@spendius,
Quote:What has Bill's personal life got to do with the case?
As much as Trayvon Martin's personal life, and the pictures on his cell phone, have to do with the circumstances of his death.
BillRM is preoccupied with all sorts of personal details about Trayvon Martin that were not admissible as evidence at trial because they were totally irrelevant to his shooting. The defendant was George Zimmerman, it was his actions that were legally called into question, Trayvon Martin was not accused of any crime. He was not found guilty of any criminal act. And the verdict in this case made no determination regarding whether Martin was acting in his own self-defense vs an unjustified "attack" on Zimmerman--its limited focus was only on whether Zimmerman was legally justified in firing his gun because he felt an imminent threat to his life--which could have been the case regardless of who provoked the altercation and even if Martin was in the process of defending his own life, given the nature of Florida law.
Nothing on Trayvon Martin's cell phone, or in his school records, helps to explain or illuminate George Zimmerman's state of mind when he first spotted Trayvon, or why he needed to follow him, or how he felt when he shot him--Zimmerman knew absolutely nothing about Trayvon Martin, so those factors did not influence him. All Zimmerman saw was a black kid in a hoodie walking around and talking on his cell phone--and he had no idea what photos were on that cell phone, nor were those photos a factor in the events that influenced Zimmerman's behavior subsequently.
Trying to blame the victim is nothing new. BillRM blames rape victims for their own rapes frequently. But one does have to wonder why BillRM is so obsessed with the contents of a 16 year old dead child's cell phone, particularly regarding whether it contained photos of nude underaged girls--girls who simply might be Trayvon's age or a year or two older than he was--and photos that BillRM has never seen, or that have even been described enough to have any idea of actual content, and where no one knows how the photos got on the phone or who took the pictures. So why does BillRM care whether a dead 16 year old had girlie pictures on his cell phone, and why has BillRM repeatedly brought up child pornography throughout this thread?
Unlike the contents of Trayvon Martin's cell phone, which were truly private--he didn't make those things public, and they still aren't in the public domain, nothing I've said about BillRM reveals anything private--it's all material BillRM has posted about himself on a public internet forum, available for the world to see and read, and matters he has gone on at great length discussing, and matters that are directly related to the sorts of things he is choosing to demonize Trayvon Martin with. If Trayvon Martin is fair game for BillRM in that regard, BillRM should be fair game for equal scrutiny.
Simply because Trayvon Martin had the tragic misfortune of being a homicide victim, I don't think that gives people, like BillRM, a license to lie, and distort, and smear, that young man's character in a pathetic attempt to justify George Zimmerman's actions that night. BillRM is weaving his own fantasies that have nothing to do with the evidence presented at trial, or the laws the jury considered in reaching their verdict. And the sorts of descriptions that BillRM is characterizing Trayvon Martin with are mainly negative racial stereotypes about inner city young black men--stereotypes that really do not fit this particular teen, a high school junior, with absolutely no history of any anti-social, aggressive, or criminal activities, in his community. And, when BillRM has to resort to invading the privacy of that teen's cell phone, in some sort of perverse search for something to demonize him with, and to use to blame him for his own death, I really do find that sickening.
George Zimmerman was the defendant. George Zimmerman was the one on trial. Trying to turn reality on its head, by making Trayvon Martin the defendant, and judging him to be the guilty party, is just absurd--it was not the victim who was on trial here. This case was Florida as Zimmerman.
