Here's a good exchange on another board between a GZ-supporter (chucky2) and a Trayvonite in deep denial:
Tom wrote:
There is no "confirmed shady person".
"What do you mean there's no "confirmed shady person"? From GZ perspective, he called in someone he suspected looked shady...else why call TM in? Then TM takes off running. From GZ perspective, shady just got validated. From our perspectives, we can see from the evidence dumps, TM was in fact a shady person, regardless of how awesome his shady friends, some shady family, and shady lawyers feel about him (for their self serving reasons).
Tom wrote:
What there really is is a dead person who most likely gave his killer a bloody nose and some abrasions on the back of his head.
But he didn't "just" do that. He was mounted on the person he was beating. We don't expect US citizens in the US to get the shit beat out of them when they have means of not getting the shit beat out of them. This is like saying a woman only got a little raped. Yeah...No...
Tom wrote:
We don't know why those injuries happened.
Right, and we'll never know, short of a video or multiple credible eyewitnesses. The prosecution doesn't either.
If they don't know, then, why did they ruin GZs life trying to pin murder on him? Strange, don't you think?Tom wrote:
To say they "confirm" that Martin was shady is saying that even though we know for a fact that Martin's life was in mortal danger, we are going to assume that he was not fighting for his life but was instead a "shady person".
That is just wrong. So wrong its outrageous.
See above on shady. TMs life was never in danger so long as he didn't assault GZ (at least, as far as we can tell). Since TM had rediculous amounts of time to make it back home (and for all we know, did make it back but then left), TM either took himself out of this "mortal danger" that wasn't there and then put himself back in it for some reason, or, he never took himself out of this "mortal danger" that wasn't there. There is no evidence to suggest that GZ was running around with gun drawn that TM could see, that GZ somehow communicated to TM that he was gonna lynch a nigga, etc. etc. Since there is no evidence of that, there is no "mortal danger" qualifier you can apply. We can apply shady to TM though, both from GZ perspective (assuming GZ can be believed) and most especially by TMs own actions (cell records, school records, crime records).
I will agree with you though. What I just wrote is all so true, it's outrageous that a public prosecution bowed to racially motived public pressure and
charged someone they know they can't prove is guilty, and moreover, someone they don't even know is guilty. Yikes.Tom wrote:
And you miss the point about Zimmerman's actions before the "fight". It isn't that they were illegal, or on their own improper.
The point is that those things happened and then Martin ended up dead. They are part of the reason he is dead.
Those things really aren't why he's dead. That's like saying a chick buys a cute tank top, next week she wears it out, gets raped, and we say her buying the cute tank top a week ago is why she got raped. OK, yea, it possibly helped setup the rape, but, it doesn't matter because her buying the cute tank top is legal, so is wearing it. Not only is it legal, it's proper. Just like what GZ did that night leading up to the fight, at least according to him, which is all we have to go on.
Tom wrote:
They are also reasons why its completely impossible that Martin attacked Zimmerman "out of the blue ". Whatever Martin did, and whether he did it out of anger or fear or some other reason, it wasn't "out of the blue".
We don't know that. It is remotely possible that TM ran from GZ, obviously either didn't go home or went home and then came back, and then, somehow, they literally bumped into each other and TM had to make a split second decision to fight or flight, and chose fight. I don't necessairily fault him for that if he truly wasn't setting up to ambush GZ. But if he was going to do that, he should have kept it standup. When you mount someone, you have taken the fight to fighting and winning, to, fighting, directly dominating, and winning. People can be in a fight and realize they're losing, and run away or back up and be like yo man you won. When you've mounted them and are directly dominating them without any real way for them to disengage, you've taken the danger of the fight to a whole new level.
Tom wrote:
btw, I'm more afraid of gun toting drivers than I am of people who live in inner cities.
Having spent more than a few tens of hours in some really shitty neighborhoods, and multitudes of hours in Chicago area traffic, your statement amazes me. Go hang out at rush hour in the Chicago area. Now go hang out in Ford Heights, IL about 1 AM on a nice warm summer night. I highly doubt you'd be stating that again. Honestly I cannot even believe you said that...it's...unbelievable...
Chuck"