Can you even begin to imagine the devastation

[madashelltoo]

Travon's father felt listening to his son's cries for help and the shot that ended his life knowing his son had pulled him from a fire saving his life the first time? Not being there to answer that cry will haunt both parents forever, but the father will feel it much more. A psychiatrist might call it "survivor's guilt". The tragedy of this is so much deeper than most people will ever understand for him.

The defense in doing their job is shining an ugly light on our justice system. Now, they've been green-lighted to talk about THC in Trayvon's system and that he was the exception to the commonly accepted "weed makes you mellow, hungry and a little paranoid." I have never heard of a pot smoker being aggressive, but I'm sure they will traipse out someone to testify that it happens. Destroy a family. Trash a child, save a lying muderer.

[NoOneMan]

1. Why can't the prosecution talk about the shit Zimmerman was on?

Just curious now....why is the boy who is dead on trial and that is off limits?

[madashelltoo]

3. Because it will explain why

there is little to no modulation in Zimmerman's statements. And, it would explain his emotionless response to this trial and his response on Hannity's show with the strange smile. It's why he went to work the next day as if nothing had happened. It's why he heard Trayvon say, "You got me." It's why he was surprised to hear he had really, really killed someone.

[Xipe Totec]

2. The weeping gardner

Death took flight early,
and early came the dawn of morn,
and early it spills upon the ground.

I do not forgive death for loving you,
or forgive life for its distraction,
or forgive the ground,
or forgive oblivion.

With my hands I raise a storm,
of stones, bolts and strident axes,
thirsting and hungering for catastrophe.

With bare teeth I want to dig the ground,
and move the dirt part by part,
in dry and furious bites.

I want to mine the earth until I find you,
to kiss your noble skull,
unbind your body and return you,
to my garden and my fig tree.

- Miguel Hernández

[madashelltoo]

4. Beautiful.

Thanks for sharing.

[byronius]

5. This trial goes far beyond the limits of crime and punishment.

It's a display of the worst primate impulses -- the darkest part of the human programming. 'THEY always get away with it.'

Zimmerman's right about that, but not the way he meant it.

Primordially embarrassing, the whole thing. Trial by Id.

If they let him go, the world knows. The future knows. Everyone knows -- they all become criminals. They will all will share his guilt. And it will curse them, if such a thing is possible.

To acquiesce in the destruction of an innocent child because they can only look out, never in --

Positively medieval. Backwards. Sick.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till

[reusrename]

6. Fascinating post.

I've been asking myself why they don't see the same Zimmreman that I see.

I think you just explained it to me.