfully put it - "...children...generated in great numbers for certain destruction... imprisoned, whipped, transported, neglected, cast out, qualified in all ways for the hangman, and growing up to be hanged... so much spawn, to develop into the fish that were to come to his net,—to be prosecuted, defended, forsworn, made orphans, bedevilled somehow," (Great Expectations, ch.51)