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The Continuing Killing of Trayvon Martin
Open Salon ^ | May 10, 2012 | Allan Goldstein

Posted on 05/10/2012 8:24:32 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Mr. K
Even after Trayvon saw Zimmerman watching him, he easily could have gone to his father's place and been safe. Instead he attacked Zimmerman, and might have killed him if he had managed to grab Zimmerman's gun.

This is a classic case of "no good deed goes unpunished." Zimmerman was trying to protect his neighbors--instead he may wind up being murdered before too long, or (depending on who gets on the jury) spending most of his life in prison.

21 posted on 05/10/2012 8:50:54 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Mr. K
so much wrong in an article that ALMOST tires to get something right...

That probably was supposed to be "tries", but I think "tires" works just as well, maybe better, because frankly many of us are tired about this dammed case.

;)

22 posted on 05/10/2012 8:51:38 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (When you hear hooves, think horses, not zebras.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"...has grabbed us by our eyeballs and won’t let go..."

On behalf of editors everywhere...


23 posted on 05/10/2012 8:53:07 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Mr. Zimmerman is 1/4 Hispanic, 1/2 white and 1/4 black...”

His cheekbones are kind of high - he might have about 1/32 Cherokee mixed in there somewhere.


24 posted on 05/10/2012 8:54:36 AM PDT by Gil4 (Sometimes it's not low self-esteem - it's just accurate self-assessment.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I would think that once the trigger was pulled there was intent on purpose to do harm if not kill. The writer is an emotional nit-wit.


25 posted on 05/10/2012 8:56:33 AM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Here’s the lastest updates on who has created the Trayvon cast of characters and is twisting the story. Names are named and it’s more than just Al and Jesse:

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2012/04/22/update-11-trayvon-martin-shooting-final-deconstruction-of-benjamin-crumps-media-evidence/


26 posted on 05/10/2012 9:04:56 AM PDT by bgill
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To: LucyT
It’s not about the case; it’s about the cast.

Precisely.

27 posted on 05/10/2012 9:31:44 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
While the Zimmerman/Martin ‘white’ on black killing is covered 24/7 on the MSM with an outpouring of rage and charges of a racial hate crime, where is the concern- where is the rage about the home invasion, torture, beating, rape and murder of the elderly white couple by a gang of feral blacks in Oklahoma just a few weeks ago?

The 90 year old war veteran husband was beaten and his jaw broken. He was shot in the face numerous times with a BB gun and sent to the hospital in critical condition.

The 85 year old partially blind wife was RAPED and then BEATEN TO DEATH.

Can you just imagine the pain, the humiliation, the horror that dear old lady experienced being gang raped by that pack of feral animals?

(the autopsy states she was raped. Don’t think all of these animals didn’t all participate)

And can you imagine the pain, the horror of that dear old husband having to witness this?

Mr. Strait died from his injuries last week.

There’s a lot more involved here than a home invasion and robbery.

WHERE ARE THE CHARGES OF A RACIAL HATE CRIME??

90 year old husband’s jaw broken and shot in face with a BB gun numerous times?

85 wife year old semi blind wife RAPED and BEATEN to death??

Why does it take a foreign press to enlighten America as to this henious crime?

WHERE IS THE NATIONAL OUTRAGE?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2117695/Brutal-home-invasion-Oklahoma-couple-ends-65-year-romance-meeting-blind-date.html

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Have they caught the rest of the gang of feral blacks who raped, tortured and murdered this elderly woman? Are they even looking? Not a word about it in the media.

28 posted on 05/10/2012 9:36:55 AM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I am tired of hearing people referred to as African American. Were they born in African? If so that is great. I have Irish roots, but I refer to myself as a White American. On may documents I fill out they ask if I am white, not if I am Irish American. It is time for one standard and to get away from this believe that people are something they are not. A great example is: is Obama white, Black or African American? According to the left he was not born in Africa!
29 posted on 05/10/2012 9:47:52 AM PDT by Tman65
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Who the heck is that? What was the slap all about. Weird!


30 posted on 05/10/2012 9:51:13 AM PDT by hummingbird (I am Breitbart.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Even among hate crimes, this one is special.

What the writer seems to try to prove is a white-on-black hate crime being carried out by a "white"; when in fact and in deed it seems to be a black-on-"white" hate-the-honky crime being carried out by the black participant/hater/assailant, and finally prevented from finishing the job.

(OR....maybe to Trayvon it was not race at all? Maybe his intent was just pounding on another interfering civilian for hindering him from whatever he wanted to do -- maybe "casing" the neighborhood?)

31 posted on 05/10/2012 10:18:27 AM PDT by imardmd1 (The only sane advice: Assume nothing!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And when four black thugs rape and murder a young white woman, and rape and murder her white boyfriend, there’s no outrage, nary a peep from the media.


32 posted on 05/10/2012 10:19:55 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Democrats...the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy, and Sedition)
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To: Vigilanteman

Wrong daddy there 2nd division.
Obama looks nothing like Obama SR.

He does however bear s striking resemblance to Malcolm x


33 posted on 05/10/2012 10:26:19 AM PDT by South Dakota (shut up and drill)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As part of the anger over Trayvon, they held a rally in Stockton California complaining about all the blacks killed by police. Their best example was a man who had shot one policeman in the stomach before he was killed by another policeman. And yes, he had also killed a civilian in the area before this confrontation.


34 posted on 05/10/2012 10:34:25 AM PDT by w1andsodidwe (Barrak has now won the contest. He is even worse than Jimmah.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All evidence suggests that Zimmerman killed Martin in self defense, without regard to race. Allan Goldstein can wring his hands and (many, not all) African-Americans can get all wee-weed up over a false narrative, but people with brains must refuse to buy into it. Conflating self-defense, police shootings, and the occasional crime into “incremental genocide” is absurd (and you better believe that this is part of the Democrats’ agenda).

A large segment of the black population, along with many whites, lack analytical skills, have emotional needs, and choose to believe idiotic things. Does that obligate the rest of us to play along? No thanks — we cannot afford to further indulge the weak-minded. Our “government” obviously disagrees.


35 posted on 05/10/2012 10:43:19 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Gaffer

Statistical breakdown on the 18, by race of killer, and circumstances, would be very useful. Any info for this?
Killed by:
Blacks
Whites
Hispanics
Other

Circumstances:
Gang-related, including bystanders
Drug/other crime-related
Suicide
Personal disputes
Domestic (killed by spouses, exes, girl/boyfriends, parents, transvestite nannies)
While victim of robbery, rape, etc.
By police in self-defense
By civilians in self-defense
By racially-motivated hate groups


36 posted on 05/10/2012 11:05:22 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: South Dakota
I think you mean Frank Marshall Davis, the known pedophile and Communist thug. And you may be right.

But I'm not sure we will ever know for sure and even if we do, why ObaMao thought a slave trading Kenyan heritage would make a better narrative than his real daddy (if Davis was) who would have created no ambiguity on U.S. citizenship.

I'll stand by my original theory that ObaMao just wants to prove that he is bigger than the U.S. constitution.

37 posted on 05/10/2012 11:07:41 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: goodnesswins

It’s not about color. It’s about party.


38 posted on 05/10/2012 11:09:10 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Cloud storage? Dropbox rocks! Sign up at http://db.tt/nQqWGd3 for 2GB free (and I get more too).)
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To: Gaffer
Let's have the other elephant. How many whites were killed by blacks per day? Those stories get buried. When blacks kill, they get a pass. When whites kill, it gets "wall to wall" national coverage.
39 posted on 05/10/2012 11:23:51 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: hummingbird

The writer made a grotesque composition error in writing,

“...has grabbed us by our eyeballs and won’t let go...”

This is called “compositions from the slush pile” by editors of truly bad writing submitted for publication. Some other examples of slush pile errors:

“His organ began to beat so hard he thought it would pop out of his chest.”

“Thoughts flew like spaghetti in my brain.”

“I knew I had a bestseller in me—all I had to do was plumb my depths and out it would come, like some literary bowel movement.”

“Carlotta’s eyes dropped to the handkerchief in her hands.”


40 posted on 05/10/2012 11:31:26 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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