REALITY- By now everyone should know the story of Trayvon Martin. An unarmed high school football player carrying candy and a cell phone was gunned down in the night by a man who had no official authority. Sadly this story would not be remarkable (as this kind of thing happens all too often) but for the fact that the local police failed to investigate the crime immediately. Instead they took the word of the guy with the smoking gun in his hand and no visable wounds what so ever. In short, the killer said that it wasn't his fault because when he shot and killed the unarmed teenager he said that it was in self defense. The local police didn't investigate in order to corroborate they simply accepted the killer's story at face value and let him go free.
This would have been the end of the story if it had not been for the efforts of Trayvon Martin's parents who had to take their case to the nation via television interviews. Having been turned away by the local police, the family of Trayvon Martin was forced to plead for justice on The Today Show.
Most people, when they lose a child under any circumstances, need to be comforted by friends and family while the details of caring for the deceased are seen to by others. A natural grieving process takes place, we're all familiar, or will one day become familiar with it from one perspective or another. Sybrina Fulton had to go on television before the man who murdered her son Trayvon was even arrested for the crime.
More than a month had passed since George Zimmerman had shot Trayvon Martin in the chest in what Zimmerman claimed to be self defense. Trayvon Martin was talking to his girlfriend on his cell phone that tragic night. She reports that the last things that she hears are that Trayvon asked someone "What are you following me for?" she heard a man's voice reply "What are you doing here?" Martin's girlfriend then hears what she describes as "the sound of pushing". Trayvon Martin's phone went silent. Trayvon's girlfriend, who remains anonymous, believes that Trayvon was the one who was pushed by the other man.
No one really knows for certain what happened next, except that George Zimmerman fired his handgun while it was aimed at Trayvon Martin's chest. Zimmerman claims that the smaller unarmed teenager attacked him from behind. A 911 call that reported the incident at first as "someone screaming outside" captures the sound of someone in a high pitched cry for their life just before a gunshot silences them. Two experts have studied the tape of that 911 call and they report that the voice heard crying out for help was definitely not the voice of George Zimmerman. The experts say that they don't know for sure if the voice heard screaming for help is Trayvon Martin as there was no sample of Trayvon Martin's voice for them to compare it to.
George Zimmerman was finally arrested and will be tried for second degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon's mother, posted a special mother's day video.
Here's the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KaOw4cQEHs
Kelly Thomas was a mentally ill homeless person who was also unarmed and murdered. Kelly was beaten into a coma by 6 members of the Fullerton California Police department. 5 days later he was taken off of life support and Kelly Thomas died never having regained consciousness.
Kelly Thomas' murder, unlike Trayvon Martin's, was caught on video surveillance cameras. Although it still took almost three months for any arrests to take place as the police were claiming that Kelly had been "combative" with the six officers and that two of them had suffered broken bones at the hands of Kelly Thomas. Later the police changed their story to fit emerging facts and said that no one involved in the incident suffered any serious injuries. No one except Kelly that is. Currently two officers stand trial for second degree murder charges in the beating death of Kelly Thomas.
Here is a link to the full surveillance video from that tragic night on youtube.com.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6yaeD-E_MY
George Zimmerman and the six Fullerton County police officers who killed Kelly Thomas have at least two things in common.
1. They are all murderers.
2. They are all bullies.
Bullies, people who think that they can do whatever they want to whomever they want because they're bigger, stronger, more well trained and armed, or richer than you. No matter who you are you know what a bully is.
Which brings me to Mitt Romney. Who, it has been recently revealed, spent his high school days bullying closeted homosexuals for the sheer joy of hurting someone else. So it has been reported, one time Mitt Romney actually chased down a student and cut all his hair off of him. Because "Romney didn't like how the kid looked". Then there was another man that Mitt Romney suspected of being homosexual and so every time Romney heard that classmate say anything he would tell the student "That'a girl".
Mitt Romney ran his business in much the same fashion, bullying smaller companies into bankruptcy while he and his corporate friends reaped all the spoils, getting rich off of the destruction of other people's lives.
Mitt Romney is now the Republican Nominee for President of The United States of America. And he is still a bully.
Republicans love bullies, because republicans are bullies. Not every last republican, I doubt Ron Paul could be considered a bully. Unless you count the fact that he hasn't stopped pretending to run for president even though he has lost a few times already. Now that I think of it, the way Ron Paul is all racist and anti-abortion kind of makes him more like a bully in his way of thinking.
The thing that all of these bullies have in common is their mentality. The attitude of a bully is one that says 'I can hurt anyone I don't like and you better not stop me either because you should be glad that I'm not hurting you.'
That is a crazy way of thinking. It is the same line of thought that empowers every racist to claim superiority over someone else because they might be a little bit different from them. It is the same line of reasoning that leads to murders, rapes, and other such human abuses like torture, economic tyranny, and political domination.
Mitt Romney, as a bully himself, has the same attitude towards those that he considers beneath him that George Zimmerman had when he looked at Trayvon Martin and pulled the trigger. The same mentality that led six police officers to climb on top of a defenseless 120lb man and beat him and kick him until he stopped moving.
The mentality of a bully.
I don't think that I'm overstating this. Mitt Romney is a bully don't vote for him unless you want him to punch you in the stomach and take your lunch money.
And As Always,
