Stacy McCain published two very insightful posts today on the Trayvon Martin / George Zimmerman story that are well worth one’s time.
From his first, over at The American Spectator:
Both of Trayvon’s suspensions during his junior year at Krop High involved crimes that could have led to his prosecution as a juvenile offender. However, Chief Charles Hurley of the Miami-Dade School Police Department (MDSPD) in 2010 had implemented a policy that reduced the number of criminal reports, manipulating statistics to create the appearance of a reduction in crime within the school system. Less than two weeks before Martin’s death, the school system commended Chief Hurley for “decreasing school-related juvenile delinquency by an impressive 60 percent for the last six months of 2011.” What was actually happening was that crimes were not being reported as crimes, but instead treated as disciplinary infractions.
Several systems, all in the control of the Left and/or dominated by fear of the Left, lead to Martin not receiving the real, the true, justice he deserved.
An arrest on any one of the crimes he committed might have woken the young man up to the reality that if you live like a criminal chances are you will die like one [see Stacy's second post here]. Or it might have woken-up his happily slumbering parents from their self-induced comas of denial about their son.
I know, I know…the behavior of Martin’s parents after their son’s death makes one think that even an arrest and trial for burglary would not have been a sufficient enough shock to startle them into consciousness, but I do think there was a chance it might have worked.
And it should have happened because the preservation of our precious and fragile system of Law And Order under The Rule Of Law demands that even the smaller crimes against property [ie: burglary] must be prosecuted. To ignore small crime is to provide the fuel to bigger crimes. Trayvon Martin was well on his way to living the life of a stone-cold criminal.
Law enforcement failed him. The public school system failed him. His parents failed him. Given that he was seventeen, Martin was, however, the ultimate architect of his own death scene. But he was helped along by a large helping of Depraved Indifference.
After his death, the Left used Trayvon Martin for their own ends because individuals mean nothing in their eyes when put up against the ends the Left seeks. Sacrifices must be made for the good of The Cause. Using individuals as you like is permitted in the name of The Revolution. Trayvon Martin has been reduced to one of the means to the Leftist end.
In the Comments section of Stacy’s Spectator post, Occam’s Tool comments:
John Derbyshire was driven off NR when he noted the advice he gave his children to avoid getting into areas or situations that would result in violence.
The fact is that there is a reason that I am raising my children in rural NW Minnesota and hope that they attend University at UND or NDSU. There are areas of places that I hope they never go, and people I hope they never meet. I home school them to avoid people like Trayvon Martin, irrespective of the color of their skin.
Unfortunately, our public schools are more and more becoming the home of students like Trayvon Martin, and many of them are not Black. And our authorities are covering it up, because their interest is their power maintenance, and not our kids.
Trayvon’s dad is bleating about missing him on National media sites. But if he had done his job as a dad, Trayvon would not have ended up the drug addled punk that he was. And he would still be alive.
Instead, Martin was allowed to join and remain a member of the Thug Culture.
This phenomenon has invaded every sector of American Society. It cares not what skin color one has, as it feeds off the Souls of it’s followers. It is celebrated throughout Society. It is deemed ‘cool’. It can be found lurking in the blood-soaked streets of Chicago and in the sloppy dress of middle-class people. It pervades the arts. It pervades politics. Most of America worships The Cult Of The Thug to one degree or another.
No restoration of our freedoms and liberties will long survive until we purge ourselves of such affections as we have for things like The Thug Culture.
UPDATE at 2113…
Stacy McCain has published another post and this one is his best so far on this subject.
A highlight:
Trayvon Martin comes from what used to be called “a broken home,” back in the days when most Americans got married and stayed married, so that kids had a Mom and a Dad and brothers and sisters — y’know, what we used to call a “family” once upon a time — instead of a kaleidoscopic arrangement of stepparents and half-siblings, Baby Daddies and Mama’s New Boyfriend and so forth. Call me old-fashioned, if you will, but I tend to think it might be relevant when we learn that a Troubled Youth comes from a Broken Home.
Well, let’s not be judgmental. And while we’re not being judgmental, say the mainstream media, let’s just not even mention these facts, because we don’t want to demonize anyone, see?
Start asking questions about Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin and Brandy Green — hater! — and you have no idea what you might find because, quite frankly, nobody in the national media seems to have asked any questions about these people. This is why, for example, you may not know that there was a stepmother, Alicia Stanley, who says she practically raised Trayvon Martin for 14 years before she got shoved aside for Tracy Martin’s new girlfriend, Brandy Green.
How many other wives or girlfriends has Trayvon’s father had? How many brothers and sisters and half-brothers and half-sisters and step-brothers and step-sisters did Trayvon have?
Damned if I know the answer to those questions, because it seems like nobody covering this story ever asked any questions like that….
Do take the time to click here and read the rest.
