2000 Yrs Ago Cicero Spoke of Trevon Martin Case

Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman statesman, orator and essayist, 106–43 B.C.).

"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?" — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Over Two Thousand years ago Cicero said that if one is ignorant about prior history of themselves then they will remain always a child. Many people never grow up because they do not look back on past events to learn and so history just repeats the same mistakes over again. So, we better not 6'2" - 175 lbs Trayvon Martin at 7-Eleven. (A physically man-sized 17 yr old) rely on how the facts were presented in the Prosecutor's story of the Trayvon Martin case. It is more than just a young juvenile who bought a bag of skittles at a 7-Eleven store to eat as he skipped along on his way home. Lets evaluate what documented evidence was presented and what actually happened in fact devoid of hysterics, hyperboles and innuendos.

The trial opened around an exhibit about the calls of a 911 dispatcher and George's cell phone conversations that had time-displayed recordings with a four minute span from the time Trayvon was first spotted by George in the evening rain with a hoodie pulled up over covering his head while meandering back and forth under roof eaves through a condo housing complex and to then disappear and only to show up again coming on to George as he was returning to his car with an "in-your-face-to-face" confrontation with a verbal threat and "fist-in-your-face" attack instead of getting out of the area away from George. During that time span Trayvon was on the phone talking about George with Rachael, a friend who heard a commotion like a fight with loud screams of terror, then the phone disconnected.

Trayvon was unarmed and George had a gun. However, it came out in the trial that Trayvon was armed too. Trayvon had his height and build over the shorter fat guy and Trayvon with a younger, stronger set of arms with fists along with a fighter's military-style prone body hold to pin anybody down below him onto the ground to pummel them. Trayvon had access to another deadly weapon too, a long massive concrete pathway leading throughout the side yard lawn to bash George's head against which was deemed a deadly force trauma weapon capable of causing concussion, possibilities of great bodily harm to the head and brain leading to injury or death according to expert witnesses.

The fight quickly went to the ground as the marijuana high Treyvon, his autopsy tested positive, went into a fury of fist punches as adrenaline elevated the fear in George of an imminent threat to his life and limb as Trayvon bloodied and broke his nose, lacerated his face and hit his head bloody onto the hard concrete as he continued his attack. A witness testified to describe it as a "ground and pound" attack by Treyvon. The legal question was raised about how much is considered too much of a beating before one takes any action to stop it? The condition also existed that George was cornered and had nowhere to run to get away - the basic "stand your ground" law. So, is George's defensive action taken as a simultaneous decision or just a reflexive reaction? Whether he can reason or react is not the issue, it is to defend, stand his ground if he feels he is in fear of his life. The jurists decided for the defendant based upon the "stand your ground" law.  In the end, it was justice for both families.

Interestingly, there were no racial slurs from George brought out in depositions or during the trial. Then not until the trial proceedings were on that George himself was called a "creepy-ass cracker" by Trayvon according to Rachael Jeantel, a prosecution witness who was on the phone call at the time prior to the fight describing Trayvon's racially charged animus towards crackers, white people, even though George is Hispanic too.

During and after the trial, George Zimmerman was being called by some a "white-Mexican" to "race-bait" the trial proceedings to gin up anger because a Mexican murderer wasn't as good to lynch as an angry white one.

George's mother is Mexican and his dad is white - Barack's father is black and his mother is white. So is Obama a "white African-American?  How can Barack say "If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon" when Trayvon Martin had both black parents?  Hmmn....

FYI: 2005 FBI Report - 91% of U.S. Black Homicides are committed by Blacks and then 50% of all total U.S. homicides are committed by Blacks.