WND contributor Jack Cashill recently released a book entitled “‘If I had a Son’: Race, Guns, and the Railroading of George Zimmerman,” in which he argues that Zimmerman is a hero who has been unfairly maligned by the media.

Last week, Cashill appeared on TheDoveTV to promote the book and was asked what he thought about the possibility that the Justice Department might file civil rights charges against Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin. Cashill was not supportive, to say the least, primarily because “George Zimmerman may have been the least racist person in the state of Florida.”

In fact, Cashill stated, Zimmerman was a civil rights hero and prosecuting him “would be like going after Nelson Mandela on civil rights, or Mother Theresa”: