Tom Metzger's Opinion on Shooting of Trayvon Martin
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Editor, Times-Union: Recently, a volunteer neighborhood watch member was involved in a shooting of a person of a protected class. All of a sudden it became a race issue across the country thanks to our half-arse corporate press.
Fact, Mr. Zimmerman falls under the same category as the black individual, i.e. his mother was of the “non-white Hispanic” identification. The father is of the Jew community and an upper middle-class person involved with the judicial system. Both qualify by law as minorities as does their son Mr. Zimmerman. So by law it is not a race issue.
Do you notice the majority of photos of the deceased are from his grade school period and not his face book pictures of a tough football playing person flashing gang hand signals?
If the facts are that Zimmerman’s nose was broken and was bleeding on the ground with a pretty large and athletic man on top of him with his head being bounced on the sidewalk, the law has been for decades that if you are in fear of great bodily harm you have the legal privilege of using whatever force you see as necessary to terminate the attack. This is why with the investigation even including the FBI there has been no arrest. In fact, with one minority killing another minority under present law it cannot be a so-called hate crime. Is this case being used to discourage citizens from protecting their neighborhoods?
Could be, but one last question. If the deceased would have been white with blue eyes and blond hair, what do you think the story would might be like. Or more likely the story would have remained local and ended up in the local newspaper back in the used car section.
