Responsibility Is The Key!
Al Ritter
We’ve heard so much in the last 4 weeks about “Justice for
Trayvon” when we should have been praying for truth and a fair trial. People
who claim that there was no “Justice for Trayvon” either hadn’t watched the
entire trial or they never wanted a fair trial to begin with.
George Zimmerman never disputed the fact that he in fact did
kill Trayvon; he accepted his responsibility in Martin’s death. Racist pundits
have concluded that Trayvon would never have been killed if Zimmerman had been
carrying a gun. It is also true that Trayvon would never have been killed had
he not started the physical part of the fight. Martin was continually portrayed
as a “child” and in the last few days of the trial the prosecution even futilely
tried to have child abuse charges added to the docket, even though Martin outweighed
Zimmerman by 30 lb. and towered 5 inches over him.
This action along with the unprecedented
action of the judge to add a lesser charge of manslaughter added
to the possible guilty verdicts showed what a baseless case the prosecution
actually had.
What has not been addressed is the responsibility the Martin
family had in their own son’s death. The parents did not act responsibly in
their son’s upbringing. They stood idly by while Trayvon acted more and more
like a common criminal, through his drug use, his numerous criminal thefts and,
his well- documented increasingly violent nature.
We watched as time after time the judge in the trial denied motions
for the defense to show Trayvon’s true nature to the jury. Instead the media’s
portrayal of the innocent teenager who only went out for a bag of Skittles
stood. Not once did I hear in the trial how it was pouring rain that cold night
at 3 AM. Or why his father was or wasn’t aware of his absence in the house at
that hour. Not once did we hear about Trayvon’s thuggish posts to his Facebook
and Twitter accounts. With only two days left it came to light that the two
things martin was carrying that night were a bag of skittles and an Arizona
watermelon iced tea, the two main ingredients only missing Robitussin cough syrup to make a powerful and potentially lethal
drug commonly used by Rappers and the “culture.” The judge actually had to
struggle with allowing the medical examiner to inform the jury that he had THC
in his system the night of his death.
We got to see a massive amount of denying responsibility in
this trial, enough to go around everywhere with the exception of ONE person….George
Zimmerman, he had already accepted his part in Martin’s death.
Trayvon’s parents have denied their part in all this as
before the trial have even begun; they had already sought to trademark all
phrases having to do with Trayvon’s name in an effort to make money on their
son’s death. In the last few days of the Zimmerman’s trial they made a
settlement with the Home Owner’s Association in Zimmerman’s complex for over $1
million dollars, although that amount has been sealed by the courts.
Lastly the one who was most responsible for Trayvon’s death
was Trayvon himself. Had he not snuck up behind Zimmerman and sucker punched
him, the deadly spiral would not have begun. Martin supporters claimed that had
Zimmerman not followed Martin this never would have happened. To this claim I
say………following someone is NOT against the law……. The committing second degree battery
however is! Zimmerman’s attorneys chose to use self-defense as his defense in
the case not the stand your ground law, and that is exactly what it was……….and
the jury of 6 women also said the same thing.
Because Eric Holder and Barack Obama aren’t satisfied with
the outcome and vow to press on only makes a mockery of our legal system………..you
either believe in it fully or you don’t.
