Suspension of the 6th

I knew it was coming, but I never thought it would arrive so soon. 

Many people have worried about losing our 2^nd Amendment right to bear arms, and it hasn’t helped that our Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has been working closely with the United Nations to accomplish that end.  However, so far, she has been unsuccessful in getting consensus in the Congress to signing on to the weapons ban.

However, we now have a perfect case where our 6^th Amendment right to a trial by jury has been negated.  I’m referring, of course to the Trayvon Martin shooting in Sanford, Florida.

The main-stream media has blown this case out of all proportion.  Not only have they tried and convicted the Shooter, George Zimmerman in the press and on radio and TV, they have even produced biased and doctored audio of the 911 call that Zimmerman made on the night of the shooting.

In case you are one of those people who only gets your news from NPR or one of the major networks, here is a summary of what was reportedly said and what the actual call transcript shows.

NBC's "Today" show ran an edited audio of George Zimmerman's phone call to a police dispatcher in which Zimmerman says: "'This guy looks like he's up to no good … he looks black." 

But the audio recording in its entirety reveals that Zimmerman did not volunteer the information that Martin was black. Instead, Zimmerman was answering a question from a police dispatcher about the race of the "suspicious person" whom Zimmerman was speaking about.

The transcript of the complete 911 call shows that Zimmerman said, “This guy looks like he’s up to no good, or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about.”

The 911 officer responded saying, "OK, and this guy — is he black, white or Hispanic?"

"He looks black," Zimmerman replied.

The abridged conversation between Zimmerman and the dispatcher ran on March 27 on NBC. Critics have said the edited version was made to suggest that Zimmerman targeted Martin because he was black -- an accusation by many that is still under investigation. 

A grainy video of the arrest of Mr. Zimmerman was later shown on ABC Television and purported to show that he was not, as a witness alleged, beaten by Mr. Martin prior to the shooting, which would have made it a case of self defense.  However, later pictures and video showed that Mr. Zimmerman did exhibit cuts and abrasions from the beating.

In another attempt to skew the facts, the stock picture of Trayvon Martin shows him at age 12, five years younger than the 17-year-old young adult he had become.  It made him appear a weak child unable to perpetrate the violence he was alleged to have engaged in.

To add to the firestorm, our president joined in the lynch mob mentality lead by Reverend Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.  Mr. Obama failed to criticize the Black Panthers for their $10.000 bounty on Mr. Zimmerman, and then made comments that could only incite the already “out-for-blood” crowds, stating, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”

If anyone believes that Mr. Zimmerman can get a fair and unbiased trial after so much race baiting and media hype, they are out of their mind.  I don’t know where the object of all this hatred is located, but I hope he is well protected by someone.  (That is also guaranteed by the 14th Amendment) I fear that he will never get a chance to face his accuser in a trial, but will most likely be executed on the spot now that he has been tried, convicted and sentenced by our “fair and balanced” media.