A catlyst for violence and an excuse to blame someone.

                                                                         
                 I had to write this for my comp class. It is supposed to be an opinion piece on the George Zimmerman/ Trayvon Martin  incident. Read ,follow and tell me what you think.
 
                                    Thanks for reading,
                                              Don
  
                  

  Regardless of what side you’re on we all have an opinion about the Trayvon Martin incident. We all have formed that opinion based on who we listen to and where we get our news from. Good or bad we all have something to say on the matter. I think the rush to judgment before the facts were fully in writing was driven by some strange shadowy agenda that has not fully manifested itself yet.  I am not a conspiracy theorist in the slightest, but you have to wonder why a local killing in a small Florida town outside of Orlando was elevated to such a status that it warranted national news coverage. Since Trayvon was killed there hasn’t been a day that has passed that something hasn’t been said about it on the news or in the newspaper, blogs or in some commentary in one form or the other. The race issue was brought into it right away with some saying just hours after it happened that it was racially motivated and that George Zimmerman stalked him down and killed Trayvon in cold blood. Now I don’t know about that, but what I do know is that even though all this was going on a 17 year old boy was still dead and no amount of pandering and supposition was going to bring him back.

    Now as the trial on George Zimmerman winds down and his fate is put into the hands of the jury, there are rumblings of riots and violence if he is acquitted. I’d like to think that level heads will prevail in this situation, but I’m not so sure about that. Whatever happens no amount of violence and destruction is going to bring back that 17 year old boy, it will just make the protesters look like they just wanted an excuse to riot, beat, kill and create all sorts of havoc to the public at large. I have nothing against either of these people at the center of this controversy. What I do have a problem with is using this incident as a catalyst for civil unrest or violence for violence’s sake. It will do no good for anybody to riot. Not only will private property be destroyed but also people will get hurt or most likely killed in the ensuing melee. If that happens then the rioters are no better than what they think George Zimmerman did.

  I conclude with this thought, that we are all here on earth for just a fleeting moment in the face of eternity. Why don’t we just try and love our neighbors as much as we love ourselves and our kids for that matter.