Trayvon Martin
1995-2012
Black and White
"The child is black,
the child is white,
the whole world
looks upon
the beautiful sight."
Here performed by Three Dog Night,
originally written in 1954 in response to
the US Supreme Court
Brown v. Board of Education
decision.
So George Zimmerman, after having the benefit of a delay of
6 weeks following his admitted handgun killing of unarmed seventeen year old
Trayvon Martin last February before being arrested and only following Trayvon’s
family’s public pleas, state and national uproar and even comments from the
President saying that if he had a son he would have looked like Trayvon, seeks
a delay in his trial after absurdly being free on $1 million bail for nearly a
year. THAT bail was allowed by the Florida courts after his $150,000 bail was upped
when it came to light that he had hidden a successful fundraising campaign
which had by then netted him an additional $150,000 in personal cash which he
kept secret from authorities along with a secret SECOND passport. He was
clearly not only a flight risk, but had and continues to have contingency plans
to escape.
The genuine articles:
In Trayvon Martin's possession when he was
undeniably gunned down
by George Zimmerman.
The bag os Skittles and can of Arizona Iced Tea
he had bought at the store.
No wonder he wants more time before going to trial, the guy
killed a kid in possession of no more than a bag of candy and a can of iced
tea. His defense that this relatively small young kid with his bare hands was a
threat justifying deadly force with a handgun after tape recordings of a 911
operator ordering Zimmerman to stand down that Zimmerman ignored is absurd,
even in this fanatically right wing state with its fanatical right wing laws
like it’s fanatical ‘stand your ground’ law. The injuries suffered by Zimmerman, if they WERE due to an
altercation at all (and nobody’s seen THAT evidence yet) are so minor that
killing his high school victim was tantamount to using nuclear ICBMs against
Jamaica should it post a higher tariff than the USA would like.
The full extent of Zimmerman's injuries
in a scuffle that nobody else witnessed.
Zimmerman was not only a big full-grown dude,
he was a professional bouncer/security guard.
In hand-to-hand, he could have made
mincemeat out of poor Trayvon.
It has come to light that Zimmerman’s ‘defense’ is going to
amount to an attack on the character of the deceased kid who was talking to his
high school sweetheart when Zimmerman clearly profiled him as a ‘danger’ simply
because of his skin coloration, his age and his wardrobe. When I was Trayvon
Martin’s age, I was a regular marijuana smoker and had dabbled in attempts at
growing the weed and photos from the teen’s cell phone show such evidence.
There are also photos of a gun and magazine in the cell phone, and in this
country today, unfortunately too many people including teens are in possession of
these, but on the night of Zimmerman’s slaughter of this kid he was NOT in possession
of this weapon and had never been charged with anything pertaining to gun
violence or drug charges.
Zimmerman’s background is different. In July 2005 George
Zimmerman was charged with shoving a police officer after an out of control
drinking raid.
Zimmerman has a history of documented rage,
including a court-ordered restraining order
imposed by the court on behalf of his battered fiance,
and an arrest for shoving a cop.
Jekyll and Hyde is what his co-workers call him.
That same summer of 2005 Zimmerman’s fiancé had to get a
restraining order against him because he had allegedly hit her. Zimmerman
worked that year as a bouncer at illegal parties and had to be let go from that
position due to his rage problem. A co-worker described him as a “Jekyll and
Hyde” personality type to the NY Daily News. And as too his defenses that he is
not racist in nature, his own MySpace account name denounces that myth:
DatNiggyTB.
Trayvon with his brother before his killing by George Zimmerman.
The “Stand your ground” law is absurd and potentially
extremely dangerous in this gun-crazy society, but when mixed with racism and
Florida’s successful attempt to steal the Presidential election of 2000 when
Jeb Bush was governor; and their attempts last year to steal the election again
when Governor Rick Scott compelled the poor and black to wait in such long
lines that he hoped it would deter them from voting (it didn’t, and Barack
Obama won Florida and won the nation by such a large margin that the FL results
wouldn’t have mattered); and when Zimmerman’s defense doesn’t even stand the
test of the “Stand your ground”—[exactly whose ground was Zimmerman standing
anyway???]—doesn’t hold water; anything but a first degree murder verdict will
and should shake the very foundations of the state and of the nation. “Justice”
is already a joke in this nation, but let’s not make it open season based on
race once again and set the clock back to 1859 please. Peace…
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