Trayvon Martin shooting was not an act of racism, but a community trying to defend itself

Irish Central ^ | April 22, 2012 | Ed Farnan

[GOPJ]

...we are seeing long suspensions from school, tattoos, racially-charged epitaphs, and violence. During a school search, his backpack contained 12 pieces of jewelry, a watch , silver wedding bands, earrings with diamond, and a large flathead screwdriver.

His Twitter account refers to Trayvon more than a dozen times using the @NO_LIMIT_NIGGA nickname. One such post makes reference to Trayvon having “swung on a bus driver” a few days before he died. This is a textbook self-defense case, and I’d urge anyone reading to look at the full set of facts before drawing conclusions.

Thanks again...

[Jaded]

Most excellent! Thank you.

[lentulusgracchus]

The area where I live is patrolled by precinct constables.

Your homepage shows a Vermont flag ..... welcome to Texas? ;)

I live in Houston, and a couple of years ago we had problems in the vicinity with extra-patrol agreements some neighborhoods made with their precinct constables and commissioners.

There was a performance problem (the constables were just too thinly spread), and the local media did a big story about it.

My own neighborhood decided not to participate because of the expense (plus, it's a civic-club and not a homeowners' association), and felt vindicated afterward. We have a citizen patrol and a watch program as well.

[Terry Mross]

Changed it to Texas.

[dcwusmc]

Good, solid sense... How insensitively racist of them. Interesting that Irish Central would publish it, as they seem more lefty liberal than this. Kudos to them.

[lentulusgracchus]

Welcome!

[UCANSEE2]

My guess is that will never be allowed to be entered as evidence.

I agree. IIRC, in the media it was stated that school officials could not 'identify' (establish the owner) any of the items, so no charges were pressed. No proof, no charges, no legal relevance.

[GOPJ]

Interesting that Irish Central would publish it, as they seem more lefty liberal than this. Kudos to them.

Yeah, that is strange.

[ridesthemiles]

I have lived since 1993 in a rural setting. In N Calif, I knew that under the best of conditions, the Sheriff would NOT get to my house in less than 10 minutes—more like 20.

Being armed was the only sensible thing.

A known drug dealer lived on the back end of the dead end road, but because of the location of his residence, the cops could not get a good place to observe him for prosecution. His customers were up and down the road every Friday & Saturday—when they got paid.

One pair of his customers—mother/daughter narrowly missed part of my road fencing, hit a large boulder & shot into fencing that was not on the road. Did about $2000 worth of damage. They were fighting over the drugs which the drug dealer had just sold them. The daughter had just gotten out of ‘rehab’ less tham 30 hours earlier. She totaled the used car that ‘Grandma & Grandpa had just bought her to celebrate her ‘rehab’. They came to the scene & were not happy!!

The drug dealer himself came onto my property once in broad daylight. He ‘wanted to talk to me’. I held my ground with my shotgun. Called the Sheriff himself just after I got him to leave my property. Told Sheriff what had happened & asked what would have happened to me if I shot this bum OUTSIDE of my house. He basically told me they would celebrate his demise.

One often has to take care of themselves. I intend to do just that.

[ridesthemiles]

I still want to know whom that jewelry belonged to.

IMO, this kid was a punk in training for full fledged criminal activity. Now, he is no longer headed for a life in and out of the prison system.

His parents have been wearing rose-colored glasses. Especially his ‘mom’.